sake of the people surrounding me that they might believe that you have really sent me.” Jesus experienced another powerful movement of the Spirit within him, and called out with a mighty voice, foreshadowing his last great cry on Calvary: “Lazarus, come forth!” Not, “Come out,” but, “Come forth.” Come forth from your old life, which is more like death, to a life that is brand new. While the bystanders watched, “he who had been dead four days staggered forth, wrapped hand and foot with winding cloths,
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