Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out…Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” (Jn 11:43-44)
What power there is in the voice of God! It gives me goose bumps to think about the voice of Jesus calling, “Lazarus, come out!” The authority and power, the confidence of command. It is just the same miraculous power by which we have gone from death to life, made new in Christ. God works this same miracle of resurrection every time a sinner receives salvation. And then he turns to us and says, in the same voice of command, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” When we are first reborn we still carry about on our person the trappings of death. The process of removing these is the process of sanctification. And our role in this as fellow believers is disciple-making. God never intended that solitary new believers go home to be sanctified in isolation. Too often, when the Body of Christ falls down on the job, sanctification never happens in the life of a believer. We must obey the Lord’s command to “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
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