If he's holding it in being by speaking moment by moment, stay in being, stay in being,

stay in being, according to my design from the atom to the galaxy, stay there until I decide otherwise.

If he's doing that, then the voice at the resurrection is simply

a subcategory of that to the decomposed bodies of the world saying

come back and And they do.

What happens when Jesus speaks to the dead?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper opens John 5, verses 25 to 29

to unfold the staggering reality that all who have ever lived will

rise at his call. This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 13, 2009.

I'm going to talk about your resurrection from the dead, Lord willing, and about the role of Jesus and his mighty voice in raising you from the dead.

If Jesus does not come back before, you will all die.

It's a sobering thought.

You will all die, or you will be alive when he comes.

And you should call this to mind often in your life.

When he comes, you will be raised from the dead, either to the resurrection of life or to the resurrection

of judgment.

Now, first, why does the Apostle John tell us about these things?

What good does it do to know this?

There are people who think it's unhelpful to know these things distracting from the task at hand to know these things why would he tell us about these future events so let me step back

for a few minutes and talk again about how the gospel of John works to do God's will

in your life. We don't meet here for nothing. We meet here because God shows up in his word

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