Raising the Dead

The scriptures plainly teach that the whole of the Godhead were equally involved in raising Christ from the dead:

1. John 2:19 “Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.”

2. John 10:17 “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

2. Acts 2:24 “Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.”

3. Acts 2:32 “This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.”

4. Acts 3:15 “And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.”

5. Acts 4:10 “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.”

6. Rom. 8:11 “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

7. 1 Pet. 3:18 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

From the above, it is abundantly clear that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were all instrumental in raising Christ from the dead.  It is also true that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit will also be instrumental in raising our dead bodies from the grave:

1. John 6:44 “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

2. John 12:1 “Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.”

3. Rom. 8:11 “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

4. 1 Cor. 6:14 “And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.”

The work of raising the dead is clearly taught by the scriptures as a work of the Godhead. Likewise the work of raising those dead in trespasses and sins into spiritual life is a work of the Godhead. The scriptures bear out that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit all have part in raising the dead as the following verses attest:

1. Eph. 2:1 “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:”

2. John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

3. Eph 2:5 “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)”