I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE

"I AM the resurrection and the life".
 John 11:25

When Jesus said this, He wanted us to know as well as understand that He is the surety for resurrection and life. This literally implies that if it is not for Jesus, there could have never been resurrection and life. Jesus is surety for resurrection and life, at least according to this statement He made by Himself. Only through and in Jesus can we live on in the life after. 

The term “I AM” connotes and can be used to sum up the attributes of God as ALPHA and OMEGA (The beginning and the end), Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, transcendence, eternal, infinite, powerful, righteous, holy, just, good, truth, gracious, immanence, immutability, loving, merciful, and self-existing.

In this, it so is that God alone is what He is. For these attributes are exclusively unique to God. We can be any of these attributes only if He (God) shares them to us. Rather all these attributes are solely owned by and are for God. For God is sovereign in His being.

This term I AM also connotes a fact about God. The fact is that: there is no way you can describe God. Rather; God is not up to be debated. Or that: no opinion about God does count. It is like: "...I AM WHO I AM, what else do you want to know"?

This term is first used when God appeared to Moses (Exodus 3:14). On more than one occasion, Jesus used this term to describe His person.

If Jesus uses the same term with pretty much confidence, it indisputably suggests that there is a strong correlation between Him (Jesus) and the God who appears to Moses in the non-consuming bush fire. For He (God YHWH) said to Moses: "I AM WHO I AM". And none else but Jesus goes on to affirm He is the I AM (John 8:58). This is one of the empirical grounds to suggest that the same God extends in Jesus. Rather Jesus is God incarnate.

• "I am the bread of life" (John 6:35,48,51).

• "I am the light of the world" (John 8:12).

• "I am the door of the sheep" (John 10:7,9).

• "I am the good shepherd" (John 10:11,14).

• "I am the resurrection, and the life" (John 11:25).

• "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6).

• "I am the true vine" (John 15:1,5).

What is resurrection?

This is the concept of a living being coming back to life after death.

What is life?

This is the existence of an individual human being or animal.

Jesus emphatically claims sole ownership of the power to access both resurrection and life, according to His statement in scripture.

Why is life and resurrection exclusively guaranteed in Jesus?

Jesus is the perfect sacrifice that is acceptable before God. For Jesus is the Son of God and He is God. None else can measure up in terms of what Jesus is and what He does. None else has promised a bit of life. But Jesus has promised us life because He is alive.

Who else has risen again from the dead? Who else has prophesied his death and resurrection? But we can stand assured of life in Jesus because He alone has overcome death (Isaiah 25:7-8), (Acts 2:27), (2Timothy 1:9-11), (Revelation 1:17-18). And that that is so, He has shared with us of the everlasting life that is in Him.

Now the threat of death can no longer apply to us (who are in Jesus Christ) (1Corinthians 15:55). So, Jesus gives us what He pretty has in abundance, and that is life. And He (Jesus) has proven this by being the first to rise from the dead at the word of His mouth.

So, it is pretty a proven fact that none else can meet Jesus' standards. What is the reason that many of us can't submit to His (Jesus') authority, except for sheer jealous, blindness, oblivion, and spiritual ignorance? For it is not simply wishful that Jesus is what He surely is. It is not a corruptible claim that everything is because Jesus is.What is your choice, if at all you should have a choice of your own?

Jesus is God's power to create. Jesus is the reason the world ever is (John 1:1-5). If it were not for Jesus, nothing would have ever been.  Upon this, we can reliably conclude that Jesus is the word of God. And God's word is inseparable from Him. So, Jesus is Divine as much as God the Father is Divine. For the Son (Jesus) is one with the Father (God) (John 10:30).

Are they two different Gods? No not. It is one God who chooses to work the way He wishes to. He is one God in the three (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit). He is the one God who extends in the three.

Jesus has provided a way that man can be restored in fellowship with God. Adam was in fellowship with God. But Adam disobeyed God, and upon this, man died in the spirit. For God is Spirit and we can only find Him in the Spirit. So, that Adam died spiritually when he disobeyed God, it so is a fact that he (Adam) was no longer in the spirit only where God is addressed. In this, everyone who followed Adam was no different from him. 

But Jesus is no Adam. For Adam lost the spiritual touch. Jesus came to restore that spiritual touch by granting us the command of righteousness only by which everything is to obey us. For what man needs is the command of the spirit like the one Adam had before he disobeyed God. 

There is no human person who could have ever been able to execute the task to redeem man. For all human are sinners. Yet a criminal cannot stand surety for a criminal. In the same vein, a sinner can't stand surety for a sinner. Who else is not a sinner that is not God?  If none else, then Jesus is God.

For we needed, or we need the God man to stand surety for us because He alone is the holy and righteous God. All of us who are in this sinful flesh are spiritual criminals. Yet all of us who are in Christ Jesus have been exempted by way of assuming the righteousness of our surety who is but Jesus Christ.

So, if we do agree that God only is no sinner, and it is pretty a proven fact that Jesus did not fall into nor commit a single sin, what else should we conclude He is if He is not God? For scripture is affirmative that no one ever had a proven case against Jesus (John 14:30), (John 8:46). Jesus is the God man

For all of us only make seemingly exciting but wanting statements that are measurably hollow and therefore can’t have the required weight to possess the authority that can match the authority of Jesus. Jesus was proactive. He (Jesus) always matched His word with action.

So, Jesus said I AM the resurrection and the life because I alone, I am designed for that. I alone, do have the will, the way, and the mechanisms to do it the way God wants it because I AM the God man. Thus the use of the same term I AM, just the way it was used when Moses had an encounter with God. Jesus was affirming that it is Him who appeared to Moses in the burning bush.

Attributes of Jesus that He is God

• Faithful. We are in an era where everyone doesn’t trust the other. Jesus alone is faithful.

• Wise (Luke 2:52).

• Humble (John 6:38).

• Obedient (John 15:10).

• Patient

• Charitable (Mark 12:30–31).

• Giving (Mark 5).

• Forgiving  (Luke 23:34).

• Compassionate (Matthew 9:36).

• Servant (Mark 10:45).

• Loving

• Committed

• Prayerful

• Gentleness

• Self-Control: Jesus did not fall into a single temptation.

 Death and Life

Death and life are factual. If not one, then it is the other. Each of these two has a reward. Life is assured only in and through Jesus. The reward for submission to Christ is to be seated in the heavenly realms. But denial of Jesus is guaranteed death. Death not of the body (for the body is only dead walking), but death of the spirit (Ezekiel 18:20). And upon this, the dead will be sent where death pretty dwells. For those who have no the covering of the righteousness of Christ will be eternally condemned to death in hell fire (2Corinthians 5:21).
 

The source and cause of death.

The source of death is sin. (Romans 6:23). Sin breeds evil of which God is judgmental with death. Man cannot help himself out of sin. Only when we submit to Jesus Christ do we escape death which sin comes with. Jesus alone can help us out of the consequential sin.

The source of life

Just as we have seen all above, the source of life is none else but Jesus Christ. We lost spiritual life when Adam disobeyed God, but in Jesus Christ, the same life is restored to us. For in Jesus, we can see all that the invisible God is. Rather Christ is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15-17). 

So, Jesus’ authority therefore comes from the fact that He is God. Jesus is all holy, and all righteous. No other person can be holy and righteous if it is not granted to them through God's Son Jesus Christ.

Jesus alone paid the price that nobody else could. He offered Himself for the type of sacrifice that was equally required. All God’s anger which was meant for us was all exited on Jesus.

Jesus was spit upon, mocked, slapped and finally crucified on the cross (Philippians 2:5-11). He accepted all this to happen to Him so that you and I can have the precious opportunity to live again. Thus, today we speak boldly of life because of the perfectly accomplished redemptive task of death of Jesus on the cross.

Jesus died on the cross and rose again. Thus the statement; “I am the resurrection and the life…” When you resurrect, you have regained life. Because He rose from the dead, there is lively hope that whoever accepts Him and lives according to Him has the lively opportunity to live again (John 11:25-26). For this indisputable fact, Jesus is the source of life (John 5:24), (John 5:39-40), (John 6:27), (John 1027-28), (John 14:6), (John 20:31).

Those who accept Him, even when they die, they will live again, because He lives, we live. All authority to grant or to deny life was therefore granted to Him alone. For Jesus' sacrifice alone can match God's standard (Matthew 28:18). In Jesus alone, there is resurrection and life. 

I DO NOT NEED TO CONSULT ANYONE ON THIS. Amen

God bless