Summary: <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Gospels: Full of Grace and Truth</span></p><br> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Raising of Lazarus</span></p><br> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">John 11:1-44</span></p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">Now a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was [that] Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.” When Jesus heard [that], he said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.” (John 11:1-4)</span></p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <ol class="ol1"> <li class="li3"> <span class="s3"><strong>COMFORTING</strong></span><span class="s1"> yet </span><span class="s3"><strong>CONFUSING</strong></span><span class="s1"> words</span> </li> <br> </ol><p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. Then after that he said to [his] disciples, “Let us go into Judaea again.”[His] disciples said unto him, “Master, the Jews of late sought to stone you; and you’re going there again?” (John 11:5-8)</span></p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <ol class="ol1"> <li class="li3"> <span class="s1">Caught between two </span><span class="s3"><strong>DESIRES</strong></span> </li> <br> </ol><p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"> Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.” He said these things, and after that he said unto them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.” Then said his disciples, “Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.” Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.” (John 11:9-14)</span></p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <ol class="ol1"><li class="li3"> <span class="s1">What happens when we </span><span class="s3"><strong>DIE</strong></span><span class="s1">?</span><ol class="ol1"> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Jesus redefines death for the believer as sleep</span></li> <br> </ol> </li></ol><p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">“And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent you may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.” Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” (John 11:15-16)</span></p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <ol class="ol1"> <li class="li3"> <span class="s1">Was doubting Thomas given a bad </span><span class="s3"><strong>RAP</strong></span><span class="s1">?</span> </li> <br> </ol><p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">Then when Jesus came, he found that he had [lain] in the grave four days already. Now Bethany was near unto Jerusalem, about 1.7 miles away. And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat [still] in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died. But I know, that even now, whatever you will ask of God, God will give [it] to you.” (John 11:17-22)</span></p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <ol class="ol1"> <li class="li3"> <span class="s1">A </span><span class="s3"><strong>PASSIVE - AGGRESSIVE</strong></span><span class="s1"> request</span> </li> <br> </ol><p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">Jesus said unto her, “Your brother shall rise again.” Martha said unto him,</span></p>
