The Christ Who Cares

Such was the case when I got saved. Christ came looking for me, an individual. If you are here this morning and you have never trusted Christ, such is the case for you. He’s looking for you this morning. He’s seeking you specifically. He wants to save you. He’s calling your name. This was an individual command.

It was an I command. Notice who it was that was giving the command. It was Jesus. It wasn’t the boy’s mother or even someone following the crowd. I can assure you that if you or I were to walk up to a funeral procession and give a command to arise, not much would happen. It wouldn’t make any difference at all. But when the Creator of this universe walks up to a funeral procession and makes a command,business is about to pick up. The fate of this woman and this boy rest on one person alone, and His name is Jesus.

I am thankful that my salvation does not rest on the fate of some other man. I’m not depending upon anyone but the Lord to take care of my salvation. When He gave the command concerning my salvation, it was an I command. He took the load upon His own shoulders. He took care of it Himself. We’re not depending upon anyone but Him.

It was an impossible command. It was also an impossible command. I mean after all, the boy was dead. He didn’t just die, he had been dead for sometime. Here they were at the conclusion of the funeral march, he was about to be buried and now he is being told to arise. Sounds impossible. Dead men don’t arise. They don’t get up and walk around. Surely in the eyes of the crowd gathered around that day this looked like an impossible thing. But Luke has already told us in Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. Luke tells us again in Luke 18:27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. The things which seem impossible in the eyes of men are possible with God.

You may be here this morning and you are thinking that it is impossible for God to love you. You may be thinking that it is impossible for you to go to heaven, not after all you’ve done. Well, I have good news for you, for with God nothing shall be impossible. He has made a way where there is no way. True, there was no way for you to make it to heaven on your own, so Jesus Christ made the way for you. It is impossible for you to get to heaven on your own, but with God all things are possible.

Thus we see the command of Christ. When the Lord speaks, business picks up. These commands lead us to verse 15, in which we see

III. Conquering of Christ vs15

The third thing, the conquering of Christ. Now don’t misunderstand, I am not talking about Christ being conquered, but about what Christ conquered. Look at verse 15. The boy that was dead sat up. Now, I’ll admit that probably wasn’t that unusual in these days before embalming. It’s been said that corpses would bend and move some, even sometimes sit up. I’ve heard stories of people sitting around coffins and the body sitting up because of the muscles contracting. This is all before embalming. So, it probably didn’t take the crowd by as much surprise when he sat up, but, just to make sure this isn’t explained away by the skeptics, the Bible records the fact that he began to speak. Now, no dead man in history has ever spoken. To speak cannot be explained away other than to say that Jesus Christ conquered death.