JESUS EXPLAINED WHAT WAS,BUT CALLED WHAT WAS NOT !

JESUS EXPLAINED WHAT WAS,BUT CALLED WHAT WAS NOT ! Jesus stopped and gave His followers an explanation, Lazarus is dead (V. 14). That's the way the King James version states it. But if you read the international Greek English new testament, the word translated dead in the King James version is translated died.One is present; the other is present tense. Jesus said, "Lazarus died." That is the difference between someone who died and someone who is dead. If you don't understand that, look at Jesus. He died, but He is not dead. Jesus called the thing that was not manifest. Lazarus was not asleep. He was dead. But Jesus called him "asleep." Jesus would not admit death. That didn't mean that He denied it. He just would not establish anything but what He declared when He heard the bad news. Again, in this kingdom principle, Jesus is not teaching you and me to go raise all the dead. He is teaching you as well as me how the kingdom principle of calling things that are not works. When Jesus came to Bethany, He said, . . Take you away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." (John 11:39). This fact that he had been dead for four days proves that he was either dead when the messenger God to Jesus, or died immediately after. For when Jesus arrived, they said that Lazarus had been dead for days. Jesus knew Lazard was dead. Jesus finally talked them into rolling away the stone. "Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his God, and said, Father, I think thee that thou has heard me." (John 11:41). Notice at this point, Jesus hasn't said anything yet, but He is thanking God that He has heard Him. Jesus is referring to what He said four days ago. In effect, He was saying, "Father, I think you that you heard what I declare by faith four days ago; that the end results will not in in death but brain glory to you."