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Speaker 3: the resurrection and the life in week seven of our
Speaker 3: series Beyond the Signs.
Speaker 2: And we'll be talking about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
Speaker 2: It's actually a resurrection story. But as we start this story,
Speaker 2: I want you to look at this in the lens
Speaker 2: of what is going to happen days after when Lazarus
Speaker 2: was raised from the grave. Jesus days after would die,
Speaker 2: be crucified and will also be resurrected Barton prequel of
Speaker 2: what was going to happen to Jesus himself. This miracle
Speaker 2: is also the last miracle that Jesus did here on Earth. Okay,
Speaker 2: And because it was the last miracle, he was going
Speaker 2: to confront his last and greatest enemy, which is death.
Speaker 2: Because when Christ is able to confront death, he can
Speaker 2: now proclaim to the entire known world, I am the
Speaker 2: son of God, nobody made a way for a dead
Speaker 2: person to come alive again. So that's why this is
Speaker 2: a very crucial science and wonders that happened during the
Speaker 2: time of Jesus. Now, for the past six weeks, what
Speaker 2: we've been saying is signs and wonders are.
Speaker 1: Tools by God to deliver a greater message.
Speaker 2: The message is not just Jesus can raise people from
Speaker 2: the dead. That's a signs and a wonder for Lazarus.
Speaker 2: But there was a greater message he wanted to tell
Speaker 2: the people. And again we look at John e. Levin,
Speaker 2: which is another long chapter. So I won't go verse
Speaker 2: by verse. We won't have any time. Would be good
Speaker 2: to go verse by verse and look at every angle
Speaker 2: of chapter eleven, but will jump up from verse seventeen.
Speaker 2: And as I jump up from verse seventeen, let me
Speaker 2: give you a background first, and they will pray. Okay,
Speaker 2: background is there was this man named Lazarus who was
Speaker 2: a friend of Jesus. They were close friends in a
Speaker 2: way Barcade Sileni, Lordna and Jesus was close with the
Speaker 2: sisters of Lazarus, Mary and Martha, Okay, very famous Bible characters.
Speaker 1: They would go out together they're good friends. Okay.
Speaker 2: In fact, in scripture Indiana kulang nacinabid on. This is Lazarus,
Speaker 2: Mary Martha, whom Jesus loved.
Speaker 1: Rarely do you get those verses.
Speaker 2: In the Bible, because it was saying that they were
Speaker 2: close to each other. And what happened was when Lazarus
Speaker 2: was ill was sick. Mary and Martha pm Jesus and
Speaker 2: said it says here. Gave a message to Jesus saying,
Speaker 2: the one you love is greatly ill or sick. Can
Speaker 2: you please come here and maybe do your thing and
Speaker 2: pray for your.
Speaker 1: Best friend Lazarus. When Jesus heard of this and sabing
Speaker 1: the Lord, nah, he'll not die.
Speaker 2: Instead, what Jesus did was spend two more additional days
Speaker 2: in Judea, did not go to his best friend's house
Speaker 2: and said, no, he's.
Speaker 1: Going to be by bye time in Chen.
Speaker 2: It stayed two more days, and after two days they
Speaker 2: received the news Jesus, your friend Lazarus is now dead.
Speaker 1: Jesus looks at the disciples and tells.
Speaker 2: Jesus, no, he's just asleep. Oh you mean he will recover. No,
Speaker 2: So the disciples couldn't understand, but for Jesus. What he
Speaker 2: was saying is I had things to do here. I
Speaker 2: can't go to my friend's side at this time. Imagine
Speaker 2: what two days you know. I love this because this
Speaker 2: message shows to us that even though we're dearly loved
Speaker 2: by God, there will be times will be hit by
Speaker 2: things that are common to all men. We get sick,
Speaker 2: we get accidents, we experienced calamities, trials, storms in life.
Speaker 2: Those are possible even to someone whom Jesus dearly loved.
Speaker 2: Were not immune to all these things because we live
Speaker 2: in a fallen world.
Speaker 1: And for Lazarus to be sick to the point of death,
Speaker 1: and now he's died, he died with Jesus not visiting him.
Speaker 2: It was kind of hard for Mary and Martha to
Speaker 2: receive Callaoba friend Muyan Ninita at Sinajamopa Madelena two days.
Speaker 1: That's why he is now, then, Verse seventeen.
Speaker 2: Now, when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already
Speaker 2: been in the tomb how many days?
Speaker 1: Four days.
Speaker 2: Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off. Now when
Speaker 2: Jesus came, not only was Lazarus dead, he was dead
Speaker 2: for four days. He missed visiting the hospital. He missed
Speaker 2: the funeral service. Ilagarao, missed the burial, and now his
Speaker 2: friend is buried for four days, long days.
Speaker 1: Jesus was saying, I have my own timeline. I'm not late.
Speaker 2: In fact, be happy I'm late because I'm about to
Speaker 2: do something. This is what he said in John eleven,
Speaker 2: in the first few verses, I'm glad he's dead. Imagine
Speaker 2: Mona Beaux, I've been a friend Mossillah, I'm glad Shell
Speaker 2: is dead.
Speaker 1: But that was what Jesus was saying. Oh he's dead. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: Because of his death, the glory of God will be revealed.
Speaker 2: Jesus was about to do something far more greater than
Speaker 2: what has happened in the family of Lazarus. But for
Speaker 2: Mary and Martha, they couldn't receive that. It was hard
Speaker 2: the emotion that they had with this. Now Bethany was
Speaker 2: near Jerusalem, about two miles off. What that meant also
Speaker 2: was sobron strategically, Lord Sabah, No, I'll be delayed for
Speaker 2: a few days. Why because this was Passover. During the Passover,
Speaker 2: millions of people would come to Jerusalem. And when millions
Speaker 2: of people would come and if you're just two miles
Speaker 2: off the tomb where Lazarus is spoiler alert time Abu
Speaker 2: boys in Lazarus, dita a right. If Lazarus comes back
Speaker 2: to life, the news would spread like wildfire, and it
Speaker 2: would spread throughout. And it's just two miles of Jerusalem
Speaker 2: where everything the Passover is happening.
Speaker 1: Millions now would get to.
Speaker 2: See and encounter this god, this Jesus who claims to
Speaker 2: be gone. So this was in his own timeline. Orelan
Speaker 2: deliberately today kaya Yan. But they couldn't understand. The friends
Speaker 2: could not understand.
Speaker 1: And many of the Jews had come to Martha and
Speaker 1: Marry to console them concerning their brother. So when Martha
Speaker 1: heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him,
Speaker 1: but Mary remained seated in the house. Again contacts Macriano Hindito,
Speaker 1: Ahwaintans Hindito pastor membern. They were close friends. So when
Speaker 1: Martha heard Jesus came, Martha said, I'm going to meet Jesus.
Speaker 1: Mary says, no, I'm staying here. Lord Lord. Mary remained
Speaker 1: and saying I'm not yet ready to meet Jesus. But
Speaker 1: Martha went. Everything was done, the funeral, the burial was
Speaker 1: all done.
Speaker 2: When Jesus came, Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you
Speaker 2: had been here, my brother would not have died, a
Speaker 2: very familiar phrase. Lord, if you had been here earlier,
Speaker 2: if you were here two.
Speaker 1: Days ago, he might still be alive. Lord, if you've
Speaker 1: been here two months earlier, my loved one might be
Speaker 1: still alive if you just showed up when we were
Speaker 1: praying as a family to go to you past now mine.
Speaker 1: But Lord, you're late. If you had been how many
Speaker 1: times you'd prayed prayers like that?
Speaker 2: Lord, if you had been here, if you showed up, Lord,
Speaker 2: if you had exposed the man that I was going
Speaker 2: to marry and not in this marriage. Now, Lord, you're late.
Speaker 2: But sometimes you have to be glad that Jesus is late.
Speaker 2: Martha said, my brother's now dead. If you had been
Speaker 2: here earlier, he would have been alive.
Speaker 1: But look at how.
Speaker 2: Martha goes on after saying, Lord, if you had been here,
Speaker 2: the wrestling, the tension of her emotion, and how she's
Speaker 2: trying to understand Jesus. But then she said, but even now,
Speaker 2: I know that whatever you ask from God, God will
Speaker 2: give you girl and a girl.
Speaker 1: Now, bit this much shift, okay.
Speaker 4: Lord, you have been here earlier, Lazarus, mus Myda have
Speaker 4: not died.
Speaker 2: But but I know if you pray, God will listen
Speaker 2: to you. You see the emotions that's happening. I'm not
Speaker 2: really just talking about girls. I'm talking about all of
Speaker 2: us here. Imagine, Lord, have you've not been but I
Speaker 2: know you're going to do something. And I've experienced the
Speaker 2: same thing. This was years ago, four years ago, when
Speaker 2: my son was to be.
Speaker 1: Operated and he was a week old and they had
Speaker 1: to open him up.
Speaker 4: We were praying the whole time. Lord, Come, Lord, He'll
Speaker 4: called text that everyone, thousands of people praying for my son.
Speaker 2: Until the very last minute where he's being entered into
Speaker 2: the into the operating room.
Speaker 1: We were praying Lords out of a boss and doctor to
Speaker 1: the wow, supernatural, hallelujah. Did not happen. Lord, if you have.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, but even now, I know God,
Speaker 1: till the very last minute, I'm holding onto you that
Speaker 1: healing is going to come. But it's not the answer
Speaker 1: that I was expecting in the same way from Martha.
Speaker 1: But Lord, even I know now if you ask the Lord,
Speaker 1: God will do something to my brother. Here's what Jesus answered,
Speaker 1: Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.
Speaker 2: Now look at Martha's answer. Martha said, I know that
Speaker 2: he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.
Speaker 2: See Martha diaman alam.
Speaker 1: It has been passed on to her. This is deep
Speaker 1: stuff what Martha said here. This is the reason a
Speaker 1: lot of Christians who know their Bible have hoped even
Speaker 1: in their death bed. I've visited people who read Love
Speaker 1: the Lord and they're about to die in a week's time,
Speaker 1: and I come out of there. I'm the one crying,
Speaker 1: why so bless, But Mamatai, you know, Lord, worship MAMAMATAI.
Speaker 2: Why because it's Christians we have hope. He is a resurrection.
Speaker 2: And this was the promise in Revelation.
Speaker 1: You're paying bat because one day, when you die, you
Speaker 1: will have glorified bodies. In the last days. I will
Speaker 1: see whoever my my loved one who's died, who's also
Speaker 1: of the faith, and.
Speaker 2: Bank Comfortina one day. And this was what Martha was saying, Yeah, Lord,
Speaker 2: I know one day Mcgigitar is a resurrection, the last
Speaker 2: day with glorified bodies. Right, And this was what Martha
Speaker 2: was conversing with Jesus so in her heart, imagine again
Speaker 2: what's going through her mind in her heart, Lord, your late.
Speaker 2: Now my brother's dead, but I know God, I know God.
Speaker 2: He will come alive one day.
Speaker 1: Hope. This is what we have as Christians. That's why
Speaker 1: we have Easter. Hope. You can't buy hope, can't buy hope,
Speaker 1: you can't download hope. Hope is given to us by Christ.
Speaker 1: That's why a Christian who understands resurrection will live differently
Speaker 1: from someone who doesn't believe in the resurrection.
Speaker 2: And later Jesus will challenge the very premise of if
Speaker 2: you really believe in the resurrection, this your life would
Speaker 2: be different. So Martha said, on the last day, I
Speaker 2: will see Lazarus. And then Jesus answered, and this is
Speaker 2: the message, more than just raising Lazarus from the dead.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, I am the resurrection in the life. He
Speaker 2: who believes in me will live even though he dies,
Speaker 2: And whoever lives and believes in me will never die again.
Speaker 2: Jesus declares, and I am statement. I am what the
Speaker 2: resurrection and I am the life. Two declarations for this miracle.
Speaker 2: I am the resurrection and I am the life. If
Speaker 2: I want your brother alive he will be alive resurrection.
Speaker 2: If I want your brother dead and you're going to
Speaker 2: see him in the resurrection days, in the last days,
Speaker 2: it's going to happen. Why I am the resurrection. I
Speaker 2: am the life. He who believes in me, though he dies,
Speaker 2: yet shall he live.
Speaker 1: This is eternal life.
Speaker 2: I'm Christian lang sabu mundo and kaya declare pagahona matai
Speaker 2: lang patinoba.
Speaker 1: And for some people that's what bragging. Yeah, bong holy calam.
Speaker 2: MOSI no, no, it's not. When I say when I die,
Speaker 2: I'm going to heaven. What I'm saying is I'm acknowledging
Speaker 2: on my own. I can never go there because Jesus
Speaker 2: is my resurrection in my life. Therefore, when I die,
Speaker 2: I'm going to heaven, not because I'm so good, but
Speaker 2: because God is so powerful.
Speaker 1: He is my resurrection. He is my life.
Speaker 2: Jesus is telling all of us that I am your resurrection.
Speaker 2: I am the way anybody gets resurrected.
Speaker 1: You want a life that is eternal, you go to me.
Speaker 2: I am the resurrection. I am the life. You can't
Speaker 2: find it anywhere else. Only I could offer that. And
Speaker 2: everyone who lives in me shall never die. Then he
Speaker 2: looks at the disciples with Mary and Martha and.
Speaker 1: Said, do you believe in this?
Speaker 2: Why ask that question the same way he asked in
Speaker 2: John six when everybody departed him.
Speaker 1: This is again another hard teaching. You see religion today,
Speaker 1: all gods.
Speaker 2: Not trying to offend anyone. Here, all God's human worship.
Speaker 2: You go to their tomb and the founder is still there.
Speaker 2: Only through historical evidence and biblical evidence can you see
Speaker 2: that the tomb.
Speaker 1: Of Jesus is empty.
Speaker 2: We long debate that there was this Jesus who existed.
Speaker 2: Even atheists would say, yeah, there was a Jesus. It's
Speaker 2: all in the historical records. That's why we don't need
Speaker 2: to debate.
Speaker 1: If Jesus existed.
Speaker 2: And I actually don't need to debate if Jesus resurrected
Speaker 2: because I'm a Christian and so Jesus was saying, here,
Speaker 2: I am the resurrection.
Speaker 1: In the life. Do you believe in this? And abado?
Speaker 1: Because people will malign you, people will persecute you if
Speaker 1: you believe in this, I am the resurrection and the life.
Speaker 2: For you to say that you will be born again,
Speaker 2: people will laugh at you. Do you believe that I
Speaker 2: am the resurrection. Do you believe that only I can
Speaker 2: give you that life? So when he asked do you
Speaker 2: believe in this, what he was saying is is there
Speaker 2: anything radical happening in your life? Because if you believe
Speaker 2: in the resurrection, your life should be different from someone
Speaker 2: who doesn't believe in the resurrection. The very foundation of
Speaker 2: Christianity is now on this resurrection.
Speaker 1: That's why I first got in ten fifteen.
Speaker 2: Paul said, if Jesus did not resurrect, our faith is useless.
Speaker 2: You don't need to go to church, you don't need
Speaker 2: to read your Bible, you don't need to surrender your
Speaker 2: life to.
Speaker 1: A dead God.
Speaker 2: Why sing a song to someone who's dead he cannot hear.
Speaker 1: Why go to church and worship to a dead God?
Speaker 1: This is futile, This is useless. Ha been in, Paul.
Speaker 1: So if you don't believe in the resurrection, no need
Speaker 1: to go to church next week unless condito. But if
Speaker 1: you really don't believe, you don't have to go. But
Speaker 1: as Christians, we believe in the resurrection.
Speaker 2: Paul was saying, because this is the thing that gives
Speaker 2: us our very own life.
Speaker 1: I am the resurrection in the life.
Speaker 2: Imagine when the demons heard this when Jesus declared, I
Speaker 2: am the resurrection in the.
Speaker 1: Life as venion or what's happening? Why?
Speaker 2: Because their ultimate plan was to what nail Jesus in
Speaker 2: the cross and he'll die in the cross. That was
Speaker 2: the plan. Kill the son. We win if we kill
Speaker 2: the son. Now, that's what I said. This is prequel
Speaker 2: to what is going to happen days after.
Speaker 1: When Jesus will resurrect. For Jesus, this is it my
Speaker 1: last enemy death. And so he declares, I am the
Speaker 1: resurrection and the life. Do you believe in the resurrection
Speaker 1: in bamboh my hope.
Speaker 2: Malakas and hope malaldi ma hop we can hope because
Speaker 2: we believe in the resurrection. That's why it's Christians we
Speaker 2: value life. What we're saying is that person is hope.
Speaker 2: There's no hopeless case kaya Governor Bryan. Why because hope
Speaker 2: resides in us. You cannot look at someone and say, Jared,
Speaker 2: no hope. I cannot, though I was tempted, no.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Imagine if somebody looked at me and said, Hope you
Speaker 2: can get You got the disciple.
Speaker 1: Yet, imagine why would someone invest their life in me? Hope?
Speaker 2: God can use this person hope when we're sick, Why
Speaker 2: do we pray for healing?
Speaker 1: Hope? Why do we pray for our nation? Na presidented
Speaker 1: a Dio Hope not in man, but in God resurrection.
Speaker 1: We believe. We hope as Christians, and that's why.
Speaker 2: We believe in the supernatural. We believe in signs and wonders.
Speaker 2: We believe in healing. There's no such thing as incurable
Speaker 2: for us. Why hope? It's God's business to heal. It's
Speaker 2: my part to hope in Christ. Hope romans for assuring
Speaker 2: us that God will also count us us righteous if
Speaker 2: we believe in him, the one who raised Jesus our
Speaker 2: Lord from the dead. Look, the Bible tells us the
Speaker 2: reason we will be saved is because of the resurrection.
Speaker 2: If Christ rise from the dead, it means, Wow, I'm saved.
Speaker 2: But if he remains dead, useless prayer, Go, Lord coming
Speaker 2: to my life, coming to me. He won't hear he's dead.
Speaker 2: He says, It's the same I made righteous because Christ
Speaker 2: was raised from the dead. He was handed over to
Speaker 2: die because of our sins, and he was raised to
Speaker 2: life to make us what right with God? He was
Speaker 2: raised to life so that I could be made right
Speaker 2: with God.
Speaker 1: What makes me right with God? My good works, No,
Speaker 1: the resurrection.
Speaker 2: Because I put my hope in the resurrected Jesus. I
Speaker 2: am now made right with God because of what he
Speaker 2: did on the cross for me, not what I do
Speaker 2: for him. I know I keep repeating this almost every
Speaker 2: week already, but sometimes we just have to put it
Speaker 2: sometimes in our heart, head and heart. It's not about you.
Speaker 2: You can never save yourself. It is the resurrection power
Speaker 2: of Christ that saves us. Our sins were paid in full,
Speaker 2: and it's legitimate. Because Jesus rose from the grave, He's alive.
Speaker 2: So when Jesus said to Martha, do you believe that
Speaker 2: I'm the Resurrection in the life, she said to him, Yes, Lord,
Speaker 2: I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
Speaker 2: who is coming into the world.
Speaker 1: I believe in you. I believe you're the restaurant.
Speaker 2: But Martha had no idea what Jesus was about to do.
Speaker 2: Siguru in her mind, yeah, I believe I will see
Speaker 2: Lazarus when I die in heaven, we.
Speaker 1: Will see I believe. I believe what I read.
Speaker 5: I believe the theology, the doctrines that has been passed on
Speaker 5: to me. But Jesus was revealing now an ultimate message.
Speaker 5: Now when Mary came, so Martha said, I believe. Now,
Speaker 5: Mary came out to.
Speaker 1: Where Jesus was and saw him. She fell at his feet,
Speaker 1: saying that, Lord, if you had been here, my brother
Speaker 1: would not have died. Same same line, imagine, it's the
Speaker 1: same line, condeala and lady Lord, Gondela, Lady Lord. Now
Speaker 1: Mary goes there, we holds to Jesus feet and started weeping. Lord,
Speaker 1: if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Speaker 1: When Jesus saw this, saw her weeping, and the Jews
Speaker 1: had come there with her, also weeping. Everybody was crying.
Speaker 1: He was deeply moved in his spirit. See Lord, you
Speaker 1: know he knows he's going to raise Lazarus from the dead.
Speaker 2: So forth, friend, Yeah, he was deeply moved. He was
Speaker 2: greatly troubled. Two emotions.
Speaker 1: That's why sometimes you have to read the Bible slowly,
Speaker 1: because there's two emotions here. He was deeply moved my empathy, awahaha.
Speaker 1: And he was greatly troubled. Now, the word greatly troubled,
Speaker 1: when you translate, it means bellowing with rage gall it
Speaker 1: so emotion nothing.
Speaker 2: Now when it says greatly troubled bellowing with rage, mikal
Speaker 2: silent anger. No, you bellow with rage? The ban so
Speaker 2: I bellowing with rage?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or the name cassinola laam okay bellowing with rage ma.
Speaker 1: Union. Yeah. You knew alm Jesus was greatly troubled.
Speaker 2: Now you asked why why is Jesus angry? Was it
Speaker 2: because the women were crying? And Lazarus, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Why is he mad? And here's the reason why he
Speaker 1: was angry at death. Not because your last this is
Speaker 1: the very last enemy.
Speaker 2: He's going to confront death for the wages of sin
Speaker 2: is what death.
Speaker 1: Sin has caused death, kalit neglichi lords are sin that
Speaker 1: has destroyed so many people, so many families, so many
Speaker 1: lives of kids in nations because of sin. He bellowed
Speaker 1: with rage because he knew that this was death.
Speaker 2: John Calvin said upon reading this text, see Jesus though.
Speaker 1: And kalabana death parado champion magi pasan. That is what
Speaker 1: greatly troubled means. I want to defeat this. I'll do
Speaker 1: what ever it takes. That's why his statements in scripture
Speaker 1: very strong. I came here to destroy the works of
Speaker 1: the devil. His mission was so clear. I came here
Speaker 1: to die on the cross.
Speaker 2: Why because I am going to destroy the works of
Speaker 2: the enemy. He would say, the thief comes to still
Speaker 2: kill and destroy. I came that you might have life
Speaker 2: and have life to the full.
Speaker 1: And the only way to do that is to defeat death.
Speaker 1: Strong words from Jesus. Looks at the disciples, and that's
Speaker 1: the disciples.
Speaker 2: I've given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions
Speaker 2: and to overcome all the power of the enemy. When
Speaker 2: it comes to fighting Sin, Jesus was all business. I
Speaker 2: got on your passion.
Speaker 1: I don't want Sin to destroy because Sin has destroyed
Speaker 1: so many people.
Speaker 2: And he said, where have you laid him? They said
Speaker 2: to him, Lord, come and see the shortest verse in
Speaker 2: the Bible. Jesus wept as.
Speaker 1: They were walking.
Speaker 2: Imagine the scene, best friend of Martha Mary Lazarus on
Speaker 2: the tomb.
Speaker 1: Where did you put him? Everybody was crying.
Speaker 2: Imagine he wept because he felt grabbing Lord nat empathy
Speaker 2: laz Rospero, because you have didn't in Indiana. Guy does
Speaker 2: know I'm the resurrection?
Speaker 1: It is is it? The Lord love?
Speaker 2: So everybody was crying empathy, very strong virtue, that everybody
Speaker 2: must have.
Speaker 1: Gal it empathy to let me Lloyd.
Speaker 2: Here's how mad Jesus is when it comes to death.
Speaker 2: First courting Tien's fifteen.
Speaker 1: For as in.
Speaker 2: Adam will die, even so in Christ shall all be
Speaker 2: made alive.
Speaker 1: For he must reign. How does he.
Speaker 2: Reign till he had put all his enemies under his feet?
Speaker 2: The last enemy that shall be destroyed is what death.
Speaker 2: If I overcome death, I will reign.
Speaker 1: The enemy has no power. Why because the only thing
Speaker 1: the enemy can do to us? John ten ten.
Speaker 2: Still kill, destroy? Jesus said, Oh you still kill and destroy?
Speaker 2: I'm putting you under my feet. That's why when you
Speaker 2: read the scripture, sometimes we look at the Bible in
Speaker 2: a different way, in a false way. Why we think
Speaker 2: if I read my Bible, the bad people will become good.
Speaker 1: The Bible is not a book to make bad people good.
Speaker 1: It's a book to make dead people come to life.
Speaker 1: And you need to see it that way. Preachings like
Speaker 1: this every Sunday is not so that Parama. What we're
Speaker 1: trying to do is to call out what was once
Speaker 1: dead and make it come alive. In Christ, why Because
Speaker 1: the last enemy is death and it is sin that
Speaker 1: has brought death.
Speaker 2: So we need to address sin. And how do you
Speaker 2: address sin by doing more good works? No way, we
Speaker 2: cannot do this on our own.
Speaker 1: We need someone to fight for us.
Speaker 2: And Jesus was saying, I'm fighting for us, I'm standing
Speaker 2: for us, I'm defeating.
Speaker 1: Death for us. So the Jew said, see how he
Speaker 1: loved him.
Speaker 2: But some of them said, could not he who opened
Speaker 2: the eyes of the blind man, John six also have
Speaker 2: kept this man from John nine kept this man from dying.
Speaker 2: Dibah Prea chapters ago eyeballs Niginya.
Speaker 1: While they were walking, imagine there was a paid a
Speaker 1: discussion going on.
Speaker 2: Then Jesus deeply move again, came to the tomb.
Speaker 1: It was a cave and a stone lay against it.
Speaker 1: When you die before and you have a certain amount
Speaker 1: of money, you can actually get a tomb okay. And
Speaker 1: this was a cave okay.
Speaker 2: And Nazarus was inside, and Jesus said, take away the stone.
Speaker 1: Now. Martha, the sister the dead man, said to.
Speaker 2: Him, Lord Margie, she go to Maga forty plus, n
Speaker 2: Martha a thirty plus learn learn yeah, friends to it,
Speaker 2: inter mine imagine in their mind, Ah, Jesus wants to
Speaker 2: go to the tomb to pay lest respects. He missed
Speaker 2: the funeral and the burial. At least go to the tomb.
Speaker 2: So in their mind it was like.
Speaker 1: Okay, now when Jesus said, now move, take away the stone. Oops,
Speaker 1: you coordinate? No no, no no.
Speaker 2: If we can't, there will be an othor. For he
Speaker 2: has been dead for days. It's going to be smelly.
Speaker 2: What's the message here?
Speaker 1: You see death? It stinks.
Speaker 2: Sin stinks when there's sin in our life. Very cultural
Speaker 2: for us. Jesus now confronts the very root of death,
Speaker 2: which is sin, and confronting sin would be stinky.
Speaker 1: But he was ready. He was saying, I'll go to
Speaker 1: the place where it stinks the most.
Speaker 2: Removed the stone. I'm confronting that sin. Someone must confront
Speaker 2: the sin. But Lord, Pa, we live in a shame culture.
Speaker 2: I I nating now malham problamnating. I've heard so many
Speaker 2: lines even inside the church, watin sharto may problam ati
Speaker 2: natah a victory group.
Speaker 1: You may problam, problam the Lord. And are you open
Speaker 1: to share your stink so that Christ can do something
Speaker 1: about it?
Speaker 2: Because if you hide it, it can never be confronted.
Speaker 1: Jesus said, take away the stone. He was willing to
Speaker 1: save you where it stinks. And he say, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do.
Speaker 2: Something and I will confront that sin by my death
Speaker 2: on the cross, which was going.
Speaker 1: To happen days after. Why why can he do that?
Speaker 1: Because he's the resurrection in the life.
Speaker 2: You need him, big dilk, That's why he's coming, and
Speaker 2: he wants to transform.
Speaker 1: And he says, take away the stone.
Speaker 2: Are you ready to take the stone away and be
Speaker 2: vulnerable this year? And say I need help, I need Christ,
Speaker 2: I need this resurrection, I need this life. Why my
Speaker 2: marriage is thinking, my faith is thinking, my.
Speaker 1: Health is thinking, my mind stinks. I need help only
Speaker 1: if you're willing to remove.
Speaker 2: The stone for Christ to come so that you would
Speaker 2: experience resurrection, power and life. Then Jesus said, did I
Speaker 2: not tell you that if you believed, you would see
Speaker 2: the glory of God. At this point, he looks at
Speaker 2: the crowd. Now there might have been hundreds now following him. Okay,
Speaker 2: because this is Jesus who did six miracles. Already, we've
Speaker 2: been through it the six weeks, right, But Sina become
Speaker 2: guest speaker. Na Jesus weeks been buento and not in
Speaker 2: six weeks.
Speaker 1: At the next week in Ditasha, you would invite everyone. Right,
Speaker 1: everybody's there.
Speaker 2: Now they're looking and Jesus tell them told him, did
Speaker 2: I not tell you that if you.
Speaker 1: Believe, you would see the glory of God. So now
Speaker 1: they were, oh, what's gonna happen, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: So they took away the stone, and Jesus lifted up
Speaker 2: his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you
Speaker 2: have heard me. Started to pray, Lord, thank you, because
Speaker 2: you are a god who listens to my prayers. I
Speaker 2: knew that you always hear me, but I said this
Speaker 2: on account of the people standing around that they may
Speaker 2: believe that you sent me.
Speaker 1: This was the dagger sat Lord Salam, that I am
Speaker 1: the resurrection in the life, the one that you've said.
Speaker 2: This was the same crowd who heard him say I
Speaker 2: am the Resurrection in the life. And now the demonstration
Speaker 2: is about to happen.
Speaker 1: And he made sure.
Speaker 2: Everybody heard because this is going to spread. In the
Speaker 2: last of John eleven the Pharise, He's heard this and
Speaker 2: tried to make a way to murder Jesus O Jerusalem,
Speaker 2: this is my message.
Speaker 1: I am the Resurrection and the Life.
Speaker 2: And I hope you're hearing it now coming from a
Speaker 2: Chinese pastor, but I hope you hear the voice of
Speaker 2: Jesus saying I am the Resurrection, I am the Life.
Speaker 2: I'm the one who can give you hope, who can
Speaker 2: give you life.
Speaker 1: Not people, not not not your achievements, not what you
Speaker 1: do for me that will never give you life. I
Speaker 1: am the resurrection in the life.
Speaker 2: But there needs to be a part in us to
Speaker 2: get out of our sin, the stinking sin, our addiction,
Speaker 2: our strongholds, our caves. We need to get out and
Speaker 2: be set free. We've got to grab hold of that life.
Speaker 1: That is found in Christ.
Speaker 2: And in verse forty three, he cried with a loud voice.
Speaker 2: He says, Lazarus come forth, and he who had died
Speaker 2: came out.
Speaker 1: I want you to imagine the scene.
Speaker 2: Scholars tells us specifically he called Lazarus come forth.
Speaker 1: Could be that's why it was specific Lazarus. That was
Speaker 1: the power of his resurrection.
Speaker 2: What is being shown here when he said Lazarus and
Speaker 2: it was specific, it was a glimpse of his glory's.
Speaker 1: Right but that will.
Speaker 2: Happen according to what Martha was saying, it will happen
Speaker 2: in the resurrection.
Speaker 1: And how does it happen today?
Speaker 2: It happens today when we pray for the Sikh and
Speaker 2: healing comes. It's a glimpse of what's about to happen
Speaker 2: in the future of the glory of God. It happens
Speaker 2: when we pray for the impossible and something happened miraculously.
Speaker 1: It's a glimpse.
Speaker 2: Yuma Halamo, hopeless case Beglongbago and gin Christiano Nebago, Marage
Speaker 2: and Bago turned around. Wow, it's a glimpse of what's
Speaker 2: going to happen when Jesus rules and reigns in the
Speaker 2: whole earth in his fullness, in his glory.
Speaker 1: So for this one, it was a glimpse. And see Lazarus.
Speaker 1: Can I heal everyone?
Speaker 2: Yes, But I'm just giving you a glimpse of what's
Speaker 2: going to happen in the future. And that's why it's
Speaker 2: what's only Lazarus. Lazarus come forth, and Lazarus and a
Speaker 2: dead man came out. And I want you to look
Speaker 2: at this picture because we preached this a million times
Speaker 2: already and we miss it most of the time.
Speaker 1: I want you to imagine that Lazarus, come forth. A
Speaker 1: dead man came out. The man who died came out,
Speaker 1: his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his
Speaker 1: face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to the man
Speaker 1: to them, unbind him and let him go. Lazarus, come forth.
Speaker 1: He can't walk all right, he had to jump. Imagine
Speaker 1: the picture. Now everybody's amazed. Imagine if this happens today,
Speaker 1: what will you do?
Speaker 4: Lazarus, come forth, my baba worship whoa had Ambaudi came alive.
Speaker 1: But I want you to see the picture here. Don't
Speaker 1: miss the picture. He was tied, he's alive, and Jesus
Speaker 1: now calls out. You look through all the New Testament.
Speaker 2: You see the pattern, even when the church was birthed
Speaker 2: in the New Testae. Jesus unbind him and let him go.
Speaker 2: It takes others to fully experience the resurrection and the life.
Speaker 2: Can't do this on your own. You need community. The
Speaker 2: best thing about Lazarus Mary and Martha friends connected. They
Speaker 2: had to unbind him and let him go, so brandam Christiana,
Speaker 2: Kayawa and credibility. But then they preaching no resurrection. Back
Speaker 2: at friend what are you doing? Why nobody knows you?
Speaker 2: You're not in community, you don't have others. It's just you,
Speaker 2: super Christian, doing everything on your own, not being disciples,
Speaker 2: running away from accountability, running away from community. Yes you
Speaker 2: can do that, Yes I will see you in heaven.
Speaker 2: But while here on earth you're going to hop and
Speaker 2: you can't move.
Speaker 1: Why do you need to be en? Because when resurrection.
Speaker 2: Power comes over our lives, the main goal is not
Speaker 2: just to save you, all of us we have a mission,
Speaker 2: imagine mono, but the very purpose of the resurrection is
Speaker 2: just to save us.
Speaker 1: You know what would be a good idea?
Speaker 2: Resurrection power comes, everybody dies and goes to heaven. But no,
Speaker 2: how come when somebody receives Christ in his life, he
Speaker 2: doesn't die. He's still alive, but now as a new
Speaker 2: creation with a new mission to go and make disciples
Speaker 2: of all nations say young young power, but feeling not
Speaker 2: a new resurrection power. They and lang it paro. It
Speaker 2: takes to be part of community to let others unbind
Speaker 2: you and lose you so that you can go. The
Speaker 2: other version, I think King James powerful Light, lose that
Speaker 2: man and let him go.
Speaker 1: Lacking n with a mission. It's going to be very
Speaker 1: fruitful and productive life here on earth, doing damage in
Speaker 1: the kingdom of darkness.
Speaker 2: And doing great things for the Kingdom of God. The resurrection,
Speaker 2: the power of the resurrection. God has given you life,
Speaker 2: resurrection life. But please do it in the context of community.
Speaker 2: Let others unbind you and run with the vision.
Speaker 1: The call that God has given you.
Speaker 2: Today, you've got to lose that man and that woman
Speaker 2: and let him go and do what God has called
Speaker 2: him to do. Can be bought on our heads and pray, Lord.
Speaker 1: We thank you for the life a Flazarus. Lord.
Speaker 2: The story shows to us you're never late, but you
Speaker 2: move in your own timeline. That the greater message behind
Speaker 2: this miracle is not that only God can raise people
Speaker 2: from the dead, but that Lord, you are the resurrection
Speaker 2: in the life. And Lord, you want to bring about
Speaker 2: transformation in me by first making me take away the
Speaker 2: stone and exposing my stink of sin that causes death,
Speaker 2: in my relationships, in my faith, in my fruitfulness, in
Speaker 2: my calling.
Speaker 1: Lord. I pray today, Lord.
Speaker 2: That we would let you take charge and take control
Speaker 2: of the thing that causes us to stink, because you
Speaker 2: are coming like a champion wanting to fight death, and
Speaker 2: that you want to put death under your feet. John
Speaker 2: ten ten, the thief came to steal, to kill and destroy.
Speaker 2: But Jesus you came that we might have life, and
Speaker 2: have life abundantly. And Lord you declared, I am the
Speaker 2: resurrection in the life. Lord you want to give this
Speaker 2: to us today. And so Lord, we receive your resurrection power.
Speaker 2: And Lord, I pray that I will be in community
Speaker 2: from this day on, make an effort to be in community.
Speaker 1: Lord, thank you.
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