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Mateo 9:18-26 : Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman

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18 Dum li tion parolis al ili, jen unu estro, alveninte, adorklinigxis al li, dirante:Mia filino jxus mortis; sed venu kaj metu vian manon sur sxin, kaj sxi vivos.

19 Kaj Jesuo levigxis, kaj sekvis lin, kaj ankaux liaj discxiploj.

20 Kaj jen virino, kiu jam dek du jarojn havis sangofluon, venis malantaux lin kaj tusxis la randon de lia mantelo;

21 cxar sxi diris en si:Se mi nur tusxos lian mantelon, mi estos sanigita.

22 Kaj Jesuo, sin turninte kaj vidinte sxin, diris:Kuragxu, filino; via fido vin savis. Kaj en tiu sama horo la virino resanigxis.

23 Kaj Jesuo, veninte en la domon de la estro kaj vidinte la flutistojn kaj la homamason bruantajn,

24 diris:Foriru; cxar la knabineto ne mortis, sed dormas. Kaj ili mokridis lin.

25 Sed kiam la homamaso estis elpelita, li eniris, kaj prenis sxian manon; kaj la knabineto levigxis.

26 Kaj disiris tiu famo en tiun tutan regionon.

Commentary

 

Meditate On What God Says About You

By Todd Beiswenger


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Our mind is running all the time, thoughts pouring in for good and for bad. We have a choice as to which thoughts we are going to focus on, and if we can focus on what God says about us we can be happy, grateful and blessed.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 2892; Isaiah 26:3, 60:1-2; Joshua 1:8; Luke 8:49-50; Matthew 9:27-30; Psalms 20:7)

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Death

  
'Soul Carried to Heaven,' by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, a 19th-century French traditionalist.

Death in the Bible represents spiritual death, or the destruction of everything that is good and all true beliefs in someone. This happens when people confirm themselves in evil and choose hell. And the more they turn away from the Lord - the source of life - the more dead they are. There is also a sort of spiritual death in the opposite sense: to go to heaven we must let go of our desire to live from and for ourselves, must let that aspect of ourselves die so that we don't start to believe that we can also decide what is good and evil, as Adam & Eve did. This is the death Jesus meant when he said to the disciples, "he who loses his life for My sake, shall find it." The natural physical death of the body, meanwhile, is really just a passage into spiritual life, and is, for people who love the Lord and their fellow people, a rebirth into the true life of heaven. There are also a few cases in the Bible where it is said the "nothing will die" or that things will "never die." This means that love and truth will not die even if people do, because love and truth come from the Lord and are connected to Him.