I just finished reading Richard Gaffin’s book, Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology. It presents all sort of interesting things for future consideration. Much of which relates to my study of John 11 and the resurrection of Lazarus.
Romans 4.17
“as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.”
“…the notion that the believer has been raised with Christ brings into view all that now characterizes him as a result of having been joined to Christ as resurrected. It means that he has been justified, adopted, sanctified, and glorified with Christ, better, that he has been united with the Christ, who is justified, adopted, sanctified, and glorified, and so by virtue of this (existential) union shares these benefits.” (Gaffin, p.129)