Jn 11:25-26
Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

What does it mean: To die and yet live again?
Or
To live and never die.

The first part was demonstrated time and again by our Lord during his earthly ministry, and even today.

Once Jesus Christ comes into any situation, no matter how dead it seems, life is instantly injected. It is called a “miracle”.

Jairus’s daughter was dying and poor Jairus; Jesus was on his way to heal her, when he was delayed by the “woman with issue of blood”. (Mark 5:22-43)
She interrupted Jesus’s advance, snatching a healing miracle off Jesus’s garments.
When news came to Jairus that his daughter was dead, everything looked futile. But Jesus knew better. Death and life were under his powers.
With one word “Talitha cumi”, He called the dead girl back to life and restored her to her father.

In Mk 9:24-27, we see another instance where Jesus’s presence swallowed up death.

“And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him: Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
(YOUR CASE MAY LOOK DEAD, PEOPLE AROUND YOU MAY HAVE EVEN PRONOUNCED YOU DEAD AND OUT, but unless the Lord says it’s over, it ain’t ).

*But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.*
Mark 9:24‭-‬27 KJV

In the case of Lazarus, he was not just dead, Lazarus had been buried in the tomb 4 days.

(Illustration of the most painful part of a burial, when soil is being dropped upon the casket).

There was a tone of finality here. Even Mather said ” Lord by now he stinketh!
But Jesus said to her: “Woman, nothing dies under my watch. Even if anything dies, when I say so, the rise.

Jn 5:25
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live”.
Is any thing dead or dying around you, all they need is the voice of the Master.
*His voice is in you. If you speak he speaks, if you keep shut he keeps shut.*
2 Cor 4 : 13.

I command everything dying or dead in your life “Receive life now!!” in Jesus name. Amen.

But all that was the easy part. I mean the *cheaper*part.

The tougher part is the ‘b’ part of that statement.
*”He that believeth on me shall never die”*.

How??

Now this statement made by Jesus is an age old fact about God.
That’s God’s nature. Whatsoever is attached to God dieth not.
– Bible says:”He that cometh to God must believe that he is, AND, he’s a Rewarder of them who diligently seek him.

Wherefore it also says: “Fear not they who kill the body, and thereafter could do no more…..

The 3 Hebrew Children knew this:
They said,
Oh Nebuchadnezzar, our God is able: THAT’S KNOWLEDGE
He will deliver us. THAT’S FAITH.
But even if he doesn’t. ….THAT’S COMMITMENT.

When you know that with God, you could never perish, that’s how you speak to any challenge.

Job knew this when he said:

“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Job 19:25‭-‬27

Job already knew he had a life greater.

And Paul,
2 Cor 4:16
“For though our outward man perisheth, our inward man is renewed day-by-day.”

From Job to Paul, it’s the same. He that believeth in God dieth not.

Jesus only showed up to prove that men, everyone, not just the Prophets and Apostles, can live in this consciousness of “never-gonna-die”.

And when you do. …

That’s when you are dangerous.

That’s when Satan gives up on you.

That’s when your life not only inspires other believers, but is joyful and profitable to you yourself.

It says:
“Cast not therefore away your confidence which has a just recompense of reward.
For we are not amongst them that draw back unto perdition. But of them who press on…..
Heb 10:38-39.

It says:
Heb 6:18-20
“That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
* Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even *Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec”.

-Dr Nich Mbaezue