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live. Every moment of every day, He was dying. This means that while He was living in the home of a poor carpenter, He was dying. The process of His resurrection began as He was dying.
It is significant that the Lord Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25). The Lord did not say that He is the life and the resur rection; He said first that He is the resurrection and then that He is the life. Why does resurrec tion come first in John 11:25? Resurrection is mentioned first in this verse because through out His life the Lord Jesus was dying and res urrecting.
When the Lord Jesus told Martha that her brother would rise again, she replied, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day" (John 11:24). Here Martha prolonged the resurrection to the distant future, to a time just before the millennium. Therefore, the Lord Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life." The Lord was indicating that He is the res urrection now, the resurrection in the present. He did not say, "I shall be the resurrection"; He said, "I am the resurrection." The Lord could say this because while He was living in the human life, He was resurrecting by dying.
The Lord's life on earth for thirty-three and