# 96 It's Not Some New Thing

Joh 5:28 "Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 "and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Marvel not! Don’t wonder if there is such a thing as the resurrection of the dead. It will occur! It will happen whether you believe it or not. Though physically dead for  just minutes, days, years, centuries, or eons, should the Lord tarry, you and I will one day hear the voice of Jesus say, “Come forth!”

“All who are in the graves will hear”

The resurrection of the dead is not some new teaching that Jesus came up with. Isa 26:19 says, “Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.”

And Job tells us in  Job 19:25, “For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; 26 And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,”

Oh yes, there is a resurrection for all men, but once we come forth from the grave, then what? “those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Do not marvel at this either. There is a heaven and there is a hell! Both are eternal dwelling places. Those who have done good go to heaven, and those who have done evil will go to hell. Uh oh! Now we have a problem because the Bible tells us that no one has done good!

Ro 3:12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one."

Ps 14:3 They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.

But wait, there is One who has done good! There is One who has not sinned, and His name is Jesus. Our only hope for heaven then is to be found in Him. His righteousness must be imputed to you and I. Ro 3:22 says this about how righteousness is imputed to you and I. “even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;”

It’s by faith! “To all and on all who believe!”

We don the robe of Christ’s righteousness at our baptism and we keep it on through enduring faith!

Marvel not at this gospel truth! Believe it! Be found in Christ  and be saved!