What exactly did our Lord mean when He said here that He is not the God of the dead but the God of the living? The Lord said clearly here that He is the God of the living; who are the living then?

In God’s sight, “the living” are those who have received the remission of their sins by believing in the righteousness of the Lord and will therefore participate in the first resurrection of the Lord. The Lord has fulfilled the gospel of salvation with His water and the blood, and all who believe in this gospel have been freed from all their sins and brought back to life. And it’s these very people whom God had in mind when He spoke of “the living.” In other words, the Lord is the God of those who have received the remission of their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit (John 3:3-5). Just as God was the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, He now is the God of all who have received the remission of sins by believing in the righteousness of God. In short, the Lord is the God of those who have inherited this true faith.

Jesus Christ is God and the Savior, and we can be freed from all our sins and brought back to life by believing in this Lord. Jesus Christ is the forever living God. Because Jesus is the forever living God, whoever believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can always be saved perfectly. And all who are thus saved by faith are forever made God’s own people.

We should examine ourselves to see if this God is indeed alive in our hearts. Your heart must have faith to believe that Jesus Christ received all your past, present and furture sins at His baptism, carried the sins to the Cross, rose from the dead, ascended to Heaven, and is alive even now as the forever living God. I am sure that your spiritual life will benefit greatly if you can ensure that you have complete faith in this Truth this Easter.

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