PASSIONATE PURSUIT...HE IS RISEN!

​John 5:25
VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, THE HOUR IS COMING AND NOW IS, WHEN THE DEAD SHALL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD: AND THEY THAT HEAR SHALL LIVE.
FOR AS THE FATHER HATH LIFE IN HIMSELF, SO HATH HE GIVEN TO THE SON TO HAVE LIFE IN HIMSELF;
AND HATH GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT ALSO, BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN. MARVEL NOT AT THIS: FOR THE HOUR IS COMING, IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE,
AND SHALL COME FORTH; THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION. I CAN OF MINE OWN SELF DO NOTHING: AS I HEAR, I JUDGE: AND MY JUDGMENT IS JUST; BECAUSE I SEEK NOT MINE OWN WILL, BUT THE WILL OF THE FATHER WHICH HATH SENT ME.
Jesus is the resurrection! He is the Great I Am! As we come together to honor our savior who laid down his life and is risen to sit on the right hand of God, let us look around. Behold our circumstances for a moment that surround us. Every problem, every circumstance, every situation, every hurt, every pain, wound, and the brokenness, the Lord Jesus nailed it to the cross and overcome it with obedience even unto death. He laid his life down and allowed the Holy Spirit to quicken Him to a place far beyond powers, principalities, and circumstance.
He said, surely the time has come, the dead shall hear his voice. We are speaking of those that are spiritually dead and those who are on spiritual life support. He is the resurrection and because he is risen with all power in his hands, his spirit quickens and revives to hear his voice and live. He makes it clear that it is not just any voice, but the voice of the Son of God. His voice changes spiritual atmosphere and the dead hear and are quickened by his spirit to a place of total surrender and they live. Our Father has eternal life and because he lives, we have life in him. How much more then should we as joint-heirs also lay down our lives. He states that no man takes his life, but he has laid it down for his sheep. Greater love hath no man that this, that a man lay down his life for a friend. He prophesied. He called us friends before we were friends. He called us sheep before we knew to follow. He gave us his spirit to walk in eternal life. That same spirit has given us the ability to also stand in him and in his authority to execute judgment. Do not be alarmed or think it strange for the hour is approaching where the graves are opened because they have heard the voice of God. Some shall come forth to the resurrection of life, and those who believe not, shall come forth to the resurrection of damnation. The Lord simply said believe. He pleads with us to believe and if we believe then we will love each other and obey his holy commandments. His witness is true and the judgment coming is just. Those who hear his word and do it, though he is dead yet shall he live. There is no condemnation in Christ, because he is risen. Therefore, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking to the author and finisher of our faith… He endured every contradiction so that he could reconcile us to His glory!
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