Raise The Dead.

Basic Christianity.

Recently I read an account of Smith Wigglesworth proving the reality of the resurrection power of the Gospel of Jesus. He had an invitation to a gathering of friends of a man who had died. It was not the funeral. The body was in a side room behind two closed glass doors, in an open coffin. The guests gathered in a large main room. On arrival, Wigglesworth walked through the gathered group looking at everybody but not saying a word. He reached the glass doors, opened them, and walked up to the coffin. He took hold of the clothing of the corpse, hauled the body out of the coffin, and stood it against a wall.

He stood back a few steps and said, “In the name of Jesus I command you to walk.” The body slid slowly down the wall to the floor. Wigglesworth picked it up and stood it against the wall. Again, he said, “I command you to walk in the name of Jesus.” The body slid slowly down the wall to the floor. He stood the body against the wall a third time and witnesses said this time he roared, “I command you to walk in the name of Jesus.” The dead man’s eyes fluttered open and he staggered forward. Witnesses said a short time later the resurrected man and Smith Wigglesworth walked arm in arm through the astonished group.

For those people present it was no doubt a life-changing event. You would not have been able to go on with ‘life as usual’ after witnessing such a spectacle. As ripples spread in a lake when a stone is thrown into it, the aftermath of the dead man alive again must have impacted many people. His family when he walked back into his house, the neighbours once the news reached them, his extended family, his workmates. If he turned up for work the next day that would have been something to see. When you think about it that one act of faith must have influenced a multitude of people.

We can think, “Isn’t that wonderful, wasn’t Wigglesworth a great man of faith”. We should be alert to the fact you and I have a commandment — a commandment, not a suggestion — to do the very same thing. Jesus sent the twelve disciples out on an evangelistic outreach. (Mathew 10:5–8) “These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them saying, do not go into the way of the Gentiles and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go preach, saying, the kingdom of…

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