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Published: April 11, 2012, 10:16 p.m.

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(Revelation 1:18) (NLT) \\u201cI am the living one. I died, but look\\u2014I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.\\u201d

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(Romans 8:11) (NLT) \\u201cThe Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.\\u201d

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Is there anything in your life that is dead, or is in the process of death?\\xa0\\xa0

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(John 10:10) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

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Signs of Emotional Death:

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1.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Exhaustion

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2.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Emptiness

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3.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Enslavement

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(Revelation 1:18) (NLT) \\u201cI am the living one. I died, but look\\u2014I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.\\u201d

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(John 11:1-3) Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, \\u201cLord, the one you love is sick.\\u201d

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(John 11:4-6) When he heard this, Jesus said, \\u201cThis sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God\\u2019s glory so that God\\u2019s Son may be glorified through it.\\u201d Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.

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(John 11:7) Then he said to his disciples, \\u201cLet us go back to Judea.\\u201d

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(John 11:11-15) After he had said this, he went on to tell them, \\u201cOur friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.\\u201d His disciples replied, \\u201cLord, if he sleeps, he will get better.\\u201d Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. \\xa0So then he told them plainly, \\u201cLazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.\\u201d

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(John 11:16) Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, \\u201cLet us also go, that we may die with him.\\u201d

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(John 11:17) On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

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(John 11:20-23) When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. \\u201cLord,\\u201d Martha said to Jesus, \\u201cif you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.\\u201d Jesus said to her, \\u201cYour brother will rise again.\\u201d

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(John 11:24) Martha answered, \\u201cI know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.\\u201d

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(John 11:25) Jesus said to her, \\u201cI am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?\\u201d

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(Revelation 21:5) And the one sitting on the throne said, \\u201cLook, I am making everything new!\\u201d And then he said to me, \\u201cWrite this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.\\u201d

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Key #1: Believe

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