Tomb
The carpenter is recorded as calling a person back from the dead.
Lazarus, a close friend of Jesus has died.
When Lazarus was sick, Jesus was called when by Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus, to come and heal him. He choose not to leave where he was at the time. This choice meant Lazarus died.
Jesus then chooses to go and visit Mary and Martha. He gathered them at the tomb of Lazarus, instructed them to roll the stone away, and then utters the following
John 11:41ff
"So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go"
Lazarus come out! Three words to bring a person back from the dead. Yet what is amazing is that he needed only two, "come out". The Third, "Lazarus", is so that others who may have been buried nearby did not return inadvertently. Such is the power of the carpenters word, that when he speaks life is returned, the dead rise and that hope is restored. Yet for this time and this place, to glorify the father, only Lazarus was to return, and then only for a time, for he died again as all humans do.
There is however a time coming when those who are called will rise to eternal life, never to taste death again, and that time is fast approaching, the challenge Dear Reader is, are you ready for it?
Are you like Mary and Martha, calling on the name of the carpenter to save you from the sins that hold you to this existence of death, and instead move from this tomb, to new life!
Lazarus, a close friend of Jesus has died.
When Lazarus was sick, Jesus was called when by Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus, to come and heal him. He choose not to leave where he was at the time. This choice meant Lazarus died.
Jesus then chooses to go and visit Mary and Martha. He gathered them at the tomb of Lazarus, instructed them to roll the stone away, and then utters the following
John 11:41ff
"So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go"
Lazarus come out! Three words to bring a person back from the dead. Yet what is amazing is that he needed only two, "come out". The Third, "Lazarus", is so that others who may have been buried nearby did not return inadvertently. Such is the power of the carpenters word, that when he speaks life is returned, the dead rise and that hope is restored. Yet for this time and this place, to glorify the father, only Lazarus was to return, and then only for a time, for he died again as all humans do.
There is however a time coming when those who are called will rise to eternal life, never to taste death again, and that time is fast approaching, the challenge Dear Reader is, are you ready for it?
Are you like Mary and Martha, calling on the name of the carpenter to save you from the sins that hold you to this existence of death, and instead move from this tomb, to new life!
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