The Command That Creates

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Jesus, John Piper, Daily Devotional, Desiring God, Solid Joys, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Devotional

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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When the command of God comes with the creating, converting power of the Holy Spirit, it gives life. And we believe and rejoice and obey.

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0:00.0	January 13. The command that creates. Anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,
0:12.9	awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Ephesians 5 verse 14.
0:22.6	When Jesus commanded Lazarus to rise from the dead,
0:27.6	how did he obey that command?
0:30.6	John 1143 says,
0:33.6	Jesus cried out with a loud voice,
0:36.6	Lazarus, come out.
0:39.9	That was a command to a dead man.
0:43.9	The next verse says, the man who had died came out.
0:49.6	His hands and feet bound with linen strips.
0:53.3	John 11, verse 44.
0:56.4	How did Lazarus do that?
1:00.1	How does a dead man obey a command to live again?
1:06.7	The answer seems to be the command carries the power to create new life.
1:14.6	Obedience to the command means doing what living people do.
1:20.6	This is extremely important.
1:23.6	The command of God rise from the dead carries in it the power we need to obey it.
1:30.3	We do not obey it by creating that life.
1:35.3	We obey it by doing what living people do.
1:39.3	Lazarus came forth. He rose.
1:42.3	He walked out to Jesus. The call of God creates life. We respond in the power of what the call creates.
1:52.0	In Ephesians 514, Paul says,
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