Section 17
Lazarus. They did it and the work of resurrec tion was completed.
We too must work by cooperating with the Lord to release others from the bondage of their bandages. When the Lord raises up people from their death in the church, we need to cooperate with Him in order to release them from their earthly bondage. By this kind of cooperation the church becomes the testimony of the Lord as life. The Lord could have moved the stone from the cave and He could have removed the bandages from Lazarus, but He did not do it. He would rather ask us to cooperate with Him. However, before we can cooperate with Him, we must first give up our opinions and act accord ing to His will. In the church life, we must drop our opinions, submit to the Lord's word and work, and cooperate with His resurrection power.
This is a serious lesson that everyone in the local churches must learn. Especially the Marthas and the Marys—the leading ones, the respon sible ones—must learn to drop their opinions, submit themselves and their opinions to the Lord, and cooperate with Him and with His resurrection power. If in any local church the leaders drop their opinions, submitting them to the Lord's word, and cooperate with the Lord's