In this sermon Return From Exile, we read that Jesus Christ was dead, and then raised by the power of God. We are informed what exceeding great power works towards us according to the same degree of power that God did that with Christ. The Son of God was dead. Killed on a cross, and the Spirit of glory raised Him up. Ordinary people do not get that privilege because they are not sons of God. But Jesus was a son of God, and therefore was raised by the glory of the Father. He was raised from a tomb, but we are raised from a lifestyle that is actually as much a place of death as the tomb was. We were dead in trespasses and sins. This was like a land of EXILE in which we dwelt. But when Jesus DIED, the veil that barred man was ripped wide open. His DEATH brought us back. This portrays the return from exile granted to all those who are baptized into Christ's death.