of life, they go into the city and partake of the tree of life and live some people died twice: the few that Jesus raised from the dead. Now, there are going to be people in the Tribulation 12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. These people discover that no matter what they try, nothing basically changes the pattern of their life. them from dying; they don't get glorified bodies. When we receive news that some dear one is ill, this to us is an emergency condition. the end of the Tribulation. While a believer's body is in the grave, awaiting resurrection, his spirit is in the presence of the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). The widow of Nain’s son died twice; Jairus’s daughter died twice. This is an actual practical experience, quite possible in every Christian life. There’s so much potential evident in your life but you are still so pathetically hampered by the grave clothes of the old life, the same jealousies, the same frustrations, the same old lusts, the same bad habits, the same worries and fears that were in your heart before you knew Christ. Now let me immediately add that this is not mere theological talk. They are simply helpless to change their condition; that’s the first mark of death, helplessness. If you couldn’t answer that question, they couldn’t do a thing to help you. We’ll discover that each Bible story is also a picture or perhaps more accurately, a mirror in which we see ourselves, and this is what makes them so eternally fascinating. Where am I? What’s the first question they would ask? went up at the rapture. It begins immediately, to use His disciples and send them out even though they’re woefully ignorant. The first resurrection is not over until Now, to show you that's so, the Lord put into your Bible 11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”. A mellowing, broadening, deepening walk in the faithfulness of God, where you discover His mercies are fresh every morning and His word is like manna to the soul. So Moses is a picture If you said to them, Well I don’t know where I am, I’m in the phone booth, they could do nothing to help you, see? I wonder to how many who say something like that, Millions Now Living Are Already Dead, it’s obvious that we are using ‘dead’ in two different, but related meanings. There’s your Millennium–one thousand years. This is feasting with the Lord Jesus Christ! who get killed, because they won't take the mark of the beast--they go he gets his eternal life off of a tree. He was no longer corrupt but he was still hopeless, and do you recognize there are thousands of Christians still in this condition today? We didn’t know who he was, and he gave us his name and announced that he would like to play a phonograph record for us. She said, All my Christian life I have been so troubled by fear that I couldn’t even drive a car by myself. Moses is a good example. How can this be? You will remember the simple story that’s recorded here of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, the little family in Bethany outside of Jerusalem with whom Jesus loved to be. So Moses is a picture of a Tribulation saint, who dies in the Tribulation and dies again in the Millennium– two deaths. There are millions who can give testimony to that, that when they met Jesus Christ, this was the beginning of life, they were made alive from the dead, they had a new purpose, and a new outlook. Unquestionably alive, but unmercifully bound, he couldn’t walk; he evidently had to hop along like a contestant in a sack race, out of the tomb. get your eternal life. Have you been born again? And you remember as the story goes on, when he did come, Martha, in her blunt fashion summed the whole thing up unmistakably when she said, Behold, he stinketh. Are you still dead in trespasses and sins? Riches are merely another form of poverty, power becomes a major weakness. So, if a man is a Tribulation saint, or a Millennial, he gets his eternal life off of a tree. Here he enlists the aid of others. Subject to permissions policy, all rights reserved. He’s one of the senior pilots of American Airlines. We listened with eagerness and excitement to this strange recording and this announcement that millions now living shall never die. The widow of Nain’s son died twice; Jairus’s daughter died twice. The Shunammite’s son died twice. Paul said it’s not lawful for a man to utter these things. Let me make something very clear. We read, Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought he meant taking rest in sleep. Jonah died twice. What a pitiful existence it is, especially when a fourth fact is imminently possible in your life. So, when a man dies in the Tribulation and The young man is Lazarus, and his story is found in the 11th and 12th chapters of John’s gospel. RayStedman.org/permissions. The good ole days are always in the far distant past. If so then you are very close, of course, to this place of being widely used by the Lord in unmistakable impact upon those all around. Otherwise, they die again. This last week or so I received a copy of a letter written by the daughter of an American Airlines pilot, a man who had never given much thought to Christian faith. So, if a man is a Tribulation saint, or a Millennial, And people who are in this condition have two unmistakable marks of death continually evident about them. “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life,” Revelation 22:14–which is not the way you get your eternal life. Now it’s exactly at this point that the story of redemptive love begins in human life, for the scriptures announce to us that this is the condition of mankind in his fallen condition. I don’t remember what the record said, I only remember the title. down here.

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