“Praise be to the God and Father of our 1 Peter 1:3 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  In His great mercy  He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”

Philippians 3: 10-11 10 “I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”

“For it has been granted to you Philippians 1:29 “For it has been granted to you  on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him”

Romans 8: 17-18 17 “Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings  in order that we may also share in His glory. 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”

in the body, I live by faith in The Son of God, Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ  and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in The Son of God,  who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.” - William Penn

Acts 5: 40-42 40 … “They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. 42 Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.”

2 Corinthians 1: 3-5 3 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us  in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.  5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort overflows through Christ.”

as from Jesus Himself…we see a “Resurrection Connection” : Throughout the letters of the New Testament, the life examples of the earliest disciples of Jesus; as well as from Jesus Himself…we see a “Resurrection Connection” : If we want to share in the resurrection life of Jesus in Heaven, we must be willing to suffer and be inconvenienced for His sake while alive on Earth.

The Resurrection and An Acorn