JESUS EXPLAINED WHAT WAS,BUT CALLED WHAT WAS NOT !

JESUS EXPLAINED WHAT WAS,BUT CALLED WHAT WAS NOT ! Jesus stopped and gave His followers and explanation, Lazarus is dead (v.14). That's the way the King James version states it. But if you read the interlinear Greek English New Testament, the word translated dead in the King James version is translated dead. One is present tense; the other is past tense. Jesus said, "Lazarus died." There is a 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 will 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 to go raise all of the dead. He is teaching you 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, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. (John 11:39). This fact he had been dead for four days proves that he was either dead when the messenger got to Jesus, or died immediately after. So when Jesus arrived, they said that Lazarus had been dead four days. Jesus knew Lazarus was dead. Jesus finally talked to 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 eyes, and said, Father, I think thee that thou hast heard me. "(John 11:41). Notice it this point, Jesus hadn't said anything yet, but He is thinking 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 decreed by faith four days ago; that the end results will not end in death but bring glory to you." I know that people think that God has heard the prayer of if; when God only responds to the prayer of faith. Some people do not understand that God responds to the words of faith, not the words of doubt and fear. Fear is faith contaminated with doubt and unbelief; unbelief is based upon what you believe. Whose report will you believe ! I know in whom I have believed, there is a difference in knowing in whom you have believed: you often hear people say " I'm just believing God ! The question is are they believing in faith or believing in fear ? Before you answer this remember; faith in God only comes by hearing and, And by hearing the Word of God !