Resurrection is a rising to life again after death, but it is more than that. It is also the beginning of glorification, or the changing of the physical body to share in the glorious redemption provided for the whole man by Christ. The most common Greek word for resurrection is “anastasis” (a-nasta-sis), which simply means to make to stand or rise up.; Several aspects of resurrection must be emphasized if we are to distinguish this truth from the subtle errors which would substitute some watered- down idea.  

 Resurrection is the personal restoration of the individual to life. 

After the body and the soul and the spirit have been separated by death-even if the body has already decomposed-God reunites these. The person’s own identity is restored, including memory, recognition, the ability to communicate, etc.  

 “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me”.  (Job 19:25-27).  

Resurrection involves the reinfusion of life into a real corpse, resulting in the raising up to life of a literal body. 

We are not talking about reviving someone we supposed to be dead, but was only unconscious. We are not talking about the renewal of someone in suspended animation. We are declaring that people who were unmistakably dead can experience the reversal of the processes of corruption, and by God’s intervention be raised from the dead.  

 “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:39).  

Resurrection is the redemption of our bodies; God changes our bodies to correspond with the nature of our redeemed spirit and soul. 

While the body we receive in the resurrection will be unmistakably our own, it will not be the same frail frame we buried. It will have been changed by the power of God and fashioned like His own. The limitations which cramped our spirits and souls will be removed; our bodies will appropriately express the person we have become. 

 “Who [Christ] shall change our vile body [body of humiliation], that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself “(Philippians 3:21).