"He called out loudly, 'Lazarus, come out!' And the dead man came out," John 11:43.
It's a good thing Jesus specified Lazarus. Otherwise every dead person from Adam and Eve onward would have come out, well before their time, obviously. Everybody knows this. God has fixed a day for The Accounting. (Lazarus' resurrection was not it.) Fixed a Day. A Day certain for coming out. Everybody'll be there - most popular place at the end of the universe. Tiny baby to old gramps. The guy nobody ever heard of from ancient wind-swept steppes, or from Davy Jones' locker, to the little, sweet lady down the street everybody loves. And, oh, what a day it'll be. The real graveyard smash. And every one of us gets to account for everything we ever did. Everything. Everybody knows this. And some shall awake to everlasting life. And others not. Everybody knows this. But nobody knows when. Except the one who fixed it.
We give thanks to God; no fear in judgment. Transferring us into the kingdom of his beloved son, God has already passed believers in his son from death to life! As we fellowship with a brother or sister today, we, together, look forward to that fixed day, confident in God's overwhelming mercy.
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