#the bible changes everything

[thomastanker02]

Taken from Prayer That Changes Everything by Stormie Omartian. God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

@cosmicfunnies @babyimlosingit @cottonpuffmouse

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[the-maladjustedjester]

But obviously Adam’s pissed and so adamant about sinners not getting redemption—he was never given a second chance in the garden, why should anyone else?

#uh oh besties #I’m having feelings about bible fandom shit again #hazbin hotel #he was the firstborn he was the blueprint #he was the guinea pig #the rules sucked for him #and it’s not fair to let the rules change after everything he went through #it’s not fair it’s not fair how dare they ask for forgiveness #how dare they beg for a second chance #he probably begged so much #only to be met with silence and a threat #so why should they get anything else #fuck I don’t want Adam to be my blorbo #but I guess it’s better than crying over another version of Lucifer #ALTHOUGH #a comparison can be made between the two #but that’s another post probably

[iwasbored777]

Bible spoilers!

Bible: Lila has no motive for being the way she is she's just insane.

Me, who spent all my life trying to explain that some people just want to watch the world burn and that not everyone needs a motive to be evil and that it would be awesome if movies and shows gave us more villains like this cuz kids need to know this:

The bible: And also the class used to believe Chloé too, not just Lila, they are just naturally easy to manipulate.

Me, who spent all my time in this fandom trying explain to ML fans that I had the exact same class like this and how important it is that kids know this too cuz sometimes it's not you it's your environment and even your closest friends can betray you no matter how hard you try because shit happens and people are shit but that doesn't mean that you should give up just like I never gave up and I got much better class in other school and Marinette never gives up that's why I love her so much:

I love this show they really take everything that's important and put it here.

#They took my life story this is the first time I ever felt so much for a TV show because everything I'm trying to prove is right here #Also Chloé and her messed up redemption was to prove this exact fact #Some people are naturally like this and they can't change and you can try but it won't work #Also your friends not everyone you get along with is your friend and not everyone will be on your side or a friend in need #And sometimes you have to do this alone #miraculous ladybug #ml bible leak #ml bible spoilers #ml season 5 spoilers #Ml sugar

[margaetyrell]

hi luvs! how are you?? i hope everything’s great 😊 i’m not fully back yet bc i’m on vacation atm, just came to save a long queue to keep my blog active bc it’s pretty much dead. so i’m gonna put all the boring details bellow in case you wonder about the future content of this blog and my general thoughts (if you’re up to read, follow the cut!) please drink water, protect yourselves from this insane weather and take care!! see you all soon 💜

okay so. i’m obviously still disappointed on taylor, but after everything i’ve realised it’s not worth it anymore. i’m still a fan and i cannot deny that. altho it’s true that i’ve distanced myself from her, she is and will always be a big part of my life! and i’d be lying if i said i’m not excited for 1989, bc i bloody am!! it’s one of my fave albums of all time and i really don’t have the strength anymore to let anything else ruin that for me (unless there’s a mh collab on it, then i’ll explode lmao) but the truth is that i’m just an art consumer as we all are, and she is pure art. so i’ll just keep doing my thing while she does hers. end!

that doesn’t mean i’ve erased everything from my brain or that it won’t upset me if she messes up again. but i’m choosing to stay away from drama, not just hers but fandom drama in general. the past year has been a roller coaster of emotions and i’m just tired of it. and the funny thing is that it doesn’t really matter! it doesn’t matter AT ALL. its only point is to make me bitter and out of patience, and i’m just another random person with random thoughts that won’t have any impact on her or anybody, whether i’m right or wrong, so!

in conclusion: i’m a swiftie who is not a swiftie who is a swiftie who is not part of the fandom who is a gaylor who is not an unhinged gaylor who is no one at all. hope this helps!

which brings us to the point: stfu sarah what are we going to see here. ofc taylor, but! i’m not gonna stress anymore over not missing a single post. i’ll just vibe with it and save whatever’s relevant to me from now on (i’ve saved a lot already) which are mostly graphics, fanart, lyrics and tagged posts (you can keep tagging me on everything btw, and thanks again to the few who still do lols love ya!!!) but the main content can be found on the celeb blog i run with my bestie (candyshapes), which not only focuses on taylor but she’s like 70% of it, and where my dear @jdschecter has made sure not to miss any details of the tour (thanks ems, i’d be lost without you <3) so i really recommend you follow us there !! the rest, as usual, will be a multifandom blog with special dedication to taylor and GoT.

that’s all ! if you’ve read everything, thank you SO much. i know it wasn’t necessary, but i wanted to clear that up nevertheless. first, bc i’m pretty true to my opinions and i’ve spent a great deal of time trying to figure this out. and second, bc i’ve lost many of you in the process and that’s understandable. but if i’m going to be back, i need to make sure i enjoy it here and curate my experience once and for all, as you all should! also thanks again to all the people that has understood my situation and showed me support in the past. love you and miss you to bits, mwah!!

#pt #i should probably change my personal text tag to sarah rambles or the bible sarah’s version bc BOY DO I RAMBLE #anyways. i’m currently on spain fighting for my relationship so i won’t be fully back until sept most likely. but i’m fine! #trying to worry less and put my priorities and well being first as i said. which is basically all that matters tbh #btw can someone pls explain to me WTH was K FUCKING KLOSS doing at the eras tour lmfaoo because?? everything’s surreal atp #same with lautner tho it isn’t half as shocking. like is there even an explanation??? anyways as you can see i’m updated lols

[buck-yyyy]

by far my weirdest era was that one summer where i spent hours and hours messaging conservative christians on pinterest to gain an understand of why they believed what they did, how religion tied into that, etc etc

i’ll never forget, one girl messaged me back a few months later and asked me to fill out a google form on abortion for her school project because she wanted a diverse data set 😭

#i was 14 LMAO #it actually was a lot of fun and really interesting #like yeah. it was really weird and really hard to deal with the fact that they only showed me any ounce of respect because they considered #me ‘one of the good ones’ since i was respectful and honest about my intentions #(in that i opened with the fact that i wasn’t trying to change their beliefs and wouldn’t be posting it anywhere) #but nonetheless it was informative and rather fascinating #i’ll never forget this one 50 year old dude named greg #i left lunch with family and friends to hide in the bathroom so that i could message him back in a timely manner 😭 #he was super super christian and was explaining a whole buncha stuff about the bible and what it means to them #anyways. if i were to do that again i might handle certain things slightly different #but it was kinda neat. a lot of them also wanted to know why i believed and supported the things i did #i dunno. despite the fact that i wholeheartedly disagreed with everything they said and believed? it was a really cool experience to have #rational and honestly rather intelligent conversations about why they thought the way they did

[trickarrows-bishop]

ava ghostwrote this

bro stained glass is fucking LIT tbh

#so basically the idea of it came around when the bible was still in latin right #and the only people who were able to read it were the priests. so they put the windows up #and each like pane of glass tells a different story from the bible so that those who could not read it could still remember the stories !! #later on it was changed so that every copy was like in the country’s own language tho #and there was this whole debate to get rid of all of the decorations in the church #i can’t remember like which christianity it is but one like got rid of everything as it was then classed as a distraction from prayer #including those cool ass windows <//3 #anyways that’s what ik abt stained glass windows from my religious studies lessons ur welcome

[madewithonerib]

Changed by the Word of GOD | Eric Gilmour [James 1:18]

LOL this is cracking me up [1:22] this is #not what you think, I am laughing about how quickly GOD is saying as a course correction.

the experience of an extravagant kind is a little bit above #CHRIST as revealed in Scripture, but that's not true; nor is it equal to Scripture or just a little below Scripture.

What saves ppl is CHRIST revealed in Scripture & what we need is HIM as HE is revealed in Scripture.

James 1:18 | ¹ HE chose to give us 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 of #truth, that we'd be a kind of firstfruits of HIS creation.

I think we have circled the wagons on this topic for today, seriously we walked #around this topic of GOD's being & #truth being #intertwined & unalterable/inseparable, and that is our #problem—we're still in shifting sand when we look away from GOD at other thoughts/hurts/past as tho any of the #snapshot of our lives as it is currently is the final outcome.

It's not, GOD said to me a few weeks ago, wait until the end..LOL & I'm like what??? YOU just confirmed me into YOUR family!!!

Hey maybe that's why GOD started us kids out in being traumatized with OT, Oliver Twist, like the kid left out in the field, unwanted & abandoned to die..

Ezekiel 16:4-5 Jerusalem’s Unfaithfulness ⁴ On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

⁵ No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of #compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, cause you were #despised on the day of your birth.

And this links up with James 1:27, which I was led to study or pair together earlier in thought of pursing GOD [Romans 9:31-32]

Like a giant chain reaction that takes place just from following GOD around, trying to be where ever HIS Presence is--rather than like a slave doing what he thinks will suffice for his MASTER, we're like the #nursery rhyme about the little #lambs that followed Mary everywhere she went ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ 🎼🎵🎶

..................................................................................... John 10:27-28 | MY sheep listen to MY voice; I know them, & they follow ME. ²⁸ I give them eternal life, & they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of MY hand. .....................................................................................

James 1:27 | Hearing and Doing Pure & undefiled religion before our GOD & FATHER is this: 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘀 & widows in their distress, & to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

I am looking for a job and this thought kept coming up, "I should do something for GOD" like Andrew Klavan driving around LA in his newly minted corvette & he generously says:

GOD YOU have given me so much! What can I do for YOU now?! 'Acknowledge that you're Christian.'

What?! YOU can't be serious, that would be career ending suicide!!! As the story goes AK did come out of the Hollywood closet & puts the Holy Wood as focal point of all his work.

Also this lady was recorded on the local news as saying the way we treat the most vulnerable in our society [#orphans/homeless/widows] is a reflection of the depravity/downward spiral of our morality [fraying of the fabric that binds us all together, kind of like that idea of the #acorn, when we realize compassion starts with a keen understanding that we're no different though all our present circumstance says otherwise.

#nailedit

LOL my last job was told to follow people around, #follow! #follow!! I was like what, every time GOD put me in a strange role where it felt like I was #reverting back to my #childhood again — the not knowing what to do & having to ask for everything

We're going back to Eden, the perfect place with GOD at the center of our lives. I do have to say I always thought it strange how Noah reacted so #vehemently against his son for looking upon his nakedness... today it clicks Love covers a multitude of sins [1 Peter 4:8]

Ham was wrong to focus on the bad.

#Truth Changes Everything #James 1:18 #adopted #adoption #Oliver Twist #nailed it #nursery rhyme #Mary Had a Little Lamb #John 10:27 #pursuing GOD #chasing GOD's Presence #GOD's Truth #The Bible #Word of GOD #Scripture #following GOD #change #job #acorn

[archiephd]

about a week ago now i literally just mentioned offhand on the phone with my mom the death toll in gaza cresting 10,000 people and she was immediately, genuinely flabbergasted. she was like ?? 10,000? they're saying 10,000?? i'm watching news on this every day and not one station has even mentioned this number. and based on her voice i figured whatever news stations she was watching hadn't mentioned a number even close to it either and this was LITERALLY. like. 5 minutes after she gently, genuinely tried to encourage me to keep discernment and not just believe everything i see on the internet about this and seek out less mainstream new sources. the level of brainwashing in usamerica is beyond. it's just beyond. when i mentioned, again offhandedly, how even before october israel had military checkpoints across their entire border of gaza and that virtually nobody was allowed to leave if they weren't day workers, doctors, etc, and she flat out just said oh i don't believe that. like. girl based on WHAT. the bible? it's insane it's insane it's fucking bonkers and i don't know how to reach 'well-meaning' people when they're at this point of living in a complete propagandized world based on a thousand year old rewritten ten times over book and zero real life actual events

#j.txt #like i know my mom better than anyone else in the world i feel like and i know she's got a good heart #but that almost makes it worse to know she's this disconnected from reality? #that she would participate in this without a hint of any awareness it's just. beyond #among the many ways this last month has changed things i'm trying not to take my loved ones for granted #my ability to interact with them and just be with them but it's just so dissonant when. #i dunno. #like i KNOW it's nothing new but i'd bet a shameful amount of money that her knowledge of the state of israel is 100% just the bible #never looked at a history book never searched these issues herself in any capacity JUST the bible #it's sooo. disconnected from reality!! it is alarming!! #western christian people are so far removed from everything and yet they're such a huge percentage of our population like #we can't just. pretend they aren't there and aren't people #but god they feel so unreachable

[ultfreakme]

You must be in a tumblr bubble because how have you never seen posts with thousands notes claiming most classical literature is actually fanfiction of bible and the rest is of mythology. Like, this isn’t a hot take on tumblr, unfortunately.

Probably because I have a life outside of tumblr and curate my experience, but yes, I have seen posts about how Paradise Lost is just Bible fanfic and Dante's Inferno is self-insert fanfiction, but mostly from people who watch OSPD videos and say it as a joke. It's a major simplification of about a dozen concepts but okay, if you look at it from the point of definitions, yeah, Paradise Lost & the Divine Comedy are technically fanfiction; they are based on pre-existing work, with Dante there's irl people in scenarios they've never been in, etc etc.

Although I have never seen anyone saying any particular fanfic is a literary masterpiece that must simply be taught in academic settings, which is what that OP's post was actually implying.

And here's the thing; I think fanfic has the potential to be considered a classic. Because, what makes let's say, the Divine Comedy so important? It's not because it's old, but because it struck a nerve among the masses, it did things against the societal structure no one dared to do before, it transformed the Italian language as we know it, it's this carefully, excruciatingly crafted work in terms of sentence structure and is primarily a theological exploration. Now this stands out also because the og canon content, the Bible, is MASSIVE in influence. That thing STILL shapes social norms, conventions and expectations.

No current fanfiction now will ever come to be seen as a true classic unless the canon thing the fic is based on reaches Bible levels of influence on society, which is going to take centuries. Same can be applied to Greek Myths in general(also in both these cases the canon thing is also tied to social structure and religion which large portions of the world follow). We don't want to equate the term 'fanfiction' to that stuff because it feels like it's beyond that but technically, yeah. It's fanfiction.

But the term fanfiction itself is extremely recent, it was said first in 1939 and therefore carries temporal contexts and definitions. It's why it feels juvenile and uncomfortable assigning such a new, and initially frowned-upon term to classics. Being angry about what is and what isn't fanfiction depends entirely upon how you view the term 'fanfiction'.

For me, it is value-neutral and doesn't immediately denote lowered quality these days because at the most fundamental level, fanfiction is literary work based on pre-existing media. But if you add the current cultural context in which fanfiction is primarily written, ie., posted online by anyone and everyone with a desire to write, mostly to fulfill shipping fantasies or certain character scenarios canon didn't provide, then I can see why people would consider giving the label of fanfiction to the classics an insult or "shooting too high".

Maybe 'fanfiction' isn't fitting because of all the social stigma around it, maybe it doesn't apply because it feels like trying to apply modern story beats and terms to ancient mythology. What specifically, is making someone uncomfortable about the term 'fanfiction' on the classics? What the hell even is "fanfiction" in the first place because you could argue that The Song of Achilles is canon-compliant POV change fanfiction but its advertised as a retelling. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies also counts for fic. I think there's a good discussion to be had on what makes "fanfiction" as we know it now what it is because even I think assigning the term to Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost feels wrong. Maybe it's about intent? The classics are written with the need for social change or to make people see things different; art for life's sake. But most fic these days are purely art for art's sake- it is peak self-indulgence and self-expression.

I'm looking it up and people keep narrowing the definition of "fanfiction" as like

Amateur writing

Based on copyrighted characters

Without permission from og creator

Now that whole "copyright" concept complicates things because Romeo & Juliet? Not originally by Shakespeare. Dude borrowed characters from a different play, pretty sure he changed Juliette's name, and he wrote it when the og was only recently made. The concept of "copyright" and "author permission" is also VERY recent. What even counts as actually "amateur" because Van Gogh is considered a pro now but when he was alive he only sold one painting apparently so back then he could've been classified as "amateur"?

I have fully derailed. I forgot what I wanted to say-- Okay yeah I'm aware people say the classics are fanfiction, and in a way, yeah, it is, depending on how the individual defines "fanfiction".

#fanfiction #food for thought i guess #i'm sleep-deprived and in the middle of exams but this made think about what makes a classic and what's the definition of fanfiction #maybe there will be a fic someday that changes the world #but the problem is; fic is confined to fandom culture and thus people outside of it won't take it seriously #even if the thing is precise in ripping apart current governmental structure in whichever place they're from #because 'ah it's just some silly fandom thing' #fanfiction isn't taken seriously because the media its based on isn't often taken seriously #people got mad about paradise lost because up until then NO ONE DID WHAT MILTION DID BEFORE- if i'm remembering right- writing in modern- #english where the story wasn't a hero's quest was just not a thing and stuff written that way wasn't taken seriously #it rankled people because ppl held the Bible as something divine and paradise lost flipped the script on everything society largely believe #why would anyone take a fic based on Supernatural seriously when SPN itself is not respected? #same goes for even good media like LOTR Song of Ice and Fire etc #yeah they're huge but not in the way the Bible or Greek mythology are #unless there comes a canon work with anywhere close to social influence as the Bible- no fic will be held up as a classic #hello anon did you expect whatever this fucking mess is when you asked?

[thomastanker02]

Taken from Prayer That Changes Everything by Stormie Omartian. God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

@cosmicfunnies @babyimlosingit @cottonpuffmouse

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[guzhufuren]

i realised that i really dislike pictures of my favourite celebrities where they used filters that "perfect" their facial features and skin. so i started thinking, is it the same way with my own pictures? do people who know me like my pictures better when they are natural? wild

#i usually feel really insecure about my selfies with no filters. but this changes everything #this is about Bible's recent yassified pics btw. also very often the same happens with Jeff #mine

[kindaorangey]

okay sentiadrien is very cool actually

#thunder rambles #im having so many thoughts all at once. #the s4 finale really changed everything. the way they handled sentifelix was Everything and to be honest i am looking forward to w/e #i hope gabriel agreste fucking dies and yhat félix gets to play a part in it somehow. and! i hope félix doesn't become an antagonist #AND #sentiadrien is a really good explanation for why adrien is so strangely obedient when it comes to his father #which in turn will make it all the more satisfying when he works against him....yk ignoring all the bullshit in the story bible obvs #woof. anyways #*i am looking forward to w/e they have planned for sentiadrien

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Titus - The Gospel Changes Everything! What does the Gospel change?  Everything! Today Jacob Wirka introduces you to the book of Titus with its “before” and “after” picture of spiritual transformation through the grace of the Gospel.

#Win The Day Devotional #Titus - The Gospel Changes Everything! #Jacob Wirka #Back to the Bible (channel) #Youtube #video

[sassyandclassy94]

Still can’t believe Absolom went and had sex with all his father’s concubines on the palace roof. For ALL to see… Yuck.

#and the fact that I’ve been doing the Bible though a year plan for 14 years and I only just caught this like FOUR years ago… #Absolom was a prize…. #and David’s fear of being a hypocrite made him a weak dad😭 #but I still love David - he’s proof of his flawed we are but a repentant heart changes everything #Bible stuff #Abby’s Quiet Time Thoughts #personal

[obsessivefangirl]

Protestantism is fun until you realize each branch holds multiple different beliefs you have to believe to be one and this time there isn't an excuse of the church having supreme authority but the beats are the same

#not saying any denomination is wrong and they could totally be right #but isn't the whole point of the protestant movement to read the Bible and discuss it and through these discussions learn more and more? #I've learned multiple doctrines through exploring and sometimes i leave them behind sometimes i pick them up #and discussions with others and reading the Bible with that lens and changing more as you learn more opinions and interpretations #instead of saying 'we're Lutherans! here's our opinions on everything' :) #isn't that the whole point of being a protestant. #anyway i might be stupid and showing my nondenominational but. #protestantism #Christian #nondenominational

[psalmonesermons]

The meaning of the Resurrection

The resurrection changed everything

Perhaps the most puzzling thing about the resurrection of Jesus Christ is why Christians tend to only speak about it at Easter. This was not the case when the Apostle Paul was preaching;

Acts 17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there. 18 Then [b] certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”

Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. Paul mentioned the resurrection and Jesus so much that these pagans thought he was talking about two Gods, one called ‘Jesus’ and the other ‘Resurrection’!

The American pastor Rick Warren has rightly said ‘the resurrection changed everything’!

After the resurrection Jesus’ ramshackle band of disciples began to ‘turn the world upside down’.

There are perhaps different approaches we can take when we consider the resurrection.

Today I want to focus in on a few scriptures that give insight into its meaning and purpose.

Death the last enemy has been destroyed by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the first fruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. 27 For “He has put all things under His feet.”[a] But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

Effects of Denying the Resurrection

1 Cor 15:29 Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? 30 And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? 31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32 If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Paul is saying if there was no resurrection then we are simply wasting our time and we would be as well simply leading natural lives the same as the unbelievers.

The Father God has declared that Jesus Christ is His Son by resurrecting Him from the dead.

Romans 1:1 1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God 2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

Jesus Christ naturally speaking was the son of David or the son of Man but after the resurrection the Father calls him the Son of God. God sent his son Jesus Christ into the world born of a woman with a natural family tree of the seed of David and was born under the Law. This Jesus Christ was obedient to Father God through all his short life even unto his sacrificial death on the cross but when God raised him from the dead, he was declared to be the Son of God. At the moment of resurrection God the Father and God the Holy Spirit fully endorsed him as the only begotten Son of the Father giving Jesus Christ a truly unique status and hence power.

That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection

Philippians 3:4 though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Please note that Lazarus was resuscitated i.e. he came back to a natural life and eventually died.

Jesus Christ was resurrected into a new type of life which would never see death again and conferred various supernatural powers such as being able to appear in locked rooms.

v10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, Paul longed to progressively and intimately come to know Jesus Christ (the Greek word for know is ginosko and was used to describe the relationship between a husband and wife) and the power of his resurrection. This power was much more than needed to simply resuscitate someone like Lazarus i.e. simply recombining his spirit and body to form a living soul but the power to raise Jesus Christ from the dead into an indestructible and everlasting life.

If the resurrection power of God is still available to God’s people then just think what this level of power might be able to achieve in other areas of our lives such as in failed relationships, healing of the body and mind, and to bring all sorts of dead situations back to life!

What do you think?

Amen

Prayer

#christianity #bible study #bibletruth #blog post #blessings #psalmonesermons #faith #victory #devotional #the resurrection changed everything