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    The greatest resurrection

    When people are resurrected from the dead today, no matter how long they have been dead, they are resurrected based on the power of the resurrection of Christ. Not so with the following resurrection :

    John 11:38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
    39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone."
    Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

    Notice that Lazarus had been dead for four days, one day longer than Jesus was dead.

    43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!"
    44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him, and let him go."

    So the question I'm asking is "which one is the greatest resurrection". Was it the resurrection of the three days dead Jesus or the four days dead Lazarus ? Why would the resurrection of Jesus be the greater miracle if both men died, went to the bosom of Abraham in Paradise then were resurrected on the third/fourth day ?

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    Jesus resurrection was greater

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    Jesus resurrection was greater
    How ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    How ?
    Lazarus was an amazing raising from the dead but he kept his normal body and died

    Jesus was resurrected with a glorified body which is the guarantee of our future resurrection when we will also receive a glorified body that lives forever

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    Lazarus was an amazing raising from the dead but he kept his normal body and died

    Jesus was resurrected with a glorified body which is the guarantee of our future resurrection when we will also receive a glorified body that lives forever
    Wasn't Jesus immortal per default just he gave his life ? Would Jesus eventually have died physically if he hadn't been arrested and crucified ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    How ?
    No one was justified by the death of Lazarus. He didn't come up with the keys to Hades. Nothing was prophesied about his resurrection. He wasn't the only begotten Son of God. God was not giving assurance of the judgment in raising Lazarus from the grave.

    Acts 17:30-32 New King James Version (NKJV)

    30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

    32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Wasn't Jesus immortal per default just he gave his life ? Would Jesus eventually have died physically if he hadn't been arrested and crucified ?
    That's a different question to your original question

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel 33 View Post
    No one was justified by the death of Lazarus. He didn't come up with the keys to Hades. Nothing was prophesied about his resurrection. He wasn't the only begotten Son of God. God was not giving assurance of the judgment in raising Lazarus from the grave.
    So who it was that was resurrected from the dead matters because his death was prophecied, salvation based on his death and resurrection were prophecied and he was the Son of God. But how was his resurrection in and of itself greater than the resurrection of Lazarus ? You mentioned that he got the keys to Hades while he was dead and before he was resurrected. That requires that he did something more than stay in the bosom of Abraham in Paradise until he was resurrected and makes his time in death different to that of Lazarus. Does this have any significance when it comes to his resurrection in and of itself ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    That's a different question to your original question
    I was thinking about the glorified body of Jesus that never dies again. How is it different after his resurrection than it was before his resurrection if he was immortal per default also before he gave up the ghost on the cross ? If it was then maybe his resurrection was greater since it changed him whereas Lazarus was merely restored back to life. Did he go from immortal to mortal (so he could die) then back to a different kind of immortal ?

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    The Resurrection/Glorification/Exaltation of our Lord Jesus Christ was God's greatest work and freed Him from the dominion of death, and put all things under His feet.


    Ephesians 1:19-23

    (19) ...And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power,
    (20) Which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,

    (21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
    (22) And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church,
    (23) Which is his body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.







    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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