1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,900 We appreciate so very much those of you that made the effort to 2 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:07,100 be with us and as always is the case, I do consider it an honor 3 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:09,000 to speak concerning the word of God. 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,900 And that is the case today, my hope and my prayer is, as I've 5 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:17,600 mentioned in lessons passed on this series of the 7, I am 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,400 statements that Jesus made in The Gospel according to John, My 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,500 Hope and my prayer is that you will leave this series with a 8 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:29,200 thought in your mind and a greater appreciation for Jesus. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,300 That maybe that you've had in the past, Jesus said these great 10 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:36,900 remarkable things so long ago and they're so filled with 11 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:41,300 meaning and so filled with meat, When we already talked about, 12 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:44,900 when Jesus says, I am the bread of life, then he said, I am the 13 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:48,700 light of the world and he said, I am the door or the gate, then 14 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:52,500 he said, I am the Good Shepherd. And now, the fifth one of those 15 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:56,300 seven, I am statements. Jesus said, I am the 16 00:00:56,300 --> 00:01:01,300 resurrection and the life. Our text is found in John 17 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:04,500 chapter 11 and beginning there in verse 25. 18 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,300 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,500 He who believes in me, though. He may die. 20 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,600 He shall live and whoever lives and Believes In Me, shall never 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,300 die. And then Jesus says, do you 22 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:23,400 believe this is a very thrilling chapter? 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,000 It's a great story. When Jesus raised Lazarus from 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,000 the dead and may I just say this miracle was strategic into 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 waves. Number one, it was strategic in 26 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,300 the time that Jesus performed it. 27 00:01:37,300 --> 00:01:39,800 And number two, it was strategic. 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,700 In the place that he raised Lazarus from the dead amazingly. 29 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:48,500 This is the last public miracle that Jesus performs. 30 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:52,300 Now, I said that we would get to these strategic part in here, is 31 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:56,300 what I mean by that, the miracle happens just before the 32 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,400 Passover, and there were many people that were traveling, for 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,600 example, along that rough and rocky road on that Jericho Road 34 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,900 from Jericho to Jerusalem. This miracle happens. 35 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:09,800 And Jesus raises, this man from the dead. 36 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:15,000 Dead in a place called Bethany and Bethany was about two miles 37 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,700 east of Jerusalem. So picture it like this, it's 38 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:22,500 Passover time, and you've got all these pilgrims as a scholar 39 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:25,200 says, and they're going along to Jerusalem. 40 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,000 The point is this, there's no way to doubt that Jesus actually 41 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 raised him from the dead and everybody that passed by would 42 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,400 have known the story inside and out and there was no denying it. 43 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:42,500 Amazing, strategic time and place. 44 00:02:43,100 --> 00:02:46,100 I think it also strengthened the faith of the disciples. 45 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:50,400 You remember when Jesus said to his disciples over and over 46 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,200 again, he said I'm going to die and on the third day, I'm going 47 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,500 to rise again. You know, I don't understand why 48 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:01,000 they didn't understand that, I don't really get that. 49 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:03,800 There was one occasion. For example, when Jesus says I'm 50 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,100 going to die and on the third day, I'm going to raise again. 51 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:09,600 And one of them said, ask him what he means by That because 52 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,400 they didn't get it. Just maybe this particular 53 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,600 miracle was designed in the very presence of his disciples to 54 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,200 increase their faith, showing the possibility of such a 55 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,700 resurrection because it was an actual picture of what would 56 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:28,600 happen with. Jesus Lazarus was dead and four 57 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,900 days later he rose again. Jesus was dead and three days 58 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:38,300 later he rose again. All right, in addition to all 59 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:42,600 this, this is certainly a Monumental widespread evidence 60 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,100 of his deity. Jesus says this, he said to her, 61 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:51,200 I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me, 62 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,200 excuse me, though. He may die. 63 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,200 He shall live and whoever lives and Believes In Me shall never 64 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:58,900 die. Then he said, this very 65 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:04,200 important. He said, Do you believe this 66 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:09,600 Believing that Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life 67 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,100 was aided by this great miracle and I think that's the reason 68 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:15,400 there's so much detail that's given here. 69 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,899 The focus is to demonstrate that. 70 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:20,600 Jesus is the resurrection and the life. 71 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,400 And he's also the Christ that came to save the world. 72 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,800 He is the Son of God, and believing in him, brings 73 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,900 Everlasting joy in heaven. And isn't that the point of the 74 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:35,100 Gospel of John in John chapter 20, beginning there? 75 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:39,700 30 and truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of 76 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:43,300 his disciples which are not written in this book. 77 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,700 But these are written that, you may believe that Jesus is the 78 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:51,200 Christ, the son of God, and that believing, you may have life in 79 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,200 his name. You know, Jesus. 80 00:04:56,700 --> 00:05:02,300 Is our Lord and our savior. Right now. 81 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:08,100 We long for the second coming of Jesus. 82 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,600 But when Jesus comes back, he won't be the Savior anymore. 83 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,800 He will be the judge number one and guess what? 84 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:18,900 He'll also be the one to raise the Dead. 85 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:22,500 Right now, he's the Savior. That's why we have to take 86 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:26,000 advantage of what the gospel tells us to do in obedience to 87 00:05:26,008 --> 00:05:27,100 it. So we can go to heaven. 88 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:28,700 That's why we do it in this life. 89 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:30,900 He's the Savior. Now, one day though, he'll be 90 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:35,100 the judge and secondly, he will be the one to raise the dead. 91 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:38,000 And why? Because he is the resurrection 92 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,800 and the life. And, you know, Jesus did not say 93 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,300 I do this. He says, I am this. 94 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:51,100 Remember when Jesus says, I am in all these instances, he is 95 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:57,800 saying I am deity. He's saying I am God You know, 96 00:05:57,808 --> 00:06:00,200 there's many things that are attributed to God. 97 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:02,700 God is love. God is peace. 98 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:06,100 God is many other things. They are attributes of his 99 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:07,600 character. They are part of him. 100 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,800 Same with Jesus. Jesus is the resurrection and he 101 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,900 is the life. You know, there were a couple 102 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:21,000 other occasions where Jesus raise somebody from the dead. 103 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,200 This miracle of Jesus. Raising Lazarus is so much more 104 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,000 significant and amazing, and I don't think anything in the 105 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,800 Bible is an accident. Really don't? 106 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:33,500 There's no denying the resurrection of Lazarus, but 107 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:35,600 let's back up. Remember that time when Jesus 108 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,900 raised the daughter of a man by the name of gyrus or Jairus, 109 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:44,700 however, you want to pronounce that and that man had a daughter 110 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:49,400 and she died and Jesus appears on the scene shortly after she's 111 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,900 dead. Now Jairus was the official from 112 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:58,300 the local synagogue and Jesus raises this young girl from the 113 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:01,400 dead. Now, there's no way back then 114 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:04,100 they didn't have any way to tell clinically. 115 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:07,000 If somebody was dead, there was nothing there wasn't an EEG, 116 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,400 there wasn't an EKG, they had no test to determine the heart 117 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,300 function and the brain function. So it's quite possible when 118 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:18,000 somebody died and was raised from the dead. 119 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,200 By Jesus, somebody might have said, no. 120 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:24,000 No, he didn't raise him from the dead, it was just some kind of a 121 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:29,100 swoon. And you know, that means a swoon 122 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:35,200 is to faint because of extreme stress or emotion and did you 123 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,000 know this? That people actually believe 124 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,800 that people would do that. And many people that were raised 125 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,000 from the dead in the Bible. People would try to explain it 126 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,800 away for that and the greatest one of all when Jesus rose from 127 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,200 the dead over the history of time, there have been seven, 128 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:56,300 things, 7 theories, that man has come up with to try to Jesus was 129 00:07:56,300 --> 00:08:00,200 not resurrected from the dead. I think it's easiest to read it. 130 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:03,700 He died on the third day. He rose from the dead, that's 131 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,500 good enough for me. But, you know, one of those 132 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:09,700 theories, one of those seven theories, it was called the 133 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:14,600 Swoon Theory and they said this Jesus never was resurrected from 134 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,700 the dead because Jesus wasn't dead at all. 135 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,300 He just was under some kind of swoon. 136 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,400 What else? There was another time. 137 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,200 To remember the Widow, they had the son. 138 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:33,400 And the funeral procession was moving along and Jesus stops the 139 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,900 procession. And he raises the young man from 140 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:39,200 the dead. Somebody might say, well you 141 00:08:39,208 --> 00:08:41,400 know what? No, he was just resuscitated 142 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,900 from a temporary condition, he didn't die. 143 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:46,600 All that being said, that's now behind us. 144 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,700 Let's talk about Lazarus. That is absolutely impossible 145 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,800 when we talk about Lazarus because Lazarus had been dead 146 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:00,200 for four days in John chapter 1 beginning in verse 1, in the 147 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:07,600 beginning was the word actually. We Skip One Okay, we skip, the 148 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:12,000 passage John 11:17. So when Jesus came, he found 149 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,600 that he had already been in the Tomb for four days. 150 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,700 I did a little research this week. 151 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:25,900 Of what happens to an uninvolved body in 72 hours. 152 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:28,200 I don't mean to be morbid, but this is so important to 153 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,800 understand the setting and understanding what Jesus did in 154 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,800 the magnet and how he agreed. It was in 72 hours. 155 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,200 This is what happens to the body. 156 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:42,400 I say uninvolved because the Jews did not embalm bodies. 157 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,000 They would actually take the body and they would wrap the 158 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,500 body and they would take those fragrant spices and they would 159 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:50,400 wrap the body up in those spices. 160 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:53,600 All that would do, it didn't slow down decomposition. 161 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:57,100 It just took the smell away a little bit. 162 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,300 This is, by the way, what happens in 72 hours. 163 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:06,200 So we're going to say 96 hours is when Jesus comes on the 164 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,900 scene. The heart has stopped beating. 165 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,300 The body's cells are then deprived of oxygen and they 166 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:19,500 begin to die blood drains from throughout the circulatory 167 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:21,600 system and pools in the lower places. 168 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:26,100 Muscles began to stiffen. In what is known commonly by the 169 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:32,600 Latin rigor mortis that sets in after 3 hours by 24 hours, the 170 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,800 body has lost all of its heat. The muscles that lose their 171 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:42,100 rigor in 36 hours. And by 72 hours rigor mortis has 172 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:45,000 vanished. All stiffness is gone and the 173 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,900 body is soft as cells. Begin to die. 174 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:51,300 Bacteria, goes to work, the bacteria in the body of a dead 175 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,900 person. Can do attack breaking the cells 176 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:58,600 down. The decomposing tissue takes on 177 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,600 a horrific look and smell and emits, green liquids by the 178 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,900 72nd. Our the tissue releases, 179 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:10,400 hydrogen sulfide and methane, as well as other gases and 180 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,900 obviously, a horrible smell is emitted. 181 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:20,400 I'm not trying to be gross. I'm just trying to set the tone 182 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,000 of the picture, because guess what? 183 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:26,500 Meet Lazarus he'd been in the grave for four days. 184 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,000 This is what the condition of his body would have been. 185 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,700 And that's why in verse 39, remember, we're going to get to 186 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:36,700 this at the end but in verse 39, when Jesus says, take away the 187 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,300 stone when he's going to raise Lazarus from the dead, remember 188 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:44,900 what Martha said? Oh, she says, but it's been four 189 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:48,200 days and he, there is a, the new King James says, there is a 190 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,800 stench. The King James says he already 191 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:56,200 stinketh You know why? Because this process had 192 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,700 happened in his unon bombed body. 193 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:06,500 Now people lived with death, we talked about funerals today. 194 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:10,000 I got to thinking about this. What are the funerals like 195 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,500 today? Something like this when 196 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:16,600 somebody passes away, their body is in bombed and they put on 197 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,600 their Sunday Best and they're the guest of honor. 198 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,300 And we all come together and we mourn their passing, we 199 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:25,000 celebrate their life, we say things about them, and a funeral 200 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,900 service, perhaps 30 minutes, 45 minutes an hour. 201 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,800 Then we kind of pack on up and we get a caravan and we go to 202 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,700 the cemetery and we stand there and we say a couple of things 203 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:38,300 and if it's like me, I talk about the resurrection. 204 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:41,400 This is not the end have a prayer and then we go to usually 205 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,500 somebody's house and we have a little meal and we visit a while 206 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:49,800 and then everybody goes away. And the family is left. 207 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,200 That's not the way they had funerals back then. 208 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,700 Let me suggest some things to you about that. 209 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,000 Historically. This is what they were like when 210 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,700 somebody died. Everybody that knew them poured 211 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:07,500 into their life. There were neighbors, there were 212 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:09,400 family members, there were friends. 213 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:12,900 Even people, I read that they didn't even know strangers would 214 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:18,300 pour into their home. They would get the group of 215 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:22,000 people. And they would walk toward the 216 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,300 place that they would bury that person. 217 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,400 You know, there's so many people that came into their life, maybe 218 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,500 they were a very prominent family here, they came to 219 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:34,700 console them, that's what they did. 220 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:39,600 And they came to comfort them. In fact, in John chapter 11 and 221 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,400 verse 19. And many of the Jews had joined 222 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:46,600 the women around Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning, 223 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,700 their brother. What they did was this when 224 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:53,700 somebody died, they buried them immediately. 225 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,100 And there would be a procession from the house that I just told 226 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:00,400 you everybody pour into their into their life into their 227 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,100 house. They get to the place where they 228 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:06,900 were buried the person. You know, burial back. 229 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:08,600 Then was a little bit different. Many times. 230 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,100 They were buried in caves. In fact, I read historically 231 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:15,700 that many people in the ancient world around the Mediterranean 232 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:18,400 were buried in caves. There will be an open cave and 233 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,100 inside, there would be like a shelf and they would take that 234 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:24,800 body that they have wrapped up with those fragrant spices and 235 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,300 place the body on the Shelf, that's what would have happened. 236 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,800 Then the stone was there. So no animal could come in and 237 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,000 do something to the body, and they be protected. 238 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,400 There and then the entire procession would go back to the 239 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,600 house. I read, they never ate a thing 240 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:47,200 until the body was buried. They didn't want any form of 241 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,400 levity. No joy, no x, no happiness at 242 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,100 all. They didn't want any form of 243 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:58,600 normalcy at all, while they went through this process. 244 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,800 The funeral process took seven days. 245 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:08,600 That was the initial part. Finally, they would serve a meal 246 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,500 after they buried the body in the meal would be of bread, 247 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:16,000 hard-boiled, eggs, and lentils. And this would be things that 248 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,600 they would have and some people would bring food to sustain 249 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,000 them. All those, mourners that would 250 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,500 be there for 7 days and while they mourned, they wailed out 251 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:29,800 loud. By the way, when I kick off, 252 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:35,100 don't do this. They wailed loud. 253 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:39,500 Audible sounds It was I read this. 254 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:42,800 It was led by the women, and the sounds would be like piercing 255 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,900 screams. They would hire professional 256 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:50,600 mourners to and the professional mourners would come into their 257 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,000 midst and they would stay for those seven days, they would 258 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,600 lead the people in wailing and mourning. 259 00:15:57,300 --> 00:16:00,900 They did that because they felt like that was comforting to the 260 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:04,400 family. After seven days, the intense 261 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,500 wailing would subside. But then the funeral went on for 262 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:12,600 another 30 days, and 30 days of mourning would bring in eulogies 263 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,100 and remembrances and words of comfort. 264 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:19,100 All that all that happens when somebody died. 265 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:26,100 But in verses, 20 and 21. Now Martha, as soon as she heard 266 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:30,500 that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary was 267 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:34,800 sitting in the house and she says, and says to Jesus, Lord, 268 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,700 if you had been here, my brother had not died. 269 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:41,900 All right. No doubt that she believed in 270 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:44,700 the healing power of Jesus. She knew that Jesus healed 271 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,800 strangers. Here's the point though. 272 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:49,200 Don't you kind of see what she's saying is? 273 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,400 I know that you've healed strangers and if you would have 274 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,800 been here, certainly you If he old Lazarus because you loved 275 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,000 him. So in fact, in verse 3, that's 276 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,300 exactly what they said of Jesus. The one who you love. 277 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:07,400 So this remark of Martha shows her faith in Jesus and the 278 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,500 feeling of friendship that was based upon it in verse 22. 279 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,599 But even now, I know that whatever you ask of God, God 280 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:21,400 will give it to you. You know nothing shook her 281 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:27,400 faith, when Lazarus died, But she recognized something very 282 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,600 significant and I think we all need to get this. 283 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:37,500 Things are together. When it comes to Jesus and God, 284 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:41,500 they go together. She knew this first. 285 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:44,500 She said, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 286 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:50,400 They just as, but I know this if it's God's will He'll give you 287 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:55,800 anything that you ask. The Joint Wills of Jesus Christ 288 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:58,800 and God. They go together and Jesus says 289 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,600 this, he said your brother will rise again, you know, this 290 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,600 statement was so indefinite. It didn't satisfy The Sorrowing 291 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,100 sister, but Jesus Took the plan of introducing a very important 292 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:12,600 subject. Jesus. 293 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,200 Martha says this back to Jesus. Martha said to him, I know that 294 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,300 he will rise again, in the resurrection of the last day. 295 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:24,400 How did she know that? Before I noticed a passage with 296 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:29,000 you remember, Luke chapter 10. you remember when Jesus came 297 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,500 over to Mary and Martha's house Very familiar story. 298 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,600 Martha's doing the serving. You know, some people are really 299 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:42,200 big servers their acts of service people and they really 300 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,200 demonstrate that. And that's how they feel. 301 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,600 That's how they demonstrate their love and their service is 302 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,800 by waiting on others and doing such things like that, we call 303 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,500 that acts of service. So picture this there in the 304 00:18:54,508 --> 00:18:57,200 house and guess what, very important guest. 305 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,900 His name is Jesus and he got Mary and Martha there. 306 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,800 What's Martha doing? She's working. 307 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,800 Self to death back and forth serving and she looks over there 308 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,100 and there's Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus and she's 309 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:12,000 disgusted and she says to Jesus, does it mean nothing to you? 310 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,700 Is it okay with you that she's doing nothing to help me serve. 311 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,600 And Jesus says get this Martha Martha. 312 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,900 You know, it's one thing when somebody says your name, it's 313 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:25,800 another thing. When they say your name twice, 314 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,900 Usually, as a kid, when they say your full name, your usually in 315 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:33,500 trouble. I remember Mother's Day, Frank 316 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,600 brancato I know I was in trouble. 317 00:19:36,900 --> 00:19:40,700 When they say your whole name, he says, Martha Martha. 318 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:44,300 You are troubled and worried about so many things. 319 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:48,000 So many things are troubling. You, but Mary understands. 320 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,600 There's one thing that's important. 321 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,100 It's the good thing she has chosen the good thing listening 322 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:57,000 to Jesus listening to what Jesus has to say being blessed in that 323 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,800 occasion. And he said and that will not be 324 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,800 taken from her, that's the good thing. 325 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:04,900 All right, this is Mary and Martha. 326 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:08,200 They're sisters. So, how would they have known? 327 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,800 Well, as they sat and listened to Jesus, their dear friend. 328 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:16,800 Jesus said this in John chapter 5, beginning in verse 27, and 329 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,900 has given him authority to execute judgment also, because 330 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:24,300 he is the son of man, do not Marvel at this. 331 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,000 For the hour is coming in the, which all that are in the 332 00:20:27,008 --> 00:20:29,900 graves. Will hear his voice and come 333 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:33,600 forth those that have done good unto the resurrection of life 334 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,300 and those that have done evil to the resurrection, Resurrection 335 00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:42,700 of damnation or condemnation. our Lord says to Martha, she 336 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:46,700 says, I know he will rise in the last day and then Jesus says 337 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:54,200 this, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life, 338 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,100 he who believes in me, though, he may die. 339 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,500 He shall live and whoever lives and Believes In Me, shall never 340 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:02,700 die. And then he says, do you believe 341 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:04,800 this? You know, the I am there. 342 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,000 It's also referred to as a tetragrammaton. 343 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,500 You know, the transliteration that comes up with Yahweh and so 344 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:14,300 forth. It's names for God. 345 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:18,300 This is also a name for God, is I am a tetragrammaton? 346 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:21,600 I am, he's saying, I am that's a name for God. 347 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:26,800 I am the resurrection and I am the life, the fifth of the 348 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 seven. I am statements, I am the source 349 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,700 of life. I am the embodiment of life and 350 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:37,600 Jesus says, I am life. By the way, this one's coming 351 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,800 up. We're going to have two left 352 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,700 after this morning. One of the one of those is this 353 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:45,300 one when Jesus says I am the way. 354 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:52,500 I am the truth and he says, I am the life not in the future, but 355 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:58,000 in the present, I am in John chapter 11 again, in verse 27, 356 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,700 she said to him. Yes, Lord, I believe that you 357 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:04,100 are the Christ, the son of God, who has come into the world. 358 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:09,300 Now, here's the question. Jesus says, you have to believe. 359 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:11,000 I have to really make a point about this. 360 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,500 Please get this. I'm going to ask you a question. 361 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:22,100 Jesus said you had to believe. She says, I believe that you are 362 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:27,300 the Christ, I believe that but the question is what does it 363 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:31,700 mean to believe? If I would ask you all this 364 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:34,000 question, do you believe that Jesus is the Christ? 365 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,500 The son of the Living God that came into the world to save the 366 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,500 sins of man. I would imagine everybody here 367 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:40,800 would say yes. Do you believe? 368 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,000 Yeah I believe that but what's it mean to believe? 369 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,800 Believing is obeying. Did you see that? 370 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:56,500 Believing is obey obeying. What obeying the Lord? 371 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,200 How do I obey the Lord by obeying, the gospel and living 372 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,400 and obedient life? We're going to get to this at 373 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,100 the end but let me just say this, there's two words that 374 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:12,300 people hate today. These are too bad words here, 375 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:15,800 they are submission and obedience. 376 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,100 Everybody wants to be their own person. 377 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,300 Nobody wants to submit and nobody wants to obey. 378 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,000 But have you ever stopped to consider? 379 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:26,600 That is the entirety of the Christian Life. 380 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:30,300 It is all about submission to the Lord. 381 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:33,200 It's All About obedience to the Lord. 382 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,900 Will talk about that a little later. 383 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,100 All right, in John chapter 11 we go back to our narrative and I'm 384 00:23:39,108 --> 00:23:42,800 going to put several verses in one narrative that we're going 385 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,700 to get into some pretty neat stuff in verse 33 but here we 386 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:48,200 go. In John chapter 11 beginning in 387 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,100 verse 28. And when she had said these 388 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:55,800 things she went her way and secretly called. 389 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:00,900 Marry her sister saying the teacher has come and is calling 390 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,800 for you. As soon as she heard that she 391 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,500 arose quickly and came to him. Now, Jesus had not yet, come 392 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,200 into town but was in the place where Martha met him. 393 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,000 Then the Jews her with her in the house and comforting her 394 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:19,100 when they saw that Mary arose up quickly and went out. 395 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:24,600 Followed her saying, she's going to the tomb to weep there then 396 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,900 when Mary came where Jesus was and saw him she fell down at his 397 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:32,700 feet saying, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not 398 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:38,500 have died. In verse 33. therefore when 399 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:43,100 Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews that are with her weeping, 400 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:47,000 He groaned in the spirit and was troubled, have you ever stopped 401 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:53,600 to consider what all that meant? Years ago in glancing at these 402 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,500 passages, you know what I thought. 403 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,200 I thought Jesus was looking over there and seeing Mary and Martha 404 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,900 weeping. And then also seeing the Jews 405 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,600 weeping and he was thinking to himself, this is wonderful. 406 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:08,900 And he was grown, and he groaned in his spirit and was troubled. 407 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,500 Let's first, look at this word weeping, what does that mean? 408 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:17,200 He saw the Jews weep in the word weeping means to mourn weep 409 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,900 aloud limit. Its the idea of outward 410 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:23,700 demonstrations audible demonstrations, the loudness of 411 00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:29,500 the Wailing, he sees it all. And the Bible says, he groaned 412 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:33,400 in his spirit and was troubled, the word grown means to be angry 413 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:37,000 to be moved with indignation. Why would Jesus be angry at such 414 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,100 a thing? You've heard me say this, but I 415 00:25:40,108 --> 00:25:43,300 got to add some more. You've heard me say this before? 416 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:46,300 I think. Number one, it was because of 417 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:49,400 the hypocrisy of the professional. 418 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,200 Mourners they're going through the motions, they're putting on 419 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,100 this outward show. He groaned in, in himself the 420 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,400 word, needs to be angry to be moved with indignation, but I 421 00:25:59,408 --> 00:26:04,200 think there's more perhaps it's over house in has brought death 422 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,600 in the world. Sin has brought death into the 423 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,600 world. Chris and I have a mutual 424 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,800 business friend, I won't say his name. 425 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:23,500 But he had cancer in his face. He had been treated for a while. 426 00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:29,100 And decided I'm not going to allow them to treat me anymore 427 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,600 and it's only a matter of time. He'll be dead. 428 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:37,300 And I was talking to a handyman that works for him the other 429 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:39,800 day. And he said, you know, I get 430 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,900 really down, I go to talk to him every day and all he says is 431 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:45,800 when he first sees me, I'm one day closer to the hole. 432 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:50,400 You know, I got kind of sad at first and then I thought, wait a 433 00:26:50,408 --> 00:26:53,000 minute. That's all of us. 434 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:59,800 If Jesus doesn't come back today, we are one day closer to 435 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,100 the hole. Do you know why we're one day 436 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:05,500 closer to the home? Because that whole exists for 437 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:08,300 one reason because sin was brought into the world. 438 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,500 Maybe Jesus being our sympathetic high priest, maybe 439 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:14,700 Jesus, overlooking. All that's going on the 440 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:17,900 hypocrisy of at all. He's groaning in his spirit and 441 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:22,000 then also how futile it is to have sin in your life and how 442 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,500 sin brought death and people are going to mourn. 443 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:29,600 And weep and try and be in such pain when their loved ones die. 444 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:33,500 It's going to happen. All of us. 445 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,900 Maybe this to maybe this too. Maybe he's thinking, I got all 446 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:41,400 these Witnesses here and I'm going to raise Lazarus from the 447 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,700 dead. And some people are still going 448 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:48,400 to reject me. Maybe he's thinking about that 449 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,000 too. Have you ever stopped to 450 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000 consider that maybe Jesus says to himself? 451 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,400 What more could I do? What more can I do? 452 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:02,800 Every time somebody rejects, Jesus picture Jesus saying what 453 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,800 more could I do. I've died for you. 454 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,300 What more could I do? And yet people reject him. 455 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:16,600 People rejected him in this occasion to All this is 456 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,400 happening, yet. He restrained from expressing 457 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,100 his feelings. The Bible just says he merely 458 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:28,500 groaned in his spirit. No, I think this is beautiful. 459 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:33,700 I really do, you know, we know passages and stuff like this. 460 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:36,200 When the Bible says, he was in all points tempted, like, as we 461 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,200 are yet without sin, nobody understands what you're going 462 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,500 through more than Jesus, he gets it. 463 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,800 But you know what else is Jesus did. 464 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:47,400 He did something else. Now we know that he willfully 465 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,400 and willingly went to the Cross, we know that his life was not 466 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,400 taken his life, he freely gave we get all that but notice not 467 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:59,700 only that our sympathetic high priest, let himself feel 468 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:04,700 everything. Incidentally, you know, the 469 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:08,800 Greeks. Bad idolatrous God's right 470 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,100 plural and they don't they don't exist. 471 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:14,200 They just believe they did. Notice that when I read the 472 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,900 Greeks described their gods by one word, it's the word 473 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:19,900 epithelia. We transliterate that into the 474 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:24,400 English word apathetic. You know, why? 475 00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:30,500 Because they believed all those pagan gods, that those Gods had, 476 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:35,800 no pain had no emotion, and no ability to care what have 477 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,600 terrible. God, that would be But Jesus 478 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,300 allowed himself to feel everything. 479 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:53,000 John chapter 11 and verse 34. And he said, where have you laid 480 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,700 him? And then the shortest verse in 481 00:29:55,700 --> 00:30:00,000 all the Bible. Jesus wept. 482 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,500 You know what's amazing about this word wept. 483 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,700 It's different from the word weeping we noticed before. 484 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,600 It's not audible loud sounds. It actually is this. 485 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:18,600 It means to weep or shed silent tears. 486 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,200 It means a sudden. Outburst in open tears. 487 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:29,200 Have you ever cried so hard? You know, we call that ugly 488 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:34,800 crying. when your face gets distorted, And you can't hold it 489 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:39,200 in. And the tears come and you're so 490 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,700 heartbroken and maybe you're hugging a family member and 491 00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:47,200 you're both just sobbing with silent tears. 492 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:52,900 That's this word. Jesus is standing there at the 493 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:55,600 grave. He said, where have you led him 494 00:30:55,700 --> 00:31:00,800 and Jesus wept. All of a sudden he's overcome, 495 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,400 he's overtaken by emotion and he's pouring it out and he goes 496 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:10,100 into a sobbing time. Of Silent tears. 497 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,900 This is the Man of Sorrows folks that was acquainted with grief. 498 00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:18,600 As Isaiah said, they're not sentimental tears. 499 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,100 They're not professional tears, they're not prolong mourner 500 00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:23,700 tears. This is literally a shocking 501 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:26,500 Outburst of our sympathetic high priest. 502 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:30,000 And you know what the Jews said about that, what they said about 503 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,400 that is they said, oh, how much he loved him? 504 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,300 Oh, they missed the point. Because in verse 3, it says when 505 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:40,400 word got the Jesus, the one that you love is sick, right? 506 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:43,600 So, yeah, he did love him and yeah, that is a true statement. 507 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:44,900 But that's not what all was going on. 508 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:48,500 They just looked at the Jesus pouring out those tears and 509 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,000 said, oh, how? He loved him, they missed the 510 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:55,400 point. They didn't know that what led 511 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,400 to the Outburst was far more than his affection for Lazarus. 512 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:05,100 Truly it was all the reality of sin and death and unbelief and 513 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:06,800 there he stands at the edge of the Tomb. 514 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,200 Sobbing. And what's next is incredible. 515 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:15,200 Jesus says, take away the stone. I've tried to picture this in my 516 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,100 mind's eye, I read some Scholars. 517 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:21,100 That said that the met the crowd must have been massive. 518 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,900 When Jesus, says, take away the stone, no doubt. 519 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:27,800 They're all looking at the opening of that, grave. 520 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,700 And Jesus begins to pray to his father and he says, father I 521 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:36,700 thank you that you hear me now, but then he says, I know you 522 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:40,800 always hear me but I'm saying this for their benefit that they 523 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:47,900 might believe that you have sent me. when he says, take away the 524 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:52,400 stone, that's when Martha kicked in and says, oh, But Lord. 525 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,400 He already stinks. It's been four days. 526 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,700 And Jesus says to Martha says, didn't I tell you Martha? 527 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,200 That if you would believe, you would see the glory of God. 528 00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:12,100 When they took away the stone. Jesus cries out with a loud 529 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:14,700 voice and he says, Lazarus come forth. 530 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,100 That is one name by the way, in one verb, in the original 531 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:22,500 language, one name, one verb. No Fanfare. 532 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,700 No Angels coming down. He just says those two things. 533 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:31,000 Lazarus come forth. And Lazarus comes out of the 534 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:37,100 Grave Bound by Graves cloves, and Jesus says, loose him and 535 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:43,300 let him go. remember when I said all that happened in 72 hours to 536 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:48,100 the body, Into things that Jesus said in saying the name of 537 00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:53,700 Lazarus and the verb to come forth, everything was reversed. 538 00:33:55,500 --> 00:34:00,200 He doesn't stink anymore. He came out of that grave like 539 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:07,700 he never was there. So many things about this story. 540 00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:13,900 I would think that if I was there, I would think that I 541 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:16,199 would believe in Jesus, and I would follow Jesus. 542 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,000 And I would accept Jesus, and I would do that. 543 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,400 I would think that's what I would do. 544 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:24,300 It's interesting how They reacted. 545 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:29,000 When Jesus made all of the seven, I am statements, he was 546 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,600 giving a spiritual reality and then he Illustrated it with a 547 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,600 physic in a physical way. He said I am the resurrection 548 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,699 owned by the way, here's a resurrection to prove it on 549 00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:41,199 another occasion. He said, I am the bread of life, 550 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:44,199 and then he created a meal to prove it on another occasion. 551 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,000 He said, I am the light of the world and then he healed, blind 552 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,900 eyes to prove it here. He says, I am the resurrection 553 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:54,000 and the life, and he proves it by his resurrection power that 554 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,300 was on display. In raising Lazarus from the 555 00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:58,800 dead. All right. 556 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:04,400 Jesus told Martha to have everlasting life, you have to 557 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:11,800 believe and I said this, I said this, I said to believe is to 558 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,100 obey How does one obey the gospel? 559 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:21,200 In Romans chapter 10 and verse 17, you have to hear the word of 560 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,300 God. You've done that today. 561 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:26,600 We've heard the word of God. So then faith comes by hearing 562 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,500 and hearing by the word of God. That's what produces faith in 563 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:32,300 us. Is hearing the word of God is 564 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:36,400 the word of God. Then we must make a choice in 565 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,100 Mark 16:16. Jesus said, he who believes and 566 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:44,800 is baptized, will be saved, but he, who does not believe will be 567 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,200 condemned. And remember belief of the 568 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,000 Bible, always brings with it, the forced to obey. 569 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,900 So if I say I believe it means I will obey with the Lord has told 570 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:56,300 me to do. I hear the word of God produces 571 00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:58,100 faith? I believe that Jesus Christ is 572 00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:00,200 the Son of God and I'm willing to do, whatever he asked me to 573 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,900 do. And what does he ask me to do? 574 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,600 He said, I got to repent Luke. Tina three. 575 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:08,000 I tell you no but unless you repent, you will all likewise 576 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,300 perish. What does that mean? 577 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,400 I just got to change my life. I'm going to change my mind. 578 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:16,600 I'm going to stop traveling in the way that I've been going. 579 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,600 And I'm going to change my life and live for Jesus. 580 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,200 What else? Matthew 10:32, therefore, 581 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,100 whoever confesses me before, men him will I confess before. 582 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:28,500 My father, who is in heaven and that confession, simply is, I 583 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:33,500 believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. 584 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:38,000 After taking these steps, a person is a fit candidate to go 585 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000 down where the point of Salvation is and that is to be 586 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,900 baptized in First Peter chapter 3 21, the like figure whereunto 587 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:46,500 even baptism. Doth also. 588 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:50,400 Now, save us, not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but 589 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,100 the answer of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection 590 00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:58,200 of Jesus Christ. If you're not a Christian, 591 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,600 you've never taken these steps. We can assist you in that today, 592 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,800 we would love to assist you in that today. but remember this, 593 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,700 Everybody has to make the choice. 594 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:13,800 What's amazing to me is when Jesus raised Lazarus, from the 595 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:18,000 it said, many of those Jews believed. 596 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:23,500 And some wanted to kill him. Everybody's got to make a 597 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:26,400 choice. Do you want Jesus in your life? 598 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,600 Do you want to be saved? We have to obey the gospel and 599 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,500 obey, the Lord for our life. That's what the word of God. 600 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:35,500 Says, if you're not a Christian, please become one today by 601 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:37,800 following these steps. Maybe you've taken these steps, 602 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:40,800 maybe you've drifted away, maybe there are things in your life 603 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:43,300 that aren't as they should be, let's pray together. 604 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,500 Will pray with you and for you and God will forgive their be 605 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:49,500 one of either Class come forward while we stand. and I was 606 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:53,400 saying, We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on 607 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,900 by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 608 00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:00,500 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 609 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:03,800 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 610 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,800 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at 611 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:12,900 search of Christ. 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