WEBVTT 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:06.019 Welcome to Season 3 of Love & Context. This season, 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.640 we're exploring the life of Jesus step -by -step 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:11.140 and uncovering what His story teaches us about 00:00:11.140 --> 00:00:13.919 loving God and others. Here on Love & Context, 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.059 we're all about having real conversations about 00:00:16.059 --> 00:00:18.140 how to live out that love in practical, everyday 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:20.199 ways, and understanding the Bible in its full 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:22.839 context. We're so glad you're here. Let's dive 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:29.620 into Season 3 of Love & Context. Podcast! Welcome 00:00:29.620 --> 00:00:36.060 back! Podcast! It's a podcast! I feel like you're 00:00:36.060 --> 00:00:38.280 getting dangerously close to it. Okay, here's 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:40.460 the thing. I watched a video from Charlie Perth, 00:00:40.460 --> 00:00:43.060 and he said that you can have up to four notes 00:00:43.060 --> 00:00:44.740 in a row that are similar, and then you have 00:00:44.740 --> 00:00:46.679 to use a slightly different note, otherwise they're 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.259 interpolating or something on each other. And 00:00:49.259 --> 00:00:51.939 I'm going to hang my hat on that. So, there you 00:00:51.939 --> 00:00:55.439 go. Go for it. Love and Context Podcast. We are 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.140 here and we are talking about the life of Jesus 00:00:58.140 --> 00:01:01.179 and definitely not random videos we saw on music 00:01:01.179 --> 00:01:04.420 copyright law. No, because we don't get those 00:01:04.420 --> 00:01:07.459 in our algorithm. The problem is you watch one 00:01:07.459 --> 00:01:11.099 and then the algorithm's like, you want all of 00:01:11.099 --> 00:01:14.090 these. uh -huh let me put 3 000 of them in your 00:01:14.090 --> 00:01:18.250 in your uh yeah um sorry this is a this is neither 00:01:18.250 --> 00:01:19.670 here nor there but you guys are getting this 00:01:19.670 --> 00:01:22.230 on the podcast anyways you ever go to like fix 00:01:22.230 --> 00:01:26.650 something like i need to fix a squeaky hinge 00:01:26.650 --> 00:01:28.609 or something and so you look up a video this 00:01:28.609 --> 00:01:31.010 is weird thing to look up but and then it's like 00:01:31.010 --> 00:01:33.370 oh you like that well here's like seven more 00:01:33.370 --> 00:01:35.129 videos of how to fix a squeaky hinge you're like 00:01:35.129 --> 00:01:37.310 yeah yeah i know i already did that i don't need 00:01:37.310 --> 00:01:40.980 more videos on how to do that yeah Yeah. I get 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:43.920 a lot of, in my YouTube algorithm, a lot of like, 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:47.079 this is how you fix a car. Because I do basic 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:48.840 repairs on my cars. And then when there's something 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.060 like, oh, how do I get this type of bolt unstuck 00:01:51.060 --> 00:01:53.459 that's stuck or blah, blah, whatever. Look at 00:01:53.459 --> 00:01:55.180 it like, oh, cool. I'll try that. And then I'll 00:01:55.180 --> 00:01:57.739 be like, you want to know how to replace a transmission 00:01:57.739 --> 00:02:00.200 on a car you don't have. I'm like, absolutely 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:03.219 not. Absolutely. Listen, a little bit though, 00:02:03.299 --> 00:02:06.379 with your ADHD, do you kind of want to know? 00:02:06.989 --> 00:02:10.030 Well, like a little bit, but it's like, I'm also 00:02:10.030 --> 00:02:12.069 like, I'm not going to waste my time, like learning 00:02:12.069 --> 00:02:15.129 how to replace a transmission on a 1960 something 00:02:15.129 --> 00:02:17.509 car. I'm never going to. That's good. Right. 00:02:17.590 --> 00:02:19.250 All right. So we have been going through the 00:02:19.250 --> 00:02:22.210 life of Jesus and, uh, this is about halfway 00:02:22.210 --> 00:02:24.069 through our season or it's probably a little 00:02:24.069 --> 00:02:26.210 more than halfway through our season. Um, and 00:02:26.210 --> 00:02:29.219 so this, this story, the one we're going. the 00:02:29.219 --> 00:02:30.840 portion we're going to cover today is kind of 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.439 the hinge point that goes from broad meta narrative 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.240 about Jesus. And really we're going to be focusing 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.419 on like the last week of his life and then, and 00:02:38.419 --> 00:02:41.340 then resurrection, crucifixion, resurrection, 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.439 and then his ministry that was taking place during 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:47.099 those period of time. So we are actually in John 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:49.400 11 today and we're going to, it's a fairly lengthy 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:51.060 text. I'm going to read the whole story so we 00:02:51.060 --> 00:02:52.780 can hear it. And then we're going to come back 00:02:52.780 --> 00:02:54.479 and talk about some things on some broad levels, 00:02:54.500 --> 00:02:57.000 but this is the death and resurrection of Lazarus. 00:02:57.959 --> 00:03:00.840 So starting in verse 1 of chapter 11, it says, 00:03:27.500 --> 00:03:30.039 He heard that Lazarus was sick. He stayed where 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:31.659 he was two more days. And then he said to his 00:03:31.659 --> 00:03:34.360 disciples, let us go back to Judea. But Rabbi, 00:03:34.460 --> 00:03:36.400 they said, a short while ago, the Jews there 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.259 tried to stone you. And yet you are going back. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:42.460 That's a good reason to stay away. Jesus answered. 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:45.360 Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.639 who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:50.340 they see by this world's light. It is when a 00:03:50.340 --> 00:03:52.539 person walks at night that they stumble, for 00:03:52.539 --> 00:03:54.860 they have no light. After he had said this, he 00:03:54.860 --> 00:03:56.840 went on to tell them, Our friend Lazarus has 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:58.819 fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him 00:03:58.819 --> 00:04:01.419 up. His disciples replied, Lord, if he sleeps, 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.280 he will get better. Jesus had been speaking of 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:04.960 his death, but his disciples thought he meant 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.099 natural sleep. So then he told them plainly, 00:04:07.139 --> 00:04:09.740 Lazarus is dead. And for your sake, I am glad 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:11.879 that I was not there so that you may believe, 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.879 but let us go to him. Then Thomas, also known 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:16.459 as Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples, 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.660 let us go that we may die with him. Okay. I'm 00:04:18.660 --> 00:04:19.899 going to pause right there really quick. Only 00:04:19.899 --> 00:04:22.839 because remember these guys, like the oldest 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.139 is like 21, but most of them are 12 to 14. And 00:04:26.139 --> 00:04:28.720 he's like, Lazarus is asleep. And they're like, 00:04:28.819 --> 00:04:32.800 well, listen, just let him take a nap. You can 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.720 almost audibly hear Jesus in this verse. Like, 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:36.180 go read this and you'll hear, you'll go between 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:43.420 them, you'll hear. He's dead. All right, picking 00:04:43.420 --> 00:04:47.620 up in verse 17. On his arrival, Jesus found that 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:49.540 Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four 00:04:49.540 --> 00:04:51.779 days. Now Bethany was less than two miles from 00:04:51.779 --> 00:04:55.060 Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and 00:04:55.060 --> 00:04:56.720 Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.019 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she 00:04:59.019 --> 00:05:00.720 went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. 00:05:00.939 --> 00:05:02.959 Lord, Martha said to Jesus, if you had been here, 00:05:03.019 --> 00:05:04.660 my brother would not have died, but I know that 00:05:04.660 --> 00:05:06.540 even now God will give you whatever you ask. 00:05:06.980 --> 00:05:08.939 Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again. 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:11.079 Martha answered, I know he will rise again in 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:21.959 the resurrection of the last day. Do you believe 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:24.519 this? Yes, Lord, she replied. I believe that 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:26.160 you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who has 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:43.069 come into this world. When the Jews who had been 00:05:43.069 --> 00:05:45.230 with Mary in the house comforting her noticed 00:05:45.230 --> 00:05:47.800 how quickly she got up and went out, They followed 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.699 her, supposing that she was going to the tomb 00:05:49.699 --> 00:05:52.019 to mourn there. When Mary reached the place where 00:05:52.019 --> 00:05:54.019 Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and 00:05:54.019 --> 00:05:55.639 said, Lord, if you had been here, my brother 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:57.980 would not have died. When Jesus saw her weeping 00:05:57.980 --> 00:06:00.139 and the Jews had come along with her also weeping, 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:01.920 he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. 00:06:02.259 --> 00:06:04.220 Wherever you laid him, he asked, come and see, 00:06:04.259 --> 00:06:06.720 Lord, they replied. Jesus wept. By the way, that's 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.160 every youth kid's favorite verse. Super easy 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:13.240 to memorize. Then the Jews said, see how he loved 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.589 him. But some of them said, could he who has 00:06:15.589 --> 00:06:17.009 opened the eyes of the blind man not have kept 00:06:17.009 --> 00:06:19.230 this man from dying? Jesus, once more deeply 00:06:19.230 --> 00:06:21.850 moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a 00:06:21.850 --> 00:06:24.009 stone laid across the entrance. Take away the 00:06:24.009 --> 00:06:26.290 stone, he said. But Lord, said Martha, the sister 00:06:26.290 --> 00:06:28.589 of the dead man, by this time there is a bad 00:06:28.589 --> 00:06:31.180 odor, for he has been in there four days. Then 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:33.959 Jesus said, did I not tell you that? I'd say 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:36.420 so, yeah. Yeah. Then Jesus said, did I not tell 00:06:36.420 --> 00:06:38.339 you that if you believe, you will see the glory 00:06:38.339 --> 00:06:40.500 of God? So they took away the stone. Then Jesus 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:42.259 looked up and said, Father, I thank you that 00:06:42.259 --> 00:06:45.259 you have heard me. I knew that you always hear 00:06:45.259 --> 00:06:46.879 me, but I said this for the benefit of those 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:48.800 standing here, that they may believe that you 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:50.860 sent me. When he had said this, Jesus called 00:06:50.860 --> 00:06:54.040 in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out. The dead 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:55.899 man came out, his hands and his feet wrapped 00:06:55.899 --> 00:06:58.639 with strips of linen and a cloth wrapped around 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.589 his face. Jesus said to him, take off. the grave 00:07:00.589 --> 00:07:02.910 clothes and let him go. Okay. We're going to 00:07:02.910 --> 00:07:07.430 stop there. It's quite the story, right? There's 00:07:07.430 --> 00:07:10.250 a ton of things going on there. So I think probably 00:07:10.250 --> 00:07:12.670 the first thing to note here is that the disciples 00:07:12.670 --> 00:07:14.970 do pick up on something that is really important 00:07:14.970 --> 00:07:18.089 and that Jesus is aware of too. This event is 00:07:18.089 --> 00:07:20.170 going to be a turning point in his ministry. 00:07:21.039 --> 00:07:23.360 Because he's been going around, he's been proclaiming 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.199 the good news, he's been healing, and he's even 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.459 brought people back from perceived death before, 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:30.720 I'm saying perceived as people thought they were 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.360 dead, but he brought them back to life. But they 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:38.180 haven't been decomposing kind of thing. And this 00:07:38.180 --> 00:07:40.060 is going to be, he's going back to a place where 00:07:40.060 --> 00:07:43.279 the Jews already tried to stone him before. And 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.680 he's going, and he's basically, we'll get into 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:48.930 it, but he claims to be God. And then he literally 00:07:48.930 --> 00:07:52.069 has the power over death. Yeah. And so he's really 00:07:52.069 --> 00:07:54.509 setting himself up for a lot of conflict, which 00:07:54.509 --> 00:07:56.569 is going to happen all through the next following 00:07:56.569 --> 00:07:59.230 week. Actually, I can't remember if it's the 00:07:59.230 --> 00:08:00.750 next week or it's the next couple of weeks in 00:08:00.750 --> 00:08:02.629 his life, but it's going to culminate in Calvary. 00:08:04.149 --> 00:08:05.970 There's some different timeline things going 00:08:05.970 --> 00:08:07.810 on here. But it's going to be the next couple 00:08:07.810 --> 00:08:10.230 of weeks. And so he's going to be, the destination 00:08:10.230 --> 00:08:12.689 is Calvary. He's going to be in Jerusalem. He's 00:08:12.689 --> 00:08:15.410 going to be... in a lot of conflict. And so right 00:08:15.410 --> 00:08:18.029 at the very beginning, John says that this story 00:08:18.029 --> 00:08:20.149 happens and he just goes into a ton of detail. 00:08:20.209 --> 00:08:24.110 Now, if you've read some stories, like they have 00:08:24.110 --> 00:08:26.470 very little detail on what's going on. And yet 00:08:26.470 --> 00:08:30.009 this story, there's so much going on in the story 00:08:30.009 --> 00:08:33.070 that John puts in there. And I think one of the 00:08:33.070 --> 00:08:34.389 things that we've talked about in the past is 00:08:34.389 --> 00:08:36.649 when biblical authors do that, pay attention. 00:08:37.529 --> 00:08:40.529 Like they don't put things there just for fun. 00:08:42.259 --> 00:08:45.639 Um, so I want to talk about, uh, a couple of 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.759 high level things that I think are really interesting 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:49.539 that I think are interesting for just discussion 00:08:49.539 --> 00:08:52.379 purposes. Uh, Lazarus is a name that we're very 00:08:52.379 --> 00:08:54.120 familiar with, but the etymology is actually 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.340 from Eliezer. And, uh, it's, uh, it also comes 00:08:58.340 --> 00:09:00.580 from the, uh, Etzer, which we've talked about 00:09:00.580 --> 00:09:01.960 in the book of Genesis, which is God helping. 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:07.429 And, uh, so the name is, um, it's like, uh, it's 00:09:07.429 --> 00:09:09.769 not an arbitrary name. It actually invites divine 00:09:09.769 --> 00:09:12.169 interaction in Psalm vocabulary. If you look 00:09:12.169 --> 00:09:14.450 at like Psalm 30 or Psalm 116, it talks about 00:09:14.450 --> 00:09:17.330 God is going to help you, or he's going to rescue 00:09:17.330 --> 00:09:19.870 you from shale, which is going to be the afterlife 00:09:19.870 --> 00:09:22.289 in their, in their conversation in the book of 00:09:22.289 --> 00:09:25.350 Psalms. And so the answer is coming to actually 00:09:25.350 --> 00:09:29.519 bring, bring you life. Literally, the story starts 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.580 with a guy by the name of Eliezer, right? Lazarus 00:09:32.580 --> 00:09:34.679 is how we would pronounce it in English. And 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:36.399 he's helped by God. But for most of the story, 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.879 he remains dead. And then the tension then amplifies 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:42.240 because now Jesus is going to come and call the 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:45.360 helper back to life. As opposed to in the Psalms, 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:47.019 the helper is asking for God to come when they're 00:09:47.019 --> 00:09:48.620 close to death. He's actually calling them back 00:09:48.620 --> 00:09:51.799 from the brink of death. It's just interesting. 00:09:52.340 --> 00:09:55.659 Yeah. Yeah. So we won't dive into this too much. 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:57.360 There's actually a little bit of debate of whether 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.700 Lazarus was his real name or they actually used 00:09:59.700 --> 00:10:01.940 the name Lazarus here to illustrate that exact 00:10:01.940 --> 00:10:04.379 point. Well, and there's good conversation with 00:10:04.379 --> 00:10:06.580 that because how many times in this it says Martha, 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.860 the brother of Lazarus, right? So he's making 00:10:09.860 --> 00:10:11.700 it very clear, like you should know who he's 00:10:11.700 --> 00:10:13.779 talking about. So there's a lot of qualifiers. 00:10:13.860 --> 00:10:18.159 So totally legitimate. Yeah. And again, don't 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:19.399 spend a ton of time on it. If you want to go 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:21.720 research that, go do it. It's a fun little rabbit 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:25.659 trail. Well, and it says, there's a statement 00:10:25.659 --> 00:10:28.639 in here that says, Jesus, Lazarus, whom you love, 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.120 right? And this language is actually very evocative 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.639 of Genesis when it talks about when God comes 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:36.840 to Abraham with Isaac and he says, I want you 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:39.100 to take your son whom you love. It's the same 00:10:39.100 --> 00:10:41.279 words used in Greek. When we have the Septuagint, 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:42.639 they go back and they translate. This is what 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:45.879 the sages used. Same word that's being used in 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:47.919 this text. It would have been the text of John 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.860 for the Greek Old Testament. And so he uses it. 00:10:51.909 --> 00:10:54.289 same word here now i think it's interesting that 00:10:54.289 --> 00:10:57.590 it would tie to abraham because abraham had a 00:10:57.590 --> 00:11:00.049 guy who was a servant that there's a debate whether 00:11:00.049 --> 00:11:01.509 or not that's actually his name and his name 00:11:01.509 --> 00:11:04.570 was eliezer because he was a helper right and 00:11:04.570 --> 00:11:08.070 his job was to go and find the bride for the 00:11:08.070 --> 00:11:11.909 beloved son yeah right so there's there's some 00:11:11.909 --> 00:11:14.250 interesting imagery going on here yeah right 00:11:14.809 --> 00:11:16.850 And then you get verse four and five. One of 00:11:16.850 --> 00:11:18.570 the interesting things here is usually if you 00:11:18.570 --> 00:11:21.309 hear of a good friend in this culture, a good 00:11:21.309 --> 00:11:23.129 friend, or in this case, this would be someone 00:11:23.129 --> 00:11:26.830 who's like considered family is sick on their 00:11:26.830 --> 00:11:28.769 deathbed. Like usually you would go to them right 00:11:28.769 --> 00:11:30.909 away. Yeah. Right. And, but then verse five, 00:11:30.929 --> 00:11:34.350 it says, although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and 00:11:34.350 --> 00:11:36.309 Lazarus, he stayed where he was for the next 00:11:36.309 --> 00:11:39.799 two days. Yeah. So, and his disciples, even though 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.100 they were young boys at the time, they would 00:11:42.100 --> 00:11:45.019 have known that this tradition, this custom of, 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:47.539 okay, your friend is sick. We need to go. Right. 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:49.340 And Jesus is like, no, we're going to stay. Yeah. 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:53.259 It's a practice that now is called sitting Shiva 00:11:53.259 --> 00:11:55.919 when somebody is either sick or dying or has 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:59.080 died. So these Jews that come from Jerusalem 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:00.519 and they're sitting with them, they're just sitting 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:03.409 with them in their chaos. Yeah. Right. And even 00:12:03.409 --> 00:12:06.590 Thomas mentions this. He says, well, let's go 00:12:06.590 --> 00:12:08.230 that we die, too. They're not actually going 00:12:08.230 --> 00:12:10.009 to die. You're going to sit there with the person 00:12:10.009 --> 00:12:13.230 as they mourn. You're going to just be there 00:12:13.230 --> 00:12:15.669 because mourning shouldn't be done in isolation. 00:12:15.970 --> 00:12:17.970 It should be done in community. It should be 00:12:17.970 --> 00:12:19.590 done around people who love you and support you. 00:12:19.730 --> 00:12:21.990 And they're not trying to, like, fix things. 00:12:22.110 --> 00:12:24.110 They're just trying to be there with you, mourn 00:12:24.110 --> 00:12:27.100 with you. Yeah. But before we even get to that, 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.139 like the sitting in Shiva part, like you have 00:12:29.139 --> 00:12:31.320 the disciples being like, okay, you want to go 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.600 back, but they just tried to kill you. Yeah. 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.000 Right? Yeah. I don't know about you, but when 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.539 someone like comes after me and wants to kill 00:12:38.539 --> 00:12:40.519 me, I don't typically go back to that spot. Well, 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:42.519 last time somebody tried to kill me. Wait, that 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:45.279 actually has not happened to me. But I mean, 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:50.120 yeah, exactly. You know, it's bold to say the 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.629 least. Right? Right. I mean, even when Paul was 00:12:53.629 --> 00:12:56.129 like getting, um, getting run out of towns and 00:12:56.129 --> 00:12:57.990 rocks thrown at him and all these things, he 00:12:57.990 --> 00:12:59.289 would go on a missionary journey and he'd come 00:12:59.289 --> 00:13:00.970 back a few years later. Right. And I'm like, 00:13:01.009 --> 00:13:02.889 he's coming back. One of my favorite stories 00:13:02.889 --> 00:13:05.690 in the book of Acts was the disciples like were 00:13:05.690 --> 00:13:08.009 stoned with an inch of their life thrown out 00:13:08.009 --> 00:13:09.690 of the city. And then when they could get up 00:13:09.690 --> 00:13:11.629 and walk, they got up and they went back into 00:13:11.629 --> 00:13:13.269 the city and started preaching the gospel again. 00:13:13.429 --> 00:13:15.389 Yep. It was just, it's just one of those like, 00:13:15.429 --> 00:13:21.110 nice try. Um, so it's, it's, uh, it's interesting. 00:13:21.190 --> 00:13:23.470 So there's conversation about Lazarus and Mary 00:13:23.470 --> 00:13:25.710 Martha about whether or not, uh, Lazarus was 00:13:25.710 --> 00:13:29.809 actually one of the, um, the, uh, lepers that 00:13:29.809 --> 00:13:32.009 at some point Jesus had healed as well because, 00:13:32.049 --> 00:13:34.909 uh, Bethany, uh, specifically means house of 00:13:34.909 --> 00:13:36.750 the poor or house of affliction. And so it may 00:13:36.750 --> 00:13:39.549 have been a leper colony. Um, it also does seem 00:13:39.549 --> 00:13:41.450 like there are people of means because like Lazarus 00:13:41.450 --> 00:13:43.090 is being placed in a tomb. They have a house, 00:13:43.169 --> 00:13:44.750 they have like a bunch of different things like 00:13:44.750 --> 00:13:49.080 that. Um, even, even the sister, um, Mary who 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:52.179 breaks the perfume seems to have money to be 00:13:52.179 --> 00:13:54.279 able to pay for that. Yeah. Right. I said that 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:55.960 was half a year's wages. Yeah. It's like, it's 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.659 like a year's wages. Right. And so like, so they 00:13:58.659 --> 00:14:01.159 have some, some amount of money and you know, 00:14:01.179 --> 00:14:03.179 these people obviously it's entirely possible 00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:04.879 they could have been funding Jesus ministry too. 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.740 Um, but they talk about the fact that Bethany, 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.840 it actually literally means house of affliction. 00:14:10.059 --> 00:14:15.279 And I love that Jesus. Uh, so Jesus brings resurrection 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:19.419 to the house of affliction. Right. The miracle 00:14:19.419 --> 00:14:22.220 proximity to Jerusalem makes it like this, this 00:14:22.220 --> 00:14:24.419 final, like it's like this push is like resurrection 00:14:24.419 --> 00:14:27.159 is coming to the least of these to the very house 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:31.159 of affliction. Resurrection comes. Right. Yeah. 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.419 But yeah, they're like, okay, are you sure you 00:14:34.419 --> 00:14:37.559 want to go? Like rocks are hard. Well, and then 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.340 Jesus's response was, well, here's the deal. 00:14:40.379 --> 00:14:42.419 Like if we're traveling, like very logical is 00:14:42.419 --> 00:14:44.179 like, if we're going during the day, there's 00:14:44.179 --> 00:14:47.789 people who like us and we'll be fine. Yeah. Right. 00:14:48.330 --> 00:14:50.529 And he's like, you just won't travel at night. 00:14:50.610 --> 00:14:52.570 We'll just travel during the day. Yeah. It's 00:14:52.570 --> 00:14:55.350 fine. And continuing this whole thing that John's 00:14:55.350 --> 00:14:56.830 been doing through his gospel about light and 00:14:56.830 --> 00:14:59.169 dark and, you know, like that you should be a 00:14:59.169 --> 00:15:00.610 person who travels in the light rather than the 00:15:00.610 --> 00:15:03.289 person who travels in the dark. And, uh, and 00:15:03.289 --> 00:15:07.700 so. They delay going. He delays going two days, 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:09.679 which then puts in there four days after death. 00:15:09.779 --> 00:15:12.059 Now, why is four days significant? I think you've 00:15:12.059 --> 00:15:13.899 probably had this taught at some point. A lot 00:15:13.899 --> 00:15:15.299 of people have heard this, but in case you have 00:15:15.299 --> 00:15:18.879 not, Jewish ideas at that time is that the spirit 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.279 did stay around the body for around three days 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:25.100 before it departed. So Jesus is actually legitimately 00:15:25.100 --> 00:15:29.379 like stepping in. taking a step into like their 00:15:29.379 --> 00:15:32.759 understanding. Yeah. Um, so that there's no conversation 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:34.679 about, well, the spirit was hovering above it 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:36.240 and then Jesus called it back in. No, no, they 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:37.519 want, he wants to make sure they know that he 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:40.519 was dead. Spirit was gone, you know, and he called 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:44.139 it back. That Jesus is actually arriving when 00:15:44.139 --> 00:15:47.460 all hope is gone. Right. When all hope is gone, 00:15:47.500 --> 00:15:49.700 Jesus is arriving. Um, and then there's that 00:15:49.700 --> 00:15:51.519 thing that says, Hey, are you sure you really 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:53.080 want to roll back that stone? Because it stinks. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.340 Yeah. He stinketh is my, I think it's King James 00:15:56.340 --> 00:15:59.559 version. He stinketh. And, uh, uh, it's just 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.659 one of my favorite translations of that, you 00:16:01.659 --> 00:16:03.620 know? And so like, it's, it's a very poignant, 00:16:03.659 --> 00:16:05.759 like if anything else was not nailing it on the 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.539 head, he's literally decomposing now. Right. 00:16:09.659 --> 00:16:12.899 Are you sure you want us to roll this back? And, 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:15.039 uh, and so like, there isn't, there isn't intention 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:18.179 why Jesus is doing, he says, this is not going 00:16:18.179 --> 00:16:23.690 to end in death. doesn't mean that Lazarus isn't 00:16:23.690 --> 00:16:28.090 going to die. Yeah. Which by the way is a, is 00:16:28.090 --> 00:16:30.769 a very, very important word for like us is a 00:16:30.769 --> 00:16:32.950 lot of times God is talking, like speaking into 00:16:32.950 --> 00:16:34.850 us and, and through the resurrection of Jesus, 00:16:34.950 --> 00:16:38.850 our life no longer ends in death, but all of 00:16:38.850 --> 00:16:40.970 us are going to die someday. Yeah. Yeah. You 00:16:40.970 --> 00:16:43.009 jumped down to verse 20 and I'm skipping the 00:16:43.009 --> 00:16:44.809 other verses cause we literally just talked about 00:16:44.809 --> 00:16:47.470 them. Yeah. Um, but Martha got word that Jesus 00:16:47.470 --> 00:16:49.830 is coming and she went out to meet him, but Mary 00:16:49.830 --> 00:16:52.269 stayed in the house. Interesting side note, right? 00:16:52.950 --> 00:16:56.029 Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you'd only been 00:16:56.029 --> 00:16:58.970 here, my brother would not have died. But even 00:16:58.970 --> 00:17:02.590 now I know that the Lord, that God will give 00:17:02.590 --> 00:17:06.369 you whatever you ask. So there's this tension 00:17:06.369 --> 00:17:08.789 in Mary's comment, right? This tension of like, 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:11.549 if you were here, he'd still be with us. Yeah. 00:17:11.609 --> 00:17:14.130 But I know you can still do great things. Yeah. 00:17:14.190 --> 00:17:17.529 Right? Or not Mary, Martha's comment. Yeah. Mary's 00:17:17.529 --> 00:17:19.529 at the house. But there's that tension, right? 00:17:19.630 --> 00:17:21.309 It's really hard not to interchange their names 00:17:21.309 --> 00:17:23.529 because, you know, when you, it's kind of like 00:17:23.529 --> 00:17:26.109 if you have like two people that are always hanging 00:17:26.109 --> 00:17:28.670 out together. I think Matthew Nunley calls us 00:17:28.670 --> 00:17:31.670 Benzer. Yeah. Right? It's hard sometimes when 00:17:31.670 --> 00:17:34.349 you're trying to. Yeah. So there's this tension 00:17:34.349 --> 00:17:37.069 and it's this exact tension we've prayed in our 00:17:37.069 --> 00:17:39.769 lives before too, right? Lord, if you just showed 00:17:39.769 --> 00:17:42.390 up, this would have happened. But I know you're 00:17:42.390 --> 00:17:45.490 still capable. Right? I mean, have you ever said 00:17:45.490 --> 00:17:48.329 that prayer? Many times. Right? I mean, you're 00:17:48.329 --> 00:17:51.269 talking about like today? Yeah. Yeah. Right. 00:17:51.990 --> 00:17:53.890 Right. There's that, there's that tension where 00:17:53.890 --> 00:17:55.769 like, where it's like, okay, Lord, this isn't 00:17:55.769 --> 00:17:57.690 going the way I want, but I know you're still 00:17:57.690 --> 00:18:00.970 in control. Right. This isn't, you're not providing 00:18:00.970 --> 00:18:02.670 how I want you to, but I know you're still in 00:18:02.670 --> 00:18:04.349 control. You're not doing this how I want you 00:18:04.349 --> 00:18:06.390 to, but I know you're still in control. Right. 00:18:06.529 --> 00:18:08.769 The expectation from Mary and Martha was they 00:18:08.769 --> 00:18:11.289 sent word and that the expectation would have 00:18:11.289 --> 00:18:13.089 been as soon as Jesus got that word, he would 00:18:13.089 --> 00:18:16.650 have been on his way. Yeah. Well, and especially, 00:18:16.789 --> 00:18:19.660 you know, like. Or he got the word and he just 00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:21.599 says that he's healed. Like, they've seen it 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:24.599 happen. Yeah. Right? We're talking about Jesus. 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:27.660 We're not talking about some rando, right? Like, 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.359 Jesus is the guy who's like, oh, your son's healed. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:34.500 Yeah. Yeah. And then Jesus' response, your brother 00:18:34.500 --> 00:18:40.559 will rise. Yeah. And Martha, yes, he will rise 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.299 when everyone else rises on that last day. Yeah. 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:45.779 Right? Still that, like, I believe, but I'm still 00:18:45.779 --> 00:18:48.579 struggling to understand what's going on. Jesus, 00:18:48.579 --> 00:18:52.460 I'm fully aware that in the future, in our eschological 00:18:52.460 --> 00:18:56.539 hope, that he will rise at the end of days, right? 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.019 I'm fully aware of that. And that is hopeful. 00:19:00.099 --> 00:19:02.339 Thank you for reminding me of that. He's like, 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:07.900 no, that no. I am the resurrection and life, 00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:10.039 right? He makes a statement. He says, I am the 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.960 resurrection of life. And it is absolutely, if 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:15.079 you're like, man, that sounds a lot like I am 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:16.819 that I am. You should be hearing that because 00:19:16.819 --> 00:19:18.960 there's seven I am statements in the gospel of 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.440 John. Um, but one of the things that I really, 00:19:22.539 --> 00:19:28.740 uh, what he's saying here is he says, um, it's 00:19:28.740 --> 00:19:33.579 not, I can perform resurrection, right? They 00:19:33.579 --> 00:19:35.180 already know Jesus can perform resurrection. 00:19:35.819 --> 00:19:37.799 Cause there's been kids that have died. There's 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:39.599 been people who are on the brink of death. They 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:40.859 already know Jesus can perform resurrection. 00:19:41.660 --> 00:19:46.240 He is resurrection. Like Jesus is resurrection. 00:19:46.539 --> 00:19:49.680 He is life. He's not, he's not performing it. 00:19:49.740 --> 00:19:51.519 That's what he is. That's who he is. And that's, 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:53.640 and it's a, it's an extension of, of like, and 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:55.759 so it's going to be really important. He does 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.619 not bring life. He is life. And that there's 00:19:59.619 --> 00:20:01.619 a really big difference between that and, uh, 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:04.759 and this, and this like abstract idea of like, 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.019 Because, okay, like, for example, when the disciples 00:20:08.019 --> 00:20:12.599 get sent out in 12 and 72, they're told to raise 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:14.740 the dead, cast out demons, preach the good news. 00:20:14.900 --> 00:20:16.420 Not in that order, by the way. I'm saying it 00:20:16.420 --> 00:20:20.819 in the wrong order. Heal the sick and, you know, 00:20:20.900 --> 00:20:24.180 but raise the dead is one of them, right? So 00:20:24.180 --> 00:20:26.079 there's already a power over life that they've 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:27.759 seen demonstrated in the lives of the disciples 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:29.680 as they go and they do the ministry of Jesus. 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:32.220 But Jesus is not saying that they're going to 00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:34.019 do resurrection. He says, I am resurrection. 00:20:34.919 --> 00:20:37.619 It's, it's, it's much more significant. And I, 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:39.240 and I, the only reason I'm saying it so many 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.740 times is I think we move so, so quickly past 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:46.400 it. Yeah. And then he says, everyone who believes 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.119 everyone who lives in me and believes in me will 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.880 never die. That sounds like another verse in 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:55.160 John. Sounds a lot like John three. Yeah. Right. 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:58.400 Right. You have this message where he's referring 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.460 back to John three, where he's like, I am the 00:21:00.460 --> 00:21:02.400 resurrection, the life. Anyone who believes in 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:05.539 me will have life even after dying. And whoever 00:21:05.539 --> 00:21:08.700 believes in me will never die. Right. That takes 00:21:08.700 --> 00:21:11.579 what it does is, and we've had people interpret 00:21:11.579 --> 00:21:14.039 this being like, okay, well, is he talking about 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:15.700 physical death? I was like, no, like we're all 00:21:15.700 --> 00:21:17.980 going to physically die someday. Right. Well, 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:20.059 what it does is it removes that fear of physically 00:21:20.059 --> 00:21:25.859 dying. death is not the end. Right. Um, there's 00:21:25.859 --> 00:21:27.960 a, there's a song that says death is just a doorway 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:32.579 into resurrection life. Right. Um, which, you 00:21:32.579 --> 00:21:34.039 know, we'll get there. You don't need to be in 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:36.420 a hurry to get there. Um, so he says that to 00:21:36.420 --> 00:21:38.099 her and he says, do you believe this? And she 00:21:38.099 --> 00:21:39.700 makes a statement. She says, yes, Lord, I believe 00:21:39.700 --> 00:21:41.759 that you are the Messiah, the son of God who 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:43.420 is to come into this world. By the way, I've 00:21:43.420 --> 00:21:45.099 heard somebody else say that too. Just last time 00:21:45.099 --> 00:21:50.920 it was Peter. Yep. Now, now it's in John is placing 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:53.279 it into the mouth of a woman who is calling. 00:21:53.900 --> 00:21:56.400 So there's been Peter and now there's a woman, 00:21:56.460 --> 00:21:58.380 which is not well thought of in the, in their 00:21:58.380 --> 00:22:00.480 society. Right. As far as like being able to 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:02.799 be a spokesman. Yeah. But John is going to repeatedly 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:05.220 point out that God, Jesus is using women to proclaim 00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:08.559 profound truths that he is the Messiah. He is 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:12.299 the son of God. He is, you know, in this capacity, 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:14.859 which is just a really cool, like, we're like, 00:22:14.940 --> 00:22:16.519 oh, well, Peter got it. Yeah. So did Martha. 00:22:17.700 --> 00:22:21.160 Even in her struggle, even in her doubt, she 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:25.700 gets it. Because she believes him, but she still 00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:26.980 hasn't seen Lazarus come back from the dead. 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:29.819 So it's still an intellectual and hopeful belief. 00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:32.720 So here's, and then you have a couple interesting 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:35.500 things that happen here. She returned to Mary. 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:39.259 She called Mary aside from the mourners and told 00:22:39.259 --> 00:22:41.759 her, the teacher is here and wants to see you. 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:46.240 So Mary immediately left and went to him. This 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:50.700 also begs the question about Martha. So when 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:52.819 she heard Jesus was coming, she hadn't seen him 00:22:52.819 --> 00:22:56.980 yet. When she heard that, she left, assuming 00:22:56.980 --> 00:22:58.980 that she was with the mourners at the mourner's 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:00.940 table. It is her brother, after all, who died. 00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:04.099 She left the mourner's table to go see Jesus. 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:08.500 That would have been a move that would not have 00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:11.420 been well thought of by anybody. They'd have 00:23:11.420 --> 00:23:13.180 been like, no, we're mourning. The teacher needs 00:23:13.180 --> 00:23:16.079 to come to us. Yeah. Instead, she goes, no, we're 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:18.200 mourning, so I'm going to go to Jesus. Yeah. 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:21.259 I feel like that'll preach for a while. Yeah. 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.960 Yeah. I made a note here that I actually thought 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:28.359 was really interesting. So this, because we're 00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:30.160 doing a study through the Psalms right now at 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.960 our church, well, wisdom literature in general, 00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:36.900 but lament Psalms tend to follow a pattern of 00:23:36.900 --> 00:23:40.480 there's a complaint, there's waiting, there's 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:42.980 a divine action, and then there's praise. Right. 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.980 Um, and in this one we have, um, Martha's, their 00:23:46.980 --> 00:23:52.039 lament is if you had been here, but then there's 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:57.079 this faith statement. I know that even now, then 00:23:57.079 --> 00:23:59.720 there's the divine disclosure from Jesus. He 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:02.740 says, I am the resurrection. And then there's 00:24:02.740 --> 00:24:05.180 going to be the actual event and this, in this 00:24:05.180 --> 00:24:07.670 party afterwards. right? This praise of like 00:24:07.670 --> 00:24:09.410 God's intervention. And it's just interesting 00:24:09.410 --> 00:24:11.789 that this actually follows a very similar to 00:24:11.789 --> 00:24:14.849 what we see in Psalms in Psalms of lament. This 00:24:14.849 --> 00:24:21.269 story does. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have this 00:24:21.269 --> 00:24:24.069 weird thing that Jesus kind of does here in verse 00:24:24.069 --> 00:24:27.109 30. Jesus stayed. Jesus did a weird thing. Yeah. 00:24:27.150 --> 00:24:29.910 Jesus stayed outside the village at the place 00:24:29.910 --> 00:24:33.349 where Martha met him. It's an odd detail because 00:24:33.349 --> 00:24:37.500 if Jesus was, a good friends, as they say earlier, 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:39.779 why would he not just go to the house of mourning 00:24:39.779 --> 00:24:43.259 and sit with them? Cause he's a bad, no, I'm 00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:45.680 just kidding. He's not a bad friend. Right. So 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.099 in the text doesn't specifically say why he does 00:24:48.099 --> 00:24:50.140 this. Right. So there's lots of implications 00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:52.259 we could put there, but yeah, I mean, you can 00:24:52.259 --> 00:24:54.200 have some, you can have like, cause he knows 00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:57.819 where they need to go. Like they want to be at 00:24:57.819 --> 00:24:59.220 the house. He's like, no, we need to go to the 00:24:59.220 --> 00:25:01.839 tomb. Cause I know what's going to happen. Yeah. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.980 You know, the crazy thing is, and, like, to your 00:25:06.980 --> 00:25:09.599 point, it is a weird situation. Like, that's 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:11.960 not normal. So Jesus says, hey, come out and 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:15.319 join me, right? And then ultimately has this 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:18.099 conversation with Mary, right, where it's basically 00:25:18.099 --> 00:25:19.920 almost the exact same conversation that he has 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:25.700 with Martha, right? And he sees her weeping, 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:27.940 and then the Jews that came along with her that 00:25:27.940 --> 00:25:29.579 were weeping because they're like, oh, maybe 00:25:29.579 --> 00:25:32.250 she's going to mourn at the... We should probably 00:25:32.250 --> 00:25:34.470 go with her. Yeah. Right. By the way, that's 00:25:34.470 --> 00:25:36.890 exactly what they should have done. Right. That's 00:25:36.890 --> 00:25:41.329 what good friends do. And he was deeply moved 00:25:41.329 --> 00:25:42.950 in spirit and troubled wherever you laid him. 00:25:43.029 --> 00:25:44.750 And then they say, come and see Lord. And so 00:25:44.750 --> 00:25:48.069 then he goes and it says, Jesus wept. And then 00:25:48.069 --> 00:25:51.490 he, so Jesus knows what's going to happen. He 00:25:51.490 --> 00:25:53.730 knows that their sorrow is going to turn to joy. 00:25:53.829 --> 00:25:56.349 And yet in the moment, he still fills their emotion. 00:25:57.029 --> 00:26:02.009 Right. It's, John, when he wrote this, chose 00:26:02.009 --> 00:26:05.170 the word, it is, sorry, I'm not a Greek speaker, 00:26:05.309 --> 00:26:09.190 so please forgive me. It's, to shed tears silently, 00:26:09.349 --> 00:26:13.349 rather than the, which is to wait. Others would 00:26:13.349 --> 00:26:16.529 wail, at the tomb, and Jesus' tears are, however, 00:26:16.589 --> 00:26:18.670 restrained, they're intimate, yet profoundly 00:26:18.670 --> 00:26:21.630 human. So he's not just crying out in the same 00:26:21.630 --> 00:26:24.950 way that the mourners are crying out. It's actual, 00:26:25.089 --> 00:26:31.569 it's personal tears. Right? And, in a Hebrew 00:26:31.569 --> 00:26:34.410 worldview, often tears are going to actually 00:26:34.410 --> 00:26:38.809 precede divine interaction, intervention. So 00:26:38.809 --> 00:26:41.650 if you think about in second Kings 25, he says, 00:26:41.690 --> 00:26:43.849 makes them and he says, I have seen your tears. 00:26:44.309 --> 00:26:48.589 I will heal you. Right. Yeah. I have seen your 00:26:48.589 --> 00:26:53.220 tears. Then there's this conversation that happens 00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:55.440 with the rest of the community that's there. 00:26:56.420 --> 00:26:59.480 Right? And it's really short, and we often breeze 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:01.579 over this one, but it's really good to kind of 00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:03.440 sit there for a minute. The people who were standing 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.079 nearby said, see how much he loves them. But 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:10.359 some said this man healed the blind. He could 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:15.380 have. Couldn't he have kept Lazarus from dying? 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:18.420 Yeah. So referring to like, it's been four days. 00:27:18.460 --> 00:27:20.420 There's nothing he can do now. Why is he here? 00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:23.819 Why was he late? Like there's this tension that's 00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:26.039 going on. Yeah. We often overlook. The teacher 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:29.660 shows up and he's expressing emotion. And there's 00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:31.660 two groups of people that are like, man, look 00:27:31.660 --> 00:27:32.940 how much he cares. And other people are like, 00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:36.200 what took him so long? Yeah. Yeah. And then one 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:38.259 of the emotions that Jesus expresses, which we 00:27:38.259 --> 00:27:41.819 breeze over this too, is Jesus was still angry 00:27:41.819 --> 00:27:45.599 as he arrived at the tomb. Yeah. There's going 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:47.299 to be various ways to translate that. I think 00:27:47.299 --> 00:27:50.299 angry is probably appropriate. Don't think of 00:27:50.299 --> 00:27:52.259 it as the way we get angry. Yeah. Right? It's 00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:55.700 a different word. Deeply troubled is sometimes 00:27:55.700 --> 00:27:58.380 how they'll express it. He's deeply troubled. 00:27:58.519 --> 00:28:02.380 So what's he deeply troubled about? Probably 00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:04.539 these conversations that are going on. Yeah. 00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:08.220 Right? That something profound is happening. 00:28:08.299 --> 00:28:10.039 A loss is happening and they're sitting here 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:14.519 talking. Talk and smack. There's another time 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:18.880 in the Bible where this term angry is used describing 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.119 a helper that is going to show up. And that is 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.579 Moses at the burning bush. Because when Moses 00:28:25.579 --> 00:28:27.819 is at the burning bush, he lists his five reasons 00:28:27.819 --> 00:28:30.279 why he's not able to go. His last one being like, 00:28:30.299 --> 00:28:34.900 I just don't want to. And God in his anger sent 00:28:34.900 --> 00:28:40.309 him Aaron, a helper to speak for him. Oh, that's 00:28:40.309 --> 00:28:42.329 silly. I mean, there's just helper all over the 00:28:42.329 --> 00:28:44.210 place, huh? These ets are moving all over this 00:28:44.210 --> 00:28:47.789 place. Right. And so you have kind of that same 00:28:47.789 --> 00:28:49.970 language happening here where you have Jesus 00:28:49.970 --> 00:28:54.390 was angry when he arrived at the tomb. The cave 00:28:54.390 --> 00:28:57.029 where the stone was still rolled across the entrance, 00:28:57.170 --> 00:29:00.470 roll the stone aside, Jesus told them. Yeah. 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:02.500 And then of course they have this conversation 00:29:02.500 --> 00:29:04.339 about the stench. We talked about like this whole 00:29:04.339 --> 00:29:06.700 thing of like four days, um, significance of 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:10.660 that. Um, then Jesus makes a prayer. Um, he's, 00:29:10.660 --> 00:29:13.519 he talks to God openly and I just love that. 00:29:13.539 --> 00:29:15.980 He says, yeah, I'm doing this so that they can 00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:17.539 hear. Cause I already know that you heard me. 00:29:17.579 --> 00:29:21.440 Yeah. Right. I already know you and I are already 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:23.440 talking, which by the way, I just, I love you 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:25.039 and I are already having a conversation about 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:28.680 this, but I'm saying this so that they know what 00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:32.859 you're doing here. Right. it almost sounds like 00:29:32.859 --> 00:29:35.500 it almost sounds I mean working in school district 00:29:35.500 --> 00:29:37.480 it almost sounds like that teacher student conversation 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:42.059 I was like So I know that you know that you swung 00:29:42.059 --> 00:29:45.400 a fist at this kid, right? That feels a little 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.740 real. Did that happen today? So, okay. No, but 00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:50.619 right. It's like, it's like, I want you to know 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:53.279 that I know that you know that you did this, 00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:55.000 right? But they don't know that we know that 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.200 they know. Exactly. Like, that's what this feels 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:58.920 like a little bit where it's like, where he's 00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:00.200 talking to God. He's like, I got, we've had this 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.200 conversation. I'm saying it out loud. So they 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:05.720 know that I've had this conversation with you 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:10.059 and I'm not. you know messing around And then 00:30:10.059 --> 00:30:13.000 Jesus is going to say, Lazarus, come out. By 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:14.960 the way, this is going to echo and mirror in 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.039 a very similar way to how creation is spoke into 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:19.900 existence, which is not surprising because John 00:30:19.900 --> 00:30:21.500 1 .1, in the beginning was the word, the word 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:23.319 was with God, the word was God, right? Jesus, 00:30:23.539 --> 00:30:26.359 the Logos, the Lazarus then sign, then reenacts 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:28.519 Genesis through the lens of new creation, right? 00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:31.220 Life summoned from the darkness of the tomb and 00:30:31.220 --> 00:30:34.259 the cosmos once called forth from the void or 00:30:34.259 --> 00:30:36.359 tohu vavohu to go all the way back to Genesis, 00:30:36.579 --> 00:30:40.200 right? And so then this will be reminiscent of 00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:42.119 everything that's been declared along. What was 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:46.140 declared cosmically is now enacted personally. 00:30:46.700 --> 00:30:49.319 Yeah. That the God who speaks the universe into 00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:52.200 existence also calls Lazarus out of a tomb. And 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:54.259 I would say in a very similar way, he does the 00:30:54.259 --> 00:30:57.059 same thing to us. Yeah. When we're, when we're 00:30:57.059 --> 00:31:01.019 called by name, like that's the logos speaking 00:31:01.019 --> 00:31:03.960 our name and calling us to himself. Right. And 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.460 the beautiful thing too, is he removed the obstacle. 00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:10.240 Right. Like imagine if he, I once heard a comedian 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.200 say, he's like, imagine if Jesus called Lazarus 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:14.279 out of the tomb, but forgot to move, roll the 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:17.400 stone away. Yeah. Right. Jesus is like, no, we 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:20.759 need to remove the obstacle. Right. It's not 00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:25.579 working. Because he's wrapped up in linen. Right. 00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:27.920 So yeah, Jesus is like, no, we need to remove 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:30.140 the obstacle away and I'm going to call you into 00:31:30.140 --> 00:31:32.980 life. Well, and then the thing is, is that, um, 00:31:33.140 --> 00:31:34.660 because there's, there's so much going on here 00:31:34.660 --> 00:31:36.660 in imagery that's going to carry on into later, 00:31:36.779 --> 00:31:39.279 um, as well, because like when he comes out, 00:31:39.339 --> 00:31:40.700 there's going to say on bind them, of course, 00:31:40.700 --> 00:31:42.539 then he's going to have an Exodus or a release 00:31:42.539 --> 00:31:45.920 or, um, may even connected to Isaiah 58, six, 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:47.440 which says to loose the chains of injustice, 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.160 right? Uh, the year of favor of God's freeing 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:53.180 power. Um, but you know, in a very real sense, 00:31:53.259 --> 00:31:55.940 this, this little example is very much of what 00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:59.299 Jesus does in our life too, is that when we, 00:32:00.170 --> 00:32:03.009 Or call by name. He calls us to him. We trust 00:32:03.009 --> 00:32:05.910 in his faithfulness, which is what Paul talks 00:32:05.910 --> 00:32:08.130 about in Galatians. We trust in the faithfulness 00:32:08.130 --> 00:32:10.269 of Jesus Christ, but he calls us by name, and 00:32:10.269 --> 00:32:14.769 he's already swung the door open. The thing that 00:32:14.769 --> 00:32:16.190 we have to choose is whether or not we're going 00:32:16.190 --> 00:32:18.589 to respond to the call. The door's already swung 00:32:18.589 --> 00:32:20.750 wide open. All you have to do is trust Jesus. 00:32:21.309 --> 00:32:23.670 Trust that him calling you brings you back to 00:32:23.670 --> 00:32:27.109 life. And so, yes, that's a literal thing that 00:32:27.109 --> 00:32:28.470 happened, but it's also a metaphorical thing 00:32:28.470 --> 00:32:31.509 that happens. Right. And, uh, I think that sometimes, 00:32:31.890 --> 00:32:34.529 uh, in maybe in the way we talk about faith, 00:32:34.650 --> 00:32:36.250 maybe the way we talk about following Jesus, 00:32:36.369 --> 00:32:38.609 we have a lot of like prerequisites we put on 00:32:38.609 --> 00:32:41.730 people. I was like to follow Jesus, you, the 00:32:41.730 --> 00:32:45.069 tombs open. Yeah. I mean, look, look at this 00:32:45.069 --> 00:32:47.170 whole conversation. Yeah. You have Jesus being 00:32:47.170 --> 00:32:49.569 like, I'm going to raise this guy from the dead 00:32:49.569 --> 00:32:52.289 and then being like, Oh, this like tension of 00:32:52.289 --> 00:32:54.009 like, do I believe, I guess I believe in you, 00:32:54.069 --> 00:32:56.609 but can you actually do it? And then Jesus being 00:32:56.609 --> 00:32:58.779 like, do you believe in me? And then. Yes, I 00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:02.160 believe in you. Okay. Roll the stone away. Lazarus 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.359 comes to life. How many times has Jesus done 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.579 that for us? So many. Where he's like, I'm going 00:33:07.579 --> 00:33:09.140 to make this happen in your life. And you're 00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:11.039 like, I don't know if that's going to happen. 00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:13.119 Yes, Lord, I believe. And he's like, do you believe? 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.180 And you're like, yes. Yes, God, I believe. And 00:33:16.180 --> 00:33:21.299 then obstacle away. And then he fulfills it. 00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:24.990 Yeah. Right? Right. You see that happen over 00:33:24.990 --> 00:33:26.930 and over and over again in scripture. Like this 00:33:26.930 --> 00:33:29.410 is a theme that you can actually carry into the 00:33:29.410 --> 00:33:31.470 old Testament. You can carry into further into 00:33:31.470 --> 00:33:33.109 the new Testament and you can put it on your 00:33:33.109 --> 00:33:35.990 life too. I think because how many times have 00:33:35.990 --> 00:33:37.430 you had a conversation with somebody who's struggling 00:33:37.430 --> 00:33:40.470 to trust Jesus? Right. And, or like for the first 00:33:40.470 --> 00:33:43.289 time, right. And to make Jesus the centerpiece 00:33:43.289 --> 00:33:45.910 of their life. Right. And they say, well, you 00:33:45.910 --> 00:33:48.029 know, I've got this, I've got this. And like, 00:33:48.130 --> 00:33:49.869 you know, I can't get past these things. I was 00:33:49.869 --> 00:33:52.660 like, dude, doors open. all you got to do is 00:33:52.660 --> 00:33:55.660 walk through. Like you're, you're talking about 00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:57.019 all the things that are keeping you out of the 00:33:57.019 --> 00:34:00.019 house doors open. Yeah. All you got to do is 00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:01.220 walk through and want to be part of the house. 00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:05.000 Yep. And it's like, um, you literally trust that 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.880 that door was open for you. Exactly. Right. And 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:10.659 you trust that the person who opened it can take 00:34:10.659 --> 00:34:12.019 care of everything that you've got going on, 00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:15.079 which he can't. Yeah. Technically already did. 00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:19.980 And, uh, and so like, like, I think one reading 00:34:19.980 --> 00:34:21.739 these stories literally is really important to 00:34:21.739 --> 00:34:24.039 understand the actual story, but then it's really 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:26.119 important that you understand what happened here 00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:29.500 because Paul and the new Testament writers are 00:34:29.500 --> 00:34:31.139 going to talk about a lot of what Jesus does 00:34:31.139 --> 00:34:33.019 here when they're talking about the redemptive 00:34:33.019 --> 00:34:37.780 work of, of, um, Are you saying there's intentionality? 00:34:37.780 --> 00:34:40.860 No, I would never say that. I would never say 00:34:40.860 --> 00:34:44.780 that. I think, I think the, the, the, well, it 00:34:44.780 --> 00:34:46.420 is, it is actually important conversation to 00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:48.840 have because in some ways there's, there's a 00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:51.300 conversation and this is a, this is a way that 00:34:51.300 --> 00:34:52.880 it has been said. I don't know if it's necessarily 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.840 100 % accurate, but people say they accept Jesus 00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:58.460 as their savior and Paul is their Lord. In other 00:34:58.460 --> 00:35:00.920 words, they love to accept Jesus, but they actually 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:02.960 want to find the rules with Paul. Problem is 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:04.820 what Paul is doing is he's explaining what Jesus 00:35:04.820 --> 00:35:08.760 did to a Gentile audience in different circumstances. 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.199 And so one of the, like, I guess the reason I 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:14.300 mentioned it is that I want you, you have to, 00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:17.019 the gospels have to be here. They have to be 00:35:17.019 --> 00:35:20.679 here. Like what Jesus did so that when he's talking 00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:23.300 to different cultures, you're like, oh, I see 00:35:23.300 --> 00:35:24.980 what Paul is doing. I see how it's applying to 00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:27.420 what they're dealing with in their culture. Like 00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:31.019 he is applying to them what Jesus already did 00:35:31.019 --> 00:35:34.239 and who he is, which, by the way, is exactly 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:36.400 what we're supposed to do when we bring Jesus 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.739 as we help. You know, I mean, if you have a person, 00:35:38.780 --> 00:35:45.329 for example, is caught up in. anything. I can't 00:35:45.329 --> 00:35:47.070 even think of a specific example. That's how 00:35:47.070 --> 00:35:49.269 fried my brain is at the end of the day. I hear 00:35:49.269 --> 00:35:52.809 you. Right. Um, you as listeners fill in the 00:35:52.809 --> 00:35:55.489 blank and I get to know them because I'm in relationship 00:35:55.489 --> 00:35:57.570 with them. I build a relationship with them and 00:35:57.570 --> 00:35:59.389 I talk to them and I share my life of Jesus with 00:35:59.389 --> 00:36:01.409 them, which by the way is how discipleship and 00:36:01.409 --> 00:36:05.869 bringing people to Jesus should work. I'm actually 00:36:05.869 --> 00:36:07.670 going to take concepts. I say, Hey, you know 00:36:07.670 --> 00:36:09.329 how you're dealing with this. Can I tell you 00:36:09.329 --> 00:36:12.170 a story of Jesus and like why you don't have 00:36:12.170 --> 00:36:15.650 to do that anymore? Yeah. Right. And, and, uh, 00:36:15.690 --> 00:36:17.510 rather than being like, well, you need to understand 00:36:17.510 --> 00:36:19.429 this. I said, let me explain how Jesus does this 00:36:19.429 --> 00:36:22.070 in your life. Right. Right. For the things you 00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:25.710 understand. Um, it can be incredibly helpful. 00:36:25.869 --> 00:36:29.090 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is a cool story. I love 00:36:29.090 --> 00:36:31.050 this story. It's, uh, it is definitely the turning 00:36:31.050 --> 00:36:32.909 point because right after this, in fact, if you 00:36:32.909 --> 00:36:35.090 read your, uh, read your headings that come right 00:36:35.090 --> 00:36:37.409 after it says the plot to kill Jesus. Right. 00:36:37.809 --> 00:36:41.150 Uh, because he is, he's becoming a problem for 00:36:41.150 --> 00:36:44.699 the religious elites. For the people who want 00:36:44.699 --> 00:36:47.019 to control power, he's becoming a problem. Because 00:36:47.019 --> 00:36:50.719 he has power. He's walking in the power and authority 00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:54.900 of God the Father. And that is problematic for 00:36:54.900 --> 00:36:58.039 people that want to grasp power. Which, by the 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.320 way, that can be a problem when you're walking 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:03.079 in what Jesus calls you to be. People who want 00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:06.460 to grab power might have issues with you. If 00:37:06.460 --> 00:37:08.960 you're going to take Jesus' example, the best 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:11.559 way to deal with them is to love them. Have conversations 00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:16.440 with them and be willing to literally put your 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:19.579 life on the line for them. Yep. It's a crazy, 00:37:19.659 --> 00:37:21.199 crazy upside down kingdom. We're going to be 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:22.780 talking about over the next 20 episodes because 00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:24.539 there's a lot of interesting things going on 00:37:24.539 --> 00:37:26.900 there. Jesus is going to have a lot of he's going 00:37:26.900 --> 00:37:29.400 to confront Rome. He's going to confront the 00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:31.559 religious institutions. Ouch. It's going to hurt 00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:33.840 us. Yep. Because I think we have to take some 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:36.460 honest looks at what he has to say about the 00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:39.899 institution of what the temple had become. And 00:37:39.899 --> 00:37:42.440 then we're going to spend, I think we have four 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:44.159 weeks where we're going to be talking about a 00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:46.199 couple weeks of the crucifixion, the trial, and 00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:47.639 all those things because there's just so much 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:51.300 going on there. Yeah. But this is where it all 00:37:51.300 --> 00:37:54.380 starts. Yep. It's the start of the passion. Mm 00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:57.800 -hmm. Right? Yep. Well, until next time. Until 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.880 next time. And that's a wrap for today's episode 00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:04.360 of Love and Context. We hope this conversation 00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:06.840 encouraged you and gave you fresh insights into 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.119 how we can better love God and others through 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:11.699 the powerful truths of the Bible. We'd love to 00:38:11.699 --> 00:38:13.500 hear from you. 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