1 00:00:01,366 --> 00:00:02,733 Thank you, Roger Dale. 2 00:00:04,433 --> 00:00:05,633 You have your Bibles? 3 00:00:06,299 --> 00:00:09,766 Bring them with me to the gospel of John, 4 00:00:09,766 --> 00:00:13,366 or you can watch the verses on the screen. 5 00:00:13,833 --> 00:00:14,566 John 11. 6 00:00:16,833 --> 00:00:19,566 Beginning in verse 17. 7 00:00:20,633 --> 00:00:23,933 So I told you last time, this is the account of 8 00:00:23,933 --> 00:00:28,366 the final miracle, the final public miracle, 9 00:00:28,366 --> 00:00:31,800 that Jesus ever did in his ministry, 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,266 and it is the capstone. 11 00:00:35,266 --> 00:00:36,933 of all his miracles. 12 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,033 Think of it after three years of ministry. 13 00:00:43,066 --> 00:00:46,299 The nation of Israel as a whole, and 14 00:00:46,299 --> 00:00:50,266 the leadership have rejected 15 00:00:50,266 --> 00:00:51,766 Jesus as their Messiah. 16 00:00:53,033 --> 00:00:56,100 And the religious leaders, as you know, 17 00:00:56,766 --> 00:00:58,500 want him dead. 18 00:01:00,899 --> 00:01:04,066 And this right here, we've already begun 19 00:01:04,066 --> 00:01:07,666 to study this particular last miracle, this is part two, 20 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:14,799 This is Jesus' final... 21 00:01:14,833 --> 00:01:19,933 in his earthly ministry before the resurrection, this final demonstration of deity. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,766 And the strongest way possible. 23 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:25,733 I mean, he saves the best for last, right? 24 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:28,433 I mean, he raises a man. 25 00:01:28,666 --> 00:01:31,500 back to life who have been dead for 4 days. 26 00:01:34,066 --> 00:01:36,333 He does this at a very strategic time. 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:37,666 Notice this. 28 00:01:38,866 --> 00:01:43,500 Just prior to Passover, in 29 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:47,200 Bethany, and remember, there was two Bethany's, this Bethany's, 30 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,799 two miles east of Jerusalem, on the road from Jericho, 31 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:54,400 a major highway, and that road 32 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,466 would have literally, at this time of 33 00:01:57,466 --> 00:02:01,133 this miracle, would have been filled with pilgrims, 34 00:02:01,866 --> 00:02:04,066 who were heading to Jerusalem for the Passover. 35 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,466 So, think about it. 36 00:02:08,866 --> 00:02:09,599 This happens. 37 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:11,033 You know for sure. 38 00:02:12,633 --> 00:02:15,633 Everybody coming that way on that robe would have heard the 39 00:02:15,633 --> 00:02:16,833 story about Lazarus. 40 00:02:17,433 --> 00:02:20,500 Nobody would have been able to stop talking about what had 41 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:24,466 happened, especially from the amount of people who witnessed the miracle. 42 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,033 And so certainly, from there, the 43 00:02:29,033 --> 00:02:32,099 news of this miracle would have circulated throughout the city of 44 00:02:32,099 --> 00:02:35,199 Jerusalem, which was filled to capacity with 45 00:02:35,199 --> 00:02:37,066 people coming there, for Passover. 46 00:02:38,933 --> 00:02:43,233 The raising of Lazarus certainly did, I 47 00:02:43,233 --> 00:02:47,000 mean, there's no way it couldn't have, strengthened the faith of the disciples. 48 00:02:49,433 --> 00:02:53,099 In a measure, it wasn't enough to keep them from running and hiding. 49 00:02:54,099 --> 00:02:56,033 When Jesus was on the cross, right? 50 00:02:56,099 --> 00:02:57,000 It wasn't that. 51 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,433 And then not being sure. 52 00:03:01,133 --> 00:03:04,933 as they were when he rose from the grave, 53 00:03:04,933 --> 00:03:08,033 but I will say that it did move the needle a 54 00:03:08,033 --> 00:03:11,099 little bit for them, as it 55 00:03:11,099 --> 00:03:14,633 gave them a preview of 56 00:03:14,633 --> 00:03:16,199 the resurrection of Jesus himself. 57 00:03:18,333 --> 00:03:21,466 This event was also a clear, as I 58 00:03:21,466 --> 00:03:24,699 said before, an overwhelming evidence of 59 00:03:24,699 --> 00:03:27,833 the deity of Jesus, who else 60 00:03:27,833 --> 00:03:30,166 raises the dead, but God. 61 00:03:32,566 --> 00:03:34,366 But also it pressed. 62 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:38,433 the issue of execution for Jesus. 63 00:03:39,666 --> 00:03:41,933 Because as we've studied at this point, 64 00:03:42,833 --> 00:03:45,366 He's gaining way too much influence. 65 00:03:46,833 --> 00:03:48,033 But what does that also do? 66 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:52,000 It put his death exactly 67 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,633 on God's schedule. 68 00:03:55,066 --> 00:03:57,300 What was God's schedule for him to die? 69 00:03:58,066 --> 00:03:58,900 Passover week. 70 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,966 And in fact, exactly at the moment when the Passover 71 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,033 lambs were being slaughtered, as he's being slaughtered on 72 00:04:06,033 --> 00:04:08,266 Calvary's tree, down to the pinpoint. 73 00:04:08,966 --> 00:04:09,466 dead. 74 00:04:11,033 --> 00:04:14,199 Now, before we pick up, before we where 75 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:17,333 we left off, I want to start by focusing on what Jesus says in 76 00:04:17,333 --> 00:04:18,666 verses 25 and 26. 77 00:04:20,233 --> 00:04:20,933 Look what he says. 78 00:04:22,733 --> 00:04:25,800 Jesus said to her, I am, as we studied this morning 79 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:30,000 from RC, another I am, I am the resurrection and the life. 80 00:04:32,133 --> 00:04:34,166 He who believes in me will live. 81 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:36,866 Even if he dies. 82 00:04:38,699 --> 00:04:44,166 And everyone who lives and believes in me, will never die. 83 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,133 Do you believe this? 84 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:49,666 And of course, the main question. 85 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:51,533 Do you believe that? 86 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:57,366 The main focus here is to demonstrate that 87 00:04:57,366 --> 00:05:00,800 Jesus is who he claimed to be. 88 00:05:00,899 --> 00:05:03,899 He is the resurrection and the life, and 89 00:05:03,899 --> 00:05:07,133 if you believe in him with saving faith, you 90 00:05:07,133 --> 00:05:10,866 will live forever in his presence. 91 00:05:11,033 --> 00:05:12,100 That's his promise here. 92 00:05:14,100 --> 00:05:18,000 It's really the whole point of the gospel of John as we've been over many times. 93 00:05:20,033 --> 00:05:24,233 Years ago, John MacArthur used to go on Larry King quite a bit. 94 00:05:24,333 --> 00:05:25,533 I don't know if you remember that. 95 00:05:26,833 --> 00:05:29,033 I'm sure CNN is glad he's gone. 96 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:34,533 He recalls the time he went on CNN 97 00:05:34,533 --> 00:05:38,000 right after 9/11, which we just celebrated the 25th 98 00:05:38,033 --> 00:05:41,399 anniversary of the Islamic terrorists destroying 99 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:44,500 the Twin Towers, and he said, they never let me 100 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:46,733 know beforehand what the questions were. 101 00:05:49,366 --> 00:05:52,500 And out of nowhere, on live 102 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,533 TV, Larry King 103 00:05:55,533 --> 00:05:56,966 asked him about 9-11. 104 00:05:57,966 --> 00:05:58,666 What does this mean? 105 00:06:00,533 --> 00:06:04,433 And put on the spot, with no prior 106 00:06:04,433 --> 00:06:09,833 warning about the question, John MacArthur said this. 107 00:06:12,166 --> 00:06:14,699 You're going to die, and you're not in charge of when. 108 00:06:16,966 --> 00:06:17,866 on live TV. 109 00:06:20,133 --> 00:06:23,366 He further said right after 9/11, this doesn't have anything to 110 00:06:23,399 --> 00:06:25,433 do, really, with international politics. 111 00:06:26,866 --> 00:06:29,733 This doesn't have anything to do with nations coming and going. 112 00:06:30,699 --> 00:06:33,166 It really doesn't have so much to do with religion. 113 00:06:33,699 --> 00:06:36,933 It doesn't have so much to do with terrorism. 114 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,733 The message you need to get here, and there are messages 115 00:06:40,733 --> 00:06:43,733 about all of that, but the primary message that 116 00:06:43,733 --> 00:06:47,266 you need to get is, you're going to die, and 117 00:06:47,266 --> 00:06:48,899 you're not in charge of when. 118 00:06:48,933 --> 00:06:52,366 You're not in charge of where, and you're not in charge of how? 119 00:06:52,966 --> 00:06:55,966 Even if you decide to kill yourself, you're not in 120 00:06:55,966 --> 00:06:59,100 charge of the circumstances and exigencies that 121 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:04,266 led you to that bad decision in a moment of time that is irrevocable, irrevocable. 122 00:07:05,266 --> 00:07:07,733 You're not in charge of your death. 123 00:07:09,033 --> 00:07:10,666 And you better be ready when it happens. 124 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,166 So, you can probably see why 125 00:07:16,199 --> 00:07:17,333 they're probably glad he's gone. 126 00:07:18,266 --> 00:07:18,633 Right? 127 00:07:20,033 --> 00:07:23,133 In fact, it, for the last maybe 128 00:07:23,133 --> 00:07:25,833 decade of his life, they didn't even let him go there anymore. 129 00:07:27,166 --> 00:07:28,600 Ecclesiastes ain't. 130 00:07:30,166 --> 00:07:30,899 Verse 8. 131 00:07:31,733 --> 00:07:32,633 What it says. 132 00:07:33,033 --> 00:07:37,000 No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind. 133 00:07:38,566 --> 00:07:42,300 Or authority over the day of his death. 134 00:07:44,933 --> 00:07:47,933 When the day of death comes, look at Job 18, 14, 135 00:07:47,933 --> 00:07:49,000 what it says about man. 136 00:07:50,699 --> 00:07:51,666 He is torn. 137 00:07:52,833 --> 00:07:54,500 from the security of his tent. 138 00:07:56,199 --> 00:08:00,933 And they march him before the king of terrors. 139 00:08:02,866 --> 00:08:04,500 The king of terrors is death. 140 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,899 Job 14, 1 2, says, man is born of woman, 141 00:08:10,766 --> 00:08:13,066 is short-lived and full of turmoil. 142 00:08:15,066 --> 00:08:17,399 Like a flower, he comes forth and withers. 143 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:23,533 He also flees like a shadow, and does not remain. 144 00:08:25,566 --> 00:08:29,033 In Psalm 90, verse 10, I quote this at 145 00:08:29,033 --> 00:08:31,666 most of the funerals I've ever preached in my life. 146 00:08:31,733 --> 00:08:34,833 As for the days of our life, they contain 70 years 147 00:08:34,833 --> 00:08:36,633 or due to strength, 80 years. 148 00:08:38,333 --> 00:08:42,600 If their pride is but labor and sorrow, for soon it is gone. 149 00:08:43,833 --> 00:08:44,866 Then we fly away. 150 00:08:47,433 --> 00:08:49,133 1 Timothy 6 7. 151 00:08:50,566 --> 00:08:55,200 Says, for we have brought nothing into the world, we 152 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,366 cannot take anything out of any... 153 00:08:59,233 --> 00:08:59,899 And is that it? 154 00:09:02,933 --> 00:09:06,333 Is that where evolution has brought us to after supposedly 155 00:09:06,333 --> 00:09:09,333 billions of years of existence? 156 00:09:09,399 --> 00:09:12,566 I mean, to a non-existent state called 157 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,966 death, where we go out of existence, 158 00:09:15,966 --> 00:09:19,366 and go in the ground, and are eaten by worms, a 159 00:09:19,366 --> 00:09:22,500 memory less existence, if this life, is 160 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:25,966 all that there is, and all of us are stupid for 161 00:09:25,966 --> 00:09:27,933 not being raging hedonists. 162 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:28,766 Wouldn't you agree? 163 00:09:29,866 --> 00:09:33,466 I mean, get everything you possibly can out of this world, if that's what's happening. 164 00:09:35,833 --> 00:09:38,866 All that our lust and our pleasure desires before 165 00:09:38,866 --> 00:09:40,533 it's all over with for good. 166 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:41,966 What are we doing sitting in here? 167 00:09:43,799 --> 00:09:44,633 How depressing. 168 00:09:45,466 --> 00:09:46,133 That thought is. 169 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,933 Thank God, that's a huge lie. 170 00:09:51,766 --> 00:09:54,899 But sadly, many people 171 00:09:54,899 --> 00:09:55,966 buy into that lie. 172 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,433 John MacArthur also said the reality is, we are way more 173 00:10:02,433 --> 00:10:05,066 than protoplasm waiting to become manure. 174 00:10:09,333 --> 00:10:09,899 Get this. 175 00:10:12,533 --> 00:10:15,766 Every single human being 176 00:10:17,533 --> 00:10:19,633 will exist forever. 177 00:10:21,733 --> 00:10:23,466 I don't care whether you believe that or not. 178 00:10:24,633 --> 00:10:28,600 Whether you believe that or not has absolutely no effect on its reality. 179 00:10:30,233 --> 00:10:32,700 That's from the word of God, from the creator. 180 00:10:32,933 --> 00:10:37,933 And not only will every person live forever in spirit, 181 00:10:37,933 --> 00:10:41,233 One day, every person will live 182 00:10:41,233 --> 00:10:45,100 forever in a resurrected bodily 183 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:48,100 form, both in heaven and in hell. 184 00:10:49,733 --> 00:10:51,466 I don't care if you don't believe that or not. 185 00:10:51,533 --> 00:10:52,000 It's true. 186 00:10:53,433 --> 00:10:56,600 In one place with a body that will exist in the blessing and 187 00:10:56,633 --> 00:10:59,766 the presence of God, and in another place with a body that 188 00:10:59,766 --> 00:11:02,866 will be able to absorb eternal punishment. 189 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:06,766 You will exist forever. 190 00:11:09,233 --> 00:11:10,899 You will be raised from the dead. 191 00:11:12,766 --> 00:11:14,333 Every human being will. 192 00:11:15,833 --> 00:11:17,466 In fact, guess what? 193 00:11:18,533 --> 00:11:20,866 Jesus is the one who's going to raise you from the dead. 194 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:25,033 Death is not the end of anybody. 195 00:11:27,466 --> 00:11:31,733 And the opposite place of heaven, what the Bible calls outer darkness. 196 00:11:33,833 --> 00:11:35,700 That is a place you do not want to go. 197 00:11:37,233 --> 00:11:39,166 There's no emergency exit door. 198 00:11:40,866 --> 00:11:42,299 You can't get out once you're there. 199 00:11:44,566 --> 00:11:47,733 And the only way that you don't line up there and find 200 00:11:47,733 --> 00:11:50,966 yourself in heaven when you die is by believing 201 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,833 in Jesus and everything that scripture reveals about Jesus. 202 00:11:56,566 --> 00:11:59,700 Remember, that's why John wrote this gospel, that you might 203 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:02,700 believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son 204 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:06,966 of God, and that believing you might have life in his name. 205 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,133 That's John's purpose statement in writing this gospel. 206 00:12:12,633 --> 00:12:15,633 Look what Jesus says here in verse 25 again, I 207 00:12:15,633 --> 00:12:18,500 am the resurrection and the life. 208 00:12:20,233 --> 00:12:20,899 The life. 209 00:12:20,899 --> 00:12:22,533 That's such an important statement. 210 00:12:23,266 --> 00:12:26,700 I want you to remember what Jesus said when we studied it back in John one. 211 00:12:28,899 --> 00:12:29,933 Verses 3 and 4. 212 00:12:32,233 --> 00:12:35,899 Where he says, All things 213 00:12:37,566 --> 00:12:39,299 came into being. 214 00:12:40,833 --> 00:12:43,100 Through Him. 215 00:12:43,799 --> 00:12:46,799 As we know, There are times when all 216 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:49,799 doesn't mean all every single person without exception, like all 217 00:12:49,799 --> 00:12:52,966 of Judea went to go here, John the Baptist 218 00:12:52,966 --> 00:12:54,033 down at the river Jordan. 219 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:57,399 That doesn't mean every single person in the whole nation of Israel 220 00:12:57,399 --> 00:13:00,766 all went down there to, doesn't mean every single solitary person. 221 00:13:00,933 --> 00:13:03,866 Sometimes all doesn't mean all in that fashion, but right here it does. 222 00:13:05,766 --> 00:13:06,299 All things. 223 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:09,466 Everything. 224 00:13:10,533 --> 00:13:13,399 came into being through Jesus. 225 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:16,799 He's the agent of everything that has come into 226 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:21,100 being, and in case you didn't get it, John 227 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:24,533 goes further, and apart from him, apart from Jesus, 228 00:13:24,533 --> 00:13:27,600 nothing came into being that has 229 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:28,799 come into being. 230 00:13:30,066 --> 00:13:33,466 And further than that, further than that is 231 00:13:33,466 --> 00:13:37,233 this tremendous little phrase, in him was life. 232 00:13:40,366 --> 00:13:42,299 That is how everything came into being. 233 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,533 Because it's beyond mind boggling. 234 00:13:46,733 --> 00:13:47,799 What that means is, 235 00:13:49,433 --> 00:13:52,666 Everything that has ever had life, has life 236 00:13:52,666 --> 00:13:55,833 now, or ever will have life, he 237 00:13:55,833 --> 00:13:58,066 is the source of all life. 238 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:02,799 All things came into being through him. 239 00:14:04,233 --> 00:14:07,233 In him was life, the source of life. 240 00:14:08,799 --> 00:14:09,766 He has the power. 241 00:14:11,433 --> 00:14:12,866 to create out of nothing. 242 00:14:14,566 --> 00:14:15,766 The word of his power. 243 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:21,266 Jesus doesn't draw his life from anything, 244 00:14:22,466 --> 00:14:23,500 or anyone else. 245 00:14:23,566 --> 00:14:25,799 He is uncreated. 246 00:14:25,833 --> 00:14:26,966 This is a tremendous statement. 247 00:14:27,766 --> 00:14:29,133 Oh, that you get this statement. 248 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,166 It comes from RC. 249 00:14:31,966 --> 00:14:34,899 He has the power of being within himself. 250 00:14:36,166 --> 00:14:39,633 The power of being, meaning there is never a moment when 251 00:14:39,633 --> 00:14:41,266 he doesn't exist, ever. 252 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:44,633 In him was life. 253 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,666 In him is the power of being. 254 00:14:47,433 --> 00:14:48,500 No one else has that. 255 00:14:48,766 --> 00:14:49,433 No one else. 256 00:14:50,633 --> 00:14:54,066 He has the power to raise the dead. 257 00:14:54,633 --> 00:14:55,066 Why? 258 00:14:55,133 --> 00:14:56,500 Because he is life. 259 00:14:58,166 --> 00:14:59,399 He's the source of life. 260 00:15:01,533 --> 00:15:03,700 Life itself exists in him. 261 00:15:03,766 --> 00:15:05,200 He's the source of all life. 262 00:15:05,266 --> 00:15:05,799 Think of it. 263 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:09,600 Everything that exists in both the spiritual and the physical world, 264 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:10,633 he made. 265 00:15:12,933 --> 00:15:13,700 Amoeba. 266 00:15:14,433 --> 00:15:18,333 Mosquitoes, whales, sharks, planets. 267 00:15:19,333 --> 00:15:19,866 Everything. 268 00:15:20,866 --> 00:15:21,633 DNA. 269 00:15:23,666 --> 00:15:26,700 Inanimate things, animate things, all from the smallest cell 270 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:30,000 to the full complexity of the machines 271 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,366 that we are, that can see and can hear and 272 00:15:33,366 --> 00:15:37,233 can think and can reason, to everything that lives. 273 00:15:39,233 --> 00:15:40,299 all came into being. 274 00:15:41,166 --> 00:15:41,866 through Jesus. 275 00:15:44,933 --> 00:15:48,166 Therefore, he will himself raise all 276 00:15:48,166 --> 00:15:50,700 of the dead at the resurrection. 277 00:15:51,933 --> 00:15:55,233 And he will assign every human 278 00:15:55,233 --> 00:15:58,233 being who has ever lived on the planet 279 00:15:58,233 --> 00:16:03,799 Earth, a body, suited 280 00:16:03,833 --> 00:16:07,500 for an eternal dwelling place. 281 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:09,533 Again, death is not the end. 282 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,966 Death is just a split second transaction to 283 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,133 the next plane of existence. 284 00:16:18,766 --> 00:16:21,833 If you died right now, you'd go to that next plane immediately, 285 00:16:21,833 --> 00:16:24,399 as a believer, you'd be absent from the body present with the Lord. 286 00:16:25,533 --> 00:16:28,899 And then after the only other change after that is the resurrection. 287 00:16:29,033 --> 00:16:30,366 And then after that, that's it. 288 00:16:33,033 --> 00:16:36,500 Now, as we started to look at last time, what it 289 00:16:36,533 --> 00:16:39,600 was that set the resurrection of Lazarus apart from 290 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,066 the other miracles of resurrection, that Jesus performed, 291 00:16:43,066 --> 00:16:46,799 and we looked at those last time, was the fact that Lazarus, 292 00:16:46,799 --> 00:16:50,466 again, he had been dead a full four days. 293 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:54,033 The other people that Jesus raised, they had just died. 294 00:16:55,533 --> 00:16:58,066 And remember, I told you, the Jews did not embalm. 295 00:16:59,933 --> 00:17:02,633 They did absolutely nothing to stop the decay of the body. 296 00:17:04,299 --> 00:17:07,366 They wrapped the body, and they put all these spices all over it 297 00:17:07,366 --> 00:17:09,933 to deal with the smell, and they put it straight in the grave. 298 00:17:12,233 --> 00:17:15,400 Now, this is not going to be fun, but 299 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,033 I have to do this. 300 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:21,066 I need to tell you what happens with a dead body over the course of 4 days. 301 00:17:22,533 --> 00:17:23,333 It's pretty grisly. 302 00:17:24,933 --> 00:17:26,233 But you really need to know this. 303 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,766 Because in knowing this, you're going to better be able 304 00:17:30,766 --> 00:17:33,833 to grasp the magnitude of the miracle 305 00:17:33,833 --> 00:17:35,400 that we're talking about right here. 306 00:17:36,633 --> 00:17:40,233 Once the heart stops beating, the body cells are deprived 307 00:17:40,233 --> 00:17:41,799 of oxygen, and they start to die. 308 00:17:44,033 --> 00:17:47,033 Blood drains from throughout the circulatory 309 00:17:47,033 --> 00:17:49,366 system in pools in the low places. 310 00:17:50,099 --> 00:17:53,400 Muscles begin to stiffen, and what is commonly 311 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,633 known in the Latin as rigor mortise. 312 00:17:56,566 --> 00:17:59,099 That sets in after about three hours after death. 313 00:18:00,766 --> 00:18:04,233 By 24 hours, the body has lost all its heat. 314 00:18:05,866 --> 00:18:08,866 The muscles then lose their rigor 315 00:18:08,866 --> 00:18:12,533 mortis in 36 hours, and by 72 316 00:18:12,533 --> 00:18:14,700 hours, rigor mortis is completely gone. 317 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:19,500 All stiffness is gone, and the body is very soft. 318 00:18:21,599 --> 00:18:24,599 Looking a little bit deeper into this, as cells 319 00:18:24,599 --> 00:18:27,700 begin to die, bacteria, 320 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:28,833 go to work. 321 00:18:30,033 --> 00:18:33,033 Whether you like it or not, your body is filled with bacteria, 322 00:18:33,033 --> 00:18:34,766 but that's another subject for another day. 323 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,766 The bacteria in the body of a dead person starts to 324 00:18:39,766 --> 00:18:44,133 attack, breaking the cells down, the 325 00:18:44,133 --> 00:18:47,366 decomposing tissue takes on a horrific look. 326 00:18:49,299 --> 00:18:50,966 and a dastardly smell. 327 00:18:53,766 --> 00:18:55,799 And it emits green liquids. 328 00:18:57,166 --> 00:18:58,666 by the 72nd hour. 329 00:19:00,666 --> 00:19:03,900 And tissue, tissue releases 330 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:07,133 hydrogen sulfide, and methane as 331 00:19:07,133 --> 00:19:08,400 well as other gases. 332 00:19:09,599 --> 00:19:12,666 And when that happens, an 333 00:19:12,666 --> 00:19:15,766 unmistakable smell is emitted, and if you've ever smelled 334 00:19:15,766 --> 00:19:19,799 it, you know it's unlike any other smell you've ever smelled. 335 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,866 The body's outside, insects and animals will consume parts of the body. 336 00:19:27,333 --> 00:19:30,633 If they can get at it, meet 337 00:19:30,633 --> 00:19:32,000 Lazarus. 338 00:19:34,233 --> 00:19:35,666 When Jesus got to the tomb. 339 00:19:36,833 --> 00:19:37,500 There he is. 340 00:19:39,099 --> 00:19:41,866 That's the condition he's in when Jesus arrives. 341 00:19:43,666 --> 00:19:47,133 And that's important because there's no death in anyone's 342 00:19:47,133 --> 00:19:50,599 mind that was there that day, this man is dead. 343 00:19:52,433 --> 00:19:55,433 And Martha says down in verse 39 of this 11th 344 00:19:55,433 --> 00:19:58,433 chapter, Lord, by this time, there 345 00:19:58,433 --> 00:20:00,066 will be a stench. 346 00:20:00,733 --> 00:20:04,099 I prefer the King James, he stinketh. 347 00:20:06,333 --> 00:20:09,333 Now, Very unlike 348 00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:12,466 us in our extremely most comfortable time in human history 349 00:20:12,466 --> 00:20:15,633 2026 America, these people lived in 350 00:20:15,633 --> 00:20:16,700 a world of death. 351 00:20:19,066 --> 00:20:22,366 They didn't live in our sterile world of mortuaries 352 00:20:22,366 --> 00:20:25,799 and undertakers and embalming fluid, making the body 353 00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:29,333 look presentable with makeup for the future and getting the hair done. 354 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,433 These people lived with the horrors of death 355 00:20:34,433 --> 00:20:36,966 up close and personal. 356 00:20:37,966 --> 00:20:38,566 All the time. 357 00:20:39,433 --> 00:20:42,733 Especially during this time of Roman crucifixion, 358 00:20:42,733 --> 00:20:46,000 where people would be lined on the roads, gasping for air, 359 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 asphyxiating in live and living color as 360 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,599 you're walking down the road so the Romans could uphold justice. 361 00:20:52,666 --> 00:20:56,433 This is what's going to happen to you, if you don't fall in line. 362 00:20:58,366 --> 00:21:01,599 It's also important to understand that when somebody died in that time, 363 00:21:01,599 --> 00:21:05,700 there was a certain expectation 364 00:21:05,733 --> 00:21:08,933 of what a funeral was to be like, 365 00:21:08,933 --> 00:21:12,166 and that was a reality here with Lazarus's death. 366 00:21:13,533 --> 00:21:15,233 And particularly with these Jews. 367 00:21:15,633 --> 00:21:19,099 When somebody died, with these Jews, man, 368 00:21:19,133 --> 00:21:20,799 there was family, friends, neighbors. 369 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:24,766 Even loosely collected strangers, 370 00:21:24,766 --> 00:21:26,866 they would just pour into the scene. 371 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,666 And everybody showed up. 372 00:21:31,133 --> 00:21:34,366 And in the case of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, they must have been a very 373 00:21:34,366 --> 00:21:36,466 prominent family as we're going to see. 374 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,200 And we're going to pick up this story up where we left off in verses 17 375 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,700 and read through verse 19. 376 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:43,433 Look with me. 377 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:46,833 So when Jesus came, He 378 00:21:46,833 --> 00:21:48,933 found that he had already been in the tomb 4 days. 379 00:21:50,933 --> 00:21:54,833 Now, Bethany was near Jerusalem about 2 miles off, 380 00:21:54,833 --> 00:21:59,000 and many of the Jews had 381 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,599 come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 382 00:22:04,366 --> 00:22:06,599 So there was a big crowd there. 383 00:22:08,333 --> 00:22:11,333 You will remember from last time that what led up to Jesus coming 384 00:22:11,333 --> 00:22:14,466 here, the two sisters sent word to Jesus 385 00:22:14,466 --> 00:22:18,166 saying, Behold, he whom you love is sick. 386 00:22:18,333 --> 00:22:18,933 Remember? 387 00:22:19,066 --> 00:22:20,799 He wasn't dead yet. 388 00:22:20,866 --> 00:22:23,033 And Jesus was a whole day's journey away. 389 00:22:23,099 --> 00:22:24,900 And then what did Jesus do? 390 00:22:24,933 --> 00:22:26,599 He waited on purpose for 2 days. 391 00:22:28,066 --> 00:22:31,200 before getting on the road to come back to where Lazarus was. 392 00:22:32,733 --> 00:22:36,200 And if you remember, Lazarus was a very close personal friend of Jesus. 393 00:22:37,299 --> 00:22:38,333 He loved this family. 394 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:39,533 Look at verse 5. 395 00:22:40,733 --> 00:22:44,700 says, now Jesus loved Mary, Martha, 396 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:46,266 and her sister, and Lazarus. 397 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,700 Remember also the disciples did not want Jesus to come to Bethany 398 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:54,933 that was just 2 miles away from Jerusalem, because in their mind, 399 00:22:54,933 --> 00:22:57,933 dude, you just escaped a stoning there in 400 00:22:57,933 --> 00:22:58,966 Jerusalem. 401 00:22:59,633 --> 00:23:01,266 Why would you want to go back here? 402 00:23:02,799 --> 00:23:06,266 And then many people were believing up there in the other Bethany 403 00:23:06,299 --> 00:23:07,799 that were many miles away. 404 00:23:09,233 --> 00:23:10,566 Why would we want to mess that up? 405 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:12,099 All these people are coming to faith. 406 00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:14,633 And Jesus says, we're going. 407 00:23:16,533 --> 00:23:17,233 And Thomas. 408 00:23:18,299 --> 00:23:20,266 resigns himself to the inevitable. 409 00:23:21,533 --> 00:23:24,099 Well, let us also go so that we may die with him. 410 00:23:25,366 --> 00:23:25,733 Right? 411 00:23:27,266 --> 00:23:28,366 But you know what Jesus knew? 412 00:23:28,799 --> 00:23:31,433 The only death seemed to come to pass was going to be his own. 413 00:23:33,099 --> 00:23:34,233 On God's timetable. 414 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,566 Now, Jesus comes, not only because 415 00:23:38,566 --> 00:23:41,933 of his friend, and not only because he's sympathetic 416 00:23:41,933 --> 00:23:45,966 and has compassion for this family, but it's also the purpose of God. 417 00:23:47,133 --> 00:23:50,133 For the glory of God, that he would raise this 418 00:23:50,133 --> 00:23:53,133 man from the dead in a very public place 419 00:23:53,133 --> 00:23:57,033 with all these numbers of people around to see it for themselves. 420 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:00,533 It's a huge crowd of Jews at this funeral. 421 00:24:02,266 --> 00:24:05,799 Again, this village is on that road from Jericho to Jerusalem. 422 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:10,166 It would have been filled with people heading to the Passover. 423 00:24:12,033 --> 00:24:15,166 So, I mean, we don't know the exact number, but, I mean, there's 424 00:24:15,166 --> 00:24:18,166 literally the potential that there was hundreds of people that were around this 425 00:24:18,166 --> 00:24:19,733 tomb when this took place. 426 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:22,733 And every one of them. 427 00:24:24,433 --> 00:24:26,633 is going to be an eyewitness to a resurrection. 428 00:24:28,666 --> 00:24:31,666 Now, let me further set this scene here by describing a little 429 00:24:31,666 --> 00:24:35,033 bit of what a Jewish funeral was back then. 430 00:24:35,133 --> 00:24:39,466 As I said, when somebody died, They buried them right away. 431 00:24:40,366 --> 00:24:43,533 And as a result of death, people 432 00:24:43,533 --> 00:24:45,166 would be notified. 433 00:24:45,333 --> 00:24:48,566 Everybody connected to the family would be notified, extended 434 00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:52,066 family, friends, everybody, and then, boom, they would all come to the house. 435 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:56,733 There'd be a procession immediately to wherever 436 00:24:56,733 --> 00:24:58,233 they were going to place that body. 437 00:24:59,799 --> 00:25:02,866 They're not necessarily digging a hole like we do, but 438 00:25:02,866 --> 00:25:05,866 kind of like Jesus, put into some kind of cave. 439 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,333 There were a lot of caves in and around the area of Jerusalem, 440 00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:11,500 so it's likely they put him in some kind of a cave. 441 00:25:11,566 --> 00:25:15,033 It could have been a constructed tomb, but most likely a cave on 442 00:25:15,033 --> 00:25:18,099 some kind of shelf, kind of like they did in the catacombs. 443 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:19,933 Those type of places. 444 00:25:20,933 --> 00:25:23,566 That would have been the kind of place where they would have put Lazarus. 445 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,466 And then after the burial, the procession 446 00:25:27,466 --> 00:25:29,133 of people would then go back to the house. 447 00:25:30,333 --> 00:25:33,566 And the mourners would stay at the house for seven 448 00:25:33,599 --> 00:25:34,733 straight days. 449 00:25:36,833 --> 00:25:40,266 That is how long the initial part of the funeral lasted. 450 00:25:41,366 --> 00:25:43,500 They couldn't even eat until that body was buried. 451 00:25:45,266 --> 00:25:48,633 And they didn't want any kind of joy expressed 452 00:25:48,633 --> 00:25:51,700 at all until it was done. 453 00:25:52,666 --> 00:25:56,500 They actually designed a meal of bread, 454 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:59,666 hard boiled eggs and lentils. 455 00:25:59,733 --> 00:26:02,866 It was a traditional meal, and that was what 456 00:26:02,866 --> 00:26:06,333 was fed to the people who stayed at the house to mourn. 457 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,566 But the people who stay, they 458 00:26:11,566 --> 00:26:14,700 didn't just sit quietly at the house like Job's friends 459 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:17,700 and say nothing, kind of like we do at 460 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:19,433 the people's house we go to after the funeral. 461 00:26:20,633 --> 00:26:21,966 They mourned out loud. 462 00:26:24,299 --> 00:26:25,366 They wailed. 463 00:26:26,533 --> 00:26:27,133 Loudly. 464 00:26:29,733 --> 00:26:33,799 The women led this, so it was kind of a screaming situation. 465 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,233 It was a wailing, loud screaming. 466 00:26:38,433 --> 00:26:40,599 Now, they saw this as comfort. 467 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:43,833 Because of the sympathy behind it. 468 00:26:43,966 --> 00:26:47,733 Matter of fact, it was so traditional, it was expected. 469 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:52,433 At a Jewish family funeral, for seven days, 470 00:26:52,433 --> 00:26:55,433 this wailing went on. 471 00:26:56,866 --> 00:26:58,966 personally, I'm kind of glad we don't have that tradition. 472 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,033 So, when Jesus comes, And 473 00:27:05,033 --> 00:27:08,500 Lazarus has been dead for four days, this 474 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:10,366 is all still in full bloom. 475 00:27:12,633 --> 00:27:17,066 And by the way, they actually had hired mourners 476 00:27:17,099 --> 00:27:21,266 there in addition to the family and friends, professional 477 00:27:21,266 --> 00:27:24,533 whalers that kind of led the thing for 478 00:27:24,533 --> 00:27:25,799 everybody else, right? 479 00:27:25,833 --> 00:27:27,566 And if it starts getting a little quiet. 480 00:27:27,766 --> 00:27:30,533 They kick it up a notch and everybody kicks it up a notch, right? 481 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,500 So after the 7 days of intense wailing, 482 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:39,166 they would, they would then go into mourning for 30 483 00:27:39,166 --> 00:27:42,233 more days, but then, you know, the whaling. 484 00:27:42,299 --> 00:27:44,033 I mean, come on, 7 days is good. 485 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,533 And in that, 30 days. 486 00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:50,333 There would be further expressions over the 30 days 487 00:27:50,333 --> 00:27:54,099 of eulogies and remembrances and stories and really, 488 00:27:54,099 --> 00:27:56,033 whatever was necessary to comfort the family. 489 00:27:56,966 --> 00:27:58,833 I mean, it was a very powerful custom. 490 00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:00,400 Think about it. 491 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:02,933 Very different from us, right? 492 00:28:03,766 --> 00:28:07,200 I mean, we maybe have a wake the night before. 493 00:28:07,366 --> 00:28:09,000 Even that is going away. 494 00:28:09,033 --> 00:28:12,200 I'm finding, as I do, funerals, you don't even hardly see weights 495 00:28:12,233 --> 00:28:15,299 the night before, unless it's a very massive amount of people, 496 00:28:15,299 --> 00:28:18,366 usually the wake and the funeral, now, or on the 497 00:28:18,366 --> 00:28:21,633 same day, and usually the whole thing is just a couple hours or less. 498 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,299 As Al Mohler once said, we dig a hole, put them in the ground, 499 00:28:25,299 --> 00:28:27,933 and go back to the house for potato salad, and then it's done. 500 00:28:29,333 --> 00:28:29,933 That's it. 501 00:28:31,733 --> 00:28:32,799 We go on with life. 502 00:28:35,033 --> 00:28:35,799 They didn't do that. 503 00:28:37,833 --> 00:28:40,966 So these folks at Lazarus' time of mourning are all going 504 00:28:40,966 --> 00:28:44,433 through the regular rituals that I just described for you. 505 00:28:45,766 --> 00:28:48,233 They don't have any idea what they're being set up for. 506 00:28:50,133 --> 00:28:51,466 To be eyewitnesses. 507 00:28:53,733 --> 00:28:54,700 to this dead man. 508 00:28:56,433 --> 00:28:57,466 Coming back to life. 509 00:29:00,099 --> 00:29:03,266 I mean, there are many, verse 19 just said, who came to console 510 00:29:03,299 --> 00:29:04,633 Mary and Mark. 511 00:29:04,666 --> 00:29:05,133 Many. 512 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,433 There's a lot of people here. 513 00:29:08,333 --> 00:29:09,500 So let's move to verse 20. 514 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:15,166 It says, Martha, therefore, when she heard that 515 00:29:15,166 --> 00:29:18,766 Jesus was coming, went to meet him. 516 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:21,433 But Mary stayed at the house. 517 00:29:23,333 --> 00:29:26,400 Most likely, Martha heard that Jesus was 518 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,500 coming from the messenger that she sent to tell Jesus that 519 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:30,533 Lazarus was sick. 520 00:29:31,433 --> 00:29:34,900 So she hears Jesus is coming and she goes out to meet him, but 521 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:36,466 not Mary, our sister. 522 00:29:37,333 --> 00:29:41,166 She stays at the house, and here we come to these two sisters again. 523 00:29:43,433 --> 00:29:47,133 And their actions match their 524 00:29:47,133 --> 00:29:50,200 personalities, and you can learn about them 525 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,533 more in the Gospel of Luke. 526 00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:53,733 You remember the story. 527 00:29:54,766 --> 00:29:57,900 Jesus and disciples were traveling along, stopped in 528 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:01,200 Bethany, and Martha welcomed them all into her house. 529 00:30:02,533 --> 00:30:05,566 And Luke says she had a sister named Mary, who was 530 00:30:05,566 --> 00:30:08,566 sitting at the Lord's feet, listening to 531 00:30:08,566 --> 00:30:10,000 his word as he taught. 532 00:30:11,333 --> 00:30:15,366 At the same time, Marta was distracted making all 533 00:30:15,366 --> 00:30:18,466 her preparations to feed the people that were in the house, 534 00:30:18,466 --> 00:30:22,799 and she comes up to Jesus, says, Lord, do 535 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:26,166 you not care that my sister left me to do all the serving alone? 536 00:30:29,333 --> 00:30:30,966 She's pretty bold there, wouldn't you say? 537 00:30:32,766 --> 00:30:36,299 She's saying, hey, tell sister to come help me. 538 00:30:36,966 --> 00:30:38,099 I got dishes to wash. 539 00:30:40,066 --> 00:30:43,433 But Jesus says to her, Martha, Martha. 540 00:30:44,133 --> 00:30:47,633 And boy, when you get your name twice from Jesus, 541 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,633 You know you're probably in trouble, right? 542 00:30:53,933 --> 00:30:56,333 You are worried and bothered about so many things. 543 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:00,933 And in a sense, he says, those things don't matter. 544 00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:06,033 Only one thing is necessary for Mary has chosen 545 00:31:06,033 --> 00:31:10,400 the good heart, which shall not be taken from her. 546 00:31:12,033 --> 00:31:13,533 In other words, no. 547 00:31:15,266 --> 00:31:16,966 I'm not going to tell her to go to the kitchen. 548 00:31:18,099 --> 00:31:19,433 She's chosen the right thing. 549 00:31:21,633 --> 00:31:24,799 From there, we start to see two very different personalities 550 00:31:24,833 --> 00:31:25,966 in these sisters. 551 00:31:27,833 --> 00:31:32,033 Mary seems to be more pensive 552 00:31:32,033 --> 00:31:36,166 and thoughtful, inward, maybe 553 00:31:36,166 --> 00:31:39,166 kind of a melancholy personality, as we're 554 00:31:39,166 --> 00:31:40,766 going to see in a moment. 555 00:31:41,366 --> 00:31:42,400 Martha's the busy one. 556 00:31:43,966 --> 00:31:45,000 She's always moving. 557 00:31:45,766 --> 00:31:48,766 She's got the more aggressive personality, as you 558 00:31:48,766 --> 00:31:50,700 can see, in the way she approached Jesus. 559 00:31:52,233 --> 00:31:55,233 And we see that in John 11, too, Martha gets 560 00:31:55,233 --> 00:31:56,500 word that Jesus is coming. 561 00:31:56,633 --> 00:31:59,633 She charges off immediately in that direction to go 562 00:31:59,633 --> 00:32:00,966 meet him, but what does Mary do? 563 00:32:01,433 --> 00:32:02,633 Mary stays back at the house. 564 00:32:04,433 --> 00:32:07,299 She's probably brokenhearted and sad over the loss of her brother. 565 00:32:07,366 --> 00:32:08,333 She doesn't even want to move. 566 00:32:09,433 --> 00:32:12,633 Matter of fact, she doesn't even know Jesus is coming because she doesn't 567 00:32:12,633 --> 00:32:15,799 even find out until verse 28 when Martha 568 00:32:15,833 --> 00:32:17,166 comes back and tells her. 569 00:32:19,233 --> 00:32:21,033 She just caught up in the loss of her brother. 570 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,799 Just a total personality difference. 571 00:32:28,233 --> 00:32:30,866 And years ago, I can't remember who Chrissy and I were listened to. 572 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000 It might have been Diane Lacy, and Christy 573 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 brought up the fact, hey, don't be too hard on the mark. 574 00:32:38,433 --> 00:32:42,033 And she said that because Christie, as you know, is a Martha. 575 00:32:42,833 --> 00:32:46,299 I mean, I sat at the table yesterday for hours, 576 00:32:46,299 --> 00:32:49,666 working on revamping this, and a little bit of Hebrews, 577 00:32:49,666 --> 00:32:53,033 she never sat down all afternoon, grandkids running around, she's making food. 578 00:32:53,433 --> 00:32:54,700 That's her personality. 579 00:32:54,766 --> 00:32:57,933 She says, hey, don't be too hard on Martha. 580 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:00,366 People had to be fit. 581 00:33:01,066 --> 00:33:02,933 Things had to be tended to. 582 00:33:03,866 --> 00:33:05,633 And that was her personality. 583 00:33:06,533 --> 00:33:08,766 But again, what did Jesus say? 584 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,733 She chose the better part to say. 585 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:15,900 Well, in context, how often did 586 00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:19,433 you have the god man Jesus Christ in your house to teach? 587 00:33:19,966 --> 00:33:23,799 So if ever there was a time, say, hey, get your own food, right, 588 00:33:23,799 --> 00:33:25,133 this would have been the time. 589 00:33:26,099 --> 00:33:30,133 But I say that to note the personality difference. 590 00:33:30,166 --> 00:33:32,266 And Chrissy and I have talked about this, and I'm talking. 591 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,766 Matter of fact, I asked her about it yesterday again. 592 00:33:35,333 --> 00:33:38,400 But as Martha reached Jesus, 593 00:33:40,599 --> 00:33:43,733 The thought, no doubt had plagued 594 00:33:43,733 --> 00:33:47,099 her mind, and she had been sharing 595 00:33:47,099 --> 00:33:50,133 this thought with Mary for four days, you can 596 00:33:50,133 --> 00:33:52,366 be sure, was that Jesus should have been there. 597 00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:56,466 If he hadn't left, 598 00:33:58,366 --> 00:33:59,500 This wouldn't have happened. 599 00:34:00,466 --> 00:34:01,500 Now look at verse 21. 600 00:34:03,033 --> 00:34:06,866 Martha then said to Jesus, Lord. 601 00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:09,233 I mean, stop right there, man. 602 00:34:10,533 --> 00:34:11,733 That is a great confession. 603 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:14,933 But look next at what she says. 604 00:34:16,233 --> 00:34:19,599 If you had been here, my brother would 605 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:20,866 not have died. 606 00:34:23,733 --> 00:34:25,400 Here she is again telling him what to do. 607 00:34:27,633 --> 00:34:29,066 I mean, this is definitely her. 608 00:34:30,933 --> 00:34:34,300 The first time she said anything to him, she was telling him what to do. 609 00:34:34,433 --> 00:34:37,266 Can you go in there and tell my sister to come in here and help me wash the dishes? 610 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:42,900 And really, this here, it's kind 611 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:44,466 of a scolding again, right? 612 00:34:45,433 --> 00:34:48,533 I mean, if you would have done what you should have been doing, you would have been 613 00:34:48,533 --> 00:34:51,233 here, and this never would have happened, and Lazarus would be here with us. 614 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,400 Now, she knew for sure Jesus had healing power. 615 00:34:58,366 --> 00:35:01,233 But she obviously didn't think he could do anything with dead folks. 616 00:35:03,533 --> 00:35:07,133 Probably the speculation, I think this is true, about 617 00:35:07,133 --> 00:35:10,199 the other two people that were raised from the dead and certainly the news 618 00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:13,066 of that had gone all around the country of Israel. 619 00:35:14,333 --> 00:35:17,400 It's probably, I bet, added in there, well, 620 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,466 you know, they probably weren't really dead, because people popped 621 00:35:20,466 --> 00:35:23,733 up that people thought they were dead, even at funerals sometimes, 622 00:35:23,733 --> 00:35:25,966 and they popped up in those days, and they weren't all the way dead. 623 00:35:27,066 --> 00:35:30,099 Because it was just actually way too crazy to think somebody could do this. 624 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,833 Even other miracles that they had seen Jesus do, but raising 625 00:35:34,833 --> 00:35:35,866 somebody from the dead. 626 00:35:37,533 --> 00:35:41,266 And she knew if Jesus had been there, no 627 00:35:41,266 --> 00:35:43,500 question, he would have healed Lazarus. 628 00:35:44,266 --> 00:35:47,433 He healed a bunch of strangers that he didn't even know, so 629 00:35:47,433 --> 00:35:50,900 surely he would have healed his friend, that he loved. 630 00:35:51,466 --> 00:35:54,699 So she knew that Jesus was capable 631 00:35:54,699 --> 00:35:56,199 of healing. 632 00:35:58,199 --> 00:36:01,733 But her faith comes short of believing he 633 00:36:01,733 --> 00:36:03,766 can raise Lazarus from dead. 634 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,800 If Jesus had only been there, and we're 635 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,433 going to see, her and Mary had talked about that. 636 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:16,900 In a sense, think of it, they're kind of 637 00:36:17,866 --> 00:36:19,500 sitting in judgment on Jesus, right? 638 00:36:21,633 --> 00:36:23,099 I mean, there's there's doubt. 639 00:36:24,166 --> 00:36:27,900 There's question here about his wisdom, if you read 640 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:31,133 between the lines, even about his power, but next, 641 00:36:31,966 --> 00:36:33,300 there's a little ray of hope. 642 00:36:33,699 --> 00:36:34,833 Look what Martha says. 643 00:36:35,566 --> 00:36:36,333 Verse 22. 644 00:36:36,766 --> 00:36:40,199 Even now, I know that 645 00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:45,833 whatever you ask of God, God, will give you. 646 00:36:47,199 --> 00:36:50,199 So Martha clearly knows 647 00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:51,466 who she's talking to. 648 00:36:53,133 --> 00:36:56,500 Remember, verse 21, she said, Lord, Later, 649 00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:58,233 look down in verse 27 what she says. 650 00:36:58,833 --> 00:36:59,599 Look at this. 651 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,300 Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the 652 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,833 Christ, the Son of God, even he who 653 00:37:06,833 --> 00:37:07,866 comes into the world. 654 00:37:08,933 --> 00:37:11,400 And that is some sound theology right there. 655 00:37:11,433 --> 00:37:14,666 That is a great grasp of Christology right there. 656 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,333 She understands the lordship of Christ. 657 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,500 She understands that he is the Christ, the Messiah, 658 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:21,699 the anointed one. 659 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:25,233 She understands that he possesses the nature of 660 00:37:25,233 --> 00:37:28,000 God, with the title Son of God. 661 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:31,366 She understands that he came from heaven into the world. 662 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:32,866 That's the incarnation. 663 00:37:33,033 --> 00:37:36,166 She also understands by what she says in 664 00:37:36,166 --> 00:37:39,333 verse 22 that in his incarnation, Jesus 665 00:37:39,333 --> 00:37:43,099 has submitted himself to the Father's will. 666 00:37:45,233 --> 00:37:48,400 Whatever you ask of God, she says, God will give you. 667 00:37:51,533 --> 00:37:52,599 It looks like some kind of way. 668 00:37:53,733 --> 00:37:57,400 When she was in the kitchen doing them dishes, she 669 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,366 was overhearing what Jesus was saying to Mary. 670 00:38:00,333 --> 00:38:03,433 This woman is very doctrinally sound when it comes to Jesus. 671 00:38:05,099 --> 00:38:07,933 No doubt he'd stated her house many times. 672 00:38:10,133 --> 00:38:14,733 But somehow, with all that she knew, there 673 00:38:14,733 --> 00:38:18,199 was this pain, that testifies 674 00:38:18,233 --> 00:38:22,533 to a faith, that comes short of 675 00:38:22,533 --> 00:38:24,566 believing in his power to raise the dead. 676 00:38:25,366 --> 00:38:28,533 Verse 23, Jesus respond. 677 00:38:30,333 --> 00:38:34,000 Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. 678 00:38:36,333 --> 00:38:39,400 And then, She shows off a little more. 679 00:38:39,533 --> 00:38:40,133 of her theology. 680 00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:41,566 Look at verse 24. 681 00:38:43,233 --> 00:38:46,533 Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection 682 00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:50,500 on the last day, so she also has a pretty solid eschatology as well, right? 683 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,133 She knows there's a future resurrection on the last day. 684 00:38:55,199 --> 00:38:58,800 And by the way, she could have known this just from the Old Testament itself. 685 00:38:58,833 --> 00:39:01,900 Look in Job 19, verse 25 to 26, 686 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:03,400 all the Jews had this. 687 00:39:03,766 --> 00:39:06,833 As for me, I know that my redeemer lives, and at the 688 00:39:06,833 --> 00:39:09,900 last, he will take his stand on the earth, even after my 689 00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:12,900 skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh, I 690 00:39:12,900 --> 00:39:14,166 shall see God. 691 00:39:15,366 --> 00:39:16,133 That's Joe. 692 00:39:17,033 --> 00:39:20,033 Daniel 12, too, many of those who sleep in 693 00:39:20,033 --> 00:39:23,166 the dust of the ground will awake, these 2 everlasting 694 00:39:23,166 --> 00:39:26,800 life, but others to disgrace and everlasting contempt. 695 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,133 That's Old Testament. 696 00:39:30,033 --> 00:39:33,633 So she had all of this great theological 697 00:39:33,633 --> 00:39:36,699 understanding, even about the resurrection of all people, and she's 698 00:39:36,699 --> 00:39:39,233 saying to Jesus, hey, I know that. 699 00:39:39,333 --> 00:39:42,333 I mean, I understand that Lazarus is going to be raised then, 700 00:39:42,333 --> 00:39:44,866 but That's not helping us now. 701 00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:46,733 It's not helping us today. 702 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:51,133 And then Jesus responds to that. 703 00:39:51,766 --> 00:39:52,666 verse 25. 704 00:39:54,099 --> 00:39:55,533 Jesus said to her, I am. 705 00:39:56,733 --> 00:39:58,633 The resurrection and the life. 706 00:40:00,033 --> 00:40:01,833 He who believes in me will live. 707 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,333 Even if he dies. 708 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,366 That's the 5th of the I Ms. 709 00:40:08,199 --> 00:40:09,400 The Gospel of John. 710 00:40:09,466 --> 00:40:12,533 I am the resurrection and 711 00:40:12,533 --> 00:40:15,966 the life, the source of all life. 712 00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:18,833 He doesn't say, I can raise the dead. 713 00:40:19,199 --> 00:40:21,599 No, he says, I am the resurrection. 714 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,533 I am the life, the source of all life. 715 00:40:26,033 --> 00:40:28,966 He who believes in me will live, even if he dies. 716 00:40:29,033 --> 00:40:32,133 Look at verse 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me 717 00:40:32,133 --> 00:40:33,933 will never die. 718 00:40:33,933 --> 00:40:35,266 Do you believe this? 719 00:40:37,366 --> 00:40:38,099 Do you believe? 720 00:40:41,133 --> 00:40:43,833 That's the most compelling question there is in all of questions. 721 00:40:47,133 --> 00:40:50,133 If you don't, You're without excuse. 722 00:40:51,466 --> 00:40:52,800 Especially if you come to charge here. 723 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,933 Do you believe that he is the resurrection and the life. 724 00:40:58,966 --> 00:41:00,166 God in human flesh. 725 00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:03,266 Come down from heaven, the savior of the world. 726 00:41:03,333 --> 00:41:05,800 Do you believe that he is Lord? 727 00:41:06,866 --> 00:41:07,900 She believed all of that. 728 00:41:10,166 --> 00:41:11,433 She gave testimony to that. 729 00:41:11,699 --> 00:41:12,733 Look at her response. 730 00:41:12,766 --> 00:41:13,666 verse 27. 731 00:41:14,199 --> 00:41:15,933 Yes, Lord. 732 00:41:16,966 --> 00:41:20,933 I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, even he who has come into the world. 733 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,166 She says, yes, Lord, I have believed, meaning 734 00:41:24,166 --> 00:41:27,233 I've already believed that you are the Messiah, the 735 00:41:27,233 --> 00:41:29,333 Son of God, even he who has come into the world. 736 00:41:30,466 --> 00:41:31,066 Guess what? 737 00:41:31,133 --> 00:41:32,566 She didn't even know about the cross yet. 738 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,733 She didn't know nothing about the cross. 739 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:36,166 Why? 740 00:41:36,166 --> 00:41:36,766 It hadn't happened yet. 741 00:41:37,966 --> 00:41:40,500 She didn't know anything about his resurrection either. 742 00:41:41,533 --> 00:41:42,599 Because it hadn't happened yet. 743 00:41:44,099 --> 00:41:46,933 But she believed everything that had been revealed. 744 00:41:47,666 --> 00:41:50,866 Up to that point, you want an example of an Old Testament 745 00:41:50,866 --> 00:41:54,833 saint, an Old Testament believer, here's an Old Testament saint right here. 746 00:41:55,733 --> 00:41:59,133 Fullest extent, from that day to this, if any person doesn't 747 00:41:59,133 --> 00:42:01,666 believe, it's not because there's not enough evidence. 748 00:42:03,933 --> 00:42:04,733 Especially in America. 749 00:42:06,766 --> 00:42:08,033 The evidence is massive. 750 00:42:09,566 --> 00:42:13,066 The testimony of the power that is about to be displayed before 751 00:42:13,066 --> 00:42:16,199 a huge amount of witnesses right now, he appeared to 500 752 00:42:16,199 --> 00:42:19,866 people at once on that hill in Galilee after he rose from the dead. 753 00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:22,300 There's so much evidence. 754 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,800 If you don't believe you're just like the Jews who didn't. 755 00:42:27,766 --> 00:42:30,933 I will not have this man to rule 756 00:42:30,933 --> 00:42:32,566 over me. 757 00:42:33,699 --> 00:42:35,666 So many people in our country are like that. 758 00:42:37,366 --> 00:42:38,733 Now look at verse 28 to 30. 759 00:42:39,166 --> 00:42:42,599 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, 760 00:42:42,599 --> 00:42:47,099 her sister, saying, secretly, the teacher is here, and is calling for you. 761 00:42:48,333 --> 00:42:51,333 And when she heard it, she got up quickly and was coming to him. 762 00:42:52,066 --> 00:42:55,066 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in 763 00:42:55,066 --> 00:42:57,099 the place where Martha had met him. 764 00:42:57,233 --> 00:43:00,900 So Martha goes back to the house, whispers 765 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:03,900 to Mary that Jesus is there, and they rush to the 766 00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:05,866 place where he would be waiting. 767 00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:11,933 And next we get a little picture, again, of the kind of comfort that 768 00:43:11,933 --> 00:43:13,266 was being provided by friends. 769 00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:14,199 Look at verse 31. 770 00:43:14,699 --> 00:43:17,766 Then the Jews, who were there with her in 771 00:43:17,766 --> 00:43:20,966 the house and consoling her, when they saw that Mary got 772 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,066 up quickly and went out, they 773 00:43:24,066 --> 00:43:27,099 followed her, supposing that she was going 774 00:43:27,099 --> 00:43:29,800 to the tomb to weep there. 775 00:43:29,866 --> 00:43:33,000 So that's why I say, when Martha first ran out and heard from 776 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,300 Jesus and Mary stayed in there, it appears that she was inconsolable. 777 00:43:37,366 --> 00:43:38,633 I mean, she's just weeping. 778 00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:40,366 This is four days in. 779 00:43:41,333 --> 00:43:43,733 They're still there at the house with her, consoling her. 780 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,233 But then, all of a sudden, when Martha comes in and whispers to her, boom, 781 00:43:48,233 --> 00:43:51,466 she jumps up out of the house, and they're thinking, man, 782 00:43:51,466 --> 00:43:54,833 she's so overcome with grief, she's running back to the grave, she 783 00:43:54,833 --> 00:43:57,833 just wants to take her sadness over there, just weep at 784 00:43:57,833 --> 00:43:59,466 the grapeside, now, instead of at the house. 785 00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:05,666 But what this does is provide more 786 00:44:05,699 --> 00:44:09,966 eyewitnesses for what it is about to happen. 787 00:44:10,666 --> 00:44:13,066 Oh, don't you know Jesus always knows what he's doing. 788 00:44:15,033 --> 00:44:17,199 He lets everybody get down there to the great. 789 00:44:18,666 --> 00:44:19,966 He plans it out perfectly. 790 00:44:21,099 --> 00:44:21,866 Verse 32 791 00:44:22,066 --> 00:44:25,199 Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw him and fell 792 00:44:25,199 --> 00:44:28,366 at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, 793 00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:30,433 my brother would not have died. 794 00:44:32,566 --> 00:44:33,900 Now we know where she got that from. 795 00:44:35,866 --> 00:44:36,533 Martha. 796 00:44:37,133 --> 00:44:41,266 had passed on that discontent to 797 00:44:41,266 --> 00:44:43,366 her meek, quiet little sister. 798 00:44:44,633 --> 00:44:46,199 She fell at Jesus' feet. 799 00:44:46,233 --> 00:44:49,766 She calls him, Lord, just like Martha, but just like Martha, 800 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,533 she says, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 801 00:44:54,699 --> 00:44:56,133 Oh, you could have stopped it all. 802 00:44:57,666 --> 00:44:58,666 This didn't need to happen. 803 00:45:00,699 --> 00:45:03,833 But look at Jesus' response in verse 33, 804 00:45:03,833 --> 00:45:06,466 when Jesus therefore saw her weeping. 805 00:45:07,966 --> 00:45:11,266 And the Jews who came with her, also weeping. 806 00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:15,599 He was deeply moved in spirit, 807 00:45:16,666 --> 00:45:17,699 and was troubled. 808 00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:20,566 Oh, don't pass this. 809 00:45:22,533 --> 00:45:23,599 This is quite a scene. 810 00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:28,666 The weeping in the Greek of Mary and the Jews is still 811 00:45:28,666 --> 00:45:32,500 this strong kind of weeping and wailing. 812 00:45:32,566 --> 00:45:35,566 It's a sobbing, and when Jesus sees 813 00:45:35,566 --> 00:45:38,800 all this sobbing, it says, he 814 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,500 was deeply moved. 815 00:45:42,699 --> 00:45:47,433 And that word means a deep emotion. 816 00:45:47,566 --> 00:45:50,633 It can even mean an angry, deep 817 00:45:50,633 --> 00:45:51,699 sorrow. 818 00:45:51,766 --> 00:45:54,766 It just sort of, it just grabs, this 819 00:45:54,766 --> 00:45:58,300 phrase just grabs everything with deep emotion. 820 00:45:58,533 --> 00:46:01,766 It even says he was deeply moved in spirit. 821 00:46:02,099 --> 00:46:02,699 You see that? 822 00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:05,400 In his inner person. 823 00:46:06,933 --> 00:46:10,066 And lastly, it also adds to that, that he was 824 00:46:10,066 --> 00:46:14,400 troubled, meaning, he 825 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,566 allowed himself to feel the trouble. 826 00:46:19,366 --> 00:46:23,099 He let himself feel everything, 827 00:46:23,099 --> 00:46:26,099 as we're going to learn in Hebrews later, he was in 828 00:46:26,099 --> 00:46:28,199 all points tempted, like as are we. 829 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,533 He's been touched with the feelings of all our affirmities, 830 00:46:31,533 --> 00:46:33,766 as our great high priest. 831 00:46:33,833 --> 00:46:35,099 Now I want you to put this together. 832 00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:38,266 This man was his friend. 833 00:46:39,666 --> 00:46:40,533 He loved his friend. 834 00:46:41,933 --> 00:46:43,266 And now he's lost his friend. 835 00:46:44,933 --> 00:46:48,633 And he loved Mary, and Martha, too, and as 836 00:46:48,633 --> 00:46:51,633 we're fixing to see in just a minute, everybody there is going to recognize 837 00:46:51,633 --> 00:46:54,033 how much he loved them. 838 00:46:54,766 --> 00:46:58,133 But you have to understand, this is Jesus. 839 00:47:00,233 --> 00:47:03,233 The pain that he feels here is so 840 00:47:03,233 --> 00:47:05,699 much more than just the loss of a friend. 841 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,433 The pain that he feels here is so much more than 842 00:47:11,433 --> 00:47:14,133 just sympathy for the two sisters. 843 00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:15,033 This is God. 844 00:47:17,433 --> 00:47:18,400 In human flesh. 845 00:47:20,433 --> 00:47:24,933 He feels a far more transcendent 846 00:47:24,933 --> 00:47:26,099 pain here. 847 00:47:28,300 --> 00:47:31,766 At that moment, he understands, at that moment, that 848 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,966 he is absolutely surrounded by 849 00:47:34,966 --> 00:47:39,300 unbelievers, and a lot of them who are representative 850 00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:42,599 of a whole nation that he has revealed himself to 851 00:47:42,599 --> 00:47:45,666 of unbelievers, and he realizes at 852 00:47:45,666 --> 00:47:48,766 this moment, as he's standing there looking around, that they 853 00:47:48,766 --> 00:47:51,766 are all headed for eternal judgment, because 854 00:47:51,766 --> 00:47:54,766 they have absolutely rejected him, because they 855 00:47:54,766 --> 00:47:57,033 will not receive him, and then broad 856 00:47:57,099 --> 00:47:58,766 that out at the same time. 857 00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:02,033 He understands the pain and the suffering of 858 00:48:02,033 --> 00:48:05,566 all humanity, and the human experience, all 859 00:48:05,566 --> 00:48:09,099 through history, that faces the same inevitable 860 00:48:09,099 --> 00:48:12,166 hour of human loss when they lose a child 861 00:48:12,166 --> 00:48:15,599 or a mom or a dad or a grandparent, 862 00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:18,633 and he feels it all at the same time, like nobody 863 00:48:18,633 --> 00:48:20,133 else could ever feel it. 864 00:48:22,266 --> 00:48:25,966 That's what's hitting him here in this verse as the god man. 865 00:48:27,466 --> 00:48:28,666 And he knows perfectly. 866 00:48:30,633 --> 00:48:33,866 How severe the loss is for every person who 867 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:37,199 steps out into eternity, having rejected 868 00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:39,533 him, he feels all of this. 869 00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,066 This is a massive moment of agony for Jesus. 870 00:48:43,366 --> 00:48:46,533 He not only enters into the sorrows of these people who 871 00:48:46,533 --> 00:48:50,199 are broken because they've lost the one that they love. 872 00:48:50,266 --> 00:48:53,266 He also sees way, way infinitely more than 873 00:48:53,266 --> 00:48:57,166 that, over all the centuries of human experience. 874 00:48:57,233 --> 00:49:00,233 He understands perfectly what sin has done 875 00:49:00,233 --> 00:49:03,300 to this world and what unbelief has done to 876 00:49:03,300 --> 00:49:06,233 these people who are gathered all around him in this moment. 877 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,533 Now look at what Jesus says next in verse 34. 878 00:49:11,466 --> 00:49:12,766 And said, where have you laid him? 879 00:49:14,866 --> 00:49:16,599 They said to him, Lord, come and see. 880 00:49:17,133 --> 00:49:18,266 And then in verse 35. 881 00:49:19,966 --> 00:49:21,699 We have the shortest verse in the Bible. 882 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:24,000 Jesus. 883 00:49:24,633 --> 00:49:25,233 When. 884 00:49:26,633 --> 00:49:28,566 Now the Greek word for wept here. 885 00:49:29,699 --> 00:49:31,033 It's not the one we saw earlier. 886 00:49:32,266 --> 00:49:35,500 It's not the word for weeping and sobbing that the Jews 887 00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:38,800 and Mary... 888 00:49:40,066 --> 00:49:41,033 This is another word. 889 00:49:43,366 --> 00:49:46,533 This is a verb in its form here that 890 00:49:46,533 --> 00:49:50,500 means a sudden outburst 891 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:53,966 into open tears and open, 892 00:49:54,933 --> 00:49:57,900 serious crying, immediately. 893 00:50:00,933 --> 00:50:04,233 What it demonstrates is as he's feeling all of this emotion 894 00:50:04,233 --> 00:50:07,233 that I just described, he literally cannot 895 00:50:07,233 --> 00:50:08,900 hold it in at this moment. 896 00:50:11,266 --> 00:50:12,833 This is the man of sorrows. 897 00:50:14,633 --> 00:50:15,666 Acquainted with grief. 898 00:50:17,466 --> 00:50:19,433 And he can't contain it. 899 00:50:20,266 --> 00:50:22,900 In his humanity, he just can't contain it. 900 00:50:24,300 --> 00:50:27,533 Because what he sees going on in his own loss, 901 00:50:27,533 --> 00:50:30,833 and the loss of the sisters, and in the unbelief of the crowd, 902 00:50:30,833 --> 00:50:34,133 and all the coming generations of centuries 903 00:50:34,133 --> 00:50:37,433 of people who will feel the same agonizing 904 00:50:37,433 --> 00:50:41,633 separations from their loved ones that sin has produced 905 00:50:41,633 --> 00:50:44,833 all of this at the same time, and he can't hold it in. 906 00:50:45,099 --> 00:50:46,300 It just burst out of him. 907 00:50:47,266 --> 00:50:49,300 In Opus, serious crying. 908 00:50:49,366 --> 00:50:50,933 This is not sentimental tears. 909 00:50:51,233 --> 00:50:53,566 This is not prolonged warmer tears. 910 00:50:53,633 --> 00:50:57,000 This is a shocking outburst in 911 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,133 his humanity of our sympathetic, high priest. 912 00:51:01,233 --> 00:51:03,099 So much of a moment this was. 913 00:51:03,599 --> 00:51:06,633 Look what it says next in verse 36, so the 914 00:51:06,633 --> 00:51:09,633 Jews were seeing, saying, see how 915 00:51:09,633 --> 00:51:11,866 he loved. 916 00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:17,199 It impacted everybody that was there with great effect. 917 00:51:19,666 --> 00:51:20,199 They were right. 918 00:51:22,733 --> 00:51:26,566 His tears stood out above everybody's tears, by far. 919 00:51:29,266 --> 00:51:30,533 See how he loved him. 920 00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:34,733 They used filet oh, how much affection 921 00:51:34,733 --> 00:51:36,599 he had for him, but they didn't see the whole picture. 922 00:51:36,633 --> 00:51:39,166 They couldn't understand the whole picture. 923 00:51:39,666 --> 00:51:41,866 We can't fully comprehend the whole picture. 924 00:51:42,033 --> 00:51:45,199 They didn't know that what led to this outburst was 925 00:51:45,233 --> 00:51:48,300 far more than his affection for Lazarus. 926 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,133 It was all the reality of sin and death and judgment in God's wrath. 927 00:51:58,133 --> 00:51:59,400 that was behind that scene. 928 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,366 Unmistakably, including what he was fixing to have to go through. 929 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,033 for sinners who believe, and he stands 930 00:52:09,033 --> 00:52:12,500 there, at 931 00:52:12,533 --> 00:52:17,099 the edge of the tomb, and he's sobbing. 932 00:52:19,866 --> 00:52:22,300 And feeling the full weight all of this. 933 00:52:25,666 --> 00:52:26,733 And what happens next? 934 00:52:29,066 --> 00:52:31,366 It's astounding. 935 00:52:33,233 --> 00:52:33,800 Let's pray. 936 00:52:35,099 --> 00:52:39,066 Father, we thank you for this marvelous, wonderful account. 937 00:52:39,633 --> 00:52:42,766 Oh, Lord, we don't even deserve to be at 938 00:52:42,766 --> 00:52:45,766 this tune, but yet you have put it in 939 00:52:45,766 --> 00:52:48,833 place in your word, for 940 00:52:48,833 --> 00:52:51,900 all of your church, for all of the 941 00:52:51,900 --> 00:52:56,366 centuries of time until you come again, to be right at this tomb, 942 00:52:56,366 --> 00:52:59,933 for what happened that day, the most remarkable miracle 943 00:53:00,533 --> 00:53:02,833 of raising Lazarus from the dead, Lord. 944 00:53:02,866 --> 00:53:06,699 Help us to feel, and 945 00:53:06,699 --> 00:53:09,766 know, and understand some of 946 00:53:09,766 --> 00:53:13,066 the weight, of the reality of the full person 947 00:53:13,066 --> 00:53:15,533 of who Jesus, the God man, is. 948 00:53:15,766 --> 00:53:19,133 I pray it has affected every heart, and 949 00:53:19,133 --> 00:53:22,133 that we would not leave from this place the same in the way that we think 950 00:53:22,133 --> 00:53:25,199 about our king, and that 951 00:53:25,199 --> 00:53:27,599 everything we've done today has been done to your glory. 952 00:53:28,233 --> 00:53:29,500 In Jesus' name we pray. 953 00:53:29,566 --> 00:53:30,099 Amen.