# “The resurrection of Christ is the ‘Amen’ of the Father upon the ‘Finished’ of the Son” by Herman Bavinck

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- Published: 2019-12-12T12:00:38-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“The resurrection is the day of Christ’s crowning. He was Son and Messiah already
before His incarnation. He was that also in His humiliation. But then His inner 
being was hidden under the form of a servant.

Now, however, God openly cries out and declares Him to be Lord and Christ, Prince
and Savior. Now Christ takes up again that glory which He had before with the Father(**
John 17:5**).

After this He takes on ‘another form,’ another figure, a different form of existence.
He who was dead has become alive, and lives in all eternity, and He has the keys
of heaven and of hell (**Rev. 1:18**).

He is the Prince of life, the source of salvation, and the one appointed by God 
to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

Further, the resurrection of Christ is a fountain of good for His church and for
the whole world. It is the ‘_Amen_‘ of the Father upon the ‘_Finished_‘ of the Son.

Christ was delivered up for our sins and raised for our justification (**Rom. 4:
25**).”

–Herman Bavinck, [_Our Reasonable Faith_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/080286273X?tag=toletaupanre-20)
or [_The Wonderful Works of God_ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733627227?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
trans. Henry Zylstra; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016),
350-351.

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