The Greatest positive and negative in the Universe

In The Normal Christian Life, arguably one of the ten most important books of the twentieth century, Watchman Nee develops the contrast of two distinct creations that God has brought into being.  I personally consider this passage the "choicest of the choice" (highlighting mine):

The Cross was the means God used to bring to an end ‘the old things’ by setting aside altogether our ‘old man’, and the resurrection was the means He employed to impart to us all that was necessary for our life in that new world.  “We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death:  that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4).

The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: 

...the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all He will have in the new sphere. 

So the resurrection stands at the threshold of the new creation.   It is a blessed thing to see that the Cross ends all that belongs to the first regime,

...and that the resurrection introduces all that pertains to the second.  Everything that had its beginning before resurrection must be wiped out.  Resurrection is God’s new starting-point. 

We have now two worlds before us, the old and the new.  In the old, Satan has...dominion.  You may be a good man in the old creation, but as long as you belong to the old you are under sentence of death, because nothing of the old can go over to the new.  The Cross is God’s declaration that all is of the old creation must die.  Nothing of the first Adam can pass beyond the Cross; it all ends there.  The sooner we see that, the better, for it is by the Cross that God has made a way of escape for us from that old creation.  God gathered up in the Person of His Son all that was of Adam and crucified Him; so in Him all that was of Adam was done away.  Then God made, as it were, a proclamation throughout the universe saying: ‘Through the Cross I have set aside all that is not of Me; you who belong to the old creation are all included in that; you too have been crucified with Christ!’ 

 …And risen, indeed! 

Good News for all true believers!