1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:08,240 Do you know it to be true? Constant in season and out of 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,880 season. He never changes. 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,400 He never fails. There may be times in my 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,800 humanity that I may fail him, but I know one thing is for 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:25,000 certain. He is never going to fail me, I 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,760 tell you. When I when I hear that song, I 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,920 am reminded, I'm reminded that in the times in which I have 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,320 fallen short, I never have to wonder whether or not He did 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,400 because He is always constant. Amen. 10 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:44,160 Amen. The Lord is good tonight. 11 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,200 Thank you so much for the faithfulness to the House of the 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:58,250 Lord tonight. Turn your Bibles. 13 00:00:59,250 --> 00:01:02,200 To. John 11 and 35. 14 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,360 Some of your ears are already perking up. 15 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,120 Possibly a familiar passage. For you and. 16 00:01:21,980 --> 00:01:26,660 Thank Pastor and his wife and love and appreciate them and 17 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:30,620 hope they get home safely, get some rest from the weekend. 18 00:01:31,740 --> 00:01:37,880 And I'm so grateful for Bishop and his wife and and my parents, 19 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,840 brother and sister, Mason and my my lovely wife and daughter. 20 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,840 Love and appreciate all of them so very much. 21 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,680 You'll just have to bear with me tonight. 22 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,600 I have to be honest, as many of you know, I started a new job. 23 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,480 I'm on an information overload right now. 24 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:01,760 I'm just honestly just wiped. I am wiped, but I'm going to do 25 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,000 my best to. Preach the Word. 26 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:11,039 And let God take whatever he would have be done tonight, all 27 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:14,160 right? John, 1130. 28 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,040 Five, as Brother Mason said this morning. 29 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,280 Lengthy reading. Just bear with me, I don't want 30 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,520 you to stand too long. John, 1135. 31 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,640 Is Jesus wept. And that's all I'm going to read 32 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:33,320 right now, but. We are very familiar with this. 33 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,760 Passage of scripture. Many of us learn it as a memory 34 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,640 verse for fun because it's really easy to remember. 35 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,280 But I hope. Tonight that maybe we can take 36 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:46,240 a. Look at this. 37 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,360 And understand the the depth and breadth. 38 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,320 Of what's going. On tonight, I'm going to preach. 39 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,360 Tonight for a few. Moments between two passovers. 40 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,200 Between 2:00 Passovers. I wonder if you could sit? 41 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,920 Down your Bibles and lift your hands. 42 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,200 God, I ask you just to move in this place tonight. 43 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,280 You already here. You're already present. 44 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,680 We know, God, you are constant in season and out of season. 45 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,320 I ask you just to touch us tonight. 46 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,080 Lord, you were just to touch your servant, Lord, anointing 47 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,600 God and strength, Lord in my body, Lord, that whatever needs 48 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,640 to be spoken tonight to your people would do so, Lord. 49 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,200 And it would come forth, Lord, in the way that it would more 50 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,720 reach hearts and minds, Lord. It would place Lord in a as a 51 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,600 planting ground, Lord of your word. 52 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,760 It would place it on their hearts and minds. 53 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,360 Lord, if they don't need it tonight, maybe they need it some 54 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,640 other time to be reminded. Lord, I ask you just to move in 55 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,560 this place, touch your people tonight. 56 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,920 Lord, we going to thank you and praise you for it in the lovely 57 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,040 name of Jesus Christ and I pray and everybody say it. 58 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,680 Amen. Amen. 59 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,800 Look at your neighbor and say between 2:00. 60 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,600 Passovers. You may. 61 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,920 You may be seated. Tonight, so obviously to get 62 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,880 where we're going between two Passovers, and we started with 63 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,160 Jesus wept, we probably need a little more context. 64 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,040 So I understand that. And So what we're going to do is 65 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,520 we're going to go back a little bit in John 11 Chapter 11, we 66 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,640 have starting with verse one, we understand it says now a certain 67 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,800 man was sick named Lazarus of. Bethany in the town. 68 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,920 Of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which anointed 69 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,560 the Lord with. Ointment and wiped. 70 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,560 His feet with her hair. Whose brother Lazarus was sick. 71 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:41,080 Therefore his sister sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he 72 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,440 whom thou lovest the sick. And when Jesus heard that, he 73 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,040 said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, 74 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,040 that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 75 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,320 And so we have Lazarus, we have Mary and Martha, and these 76 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,720 people are Jesus's friends. You imagine, if you will, I've 77 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,600 taught this to the students a little bit before. 78 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,200 Imagine, if you will, your friend comes to you, You have 79 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,960 the power within yourself to heal the sick. 80 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,160 And you're one of your friends come to you and said, Hey, one 81 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,560 of your one of your friends is, is sick. 82 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,920 It's probably going to die. And you say it's fine, don't 83 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,960 worry about it. Well, there would probably be a 84 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,000 little bit of, I would say authority behind that 85 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,840 considering who is saying that. And for those that were hearing 86 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:32,480 that message, they're like, all right. 87 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,280 It's it's not into death. The glory of God well, there we 88 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,720 go Jesus said it that's what we're going to do we're going to 89 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:44,960 keep walking on by Lazarus going to be all right well Jesus 90 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,640 doesn't always mean literally what he says sometimes his 91 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,920 disciples got that some and and maybe an. 92 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,840 Aggravant at. Sometimes because the disciples 93 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:57,080 are just like. Jesus, what you saying? 94 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,760 Man, please help us, right? And so he's saying this to his 95 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,760 friends, and he's saying it's not unto death. 96 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,280 Glory of God. Well, it was, but not 97 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:10,360 necessarily what they may have thought. 98 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,160 And so we get to later down the chapter, verse 11, He's talking 99 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,200 to the disciples and he even says to them, he says, I'll tell 100 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,320 you plainly, he said, Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus is 101 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,720 dead. He's talking to the disciples 102 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,120 now. They're having a little group 103 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,200 huddle up here. And he said, I'm I'm glad for 104 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,760 your sakes, that I was not there to the intent that you may 105 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,640 believe. Nevertheless, let us go unto 106 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,640 him. The previously he was saying, 107 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,760 you know, he's after he had met with Mary and Martha, and he's 108 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,640 talking with them, and he says not unto death. 109 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,840 And then he goes on, and he's telling the disciples, my friend 110 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:47,720 Lazarus is asleep. And then to make it more plainly 111 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,160 again, because because the disciples were like, well. 112 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,800 What do you mean, Jesus, you know, Come on, get some. 113 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,760 Literal, literal worded verbiage out here. 114 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,400 And he says, he says, let me tell you plainly, it's Lazarus 115 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,400 is dead. And so he said, I'm glad for 116 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,880 your sakes that I wasn't there. What I what we look at that and 117 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,760 we see I would dare say that he's saying I'm glad as a friend 118 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,000 that I was not present there because I would have the urge to 119 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,280 take care of my friend before what needs to happen needs to 120 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,240 happen. He kept himself in check because 121 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,840 he knew if he was there and he saw his friend in this state 122 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:28,160 that there may have been a temptation of on Jesus's part to 123 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,040 do something that was not going to be for the benefit and the 124 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,840 glorification of the Son of God. But he said that this was going 125 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:38,920 to happen for the glory of God, that the Son of God. 126 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:43,000 Might be glorified. And so he continues in it and it 127 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,600 says, when he says Lazarus is dead, I, I am glad for your 128 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,200 sakes that I was not there. We get to verse 21 and it says, 129 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,760 And then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, 130 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,280 my brother had not died. But I know that even now 131 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,200 whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 132 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,120 There was there was faith already in Martha's voice. 133 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,520 There was some some faith arising in her. 134 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,760 She knows, she knows whatever you ask, I know that God will 135 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,320 give it to thee. And Jesus continues, he said 136 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,600 unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 137 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,520 And Martha had a little misunderstanding here because 138 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,080 she had no idea what was about to take place. 139 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,000 She said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the 140 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,400 resurrection at the last day. And Jesus is like, hold up, 141 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,720 you're not ready for what's. About to happen. 142 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:37,919 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life, that 143 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:42,919 he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. 144 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:47,120 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. 145 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:52,280 Believeth thou this he said, you hold up here for a second, 146 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,760 Martha, I want you to understand I am the resurrection. 147 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,880 He's he's basically telling he's I'm the sheriff around these 148 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,800 parts. All right, we're going to figure 149 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,520 this out. He said you just wait and see 150 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,600 what's going to happen because I'm the resurrection in the 151 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,720 life. And so what's going to happen 152 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,640 here is something you're not even thinking of. 153 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,200 You're thinking he's going to be resurrected in the last day and 154 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,760 that's great and you'll be able to see him on the other side. 155 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,560 But here's another thing that's going to happen because I'm the 156 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:20,280 resurrection. And so we get to verse 32, two 157 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,720 of our passage here right before verse 35. 158 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,480 And it says, And when Mary, Mary's coming, now Mary was come 159 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,440 where Jesus was, and saw him, She fell down at his feet, 160 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,680 saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had 161 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:40,280 not died. And when Jesus therefore saw her 162 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,600 weeping, and the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he 163 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,880 groaned in the Spirit and was troubled, and said, Where have 164 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,480 you laid him? And they said unto him, Lord 165 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,720 come see and that's when we get to our verse 35. 166 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:59,920 It says and Jesus wept. We look at this 2 words for one 167 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,520 verse, one of the shortest verses in the Bible. 168 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:07,040 But we we have to understand not understand the letting the size 169 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,280 fool us regarding the weight of this verse. 170 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:15,360 See Jesus God robed in flesh. He stood there, he stood there 171 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,920 at the tomb of his friend and he wept. 172 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,360 Why? What we would look sat in and 173 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,160 say, well, this is Jesus's humanity. 174 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,760 He is weeping and grieving his friend. 175 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,560 He is taking time. He is feeling the sting of loss 176 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,000 and his humanity. He's feeling the heartbreak of 177 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,680 those even around him and says the Jews, Mary and Martha were 178 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:37,320 weeping, understandably so. He is taking time for grief and 179 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,720 pain and sorrow and the heaviness of death, letting it 180 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,600 sit there for a minute, even though knowing He is about to do 181 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:50,080 an absolute reverse of it. That is the Jesus that we serve. 182 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,840 We have to understand that He is not a distant God. 183 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,560 He is not an emotionless Savior, but He is the one who weeps with 184 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,560 us. Even he, the writer of Hebrews 185 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,480 talks about in Hebrews 4 and 15, says before, we have not a high 186 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,240 priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our 187 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,800 infirmities. Jesus was fully God, yes, but He 188 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,840 was also fully man. And so understanding in that 189 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,680 moment, He is allowing His humanity to mourn. 190 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,000 And I believe Jesus, Jesus didn't just see a tomb where his 191 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,440 friend was laid for a few days, but he was seeing a timeline, if 192 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,040 you will, in his humanity. He may have been grieving, but I 193 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,640 believe in his divinity. He was seeing something 194 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,240 different. John 11 wasn't just a miracle, 195 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,800 it was a moment. It was a stop, stop moment, a 196 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,280 shift in spiritual atmosphere. And from this point forward, the 197 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,560 countdown to the cross had begun. 198 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,200 Raising Lazarus was the one of the final and most It was the 199 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,040 most public miracle that Jesus had ever done. 200 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,960 And he had open blind eyes. Yes, he had healed lepers. 201 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:04,120 Yes, He calmed the storms, fed and preached to thousands. 202 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,720 But this miracle, it was different. 203 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,200 It wasn't quiet. It wasn't in a house or on a 204 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,280 remote hillside where he was preaching. 205 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,840 It was loud. It was public and it was 206 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,200 undeniable. There was nothing that he could 207 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,880 deny after this. There was nothing that he could 208 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,880 deny regarding the raising of the dead. 209 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,920 That was something that was going to spread like wildfire. 210 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,560 It didn't matter how many people were there, Just so happened 211 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:32,080 that there were plenty of people around to witness it though. 212 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,280 And so that miracle raising Lazarus was reserving his spot, 213 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:41,240 so to speak, on the cross. Those religious leaders had 214 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,600 tolerated him up to that point. They debated him. 215 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,400 They watched him trying to trap him in any way in shape and form 216 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,800 that they could do. But when he lays raised Lazarus, 217 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,080 they said that's it. He is too dangerous to keep 218 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,160 around. And then John 1153, later in 219 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,400 this chapter, it even says from that day forth they took counsel 220 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:07,040 for to put Him to death. He knew this would happen. 221 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,000 He knew what this miracle would cost him. 222 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,880 And in that moment He may have wept, but He did the miracle 223 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,640 anyway. So when Jesus stood outside that 224 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,960 tomb and wept, it wasn't just about a plane of death. 225 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,880 It was about the pain of what was coming in His humanity. 226 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,960 He felt the weight of what was coming, but in in what was 227 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,480 there. But in His spirit, He was 228 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,560 already surrendered to it because He knew that this was 229 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:35,600 the reason that He came here in the first place. 230 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,920 Everything Jesus had done up to this point was leading here. 231 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,920 Every message He had preached, every disciple that he and had 232 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,760 mentored, every miracle that He ended up performing, every 233 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,600 moment of his ministry and life was building to this moment 234 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,600 towards the cross. He was always walking towards 235 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:01,680 Calvary. Always the timing that this is 236 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:04,240 all taking place was not an accident either. 237 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,160 If we observe the time that Scripture is stating that this 238 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,720 is all that's happening. There is another significance 239 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,080 that comes with that because you see the the raising of Lazarus 240 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,720 from the grave was just a few weeks to at most a month or two 241 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,920 before the Passover season. When Jesus stood at Lazarus's 242 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,480 tomb, he wasn't just looking at death, He was standing between 243 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:34,160 two Passover's. John 1154 says Jesus therefore 244 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,920 walked no more openly among the Jews. 245 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:42,200 He went, he went away and says, but went Vince unto the country, 246 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:47,400 near to the wilderness, unto into a city called Iprim, and 247 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,720 there continued with his disciples and the Jews. 248 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:56,040 Passover was nigh at hand, and many went out of the countryside 249 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,520 up into Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. 250 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,920 And so Jesus is going quiet publicly after this miracle. 251 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,720 He's going quiet after the events of this. 252 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,120 He is preparing for Passover week. 253 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,760 Other people prepared for Passover week, sure, but this 254 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,720 was a different preparation. Let me remind you that Jesus's 255 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,880 death did not come at any regular week. 256 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,360 Then the Last Supper was more than just a farewell meal. 257 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,480 Jesus was not moving towards any, just any death on any day 258 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,600 on the calendar. He was coming upon Passover. 259 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,560 The same feast that celebrated the deliverance in Egypt was 260 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:39,040 just about to become the setting for the greatest deliverance of 261 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,760 the world had ever and will ever known. 262 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,360 And so if we can, let's go back to Exodus for a moment and take 263 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,480 a look at what that may mean for us in Egypt. 264 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:53,720 God sent plague after plague to convince Pharaoh to let his 265 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,600 people go, but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and so God sent one 266 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,040 final plague. And Exodus 11 verse four and 267 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,360 five it says. And Moses said, Thus saith the 268 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:10,040 Lord, about midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt, and 269 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,960 all the first born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the 270 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,120 first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even 271 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,560 unto the first born of the maidservant, that is behind the 272 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,320 mill, and all the 1st born of beasts. 273 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,360 It was the death of the first born sons that ended up breaking 274 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:33,560 the chains and it was the only way for Israel to be spared by 275 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,960 was by taking the blood of a spotless lamb and placing it 276 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,880 over their doors, their doorpost. 277 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:46,160 And when that Angel, that death Angel saw the blood he passed 278 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:51,400 over that house, the blood ended up saving him them. 279 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:57,040 And in that same way, during that exact week of remembrance, 280 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:03,040 God is offering his only begotten son, the first born on 281 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,680 a cross. It wasn't his. 282 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,599 It was his death that broke the sayings. 283 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,720 It was his blood that spared our judgment that there would be a 284 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:18,480 Passover on our sins. Just like in Egypt, that death 285 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,720 of the first born brought freedom to the people. 286 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:23,079 But this was a different freedom. 287 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:26,160 This was an eternal opportunity of freedom. 288 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,000 And Egypt. A father would take a lamb, 289 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:34,120 inspected, make sure that it had no blemish, and then that same 290 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:39,440 lamb would end up dying in place of the first born of it's his 291 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,640 children. At this place, At this first 292 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,080 Passover, that lamb died, so the first born could live. 293 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,680 At this final Passover, if you will, the first born became the 294 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:59,720 lamb and died so we could live. It wasn't a coincidence that 295 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,440 this happened. It was not. 296 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,640 It was a prophecy that was fulfilled in First Corinthians 5 297 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,760 and seven. Paul even says for even Christ 298 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,840 our Passover is sacrifice for us. 299 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,600 So yes, I would dare say yes, he wept for Lazarus in that moment 300 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,960 and yes he wept for what was coming. 301 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,040 But I I have to think and believe in his divinity that he 302 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,360 is his divine nature. He saw the Old Testament 303 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:33,400 Passover to the New Testament Passover, and He wept for you 304 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,120 and He wept for me. He saw us. 305 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,360 He saw us in our pain and in our sin. 306 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,800 And He's standing there at the tomb, knowing what He's about to 307 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:50,080 do from this season of life in between two Passovers, and 308 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,880 knowing that there is about to take place in these moments of 309 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,360 confusion that we have had an addiction and heartbreak and 310 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:00,920 shame. He saw us in that moment and He 311 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,560 decided I'm going to move forward. 312 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,840 That private pain that no one else would know. 313 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,000 The habits that we hide, The wounds that we carry. 314 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,560 The guilt that we drag behind us. 315 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,440 The nights that we cry alone. The days that we question our 316 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,080 worth. The moments that we feel so far 317 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,160 from God. And He still chose the cross. 318 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,080 He wept, but He did not walk away. 319 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,240 He took a moment because we were worth it. 320 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,640 He understood what needed to happen. 321 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,720 It wasn't done when we were perfect. 322 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:43,680 It wasn't done when we had it all together. 323 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:49,240 It was done while we were still yet dead in sin. 324 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:55,320 He raised us to life, just like He did with Lazarus. 325 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,320 That's right. It was no coincidence that it 326 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:04,560 happened during Passover week. It was no coincidence that there 327 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:09,400 was a lamb that was sacrificed. It was just a different lamb 328 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,080 than what we we knew it to be beforehand. 329 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,280 The cross was not a mistake. It was not a Plan B. 330 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,480 It wasn't the result of failure. It was it was the plan from the 331 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,960 beginning, the land slain from the foundation of the earth. 332 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,520 He died, but he didn't stay dead. 333 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,040 On that third day when the stole rolled away, the tears ended up 334 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:39,120 stopping, maybe some tears of joy, but the tears were stopped 335 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:44,960 because the tomb was empty. And now death has no sting, the 336 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,880 grave has no victory, because Jesus wept. 337 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:55,840 He went on with the plan and he died and he rose. 338 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:02,880 We have to understand that there is such a weight that is carried 339 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:08,840 when we understand the worth that was placed on our lives, to 340 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,080 understand that God gave His only begotten Son. 341 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:19,480 God robed Himself in flesh just for you and just for me to come 342 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:26,360 and do that and give the life that was given, the spotless 343 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:30,400 life that was given the worth of that life compared to what we 344 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,480 would consider the worth of our lives. 345 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,200 And yet He still deemed us worthy. 346 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,160 He still looked in between those two Passover, the Old Testament 347 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,400 Passover and the New Testament Passover to come. 348 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,560 And he said, I'm doing this because I love you. 349 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:49,480 I love you. I love. 350 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,880 He looked through the eons of time and he said, I love you. 351 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,960 He's even said on the cross, forgive them for they know not 352 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,760 what you they do. And that wasn't, I don't believe 353 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,400 that was just for that moment. That was for the fact of what we 354 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:09,800 do, because every single time I take I take sin into account and 355 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:14,160 I do evil in God's sight. I might as well have been the 1 356 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,600 putting the nails in his hand, in his arms, and in his legs. 357 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,240 I might as well been the one with the catanine tails and 358 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:26,120 striking him, because that is exactly what we do when we sin, 359 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:31,120 because He put a place and a currency on our lives that we 360 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:33,480 could never repay. But we don't have to repay. 361 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,880 The debt has been paid. We don't have to worry about 362 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:43,920 owing anything. Music could come. 363 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,640 I don't know what grave you have made peace with. 364 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,200 I don't know. I don't know what part of your 365 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,480 life that has been wrapped up in in grave clothes so long that 366 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,120 you've you've decided it could never change. 367 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,520 But I'm telling you that the same voice that called Lazarus 368 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:07,560 to come forth can call us out of the darkness into his marvelous. 369 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,960 Light. He wept for you, He wept for me, 370 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,520 He wept for everyone. He died and rose for us. 371 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,200 He placed that currency on our life that we could never repay 372 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,800 and he's not asking us to. But he what are we going to do 373 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,400 with the worth that he placed on our life? 374 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,600 What are we going to do with the currency that we have been 375 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,040 bestowed the the credit, if you will, that has been bestowed 376 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,520 upon us, if we will stand. These altars are open tonight. 377 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:41,680 I ask that you would consider, if you will, the weight of what 378 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:49,160 he did and consider the fact that he was thinking of me. 379 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,160 I think of the song that we sing times and, and this bridge is 380 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,480 so, so powerful and it's is he took my place. 381 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:05,480 It should have been me. He took my place. 382 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:11,680 It should have been me. Oh, it should have been us 383 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,680 there. It should have been us hanging 384 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:20,400 on a cross and dying a death. But he placed the currency on 385 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,320 your life and he said, no, I'm going to take that place. 386 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,120 I'm going to take that, and I'm going to make it into something 387 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:32,720 beautiful for an opportunity for death to have no sting and sin 388 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,520 to have no weight. God is looking down and calling 389 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,680 you out, calling you. Come forth. 390 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,080 Lazarus didn't just raise himself. 391 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:48,040 We have to understand that. Lazarus responded to a voice and 392 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,640 that same voice calls us. So the only question tonight 393 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,280 that we have to consider with ourselves is Jesus can bring you 394 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,680 out. We know that. 395 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,920 But because when he became our Passover, He already did so. 396 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,000 But the question we have to wonder is when? 397 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:11,080 When he calls us out of the grave, what are we going to do? 398 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,280 What are we going to do? Because he already paid the 399 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,800 price by becoming our eternal Passover. 400 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:24,280 Oh God, could we raise our hands right now? 401 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,040 Oh Jesus, you are good. You are great and greatly to be 402 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,800 praised. God, I want to take Lord, the 403 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,880 price, Lord, and the credit that you've given on my life that 404 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,360 you've placed the the value that you've placed on my life. 405 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:43,120 Lord, I don't want to waste it. I don't want it to be something 406 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:47,640 that I walk away from. Lord, I want to come forth out 407 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,640 of the grave and give of myself because you so freely gave. 408 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,280 You looked at me and my sin. You looked at me when I was 409 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:03,120 dirty and you said, I choose you through the sickness, through 410 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:08,280 the shame, through the, through the sin that was all around us. 411 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,000 You still saw us and you still chose to do so. 412 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,360 Oh, by becoming our eternal Passover Lord. 413 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,840 I'm thankful, Lord, for the the value that you placed, Lord, and 414 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,240 I just want to do the due diligence of giving of myself, 415 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,200 giving of myself unto you.