according to the counsel of his will

July 15 2018

Joh 11:43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."

Joh 11:44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

You all know this story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Lazarus was dead and could not seek for life, he was dead, you know what dead is, dead is no life, you can't ask for anything, because you are dead! Jesus had to give life to Lazarus before he could choose to obey Jesus and come out of the grave. And that's the way salvation is, Jesus has to give you life before you can come out of the grave that you were in.