Category: The Resurrection Handbook

• What About Those Who Have Justly Died? – Q&A #4 (Resurrection Handbook – Part 25)

  Length: 6 Minutes

  Let’s go over a couple more questions regarding those who have justly died and God’s will for everyone to live.

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• Is It Unbelief To Do This? – Q&A #3 (Resurrection Handbook – Part 24)

  Length: 5 Minutes

  Once you believe that Jesus provided resurrection, some people may think it’s unbelief to do these various things. So, let’s talk about how you proceed in these situations with this newfound knowledge.

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• Would They Be Raised Sick? – Q&A #2 (Resurrection Handbook – Part 23)

  Length: 7 Minutes

  Before we answer some more questions about resurrection, it’s important for us to know that, while there’s nothing wrong with having our questions answered on how it looks when resurrection is manifested, it’s not a preoccupation with manifesting these things that actually produces it. It’s a preoccupation with what Jesus provided at the cross that does the trick. 

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• What If Someone Doesn’t Want To Be Raised? – Q&A #1 (Resurrection Handbook – Part 22)

  Length: 7 Minutes

  A very common question amongst those who believe in resurrection is, “What if someone doesn’t want to be raised?” Well, before someone died, they may have been resistant to the idea for different reasons. Let’s talk about two of them.

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• What About Funerals? (Resurrection Handbook – Part 21)

  Length: 15 Minutes

  If Jesus is the resurrection (as we have established in this handbook), then what are we to think about funerals? Should we attend funerals? Should we support the idea? Well, it’s not what you believe about funerals. It’s what you believe about death. If it’s permanent, then a memorial service makes sense. If they can be back in the next few minutes, that changes things quite a bit.

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• Did I Not Say To You? (Resurrection Handbook – Part 20)

  Length: 6 Minutes

  As you grow in your knowledge of Jesus, your time spent growing is not in vain. The word of God is a seed that always produces fruit (Luke 8:15), but you need to continue in that word before you see the fullness of the fruit.

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• The Way We Request (Resurrection Handbook – Part 19)

  Length: 7 Minutes

  In our last part, we started speaking about prayer and the purpose of it. All prayer is for our mind, all the time. God is not benefited when we pray, we are. But let’s focus on how we make requests to God for manifestation.

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• The Purpose Of Prayer (Resurrection Handbook – Part 18)

  Length: 8 Minutes

  It’s funny, we will pray for the sick sometimes, as believers, but the second someone dies we usually throw up our hands and think, “Well, we tried.” But there’s no difference between raising the dead and healing the sick. One is not harder than the other. They’re both things Jesus provided for, both situations that need life, and both things that we can pray for just the same.

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• Be Still, Just Know (Resurrection Handbook – Part 17)

  Length: 7 Minutes

  We need to normalize things like resurrection in our minds. That’s what the Bible would call “the renewal of your mind.” And as simple as that is, that’s how people get raised.

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• Reactions Come From What You’re Seeing (Resurrection Handbook – Part 16)

  Length: 8 Minutes

  If someone does pass, what should our reaction be? What is the proper way to react to something like this? Well, you don’t need to ask what the right reaction should be. Just concern yourself with what the truth of the situation is. If you know the truth of the situation, then your reaction will fall in line effortlessly. 

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• Their Spirit Is Doing Great (Resurrection Handbook – Part 15)

  Length: 8 Minutes

  It’s always God’s will to give life to people. Thanks to Jesus, raising the dead is as simple as waking someone from sleep. That’s excellent news, but we should also know: Even while a believer’s body is still sleeping, their spirit has never been better! They have only changed locations.

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• Waking From Sleep (Resurrection Handbook – Part 14)

  Length: 8 Minutes

  As long as there is someone on this earth believing, as long as there’s someone in the situation full of the life of God, that person that “died,” is in fact not dead, but merely sleeping. 

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• Definitive Proof We Can Raise The Dead (Resurrection Handbook – Part 13)

  Length: 8 Minutes

  We’ve already been over many scriptural proofs, but for anyone who believes scripture, this is the simplest and most profound proof that physical resurrection is a part of our inheritance. 

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• Normalizing What’s Normal (Resurrection Handbook – Part 12)

  Length: 6 Minutes

  Because of what Jesus provided, raising the dead back to life is nothing extraordinary or unusual. You don’t need a “special anointing” to see it in your life. You just need to have a clear idea of what you have in Christ.

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• Death Is Not God’s Solution To Suffering (Resurrection Handbook – Part 11)

  Length: 9 Minutes

  Paul was someone who suffered quite a lot for the gospel’s sake, but even he acknowledged that Jesus had fixed this, and the death and hurt he suffered was based on his own lack of knowledge (as is always the case – 2 Cor. 4:12, 2 Tim. 1:10, Rom. 8:6). But regarding the relief of his suffering and pain, he said these famous words:

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• Finishing The Race (Resurrection Handbook – Part 10)

  Length: 7 Minutes

  Paul said that he “finished his race.” So, doesn’t that imply that there comes a time when we’re supposed to die because our life is finished? Well, it would imply that, if the “race” he was speaking of was referring to his life, but that’s not the way the Bible defines the word “race” at all.

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• God’s Not Appointing “A Time” For People To Die (Resurrection Handbook – Part 9)

  Length: 9 Minutes

  When someone dies, people say that it was God’s “time” for them to die. Not only is that untrue, but God is trying to do quite the opposite. He’s trying to cause people to live (Romans 8:11). And you would think that would be less controversial than it is. 

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• God’s Not “Calling People Home” (Resurrection Handbook – Part 8)

  Length: 6 Minutes

  When someone dies, the church tells us that the Lord “called them home” or, “It was their time.” If, when people die, it is simply because the Lord called them home at their appointed time, then why did Jesus routinely raise people back up from the dead in His earthly ministry? For that matter, why has God been raising people from the dead since the Old Testament? 

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• Someday In The Future? (Resurrection Handbook – Part 7)

  Length: 5 Minutes

  Just about every Christian believes in immortality and in the resurrection of the dead, but many, if not most, see these things as something that is reserved for Jesus’ second coming, or for heaven someday. Of course, they believe that God has the ability to raise the dead now, but in their mind, this is more the exception to the rule than anything. What they don’t realize is, Martha thought this exact same way, but Jesus corrected her.

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• The Graves Are Open (Believe And Then See) (Resurrection Handbook – Part 6)

  Length: 6 Minutes

  When the church teaches about people living forever or being raised from the dead, it is most commonly taught as something that will occur when Jesus comes back. I am here to tell you that immortality and the resurrection of the dead is something we have received through Jesus’ first coming on the cross, not through His second coming.

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• Jesus Said, “Raise The Dead” (Resurrection Handbook – Part 5)

  Length: 5 Minutes

  The resurrection of the dead is not something that is unusual or uncommon to born-again believers, who have the same power that raised Jesus from the dead living inside of them. If it seems unusual, it is because we are just out of the loop! We simply don’t realize the very power living inside of us. Power to raise the dead is a normal, everyday thing for us.

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• Death Is A Curse That Jesus Defeated (Resurrection Handbook – Part 4)

  Length: 6 Minutes

  Most Christians will admit that physical death was a curse placed on Adam for his sin (Romans 8:10). And yet, most Christians also believe that everyone has “their time” to die, and our loving Father “calls us all home” at one point or another. If you didn’t know, those are just fancy ways of referring to death. So I’m confused. Is death a curse placed on lawbreakers or is it some beautiful finale that God appoints, even to His children? 

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• Resurrection For Physical Death (Resurrection Handbook – Part 3)

  Length: 5 Minutes

  Ephesians 1:19-20 (NKJV) and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead...

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• Jesus Provided Resurrection (Resurrection Handbook – Part 2)

  Length: 5 Minutes

  Do you believe that Jesus is the only way for us to receive from a holy God? If you do, you will love this article. Of course, we don’t deserve God’s grace by our works, but Jesus paid the price so that we could receive it! That’s Christianity 101. Many people think that they already believe those statements, and perhaps you do, but you’d be surprised at how many Christians contradict this. 

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• The Resurrection Handbook – Part 1: Intro

  Length: 2 Minutes

  Psalms 112:7 (NKJV) He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

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