Section 16
until the time came when they were subdued. Eventually, Martha was subdued with a certain amount of submission. The Lord has the resur rection life, the resurrection power, but it needs our cooperation. It needs our submission. What is our submission? It is simply the giving up of our opinion. You must forsake your opinion and allow the Lord to speak. When He tells us, "Move this stone," we should simply move it. We must submit, cooperate, and coordinate with Him. We need to submit to His word, cooperate with Him, and coordinate with the resurrection power. Why did the Lord, who was able to raise the dead, not remove the stone by Himself? Because His resurrection power re quires our cooperation. Once they had removed the stone, the Lord cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, Come forth!" (11:41-43), and Lazarus was raised from the dead. He heard the voice of the living Lord, was quickened, and was raised from the dead. After Lazarus came out of the tomb, there was still the need for human coop eration. Lazarus' hands and feet were bound with the burial clothes and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Therefore Jesus said to them, "Loose him and let him go" (11:44). They had to remove the bandages from the resurrected