Section 2
(11:6). The Lord does not reform people or reg ulate them; He regenerates people and raises them out of death. Hence, the first of the nine cases is on regeneration (John 3) and the last is on resurrection, revealing that all of the differ ent aspects of Christ as life to us, as unveiled in the other seven cases, are in the principle of regeneration and resurrection. This last case is the actual changing of death into life.
Before going into the matter of Christ rais ing Lazarus from the dead, we must realize that the Gospel of John reveals two things. On the positive side, it reveals that Christ came to be our life. The Son of God is the Word of God, which is the expression of God. As the expres sion of God, He came in the flesh to be our life. This central thought is found in every chapter throughout the entire Gospel. On the negative side, this book also shows that religion, even the Jewish religion of Judaism, is very much against Christ as life. By reading this book carefully, you will even see how the sound and genuine religion opposes Christ as life. Within the first ten chapters of this Gospel, the only opposition our Lord met came from the Jewish religion. Re ligion opposed Him, rejected Him, repudiated Him and persecuted Him. Eventually, at the end