Faith to Raise the Dead

The message you’re about to hear when you watch this video is completely unreasonable.

While “reason” is a powerful and important tool, I must also remind you, as a Christian - that is, a committed follower of Jesus Christ and his teachings in the Judeo-Christian Bible - we are not people primarily lead by reason. No, as Christians, we walk by faith and are led by the Spirit. We are guided by another realm that pierces the darkness and that shows up in this world as that which surpasses reason and is called the miraculous.

Everyone of believer in Christ is equipped for resurrection. We read the following in Romans 8:11:

Yes, God raised Jesus to life! And since God’s Spirit of Resurrection lives in you, he will also raise your dying body to life by the same Spirit that breathes life into you!

God’s Spirit of Resurrection lives in me! What?!

Tyler Johnson shares testimonies of unreasonable and faith-filled exploits of the dead being raised back to life - that is those officially proclaimed dead by reasonable men of science; these dead who get back up on their feet and walk and talk and breath among the living!

Faith begins where the will of God is known. Perhaps, the reason for the seeming lack of evidence of God’s Spirit of Resurrection in the present age is no faith...no knowledge or understanding of the will of God in this regard.

The contemporary Church culture has endured at least a hundred years or more of the teaching of the “cessationists” who proclaim according to Wikipedia - that spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues, prophecy and healing (or resurrecting the dead) ceased with the apostolic age.

The writer of the book of Hebrews presents the following:

Now is the time for us to progress beyond the basic message of Christ and advance into perfection. The foundation has already been laid for us to build upon: turning away from our dead works to embrace faith in God, teaching about different baptisms, impartation by the laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. So with God’s enablement we will move on to deeper truths. Hebrews 6:1-3 - TPT

It sounds like “turning away from our dead works to embrace faith in God, teaching about different baptisms, impartation by the laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment” are all part of the foundation or the basic message of Christ. In that case, could it be that this contemporary church culture has left the basic message of Christ?

Could it be that this “unreasonable message” of life and the love of God is the exact message the world needs right now?

If we are part of a church culture that practices the elements of the basic message of Christ - that we could actually raise the dead - what would the appropriate response be to the school shootings that are too common in the news? 

Let me challenge you to discover what the Bible has to say about this “unreasonable message.” Discover testimonies from the archives of post-apostolic era Christianity that are rich with stories of the dead being raised as you read Tyler Johnson’s book,  The Dead are Raised: Unearthing Lost Resurrection Stories. Seek out what Scripture has to teach about resurrection -  let Tyler Johnson make a case for this truth found in the pages of the Bible with is book,  How to Raise the Dead.

Watch this video and be ready to have your mind blown!