Neo had been killed by the agents of the Matrix but is resurrected by Trinity’s faith and love. It is only at this time that Neo finally believes the truth and experiences the reality that he has power over the agents of the Matrix. He has died to the Matrix and has let go of all fear, doubt, and disbelief. His mind has been freed. He now believes Morpheus’s teaching that the agents can never be as strong or as fast as he is. He finally lives up to his name – Neo (meaning “new”). Finally, Mr. Anderson (Neo) is in fact a “new creation” (2 Cor.5:17).
From this time on, the battle within the Matrix will be fought in a new way. Neo now fights from a position of victor to help others break free from the Matrix. In the words of agent Smith, Neo’s, own freedom from the Matrix as well as the freedom of all who will choose to follow him is “inevitable.”
So it is with us. We have in fact been resurrected by the Trinity. Our real identity is found in Christ. We truly are new creations. When we finally put aside all fear; doubt, and disbelief and fully accept this fact – despite all our experiences to the contrary – we are empowered to extinguish the “agents” of the Matrix – what we’ve been calling “Matrix neurochips.” We no longer futilely fight to gain an identity we think we don’t yet have. Instead we realize our identity is already established in Christ. We wake up to the fact that we are exhaustively defined by Christ’s death and resurrection. Thus, our battle within the Matrix is not to establish the truth of who we are but to apply the truth of who we are to all our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. And we understand that our total conformity to Christ is a matter of inevitability. From before creation it was predestined that all who chose to trust in Christ would ultimately be “holy and blameless in [God’s] sight” (Eph. 1:4; see Rom8:29).
-Greg Boyd, Escaping The Matrix: Setting Your Mind Free to Experience Real Life In Christ
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