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Bringing the Little Girl Back to Life
"The crowd laughs. Surely one cannot resuscitate someone from the dead. We often regard the ancients as gullible, but the reaction here shows they can be as empirically based as most moderns. What Jesus proposes is ludicrous, unless.… Once inside, he grasps the girl’s hand and tells her to get up. There are no potions or incantations, no appeals to outside powers. There is only the touching hand of Jesus. The girl sits up, her spirit revived within her. Someone immediately gives her food. Her parents are amazed. The call to faith that Jesus made to Jairus has now received its answer." [1]
Today is Easter! People still laugh today at the thought that anyone could be raised from the dead, but it is what we as Christians celebrate today! What Jesus does here is both a sign and a foreshadowing: It is a sign that He is the Son of God, but also a foreshadowing that we will live in Him!
I'll repeat my encouragement from the sermon this morning: take some time today and read through the book of Romans and rejoice in what Jesus can do and what He has done in us!
Bringing the Little Girl Back to Life
"The crowd laughs. Surely one cannot resuscitate someone from the dead. We often regard the ancients as gullible, but the reaction here shows they can be as empirically based as most moderns. What Jesus proposes is ludicrous, unless.… Once inside, he grasps the girl’s hand and tells her to get up. There are no potions or incantations, no appeals to outside powers. There is only the touching hand of Jesus. The girl sits up, her spirit revived within her. Someone immediately gives her food. Her parents are amazed. The call to faith that Jesus made to Jairus has now received its answer." [1]
Today is Easter! People still laugh today at the thought that anyone could be raised from the dead, but it is what we as Christians celebrate today! What Jesus does here is both a sign and a foreshadowing: It is a sign that He is the Son of God, but also a foreshadowing that we will live in Him!
I'll repeat my encouragement from the sermon this morning: take some time today and read through the book of Romans and rejoice in what Jesus can do and what He has done in us!
[1] Darrell L. Bock, The NIV Application Commentary: Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996), 248.
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