The NXR Podcast - THE SERMON - The Resurrection And The Life

00:00:00.000 Amen. Let's stand for the reading of God's Word. Our text for this Easter Sunday is the Gospel of

00:00:08.320 John chapter 11 verses 17 through 44. Again that's the Gospel of John chapter 11 verses 17 through

00:00:15.140 44. I'll read the text for us in its entirety. When I finish reading the text I'm going to say

00:00:19.720 this is the Word of the Lord at which point I would appreciate very much if you would respond

00:00:24.200 by saying thanks be to God one final time our text is the gospel of John chapter 11 verse 17

00:00:30.780 through 44 the bible says this when Jesus came he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb

00:00:37.660 four days Bethany was near Jerusalem and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console

00:00:43.720 them concerning their brother so when Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went and met him

00:00:49.440 But Martha remained in the house. Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here,

00:00:54.800 my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God,

00:00:59.500 God will give you. Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again. Martha said to him,

00:01:05.460 I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said, I am the resurrection

00:01:11.480 and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, shall live. And everyone who lives and

00:01:18.240 believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? She said, Yes, Lord. I believe that you are

00:01:24.520 the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world. When she had said this, she went and called

00:01:31.340 her sister Mary, saying, The teacher is here and is calling for you. And when she heard it, she rose

00:01:37.360 quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where

00:01:43.540 Martha had met him. When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise

00:01:49.520 quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep. Now when

00:01:55.420 Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here,

00:02:01.820 my brother would not have died. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her

00:02:07.260 also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. And he said, Where have you

00:02:13.340 laid him. They said to him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. So the Jews said, see how he loved him.

00:02:21.380 But some of them said, could not he who had opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man

00:02:28.040 from dying? Then Jesus deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave and a stone lay against

00:02:35.580 it. Jesus said, take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, Lord, by this

00:02:42.440 time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days. Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you

00:02:48.480 that if you believed you would see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted

00:02:54.200 up his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me,

00:03:00.540 but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.

00:03:06.060 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out.

00:03:12.580 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth.

00:03:20.220 Jesus said to them, unbind him and let him go.

00:03:23.600 This is the word of the Lord.

00:03:25.660 All right, please be seated.

00:03:27.240 Let's go ahead and dive right in.

00:03:29.940 It's Easter Sunday.

00:03:31.260 every Lord's Day we have 52 Lord's Days each year every now and then 53 and we are always

00:03:39.820 constantly celebrating the life death burial resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ

00:03:46.460 so in that sense there's nothing really unique but it is a historically a tradition of the church

00:03:52.400 to emphasize in a particular sense the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday

00:03:58.980 and in our text today you may have noticed that it's not Jesus's resurrection that is in focus

00:04:05.680 but rather it's Jesus by his power raising Lazarus from the dead so we are focusing on

00:04:12.260 a resurrection but notice that one of the key points of the text verse 25 Jesus says I am the

00:04:19.780 resurrection and the life it is the fact that Jesus is the resurrection not merely that he was

00:04:26.260 resurrected but that he is a resurrection that all of us have hope one day to be resurrected

00:04:32.180 as well that Lazarus is a sign pointing towards a future event that Jesus will raise all the dead

00:04:40.840 and that for those of us who have faith in him those of us who have union with him that we will

00:04:45.620 be raised to glory and that those who have been wicked in this life and rejected Christ and

00:04:51.860 unbelief that they will be raised to eternal damnation. But in our text, although it is

00:04:57.320 Lazarus who is raised and not Jesus in this particular text, Jesus does say, I am the

00:05:03.140 resurrection and the life. And so we'll focus some of our attention on that. First, what I want you

00:05:09.720 to see from the text is this. One of the things that I love about this text, I've preached through

00:05:16.260 it a few times over the years. One of the things that I enjoy a lot from this particular text

00:05:22.820 is the focus of Jesus and his love for Lazarus and his sisters. And that in love, it's not

00:05:31.200 that Jesus tarries because he waits for a while when he catches news of Lazarus being sick.

00:05:40.540 He doesn't immediately rush to the scene in order to heal Lazarus.

00:05:45.520 And that's one of the big themes that you find in this particular passage,

00:05:49.000 that everybody seems to be at best confused by and at worst angry and frustrated by.

00:05:55.920 And they're frustrated that Jesus chose to tarry, that he did not immediately come.

00:06:02.020 But one of the things that you see early on in the text and throughout the text

00:06:05.580 is it's not that Jesus loved Lazarus despite tearing when he hears the news that Lazarus is

00:06:15.080 sick. It's that Jesus loves Lazarus and his sisters by tearing. That it is actually precisely

00:06:23.960 in love and because of love that Jesus chooses to tarry. He chooses to wait for two extra days

00:06:32.420 after receiving news that Lazarus is significantly ill

00:06:37.840 before he begins to make the journey over to where Lazarus is.

00:06:42.320 In your notes, I've written the following.

00:06:44.040 In John 11, verse 1-16,

00:06:46.440 we are told that Jesus did not immediately go to heal Lazarus

00:06:50.020 when he heard that he was sick

00:06:51.440 because he loved Lazarus and his sisters.

00:06:55.480 In other words, it was more loving, not less.

00:06:59.360 Jesus didn't tarry because he loved Lazarus, but not quite enough.

00:07:03.880 No, it's because Jesus fully loved Lazarus that he chooses to wait, to stick around, to tarry.

00:07:10.780 In other words, it was more, not less, but more loving to put Lazarus through the pain of death

00:07:17.120 and his sisters through the pain of grief, if this would somehow reveal more of Christ's glory to them.

00:07:23.980 Jesus loves us by showing us himself where do we see this precisely in the text is throughout our

00:07:31.880 text today I've already read it but to back up it's explicitly said just a few verses prior in

00:07:37.680 John chapter 11 verses 3 through 6 which says this so the sisters that is the sisters of Lazarus

00:07:44.500 sent to him to Jesus saying Lord he whom you love is ill they knew that Jesus had a friendship

00:07:52.140 with Lazarus that Jesus had a particular love and affection for Lazarus he who you love

00:07:59.660 is sick he's ill but when Jesus heard it he said this illness does not lead to death it is for

00:08:07.520 the glory of God so that the son of God may be glorified through it now Jesus loved catch this

00:08:16.340 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. He loves Lazarus, and he loves both of Lazarus's

00:08:24.840 sisters, Mary and Martha. The very next word in verse 6, so. It's not changing gears. It's not a

00:08:34.800 complete shift in the topic or the theme. It is so, or therefore, precisely because of what was just

00:08:43.040 stated in verse 5, Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. There's the beginning. Jesus

00:08:50.900 loved these people. So, because he loved them, therefore, when he heard that Lazarus was ill,

00:08:58.660 he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. I love that. It's fascinating.

00:09:06.960 Because Jesus loved them. So, it's not that, well, Jesus loved a lot of people,

00:09:11.480 you know but in his earthly ministry because he's the God man fully God but also fully man he's

00:09:17.100 bound he has a physical locale due to his flesh his human nature and he loves everybody but he

00:09:23.320 can't be everywhere at once that's true that's true in his earthly ministry it could have said

00:09:28.820 you know Jesus loved them but he loved a lot of people and because he loved a lot of people

00:09:33.160 and because he can only be in one place at one time he tarried but that's not the emphasis of

00:09:39.720 what's being conveyed in verses five and six. The implication of what's being communicated here is

00:09:46.960 that Jesus particularly loves Lazarus and his two sisters. That he especially loves them. That he is

00:09:55.260 especially close in intimate relationship with them. And because he loves them so much, he waits.

00:10:03.000 it's not despite his love he waits it's because he loves them that he hangs around

00:10:11.100 that he is slow and that he tarries again not a lack of love not laziness not uh differing

00:10:21.280 priorities something is going on that's more important here than what's happening there

00:10:26.700 no it is out of his love for Lazarus and Lazarus's two sisters that Jesus intentionally chooses

00:10:34.880 to wait now some of us may be tempted to argue that the way God shows his love to his people

00:10:43.200 is by giving them eternal life right John 3 16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only

00:10:51.380 son that whoever should believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life that out of love

00:10:58.100 the way that God communicates his love or manifests displays his love for us is by granting us eternal

00:11:06.740 life by saving us from eternal death saving us the judgment of his wrath and hell by giving his son

00:11:15.300 the wages of sin is death romans 6 23 but the gift of god is eternal life in christ jesus

00:11:23.060 our lord so god manifest he shows his love for us by giving his son to die the death we should

00:11:30.440 have died so that we might have eternal life god shows his love for us by giving us eternal life

00:11:37.040 yes that is true god shows his love by giving us eternal life but the question is what is at the

00:11:47.040 heart of eternal life jesus tells us in john 17 verse 3 this is eternal life that they know you

00:11:55.960 the only true god and jesus christ whom you have sent the point of eternal life is the infinite

00:12:03.180 knowing of God. For God so loved the world that at the cost of his son's life he brought us into

00:12:10.840 eternal life. And what is that? An everlasting knowing and enjoying of Jesus. So yes, God does

00:12:20.100 show and demonstrate his love for us by granting us eternal life at the cost of the life of his

00:12:26.860 own son but what is eternal life it's knowing him it is a forever ongoing everlasting relationship

00:12:35.360 with the triune god it is knowing him seeing his glory and this is what jesus prays in the garden

00:12:44.080 of gethsemane before his arrest in john chapter 17 his high priestly prayer he prays that god

00:12:50.820 would show his people all those that the father gave to jesus he says i have kept them and none

00:12:57.220 of them have perished except for the son of perdition so that the prophecies the scripture

00:13:01.720 might be fulfilled and my prayer lord is it father is that you would keep them and that you would

00:13:07.700 reveal to them your glory and my glory which i have that you've given to me that they would share

00:13:15.100 in our glory that they would be one even as you and i are one this is what jesus is praying right

00:13:22.500 before his arrest right before going to the cross that jesus is dying so that we might live forever

00:13:28.600 but not just live forever in our own way according to our own whims but that we would have eternal

00:13:36.840 life and that in this eternal life the crux of it the precipice would be sharing in god's glory

00:13:44.800 knowing God seeing him tasting him cherishing him loving him that is eternal life knowing God

00:13:56.340 and so this is why Jesus chooses to tarry when he receives the news of Lazarus sickness Jesus knows

00:14:05.100 that Lazarus will die but at the same time he also knows and says this illness will not end

00:14:12.140 ultimately in death he's not saying Jesus doesn't get it wrong he's not saying that that Lazarus

00:14:18.660 will not die at all but he's saying that the end result will not be death and Jesus of course is

00:14:25.660 right that Lazarus does in fact die but that's not the end of the story and Jesus tells us his

00:14:33.160 purpose. His reasoning for tarrying is so that they might receive a greater revelation of who

00:14:42.100 he is. That he is not only the healer and physician, although he is, but beyond merely that, Jesus is

00:14:50.520 the resurrection and the life. Jesus tarries intentionally so that Lazarus might die, so that

00:14:59.380 all might see that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. And this is love. It is more loving

00:15:07.460 to Lazarus that he experienced the fear, the agony, and the pain of death

00:15:12.920 momentarily, but then go on forever knowing that Jesus is the resurrection and the life

00:15:21.820 than to somehow evade death temporarily for a time but question and doubt whether or not Jesus

00:15:29.940 is the resurrection and the life. Better to suffer for a moment but to be certain then

00:15:37.360 through that suffering for Christ to reveal through our suffering that he is precisely who

00:15:44.040 he says he is. Better to suffer for a while but to know with certainty who God really is

00:15:50.900 than to live a life free of suffering

00:15:53.840 but never have certainty of who God really is.

00:15:58.540 That's the point in the text.

00:16:00.280 That's the framework, the setup.

00:16:04.640 John 14, 21 says this,

00:16:08.080 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them,

00:16:10.840 he it is who loves me.

00:16:12.580 And he who loves me will be loved by my Father.

00:16:16.060 And I will love him and manifest myself to him.

00:16:20.900 again it's another context another text that we find jesus syncing up these two ideas i'm going

00:16:28.540 to love him and manifest myself to him in a sense we could say that jesus is going to love that man

00:16:37.160 whoever it is who loves me and who keeps my commandments he will be loved by my father

00:16:42.860 and i will love him by you could almost say i will love him by manifesting myself to him

00:16:50.580 one of the most loving things that God has ever done and will ever do is revealing himself to us

00:16:57.280 that's the point one of the most loving things that God has ever done and ever will do

00:17:02.580 is simply revealing himself to us for us to see his glory

00:17:07.980 for us to experience that he is full of grace and truth that's what we find at the very beginning

00:17:16.160 of john's gospel the gospel of john chapter 1 verses 1 2 and then later and verse 14

00:17:22.740 in the beginning was the word the word was with god and the word was god

00:17:27.720 he was with god in the beginning and the word took on flesh and dwelt among us and we have seen

00:17:37.080 his glory full of grace and truth that jesus died for us that we might have everlasting life

00:17:46.000 but jesus took on flesh and lived and died and was buried and rose again

00:17:52.380 so that we not only would live forever but that so that we would see him

00:17:57.620 that god who is invisible a most pure spirit without body parts and passions took on flesh

00:18:04.540 in real human history so that he might be known so that he might be seen and touched and heard

00:18:10.980 god in love reveals himself to us the most loving thing that god can do for anyone is

00:18:18.400 reveal himself to that person because jesus is the treasure hidden in a field he is the pearl

00:18:26.720 of great price there is nothing of more beauty or more value or more pleasure or more comfort

00:18:32.820 more security more joy more peace than god himself the greatest gift that any of us can receive

00:18:40.840 are not gifts given by God but the gift of God. God is the greatest treasure that we can ever

00:18:48.000 receive. He gives us many blessings but the greatest blessing he has ever given is the

00:18:52.540 blessing of himself. That we receive Christ. That Christ is not only a means to an end but he is in

00:19:01.080 the ultimate and final sense the end in himself. He is the treasure. He is the pearl of great price.

00:19:08.520 and what is eternal life it's knowing him and having communion with him receiving greater and

00:19:17.140 greater and greater revelation of him sharing in his glory seeing his glory and that's why

00:19:26.080 here's the point that's why God allows for a moment that we might suffer in this life

00:19:33.480 this is a case study with lazarus and what happens in this narrative that all of us who are in christ

00:19:42.000 experience to varying degrees as well right the timeless age-old question right from the 85 iq you 0.98

00:19:50.900 know reddit atheist i think it's so smart it's so dumb atheists are so dumb you know but you know 0.98

00:19:58.640 they think this is a huge gotcha man we really we really got you here why if god is a you know 0.99

00:20:03.880 an omni benevolent and all good god and he's also all powerful right so he's all loving and he's

00:20:11.460 also all powerful there's nothing that he cannot do and he's all loving well if god is all loving

00:20:16.480 and all powerful why is there suffering in the world oh i'm so smart you know and the answer of

00:20:24.640 course, is easy. And the answer is not, for the record, it's not, well, because God, to be truly

00:20:30.060 loving, he wanted to be freely loved. And that means that he had to make a deal with himself

00:20:35.580 and with humanity to give people freedom of choice so that, you know, people, if they chose to love

00:20:41.520 God, you know, they also had the option of rejecting. No, that's not. It's not what's going

00:20:46.500 on. Now, God is sovereign, meticulously sovereign over everything. As R.C. Sproul would say, no

00:20:53.460 maverick molecule in the universe. God is sovereign over everything. So why does he allow

00:20:58.020 suffering? It's not just that suffering is a result of people and people do things that cause

00:21:04.560 suffering because people can make bad choices and God allows for those bad choices because

00:21:08.720 unless there's free will, there can never be true love. That's no, that's not, that's not what's

00:21:12.920 going on. It is true that people do bad things and people doing bad things does create suffering.

00:21:18.500 if we're speaking of second causes secondary causes then yes that is true at a human level

00:21:25.420 that's true but at the highest level God is meticulously sovereign over everything over

00:21:32.320 every choice that people ever make over the good things that we do and the bad things that we do

00:21:37.320 and God made a conscious decision as it were in the councils of eternity God chose he determined

00:21:44.800 he ordained that pain and suffering and death would be a part of human history and that it

00:21:52.040 would be a part of each of our individual lives it would be a part of our human experience in this

00:21:57.560 life all of us will experience pain and suffering the only question is to what degree in what way

00:22:05.000 and at what time and for how long but it's only a question of of how much or when it's not a

00:22:13.560 question of if all of us will experience pain and suffering so then the final question is why

00:22:20.080 why and it's not because God somehow had his hands tied behind his own back it's not because

00:22:27.680 God in order to achieve true love had to create free will and you know the casualty the cost of

00:22:35.020 that was just that people would do bad things and that would create suffering and pain no

00:22:39.480 god ordains suffering and pain in this life for all people and not not all people including his

00:22:50.020 people but we might say more more specifically god allows and ordains suffering in this life

00:22:57.240 for all people especially his people why because he loves you because he loves you

00:23:04.660 so back to the the reddit atheist 85 iq you know gotcha question why would an all-loving god who's

00:23:12.340 all-loving and all-powerful allow suffering because it's for your best that's the answer

00:23:17.320 that's the only answer the answer is because eons and eons into eternity you and i will look back

00:23:25.460 and say there was no better way that yes that hurt for a moment right that the night lasted

00:23:34.560 and the morning lasted for a moment but there was joy that came with the rising of the sun

00:23:41.680 and that joy was infinitely greater because of the previous pain because there was something

00:23:48.600 in the experience of suffering that God used to reveal a greater degree and another facet

00:23:57.100 of himself that I'm able now to cherish and enjoy forever there's something about God there's a

00:24:04.540 greater revelation about God that I received through that suffering. God used my suffering

00:24:12.220 as his tool, as his instrument to reveal a greater aspect of himself. And knowing more of God is

00:24:21.420 worth, knowing more of God forever is worth a moment of suffering. This was better than a

00:24:29.500 painless easy life that's why everything that God has ever done is ultimately underneath his

00:24:37.540 sovereignty nothing is an accident nothing is all you know I wanted things to be a different way I

00:24:44.440 just I just couldn't do it because I made some kind of deal with free will or because I was

00:24:50.980 lacking in my capability or power now everything that occurs is precisely the way that God is

00:24:57.200 determined for it to occur. And everything that God has determined is working towards two ultimate

00:25:04.460 ends. Number one, his glory. Number two, you're good. That's it. It's as simple as that.

00:25:14.900 So Jesus waits around for two extra days when his friend is sick. And Jesus knows that if he waits,

00:25:22.320 his friend will die and if he waits not only it's not only that Jesus notices he waits two days

00:25:29.160 but by the time he gets there Lazarus has been dead for four

00:25:33.200 so Jesus isn't even waiting two days so that Lazarus would die so that everyone would see

00:25:39.500 his resurrection now Jesus is waiting so that Lazarus would die and he would stay dead for

00:25:45.960 four days instead of just two so it's not just waiting intentionally so that Lazarus would die

00:25:52.840 it's waiting long enough to where not only does Lazarus experience the pain and suffering of death

00:25:57.840 but all those who knew him experience even more and longer pain of grief

00:26:03.920 why he allows Lazarus to experience the pain of death because he loves Lazarus and Lazarus needs

00:26:12.980 to know that Jesus is the resurrection and the life and he allows Mary and and Martha to experience

00:26:18.960 not two days but four days of the pain of grief because it's better for them to experience even

00:26:27.160 more grief than they otherwise would have if Jesus had hurried up so that Jesus through their grief

00:26:33.360 through their pain through their suffering might reveal a greater degree of himself as the one who

00:26:39.960 raises the dead and comforts the downhearted those who despair the hopeless and the hurting

00:26:47.940 he's a resurrection and the life but he's also the comforter the scripture says of the holy

00:26:56.340 spirit that he is the comforter there are certain things that i know of god and his character that

00:27:03.100 i would not know if i never experienced any suffering or pain in this life that's what

00:27:08.820 Jesus is doing with Lazarus and his sisters and all the others who are gathered there that day.

00:27:16.280 In the days of suffering and loss, Jesus is loving us, not always by removing our suffering,

00:27:22.940 although sometimes he does. Sometimes Jesus loves us by healing. Sometimes Jesus loves us

00:27:29.680 by provision. Sometimes Jesus loves us by protection, deliverance, and sometimes Jesus

00:27:39.120 loves us through suffering. He loves us by relieving suffering at times, but he also loves us

00:27:45.700 by revealing, not just relieving suffering, but revealing himself through suffering. In both ways,

00:27:54.040 God reveals himself to us. And that is the greatest need we have. Our greatest need is not

00:28:01.740 to somehow avoid sickness or death or rejection or pain. Our greatest need is to see the glory

00:28:09.520 of God. So in the days of suffering and loss, Jesus is loving us, not always by removing our

00:28:16.960 suffering, but always by revealing more of himself, particularly in ways that we would not

00:28:21.860 have experienced apart from our suffering all right the final thing that i want us to see in

00:28:29.280 the text is this i want us to see the anger of jesus because i think this has been misinterpreted

00:28:38.580 by christians at least especially you know modern christians christians today

00:28:43.780 but this is not the historic view of john chapter 11 this idea of jesus you know right the shortest

00:28:55.120 verse in the new testament right we always talk about that you know you're probably familiar the

00:28:58.960 shortest verse it's only two words jesus wept that's true but then what's often eisegeted that

00:29:05.400 is read into the text what what's what's kind of programmed into that is jesus wept because of

00:29:14.160 compassion that's a frequent interpretation is compassion for lazarus he said that his friend

00:29:21.180 lazarus had to go through the pain of death or compassion for his sisters and all the rest who

00:29:26.840 are gathered there at this funeral scene that they've had to experience such grief and turmoil

00:29:34.140 turmoil that he's that he's empathizing with them and so Jesus is weeping and that his weeping

00:29:43.980 is symbolic primarily of sadness that everyone is sad and hurt and so Jesus is sad and hurt

00:29:53.580 but I don't think that that's the right interpretation I think Jesus is angry

00:30:00.560 far more than he is sad there may be some grief there but more than his grief is his anger

00:30:08.300 in your notes i've written this everyone was aware that jesus could have come sooner but chose to

00:30:14.620 delay so now jesus's love for lazarus is going to be questioned three times once from martha

00:30:21.320 once from mary and once from the jews who are mourning with them each time we see this occur

00:30:26.820 it reveals a suspicion or a doubt or even an accusation here are the three instances the first

00:30:34.540 is with martha in john chapter 11 verse 20 and 21 says this when martha heard jesus was coming

00:30:42.120 she went and met him but mary remained seated in the house martha said to jesus lord if you

00:30:49.100 had been here, my brother would not have died. At one level, this is an acknowledgement that Jesus,

00:30:58.620 again, is the healer, the physician. Lord, if you had been here, I have faith in you. I believe that

00:31:05.460 you have the power and the love, both the ability and the willingness. You would have been able and

00:31:12.820 willing to heal my brother if you had been here my brother would not have died that's the best

00:31:19.860 that we can say of Martha in this instance that she's communicating expressing some degree some

00:31:28.420 level of her faith in Jesus Lord I know you're powerful enough to heal the sick and Lord I know

00:31:35.780 that you are loving enough that you would have done it if you had been here that's the best that

00:31:42.260 we can say the worst that we could say is that it is at some level an accusation and not even that

00:31:47.520 subtle lord if you would have been here one of the implications being you could have been here

00:31:55.760 but you weren't it was deliberate you could have been here but you chose not to

00:32:05.320 that is at some level an accusation of jesus love

00:32:10.700 yeah i know you loved my brother and i know that you love me but you you don't love us enough

00:32:20.600 to hurry up to get here sooner to stop this from happening that's the first

00:32:29.600 the second is mary john chapter 11 verse 32 says this now when mary came to where jesus was and

00:32:37.940 saw him she fell at his feet saying to him lord if you had been here my brother would not have died

00:32:43.900 same thing the third is from all the jews who are there with mary and martha at the tomb of

00:32:50.880 lazarus this is john chapter 11 verse 36 and 37 this is right after the verse jesus wept

00:32:58.520 so right after jesus weeps at the tomb the jews who are gathered there they see him weeping

00:33:06.200 and then they say as a response to the tears and weeping the grief of jesus

00:33:14.140 see how he loved him but some of them said could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man

00:33:23.440 also have kept this man from dying what's being said there well the crowd is split in this instance

00:33:31.200 some who are gathered are saying no no he really did love lazarus now why do they even feel the

00:33:38.880 need to say this why would they even feel it necessary to communicate after jesus is weeping

00:33:45.920 publicly at the tomb with a crowd of people who are gathered around so that they can see

00:33:50.940 his tears they can see that he is moved with grief why do some of them say no look no he really did

00:33:58.120 love him well they're saying that because his love for Lazarus is being questioned that's what's

00:34:05.500 apparent throughout this text is that everybody has been calling into question the love of the

00:34:12.100 son of God Jesus is not really loving that's the thing that's going on and so Jesus response is

00:34:20.920 not primarily grief and empathy jesus primary response is that he is vexed and angry

00:34:29.880 and what is he angry at well i think a few things but at least one is the unbelief of all those who

00:34:38.720 surround him at least half of the crowd from what we can tell from the text has been questioning

00:34:45.500 and not only questioning and doubting but accusing even accusing Jesus of being loveless

00:34:52.460 that Jesus doesn't really sure he maybe has power they acknowledge his power right they even say

00:35:00.780 explicitly could not he who had the power to to cause the blind man to see and to heal

00:35:09.780 those who were sick could he not have saved this man look it says right here verse 37

00:35:18.760 some of them said could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also kept this man from dying

00:35:24.780 they're not questioning his power at least not in his ability to heal the sick they're actually

00:35:31.400 doing the opposite they're saying we know he's able we know that the power of jesus is not the

00:35:39.440 problem the problem is that he doesn't love he doesn't really love people he doesn't really

00:35:47.540 love Lazarus he could have saved him but he didn't that's what's underlining the whole scene

00:35:54.180 that at least again half of the crowd is questioning and even Mary and Martha are

00:36:00.820 tempted by this suspicion they're tempted to doubt and accuse Jesus in this way they're

00:36:08.040 questioning the love of christ does he really love people does he particularly really love

00:36:14.920 lazarus because if he did he would have been here that's the only reason why right after the text

00:36:20.780 says jesus wept you see the response from some not all but some of the crowd saying see how he loved

00:36:27.620 him again the implication being they're saying no no no look he really did love him which implies

00:36:34.720 that so far the primary consensus had been that he doesn't love Lazarus that Jesus is loveless

00:36:43.220 so how does Jesus respond how does he respond to the questioning and the doubt and perhaps

00:36:52.920 even accusation of Martha and Mary and then the crowd three different times Jesus is being doubted

00:37:01.040 questioned and accused and he responds in three different ways the first time he responds

00:37:08.020 with true words Jesus tells Martha in verse 23 your brother will rise again

00:37:15.880 and then further in verses 25 and 26 he says I am the resurrection and the life

00:37:21.560 whoever believes in me though he die yet shall he live and everyone who lives and believes in me

00:37:27.920 shall never die. Jesus responds the first time that he is doubted and questioned and accused

00:37:33.760 with true words. I am the resurrection and the life. The second time that Jesus is doubted

00:37:42.080 and questioned and accused, he responds with perfect emotions. The first time with Martha,

00:37:48.900 he gives true words. The second time with Mary, he gives true emotions. Jesus is the God man.

00:37:55.360 so in his human nature he does have emotions but because he is the god man and without sin

00:38:03.840 he has perfect emotions god is without passions that is the historic christian view in terms of

00:38:12.780 our theology proper our doctrine of god god is without passions without emotions every time we

00:38:20.980 read throughout biblical narratives that god's anger was kindled or the holy spirit is grieved

00:38:28.540 right these are certain phrases that we find throughout the old and new testament but this

00:38:33.280 is not because god is like the pagan gods that he's fickle right that's the greek gods or the

00:38:40.180 roman gods right if you want to understand you know the the greek gods just think the teenage

00:38:46.880 girls. Just, but really powerful. And that's the Greek gods, right? They get upset really fast 0.84

00:38:54.500 about little petty things. And they're also narcissists. And if you want to be on their

00:39:00.760 good side, all you have to do is basically tell them how awesome they are. You're so awesome. I

00:39:05.360 know. And they love you. You know, but they can, boom, they can just turn back and forth on a whim.

00:39:12.200 they're fickle they're fickle what i mean is they they're constantly emoting

00:39:17.780 but the triune god the true god is not like that he is a most pure spirit without body parts and

00:39:26.740 passions at minimum without passions we're speaking of the impassibility of god and at

00:39:37.720 minimum for god to be without passions is to say that the divine he does not suffer

00:39:44.080 all right think of the passion of the christ the suffering of christ so at minimum impassibility

00:39:53.600 and i would argue it means far more than this and i think historic christianity argues it means far

00:39:58.140 more than this but at minimum you would have to believe that the divine does not suffer

00:40:03.820 that he is immortal that god cannot die and that god cannot suffer

00:40:10.660 and i know that that's difficult for us and our humanity to wrap our minds around because we're

00:40:18.040 thinking of what about jesus who is god the son of god suffering and dying on the cross

00:40:24.020 it is a perfectly true biblical theological statement that can be said and should be said

00:40:28.980 jesus died for me say it jesus died for me absolutely praise god jesus died

00:40:37.780 and yet it is also true to say that the divine cannot suffer the divine cannot die

00:40:46.040 he is impassable he does not suffer but beyond that that's at minimum but to go further and i

00:40:53.940 think that we should and historic christianity has gone further not only does the divine not

00:40:59.240 suffer not only is the divine immortal and does not die but the divine does not fluctuate

00:41:05.760 in his feelings as it were or his emotions god is not fluctuating every time we read certain

00:41:16.480 things that convey uh that are spoken in an emotional language throughout the bible this is

00:41:22.660 is anthropomorphic language i'm sorry anthropopathic language both of those

00:41:29.600 anthropomorphic and anthropopathic should be understood underneath the larger theological

00:41:34.520 heading which is the doctrine of analogy the doctrine of analogy that god in order to

00:41:40.880 communicate truths about himself while being infinite right god is spirit those who worship

00:41:46.880 him must worship in spirit and in truth because god is infinite because god is spirit there are

00:41:52.400 certain things that we just simply cannot understand and so what god does is he he

00:41:57.300 communicates to us in ways that we can understand through the banner of analogy and so these things

00:42:04.620 when god communicates to us through analogy these are things god is conveying something that really

00:42:10.140 is true about himself because god cannot lie and god wouldn't say it if it wasn't true but we have

00:42:16.960 to understand how it's true in what way is this true what is god actually saying so anthropomorphic

00:42:25.060 language is language that describes its descriptive language of god but but physically descriptive

00:42:31.740 right that god's right arm is mighty to save god the father does not have a right arm

00:42:38.220 or that his eyes go to and fro over all the earth god the father does not have eyes

00:42:44.400 but it's still communicating something true what's being communicated is not the literal sense of God

00:42:51.700 has two eyes that go back and forth that's not the big point that God's trying to get across

00:42:58.260 the big point that God is trying to get across is that he sees everything and that is true so what

00:43:05.380 God is saying is true insofar as what God actually intends to say what God is not trying to say

00:43:12.580 is not true. And if we read that into the text, then that's on us, not on him. God didn't lie or

00:43:20.040 fail to communicate. We simply failed to understand. So anthropomorphic language is language of

00:43:26.780 analogy. And it's analogy precisely, particularly in regards to physical attributes of God. He has

00:43:35.080 eyes roaming to and fro. He has a right arm that's mighty to save. Anthropopathic language is also

00:43:41.060 analogy but analogy regarding not god in his physical attributes but god in his emotional

00:43:48.260 attributes god does not have emotions and god does not have a body he's a most pure spirit

00:43:58.580 without body parts or passions a most pure spirit without body parts and passions

00:44:07.120 Jesus, though, who took on flesh, a second nature,

00:44:11.480 who is the God-man, fully God and fully man,

00:44:15.040 the divine nature and the human nature,

00:44:17.140 Jesus, in his human nature, does have a body,

00:44:20.900 physical attributes, and he does have emotions.

00:44:25.840 But when Jesus demonstrates emotions as a man,

00:44:30.600 but also being God, he has perfect emotions,

00:44:34.980 holy emotions so what does it look like for a human for you and i what how should we feel

00:44:44.780 how should we perfectly righteously feel in a moment like this well according to jesus in

00:44:52.020 the example he sets for us the primary feeling emotion is not grief but anger

00:44:59.240 jesus response this time is not words but strong emotion verse 33 and when they start to take him

00:45:09.060 to the tomb in verse 34 jesus weeps in verse 35 now look at this we're almost done it is tempting

00:45:17.720 at this point to read into the text whatever emotions we may deem to be appropriate in the

00:45:22.540 presence of grief however the first word in verse 33 deeply moved is used again in verse 38 it is

00:45:30.220 never throughout the biblical text it's never a word of compassion but a word of strong rebuke

00:45:36.260 or warning and the second word in verse 33 greatly troubled it signifies being shaken or even

00:45:43.260 agitated or vexed or annoyed. This is not a positive emotion. It's not sweet. Jesus was upset

00:45:53.240 and disturbed. These words are not intended to describe emotions of empathy and tenderness.

00:46:00.620 Jesus is disturbed at the way that his love for Lazarus is being questioned.

00:46:05.440 as fully god and fully man jesus possessed profound emotions that always aligned perfectly

00:46:14.280 with every situation he felt the right thing at the right time so jesus because he took on a

00:46:22.340 second nature namely the human nature jesus second member of the trinity in his human nature

00:46:29.960 does have emotions but he had as god the sinless one impeccable he cannot sin he had perfect

00:46:41.560 holy emotions and so what were these perfect holy emotions in this context at a funeral anger

00:46:51.080 anger anger were with who or toward who anger towards everyone there who is calling into

00:47:00.260 question his love some are saying no no he really did love him if he didn't love him he wouldn't be

00:47:08.140 crying right jesus wept see how he loved him he really did love him look he's sad he really was

00:47:16.720 friends with lazarus but then the immediate response from others is no he didn't if he loved

00:47:23.900 him he would have stopped his suffering that's the human way of thinking i think that that's the

00:47:33.120 whole point of the text today that the mind of sinful finite men apart from redemption apart

00:47:41.720 from our minds being renewed by the Word of God, apart from regeneration, new hearts by the power

00:47:48.480 of the Holy Spirit, apart from the eyes of faith, being a new creature in Christ Jesus, the mind of

00:47:54.860 sinful man, fallen man, is this. If God loved people, He would stop them from suffering.

00:48:03.540 that's it that's how sinful people think that's the the reddit atheist that's the midwit you know

00:48:13.820 on the on the meme the scale you know there's the simple guy i trust god there's the the savant the

00:48:20.200 sage the genius i trust god then there's the midwit all right this russell moore you know

00:48:27.100 david french you know everybody else beth moore anymore will do you know but the person who's just 0.93

00:48:32.040 like I you know I kind of trust God but I also don't because actually you know if God don't be

00:48:38.940 that guy don't be that guy no just trust God God is all-powerful God is all-loving and yet

00:48:48.140 there's still suffering why if he's all-powerful there can only be anything in this world blessing

00:48:54.020 or suffering because he chose it and if he's all-loving and the scripture says he is that

00:49:00.840 all his love is oriented toward you because of Jesus Christ. There is no room to question

00:49:10.640 the love of God. There is no room, brothers and sisters, to question whether or not Jesus loves

00:49:16.680 you. If you have faith in him, you could only have faith in him if he caused you to be born again.

00:49:24.860 If you trust Jesus, it is because you have been born again. And if you've been born again,

00:49:30.460 it's because he loves you and therefore there is no time and no room no instance to question his

00:49:39.940 love for you so the question is not if if god loves me or does god love me the question should

00:49:47.360 only be this how in this moment how is god revealing more of his love to me that otherwise

00:49:55.000 without this instance without this experience without this pain without this trial i wouldn't

00:50:00.440 no that's the only question worth asking not does god love me but how is god revealing more

00:50:08.560 of his love for me through this trial that's what he was doing with lazarus that's what he's doing

00:50:16.180 with you and when we question god's love for us especially when the unbeliever accuses and points

00:50:27.340 the finger at god well no no he really did love lazarus because look if he didn't love lazarus he

00:50:32.680 wouldn't be crying he wouldn't be sad the immediate response from others in the crowd is

00:50:37.020 no he doesn't love him if he loved him he would have made sure he had an easy life

00:50:43.400 if he loved him he would have made sure that he never died better yet if he loved him he would

00:50:49.320 have shown up way earlier and made sure that he was never sick but that's not god's commitment

00:50:55.420 That is not what God tells us in the scripture. God never makes the commitment to you and I

00:51:00.940 that because he loves us he will spare us from all pain. Instead what God promises to us in Christ

00:51:08.980 the beloved is that because he is committed to us because he loves us he is committed to our

00:51:14.620 everlasting and eternal highest joy. That's it. God is committed. What God's committed to

00:51:22.700 is not this fleeting moment sparing you a little difficulty.

00:51:28.880 Why? Because God doesn't love you that much?

00:51:30.720 No, because He loves you far more than that.

00:51:33.640 God is not committed to a temporary moment sparing you some pain.

00:51:38.500 Instead, what God is committed to,

00:51:40.320 God is thinking about 10,000 years from now,

00:51:43.540 how can I achieve their optimal joy?

00:51:47.220 100,000 years from now, how can I see to it

00:51:50.320 that they will never grow tired

00:51:52.200 that they will never be bored that they will never be distracted by anything that they will

00:51:58.300 be completely overwhelmed and obsessed and completely satisfied and fulfilled in me in me

00:52:07.980 and everything that he's orchestrated throughout all of human history long before you were ever

00:52:13.920 even twinkle in your daddy's eye has been towards that end his highest glory being manifested and

00:52:21.980 known and your greatest joy your greatest happiness in him and god determined long ago before the

00:52:32.400 foundations of the world were laid that to achieve that end that story would include pain and that it

00:52:39.880 would be worth it that it would be worth it because through pain being a part of the story he would be

00:52:47.040 able to reveal a greater degree of his glory and you would be able to experience and receive a

00:52:52.760 greater degree of joy and happiness in him that's what he's doing with lazarus and that's what he's

00:53:01.600 doing with your story as well that's what he's doing with you and i right now so jesus is

00:53:07.560 questioned doubted and accused three times one by martha once by martha he responds with true words

00:53:13.520 I'm the resurrection and the life. Once by Mary, he responds with true emotions. Those true emotions

00:53:20.500 aren't empathy. It's not grief. But primarily, he is vexed, troubled, deeply troubled in spirit.

00:53:28.800 He's angry. And what is he angry at? He's angry at unbelief. He's angry particularly at all those

00:53:35.760 in the crowd who are trying to persuade others. He's not just angry at people because

00:53:43.340 they themselves don't believe no they're arguing and trying to win over others to their view

00:53:50.680 to their their belief that Jesus isn't loving and Jesus is angry he's weeping some say look

00:54:01.400 that's proof positive that Jesus is compassionate he really did love Lazarus and immediately others

00:54:07.240 responds to no he doesn't the only proof that i'll receive of jesus being loving is if he provides

00:54:14.480 for those that he loves a pain-free life and he didn't do it therefore he's not loving

00:54:20.600 it's in essence you boil it down it's just it's just your classic atheist the jews at the at the 0.96

00:54:29.680 tomb at the funeral are just showing us 2 000 years ago what an atheist looks like 0.72

00:54:36.180 god isn't real and he's certainly not loving unless i get everything i want and have a pain-free life

00:54:45.120 and jesus response to that is that he is vexed he is annoyed he's not smiling he's not meek and

00:54:56.000 mild in this picture he is angry and annoyed and he's annoyed at people's unbelief

00:55:04.280 their wicked accusation of him and their attempt to deceive others and to somehow persuade others

00:55:15.280 to think that Jesus is loveless and lastly not only does he respond to Martha with true words

00:55:21.580 to Mary with perfect emotions but he responds to everyone then finally in the climax of the story

00:55:28.540 he responds to everyone with action words emotions and then righteous actions jesus prays in verse 41

00:55:37.580 and 42 so that everyone can see that he truly is one with the father then in verse 43 he cries out

00:55:45.760 with a loud voice lazarus come out and in verse 44 we see the man who had died came out his hands

00:55:53.000 and feet bound with linen strips and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, unbind

00:55:58.520 him and let him go. This is the glory of Jesus. He is the resurrection and the life. Lazarus's

00:56:05.620 resurrection is a preview of our own resurrection. This event is just a small window allowing us to

00:56:12.680 peer into that glory. And notice this, I mean, it really is a preview of that final day when Christ

00:56:20.920 returns to judge both the quick and the dead. That is the living and the dead. Jesus will return

00:56:27.160 and he will raise all those who are dead. And on that day, many will be ashamed at his coming.

00:56:37.840 First John talks about that. And many were ashamed here with Lazarus. It's a preview in every instance

00:56:43.740 because Christ, who is the resurrection and the life, he gives the power command for Lazarus to

00:56:49.520 come forth. But not only is that the preview, it's not only a preview showing us the resurrection of

00:56:54.780 the dead, the final resurrection of the dead, that will come one day. But it's also showing us

00:56:59.960 a preview of the future shaming. Because what Jesus is essentially doing, at first, he just

00:57:07.820 gives the words. I am the resurrection of the life. Then he gives the emotions. He's vexed and

00:57:14.120 troubled at their unbelief. But then lastly, he gives the final proof, the actions. And this is

00:57:20.140 right on the heels of people out loud. Think of this. Out loud, they're saying, he doesn't really

00:57:25.920 love him. The final consensus is, Jesus doesn't really love Lazarus. Yeah, he cried. Yeah, he

00:57:33.060 finally got around to showing up. Yeah, he's being kind to Martha. He's being kind to Mary, his

00:57:38.520 sisters. But at the end of the day, the final consensus is that Jesus doesn't love Lazarus.

00:57:43.680 Why? What's our proof? Because he didn't get here sooner. He didn't spare Lazarus from pain and

00:57:50.160 death. And then Jesus, in front of all of them, calls Lazarus forth and raises the dead. And that

00:57:58.780 is a preview of resurrection, of Christ's power, but it's also a preview of that final day where

00:58:06.060 many will shrink back in shame. On that final day, not only will Jesus raise the dead, but many

00:58:13.380 will be ashamed because they did not believe him just like they didn't believe him on the day that

00:58:19.960 he raised lazarus from the dead there were many who were accusing him many who were doubting him

00:58:26.140 many who were questioning him so too on that final day it'll just be a larger scene and the ultimate

00:58:32.640 scene of this small microcosm that happened with lazarus not only will jesus raise many all who are

00:58:40.460 dead, but he will raise some for glory, some for damnation, and many will be put to shame because

00:58:46.740 they did not believe him. Rather, instead, they doubted him and accused him. And they will see

00:58:53.880 in Christ his love for his sheep, but also his anger at those who disbelieve. Jesus hates his

00:59:02.600 enemies. Jesus hates his enemies. He hates those who accuse him, and he hates those especially who

00:59:12.100 try to persuade others to disbelieve as well. And then lastly, Jesus also hates death.

00:59:20.200 He's angry at the disbelief. He's angry at those who are accusing him, but I also think there's a

00:59:25.040 sense in which Jesus is angry at death. Too often as Christians, we view death as a door.

00:59:31.800 we'll speak of death we try to beautify death right we try to it's like it's like putting

00:59:38.980 lipstick on a pig we try to you know we try to either hide death in society to where it's not

00:59:44.460 something that's really visible something that we really encounter on a regular basis and then if

00:59:49.520 we do encounter it we we plaster it with platitudes and we do this as christians we

00:59:56.140 spiritualize death and we try to beautify death. Oh, death is a door that takes us to heaven. No,

01:00:02.840 death is not your friend, brothers and sisters. Death is not your friend. Death is not helping

01:00:10.440 you or death is not just a door. No, Jesus, death is not the savior, I guess is how I should say.

01:00:17.240 Jesus is the Savior. Jesus hates death. He declares death as an enemy. We should never call what

01:00:26.580 what Christ calls an enemy. We should never call a friend what Christ calls his enemy.

01:00:33.260 Jesus is your friend. And if death is his enemy, then death is your enemy as well.

01:00:38.440 And one of the things we see at the tomb of Lazarus is Jesus, his hatred of unbelief,

01:00:43.000 which leads towards eternal death and his hatred of death but jesus has defeated both

01:00:50.020 he's conquered both jesus has given the death blow to death by his own death and resurrection

01:00:58.800 and because of christ we have hope that though we may die we will live forevermore he's done far

01:01:06.180 too much already for us to ever doubt him. It's not fair. You're doubting and questioning. You're

01:01:14.500 wondering of whether or not Jesus is really committed to you, whether or not he really loves

01:01:18.680 you. Stop it. Some of the best biblical counseling I could ever give. All right, well, give me the

01:01:24.800 gospel-centered biblical. No, here it is. Stop it. Just stop it. Well, I'm just struggling to,

01:01:31.140 stop it i don't know if he really loves me stop it stop doubting him he is giving there's no basis

01:01:39.620 for your doubt there is no valid reasoning for your questioning or accusing of the son of god

01:01:47.240 the bible tells us jesus loves me this i know for the bible tells me so

01:01:53.360 the bible tells us that if god freely gave us his own son how much more will he not give us

01:02:00.240 all things. If there was anything, I've said it before, but I'll say it one last time. I'll probably

01:02:06.320 say it again in the future. I'll say it right now. If God gave us Jesus, then there's nothing else

01:02:13.140 that he would ever withhold. Think about that. God is infinite. He owns the cattle on a thousand

01:02:18.380 hills. He's infinite. He doesn't have a lack in his power or his love or his resources, meaning

01:02:26.720 it is easy. It is easy for God to give you anything. If you're sick and you need healing,

01:02:33.240 that's easy for God. If you're poor and you need money, that's easy for God. There's only one thing

01:02:39.420 for our infinite God of, of, of, for who has no lack. There's only one thing that was ever costly

01:02:45.340 for him. Think about that. Only one thing that was ever costly for him, his son. And so the line of

01:02:53.860 reasoning in the bible god tells us this the line of reasoning goes like this if there was ever a

01:02:59.580 moment for god to withhold something it would have been withholding jesus but if god freely gave us

01:03:07.980 jesus the one thing that hurt the one thing that was costly the blood of his own son if god freely

01:03:15.720 gave us jesus then it makes no logical sense to think that in any other instance that he would

01:03:22.280 somehow be holding out on us so then there's one other conclusion if god if there was one chance

01:03:29.940 for him to hold out the thing that was costly and he freely gave it jesus then in any other instance

01:03:36.440 if it appears as though he's withholding something it can't be it can't be that he's actually doing

01:03:42.340 that it can't be a lack of love it can't be that he that he's withholding something because it's

01:03:46.540 too costly because he already gave us jesus so there's only one other conclusion he's withholding

01:03:51.560 the thing that you're asking for, the thing that you're hoping for, because a moment of suffering

01:03:57.560 is precisely what you need for an eternity of joy. That's it. That's the only conclusion that

01:04:04.380 you can have. And you can keep praying. That doesn't mean it's wrong to pray. Go like the

01:04:09.940 persistent widow who goes to the wicked judge 10 times. Go again and again and continue to petition 0.98

01:04:15.060 humbly, not doubting, not questioning, not accusing, but humbly saying, God, if it be your will,

01:04:20.900 please heal me. God, if it be your will, please give me a job. God, if it be your will, please

01:04:26.560 this, please that. All those things are fine. Go and ask and ask a lot, but ask with faith. And the

01:04:33.520 faith is not necessarily that he's going to give you that thing. The faith is whether he gives it

01:04:38.580 or doesn't. In either regard, it is only, God is only doing precisely that which will bring you

01:04:46.920 the most eternal joy. Don't ever doubt his love. Don't ever doubt his commitment to you. Jesus

01:04:54.500 tarried for two days so that Lazarus not only would die, but would be dead for four days. And

01:04:59.940 he did all of that, putting Lazarus through death, putting his sisters through grief, so that he might

01:05:05.460 reveal that he is a resurrection in the life. And they were better having gone through pain,

01:05:10.240 but having a greater revelation of Christ as a resurrection than they would have been otherwise.

01:05:15.980 that's the point of the story and that's our story as well hope in christ and don't let suffering

01:05:23.780 and pain ever ever cause you to doubt the love of god let's pray father thank you for loving us

01:05:30.140 in jesus help us to trust him and to obey we pray that many others by your grace might come

01:05:36.860 to faith in jesus as well we pray these things for your glory and for our good amen

01:05:45.980 You

The NXR Podcast - April 01, 2024

THE SERMON - The Resurrection And The Life

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