No Funeral Today

January 2, 2012

We have resurrection power because we have Jesus. Louie Giglio explores how we can go from death to life in Jesus through Luke 7:11-17.

Scripture References

8Yes,

Lord

, walking in the way of your laws,

we wait for you;

your name and renown

are the desire of our hearts.

11Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him.

12As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

13When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said,

“Don’t cry.”

14Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said,

“Young man, I say to you, get up!”

15The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

16They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.”

17This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.

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

1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

9not by works, so that no one can boast.

14This is why it is said:

“Wake up, sleeper,

rise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you.”

Louie Giglio

Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.