I think it is time to lay a bomb to the “free-willers” and those that believe “faith in Jesus precedes salvation/born again.”
The Lord Jesus, by His command, enabled Lazarus to come forth out of the tomb: however, even after having been given life, Lazarus had the option of saying, "I am comfortable here resting, I don't want to get up and walk out of this tomb, I prefer to "go back to sleep".
In such an instance, Lazarus might have gone back to sleep and would have slipped back into death.
There was a crossing point in the situation where Lazarus was half-dead and half-alive...He was enabled to get up and walk out of the tomb to the Lord Jesus, but he had the option of going back to sleep.
This is why I say that the Father drawing a man to Jesus is different from the Father giving a man to Jesus.
When the Father draws a man, he is enabled to make a solid and unhindered decision either for or against Christ.
If or when a man makes that decision, FOR CHRIST, it is that point that was foreknown by the Lord in which the Father gave that man to Christ, from the perspective of time and eternity.
So then, Jesus saying, "Lazarus come forth" was like the Father drawing a man to Christ. Lazarus actually coming forth was like the Father giving Lazarus to Christ, in which Lazarus, laying dead in the grave, made a decision to actually get up and walk out of the grave. Jesus did not move his legs for him.
Much like when the man lame at the pool of Bethesda was told by Jesus to pick up his mat and walk, and his obedience to Jesus' command provided for his healing. Or, when Jesus told the man with the withered hand, "stretch forth thine hand" and his action of stretching it forth was his act of faith by which he appropriated his healing. Or, in the case then Jesus said to Peter to come out to him, walking on the water. If Peter had not actually done the walking, he would have never walked on water. But he was enabled to do so by the Lord's power.
In all three of these instances the Lord told them to do something that was basically impossible to them; and when they believed that they could do it, they found themselves able.
Lazarus had/has an immortal soul. His soul heard the command of Jesus within the tomb and he responded with faith.
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