Section 5
a half years was a life of dying to live, a life of living by dying. Eventually, His death was com pleted on the cross, and His resurrection was completed on the third day after His crucifix ion. There was a beginning of His death and also a completion of it. Likewise, there was a beginning of His resurrection and a completion of resurrection. I encourage you to bring this matter to the Lord in prayer.
Praise the Lord that He was the dying-to-live Man-Savior and also the living-by-dying Man- Savior! While He was living, He was dying, and while He was dying, He was living. We may even say that while He was dying, He was resurrect ing. His thirty-three and a half years on earth were a long process of death and also of resur rection. With Him resurrection and death went together.
According to our opinion, we may think that the Lord Jesus should have said to Martha, "Do you not know that I am the life? One day I will die, and then I shall be the resurrection." How ever, the Lord said that He was the resurrection and the life. The fact that He was resurrec tion proves that He was also life. If He had not been resurrecting, He would not have been able to live.