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The Example of Lazarus & Time and Attention
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:32:00
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Imagine yourself standing outside Lazarus's tomb, and Jesus has just arrived. Lazarus has been dead for 3 days now, and “he stinketh.” What does Jesus have to do in order to raise Lazarus from the dead? If Jesus only restored his life, Lazarus would still have pneumonia, and would simply die again. And if Jesus only healed the pneumonia, Lazarus would be nothing more than a pneumonia-free corpse. Jesus did both. He removed what caused Lazarus’s death, he removed the pneumonia, and gave him life, got his heart pumping again. He does the same for us: at His Crucifixion Jesus removed what causes us death — our inherited sin nature; at His Resurrection He gave us new life, His own. Time On Our Hands? In the Age of Knowledge, God wanted man to become aware of his need for God. In the Age of Grace, God wants man to have that need met. In the Age to come, God wants man to learn to live in dependence and freedom, without any constraints from the law, and all that that means, by first starting to rule and reign over