Raised from the Dead

WE ALL AGREE THAT THE BIBLE IS THE TRUTH

WE WANT OUR HEARTS AND THOUGHTS TO ALWAYS AGREE WITH GOD’S

HIS WORD SAYS:

JESUS THE MESSIAH IS THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER. HEBREWS 13:8

THE THIEF COMES ONLY TO KILL AND STEAL AND DESTROY; I HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT TO THE FULL. JOHN 10:10

JESUS WRECKED EVERY FUNERAL HE WENT TO:

WHEN THEY CAME TO THE HOME OF THE SYNAGOGUE RULER, JESUS SAW A COMOTION WITH PEOPLE CRYING AND WAILING LOUDLY. HE WENT IN AND SAID TO THEM, “WHY ALL THIS WAILING AND COMMOTION? THE CHILD IS NOT DEAD BUT ASLEEP.” BUT THEY LAUGHED AT HIM.

AFTER HE PUT THEM ALL OUT, HE TOOK THE CHILD’S FATHER AND MOTHER AND DISCIPLES WHO WERE WITH HIM, AND WENT IN WHERE THE CHILD WAS. HE TOOK HER BY THE HAND AND SAID TO HER, ‘ TALITHA KOUM!” (WHICH MEANS”LITTLE GIRL, I SAY TO YOU, GET UP!”) IMMEDIATELY THE GIRL STOOD UP AND WALKED AROUND. MARK 5:38-41

SOON AFTERWARD, JESUS WENT TO A TOWN CALLED NAIN, AND HIS DISCIPLES AND A LARGE CROWD WENT ALONG WITH HIM. AS HE APPROACHED THE TOWN GATE, A DEAD PERSON WAS BEING CARRIED OUT – THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW. AND A LARGE CROWD FROM THE TOWN WAS WITH HER. WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HIS HEART WENT OUT TO HER AND HE SAID, “ DON’T CRY.”

THEN HE WENT UP AND TOUCHED THE COFFIN AND THOSE CARRYING IT STOOD STILL. HE SAID, “ YOUNG MAN , I SAY TO YOU GET UP!”

THE DEAD MAN SAT UP AND BEGAN TO TALK, AND JESUS GAVE HIM BACK TO HIS MOTHER. LUKE 7:11-15

ON HIS ARRIVAL, JESUS FOUND LAZARUS HAD ALREADY BEEN IN THE TOMB 4 DAYS….WHEN MARY REACHED THE PLACE THAT JESUS WAS AND SAW HIM, SHE FELL AT HIS FEET AND SAID, “LORD, IF YOU HAD BEEN HERE, MY BROTHER WOULD NOT HAVE DIED.”

WHEN JESUS SAW HER WEEPING, AND THE JEWS WHO HAD COME ALONG WITH HER ALSO WEEPING, HE WAS DEEPLY MOVED IN HIS SPIRIT AND TROUBLED. “WHERE HAVE YOU LAID HIM?” HE ASKED…

….JESUS ONCE MORE DEEPLY MOVED, CAME TO THE TOMB. IT WAS A CAVE WITH A STONE LAID ACROSS THE ENTRANCE. “TAKE AWAY THE STONE.” HE SAID.

“BUT LORD,” SAID MARTHA, THE SISTER OF THE DEAD MAN, “BY THIS TIME THERE IS A BAD ODOR, FOR HE HAS BEEN THERE 4 DAYS.”

THEN JESUS SAID, “DID I NOT TELL YOU THAT IF YOU BELIEVED YOU WOULD SEE THE GLORY OF GOD?”

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 SAID THIS, JESUS CALLED IN A LOUD VOICE, “LAZARUS, COME OUT!” THE DEAD MAN CAME OUT, HIS HANDS AND FEET WRAPPED IN STRIPS OF LINEN, AND A CLOTH AROUND HIS FACE.

JOHN 11:17,33,34,38-44

GOING TO PILATE, HE ASKED FOR JESUS’ BODY AND PILATE ORDERED IT BE GIVEN TO HIM. JOSEPH TOOK THE BODY, WRAPPED IT IN CLEAN LINEN CLOTH,AND PLACED IT IN HIS OWN NEW TOMB THAT HE HAD CUT OUT OF THE ROCK. HE ROLLED A BIG STONE IN FRONT OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE TOMB AND WENT AWAY.

…..THERE WAS A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE, FOR AN ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND GOING BACK TO THE TOMB, ROLLED BACK THE STONE AND SAT ON IT. HIS APPEARANCE WAS LIKE THAT OF LIGHTNING AND HIS CLOTHES WERE WHITE AS SNOW. THE GUARDS WERE SO AFRAID OF HIM THAT THEY SHOOK AND BECAME LIKE DEAD MEN.

THE ANGEL SAID TO THE WOMEN, “DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR I KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JESUS, WHO WAS CRUCIFIED. HE IS NOT HERE; HE HAS RISEN JUST AS HE SAID.

….SO THE WOMEN HURRIED AWAY FROM THE TOMB, AFRAID YET FILLED WITH JOY AND RAN TO TELL THE DISCIPLES. SUDDENLY JESUS MET THEM! MATTHEW 27:58-60 28:2-5, 8

OKAY…..THAT WAS JESUS, WHAT ABOUT US?

JESUS TOLD HIS “SENT ONES” :

AS YOU GO, PREACH THIS MESSAGE, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR. HEAL THE SICK, RAISE THE DEAD, CLEANSE THOSE WHO HAVE LEPROSY, DRIVE OUT DEMONS, FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE. MATTHEW 10:7-8

IN JOPPA THERE WAS A FOLLOWER NAMED TABITHA WHO WAS ALWAYS DOING GOOD AND HELPING THE POOR. ABOUT THAT TIME, SHE BECAME SICK AND DIED, AND HER BODY WAS WASHED AND PLACED IN AN UPSTAIRS ROOM. …..WHEN PETER ARRIVED, HE WAS TAKEN UPSTAIRS TO THE ROOM. ALL THE WIDOWS STOOD AROUND HIM CRYING, SHOWING HIM THE ROBES AND OTHER CLOTHING TABITHA HAD MADE WHILE SHE WAS STILL WITH THEM.

PETER SENT THEM ALL OUT OF THE ROOM.

THEN HE GOT DOWN ON HIS KNEES AND PRAYED.

TURNING TOWARD THE DEAD WOMAN HE SAID, “TABITHA! GET UP!” SHE OPENED HER EYES AND SEEING PETER , SHE SAT UP. HE TOOK HER BY THE HAND AND HELPED HER TO HER FEET.

ACTS 9:36, 37, 39-41

SEATED IN THE WINDOW WAS A YOUNG MAN NAMED EUTYCHUS, WHO WAS INKING INTO A DEEP SLEEP AS PAUL TALKED ON AND ON. WHEN HE WAS OUND ASLEEP, HE FELL TO THE GROUND FROM THE THIRD STORY AND WAS PICKED UP DEAD. PAUL WENT SOWN AND THREW HIMSELF ON THE YOUNG MAN AND PUT HIS ARMS AROUND HIM. “DON’T BE ALARMED!” HE SAID, “HE’S ALIVE!” THEN HE WENT UPSTAIRS AGAIN, AND BROKE BREAD AND ATE. ACTS 20:9-11

CAN IT HAPPEN TODAY? (HEBREWS 13:8)