,
 

 
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him
that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but
is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). 

 
When we see the context of the chapter in which our text is found, we see how a
man was laying at the pool of Bethesda, and the Lord Jesus Christ healed him.
Jesus had told him: “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”
 
We read in verse 14: “Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto
him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee.”
 
This man had been criticized for obeying the word of Christ and taking up his
bed and walking.

 
Now watch verses 15 and 16: “The man departed, and told the Jews that it was
Jesus, which had made him whole. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and
sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.”
 
They were so legalistic. They had their formula figured out as to what
constituted a sabbath day, and it had nothing to do with what the Lord Jesus was
teaching about the sabbath day.
 
We read in verses 17 and 18: “But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he
not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making
himself equal with God.”
 
I want you to see the state of emotions at the time the Lord Jesus spoke the
words of our text. Emotions were high. There was much criticism. They hated Him
and went out to persecute Him.
 
Jesus said in verse 20: “For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all
things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that
ye may marvel.”
 
He spoke the words of our text in verse 24: “He that heareth my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” 

 
By the power of His word this man was made whole. It is the listening to that
which He says, not what the Jews said. It is the listening to what the Word of
God says, not listening to the interpretation of men.
 
Eternityis a solemn word. I want you to see what we read in Matthew 7:13-14:
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few
there be that find it.”
 
These few bring us into a solemn reality. Where is the distinction between those
who enter the strait gate and those who enter the broad gate? The distinction is
those who hear His word and believe on Him that sent Him and do what He says.
 
I want you to see the context of Matthew 7. We read in verse 21: “Not every one
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he
that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
 
Our text is emphasizing that we believe in the Father who sent Him, that we
believe His words.
 
The Lord Jesus says in verses 22 and 23: “Many will say to me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils?
and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
 
These are those who do not do what Christ has said. They heard what He said, but
they did not do it. Our text is talking about those who have passed from death
to life. Who are these? Are we among them? We must examine our own hearts. Are
we among those who have passed from death to life?
 
I want you to turn with me to 2 Corinthians 13:5: “Examine yourselves, whether
ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that
Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”
 
This is a solemn reality. This is a personal matter. You and I, each one of us,
must examine our own hearts. How do we prove ourselves? Are we walking in the
exercise of saving faith?
 
The Apostle Paul is saying: Either Christ is in you or you are a reprobate. If
Christ is formed in you, you have passed from death to life. This is the
important question as we examine ourselves, as we examine our own hearts, as we
examine our attitudes. We must examine whether we are in the faith, in other
words, whether or not we are walking in the exercise of saving faith.
 
Webster says, “Separation or alienation of the soul from God; i.e., being under
the dominion of sin, and destitute of grace or divine life is called spiritual
death.”
 
The Lord Jesus Christ says you have passed from death to life, which means the
separation from you and God has been removed, in other words that Christ has
been formed in you.
 
What do the Scriptures teach us are the distinguishing marks of those who are
dead, and what are the distinguishing marks of those who are alive. I want you
to turn with me to Ephesians 2:1-3: “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses

and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
 
The Apostle Paul identifies those who are spiritually dead by their walk of
life. How are we walking? What is the conversation of our heart? Is the
conversation of our heart taken up with the things of the flesh? By nature we
were all under the power of sin. How much of that power of sin still reigns in
our hearts today? Do we still desire the things of this life and the flesh?
 
Our text says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and
believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
 
This is how we identify when we were walking in the things of death, but have we
passed from death to life?
 
This passing from death to life is evident from our walk of life, which is
believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, which is walking according to His word. It
is not just a belief that Jesus said these words historically. It means that we
hear His word and walk according to His words. It is the fruit of hearing the
words of Jesus Christ as our divine King.

 
We see this in Acts 9:31: “Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and
Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and
in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.”

 
This shows how the walk of life identifies those who have passed from death to
life. The churches were multiplied by walking in the fear of the Lord, having
holy reverence for the will of God. It is walking, hearing and doing the will of
God.
 
This word edified is taken from the Greek word oikodomeo (oy-kod-om-eh'-o),
which means “to be a house builder, to construct or confirm, to build up—to
edify, embolden.”
 
This teaches us that we are edified by walking in the fear of the Lord. The
church is established and built up walking in the fear of God and in the comfort
of the Holy Spirit.
 
The church was being built up with lively stones as we see in 1 Peter 2:3-5: “If
so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living
stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as
lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
 
This is what it means to be passed from death to life. We become living stones.
Christ formed in you makes you become a living stone. He is the chief
cornerstone, but the building fitly framed and joined together is that precious
building of God, that house of God, which is composed of these lively stones. 

 
Jesus says in our text that those who hear His words and believe on His name
have passed from death to life, so what is it to live?

 
We see the answer in 2 Corinthians 5:19-20: “God was in Christ, reconciling the
world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed
unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye
reconciled to God.”
 
To live is to walk with a heart in total surrender to the will of God. Our
hearts must be fully reconciled with God’s ways, and we must give every
circumstance that comes upon us into the hands of the Lord and say, Lord, your
will be done. We must unconditionally surrender everything we have and
everything we are into the hands of a holy God.

 
If our hearts are still under the dominion of sin, we are still enemies of God
and separated from God’s presence, therefore we have not yet passed from death
to life. If our hearts are still rebellious against the will of God, if our
hearts are still inclined to the things of the flesh, if our hearts still long
for an empire in this life, we have not passed from death to life.
 
John 4:24 says: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.” What does it mean to worship God in spirit and in truth?
That word spirit means a mental disposition, an attitude. Our attitude, our
mental disposition, must be in total surrender to the mind of Christ. We must
have the Spirit of Christ. You cannot serve God in any spirit or in any mental
disposition other than in the Spirit of Christ.
 
The course of a man’s life is spoken of in Scripture as his walk. Each person is
walking to his eternal destination. This is what you and I have to realize, and
that word eternity is one solemn reality. There is no changing after this life.
 
This word walk as used in Acts 9:31 clearly reveals there are but two
ways—“walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost” or
walking in rebellion and sin. There is no middle ground. We are not somewhat
improved, still a little carnal, in some purgatory, halfway to heaven, and some
day we will be able to make it. We are either walking in the carnal mind or in
the Spirit of Christ. We are not going to pass as religious and therefore
qualify as I read to you from Matthew 7:22-23: “Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out
devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto
them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
 
Those people had so many things for which they had a claim on eternal life, but
Jesus said, I never knew you. They were religious people, and they spoke of
tremendous experiences, but they walked in rebellion to His will.
 
There are only two ways. We are either walking in the fear of the Lord and the
comfort of the Holy Spirit, or we are walking in rebellion. We read in Matthew
7:13-14: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the
way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few
there be that find it.”
 
There is only one way, and it is a narrow way. That word strait means difficult.
It is difficult because it constitutes crucifying the old man of sin, crucifying
everything of the flesh.

 
This Strait Gate points to Christ as the only entrance. The only entrance into
the sheepfold is through the door as we see in John 10:9: “I am the door: by me
if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find
pasture.” The only way to enter is passing from death to life, walking in the
fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. 

 
But why is this gate called strait? It is wide enough, high enough, comes down
low enough to allow the chiefest of all sinners to enter, but it is strait
enough and narrow enough to prevent anything of sin or self to go through.
Nothing that makes a lie, nothing of the flesh can enter. It is a crucifying
gate. The only thing that can enter is the sinner himself, that is, the sinner
who has learned to seek mercy, who has come to seek undeserved favor.
 
There must be the denying of self and a dying unto sin and a walking in the
footsteps of Christ to enter in through His righteousness being imparted in us.
Christ is the door, and unless that righteousness of Christ is imparted in us
and imputed to us, unless we have the righteousness of Christ as our robe, we
will never enter that gate.
 
Jesus goes on to say, “For wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth
to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.” He is speaking of the
professing church.

 
The Lord Jesus Christ is the gate, and the cross is the way of crucifying that
old man of sin “which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” There
is only one way, and that is the way of the cross, when everything of self and
everything of the flesh has been crucified. 

 
Scripture places edification ahead of “walking in the fear of the Lord, and in
the comfort of the Holy Ghost.” The edification spoken of includes building,
that is, growing in knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Before there can be a
“walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost,” first
there must be a knowledge of self. We must know ourselves and see the sinfulness
of sin and see ourselves as sinners. We must see God’s wrath against sin, and
that He cannot relate to the sinner outside of the blessed robe of Christ’s
righteousness.
 
Until a man has learned to see sin in its true nature there will be no right
desire after Christ. If I can feel that I am good enough on my own, why do I
need a Physician? If I have no feeling of the death sentence that has come upon
me because of sin, I will not need a Redeemer. Until I see that I am a sinful
man, what need do I have of a heavenly Physician?
 
What would make me want to walk in the fear of the Lord if I have pleasure in
the things of unrighteousness, unless the Lord has worked the work of
regeneration in my heart and given me a new desire? I will have pleasure in the
things of this life, and I will have no pleasure in the fear of God.
 
Secondly, there must be a desire after and a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ
as the way of redemption from all iniquity. Jesus said in John17:3: “And this is
life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom thou hast sent.”

 
Those who have passed from death to life will never be barren in the knowledge
of their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, because they not only hear, but do His
words. We will never pass from death to life until the Holy Spirit works in us
to give us knowledge of self, to give us knowledge of our need of a Saviour, to
give us the knowledge of Christ as the Redeemer, redeeming us from all iniquity.
Then we will desire to know His ways.
 
We read in 2 Peter 1:5-8: “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and
abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

 
This is having passed from death to life, walking as a new man desiring the
things of the Lord, knowing the will of God and doing the will of God. Therein
is salvation. This is life eternal. 

 
I know I have told you these things before, but see what the Apostle Peter said
in the verses following. We read in 2 Peter 1:11-13: “For so an entrance shall
be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in
remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the
present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir
you up by putting you in remembrance.”
 
We forget so easily. What is more important than to have that entrance into
heaven, that having passed from death to life?
 
Until we learn to know Christ there can be no meaning in Galatians 5:22-24: “But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they
that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
 
What is there in this for a person whose heart is filled with bitterness and
hatred? Until Christ is formed in us what part do we have in these verses? This
is having passed from death to life. If we are walking in the things of death,
and if our hearts are still going after the things of the flesh, then what part
do we have in what is mentioned in these verses? If bitterness yet dwells in our
hearts, what portion do we have in the fruit of the Spirit? If our hearts are
not in total surrender to the will of God, and if we cannot look at another who
has caused us harm as an instrument in God’s hands to bring a circumstance as a
trial of faith, what part do we have in this? What part do we have in “meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law”? If we do not have Christ, what can we
claim from this?
 
This is passing from death to life. It is one or the other. We cannot ride the
fence and have a little of each. We cannot have a religious exercise but still
live in ways that are against the fruit of the Spirit. We are not going to walk
in the comfort of the Holy Spirit and yet cherish sin. The only way we can have
the evidence of having passed from death to life, and that is that the things of
death are behind us, is that we walk away from them.
 
Passing from death to life is “walking in the fear of the Lord.”
 
A right understanding of the love referred to in 1John 4:10 will excite a holy
reverence for God and His wrath upon sin: “Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our
sins.” He came to appease the wrath of God upon our sin. If we have ever had a
faith’s view of that suffering Saviour as the propitiation of our sins, then we
have passed from death to life. Then we will not walk in ways of sin because we
see how grievous sin is in the sight of the Lord. 

 
Those who lack this reverence for God’s wrath upon sin are admonished in Hebrews
10:26-29: “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful
looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the
adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy,
who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite
unto the Spirit of grace?”
 
We have not passed from death to life if we can just go along and willfully sin.
 
We are told in 2 Corinthians 13:5: “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the
faith; prove your own selves.” It is a constant examination of our own hearts
whether we are walking in the faith, because Satan goes about as a roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour. He has such a desire to work in us a root of
bitterness.
 
Walking in the fear of the Lord is walking with a feeling sense that His eye is
upon you saying to you as to Abraham in Genesis17:1b: “I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.” That is the call God has given to Abraham
and to his seed, the church, the bride of Christ. 

 
This word perfect comes from the Hebrew word tamiym (taw-meem'), which means
“with integrity and truth, sincerely and upright, undefiled, without
blemish—perfect.” Some English words we think we understand so well have so much
deeper meaning than we ever realized.

 
How much conniving goes on in the human heart? How much swindling? How much
wording things in such a way to make others believe something different than the
whole truth? We must tell it just the way it is, the way we would want it told
to us. This is in relationship to our fellow man, that we do not take advantage
of him with some gray area of truth or some misconception of the whole truth.
 
A man told me once how he had sold a vehicle. He told the buyer: I have just
been all through it. I’ve been completely through the engine, the transmission
and the rear end. The buyer took for granted that he had overhauled it, but
after he sold it, the seller said the car was in such bad shape all he did was
put it back together and never did a thing to it. What he had said was true, he
had been all through it, but he deceived that man. We are to walk before God and
be perfect with integrity and truth. Truth is the whole truth.
 
See what a cage of unclean birds we have in our own hearts. How often we catch
ourselves talking to someone maybe not giving them the whole truth and have to
call them back and say, Did I make this clear? The Lord is talking about that
law of love.
 
The realization of our insufficiency and shortcomings in our walk draws the eye
of our faith to look to Christ and His all sufficiency. When you and I see how
far we fall short of this perfection, then we look to Christ because we see that
we need His perfection. We read in Colossians 1:19: “For it pleased the Father
that in him should all fullness dwell.” The fullness of perfection lies in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now we must have our hearts drawn out to the Lord, that He
will incline us and give us all wisdom and all understanding and all knowledge
to be able to walk before Him and be perfect. 

 
It is the privilege—the great privilege—of the believer to pursue his course
with his eye on the fullness of Christ.
 
In John 1:16-17 we read: “And of his fullness have all we received, and grace
for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ.” See the fullness there is in Christ. You and I will never be able to
walk in perfection under the law. You and I must confess that we are tricksters,
that we are deceivers, that we are Jacobs. In times past we walked according to
the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air. That
is our human nature, but our fullness is in Christ.
 
With our eye on Christ and His fullness, we also have a feeling sense that the
eye of the Lord is upon us for good. When weunderstand what it is to pass from
death to life, then we understand that we walk as in the immediate presence of
God.
 
In the extremity of Hagar’s trial when the Lord appeared to her in the
wilderness, the name she gave to her Lord expressed the security she felt in
knowing God’s eye was upon her for good. We read in Genesis 16:13: “And she
called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she
said, Have I also here looked

after him that seeth me?”
 
This is walking in the fear of the Lord, when we walk with every step we take
like Jacob. He had to bring one foot up and stop and remember that the Lord had
touched the hollow of his thigh. With every step he took he remembered that the
Lord saw him.
 
We now walk as in the presence of God, so He looks in and sees and understands
every thought of the heart. It is so easy to talk about but so difficult to put
into practice. We must come back before the Lord daily and say: Lord, examine my
heart. Is my motive really what I brought across? Is that really the motive of
my heart? So often we have to follow up and make sure it was clearly understood
what we said so the other person will know we are telling them the whole truth.
 
This is not just a Sunday religion, but a sweet consciousness that the eye of
the Lord is upon you for good from the beginning to the end of the year. The
psalmist said in Psalm 33:18: “Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that
fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy.” 

 
Those who hope in the Lord’s mercy know that the eye of the Lord is upon them,
that He is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. He is going to
bring us to an accounting on that day of judgment. I have often thought of the
solemn reality that on the day of judgment, as the Lord brings the world
together, and every person you have spoken to, every thought of what was going
through your heart, is going to be laid naked and open and bare. There will be
no secrets.
 
Continuing in verses 19 to 22 he wrote: “To deliver their soul from death, and
to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and
our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his
holy name. Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.”
 
This is what we experience having the eyes of God upon us. That is what it is to
walk in the fear of the Lord. 

 
To walk in the fear of God is to walk habitually with God in a state of
reconciliation with His will. Amos 3:3 says: “Can two walk together, except they
be agreed?” Can I claim that I am walking in the fear of the Lord and take
exception to anything that He has said in His Word? Can I be in rebellion
against the least of His commandments and walk in agreement with Him? I must be
in unconditional surrender to the will of God. 

 
The Apostle Paul said in Galatians 5:16-17: “This I say then, Walk in the
Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the
one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
 
If you walk in the Spirit you are not going to fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
You cannot do the things you would otherwise do. The Lord will grant His
restraining grace, and He will restrain you from doing those bad things that you
would do. That word cannot in the original it means “God forbid.” God will
forbid it. He will restrain it. He will not allow it. He will keep you from it.
 
This points to God’s restraining grace as well as our inability to walk in our
own strength. We must constantly pray for God’s restraining grace, for the Lord
to restrain us from sin, to keep us from sin, to deliver us from the power of
sin. “Ye cannot do the [bad] things that ye would.” You cannot do those things
you would have done.
 
God restrains us by way of the cross, crucifying our pride and self-sufficiency,
bringing about new desires. He crucifies our pride through the circumstances
through which He leads us. He brings about humility. He brings about that new
man of the heart. In Galatians 5:24 we read, “And they that are Christ’s have
crucified the flesh

with the affections and lusts.” This is the work of grace. That is that new man.
That is passing from death to life. 

 
The heart’s desire of those who have passed from death unto life is to realize
God’s presence. They desire for that separation from God to be removed. Their
longing desire is the presence of God, the love of God, the immediate presence
of God. The Lord had said to Moses in Exodus 32:34: “Therefore now go, lead the
people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall
go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon
them.” 

 
Moses had no desire to enter the promised land without the Lord’s presence. He
said to the Lord in Exodus 33:15: “And he said unto him, If thy presence go not
with me,

carry us not up hence.” 
 
Why was this? Because for Moses to be in the promised land without the Lord
would still be what Webster calls spiritual death, that is, “separation or
alienation of the soul from God.” That would be to be there physically but to be
spiritually dead.
 
It was not the loss of his property, children or wealth that made Job cry out of
the depth of his soul. He was able to say as we read in Job1:21: “Naked came I
out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and
the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” 

 
It was when the Lord had withdrawn His blessed presence that Job cried out in
Job 23:8-12: “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I
cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold
him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth
the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot
hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone
back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth
more than my necessary food.”
 
You and I can have our property taken away, and we can feel so abused, and Job
had no remorse over that, but look how he cried out when he could not find his
God.
 
Our text says in John 5:24: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my
word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” 

 
Do we understand as Job did what it is to hear the word of God, that the word of
God is more necessary than our food, and to believe on Him who sent Christ?
 
See our calling to arise from this state of separation or alienation of the soul
from God and the dominion of sin in Ephesians 5:14: “Wherefore he saith, Awake
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” 

 
We can become spiritually asleep and stupefied. A person can sleep his way into
death. A person freezing to death literally sleeps their way into death. He who
is so stupefied or numbed with drugs or with liquor  can pass into death without
feeling.
 
Verse 15 says: “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.”
To arise from the dead means to walk circumspectly.
 
We read in verses 16 and 17: “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.”
 
This is arising from the dead. This is awakening from sleep. This is where
Christ shall give you light.




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