JESUS CALLED THE CROOKED STRAIGHT !

JESUS CALLED THE CROOKED STRAIGHT ! When Isaiah prophesied that a virgin would conceive and bear a child, that was 750 years before Jesus was born in the earth. It was prophesied. God always prophesies it before it happens. Jesus operated in the same kingdom principle. He walked up to that little woman and said, "You are loosed from your infirmity." But when He said that, she wasn't loosed. He was calling for the thing that was not manifest. "And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God." (Luke 13:13). First Jesus called her the way He wanted her to be. Faith always looks through the storm. Faith in God always sees the end results. When Jesus walked up to this woman, He could see the end results by His faith, so He just called her the way He saw her by faith, loosed from that infirmity. Let's look at the story of Lazarus of Bethany in John 11. "Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby." (John 11:3-4). Jesus said, "This sickness is not unto death." What are you going to do with that statement ? For as you read further, you find that Lazarus died. JESUS CALLED THE DEAD LIVING ! Jesus said that this sickness was not unto death but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified. Notice, it said that the Son of God might be glorified thereby: not the Son of man ! Some say, "Jesus said that Lazarus was sick and died so God would be glorified." It wasn't God's will for Lazarus to be sick. Neither was it God's will for Lazarus to die. Let me show you why you cannot interpret this scripture to mean the sickness or death was for God's glory. One of the rules for interpretation is to always take a Scripture literately if you can. But you cannot take verse four literately. If you do, you make Jesus a liar. But that is a difference between a lie and a confession, or calling things that are not. If you interpret this verse literately, then you would have to say Jesus lied. But a lie is sin, and the Bible said there was no sin in Him. So we have to look at it from a different angle. HE CALLED END RESULTS ! Jesus is calling the end results of the matter. He said that the in results will not be death; but that the end results of this whole matter will bring glory to God. The glory that God received when Lazard was raised from the dead. Not when he was sick, nor when he died. Neither the sickness nor the death glorified God. The resurrection glorified God. God raised him from the dead. If it was God's will for Lazarus to die, then Jesus destroyed the works of His Father when He raise him from the dead. But Jesus came . .. That he might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). So Jesus destroy the works of the devil when He raise Lazarus from the dead. If you follow Jesus, you will learn something, as He starts toward Bethany.