Resurrection Series

So what is the point that I am making here. Have you noticed that our Lord said that Lazarus was asleep and that He was going to go wake him? If you go through the bible amazingly everyone who has professed their belief and trust in the perfect sacrifice of The Lamb of God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it says that they are asleep.

On one occasion an unbeliever who was trying to trip me up threw this question at me, ‘you talk about the resurrection like it is a shore thing, since you have never experienced this firsthand how you can be so confident of it actually happening?’ ‘That is easy to explain, I replied, ‘In fact our Great and Holy God shows us all every day, even non-believers, that there will be a resurrection. Each night you fall what? – Asleep! Then you experience a resurrection the next day – you wake up! For those who have died there will be a time when the Creator calls and all will answer, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting damnation.

It is all our duty to wait for our change. There are a few things to consider in doing this.

1. We must expect it will come and to think much of it. Our natural bent is not to think about it.

2. We must desire that it will come – too long to be forever with our Master and King – The Lord Jesus Christ.

3. We must in the mean time occupy or be busy in serving our King

4. We must be ready for His Coming. We must give diligence to get our houses in order.

16 For now You number my steps, but do not watch over my sin. 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover my iniquity. 18 “But as a mountain falls and crumbles away, and as a rock is moved from its place; 19 As water wears away stones, and as torrents wash away the soil of the earth; So You destroy the hope of man. 20 You prevail forever against him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away. 21 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; They are brought low, and he does not perceive it. 22 But his flesh will be in pain over it, and his soul will mourn over it.”

Satan at this time must have given Job a shot of pain which brought him out of his comfort zone. This caused him to return to this complaints. He again believes to think that God is still settling old scores and is rolling out His justice. He longs to get our of this world where God’s wrath will be a thing of the past. – We read this in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 32, “ 34 Is this not laid up in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures? 35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them.’36 “For the LORD will judge His people

Job was correct in thinking that he deserved nothing good. That he missed the mark of perfectly obeying our Holy Master. Therefore, in a way, he felt like many of us do, that he deserved the punishment he was getting.

Job however was wrong in suggesting that our Holy Merciful and Loving Father would mark every step he made. If he veered off the path then wham! – God whacks him. In all truth we are punished less than our sins deserve. Our Holy God does indeed seal up against the day of wrath, the transgression of those un-repentant but our sins He has cast them all as far as the east is from the west.