Jesus declares, "I am the resurrection and the life," demonstrating this power through the raising of Lazarus from the dead. The sermon explains that Jesus is not merely a facilitator of resurrection but is its very source, just as He is our salvation. Believing in Him, even after physical death, ensures eternal life and a future resurrection, either to meet Him in the air or at the Great White Throne judgment. This truth offers comfort and hope, assuring believers that their physical death is not final but a transition to eternal life with Christ.
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Greetings friends. Another great I am in the Gospel by John, chapter eleven, verse twenty-five. This is in connection with the death of Lazarus, whose sisters were Mary and Martha. And Jesus said unto Martha, in verse twenty-five, Jesus said unto her, I am, I am the resurrection and the life. I am the resurrection and the life.
What a powerful, transcending statement. I am the resurrection and the life. And here in this chapter he's going to demonstrate that very power. The resurrection. He himself is the resurrection. And here is how it came about in connection with Lazarus. He was dead four days already. And they come and tell him. And Martha said, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died. But I know, said she, that even now whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. My friends, the Bible, your Bible, and mine, plainly, distinctly teaches that we will rise again, that man does not die as a beast, and he perishes from the earth and goes off into ether. Man has a soul, and man will be resurrected either to life eternal, Or to the law. Jesus said, thy brother shall rise again.
And Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. But Jesus didn't mean that exactly. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life. He himself. He is that. That is part of him. The same as salvation is a part of the Lord Jesus. He is our salvation. Simeon took him as a babe up in his arms and blessed God and said, Mine eyes has seen thy salvation.
He saw the person of the Christ. So that salvation is not a thing, it's a person. the one who calls salvation to be available, who works out salvation at Calvary's cause. Now he presents himself, whosoever believeth in me should not perish but have everlasting life. Now he shows that he is not only salvation, but he is the resurrection. and the life.
And so he goes on with Martha, and he says, I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me. Again we have that great word, believe. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believers thou this, She said unto me, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God. She believed he was the Son of God, which should come into the world. Yes. But whosoever believeth in him, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
This is eternal life. Though we die naturally, yet we live on spiritually. And we live on as human beings. And whosoever liveth and believeth in thee shall never die, never die the second death. No. And there'll be a great multitude when the Lord comes to the air and calls the church home that will never die. So this statement is true. They'll never die. They'll rise in a moment of a twinkling of an eye and to be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall they ever be with the Lord.
They'll never die. The church... Those who are of the body of Christ, believers in the Lord Jesus, to the salvation of their souls, they will rise, they are alive and remain on the earth, will rise at the moment they hear the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. They will be transformed. They will be raptured. They'll be broken right up into his presence. So Mary, Martha, knows some of these marvelous truths, and she believes that the Christ is the Son of God, and when she had so said, she went away and called Mary, her sister secretly, saying, The Master, is come and call us to thee.
As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came unto him. And now Jesus was not yet come unto the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. He wasn't yet at Lazarus's tomb. He was not yet at Lazarus' tomb. He was still in the place where Martha met him. And the Jewish folk then which were with her now, and comforted her when they saw Mary that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there. Then when Mary would come where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here my brother had not died, When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jewish folk also weeping, which came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, and said, Where have you laid them?
They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Then Jesus wept. He wept tears of compassion with Mary and Martha, and those that were mourning. He wept tears of compassion. He did not weep at the grave, according to the records in your Bible and mine. Then said the Jewish folk, Behold, how he loved him. And some of them said, Could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused that even this man should not have died? Well, that was good reasoning. That was good thinking. Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It is a cave and a stone lay upon it.
Yes, he was dead. He was buried. He was four days in the grave. And a stone was laid at the cave's mouth, or the sarcophagus mouth. Jesus said, Take your way the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said, and of Lord, by this time he's sinker. He's going to corrupt him, for he has been dead four days. No doubt about his death. Jesus said unto her, said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou should see the glory of God. Believe. Yes. Believe, trust in him. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me, and I knew that thou heard me, hearest me always.
But because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he had thus spoken, he cried to the loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And what happened? He is the resurrection. He truthfully said, I am the resurrection and the life. He doesn't cause a dead body to come. He causes a living body to come out of the grave. And that will be true of every child of God, every true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, who has passed away of all the earth through death. and their bodies are in the cemetery, are buried elsewhere. What is happening here will happen to them as an entire body of those who have passed away in Christ.
Because he said Lazarus comes forth. What happened? And he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes. He didn't walk out. He came out by the force and power of the Lord's voice. The Lord himself. He is. And he could say, I am the resurrection and the life. Oh, yes, my friend, he's going to raise the dead. All of the dead. They, the sea, you'll give up its dead at the Great White Throne. Those who have died without Christ will be all resurrected at the Great White Throne judgment in Revelation chapter twenty. But to Tristan, those who are in the church, those who are saved by grace, they'll hear his voice, and like Lazarus they'll come out of the graves, and those who are alive and remain will be caught up together to meet them in the air, and so shall they ever be with the Lord, because our Savior Master and friend, he is the resurrection and the life.
When he speaks, dead folk rise and become alive again. Oh, my friends, are you going to rise when the Lord comes? Will you rise to meet him in the air? We do thank the Blessed God our Father for the one who has the power of resurrection. The one who is the power to give eternal life now, the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who is able to raise from the dead. The day coming when he's going to raise all who are dead in Christ, and he's going to give them life forevermore. They'll come back to life.
They are in his presence now of their soul. They'll be reunited with their bodies. And we thank thee, Heavenly Father, when the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, when it sounds, they'll all rise. The living and the dead bodies, and they'll be caught up together with them in the air, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall they ever be with the Lord. We thank thee he had and could and did, truthfully say, I am the resurrection. and the life. Oh, we thank thee, Lord, for the prospect of living for all eternity, through all eternity, in the presence of the one who died for us on the cross at Calvary.
May many trust him again, and may they be ready when he crawls, when that cry is made in the air, by and by. Our Father, bless our country again. We pray they to guide us. We pray they to bless our president. Bless, Lord, all who are in the officials of state, and all, Lord, who serve the people of this great country. May the people respond by their attitude toward the laws of the land and the government of our lands. Bless, Lord, every mayor of every city, especially the mayor of of the nation's capital.