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0:00John chapter 11 [music] verse 1.
0:03Now a certain man was sick,
0:05Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary
0:10and her sister Martha.
0:12It was the Mary who anointed the Lord
0:15with ointment and wiped his feet with
0:17her hair, whose brother Lazarus was
0:20sick.
0:21So the sisters sent word to him saying,
0:25"Lord, behold,
0:27he whom you love is sick."
0:32But [music] when Jesus heard this, he
0:34said,
0:36"This sickness is not [music] to end in
0:38death,
0:39but for the glory of God,
0:41so that the Son of Man may be glorified
0:44by [music] it."
0:47Now Jesus loved Martha
0:49>> [music]
0:49>> and her sister and Lazarus.
0:53So when he heard that he was sick,
0:56he then stayed 2 days [music] longer in
0:59the place where he was.
1:02Then, after this, he said to the
1:05disciples,
1:07"Let us go to Judea again."
1:10The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the
1:12Jews were just now seeking to stone you,
1:17and are you going there again?"
1:20Jesus answered,
1:22"Are there not 12 hours in the day?
1:25If anyone walks in the day, he does not
1:27stumble because he sees the light of
1:30this world. But if anyone walks in the
1:33night, he stumbles because the light is
1:36not in him."
1:39This he said, and after that, he said to
1:42them,
1:43"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep.
1:47But I go so that I may awaken him out of
1:51sleep." [music]
1:53The disciples then said to him, "Lord,
1:55if he has fallen asleep,
1:58he will recover.
2:00Now, Jesus had spoken of his death,
2:03but they thought that he was speaking of
2:06literal sleep.
2:07So, Jesus then said to them plainly,
2:10"Lazarus is dead.
2:13And I am glad for your sakes that I was
2:16not there,
2:18so that you may believe.
2:20But let us go to him."
2:22There are several things to to notice
2:25here
2:26that John wants us to see.
2:29One is that
2:32this is the Mary
2:34who was a notorious sinner,
2:36who was a prostitute, who broke
2:39the alabaster jar of spikenard perfume
2:43on Jesus' feet.
2:45And now, she's in another crisis.
2:49Her brother is sick to the point of
2:51dying.
2:54And so, they send a message to Jesus.
2:58We don't know if it comes as a letter or
3:00a or a verbal message,
3:03but they said, "Lord, behold, he whom
3:06you love is sick."
3:10And they're saying,
3:12"Our relationship means something, and
3:14we know that we mean something to you.
3:16Would you please help us?"
3:21But then Jesus heard this, he said,
3:23"This sickness is not to end in death."
3:27He doesn't say it won't involve death.
3:30He says it won't end in death.
3:33And then he says,
3:35"But the Son of Man is going to be
3:36glorified in it."
3:39And right there we have this principle
3:42that God wants to turn our affliction,
3:45our suffering for his glory.
3:49Now, Jesus loved Martha and her sister
3:52and Lazarus, so when he heard that he
3:55was sick,
3:57he then stayed two days longer
3:59in the place where he was.
4:02And that seems counterintuitive.
4:07But when Jesus loves someone,
4:10he wants
4:11God to get glory out of their life.
4:15That's an expression of his love.
4:17Not to meet all of our needs in our
4:20timing, at our demand, but to ensure
4:24that the maximum glory and meaning and
4:27purpose emerges from our lives and even
4:30our pain.
4:33He then tells them that they're going to
4:35Judea and
4:37they point out that the Jews are seeking
4:39to stone him.
4:42And he says, "There are 12 hours in the
4:43day.
4:45If anyone walks in the day, he does not
4:47stumble because he sees the light of
4:49this world.
4:50But if anyone walks in the night, he
4:52stumbles because the light is not in
4:55him."
4:56And his allusion here seems to be that
4:59he's on a limited amount of time.
5:01And the same urgency that makes the
5:04disciples think he should stay home is
5:07the same urgency that makes him think he
5:09should get on the road. That he doesn't
5:11have a lot of time left and he needs to
5:13get done what God wants him to
5:15accomplish before his time passes.
5:20And then he said, "Our friend Lazarus
5:22has fallen asleep."
5:25They don't understand. They point out
5:27that when someone sleeps, they get
5:29better, which is an interesting insight
5:31about our health.
5:32And then he says,
5:34"Lazarus is dead
5:36and I am glad for your sakes."
5:40And this seems to be in perfect
5:41alignment with what he has said about he
5:43loved him, so he waited.
5:46Jesus is not making a mistake.
5:49He wants
5:51the bigger picture to emerge here.
5:53"I am glad for your sakes that I was not
5:56there, so that you may believe, but let
5:59us go to him."
6:00Therefore, Thomas, who is called
6:03Didymus,
6:04said to his fellow disciples,
6:07"Let us also go, so that we may die with
6:09him."
6:14You could safely assume that Thomas does
6:16not catch the bigger picture quite yet.
6:20Therefore, Thomas, who is called
6:22Didymus, said to his fellow disciples,
6:24"Let us also go, so that we may die with
6:26him."
6:28So, when Jesus came,
6:30he found that he had already been in the
6:31tomb four days, Lazarus.
6:35Now, Bethany was near Jerusalem,
6:38about 2 miles off.
6:41And many of the Jews had come to Martha
6:43and Mary to console them concerning
6:46their brother.
6:51The disciples
6:52are guided by self-protection.
6:55>> [clears throat]
6:58>> Thomas is guided by self-protection.
7:03The Jews are bringing consolation and
7:06mourning,
7:07but Jesus is bringing something else.
7:11Martha, therefore, when she heard that
7:13Jesus was coming,
7:15went to meet him,
7:17but Mary stayed at the house.
7:23It literally means, "But Mary was
7:25sitting at the house."
7:28So, right there we have a little insight
7:31that
7:32Mary feels
7:34hurt, disappointed.
7:37She's staying put in the house of
7:39mourning.
7:40She's not running to meet the Lord.
7:43Martha is going to meet him.
7:46Martha then said to Jesus,
7:49"Lord,
7:50if you had been here, my brother would
7:54not have died.
7:57Even now,
7:58I know that whatever you ask of God, God
8:01will give you."
8:04Jesus said to her,
8:06"Your brother will rise again."
8:11Her first statement sounds like a
8:13rebuke, and it kind of is.
8:16But,
8:17it's also a statement of faith. She
8:19knows that he would have had the power
8:21to heal the sickness.
8:25But, even in the impossibility,
8:27she says, "Still,
8:30I know
8:31that whatever you ask of God,
8:34he will give you."
8:36So, Jesus said to her, "Your brother
8:37will rise again." Martha said to him,
8:40>> [clears throat]
8:40>> "I know that he will rise again in the
8:42resurrection on the last day."
8:46Jesus said to her,
8:49"I am the resurrection and the life.
8:53He who believes in me will live even if
8:57he dies.
8:58And everyone who lives and believes in
9:00me will never die.
9:03Do you believe this?"
9:06This is a stupendous statement.
9:10She
9:11is picturing her brother coming up out
9:13of the grave. And she says, "Well,
9:16that's going to happen on the last day
9:18when all of us are raised."
9:20And Jesus says, "I am the resurrection."
9:25It's a astounding grammatical construct
9:29to say, "I am the rise up.
9:33I am the uplift.
9:35I am the life from the dead.
9:39He's saying,
9:41"I am the source of life. I am God."
9:45And what What's going to raise people on
9:47the last day? It's here with you now.
9:51She said to him, "Yes, Lord.
9:54I have believed that you are the Christ,
9:57the Son of God,
9:59even he who comes into the world."
10:03When she said this, she went away and
10:05called Mary her sister, saying secretly,
10:08"The teacher is here, and he is calling
10:11for you."
10:13And when she heard it, she got up
10:14quickly and was coming to him.
10:17Now, Jesus had not yet come into the
10:20village, but was still in the place
10:23where Martha met him.
10:24>> [clears throat]
10:25>> He stayed outside the village.
10:29Then the Jews who were with her in the
10:31house, that is, with Mary, and consoling
10:35her,
10:35when they saw that Mary got up quickly
10:38and went out, they followed her,
10:40supposing that she was going to the tomb
10:43to weep there.
10:45Look how many assumptions mark this
10:48whole story.
10:49The first assumption is that
10:52Jesus has to be there before he dies in
10:54order for the miracle to occur.
10:56The next assumption is that if the Jews
10:59are seeking to kill him, that means he
11:01should stay away and not go to
11:02Jerusalem.
11:04The next assumption is that why would
11:06anybody go near Jerusalem or near this
11:09dead body, in the words of Thomas,
11:12unless we want to die with him?
11:15The next assumption is that
11:18uh the resurrection will be in the end
11:20of days.
11:22The next assumption is that
11:25Mary is not going because the Lord has
11:27called her,
11:29but because she's going to go mourn at
11:31the tomb.
11:36Therefore, when Mary came
11:38where Jesus was,
11:40she saw him
11:42and fell at his feet,
11:44saying to him,
11:46>> [clears throat]
11:46>> "Lord,
11:47if you had been here,
11:49my brother would not have died."
11:54She says exactly the same thing that
11:56Martha says.
11:58When Jesus therefore saw her weeping
12:02and the Jews who came with her also
12:04weeping,
12:06he was deeply moved in spirit and was
12:09troubled.
12:10In this, we see Jesus' humanity.
12:15That he's not just
12:17the son of God in the sense that
12:20he's God in the flesh, but
12:22he's a human being just like you and me.
12:26And he's moved with emotion.
12:30And he said, "Where have you laid him?"
12:34They said to him, "Lord,
12:36come and see."
12:39Jesus
12:40wept.
12:43So, the Jews were saying,
12:45"See how he loved him."
12:48But some of them said,
12:50"Could not this man who opened the eyes
12:52of the blind
12:53have kept this man also from dying?"
12:58They've
12:59boxed his miracle-working power into one
13:02dimension
13:04and God is about to break it open.
13:07So, Jesus again being deeply moved
13:11within came to the tomb.
13:14So, we have this scene of the son of God
13:17sobbing
13:18as he steps toward
13:20the graveyard.
13:22Now, it was a cave
13:25and a stone was lying against it.
13:28Jesus said, "Remove the stone."
13:32Martha,
13:33the sister of the deceased, said to him,
13:37"Lord,
13:38by this time
13:40there will be a stench,
13:42for he has been dead four days."
13:48Jesus said to her,
13:50"Did I not say to you that if you
13:52believe, you will see the glory of God?"
13:58So, they removed the stone.
14:00Then Jesus raised his eyes and said,
14:05"Father,
14:06I thank you that you have heard me.
14:09I know that you always hear me,
14:12but because of the people standing
14:14around, I said it
14:17so that they may believe that you sent
14:19me."
14:21When he had said these things, he cried
14:24out with a loud voice,
14:27"Lazarus,
14:29come forth."
14:32The man
14:34who had died
14:35came forth,
14:37bound hand and foot with wrappings,
14:41and his face was wrapped around with a
14:43cloth.
14:45Jesus said to them,
14:47"Unbind him and let him go."
14:51Therefore, many of the Jews who came to
14:53Mary and saw what he had done, believed
14:57in him.
14:58But some of them went to the Pharisees
15:02and told them the things which Jesus had
15:04done.
15:07There's several things to see here.
15:10One,
15:12this is a type of the resurrection that
15:15God wants to give us through the power
15:17of the Holy Spirit in this life,
15:20but also at the end of the age.
15:25And
15:26the situation was so bad
15:29that the assumption is it's past
15:31helping.
15:32So, when he says
15:34"Remove the stone."
15:37Take the lid off so that a miracle can
15:39take place.
15:41Martha
15:42does not understand what's happening.
15:45And she says, "There's a stench by now."
15:50It's bad.
15:51This situation is impossible.
15:54And it's better to leave it sealed in
15:56its impossibility
15:58than to open it up and discover how
16:00awful it really is.
16:04But he says, "Did I not tell you you
16:05would see the glory of God?" Which he
16:07told her that she would see the
16:09resurrection. So, the resurrection is
16:11the glory of God.
16:13And then he prays.
16:14And his prayer is very interesting. He
16:16says, "Father,
16:18I thank you that you have heard me."
16:21Now, his whole point in the previous
16:22chapters is that he's not alone, that
16:24the Father is with him.
16:26And he says, "I know that you always
16:28hear me."
16:29There's no need for Jesus to holler out
16:33to heaven because the Father is living
16:35inside of him.
16:36So, he can say
16:38"I know you always hear me."
16:40But as a sign to the people
16:41[clears throat] standing around that
16:43they may believe that God sent Jesus, he
16:47prays this.
16:48As a human being
16:51he is the friend of Martha and Mary and
16:53Lazarus.
16:55As a human being
16:57he weeps
16:59when he stands outside
17:01and sees Mary's emotion.
17:04As a human being, he prays
17:07and says, "I know you always hear me."
17:09But as God
17:11he commands, "Lazarus, come forth."
17:16And then Lazarus comes out
17:19and like many people delivered
17:22by the grace of God,
17:24he still wears the wrappings of the
17:26bondage he was in. And so he tells the
17:29people around him to unbind him.
17:33And that's like an image of the body of
17:35Christ
17:37taking off the grave clothes of those
17:40who have answered the call to come out.
17:44Then it says many believed in him,
17:47but some went to the Pharisees and told
17:49them the things that Jesus had done.
17:53Therefore, the chief priests and the
17:56Pharisees convened a council
17:59and were saying,
18:01"What
18:02are we doing?
18:04For this man is performing many signs.
18:08If we let him go on like this,
18:11all men will believe in him,
18:14and the Romans will come and take away
18:17both our place and our nation."
18:23So now we know
18:26that the most powerful, detailed miracle
18:30of life from the dead
18:32did not do a thing
18:35to unsettle their pride, their
18:37rejection, their certainty.
18:40Instead,
18:42it's at that very moment
18:45of revelation of God's greatest power
18:49that they determined to kill him.
18:51But why are they going to kill him?
18:53Because if they don't stop him,
18:55everyone's [clears throat] going to
18:56believe in him.
18:57And if everyone believes in him, they're
18:59going to lose their political nation.
19:02>> [clears throat]
19:03>> They thought at first that Jesus was
19:06their political hero, that he was their
19:08political Messiah.
19:10But now they realize
19:12he's actually going to cause them to
19:15lose that. And so they're going to kill
19:17him
19:18so that they can hold on to their
19:19nation, their politics.
19:23But one of them, Caiaphas,
19:25who was high priest that year, said to
19:28them,
19:29"You know nothing at all.
19:32Nor do you take into account that it is
19:35expedient for you that one man die for
19:39the people
19:41and that the whole nation not perish."
19:44Now, he did not say this on his own
19:47initiative, but being high priest that
19:50year, he prophesied that Jesus was going
19:54to die for the nation.
19:56So he's an evil man.
19:58And yet because of his office as high
20:00priest, he speaks something true.
20:04He thinks he's saying,
20:06"The Romans aren't going to take away
20:08our nation. You know nothing at all.
20:11Instead,
20:12this guy is going to [music] die in
20:14place of our nation. We're going to keep
20:17our politics and we're going to kill
20:20this spiritual Messiah."
20:24Now, John explains that Caiaphas
20:27was actually speaking the truth. He
20:29says, "Now he did not say this on his
20:31own initiative, but being high priest
20:33that year, he prophesied that Jesus was
20:36going to die for the nation."
20:40Jesus is dying for the covenant nation
20:42of Israel.
20:44And not for the nation only,
20:46but in order that he might [music] also
20:47gather together into one
20:50the children of God who are scattered
20:53abroad. [music]
20:54So when he says it's not for the nation
20:56only, he's saying he's got to bring them
20:58into [music] one because he's going to
20:59die for one entity. And that is his
21:02covenant people.
21:04So from that day on, they, the rulers,
21:07planned together to kill him.
21:11Therefore, Jesus no longer continued to
21:13walk publicly among the Jews,
21:16but went away from there to the country
21:18near the wilderness.
21:20Into a city called Ephraim,
21:24and there [music] he stayed with the
21:25disciples.
21:27Now, the Passover of the Jews was near,
21:30and many went up to Jerusalem [music]
21:32out of the country before the Passover
21:34to purify themselves.
21:37So, they were seeking for Jesus and were
21:39saying
21:40to one another [music] as they stood in
21:42the temple, "What do you think?
21:45That he will not come to the feast
21:46[music] at all?"
21:48Now, the chief priests and the Pharisees
21:50had given orders that if anyone knew
21:52where he was, he was to report it
21:55so that they might seize him.
21:58So, he has a warrant out for his arrest.
22:01And that is the environment.
22:03And that's
22:04>> [music]
22:04>> how we start moving into the next
22:06chapters.

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