The Living Dead

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. - Isaiah 26:19

    Natural life and corporal death are a present and evident phenomena of which we know little, and understand less by carnal reasoning. The Bible is a spiritual book, and therefore is a book of miracles as we perceive it by the revelation of God the Spirit. The book of God sets forth death, as well as life, as a wondrous miracle of God as executed by and revealed in Christ. Only by living faith in the experience of grace, can we believe or comprehend the incomprehensible, and conceive the inconceivable. We who were spiritually dead shall awake, live, and sing together with him who was dead and is now alive forevermore. That can only be conceived by the spiritually minded, and experienced by almighty grace.

    The verse before us reveals God’s promise of everlasting life to his chosen, and their bodily resurrection as well. Both are, and will be, made effectual by our Lord’s death and resurrection. For the child of God, this natural life is a life of death. However, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Gal 2:20).

    This natural man is as good as dead because of the inevitable—As it is appointed unto men once to die (Heb 9:27). It is just as certain that those for whom Christ died, those who were dead, shall never die! Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (Jn 11:26). One day soon this natural body will succumb to death, So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory (1 Cor 15:54).