The Resurrection of Jesus!

Paul prays that we would know the surpassing great power of God that saved us, which is in accordance with the same power that raised Christ from the dead (Ephesians 1:19-20). The mightiest power ever unleashed on this earth was not the power of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It was not the power of an earthquake, volcano, tornado, hurricane, or flood. The mightiest power ever unleashed on this earth was when God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Satan and all of his evil forces were aligned in full battle force when Jesus lay in the tomb. If he could have kept Jesus from rising from the dead, Satan would have been triumphant. And so Paul piles up words to make the point that God’s power in raising Jesus from the dead was the mightiest display of power ever known.

~Dr. Robert L. Taylor, Th.D., Bible Teacher & expositor