The writer to the Hebrews tells us that in laying the foundation stones and in growing to maturity, we actually experience in preview the power of the age to come. The literal translation of Hebrews 6:4, 5 reads:
For it is impossible the ones once being enlightened and tasting of the heavenly gift and becoming sharers of the Holy Spirit, and tasting the good word of God and powerful deeds of a coming age.
All of these verbs speak of firsthand experience, of knowing God for oneself. We know Him by revelation, by receiving the Holy Spirit into our lives, and by discovering His word brings about changes in our lives. We taste of resurrection by experiencing the reality of Christ as a personal power in our own lives.
Physical healing is a foretaste of resurrection.
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 (Romans 8:11).
Hearing the Lord speak to us by His Spirit imparts resurrection life.
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the wards that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (John 6:63, NKJV ).
We partake of resurrection life by faith in taking the Lord’s Supper.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me (John 6:57).
Believing God for the impossible and seeing Him perform it, prefigures resurrection.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was a bout an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb …. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were (Romans 4:19, 17).
We rise to walk in newness of life by sharing His resurrection through water baptism.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4).
