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Greg Elmquist

I Am The Resurrection

John 11:25
Greg Elmquist April, 26 2026 Audio
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In Greg Elmquist's sermon titled "I Am The Resurrection," the central theological topic addressed is the resurrection of Christ and its implications for believers, particularly drawing from John 11:25. Elmquist emphasizes that Jesus' declaration, "I am the resurrection and the life," highlights His divine authority over life and death, underscored by His miraculous raising of Lazarus from the dead as a foretaste of the future resurrection of believers. The sermon weaves in various Scripture references, notably John 11, John 20, and 1 Corinthians 15, to assert that the resurrection is not merely a historical event but the very foundation of Christian faith—without it, faith is vain and believers remain in their sins. The significance of this doctrine extends beyond intellectual acknowledgment to encompass a transformative faith in Christ, who alone holds the power of resurrection and eternal life.

Key Quotes

“He that believeth on me though he were dead, yet shall he live.”

“If there be no resurrection, then your faith is in vain and you're still in your sins.”

“We don't hang the hopes of our immortal soul on a historical event. We look in faith to a person.”

“Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.”

What does the Bible say about the resurrection?

The Bible teaches that Jesus is the resurrection and the life, and that all who believe in Him will be raised to eternal life.

In John 11:25, Jesus declares, 'I am the resurrection and the life.' This powerful statement conveys that He holds authority over both physical and spiritual death. Believers in Christ are assured that even if they die physically, they will live eternally. This promise is not limited to a future event; it also encompasses the spiritual resurrection of believers who are made alive through faith in Him. The resurrection is a foundational hope of the Christian faith, affirming that death does not have the final word for those united with Christ.

John 11:25-26, 1 Corinthians 15:14-17

Why is the resurrection of Jesus important for Christians?

The resurrection confirms Jesus as the Son of God and serves as the cornerstone of our faith, offering believers hope for eternal life.

The resurrection of Jesus is central to Christianity because it validates His identity as the Son of God and the Savior of humanity. Paul states in 1 Corinthians 15:14, 'If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.' Without the resurrection, our faith would be meaningless, and we would remain in our sins. The resurrection provides Christians with hope, affirming that we too will be raised from the dead and granted eternal life with Him. It signifies victory over death and encourages believers to live boldly and confidently in their faith.

1 Corinthians 15:14-22, John 11:25-26

How do we know Jesus is the Christ?

Jesus' miracles, His fulfillment of prophecy, and His resurrection confirm His identity as the Christ, the Son of God.

The conviction that Jesus is the Christ comes from the testimony of Scripture and the Holy Spirit. In John 11:27, Martha professes her belief, saying, 'Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.' This acknowledgment is rooted in the miracles Jesus performed, which served as signs pointing to His divine nature and authority. Additionally, His resurrection from the dead is the ultimate confirmation of His status as the Messiah. John 20:31 emphasizes that these miracles were recorded to inspire belief that Jesus is the Christ, thereby enabling believers to have life through His name.

John 11:27, John 20:31, Matthew 16:16-17

What is the meaning of Jesus being the resurrection?

Jesus as the resurrection means He has the power to grant both physical and spiritual life to those who believe in Him.

When Jesus says, 'I am the resurrection and the life' (John 11:25), He is proclaiming His role as the source of both physical resurrection and spiritual life. This statement assures believers that their fate is secure; while they may experience physical death, they will be raised to eternal life. The resurrection is inherently tied to the promise of salvation and hope. For Christians, this means that the death of the body is not the end, but rather a transition to eternal communion with Christ. It is a powerful affirmation of hope for every believer, emphasizing the transformative power of faith in Jesus.

John 11:25-26, Romans 8:11

Sermon Transcript

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Good morning. Let's turn in our Bibles to John chapter 11. John chapter 11. Let's ask the Lord's blessings. Our merciful Heavenly Father, What great comfort and hope it gives to us to be able to come before the and and cry Abba Father, as we just as we just confessed in song, Lord, we confess in prayer. We thank you that the Lord Jesus has by his life and by his death and through his resurrection made it so that we can call you our father, that we can come before the throne of grace, confident, boldly knowing that he has made the way we might find mercy and grace in our time of need. Father, we are a needy people. You know that better than we do. Lord, we pray that you would that you would minister grace by your spirit, that you would give light to our understanding and that you would speak hope and life to our hearts as we seek to worship the Lord. Enable that enable that to be so.

We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. About a year ago, we started our time in the Gospel of John. And if you remember, we started with John chapter 11. And I don't know, maybe about three months we were verse by verse through the 11th chapter of John, this wonderful account of the resurrection of Lazarus. We've come again now to John chapter 11 this morning, and rather than go back through the entire chapter verse by verse as we did last year, I want to try to bring one message this morning from the from the confession that Martha makes in verse 27.

When the Lord asked her, believest thou this? Martha responded by saying, yea, Lord, yes, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. When the Lord asked Peter, whom do you say that I am? Peter said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. And the Lord Jesus responded to Peter by saying, blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, flesh and blood did not reveal the Son to you, but my Father, which is in heaven. And upon this rock, the confession that you just made, that I am the Christ, the Son of the living God, upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not be able to prevail against it. Whom say ye that I am?

This is our confession. This is every believer's confession. And this confession made with understanding and made with conviction of the Holy Spirit is the hope that we have that we've been taught of our Heavenly Father. We didn't come to this conclusion on our own, that it was the Lord that gave us this confession and caused us to say these words. The entire chapter 11 of John is that glorious event of our Lord going to Bethany and raising a dead man from the grave.

Lazarus, the one whom Jesus loved, a picture of every one of God's children, had been in the tomb for four days. It was impossible for Lazarus to be brought back to life apart from the Word of God. The living Word came. The Lord Jesus returned to Bethany, and then he spoke. He spoke those words of life when he said to Lazarus, Lazarus, come forth. Come forth. He didn't invite Lazarus to believe. He commanded him to come forth. Lazarus would not have been able to come had the Lord not spoken and brought him irresistibly out of that tomb. I am The resurrection.

Now John's gonna tell us in John chapter 20, this is the, John, when he writes his gospel account, builds the gospel around seven miracles. The first miracle is recorded in John chapter two, where our Lord turned water into wine and had the servants fill up those six water pots. a picture of the Lord Jesus coming, not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it, and then bringing forth that new wine.

And no one understood the miracle. No one knew where the wine came from, except that that account, that miracle, ends with these words, the disciples, that the Lord's glory was manifested to the disciples through that miracle, and they believed on him. They saw the meaning of the miracle. They saw the one who had performed the miracle, and they believed on him.

And John's gonna conclude his gospel in chapter 20 by saying, many other signs, these miracles John calls signs, just like a street sign, it points to something else. And so these miracles all pointed to something. And many other signs did Jesus in the presence of his disciples that are not recorded in this book.

But these have been written in order that you might believe. Believe that Jesus is the Christ and that believing on him, you might have life through his name. Oh, here's our hope. Our hope is that these words that the Lord has given us in John chapter 11 will do for us what his words did for Lazarus. They will speak life to our hearts. They will be the means by which the Lord gives us faith. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the Word of God.

In the men's study this morning, Tom read from 1 Peter 1. And the last verse of 1 Peter 1 says this, This is the word of God, which by the gospel is preached unto you. This is the word of God, which by the gospel is preached unto you. Now, Peter talks about the authority and the infallibility of God's word, and many would risk and even give their lives for the infallibility of the Bible being the word of God who don't know the gospel. What Peter's telling us, what the Lord's telling us is that if Christ is not preached and if saving faith is not given, then the word of God's not been preached. This is the word which by the gospel is priest unto you. So every time we go to the Bible, we are asking the Lord to reveal Christ, that we might have life in him.

Now, John not only builds his gospel account around seven miracles, of which this is the last, this is the final of the seven miracles, and the pinnacle of the miracles, if you will, the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead. But he also builds his gospel around seven IMs. And this is the fifth of the seven IMs. And we find that in verse 24. Let's read these verses. Martha said unto him, When the Lord told Martha, when the Lord told Martha, your brother shall rise again in verse 23, Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. And Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life.

He that believeth on me Though he were dead, though we are spiritually dead by birth, by nature, we come into this world spiritually blind and spiritually dead. I am the resurrection life. He that believeth on me, though he be dead, yet shall he live.

And he that liveth, those of us that have believed, By God's grace, by his irresistible grace, and he that believeth on me, and he that liveth and believeth on me shall never die. He wasn't talking about our physical death. The Lord tarries beyond our life in this world, we will suffer physical death. He's talking about spiritual life. to our eternal life. He that liveth and believeth on me never has to worry about spiritual separation from God. Once united to God in Christ, that life is eternal. Well, it was eternal before that, but it's everlasting. Believest, you see that in verse 26? Believest thou this? Martha, do you believe me? You believe what I'm telling you about myself? I'm going to confirm my words with a miracle. But that miracle is but a sign.

Lazarus will die again, physically speaking. But I'm gonna perform this miracle in order that, well, look what the Lord says just before raising Lazarus from the dead. In verse 40, Jesus said unto her, said I not unto thee that if thou wouldest believe thou should see the glory of God?

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 hearest me always. But because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And then if you'll skip down with me to verse 45, after Lazarus comes from the grave and the Lord says, loose him and let him go.

Then many of the Jews which came to Mary and had seen the miracle which Jesus did, believed on him. They believed on him. And sadly, and and inexplicably, how could someone, how could someone have observed such a miracle? Well, unless the Lord gives life. The real question is how, not how can they not believe, but the real question is how is it that I did believe? God had to raise me from the dead. in order for me to be able to believe.

But we have in verse 26, but some of them went their way to the Pharisees and told them what things Jesus had done. The Pharisees got the Sanhedrin together and said, what are we gonna do? We've got to get rid of this. If we allow him to live, all men will believe on him and we will lose our place and our power and our nation.

So the question for me and you is, do we believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God? That's our hope in the resurrection. And if there be no resurrection, then all is in vain. If there be no resurrection, Why are we here? What are we doing? And worse than that, if there be no resurrection, everything that we're confessing to be true is a lie. If there be no resurrection. Let me show you that. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. begin reading with me, if you will, at verse 13.

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen? Now, there were obviously some people in the church at Clarence spreading the idea that Christ had risen from the dead, but that this idea of us experiencing a resurrection is spiritual, not physical. And they were denying the reality of the believer having hope in the resurrection.

And verse 14, and if Christ be not risen, that our preaching is in vain and your faith is also in vain. If there's no resurrection, if Christ is, if we're not risen from the dead, then Christ is not risen from the dead. If Christ is not risen from the dead, then everything we're doing is in vanity.

It's just empty. Yea, and worse than that, verse 15, we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom if he raised not, if so be that the dead rise not. If there's no hope in me being raised from the dead, then I'm a false prophet and We're wasting our time. And everything else that the Lord Jesus did was of no avail. Verse 16, for if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised.

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is without substance. Your faith is vain. Your faith is just a pipe dream. Your faith is just an imagination. Your faith is just a shadow. There's no substance to it. There's no reality to it. There's no truth to it. Your faith is vain if there's no resurrection.

You see how this matter of the resurrection, this being the final of the seven miracles, it's the pinnacle of everything. Everything that happens before that is fulfilled in this. And if there is no resurrection, then your faith is in vain and you're still in your sins. There's no hope of the forgiveness of sin if there's no resurrection, if Christ did not raise from the dead.

Now, the message and the meaning of the resurrection is what's at stake here. And that's important for us to understand because unless you are Hindu, and believe in reincarnation, or Buddhist and believe that your soul is going to be absorbed into the spiritual cosmos somehow, or you're an atheist, everybody else believes in a resurrection.

The Jews believe in a resurrection. The Muslims believe in a resurrection. Islam teaches resurrection. And everyone who calls themselves Christian believes in the historical event, most believe in the historical event of Christ being raised from the dead. And they hold some hope that they will have life after death through the means of a resurrection.

Is that what the Lord is saying? Believest thou this? When he said, I am the resurrection. And now the Lord is telling us, if there be no resurrection, then your faith is in vain and you're still in your sins. He's not talking about the event of the resurrection, he's talking about the meaning and the message of the resurrection. That the Lord Jesus himself is the resurrection. We don't hang the hopes of our immortal soul on a historical event. We look in faith to a person. And what he actually accomplished in his resurrection. Because that's the meaning of the resurrection.

It's not just that Christ was raised from the dead and we're about some, some hope that that's going to happen to us. Everything that the Lord's telling us here is a confirmation of what he said when he said, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he be dead, yet shall he live. And he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? And what did Martha say? Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. And what she said in her confession wasn't just words. like the resurrection.

This same thing is true about the crucifixion. There are a whole lot of people in the world that say they believe that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on a Roman cross and that he was the Son of God. They believe in the historical event of the crucifixion just like they believe in the historical event of the resurrection. How many people celebrate Christmas and Good Friday and Easter and all those things in the world. But they don't know why he was crucified. They don't know why he was raised from the dead.

So if Christ be not raised from the dead, verse 17, then your faith is in vain and yet you're still in your sins. Then they also which have fallen asleep in Christ are perished. All those that have died since the resurrection of Christ until now who said that they believe the gospels, it's not just those of you that are still alive in Corinth, but it's those who you called your brethren who have now left this world physically. They're gone. They're perished. They have no life after death. Verse 19, and if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

You know, if you listen to most preaching today, it's all about how to apply the principles of the Bible and the spiritual truths of the Bible to your life in this world. How to have peace, how to be happy, how to be successful. And I've actually heard people say, well, you know, even if there was no life after death, I'd want to live for Jesus because it's such a better life. It's not what the Bible says. If there's no, if there's no resurrection, we are of all men, most miserable. Let us eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we should die.

Look at, it basically says that, look at verse 32. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, he's talking about the persecution that he suffered for preaching the gospel, which the resurrection was the conclusion of. And the riots and the beatings that he experienced from those in Ephesus as a result of this gospel. What advantage is that to me?

If the dead rise not, let us all eat and drink for tomorrow we're gonna die. This matter of the resurrection is everything. It's the end goal. It's to be raised from the dead and to spend eternity in heaven with Christ. To see him as he is and to be made like him. And if that's not our hope, then we are of all men most miserable. We should just enjoy this life and don't worry about it.

With the crucifixion and with the resurrection, there is cause and effect. And a lot of people see the effect, but they don't understand the cause. They see what happened, they don't understand why it happened. Why did the Father raise the Lord Jesus from the dead?

Turn to me, if you will, to Hebrews chapter 13. Believest thou this, whom do you say that I am? That's our confession. Verse 20, Hebrews chapter 13. Now the God of peace, and everybody wants to have the peace of God in their life. This goes back to what I was saying about most preaching today is just minding the things of the flesh, just trying to get, trying to feel better and do better in this world with no real, real understanding and no real hope of the resurrection and eternal life. Men want to have the peace of God in their life, but the only way to have the peace of God is to have peace with God. And the only way to have peace with God is for the Father to do for us what he did for Peter. When the Lord Jesus said to Peter, flesh and blood is not revealed unto you, but my Father which is in heaven, the meaning of the resurrection, the meaning of the cross, the message, the man of it, who he is and what he actually accomplished.

Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead, our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant. God, the father, raised his son from the dead in order that we might believe the sign. It's a sign. What does the sign point to? Well, it points to Christ. It points to the Lord Jesus Christ as a successful savior.

The great shepherd of the sheep has fulfilled the conditions of the everlasting covenant by his blood. That's what this verse is telling us. God the father raised his son from the dead because the son fulfilled the conditions of the everlasting covenant by shedding his precious blood. God the father saw the travail of his son's soul and God said, I'm satisfied. He has performed the work of redemption. He has accomplished the salvation of his people.

And this is the sign. When the Pharisees asked for a sign, show us a sign and we'll believe on you. A wicked and perverse generation seeketh after a sign. I'm not gonna show you a sign. I don't have to prove myself to you. No sign will be given unto you except for the sign of Jonah, who spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale. and then was vomited out onto dry ground. The miracle of Jonah in the belly of the whale and being brought back, the Lord interprets as the sign of the resurrection.

The Father is saying that the the everlasting covenant of grace, that covenant that God the Father established with his Son and with the Holy Spirit before time ever was, in eternity past, when God the Father, according to his own sovereign will and purpose, elected a particular people. And God the Son agreed to be their surety in that covenant. And God the Holy Spirit said, I will go in the process of time and I will make those for whom the Father chose and those for whom Christ died willing in the day of my power. That's the everlasting covenant.

And the God of peace, the Lord Jesus made peace with God for us. by his blood, he paid the debt for our sins. If there be no, if this isn't the truth about the, you see, the people in Corinth weren't arguing about whether Christ had been raised from the dead, but they were arguing about the details of their own resurrection, whether it was spiritual, whether it was physical, And many of them had come to the conclusion that there's no way that this corruptible body can be made incorruptible. And that's how the Lord ends chapter seven, chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians, saying that, well, let's go back to that text a moment. 1 Corinthians 15. Verse 35, but some man will say, how are the dead raised up?

And with what body do they come? Because they could not understand how this body that was going to return to the earth or perhaps had been lost at sea and eaten by fish of the sea or burned at the stake. There were believers that were being put to death, that were being persecuted. How is it that God's going to collect all the molecules of these bodies and resurrect them from the dead? That is just not possible. They wanted some explanation as to how it could happen.

And I wanna go back to Mary's confession, because when the Lord Jesus said to Mary, Mary, I am the resurrection and the life. And then he concluded the rest of what he said with, believest thou this? Mary didn't say, oh, I understand now how the resurrection's gonna happen. Now I understand how the Lord's going to bring back to life our decayed and gone bodies.

How is it gonna be? I understand that. You said it now, oh, I see. She didn't say that. I don't believe Mary understood what the Lord was talking about any more than you and I can understand. how these bodies are gonna be resurrected. And so her confession was, Lord, whatever you say, I believe. Yea, Lord, your Lord, your words are life to me.

And this I know for sure, thou art the Christ, the anointed one. You came to this earth sent of your Father in the full power of the Spirit of God to accomplish the purpose for which the Father sent you, and that is to save all your people. I know that. I believe that. Thou art the Christ, the Son of God. You possess all power and all authority.

And though there's no way for my mind to conceive of how these bodies could be brought back to life, I know that you are the son of God and that just as you created us by your word, you will take care of recreating us by your word into a resurrected body, an immortal body. Yea, Lord, I do believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, that should come into the world.

God's been promising this from the beginning. From when the Lord said to Adam and Eve, the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent and all the prophecies of the Messiah coming. What will the Messiah do when he comes? He will save all of Israel. And the resurrection is proof that he was successful in doing that.

How many people believe and hold to a hope that they're going to be resurrected who do not believe that Jesus was successful in what he came to do? They do not believe that he's the Christ. They say he's the Christ. They honor him with their lips. but they don't even understand what Christ means. They call him Jesus, but they don't know that Jesus means Jehovah actually successfully saves. He doesn't offer salvation. He actually saves his people from their sins.

So the Lord is going to go on to say in our, oh, you're there in first Corinthians 15. Um, How is this body gonna come? Verse 35, thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die. And he's gonna liken the resurrection of the body to a seed.

A seed is planted, the seed dies, the seed comes to life and what the seed brings doesn't look anything like the seed. It produces other seeds, but the plant itself doesn't look anything like the seed. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but you just put out bare grain or of wheat and some other kind of grain. But God giveth it a body as it pleases him to every seed his own body. Just as that seed of corn or seed of wheat or acorn produces something that looks completely different from the seed.

So that's the way. Verse 39, all flesh is not the same, flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another flesh of birds. And there are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial, but the glory of the celestial is one, the glory of the terrestrial is another. He's using the argument of nature to show how foolish they are. These things are different in nature, they're different in spiritual reality as well. But there's one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another glory of the stars. One star different from another star in glory.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. but it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. So it is written, the first man, Adam, was made a living soul. And the last Adam, that's the Lord Jesus, was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that which is not was first, which is spiritual, but that which is natural. And afterwards, that was the spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

This is our hope. Now, I want to close with one final thought. If you thought through these things, you know that there are verses in the Bible that say, while we are at home in this body, we are absent from the Lord. For I am willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

And then Paul said in Philippians chapter one, this is the same man that wrote the words of first Corinthians chapter 15. I am in a straight betwixt two. Having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better, nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." And then we have those words that the Lord Jesus spoke to the thief on the cross when he said, today, thou shalt be with me in paradise.

Now, how do we reconcile those words to a future day resurrection? Scripture's clear. The trump of God is gonna sound. The dead in Christ are gonna raise. Those of us which are alive and remain will be caught up with them and together in the air. There's many verses in the Bible that speak of a future resurrection.

I want to bring this up because I want to say first of all, I don't know. I know this. I know the Bible doesn't teach soul sleep. There are some who try to reconcile these two things, to be absent from the body, to be present with the Lord, the hope of me taking my last breath and opening my eyes in glory and being with him and seeing him as he is. and yet there's a future resurrection that may be a long way off in this world. I believe that's part of what Mary's saying, Martha's saying. Lord, you say you're the resurrection and the life. How to conceive of this just like the people in Corinth were trying to understand the resurrection All I know is that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who shall come into the world.

I know the Bible doesn't teach soul sleep. Some will say, well, you know, you go into the grave and you don't really go to be with the Lord. You go to sleep when you die. And at the resurrection, you'll see him, but you don't remember that sleep. It's like going to sleep at night and having a good night's waking up in the morning. You don't remember it.

The Bible doesn't teach that. And the Bible doesn't teach purgatory, that we're gonna go to some medium place between here and heaven. The Bible teaches both, to be asked him from the body to be present with the Lord and that there is a future resurrection. There is one passage of scripture that helps me to understand these two things.

When the apostle Paul was caught up into the third heaven, now the third heaven is where God is. The first heaven is the atmosphere around the world, the second heaven is the heavens, the created universe, and the third heaven is the place where God is. Paul said, I was caught up into the third heaven, and I saw things that were unspeakable.

And then he says this, whether in body or out of the body, I cannot tell. It was, I don't know whether I was in the body or out of the body. But I know where I was and I know who I saw and I know who I heard. Could it be that we go to be with the Lord when we leave this world and we're spiritually with him? Until that time of the resurrection when a new body, I don't know. I don't know.

I want to tread on this ground very carefully because The secret things belong to the Lord our God and those things which have been revealed belong to us and to our children. Perhaps we should just stop right there. Perhaps we should just say, the Bible teaches that we go to be with the Lord. Perhaps, perhaps in one sense, the Bible also teaches that A day is as of a thousand years, a thousand years is of a day to the Lord, and that in eternity there is no such thing as time, that this thing of time that we live in is a created thing for us in this world, and that in heaven time will be no more. Time will cease. Could it be that in one sense the Lord is referring to what's going to happen in time with the resurrection and what happens in eternity when we depart from this world of time?

I don't know. I don't know. I think about these things. I have to just come back to what the Bible says and confess that I believe what Martha believes. Yea, Lord, I believe that you were successful in what you came to do. That the Father proved that by not allowing His Holy One to see corruption and raising you from the dead. And my hope is that I'm going to be raised from the dead. And my hope is also that when I draw my last breath in this world, I'm gonna be with you. How to understand those things? I know not. But I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God. that should come into the world.

And as soon as she said that, the next verse says, and she walked away. That was all she could say. It was all she needed to know. She didn't wait for a response. She didn't ask questions. She didn't probe into the secret things that belong to the Lord our God. She believed what he said and she made her confession and she walked away.

These things have been written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and the believing you might have life through his name. If there be no resurrection, it's all in vain, and we're all a bunch of liars. That's what God says. If there be no resurrection, eat, drink, and be merry, but tomorrow you shall die. No sense in any of it, is there? Oh, what hope we have, what hope. It's what God has said. All right.
Greg Elmquist
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Greg Elmquist is the pastor of Grace Gospel Church in Orlando, Florida.
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