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This week's question:

Although Jesus walked and lived under the Old Testament, He had an appointment that no one else could endure.

The first covenant, or the Old Testament, was fulfilled by all the prophecy by Him and it gave way to the second covenant, or the New Testament, "For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second." (Hebrews 8:7) "For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near." (Hebrews 10:1) "then He said, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.' He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." (Hebrews 10:9-10)

The covenant, just like a will, only becomes a legal document when the one who created it dies, "For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood." (Hebrews 9:16-18) "And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes the judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him." (Hebrews 9:27-28)

That brings us to our question, "Whose son did Jesus raise from the dead?" Jesus performs miracles to instill belief, not only for those who walked with Him, but these things have been preserved by God so by studying His word may recognize Him as the Christ to this day and to the end of this age (John 20:30-31). Jesus walked this earth with compassion and mercy upon those to whom it was due. As He walked towards the city of Nain with His disciples and a large multitude following Him (Luke 7:11), they are met by a funeral procession bearing a dead young man at the city gate (Luke 7:12).

Jesus, upon seeing the distress of the loved ones, feeling compassion, came up and touched the coffin and the bearers of it came to a halt. Then Jesus said to the dead young man, "Young man, I say to, arise!" (Luke 7:14) Not only did the young man who was just dead, arise, but he began to speak! Fear gripped all of the multitude, those with the funeral procession as well as those who were following Jesus into the city on that glorious day as they cried aloud, "'A great prophet has risen among us!' and, 'God has visited His people!'" (Luke 7:16). And indeed HE had, as word concerning Him went throughout Judea and into the surrounding districts (Luke 7:17).

But the one who was probably the happiest of the group, was the one whom Jesus told, "Do not weep." (Luke 7:13) This young man was the only son, a fatherless son of his mother who was mourning the loss of her child that would have been their for comfort and able to care for her in her elder years. But now her tears of sorrow have turned to tears of joy. The answer to our question then, is the mother of that young man, the widow, upon whom the Lord did show His love for her and a loss that was so great to bear, whose names remain with the Lord.

Let us remember the widows and orphans in their distress (James 1:27) on the earth this day, and show compassion and mercy, and in so doing, the Lord will be able to show compassion (Colossians 3:12) and mercy to us for life eternal.