Tuesday 4/21/15 When the Graves Open! (2)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much. I really appreciate and give You all honor and glory for watching over families and friends. I also appreciate all Your answered prayers when the storm was passing over last evening. You are so wonderful and I just want to give You praise, honor and glory for all things in  my life. Please, dear Lord, be with Your people worldwide, and Lord, please be with our police officers, and please be in Baltimore, please, Lord, help us work harder and harder to get people to be saved, for You are the only answer to all that is going wrong. Please, Lord, protect our President and give him wisdom to handle problems, and I do pray that he comes to You for all things before he takes it to the nation. Please be with Beverly Bosak for blood pressure and other problems and David Evelhock who is having brain surgery. Please, Lord, help me with the message and then please help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, please pray for our nation and also for what is going on around the world. All of what is going on could be avoided is, yes, if, everyone really LOVED JESUS. But they do not, so we must go forward. Please cover Beverly Bosak with prayer and also David Evelhock. Also please cover me on Thursday morning and please remember I will not be writing for a few days due to dental surgery. I missed yesterday as we had severe storms in the area and twister warnings going on. Our computers are in a room with glass all the way around. We prayed and prayed as we watched the storms go over us. Then we had wind and hail and no damage. Praise God, praise God. Now to the message, When the Graves Open.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015: When the Graves Open! (Day Two)

1 Thessalonians 4:13 - Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. 15 According to the Lord's own Word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. (NIV)

1 Thessalonians 4:14 - "We believe that Jesus died and rose again." (NIV)

John 20:1 - Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. (NIV)

Now if we truly believe that then we will also believe that someday we who love Jesus will be risen also, starting with those who were "Born Again" and had passed away, then those who are "Born Again" and are still living. But what about those who died and were not "Born Again," will they rise? This answer might surprise you.

John 5:28 - "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice 29 and come out -- those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned." (NIV)

Looks to me like ALL the graves will be opened. While we need to get the work done now for the Lord for once we pass, it is too late to be Born Again, so we must get the Good News out about Jesus and His saving grace and also for we must be sure to tell the people about the need to repent. You remember John the Baptist, saying "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is near"?

John 11:38 - Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39 "Take away the stone," He said. ... 43 When He had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen and cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go." (NIV)

Now I want you to look at Lazarus, who had died, and was "risen" and came out of his grave that was open by others, when Jesus told them to do it. Lazarus came out when called by name and if Jesus had just said, come forth, all the graves would have opened. So we have proof that graves were opened before Jesus was crucified and was buried and was risen. So it makes sense that unless God calls us all out by name that all will rise. Now a question for thinking. Will Lazarus again be risen from the dead at the end? Of course, so will he not have been risen twice?

Now go pray and then go forth, telling people the good news and spreading the Love of Jesus. Love ya, and you may pass on my love also.

Pastor Dan