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The Raising of Lazarus , About the
raising of the dead (1-18)
1. In Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha, lay a sick man called Lazarus. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord and dried His feet with her hair.
2. For this reason, his sisters sent word to Jesus saying, "Lord, behold, the one that you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this, He said, "The illness does not lead to death, but that the glory of God may become visible in him.” Now Jesus loved Mary and her sister and Lazarus.
3. Although He heard that he was ill, He stayed two days more in the same place where He was. Afterwards, He said to His disciples, "Let us go back to Judea.”
4. His disciples said to Him, "Master, last time the Jews wanted to stone You, and You want to go there again?” Jesus answered, "Has the day not twelve hours? The one who walks in the day does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world.
5. But the one who walks at night stumbles, for there is no light in him.” He said such things, and afterwards He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go there to awaken him from his sleep.”
6. Then His disciples said, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get well.” But a messenger came to Him, saying, "Lazarus has died.”
7. And when Jesus arrived, He learned that Lazarus had lain in the grave for four days already (Bethany was close to Jerusalem, approximately one hour's walk). And many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them for their brother.
8. As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home. Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. But I also know that what You ask of God, God will give You.”
9. Jesus said to her, "Your brother sleeps, and he shall rise.” Martha said to Him, "I know well that he will rise in the resurrection on the Day of Judgement.”
10. Jesus said to her, "I Am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even though he were dead. I Am the way, the truth and the life, and the one who lives and believes in Me will never die.”
11. She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are Christ, the Son of God, who has come into this world.” And when she had said this, she went and secretly called her sister Mary, saying, "The Master is there and calls for you.” When she heard this, she stood up quickly and went to Him.
12. For Jesus was not yet in the town, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him. The Jews who were with her in the house and comforted her saw Mary getting up hastily and going out. They followed her saying, "She goes to the grave to weep.”
13. Then, when Mary saw Jesus and came to Him, she fell at His feet and said to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her and the Jews who came with her weeping, He sighed in the spirit and was troubled. And He said, "Where did you lay him?” They said to Him, "Lord, come and see.” And Jesus wept.
14. Then the Jews said, "Behold, how He loved him.” But some of them said, "Couldn't He, who opened the eyes of the blind have caused that this man, too, did not have to die?” Then Jesus sighed once more and came to the grave. It was a cave and a stone lay before it.
15. Jesus said, "Take the stone away.” Martha, his sister, considering him dead, said, "Lord, now he already stinks; for he has been dead four days now.” Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you shall see the glory of God?” Then they lifted away the stone from where Lazarus lay.
16. And Jesus raised His eyes and, chanting, invoked the great name, saying, "My Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. Yet, I know that You hear Me at all times, but, for the sake of the people who are here, I call You, that they may believe that You have sent Me.” And when He had said this, He called with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!”
17. And the deceased came forth, bound hand and foot with shrouds, and his face wrapped with a kerchief.
18. Jesus said to them, "Undo him and let him go.
When the thread of life is cut through, life does not come again; but, when it is still
whole, there is still hope.” Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary and saw what
Jesus did believed in Him. (Chap. 56:1-18)
I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:
I, Christ in Jesus, showed the people that God is capable of everything when man strives to do God's works of love and mercy. And so it was given to Me, the Christ in Jesus, to let the works of God become manifest, also through the healing and raising of those presumed dead. For the glory of the Father should become manifest in the world through the Son and Co-Regent of the heavens.
The one who walks in the day, that is, in the light of God, does not stumble. But the one who is in the darkness stumbles, because he does not fulfil the works of love and, consequently, has not unfolded his Inner Light. The one who is in the darkness looks only at the shadow of the light. Besides, he does not recognize in whose soul the light of God shines brightly. But the person who walks in the light of the truth is one with the light, and God, the light, acts through him. God irradiates the light-filled soul and raises again to life the person who fulfils the works of God.
As long as the soul is still connected to the earthly body by the silver cord - the spiritual information cord - it is still near the body that appears to be dead and, if it is the will of God, can be called back into the body.
In human life, there are stages of belief and stages of doubt. When a person consciously lives in the moment and in the belief in God who is the light, then all his aspirations are light-filled, because he is aligned with God.
The one who lives in God receives from God. He will maintain life and, if it is the will of God, will awaken a person to the Inner Life. To awaken to Inner Life does not mean just to awaken and maintain the earthly life - that is, to bring the soul back to the body that appears to be dead - but, above all, to make the person conscious of Christ, that is, to serve as a guide indicating the way to Me, the Redeemer of all souls and men, who I Am, the life. The one who finds the light of God through a light-filled person has also been raised to life.
I Am Christ, the life of all souls and men. I Am the resurrection of the soul to the eternal life. The one who believes in Me and fulfils God's works of love will live. When his earthly body passes away, his soul will not be spiritually dead, but will walk in the light of truth and will stand in the splendour of glory.
Recognize that I Am the way, the truth and the life. The one who believes in Me and fulfils the laws of life and of love will never die - that is, he will not fall prey to spiritual death.
When the heartbeat of a person cannot be heard anymore, the earthly physician declares the person to be dead. But as long as the soul is still connected to the person through the spiritual information cord, the life force flows to the body. This life force, which can barely be perceived anymore, keeps certain basic cells of the brain active, through which the life can then build itself up again in the body.
The Inner Physician and Helper, the Christ of God, is the life of the soul. He can
bring back into earthly life all those who will align their further earthly existence with
God, by striving to remove the still existing burdens of the soul with Me, the Christ, and
to sin no more. This inherent law also holds true for the suffering and the sick.
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