1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,933 Thank you, music ministers. 2 00:00:04,166 --> 00:00:05,366 You have your Bibles. 3 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:07,866 Or you can look upon the screen. 4 00:00:09,099 --> 00:00:12,333 Up and with me to the gospel of John chapter 11. 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:15,066 I said is, 6 00:00:16,333 --> 00:00:19,399 Every one of these texts, especially now at the beginning of 7 00:00:19,933 --> 00:00:22,699 Hebrews, is very, very thick. 8 00:00:22,699 --> 00:00:24,566 This one is really great. 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:25,500 It's so great. 10 00:00:26,466 --> 00:00:29,466 And I really just really want to make 11 00:00:29,466 --> 00:00:33,000 it as best I can for you, and as understandable as 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,866 I can, and explain it as well as I can. 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,133 So it just is, it's taking me more time than usual 14 00:00:39,133 --> 00:00:41,899 to prepare, uh, these sermons. 15 00:00:41,899 --> 00:00:44,166 So we flip flop back and forth. 16 00:00:44,233 --> 00:00:45,433 We're back in John 11. 17 00:00:47,799 --> 00:00:50,966 If you can remember the last time we were here, we worked 18 00:00:50,966 --> 00:00:54,033 our way up through verse 36, 19 00:00:54,066 --> 00:00:54,500 And guess what? 20 00:00:54,566 --> 00:00:57,200 We're finally gonna get Lazarus out the tomb today. 21 00:00:57,566 --> 00:01:01,033 He'd been in there for what, three sermons, I think, is it? 22 00:01:01,166 --> 00:01:04,299 And, uh, so now we're getting him out, and let's 23 00:01:04,299 --> 00:01:07,400 read 1st our text in verses 37 24 00:01:08,299 --> 00:01:09,466 to 44. 25 00:01:09,599 --> 00:01:10,666 We'll start by doing that. 26 00:01:13,233 --> 00:01:17,166 But some of them said, Could 27 00:01:17,166 --> 00:01:21,799 not this man who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man also from dying? 28 00:01:23,466 --> 00:01:27,000 So Jesus, again, being deeply 29 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,166 moved within, came to the tomb. 30 00:01:31,466 --> 00:01:34,500 Now, it was a cave, and a stone 31 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:36,166 was lying against it. 32 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,400 Jesus said, Remove the stone. 33 00:01:42,566 --> 00:01:47,099 Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him, Lord, by 34 00:01:47,099 --> 00:01:51,599 this time, there will be a stench, for 35 00:01:51,599 --> 00:01:55,500 he has been dead four days, Jesus 36 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:58,566 said to her, Did I not say to you 37 00:01:58,566 --> 00:02:01,733 that if you believe, you will see the glory 38 00:02:01,766 --> 00:02:03,099 of God? 39 00:02:04,333 --> 00:02:05,766 So they remove the stone. 40 00:02:07,933 --> 00:02:12,066 Then Jesus raised his eyes, and 41 00:02:12,066 --> 00:02:16,199 said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 00:02:17,699 --> 00:02:19,266 I knew that you always hear me. 43 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,066 But because of the people standing around, I 44 00:02:24,066 --> 00:02:27,133 said it, so that they may 45 00:02:27,133 --> 00:02:30,133 believe that you sent me. 46 00:02:31,766 --> 00:02:35,233 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, 47 00:02:35,233 --> 00:02:36,566 Lazarus. 48 00:02:37,566 --> 00:02:38,300 Come forth. 49 00:02:40,333 --> 00:02:44,666 The man, who had died, came 50 00:02:44,666 --> 00:02:48,433 forth, bound hand and foot with 51 00:02:48,433 --> 00:02:51,566 wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a 52 00:02:51,566 --> 00:02:53,000 cloth. 53 00:02:53,066 --> 00:02:56,300 Jesus said to them unbind him. 54 00:02:57,333 --> 00:02:58,333 and let him go. 55 00:03:00,866 --> 00:03:04,099 Now, throughout the 56 00:03:04,099 --> 00:03:08,533 text of this Gospel of John, we 57 00:03:08,533 --> 00:03:12,500 repeatedly discover John's 58 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:16,400 constant intention to demonstrate 59 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,099 the deity of Jesus, the 60 00:03:20,099 --> 00:03:23,699 Godhood of Jesus, the fact that Jesus is God. 61 00:03:23,766 --> 00:03:26,833 Remember, anytime I use that word deity, that's 62 00:03:26,833 --> 00:03:29,366 what I mean, the godhood of Jesus. 63 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:35,266 And constantly as we've worked our way through these verses, 64 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:38,733 John is always pointing to 65 00:03:38,733 --> 00:03:43,733 the works of Jesus as the proof that he is God. 66 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:48,900 And in the gospel of John, there are seven 67 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:53,533 major miracles 68 00:03:53,533 --> 00:03:56,699 that John uses to point this reality out. 69 00:03:58,300 --> 00:04:01,766 Out of literally thousands that he could have picked from, 70 00:04:01,766 --> 00:04:04,900 because John tells us that the books of all 71 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:08,466 the world couldn't contain everything that 72 00:04:08,466 --> 00:04:09,833 Jesus did. 73 00:04:10,933 --> 00:04:13,699 So John's just giving us highlights, right? 74 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:18,966 But none of the miracles that John picked to 75 00:04:18,966 --> 00:04:20,166 write in his gospel. 76 00:04:21,366 --> 00:04:24,666 is more powerful, more compelling 77 00:04:24,666 --> 00:04:27,800 and memorable than the raising of 78 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,733 his friend, Lazarus, from the dead. 79 00:04:32,899 --> 00:04:37,433 What we see here is, divine, 80 00:04:37,433 --> 00:04:41,300 creative, supernatural power 81 00:04:43,033 --> 00:04:44,533 that belongs only to God. 82 00:04:45,866 --> 00:04:46,600 Understand that. 83 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:50,000 Only God is the creator. 84 00:04:52,433 --> 00:04:53,466 Christ is the creator. 85 00:04:55,766 --> 00:04:59,100 God creates in Genesis 1 in the beginning, God 86 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:00,600 created the heavens and the earth. 87 00:05:01,166 --> 00:05:03,633 Christ creates in John 1, 88 00:05:03,666 --> 00:05:07,399 All things came into being through him, Christ, 89 00:05:07,399 --> 00:05:11,300 and apart from him, nothing came into being that has come into being. 90 00:05:12,266 --> 00:05:13,033 Jesus is God. 91 00:05:16,166 --> 00:05:20,300 Only God, only God, 92 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:24,199 can do what Jesus did at the tomb of Lazarus that day. 93 00:05:25,633 --> 00:05:29,466 Only divine power can 94 00:05:29,466 --> 00:05:33,666 stop the progress of decay on 95 00:05:33,666 --> 00:05:35,000 a dead body. 96 00:05:38,066 --> 00:05:42,433 Only divine power reverses 97 00:05:42,433 --> 00:05:43,500 rigor mortis. 98 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,199 Only God can pour new life into 99 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:52,433 rotted organs and start back 100 00:05:52,466 --> 00:05:55,866 up a bloodless, 101 00:05:55,866 --> 00:05:59,000 decomposing heart that now is 102 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 beating and pumping fresh new blood 103 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,233 into now, every new fresh 104 00:06:05,233 --> 00:06:06,966 new organ and limb. 105 00:06:08,533 --> 00:06:09,066 Think of it. 106 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,166 Sightless, decomposed 107 00:06:14,166 --> 00:06:17,933 eyes, on Lazarus, 108 00:06:17,933 --> 00:06:21,266 were given new tissue, and new nerves, 109 00:06:21,266 --> 00:06:24,433 and new vision in this miracle. 110 00:06:26,699 --> 00:06:30,166 A non functioning, decomposed 111 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:33,433 mass of brain tissue 112 00:06:33,433 --> 00:06:36,566 was recreated to be able to 113 00:06:36,566 --> 00:06:39,566 think, and move, 114 00:06:39,566 --> 00:06:42,199 and feel, and speak. 115 00:06:44,166 --> 00:06:46,333 It's staggering. 116 00:06:47,766 --> 00:06:51,533 God only kind of power that we're talking about here. 117 00:06:53,233 --> 00:06:56,466 It's truly ludicrous to imagine that 118 00:06:56,466 --> 00:06:58,933 people have that kind of power. 119 00:07:00,133 --> 00:07:00,966 As I said before. 120 00:07:01,266 --> 00:07:05,166 There are folks who claim to have seen it happen in our day. 121 00:07:07,566 --> 00:07:10,866 There are fake faith healers who claim 122 00:07:10,866 --> 00:07:14,233 to have that type of power. 123 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,833 But you always hear the story is in somewhat far off 124 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:21,800 place. 125 00:07:21,866 --> 00:07:24,933 Nobody had a camera and none of the supposed 126 00:07:24,933 --> 00:07:28,933 accounts have ever been close to being verified. 127 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:33,533 that people have raised people from the dead in our modern day. 128 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:37,533 Now, we've covered in detail the 129 00:07:37,533 --> 00:07:41,466 first 36 verses of this chapter, and today's we come to verse 37. 130 00:07:42,699 --> 00:07:44,666 We're actually going to get to the resurrection. 131 00:07:44,766 --> 00:07:45,800 of Lazarus itself. 132 00:07:45,866 --> 00:07:49,000 And as usual, in the Bible, 133 00:07:50,433 --> 00:07:52,766 the account itself is very brief. 134 00:07:55,033 --> 00:07:58,933 There's no pathological description that you're going to get here 135 00:07:58,933 --> 00:08:00,199 from scripture. 136 00:08:00,866 --> 00:08:04,033 There's no attempt to, like, 137 00:08:04,033 --> 00:08:07,866 describe any of the phenomena that's going on here at 138 00:08:07,866 --> 00:08:11,100 this scene, about Lazarus's body, 139 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:14,333 about the tomb, the account is short, it's 140 00:08:14,366 --> 00:08:18,033 direct, it's to the point, as the Bible usually is. 141 00:08:20,233 --> 00:08:23,399 I want you to remember, there's a lot of people here. 142 00:08:24,633 --> 00:08:27,000 There's a lot of people around this tomb. 143 00:08:28,266 --> 00:08:32,000 Jesus asked them to roll the stone away when Lazarus 144 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,166 comes out of the grave, he asks them to unwrap him, 145 00:08:35,166 --> 00:08:38,600 and as you go through the story, 146 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,700 you realize that this 147 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:44,166 is something that Jesus always does. 148 00:08:46,166 --> 00:08:50,100 He always used people to 149 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:51,733 do what people can do. 150 00:08:54,299 --> 00:08:56,233 They can't raise him from the dead. 151 00:08:56,466 --> 00:09:00,233 Nobody there at the site could, but 152 00:09:00,266 --> 00:09:01,633 they could unwrap him. 153 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:06,033 They can't steal him away from the clutches of death, 154 00:09:07,299 --> 00:09:09,633 but they could roll the stone away. 155 00:09:11,533 --> 00:09:14,766 And isn't that exactly the 156 00:09:14,766 --> 00:09:17,100 way the kingdom of God works in this world? 157 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:20,833 God does what only God can do, 158 00:09:20,833 --> 00:09:23,899 and then, at the same time, he enlists us 159 00:09:23,899 --> 00:09:28,700 to be involved with what he can do, like 160 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:30,733 only God can regenerate a person. 161 00:09:30,899 --> 00:09:31,966 You and I can't do that. 162 00:09:33,333 --> 00:09:36,433 But, at the same time, when he does that, he 163 00:09:36,433 --> 00:09:40,033 uses us to get the message of the gospel 164 00:09:40,033 --> 00:09:43,166 combined with the power of the Spirit to 165 00:09:43,166 --> 00:09:44,533 bring a person into his kingdom. 166 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:49,266 So we get this remarkable, wonderful exercise 167 00:09:49,266 --> 00:09:52,933 of being like Ed Lacey used to say, oh, a mission with God. 168 00:09:54,066 --> 00:09:55,500 and bringing people into the family. 169 00:09:57,899 --> 00:10:00,966 And so, again, as we've seen before, this, this 170 00:10:00,966 --> 00:10:03,966 stunning, overwhelming miracle 171 00:10:03,966 --> 00:10:07,566 of resurrection is, with 172 00:10:07,566 --> 00:10:10,033 words, it's really just understated. 173 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:12,299 as often it is in this text. 174 00:10:12,799 --> 00:10:16,100 There's no fanfare here at this scene. 175 00:10:16,166 --> 00:10:18,433 There's no angels that show up. 176 00:10:18,799 --> 00:10:22,500 trumpet blast, and it's, and it's not even dramatically 177 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:24,366 drawn out as it happened. 178 00:10:24,733 --> 00:10:26,366 Jesus just says 2 words. 179 00:10:27,966 --> 00:10:31,200 He says, the name of the man and a verb 180 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,366 in the Greek, a command, 181 00:10:33,799 --> 00:10:34,166 That it. 182 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:36,799 That's all you get. 183 00:10:38,899 --> 00:10:43,433 And in that statement with a name and a verb, 184 00:10:43,433 --> 00:10:47,100 there is unleash before that crowd, the 185 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:51,366 same exact power that created the universe. 186 00:10:52,933 --> 00:10:53,666 Same person. 187 00:10:54,799 --> 00:10:55,399 Same power. 188 00:10:57,566 --> 00:11:00,633 This miracle confirms the statement, 189 00:11:00,633 --> 00:11:03,766 Look at what Jesus made in verse 25. 190 00:11:04,033 --> 00:11:07,033 It confirms this statement where he said, I 191 00:11:07,033 --> 00:11:10,399 am the resurrection and 192 00:11:10,399 --> 00:11:11,733 the life. 193 00:11:13,633 --> 00:11:16,700 He made clear back in chapter 5, that God has given to 194 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:19,866 me the power of judgment and resurrection, and I will raise all 195 00:11:19,866 --> 00:11:23,700 the debt of all the ages to final judgment. 196 00:11:23,766 --> 00:11:27,066 Jesus makes statements on spiritual reality, and 197 00:11:27,066 --> 00:11:31,700 then he demonstrates those in a physical way. 198 00:11:33,899 --> 00:11:35,566 He said, I am the resurrection. 199 00:11:36,799 --> 00:11:37,399 And guess what? 200 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:39,566 Here's a resurrection to prove it. 201 00:11:41,466 --> 00:11:44,700 We saw earlier in John where he said, I am the bread of 202 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:48,233 life, and then he created a huge meal to prove that he's the bread of life. 203 00:11:49,899 --> 00:11:52,933 He also said, I am the light of the world, and then 204 00:11:52,933 --> 00:11:55,866 he healed blind eyes to prove it. 205 00:11:57,966 --> 00:11:59,000 So let's look at the miracle. 206 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,066 I want you to think back, remember, when Jesus 207 00:12:04,066 --> 00:12:07,166 had arrived, Lazarus had already been dead for four days. 208 00:12:09,133 --> 00:12:12,133 Lazarus's sisters, Mary and Martha, 209 00:12:12,133 --> 00:12:13,633 are very broken hearted. 210 00:12:14,366 --> 00:12:17,899 When Martha hears that Jesus is coming, remember, she runs 211 00:12:17,899 --> 00:12:20,966 out of the house to go to meet him, but Mary, 212 00:12:20,966 --> 00:12:23,066 a bit more pensive, different in her personality. 213 00:12:23,166 --> 00:12:24,000 She stays at home. 214 00:12:24,066 --> 00:12:27,066 She's still sad, crying with the rest of the 215 00:12:27,066 --> 00:12:30,233 mourners in the house, and Jesus has a conversation with 216 00:12:30,266 --> 00:12:33,266 Martha, in which he declares himself 217 00:12:33,266 --> 00:12:36,266 to be the resurrection in the life, and 218 00:12:36,266 --> 00:12:39,266 then he looks at Martha, 219 00:12:39,266 --> 00:12:41,200 and he asks for Mary. 220 00:12:43,033 --> 00:12:44,399 And Martha goes back to the house. 221 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,733 And secretly, she tells Mary, 222 00:12:49,766 --> 00:12:52,899 hey, Jesus, he's out there. 223 00:12:52,933 --> 00:12:53,700 He's calling for you. 224 00:12:55,299 --> 00:12:58,000 And she got right up, right, as any of us would. 225 00:12:58,933 --> 00:13:02,000 And she went right to him, Along with all the 226 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,066 other people in the house, following right behind her, but 227 00:13:05,066 --> 00:13:08,299 remember, they think that she just got up, 228 00:13:08,299 --> 00:13:11,733 'cause they didn't hear what her sister said, they 229 00:13:11,733 --> 00:13:15,133 think that she got up to go to the tomb to 230 00:13:15,133 --> 00:13:18,200 mourn directly at the tomb, so all the people in 231 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,966 the house followed her to where Jesus was, and 232 00:13:21,966 --> 00:13:24,233 when Mary greets Jesus, 233 00:13:25,333 --> 00:13:28,266 They're not quite at the sight of the tomb just yet. 234 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,899 And when Jesus sees her weeping, and 235 00:13:33,899 --> 00:13:37,133 then the rest of the people that are behind her, and they're all weeping 236 00:13:37,166 --> 00:13:38,833 and mourning for Lazarus. 237 00:13:40,266 --> 00:13:41,766 Look what it says in verse 33. 238 00:13:42,133 --> 00:13:42,666 What happened? 239 00:13:44,666 --> 00:13:47,799 Verse 33, Jesus, he was deeply moved 240 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,866 in spirit, and was troubled. 241 00:13:52,866 --> 00:13:53,933 So imagine a picture. 242 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,433 The not of the tomb, they're in between. 243 00:13:56,399 --> 00:13:57,366 Mary comes up. 244 00:13:57,833 --> 00:13:58,700 The people come up. 245 00:13:58,766 --> 00:13:59,533 They're all weeping. 246 00:13:59,899 --> 00:14:02,966 Jesus sees this, weeping, and then he 247 00:14:02,966 --> 00:14:05,833 is deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 248 00:14:06,433 --> 00:14:10,033 If you recall from last time, the 249 00:14:10,033 --> 00:14:11,833 language in the Greek in those phrases. 250 00:14:13,266 --> 00:14:16,500 is extremely strong, 251 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:19,566 very, very expressive, 252 00:14:21,266 --> 00:14:23,433 Now, he's lost his friend, right? 253 00:14:23,533 --> 00:14:24,799 Lazarus is his friend. 254 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,833 He feels the sadness of the sisters here, 255 00:14:29,833 --> 00:14:31,866 because he was friends with them too. 256 00:14:33,433 --> 00:14:36,733 But if you remember from last time, what I told you, far 257 00:14:36,733 --> 00:14:39,733 more than that, who's standing 258 00:14:39,733 --> 00:14:42,866 in front of these people is the only God 259 00:14:42,866 --> 00:14:46,166 man who exists who will ever exist. 260 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:47,966 There's only one. 261 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,766 And the wording there is reflecting that 262 00:14:53,766 --> 00:14:57,366 he's feeling the weight of sin and death upon 263 00:14:57,366 --> 00:15:01,200 the whole human race, in 264 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,600 a way that only he could. 265 00:15:04,333 --> 00:15:06,433 So that's what we're talking about. 266 00:15:06,899 --> 00:15:10,033 He was deeply moved in spirit and trouble, by all 267 00:15:10,033 --> 00:15:13,100 of that, including Lazarus, including the sisters, 268 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:14,166 including the people. 269 00:15:14,299 --> 00:15:15,433 He's... 270 00:15:15,799 --> 00:15:16,466 Think of it this way. 271 00:15:16,566 --> 00:15:19,933 He's feeling the emotion of what every family in 272 00:15:19,933 --> 00:15:23,233 human history, experiences, and the loss of their loved ones. 273 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:25,399 All of them. 274 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:27,933 At the same time. 275 00:15:29,899 --> 00:15:30,799 As a result of what? 276 00:15:32,033 --> 00:15:32,466 Sin. 277 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,933 Sin is the common denominator in the loss of all of our family members. 278 00:15:38,366 --> 00:15:41,533 He's feeling all of that in a way that only he could as 279 00:15:41,533 --> 00:15:45,799 the god man, and he also knows, 280 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:48,866 there's unbelievers around him 281 00:15:48,866 --> 00:15:52,000 here, in this crowd, who are all 282 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,633 going to die, one day, and 283 00:15:55,633 --> 00:16:00,799 most of them are going to step out into eternity, 284 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:05,000 knowing only the eternal wrath of God. 285 00:16:05,733 --> 00:16:06,066 forever. 286 00:16:06,933 --> 00:16:11,833 So he's also feeling the weight of that reality. 287 00:16:14,133 --> 00:16:17,233 So Jesus here is feeling the 288 00:16:17,233 --> 00:16:20,600 full impact of sin 289 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,033 on the whole human race, and it's very, 290 00:16:24,033 --> 00:16:27,966 very overwhelming to him as the god man. 291 00:16:28,166 --> 00:16:31,299 It's a massive burden for him to bear 292 00:16:31,299 --> 00:16:34,399 that, again, no one else ever 293 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:38,166 born or ever will be born could possibly conceive 294 00:16:38,166 --> 00:16:40,566 of feeling that same feeling. 295 00:16:41,066 --> 00:16:44,133 And that's why the language is so strong, 296 00:16:44,133 --> 00:16:47,833 he is deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 297 00:16:49,799 --> 00:16:50,633 Only he could feel that. 298 00:16:52,566 --> 00:16:53,933 So much so. 299 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:58,466 that he, at that moment, he 300 00:16:58,466 --> 00:16:59,899 burst out in tears. 301 00:17:01,566 --> 00:17:02,600 Loud crying. 302 00:17:02,966 --> 00:17:04,099 He can't restrain it. 303 00:17:04,166 --> 00:17:07,200 Look at verse 35, the shortest verse in the Bible, 304 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,233 Jesus wept. 305 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,099 Strong language. 306 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:15,900 Uncontrollable couldn't at the moment, 307 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:19,433 all of the things I've said to you, closing 308 00:17:19,466 --> 00:17:22,900 in on him, and it just caused him to burst out. 309 00:17:24,433 --> 00:17:26,366 in loud weeping. 310 00:17:26,466 --> 00:17:29,766 In fact, it stood out so much so from 311 00:17:29,766 --> 00:17:31,733 the rest of the mourners in that crowd. 312 00:17:32,066 --> 00:17:37,233 I want you to look at verse 36, the people say, See how he loved. 313 00:17:39,433 --> 00:17:42,500 That's how much Jesus' crying stood out when he 314 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:45,666 wept loudly and couldn't contain it, 315 00:17:45,666 --> 00:17:48,066 above all the other people who were crying. 316 00:17:48,299 --> 00:17:51,599 Of course, they have no idea 317 00:17:51,599 --> 00:17:54,766 of the totality for the reasons that he was crying. 318 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:57,299 They're just crying about Lazarus. 319 00:18:00,433 --> 00:18:01,700 He's crying about the whole situation. 320 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,033 Mankind, sin, death, hell, everything. 321 00:18:06,033 --> 00:18:08,966 And that brings us to verse 37. 322 00:18:10,466 --> 00:18:15,200 Then our first point for today, which is the perplexity. 323 00:18:17,599 --> 00:18:21,000 If the case is that Jesus is 324 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,366 so devastated, and so shattered, and so broken, 325 00:18:24,366 --> 00:18:27,966 he is in this condition that he's in right here at 326 00:18:27,966 --> 00:18:31,033 the graveside, then what about the question 327 00:18:31,033 --> 00:18:33,866 that's asked next in verse 37, look at it. 328 00:18:34,099 --> 00:18:37,233 But some of them said, Could 329 00:18:37,233 --> 00:18:40,333 not this man who opened the eyes of the blind man have 330 00:18:40,333 --> 00:18:42,266 kept this man also from dying? 331 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:46,599 That's a fair question, right? 332 00:18:48,333 --> 00:18:51,599 For sure, the word has circulated 333 00:18:51,599 --> 00:18:54,599 by now, certainly there are people who have been there 334 00:18:54,599 --> 00:18:57,599 for four days, they knew that the messenger had 335 00:18:57,599 --> 00:19:00,733 been sent to Jesus at the very time that Lazarus was 336 00:19:00,733 --> 00:19:03,799 sick, and they knew that he didn't come right away. 337 00:19:04,833 --> 00:19:05,366 They knew that. 338 00:19:06,633 --> 00:19:08,000 They knew he waited two days. 339 00:19:09,733 --> 00:19:11,233 A day for the messenger to get there. 340 00:19:11,533 --> 00:19:12,733 Jesus waits two days. 341 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,266 Then it takes a day for Jesus to get there, four days. 342 00:19:16,633 --> 00:19:17,766 And these folks knew that. 343 00:19:20,299 --> 00:19:23,299 So, if he loved Lazarus, as much as it 344 00:19:23,299 --> 00:19:26,966 looks like he did, and 345 00:19:26,966 --> 00:19:30,033 if he had the power to heal, like he did with the man born 346 00:19:30,033 --> 00:19:33,299 blind, who sat at the gate, beautiful, who was a stranger 347 00:19:33,299 --> 00:19:36,533 to him, and everybody knew that story by now, in the whole area, 348 00:19:36,566 --> 00:19:40,633 if he had the power to do that, surely 349 00:19:40,633 --> 00:19:42,266 he could have healed Lazarus. 350 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:44,066 So, 351 00:19:45,866 --> 00:19:48,566 Why didn't he come when they called him? 352 00:19:50,299 --> 00:19:51,566 There's a perplexity here. 353 00:19:53,833 --> 00:19:54,733 And think about it. 354 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,400 It's an understandable perplexity from 355 00:19:58,400 --> 00:19:59,599 their point of view, right? 356 00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:01,500 It would have been to ours, too. 357 00:20:03,666 --> 00:20:05,400 But, of course, from Jesus' viewpoint. 358 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:11,233 He operates perfectly within the Father's purpose. 359 00:20:12,633 --> 00:20:14,099 He knows exactly what's going on. 360 00:20:16,266 --> 00:20:19,033 The timing is absolutely perfection. 361 00:20:21,433 --> 00:20:23,966 And isn't that very instructive for you and for me? 362 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:31,333 When things don't seem to make sense that happen to us. 363 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:36,799 From our perspective, it's always good to look 364 00:20:36,799 --> 00:20:40,566 at examples like this, and remember the totality 365 00:20:40,566 --> 00:20:43,633 of God's purposes are not always 366 00:20:43,633 --> 00:20:45,799 made known to us. 367 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,000 Let me say that again. 368 00:20:49,466 --> 00:20:52,766 The totality of God's purposes are 369 00:20:52,766 --> 00:20:55,900 not always made known to us. 370 00:20:58,333 --> 00:21:02,299 It doesn't mean he's not working all things together for our good and his glory. 371 00:21:02,366 --> 00:21:03,566 It doesn't mean that. 372 00:21:05,233 --> 00:21:08,400 But we just need to try to remember that when 373 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,833 we are perplexed. 374 00:21:12,266 --> 00:21:15,266 Just stick Ephesians one in your mind. 375 00:21:16,433 --> 00:21:19,500 He works all things after the council of his own will, 376 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:23,099 all things, every circumstance of in in your life and mine. 377 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,166 You need to remember that. 378 00:21:25,866 --> 00:21:29,599 In fact, listen to what Job 3313 379 00:21:29,599 --> 00:21:30,866 asked this question. 380 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:33,866 You may not remember this from Job. 381 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:39,366 Job says, Why do you complain against 382 00:21:39,366 --> 00:21:42,533 him that he does not give an 383 00:21:42,566 --> 00:21:44,366 account of all his doings? 384 00:21:45,733 --> 00:21:48,900 Why are you complaining that he don't explain everything to you when bad things happen? 385 00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:52,766 Because the reality is, he doesn't have to. 386 00:21:56,633 --> 00:21:59,766 He's not obligated to explain everything to you when things 387 00:21:59,766 --> 00:22:00,833 are going haywire. 388 00:22:01,599 --> 00:22:02,133 He's not. 389 00:22:03,299 --> 00:22:04,099 He's God. 390 00:22:04,766 --> 00:22:05,366 You're not. 391 00:22:06,033 --> 00:22:06,599 I'm not. 392 00:22:07,333 --> 00:22:09,000 He doesn't have to tell us to plan. 393 00:22:10,033 --> 00:22:10,500 Guess what? 394 00:22:11,833 --> 00:22:14,766 He doesn't have to tell us the duration of the plan, either. 395 00:22:15,666 --> 00:22:18,000 Sometimes the plan takes a long time. 396 00:22:20,166 --> 00:22:23,533 Later, in John 13, 7, on another occasion with the disciples, 397 00:22:23,533 --> 00:22:25,266 Jesus said this, look at it. 398 00:22:25,766 --> 00:22:29,000 What I do, you do not realize now. 399 00:22:30,566 --> 00:22:32,433 But you will understand hereafter. 400 00:22:34,633 --> 00:22:37,866 Jesus knows exactly what 401 00:22:37,866 --> 00:22:40,733 he is doing at all times. 402 00:22:41,233 --> 00:22:44,233 There's never a moment that he does it know what he's doing. 403 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:48,799 He already knows in this particular situation that 404 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:51,266 this is all for the glory of God. 405 00:22:51,599 --> 00:22:54,966 He knows there's a resurrection that's fixing to happen. 406 00:22:55,033 --> 00:22:58,266 He knows that is the plan, but they don't. 407 00:23:00,133 --> 00:23:02,766 And they are naturally perplexed. 408 00:23:03,866 --> 00:23:05,833 And that leads us next to our second point. 409 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,933 The problem, verse 38. 410 00:23:09,366 --> 00:23:12,433 Starts out with, so Jesus, again, being deeply 411 00:23:12,433 --> 00:23:15,066 moved within. 412 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,200 And it's so interesting to learn about these Greek words. 413 00:23:19,866 --> 00:23:23,599 This is a different word than the word for deeply moved in verse 33. 414 00:23:25,799 --> 00:23:29,566 And also different from the word troubled in that verse 2. 415 00:23:31,099 --> 00:23:34,466 Here in 38, deeply 416 00:23:34,466 --> 00:23:38,099 moved within is an odd word in 417 00:23:38,099 --> 00:23:39,533 the Greek, but it makes sense. 418 00:23:39,733 --> 00:23:41,400 Let me tell you what it actually literally means. 419 00:23:42,299 --> 00:23:44,266 It means to snort like a horse. 420 00:23:46,433 --> 00:23:47,066 That's what it means. 421 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:52,533 More specifically, like when a horse gets agitated, 422 00:23:52,533 --> 00:23:56,866 and he lets out a fierce snort, it 423 00:23:56,900 --> 00:24:01,099 sometimes translated, shuddered, 424 00:24:01,099 --> 00:24:04,700 shuddered, like a 425 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,166 kind of a total shaking, MacArthur 426 00:24:08,166 --> 00:24:11,333 says it's a strange word to use, but 427 00:24:11,366 --> 00:24:12,933 it signifies the fact that 428 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,099 a shattering, shuddering emotion 429 00:24:17,099 --> 00:24:19,933 has gripped Jesus in this moment. 430 00:24:20,299 --> 00:24:21,433 That's what it means. 431 00:24:22,933 --> 00:24:26,000 And indignation over death and sin, 432 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,433 and all of its sorrows, and all of its realities, 433 00:24:29,433 --> 00:24:33,299 which are both temporal and eternal, as we saw last time. 434 00:24:36,066 --> 00:24:39,433 He's standing in the presence of the reality 435 00:24:39,433 --> 00:24:41,933 of death. 436 00:24:44,099 --> 00:24:48,533 And with some kind of physical release, maybe 437 00:24:48,566 --> 00:24:51,666 a shudder, maybe a gasp, 438 00:24:51,666 --> 00:24:54,733 we really don't know exactly, he 439 00:24:54,733 --> 00:24:58,266 releases the agony that he feels, 440 00:24:58,266 --> 00:25:01,733 again, being deeply moved within. 441 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,666 And then Jesus next says this. 442 00:25:06,866 --> 00:25:08,533 It says this in verse 38. 443 00:25:09,066 --> 00:25:10,133 He came to the tomb. 444 00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:15,099 That's where he's at when he comes to the tomb, with this 445 00:25:15,099 --> 00:25:18,299 shuddering, shaking, deeply moved within. 446 00:25:18,666 --> 00:25:22,333 That's his frame of mind as he approaches this tomb. 447 00:25:23,666 --> 00:25:26,666 Now, it was a cave, and a stone 448 00:25:26,666 --> 00:25:27,799 was lying against it. 449 00:25:28,933 --> 00:25:32,466 And as often in that part of the world, in those caves, 450 00:25:32,466 --> 00:25:35,700 they would put slits in the walls, because 451 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:39,000 the stone was soft enough for them to be able to 452 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,233 do that, and then that's where they would lay the bodies in 453 00:25:42,266 --> 00:25:45,266 the flat parts that they made inside the 454 00:25:45,266 --> 00:25:46,333 walls of the cave. 455 00:25:47,099 --> 00:25:50,833 And they didn't have a door to the entrance, so what would they do? 456 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:54,200 They would put a large circular stone that 457 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,566 would be rolled over, just like with the tomb of Jesus, the same thing. 458 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:04,466 So that is where Jesus says come to, and here comes the problem, in verse 39. 459 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:11,033 Jesus said, Remove the stone. 460 00:26:12,933 --> 00:26:15,133 Now, the stone served a purpose. 461 00:26:16,633 --> 00:26:19,633 It kept the animals out, and any 462 00:26:19,633 --> 00:26:22,700 grave robbers who might have wanted to come steal what may have been in 463 00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:27,266 there, sometimes they were buried with valuables and things, but 464 00:26:27,266 --> 00:26:30,033 it also kept the stink in. 465 00:26:31,433 --> 00:26:31,566 Okay? 466 00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:35,099 Because remember, the Jews didn't embalm. 467 00:26:36,566 --> 00:26:39,566 They just stuck them in there, they wrapped the 468 00:26:39,566 --> 00:26:42,033 body, and they put some spices on it. 469 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,799 And I'm not going to go over those details that I did last time. 470 00:26:45,866 --> 00:26:46,633 You heard them once. 471 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:49,700 That was enough, if you feel like you need to hear them, go back and watch the 472 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:50,766 last time I was in John. 473 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:55,866 But after four days, let me tell you something, those spices had no effect. 474 00:26:56,900 --> 00:26:57,566 whatsoever. 475 00:26:57,666 --> 00:27:01,133 I don't care how many pounds you put on top of a dead body after four days. 476 00:27:01,166 --> 00:27:03,333 You don't really smell the spices. 477 00:27:05,533 --> 00:27:08,233 And by the way, this was located outside the village. 478 00:27:08,533 --> 00:27:11,533 It was some distance away from the village, not only for the obvious 479 00:27:11,533 --> 00:27:14,700 reason, but also, the Book of Numbers was 480 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:17,766 clear, if you touch a dead body in the Jewish 481 00:27:17,766 --> 00:27:21,433 Old Testament law, you were ceremonially unclean 482 00:27:21,433 --> 00:27:24,566 for seven days, if you touch 483 00:27:24,566 --> 00:27:27,666 a dead body, so the Jews didn't 484 00:27:27,666 --> 00:27:29,633 want to get anywhere near a dead body. 485 00:27:29,833 --> 00:27:32,900 So this is off away from the village where they live. 486 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,233 So Martha... 487 00:27:35,299 --> 00:27:38,466 Let me tell you, right at this moment, she's 488 00:27:38,466 --> 00:27:42,233 not real eager for that stone to be moved away for her dead brothers up in there. 489 00:27:43,633 --> 00:27:44,900 And next in verse 39. 490 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:49,500 It says, Martha, the sister of the deceased, said 491 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:52,633 to him, Lord, by this time, there will 492 00:27:52,633 --> 00:27:55,933 be a stench, I love the King James, he 493 00:27:55,933 --> 00:27:58,933 stinketh, for he has been dead 494 00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:01,466 for days. 495 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:04,833 Now, she, let's agree with this. 496 00:28:04,866 --> 00:28:06,733 She's naturally doubting, right? 497 00:28:07,166 --> 00:28:10,266 I mean, even though he told her back in verse 23, 498 00:28:10,266 --> 00:28:11,833 your brother will rise again. 499 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:14,000 Remember what she said to him? 500 00:28:14,066 --> 00:28:17,500 She said, Well, if you had been here, he wouldn't have died. 501 00:28:17,533 --> 00:28:20,533 Both sisters gave that same speech before, obviously, 502 00:28:20,533 --> 00:28:23,400 they had been talking about it between themselves, so they both gave the same speech. 503 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,066 When he said, Your brother were wise again, you remember what she said? 504 00:28:27,133 --> 00:28:30,366 Well, Jesus, I know that he's gonna rise in the resurrection 505 00:28:30,366 --> 00:28:35,033 at the last day, and he says, I'm not talking about that. 506 00:28:37,299 --> 00:28:39,200 Virtually, what he's saying is, I'm talking about right now. 507 00:28:44,066 --> 00:28:45,333 Look next, verse 40. 508 00:28:46,466 --> 00:28:49,700 Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that 509 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:53,133 if you believe, you will see the glory of God? 510 00:28:54,866 --> 00:28:56,233 This isn't something, future. 511 00:28:57,833 --> 00:28:59,066 This isn't at the last day. 512 00:29:01,433 --> 00:29:02,599 You're fixing to see this. 513 00:29:04,799 --> 00:29:06,200 You said you were a believer. 514 00:29:07,099 --> 00:29:09,033 Now, listen, try to put yourself in her shoes. 515 00:29:11,366 --> 00:29:14,433 Yes, she's confessed to believing Jesus is the Son of God, 516 00:29:14,433 --> 00:29:19,333 Messiah, the one who came down from heaven, but let me tell you, think about it. 517 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,766 That's a big leap from that confession 518 00:29:22,766 --> 00:29:25,933 coming from an ordinary woman to seeing an 519 00:29:25,933 --> 00:29:29,299 actual corpse that's been dead four days, come 520 00:29:29,299 --> 00:29:30,433 out of a grave. 521 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,066 I mean, we can kind of understand this, right? 522 00:29:34,333 --> 00:29:34,866 Can you? 523 00:29:34,933 --> 00:29:35,366 I can. 524 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,433 I mean, we'd like to think, well, if we had been there, we'd have risen 525 00:29:39,433 --> 00:29:42,599 to great heights of faith, and never had a question about 526 00:29:42,599 --> 00:29:45,766 it, but really put yourself in that position. 527 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,799 Put yourself at any funeral you've ever been to. 528 00:29:53,299 --> 00:29:57,733 And being told the person in the cast is fixing to get up, come out the casket. 529 00:29:57,900 --> 00:29:59,333 And you're like, All right, bro. 530 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:00,799 I'm waiting. 531 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:01,533 Right? 532 00:30:01,766 --> 00:30:02,099 Huh? 533 00:30:03,033 --> 00:30:03,799 That's where we'd be. 534 00:30:06,133 --> 00:30:10,099 Of course, after the fact, we 535 00:30:10,099 --> 00:30:14,233 can see she's got her thoughts on the corpse and not on Christ. 536 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:16,866 And what Christ said. 537 00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:21,900 But in a moment, just think about all the things that 538 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:23,033 must have been going through her head. 539 00:30:24,633 --> 00:30:25,400 Can this really happen? 540 00:30:26,299 --> 00:30:27,099 Can he really do this? 541 00:30:28,433 --> 00:30:31,500 I sure don't want any unnecessary desecration to take 542 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:32,700 place to the body. 543 00:30:34,433 --> 00:30:36,200 I don't want anybody touching it. 544 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:38,366 We'd be unclean. 545 00:30:40,233 --> 00:30:42,599 And what happens if he tries this and it all goes wrong? 546 00:30:44,233 --> 00:30:45,433 And he don't come out. 547 00:30:46,299 --> 00:30:47,200 What about that? 548 00:30:47,233 --> 00:30:48,066 Wouldnt you be thinking that? 549 00:30:48,133 --> 00:30:48,566 I would. 550 00:30:49,733 --> 00:30:50,299 I get that. 551 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,599 But then the king says, have you forgotten what I promised you? 552 00:30:58,933 --> 00:30:59,900 So that's the promise. 553 00:30:59,966 --> 00:31:01,633 We've seen the perplexity, the problem. 554 00:31:02,299 --> 00:31:03,266 He's so far gone. 555 00:31:04,333 --> 00:31:06,299 Now the promise, again in verse 40. 556 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,700 Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you, 557 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:15,333 that if you believe you will see the glory of God? 558 00:31:15,566 --> 00:31:19,000 And what does he mean you will see the glory of God? 559 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,866 Well, God's glory was manifested in a number of ways throughout 560 00:31:22,866 --> 00:31:26,000 the history of the Old Testament, remember? 561 00:31:26,099 --> 00:31:27,833 The Shekinah glory in the garden? 562 00:31:29,533 --> 00:31:32,666 In the wilderness, in the pillar of fire, in the cloud, 563 00:31:32,666 --> 00:31:34,033 in the tabernacle, 564 00:31:34,166 --> 00:31:37,166 God's glory came down in the holy of holies, in 565 00:31:37,166 --> 00:31:40,166 the New Testament, the glory of God came in the body, in the 566 00:31:40,166 --> 00:31:44,099 person of Jesus Christ, and some of them on the Mount of Transfiguration, 567 00:31:44,099 --> 00:31:47,933 saw the glory of God shining literally out of the person of Christ, right? 568 00:31:50,166 --> 00:31:54,666 And God is going to put his glory on display here by 569 00:31:54,666 --> 00:31:57,966 miracle power, not as a shining 570 00:31:57,966 --> 00:32:00,966 light, but his glory is 571 00:32:00,966 --> 00:32:04,033 going to be seen in 572 00:32:04,033 --> 00:32:07,400 life itself, before these people. 573 00:32:08,533 --> 00:32:11,833 The full display of his invisible 574 00:32:11,833 --> 00:32:15,133 perfection, his invisible powers, the 575 00:32:15,133 --> 00:32:18,200 fullness of his attributes, are going to be put 576 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,533 on display. 577 00:32:19,566 --> 00:32:22,633 He's going to show his glory right 578 00:32:22,633 --> 00:32:25,866 here, not in light, but in life. 579 00:32:27,133 --> 00:32:28,266 Life from the dead. 580 00:32:30,066 --> 00:32:33,500 And Jesus says, if you believe, you 581 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:34,533 go see the glory. 582 00:32:36,299 --> 00:32:37,966 Get your eyes off the corpse. 583 00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:41,000 Get your eyes on Christ. 584 00:32:42,566 --> 00:32:46,466 Wait to see the glory revealed, 585 00:32:46,466 --> 00:32:49,766 and we need to live in that kind of expectancy, don't we? 586 00:32:52,033 --> 00:32:53,166 Looking for miracles? 587 00:32:55,799 --> 00:32:59,233 We're not looking for these outward 588 00:32:59,233 --> 00:33:02,466 miracles where, you know, you 589 00:33:02,466 --> 00:33:05,633 see somebody's foot grow, and it's just a trick on TV. 590 00:33:07,299 --> 00:33:08,733 But I can tell you this, for sure. 591 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:13,233 When I look back and think about the providential working of God in my life, 592 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,766 Man, have I seen plenty of God's glory on display. 593 00:33:19,866 --> 00:33:23,000 And every Christian in here can say the same thing, with me. 594 00:33:24,866 --> 00:33:28,799 You want to know what an amazing display 595 00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:31,866 of the glory of God is now in 596 00:33:31,866 --> 00:33:35,400 our time, the amazing providence of God, 597 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,466 by which he orders every single 598 00:33:38,466 --> 00:33:42,000 circumstance and event in your life, leading 599 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,133 up to salvation, and every day thereafter. 600 00:33:45,666 --> 00:33:47,933 think of the complexity of it all. 601 00:33:48,133 --> 00:33:52,033 It's really more staggering that if he interrupted 602 00:33:52,033 --> 00:33:55,633 natural law and did a single miracle outwardly 603 00:33:55,633 --> 00:33:56,966 like the parting of the Red Sea. 604 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:57,900 What am I talking about? 605 00:33:58,166 --> 00:34:01,299 How many miracles does it take every day to 606 00:34:01,299 --> 00:34:04,400 create in complex reality, out of 607 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,566 all kind of decisions and contingencies 608 00:34:07,566 --> 00:34:11,300 and non miraculous events of human decisions? 609 00:34:11,766 --> 00:34:13,566 He does that every day in our life? 610 00:34:14,733 --> 00:34:17,099 You're part of it right here in this worship service. 611 00:34:17,633 --> 00:34:18,566 You're here for a reason. 612 00:34:19,533 --> 00:34:21,066 He got you here on purpose today. 613 00:34:22,633 --> 00:34:24,800 Our whole lives are a display of God's glory. 614 00:34:25,433 --> 00:34:26,400 Every minute. 615 00:34:28,133 --> 00:34:29,066 Let me say this to you. 616 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:34,500 If you really knew, in 617 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:35,766 detail, in great detail. 618 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,699 what all I've been through, and what all I've 619 00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:43,699 done in my life, if you could see, like, the movie 620 00:34:43,699 --> 00:34:46,866 of all the details of all of it, what 621 00:34:46,866 --> 00:34:49,866 I do now in preaching every Sunday would make no 622 00:34:49,866 --> 00:34:52,033 natural sense to you whatsoever. 623 00:34:54,066 --> 00:34:55,033 You'd be horrified. 624 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,033 I can promise you. 625 00:35:00,133 --> 00:35:03,199 And that's why there's no other explanation than the 626 00:35:03,199 --> 00:35:06,300 glory of God on display because 627 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:08,766 it's certainly not the glory of me on display. 628 00:35:09,699 --> 00:35:10,099 Okay? 629 00:35:12,333 --> 00:35:15,500 And so if we are believers, and 630 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:19,266 we're looking for the glory of God on display in our lives, we'll see it. 631 00:35:19,933 --> 00:35:20,766 You're looking for it. 632 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:22,699 You'll recognize it. 633 00:35:23,699 --> 00:35:26,933 You will see God working in his purposes, and 634 00:35:26,966 --> 00:35:30,300 that is what Jesus is calling on Martha 635 00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:32,033 to look for here. 636 00:35:32,466 --> 00:35:35,766 So, we've seen the perplexity, the problem, the promise, 637 00:35:35,766 --> 00:35:36,800 and now here comes the prayer. 638 00:35:38,433 --> 00:35:39,866 Versus 41 to 42. 639 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,099 So they removed the stone. 640 00:35:44,366 --> 00:35:47,400 Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, Father, I thank 641 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:48,766 you that you have heard me. 642 00:35:50,699 --> 00:35:53,766 I knew that you always hear me, but because of the 643 00:35:53,766 --> 00:35:57,833 people standing around, I said it, so 644 00:35:57,866 --> 00:36:01,400 that they may believe that you sent me. 645 00:36:02,099 --> 00:36:03,599 He says, Father, I thank you that you've heard me. 646 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:06,800 He didn't have to say that to the Father. 647 00:36:08,766 --> 00:36:10,733 The Father knows the relationship with the Son. 648 00:36:10,866 --> 00:36:13,699 He's not asking the Father to do anything. 649 00:36:14,066 --> 00:36:17,500 There's not a petition here that he's asking for. 650 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,300 Some people miss that, and they say, well, he's asking the Father 651 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:22,566 to give him the power. 652 00:36:23,066 --> 00:36:23,900 No, he didn't. 653 00:36:25,599 --> 00:36:26,566 They didn't ask him that. 654 00:36:26,599 --> 00:36:27,266 Read it again. 655 00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:29,800 He didn't ask for anything. 656 00:36:31,533 --> 00:36:33,800 He says, I thank you that you heard me. 657 00:36:35,466 --> 00:36:38,766 I knew that you always hear me, just 658 00:36:38,766 --> 00:36:42,066 like Romans 8, as the Holy Spirit always prays according 659 00:36:42,066 --> 00:36:45,500 to the will of God, so the Son always prays according to the will of God. 660 00:36:47,433 --> 00:36:48,733 He knows what God will do. 661 00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:52,266 He knows it's for his own glory. 662 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:54,466 That's the issue here. 663 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,933 He says, look, I'm not saying this out loud, 664 00:36:57,933 --> 00:37:01,333 for your sake, I'm saying this for the people around 665 00:37:01,333 --> 00:37:05,366 me in order that they might believe that you sent me. 666 00:37:06,233 --> 00:37:06,666 That's the point. 667 00:37:07,533 --> 00:37:10,800 And again, the whole point always, in this gospel of John, is 668 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,033 that we understand by these miraculous works 669 00:37:14,066 --> 00:37:17,466 that Jesus has come to this world as 670 00:37:17,466 --> 00:37:19,266 God incarnate. 671 00:37:20,233 --> 00:37:21,733 John wants us to get that. 672 00:37:23,433 --> 00:37:27,266 If you can't get there, you don't need to go any further in 673 00:37:27,266 --> 00:37:29,233 believing Christianity if you don't believe that. 674 00:37:29,666 --> 00:37:30,866 You're stuck right there. 675 00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:35,699 And you can be sure that 676 00:37:35,699 --> 00:37:37,666 when Jesus set his mind to say something. 677 00:37:39,199 --> 00:37:42,199 that he wanted every person in a large crowd to hear. 678 00:37:43,333 --> 00:37:45,800 You can be sure that he spoke loudly. 679 00:37:46,633 --> 00:37:49,800 Never has there ever been a preacher's voice, like Jesus. 680 00:37:50,699 --> 00:37:51,033 Never. 681 00:37:53,833 --> 00:37:56,400 Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 682 00:37:56,699 --> 00:37:58,333 I knew that you always hear me. 683 00:37:58,633 --> 00:38:00,733 Everybody heard that very clearly, every syllable. 684 00:38:00,966 --> 00:38:02,533 I don't care how many people it was. 685 00:38:04,933 --> 00:38:06,866 But for these people here, standing around. 686 00:38:07,099 --> 00:38:08,599 For their sake, I've said it. 687 00:38:09,199 --> 00:38:12,199 We're in agreement on this display 688 00:38:12,199 --> 00:38:15,333 of power and glory that they 689 00:38:15,333 --> 00:38:18,766 might believe that you have sent me. 690 00:38:18,966 --> 00:38:22,033 And let me tell you, every single one of these 691 00:38:22,033 --> 00:38:25,400 people in this particular crowd know that only God creates. 692 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,233 I mean, there are no evolutionists in 1st century Israel, 693 00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:31,900 none. 694 00:38:31,933 --> 00:38:32,066 OK? 695 00:38:32,666 --> 00:38:33,566 No atheist. 696 00:38:34,333 --> 00:38:35,766 They all believe in God. 697 00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:39,199 They believe in the true God, the creator God, they 698 00:38:39,199 --> 00:38:42,133 know he made everything, the fact that Jesus can give life. 699 00:38:43,533 --> 00:38:46,766 It's very clear evidence that he is, in fact, God. 700 00:38:46,933 --> 00:38:51,400 So Jesus is praying, in a sense, publicly, 701 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,166 for the benefit of the people, not for the benefit of God, 702 00:38:55,166 --> 00:38:57,866 who is, of course, already in perfect agreement with what he's about to do. 703 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:05,766 If he hadn't said those words so everybody could hear, the 704 00:39:05,766 --> 00:39:08,766 crowd would not have been able to give God in Christ the 705 00:39:08,766 --> 00:39:11,633 appropriate amount of glory for this event. 706 00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:14,300 So that's why he said it so loudly and so clearly. 707 00:39:15,666 --> 00:39:18,800 They weren't going to be able to attribute this, what 708 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,800 was fixing to happen to any other power, 709 00:39:22,733 --> 00:39:25,166 and that leads us to our last point of the day, the power. 710 00:39:27,566 --> 00:39:28,400 Verse 43. 711 00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:34,066 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud 712 00:39:34,099 --> 00:39:35,133 voice. 713 00:39:36,666 --> 00:39:39,500 Lazarus, come forth. 714 00:39:40,866 --> 00:39:42,900 Now, think about what I just said. 715 00:39:43,099 --> 00:39:46,233 If we're sure his prayer was loud enough for all the people to hear. 716 00:39:46,866 --> 00:39:50,099 When the Bible goes out of its way to say he 717 00:39:50,099 --> 00:39:53,233 cried out with a loud voice, then you know, this is a 718 00:39:53,233 --> 00:39:54,366 whole nother level. 719 00:39:55,633 --> 00:39:58,633 Lazarus, come forth, was at top level. 720 00:40:00,733 --> 00:40:04,166 In fact, you want to know how it literally reads in the Greek. 721 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,566 He yelled in a loud voice with a loud voice. 722 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,133 That's what it means, literally, in the Greek, how it's spelled out. 723 00:40:12,366 --> 00:40:15,599 That double statement used in Greek is just emphasizing the 724 00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:17,933 strength of his voice with these words. 725 00:40:18,366 --> 00:40:21,433 Never was a statement ever uttered in human history like that statement. 726 00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:24,133 Again, Jesus was a preacher. 727 00:40:25,033 --> 00:40:25,933 He was a preacher. 728 00:40:27,699 --> 00:40:31,300 He taught every day open air, no pulpit, Mike, like I have. 729 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,733 He could speak to crowds of 20,000 people at 730 00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:35,800 a time, and they could hear him. 731 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:38,900 There's been great preachers down through history, George Whitfield. 732 00:40:38,966 --> 00:40:42,000 We can name a few that could open air, preach, a bunch of people down through 733 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,566 history, but nobody ever did it like Jesus. 734 00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:47,300 Nobody, no preacher ever liked Jesus. 735 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:53,000 And the way he set this up, there's 736 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,133 no possibility of 737 00:40:56,133 --> 00:40:59,766 attaching this miracle to 738 00:40:59,766 --> 00:41:01,699 anything other than his words. 739 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,266 That's how he sets this up. 740 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,699 There's no other way. 741 00:41:08,066 --> 00:41:11,133 No possibility of attaching this miracle to 742 00:41:11,133 --> 00:41:14,566 anything other than his will, and considering 743 00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:17,599 his prayer openly that he publicly prayed, the 744 00:41:17,599 --> 00:41:20,900 Father's will, with them two being in perfect agreement, 745 00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:25,166 nobody can create out of nothing, except God. 746 00:41:25,266 --> 00:41:29,166 And so this resurrection comes as a immediate 747 00:41:29,166 --> 00:41:32,333 response to the words 748 00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:35,433 of King Jesus, the words. 749 00:41:36,733 --> 00:41:40,400 He says two things, Lazarus, come 750 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,233 forth, and the miracle happens. 751 00:41:45,266 --> 00:41:46,400 Unparalleled power. 752 00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:49,699 Nobody else could do this. 753 00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:53,900 Nobody in the past, nobody in the present, nobody in the future. 754 00:41:54,566 --> 00:41:57,633 So much past that he will 755 00:41:57,633 --> 00:42:01,566 raise all the day of all the ages. 756 00:42:02,833 --> 00:42:05,833 at some time in the future of 757 00:42:05,833 --> 00:42:08,833 every human being who's ever lived, every 758 00:42:08,833 --> 00:42:11,966 single one of them, and every single one of them, 759 00:42:11,966 --> 00:42:15,033 knee, are gonna bow, and every one 760 00:42:15,033 --> 00:42:18,533 of them tongues is gonna confess that Jesus Christ is God 761 00:42:18,566 --> 00:42:21,266 to the glory of God, the Father, Jesus Christ is Lord. 762 00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:25,066 Some have said, well, If 763 00:42:25,099 --> 00:42:28,166 he had just said, come forth, and not 764 00:42:28,166 --> 00:42:31,033 Lazarus' name, that would have been the final resurrection right there. 765 00:42:33,666 --> 00:42:34,733 Because everybody would come out. 766 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,166 So he had to limit it. 767 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:38,233 Lazarus. 768 00:42:39,733 --> 00:42:40,866 The rest of you stay where you are. 769 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,933 Now, at the moment that he 770 00:42:45,933 --> 00:42:49,133 says, Lazarus, 771 00:42:49,166 --> 00:42:52,166 before he even gets to come forth, can 772 00:42:52,166 --> 00:42:55,333 you imagine the pounding hearts in the crowd 773 00:42:55,333 --> 00:42:56,833 at that moment? 774 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,233 Roll the stone away, Lazarus? 775 00:43:00,733 --> 00:43:04,033 I mean, the people had to be on the edge of their seat, right? 776 00:43:04,633 --> 00:43:05,233 Standing. 777 00:43:07,333 --> 00:43:11,666 Can you picture all of those people immediately 778 00:43:11,666 --> 00:43:16,433 after giving the command, come 779 00:43:16,433 --> 00:43:19,933 forth, trying to stretch their next to 780 00:43:19,933 --> 00:43:22,166 look into the darkness of that tomb, huh? 781 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:23,800 Can you imagine that? 782 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,266 And then verse 44? 783 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:30,733 Talk about an understatement. 784 00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:34,466 The man who had died came forth. 785 00:43:36,633 --> 00:43:37,033 That's it. 786 00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:40,300 That's all we get. 787 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,166 It's so often in the Bible, so matter of 788 00:43:45,199 --> 00:43:49,400 fact, so simple, so straightforward, but 789 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,199 this is God, let me remind you. 790 00:43:52,699 --> 00:43:53,599 And for him, 791 00:43:54,566 --> 00:43:56,066 Resurrection is easy for God. 792 00:43:56,099 --> 00:43:58,333 It's completely easy for him. 793 00:44:00,066 --> 00:44:01,566 The man who died. 794 00:44:02,633 --> 00:44:05,966 and had been dead for four days, came out 795 00:44:05,966 --> 00:44:07,900 of that tomb. 796 00:44:08,066 --> 00:44:09,866 Now, let's get practical for a minute. 797 00:44:11,766 --> 00:44:14,233 It couldn't have been easy for him to come out. 798 00:44:16,099 --> 00:44:17,533 It's incredible to think about. 799 00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:21,466 He's in there dead. 800 00:44:23,099 --> 00:44:26,233 And all of a sudden, I don't know, because it doesn't 801 00:44:26,233 --> 00:44:28,933 tell us, how this works. 802 00:44:29,933 --> 00:44:32,966 But all of a sudden, he's just hit with life. 803 00:44:35,166 --> 00:44:38,233 And the power of creation just started to surge 804 00:44:38,233 --> 00:44:41,166 in his body while he's in that tomb. 805 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:42,533 Look what it says next. 806 00:44:43,133 --> 00:44:46,166 He came forth, bound hand 807 00:44:46,166 --> 00:44:49,766 and foot with wrappings, 808 00:44:49,766 --> 00:44:52,866 and his face was wrapped around 809 00:44:52,866 --> 00:44:55,033 with a cloth, like the mummy. 810 00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:58,766 Now, how do you come out? 811 00:45:00,433 --> 00:45:01,633 With all of that on you? 812 00:45:02,966 --> 00:45:03,866 How do you do that? 813 00:45:04,166 --> 00:45:05,000 Was he hopping? 814 00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:08,066 How did he get out of there? 815 00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:09,866 Tim has a theory. 816 00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:12,433 Tim shared with me. 817 00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:16,133 Tim's theory is, he floated out, because 818 00:45:16,166 --> 00:45:18,800 his legs was wrapped. 819 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,466 But I have to agree with Calvin here. 820 00:45:22,466 --> 00:45:25,466 Calvin says where scripture doesn't speak, neither should we. 821 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,099 So scripture doesn't say anything, right? 822 00:45:29,233 --> 00:45:31,166 So I stop where scripture spot. 823 00:45:31,199 --> 00:45:31,800 I don't know. 824 00:45:32,066 --> 00:45:35,066 You don't know because scripture doesn't give us the exact detail. 825 00:45:35,699 --> 00:45:39,133 All I can tell you as the preacher is, Lazarus came forth. 826 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,066 Look, a mommy. 827 00:45:41,666 --> 00:45:44,733 A literal mummy, because them Jews wrapped them up tight, okay? 828 00:45:45,933 --> 00:45:47,766 But here's what I do know exactly. 829 00:45:49,699 --> 00:45:52,766 I do know that he had the 830 00:45:52,766 --> 00:45:56,533 power, now that he's alive, to be exactly 831 00:45:56,533 --> 00:45:59,066 where God wanted him to be at that moment. 832 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,533 That's what I do know. 833 00:46:00,900 --> 00:46:01,500 He came out. 834 00:46:03,199 --> 00:46:05,966 Let me tell you, that grave had been plundered. 835 00:46:08,233 --> 00:46:11,466 The king of terror's death yielded up. 836 00:46:12,066 --> 00:46:14,099 It's lawful captive right there. 837 00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:17,066 Oh, grave, where is your victory? 838 00:46:17,366 --> 00:46:18,199 Oh, death? 839 00:46:18,266 --> 00:46:19,633 Where is your thing? 840 00:46:19,766 --> 00:46:20,966 Not today, death. 841 00:46:21,599 --> 00:46:22,166 Not today. 842 00:46:23,966 --> 00:46:25,166 Captivity was led captive. 843 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,900 And Jesus is standing there as 844 00:46:30,900 --> 00:46:33,900 the conqueror of death, as 845 00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:36,000 he one day will be in totality. 846 00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:40,266 Revelation 1 says he has the keys to unlock death in 847 00:46:40,266 --> 00:46:43,633 Hades, and he unlocked it for this man that day. 848 00:46:45,266 --> 00:46:47,533 And one day, he's going to unlock it for every person. 849 00:46:50,133 --> 00:46:53,233 So Lazarus comes out all wrapped up like the mummy, 850 00:46:53,233 --> 00:46:56,533 maybe each leg was wrapped, I don't know what's going on, and then the people. 851 00:46:57,433 --> 00:46:58,099 Just! 852 00:46:59,699 --> 00:47:02,633 Imagine the people standing there seeing this. 853 00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:06,000 They had to be absolutely stunned 854 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,000 out of their minds as this 855 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,966 package is standing at the front door of the tomb here. 856 00:47:13,933 --> 00:47:16,699 I'm sure some of them were frightened out of their minds. 857 00:47:17,366 --> 00:47:18,333 Absolutely terrified. 858 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,000 No question in my mind. 859 00:47:21,566 --> 00:47:23,533 And then Jesus, lastly, in verse 44. 860 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:28,666 Unbind him, and let him go. 861 00:47:31,233 --> 00:47:31,800 That's how we get. 862 00:47:33,199 --> 00:47:37,166 I mean, there's no explanation of anything, but there didn't need to be. 863 00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:40,966 If God wanted to give us more explanation of all the details of this, he would have. 864 00:47:41,066 --> 00:47:42,500 He said, hey, here's all y'all need. 865 00:47:44,333 --> 00:47:47,666 Now, just my way my mind works. 866 00:47:48,433 --> 00:47:52,699 I think it would have been interesting to volunteer for 867 00:47:52,699 --> 00:47:56,900 this assignment to be the first one to 868 00:47:56,900 --> 00:47:58,933 unwrap and see what was under them rapids. 869 00:48:00,433 --> 00:48:01,866 I think I would have wanted that job. 870 00:48:03,199 --> 00:48:04,366 Let's look what's under here. 871 00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:09,433 And remember, Jesus used people 872 00:48:09,433 --> 00:48:12,900 to do after 873 00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:15,766 he's doing, doing, only what he can do. 874 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,599 And so, as we close, let's just get a quick preview of what's 875 00:48:21,599 --> 00:48:22,666 next in verse 45. 876 00:48:24,066 --> 00:48:27,066 Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw 877 00:48:27,066 --> 00:48:30,733 what he had done, believed in him. 878 00:48:31,266 --> 00:48:32,166 Yeah, think? 879 00:48:32,699 --> 00:48:33,166 Huh? 880 00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:36,033 I mean, come on. 881 00:48:37,900 --> 00:48:38,866 How could you not? 882 00:48:40,166 --> 00:48:40,833 Being? 883 00:48:41,133 --> 00:48:42,500 That's the whole point of this? 884 00:48:43,099 --> 00:48:44,966 But then verse 46? 885 00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:50,233 But some of them went to the Pharisees, and 886 00:48:50,233 --> 00:48:53,166 told them the things which Jesus had done. 887 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,166 They report an actual resurrection 888 00:48:58,166 --> 00:49:01,633 from the dead to Jesus' enemies 889 00:49:01,633 --> 00:49:05,066 who wanted very much to 890 00:49:05,066 --> 00:49:06,433 murder him. 891 00:49:08,766 --> 00:49:11,833 And what happens next means you have to come back next time we're 892 00:49:11,833 --> 00:49:13,500 in John to find out. 893 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:14,533 Let's pray. 894 00:49:15,433 --> 00:49:18,566 Father, we thank you for this amazing account of Jesus. 895 00:49:18,733 --> 00:49:19,033 Thank