John 11:25 Commentary and Bible Study

No, it is not, the Lord in effect says to her. I personally, I will purchase salvation and resurrection in the future for all my people. ‘I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.’ His answer to her is: I am God. I have the power.Resurrection is inherent in him. This is an inadequate illustration, but before anybody thought of parliaments, or democracies, or anything of that kind, the power of rule was resident in the king, the divine prerogative, he was the ruler. He was considered to be special, and his word went. So, you looked at the king, and he wasn’t just a person, he was the power, he was the rule, he was the authority – and, in a sense, that is what we are being told here. ‘I am the resurrection.’ Christ is himself – in his person – the power of resurrection, and the authority for the resurrection of all who believe in him. When that final day comes and our bodies are raised – our souls, which are with Christ in Paradise, if we have died, are joined with newly glorified, wonderful bodies – it will be at the word of Christ; he has the authority entirely, and he has the power to bring it about. He rose from the dead both by his own power, and with the attendance of the Holy Spirit, and he rose to demonstrate his deity, that he is divine; to demonstrate the success of Calvary that he really had born away the punishment of our sin, and survived, and defeated death; to show us that this is the future for us, that he keeps his human body, but now in glorified form; to show that he will be the familiar Lord of his people. The believer who has already died – actually, his body is in the grave, but his soul is with Christ. ‘He that believeth in me, though he were dead’ - or though he be dead - ‘yet shall he live.’ he will never know death.