Dangerous

When Lazarus died and was resurrected, the first time, he found himself in four different conditions. First, he was dead. Then, after he had been raised from the dead, he was still defeated, bound by the grave clothes he had been wrapped in. Next he was delivered from those things that had him bound. And, once he was delivered, he was dangerous, in the best sense of the word. He was dangerous to those who claimed that Jesus was not the Messiah, that He didn’t have power over life and death, because Lazarus was walking, talking proof that Jesus did, in fact, have power of life and death.

Likewise, today, the church, in general is in bad shape. And spiritually we find ourselves, whether as different segments of the body of Christ or as individuals, in one of the same four conditions Lazarus found himself in.

Some of us may be dead, spiritually. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 says, But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away. (NKJ) Ephesians 2:1 tells us it is only through Christ that we who were once dead in trespasses and sins are made alive. He has to be talking about those who are spiritually dead, being brought to live in the Spirit, through the Lord Jesus Christ. (NKJ)

Some of us, like Lazarus, even after having been made alive in the spirit, are still defeated. We are still bound by those things we were bound with when we were dead, and we need to be delivered. Some of us have been delivered, but we are just sitting back on our laurels, so to speak, and not really doing anything for the Lord, not really being much of a witness to His life-giving power. What we need to do is become dangerous to the work of the enemy. We need to be sharing Jesus with those we come into contact with. They need to be saved. How are they going to be saved? The Bible says it is by grace we are saved, through faith, not of ourselves; it is the gift of God. So, people can only be saved by the grace of God, through faith. Where does faith come from? Romans 10:17 says that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (NKJ) We’ve got to get the word of God to them.

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