Yes, the entire Trinity was present at Christ's resurrection. Just as as his baptism.
HOWEVER. The Son does nothing unless the Father tells Him to.
And the Holy Spirit does the same.
The Father raised up Jesus by the Holy Ghost.
Now, back to where this started from:
If CHRIST be in you, the body is dead because of sin,
BUT the spirit is alive, because of righteousness.
THIS is the condition of one who is living in Romans 7. Paul cried out in torment! Who shall deliver me from this body of death??
I know, you have read this passage the same way all your life... but let yourself see it through new glasses.
Paul did not author the chapter divisions. They did not exist in the original epistle. Look at Romans 7 and 8 as all one passage. That's how it was written.
Neither was there any verse divisions. Nor punctuation. Those were added in the 1300's by MAN.
Just let this passage speak to you:
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Whose Spirit was it that raised up Jesus from the dead? You yourself said this verse means the Father raised Jesus from the dead, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
(There is no need to argue over this!)
What these verses are saying, is that when we are born again, we receive Christ into our spirits.
But that's not enough to live triumphantly over sinful flesh.
The flesh is still dead, because of sin.
Read the verse. See how it says that?
And the next verse starts talking about But. There's a HOWEVER, here!
Replace the word "But" with the word "however." It means the same thing.
This is talking about the flesh--the mortal body. The flesh that is dead, which we still wrestle with.
HOWEVER, if the Spirit dwells in you, He will quicken your mortal bodies. Not your immortal bodies. These mortal ones, which feel the pull of sin.
and THEREFORE--(since this is true)--
Therefore, brethren, we owe it to God, to live after the Spirit, instead of after the flesh!
Actually, I understand very little from the way I was raised. LOL I was raised a cessationist! And a legalist. Almost a Judaizer. LOL
It doesn't matter if there are chapter or verse breaks, the context of Romans 7 is the Old Covenant Law, as is most of the previous chapters as well. Many pastors believe as you do, and if it helps you fine. Just don't do as they do and justify their lack of power over sin by using Romans 7 and 1 John 1:8 and 10 as if they are to Christians. If you don't use them as a false excuse, then interpret it as you always have. But, if I were you, I would read it in context.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For
when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not
in the oldness of the letter.
Sin’s Advantage in the Law
7 What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all
manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin
was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which
was to
bring life, I found to
bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed
me. 12 Therefore the law
is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Law Cannot Save from Sin
13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that
it is good. 17 But now,
it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but
how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will
to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not
to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not
to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
