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Now if you will turn with me in your Bibles to John chapter 11.

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I'm going to be reading from verse 1 through verse 16, then verse 38 through 44.

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Last Sunday we began to look at the glory that we find in Jesus Christ.

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And today we are going to look at another well-known story where Jesus shows us His glory in the

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resurrection of Lazarus.

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Let's give our attention to God's Word.

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Now a man named Lazarus was sick.

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He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and his sister Martha.

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Jesus Mary, whose brother Lazarus was now sick, was the same one who poured perfume on

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the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.

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So the sister said word to Jesus, Lord, the one you love is sick.

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And when he heard this, Jesus said, this sickness will not end in death.

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No, it is for the glory of God so that God's Son may be glorified through it.

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Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days and then

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he said to his disciples, let's go back to Judea.

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So Rabbi, they said a short while ago, the Jews there tried to stone you and yet you're

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going back.

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Jesus answered, are there not 12 hours of daylight?

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Anyone who walks in the daylight will not stumble for they see by this world's light.

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It is when a person walks at night that they stumble for they have no light.

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Mary said this, he went on to tell them, our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep but I'm

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going there to wake him.

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His disciples replied, Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.

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Jesus had been speaking of his death but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

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So then he told them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

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And for your sake, I am glad I was not there so that you may believe but let us go to him.

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Then Thomas, also known as Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples, let us also go

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that we may die with him.

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And now verse 38 through 44, Jesus once more deeply moved came to the tomb and it was a

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cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

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Take away the stone, he said, but Lord said Martha, the sister of the dead man, by this

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time there is a bad odor for he has been there for days.

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Then Jesus said, did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?

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So they took away the stone and then Jesus looked up and said, Father, I thank you that

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you have heard me.

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I knew that you always hear me but I said this for the benefit of the people standing

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here that they may believe that you sent me.

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And when he said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out.

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When the dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen and a cloth

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around his face.

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And Jesus said to them, take off the grave clothes and let him go.

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Let's pray and ask God to bless the reading of his word.

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Our Savior this morning, we are in need of your glory.

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The glory that does miraculous things from our perspective help us to believe just as

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those disciples did who witnessed your glory firsthand.

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I make this prayer in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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Glory, greatness, distinction, grandeur, eminence, greatness.

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That is what glory is.

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And I want you to think of the children's blessing.

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Perhaps you memorized it and had to say it as a child.

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God is great.

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God is good.

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Let us thank him for this food.

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That simple prayer contains an awful lot of theology.

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The greatness and the glory of God and his goodness.

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We're consumed by greatness.

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The human greatness, at least that's what we hear and see.

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And sometimes that's what we aspire to with sports, for example, where people want to

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be what is known as the goat, the greatest of all time.

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Such athletes as Tom Brady, right now, Kate LeClarke and basketball.

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And there are other examples of that.

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It's also in the political realm, our statesmen, who we erect monuments to.

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We name libraries after.

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And we know that they are great because somehow or another they've impacted our life or perhaps

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changed this world for the good.

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But that greatness is awfully short lived.

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Only this week, O.J. Simpson, who at one time was the greatest of all time for running

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backs, died of cancer.

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Earlier another great sports hero and Heisman trophy winner, Charles White, also died.

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They may have been great physical specimens at one time, but they don't last and their

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bodies are broken.

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And the records are past.

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They don't last.

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None of our human greatness lasts.

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It's very short lived.

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It is a derived greatness that God gives us for a time being.

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But what we want is something a little more eternal, something that is much greater than

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what humans can accomplish.

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And today what I want to look at is the glory of Jesus Christ.

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Now He is the friend of sinners.

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I do not deny that.

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I believe that.

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You'll see this in this passage.

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He really is a friend of sinners.

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But He's also God.

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He is great.

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He does things that if we were there, we would be astounded and said, oh my, can it be?

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Because of what He is able to do.

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And this morning as we look at John 11, this is what the last of His sign miracles.

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He's on His way to Jerusalem to death, to die for the sins of God's people.

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And here He shows us though that He is the Son of God.

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And He is willing to show His glory.

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And let's ask ourselves a question.

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Now does He show that glory to the people back then?

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Let's take a deeper look.

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And I say to you this morning that He shows us that glory through His love.

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Jesus is moving on into the last phase of His ministry, the crucifixion.

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And He and His disciples are at Bethany about two miles from Jerusalem.

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They're there doing the work of the kingdom of God.

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And while they're there, a message comes to them from His friends.

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And I want you to notice Jesus has friends, people that He cared about.

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The disciples, yes, but also people who were His friends, close associates.

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And one of them is Lazarus.

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Now when we look at Lazarus, there is another one in the Bible.

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There's a parable about Lazarus who was very poor and died and went to heaven.

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Not the same Lazarus.

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This is a real person.

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And he is a brother of Mary and Martha.

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And later on we will hear about Mary and Martha in John's Gospel.

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That is where Martha is running around, getting everything ready for dinner, for Jesus and

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His disciples.

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And then you've got Mary who's just sitting there.

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And Martha is very upset.

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That's who we're talking about.

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These are the friends of Jesus Christ.

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These are the ones that He shared a meal with, shared stories with, taught, probably went

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on walks together and told each other their needs.

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And listen to what Scripture says here in verse three.

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It says, they sent word to Jesus, Lord, the one you love is sick.

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Now notice, it did not say, Lazarus said he loves you.

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It says, Lord, the one you love is sick, which shows us the affection that Jesus must have

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had for this man.

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And a little later on in verse five, it says, now Jesus love Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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Don't think that Jesus was like a stoic.

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He loved people.

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And he loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus.

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And when that request came, Jesus does not immediately go.

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And in fact, at first he tells them, well, this sickness, it won't last.

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Well, he doesn't say it exactly like that.

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But he's basically saying, no, we're not going to go.

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He's sick.

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But why aren't we going?

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Well, it tells us in verse four.

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This sickness will not end in death.

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No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it.

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Why does he delay?

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Is it because of a lack of love?

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No, because there's something greater.

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So he stays.

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And there is a delay.

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And finally in verse 14, he tells his disciples plainly, Lazarus is dead.

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Now, you're right.

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Jesus could have packed up immediately had gone.

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But keep in mind, it is not because of a lack of love for these people.

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He's going to show them his love in a greater way than they would ever have expected.

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And don't think now in all of this that Jesus does not care.

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Notice in one of the shortest verses in the Bible, what does it say about Jesus?

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He wept tears because of the loss of Lazarus.

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When your friends die, when your relatives die, when your spouses die, you weep.

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Jesus wept.

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And I think it tells us something about the heart of our Savior.

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He understood fully what it means for human life to be disrupted.

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And I often think that we have forgotten that perhaps Jesus may weep over us as well in

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our pain, our despair, and the dissolution of our bodies.

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And there is glory here.

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And I think what is very glorious about this is the love that our Savior shows to that

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family, that he cares enough to weep and ultimately cares enough to do something about it.

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And keep in mind also, when we think of the glory of God and we don't get the answers

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to our prayers that we want right away, that there may be a delay, it is not because God

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doesn't love you, maybe it's because there is something else he has in mind that may

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be greater and more glorious for all of us.

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Yes, Lazarus does die.

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And Jesus wasn't there.

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But keep in mind what Romans chapter 8 says about the glorious love of Jesus.

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Nothing, nothing can separate us from the love of God and of Jesus Christ.

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And now we've mentioned people this morning like Wilma who's getting closer to death,

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Lowe who may already be dead or have just hours left to live.

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And we may think that death is all powerful.

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Death is not all powerful, but the glorious love of Christ which cannot separate us from

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him is all powerful.

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There's glory in this passage.

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The glory of his love.

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And there's more because that's not the only emotion that we see here, is it?

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There's another.

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Because Jesus also shows us the glory of his anger.

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Anger you say?

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Yes, anger.

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I want you to look at verse 33 for a moment.

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Look at what it says about Jesus.

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When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was

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deeply moved in spirit and trouble.

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Now if you look down to verse 38, again what do you see?

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Jesus once more was deeply moved.

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In many of the translations they have a different rendering.

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Some say he groaned.

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Others say he was deeply disturbed.

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And in other times that word is used in the Bible, it's scolded.

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What the Bible is telling us here is Jesus is upset.

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And not just weeping, even though he does do that too.

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He is upset about something.

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He is angry.

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Could it be that he's just angry?

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Because the crowds don't believe him.

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You could say that from verse 37 where someone is a little snarky in the crowd and says

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could he not have, who opened the eyes of the blind men, have kept this man from dying?

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But I think there's more to it.

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Yes, he may be upset over the unbelief, but what he's upset of is what death and decay

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is doing to the human life.

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What you've got to understand is that we were created to live and not die.

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Death is unnatural.

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We were designed to live forever and have the joy of God always.

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But because of the fall of man we were cast out into a world we are not prepared to live

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in.

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And how can I say that?

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Well, think about it this way.

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We have to have clothes, don't we, because of the atmosphere and the weather.

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Now my dogs come into the world, they don't need coats, they don't need clothes.

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They're made for this world.

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We aren't.

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It may have traces of Eden, but we're going to die.

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That is not what God has made us for.

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We were meant to live forever.

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That's why death is so unnatural to us.

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And Jesus also knows that when someone dies there is that loss of fellowship that we

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have with each other.

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I think what grieves us the most is not only the pain that we go through, but the times

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where we miss those who once were with us.

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And I know after Lynn Hebe died there was a time I kept expecting him to walk through

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that door because we missed him.

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That's what death does to us.

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You miss their presence.

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And there are so many people today who say, oh, death is natural.

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It's part of the biological process.

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By the way, keep a stiff upper lip.

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Did Jesus keep a stiff upper lip?

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No.

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He wept and he also got mad.

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Mad over what Satan and death were doing to his creation.

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And what does this tell us about Jesus Christ in the heart of the Savior?

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Death is his enemy.

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No wonder in 1 Corinthians he says the last enemy to be destroyed is death.

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Jesus hates what is happening to us.

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And there's no wonder at the end of the Bible in Revelation 21.4 when this world is finally

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restored, listen to what it says about the life we should expect.

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He will wipe away every tear from their eye.

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There will be no more death or moaning or crying or pain for the old order has passed

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away.

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Jesus' mission when he came into this world was to die for your sins.

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But it was also to restore to his people what they were originally intended to be in the

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garden, living in the presence of God forever.

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And ultimately what this glorious act of God shows is the glory of his anger.

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So angry that he is going to do away with death once and for all.

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The good news or the Christian messages, Jesus hates death.

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What gets Christ angry?

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What gets Christ disturbed?

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Death.

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And he has done something about it.

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That is what is so glorious about Jesus.

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And that's what we always need to remember every funeral we go to.

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Jesus hates what is happening to his people.

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And I think here there's times where we need to weep at funeral.

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But I would also say to you there are times we need to get angry.

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Angry what has fallen upon us because of the sins of the first couple.

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Being in mind that Jesus also is angry enough to act.

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And while we see his glory and his love and his anger, we also see the glory of his power.

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Now today people come up with all sorts of ways that they can beat death and aging.

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You can read the newspapers or the journals online and what will they tell you that some

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scientist is coming up with a way that he can live and beat death.

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Or at least live beyond the normal life span.

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Maybe it is because of the power of a new drug.

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Maybe it is by the power of an exercise regime.

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Maybe it is by some sort of supplement.

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Do they work?

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None of them work.

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None of them.

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We're going to die.

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And there's only one person who can do something about that.

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Jesus.

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And I want you to know what he did here.

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Listen to how he treated this whole issue with Lazarus.

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He goes to the tomb.

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They don't expect the body to rise from the grave.

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He tells them, you've got to believe.

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Martha said in the NIV, this time there is a bad odor.

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I like what the King James says.

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He stinketh.

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They don't expect a miracle.

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But Jesus stands outside of the tomb and says these words for the benefit of those listening

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so they will believe.

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Does he say, Lazarus, come out.

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He speaks.

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It's done.

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Lazarus comes out and they've got to unwrap him.

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It should remind us of something, shouldn't it?

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How was this world created?

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How did life come into this world?

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The Word of God.

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Life comes when God speaks.

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In Genesis 2.7, it says that when man was created, he became a living being that God

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breathed life into him.

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That's power to speak and there is life.

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No one else can do that.

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No scientist can do that.

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No politician can do that.

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No athlete can do that.

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All those groups that we look up to, but who doesn't?

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Jesus.

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That's glorious.

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That's real power.

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Seeing who can run a thousand plus yards in a football season, oh impressive, but not

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that glorious compared to the power of Jesus Christ to raise people from the dead.

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I'm going to make you promise.

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I don't make a lot of promises from the pulpit because a lot of times I forget what I promise.

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If you ask me to pray for you, I'm not going to say I promise to you.

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I usually do it right then so I don't forget.

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So I'm going to make you promise this morning and here's the promise.

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One day you are going to experience the same type of glory that Lazarus did.

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Didn't you say?

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Well one day you're going to be in a similar position to some of the people we prayed for

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this morning.

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Your life in this old order of the world will be ebbing away.

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Glorious event number one will be when you awake and you see Jesus.

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Glorious event number two is at the second coming when you get the new body.

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And you're going to be sitting there I think.

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I know what I would do.

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I'm going to be pinching myself.

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Hands, legs, more hair maybe.

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And I'm going to tell you that's going to be the most glorious event of all and then

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we are all probably going to sit there and bow down and say what a savior.

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Glory to God in the highest for his love, his hatred of death and his power to bring

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new life in its fullness.

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Let's pray.

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Our Heavenly Father we ask now that you will convince us of the glory of Jesus Christ.

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That glorious power to take away our worst fear and to bring us everlasting life.

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Not a life in which we will be simply ghosts in heaven, but fully human being who live

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and act and breathe in a new world that is really made for us.

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Oh Lord our God, we praise Jesus.

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I make this prayer in his name.

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Amen.

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Our last hymn is when the roll is called up young.