The High Calling of God

Webster defines "identity" as "sameness of essential character; self-sameness or oneness". It is a sign of ownership but it goes much deeper than that when referring to the Christian being identified with Christ. In Christian baptism we are certainly being identified with our Lord Jesus Christ by taking on His name. But for the Christian who wants to be everything that the Lord has intended him or her to be-it goes much deeper than that. Jesus Christ was identified with the Father in: His Will John 5:19 : "the Son can do nothing of Himself but what He seeth the Father do." John 5:30 : "I seek not my own will, but the will of my Father." His Speech John 12:49 :  "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak." His Presence John 14:9 -  "..He who has seen Me has seen the Father..." His Love for Others John 15:9 - "As the Fath

John 20:11 - “But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb.” Luke 24:1-5 - “Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they and certain other women with them, came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments, then as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, ‘Why do you seek the living among the dead?’” A tomb is a burial place. It is a place where dead things are put. These women were told to stop looking in the tomb. They were instructed to not look for life inside the tomb. The tomb equals death and decay- the old life. Nothing is in the tomb but decay, rot and old grave clothes. Jesus was risen from the dead. He was no longer in t