+I. To know Christ includes a clearly defined conception and
familiar acquaintance with the special characteristics and
unrivalled excellencies of His person.+
+II. To know the power of His resurrection.+--1. _As it is a public
and universal vindication of the proper dignity of His person._
2. _As it seals the doom of human sin._ 3. _As it ensures the
destruction of pain and death, and provides for the perpetuation
of the believer in a state of immortal felicity._
_The Power of Christ's Resurrection_--
+I. As a miracle attesting His Divine mission.+
+II. As an evidence of His Divinity.+--Resurrection does not always
prove Divinity, but in these circumstances (Rom. i. 3, 4).
+III. As an indication of the acceptance of His sacrifice.+
+IV. As an incentive to the pursuit of holiness.+--Risen with Christ;
risen in Him, sharing His life.
+V. As an instrument of social amelioration.+--The Gospel has
civilised where it has not Christianised, has repressed and
refined where it has not renewed or regenerated.
+VI. As a pledge and preassurance of the glorious resurrection of
His people.+--_G. Brooks._
_The Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings._
+I. We have fellowship with Christ in His sufferings in the pain
caused by coming in contact with sin.+
+II. In having our motives misinterpreted and our conduct misjudged.+
+III. In the purifying influence of suffering.+