I declare unto you the gospel . . . The third series of the threefold Trinity. There are three fundamental facts, or a trinity of facts, in our personal experience of salvation. The first of these, corresponding to the death and burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is that it is through death that we come into spiritual life. We must die in order that we may live.
Spiritual life is only through resurrection.
This is the explicit statement of God's word. But God . . . The second fact in our personal experience of salvation is the period of growth, development and maturity. It is our state of Pilgrimage. We are at first babes in Christ.