John 11: I Am the Resurrection and the Life

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 15:20–22 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Intro

Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26).

That is the question that is before us today…

And that is the question that determines the eternal fate of your eternal soul.

What will you do with your sin?

It is appointed once for man to die once and after that comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27).

Will you die and perish in your sins or will you have eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord?

The resurrection of Lazarus from John chapter 11 is one of the most famous chapters in the whole Bible.

In it we get two things that are going to guide our interpretation of this passage and overall purpose or thrust of this sermon.

I Am

First, we get one of Jesus’ famous I Am statements.

I Am the resurrection and the life.

As we’ve said before, this is a clear claim of Christ to His own divinity.

I Am was God’s Name from the Old Testament.

So when Christ says, I Am, He’s saying I Am the Eternal God and Covenant Keeping Lord who delivers my people from all their sin.

And that deliverance… that salvation is resurrection and life.

Deliverance from the penalty… wrath… and curse from all our sin.

Sign

And then Jesus backs up that claim that He’s the Covenant Lord and only Hope for our Salvation by displaying it in power through the resurrection of Lazarus.

This is one of Jesus’ signs so essential to the Gospel of John.

For John, Jesus miracles are not just awesome displays of power… they are theology in action.

They are written, John 20:31, so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

So what that means is that when we see one of Jesus’ signs, we don’t just say, “Wow!”

We interpret it theologically.

We ask What is this saying about Christ and His salvation?

And as theology in action, the resurrection of Lazarus is not just the raising of a dead man… its a living breathing sermon of the good news of the gospel and Christ’s power to save.

And those two together take us to us our Big Idea and the main thing I want us to see and give glory to God for in this passage:

Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life and the only answer for all our sin.

The resurrection of Lazarus is the resurrection of every single one of us.

In His death, Jesus conquered death to save us from sin and death and give us eternal life.

We have 57 verses so we are going to fly through this passage and focus in on the highlights to get a big picture 30,000 foot overview of what it means that Jesus is the resurrection and the life.

Let’s start with verse number 1…

Passage

John 11:1–4 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Lazarus, Mary, and Martha were friends of Jesus and supporters of His ministry.

And when Jesus got word that Lazarus was ill, He said This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.

What Jesus was saying was that Lazarus’ illness would not ultimately lead to death…

He would die, but His death would ultimately lead to the glory of God so that the Son may be glorified through it.

Remember how in John chapter 1, John said “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth…[and] from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” (John 1:14, 16).

So Lazarus’ death would not ultimately lead to death but ultimately reveal the glory of God and the grace upon grace we receive in Jesus Christ.

Verse 5…

John 11:5–10 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

Glory and Grace

I do want to highlight something here that I wish we had more time to dive into.

Notice it says Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So… therefore… when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed in the place where He was two days longer.

How is that love? Why didn’t Jesus immediately rush to help them? Why did He wait until after Lazarus died?

If Jesus loved them, why did He make them go through that?

And this tells us something very important theologically about the hard times that come into our life and it feels like God is far off, distant, and not there?

That He doesn’t hear or answer our prayers when we are begging for help.

But why did Jesus delay?

To glorify God to the utmost and reveal His grace… we saw that in verse 4…

And to increase the disciples’… Lazarus… and Mary and Martha’s faith.

In verse 15… For your sake I am glad that I was not there… [I’m glad Lazarus died and I didn’t just heal him]… so that you may believe.

So it is with us.

In the hard times… in the impossible times… when it feels like you are facing something you can’t beat and God isn’t there…

He’s inviting you into greater faith and greater dependance on Him to reveal His love and grace to you in a new and greater way.

To keep trusting… to keep seeking Him… to keep drawing near so that when it feels like you are about to be crushed…

He says My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).

He is not far off or ignoring you… He’s working all things together for your good (Romans 8:28-29).

To show you His goodness and kindness to keep you in something that is absolutely impossible for you…

And to grow you in faith and dependance and draw you near in a closer walk with Him.

Sometimes hard situations or unanswered prayer are God’s grace because God is saying I got you right here… I want you beside me…

I want to show you I love you and care for you… that I will never leave your or forsake you…

And this thing… as hard as it is… is how I draw you and keep you near.

To refine us… sanctify us… grow our faith… and to reveal to us His glory and grace.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where He was two days longer.

Verse 7…

John 11:7–10 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”

Why would you go back 2 miles away from where they had just tried to kill you?

But…

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Work

The basic sense of Jesus’ words here are there are 12 hours in a day… there are 12 hours to work.

The Father has sent me into the world with work to do and as long as I have work to do, I cannot stumble… I cannot die.

My hour has not yet come.

Again this hits at the idea that Jesus didn’t just die a sacrificial death… He lived a sacrificial life.

He lived His whole life in the shadow of the cross trusting His Father every step along the way with perfect faith and wholehearted obedience…

He lived a perfect and sinless life of active obedience to God the Father so that in His death He would not just be able to pay for our sins on the cross…

But also clothe us in His own perfect righteousness to make us acceptable to God and cover the shame and nakedness of our sin.

Verse 11…

John 11:11–16 After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Discipleship

I love Thomas in this verse.

You might remember Him as doubting Thomas who said he would not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he saw where they had put the nails and place in his hand in His side (John 20:25).

And to be sure… Thomas with the rest of the disciples in just a few days time would abandon Jesus and leave Him to suffer all alone.

But here, Thomas gives us an incredible picture of true, all or nothing discipleship.

Of loving Christ and following the Lord no matter the cost.

He knew Jesus was walking into a lion’s den.

He knew… in that moment… following Jesus might cost Him.

But his love, courage, and devotion to christ was so strong that even in the face of death Thomas said, Let us go also, that we might die with Him.

That’s the kind of discipleship Christ calls all us to.

If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me (Matthew 16:24).

You must die to yourself, lay down your life, and follow Christ.

He says elsewhere Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:27).

And bearing your own cross in context means even hating your own life.

We no longer live for ourselves, we live for Him.

Any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:33).

Like Thomas… true discipleship… a true love and devotion to Jesus says, “You know what… no matter where He goes… no matter what the cost… I’m going to follow Him!

Let us go also, that we might die with Him.

Does that describe your discipleship to Christ?

All or nothing, wherever the Lord goes, no matter the cost?

John 11:17-24 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

The significance of four days is that Lazarus was dead dead.

He was four days in the tomb.

Meaning there was no possible way for anyone to deny Christ’s power.

It wasn’t a resuscitation of Lazarus or Lazarus just getting better.

It was the resurrection of Lazarus when only God has the power over life and death (Deuteronomy 32:39).

Verse 18…

Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

Now I don’t think this is a rebuke of Jesus or an attack on Him.

I think this is Martha expressing her deep grief and whole-hearted faith.

Less of Martha saying, “Jesus, You should’ve been here”…

And more of, “Lord… if only you had been here everything would be alright… you would have made all the difference in the world…”

Then verse 23…

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

What a comfort we have as Christians.

Death is not the end… Those we love are not dead and gone…

We do not grieve as others do who have no hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13).

If they are in Christ we will see them again and have an eternity to enjoy together.

And then we come to the pivotal passage.

Martha said, “I know… I know he’ll rise again on the last day… way off into the future.”

And verse 25…

Resurrection and Life

John 11:25-27 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

What Jesus means when He says I am the resurrection and the life is explained in the following two clauses.

Resurrection

Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live…

That’s the future bodily resurrection that will occur on the last day or what the Bible calls glorification…

The day Christ returns to judge the living and the dead and to usher in the eternal state and the consummate New Heavens and New Earth where every trace and stain of sin and we will dwell with the Lord forever (Revelation 21:4, John 5:25-29).

On that day, he will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body (Philippians 3:20).

What is sown perishable will be raised imperishable.

What is sown in dishonor will be raised in glory.

What is sown in weakness will be raised in power.

And what is sown a natural body will be raised a spiritual body meaning we will be raised as entirely new creations with no hint of the old natural man or our sinful flesh (1 Corinthians 2:14-16, 15:42-46).

We will be raised with spiritual bodies perfectly submitted to the will of God with no more war or temptation from our sin.

New bodies that are empowered and enabled to worship God with all our being and carry out every holy desire we have for Him.

Life

And life is explained when Jesus says and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

Jesus is not saying we will never die physically.

Even Christ and the Apostles all died.

What He’s promising is Eternal Life.

That you and I will not perish or die in our sins.

John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Whoever believes in Christ has already passed out of condemnation and death, the curse of the Law into Eternal Life which Jesus says in John 17:3 is knowing God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.

In other words, the full forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God.

Together

So when you put both of these together they are two sides of the same coin.

When Jesus says I am the Resurrection and the Life, He is saying I am the only hope for salvation and the only answer for all your sin.

The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

The Resurrection and the Life promises that all of our sin is fully paid and we enjoy life, salvation, and communion with God… the full forgiveness of our sins and reconciliation with Him now and forever through faith in Jesus Christ!

There is no resurrection or eternal life… there is no salvation… there is no forgiveness of sins… outside of Him.

He is the Resurrection and the Life… the answer… and only answer for all our sin and and the only way to be saved from the wages and curse of our sin which is death.

That’s what Jesus means.

And that’s why He asks Martha, Do you believe this?

Do you believe?

The only way to be saved and the only way to know Christ as the Resurrection and the Life… the only way to have forgiveness of sins is by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ…

By believing in Jesus.

And just as Thomas gives us a picture of discipleship, Martha gives us a picture of faith.

Faith

She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.

Saving faith says Jesus is the Christ… the Messiah… the Anointed One… the one true mediator between God and men.

He’s our Anointed Prophet who reveals God and proclaims the words of eternal life.

He’s our Great High Priest who offered His life as a sacrifice to atone for all our sins and intercedes for us at the right hand of the Father.

And He’s our Anointed King who has conquered all our enemies and rules over all in perfect righteousness to the joy and blessing of His people.

Saving faith says Jesus is the Son of God…

The eternal Son of God who took our flesh to bear our sins…

And the Sovereign Lord of all the Universe.

And saving faith says Jesus is He who is coming into the world…

The Great Deliverer and Light of the World who would crush the head of the serpent and save us from darkness… death… and sin (Genesis 3:15, John 1:9).

Do you believe?…

And do you follow Him as the Lord and Savior of your life?

If you believe in Christ and put your trust in Him then you will have the resurrection and the life and the fullness salvation from all your sins.

As Jesus promised I give them eternal life, and they will never perish (John 10:28).

Transition

And that takes us to the raising of Lazarus.

Jesus didn’t just say He had the power to save us from sin and death… He actually proved it.

The raising of Lazarus as a sign proved theologically… that Christ really is the resurrection and the life and has the power to save all who come to Him.

For the sake of time we are going to skip down to verse 33…

After Jesus said this Martha went and called her sister Mary who immediately went out to find Jesus.

Everyone there mourning and consoling her followed her and when she found Jesus she fell at his feet saying to Him Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died,” the same thing as her sister Martha.

And…

John 11:33–37 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

Moved and Troubled

Now here’s what’s interesting.

The ideas of Jesus being deeply moved, troubled and weeping are more than Jesus just being sad.

He knew He was about to raise Lazarus from the dead.

There’s something more going on here.

The Greek word for deeply moved literally means to snort like a horse.

And the 3 other times its used in the New Testament it carries the idea of anger or indignation in rebuking or warning someone sternly (Matthew 9:30, Mark 1:43, 14:5).

And the word troubled is the same word in John 5 for the waters of a pool being stirred up or disturbed so the idea was that Jesus was stirred up or disturbed within Himself.

R. C. Sproul says the idea is that Jesus was irate.

Why? Why would that be Jesus’ response?

Some have suggested it was because of the people’s unbelief, their weeping and wailing in the presence of the resurrection and the life.

But Jesus had encountered other’s unbelief before.

The key, I believe, is in verse 34.

Jesus said Where have you laid Him?

He doesn’t say “Why are you crying?” or “What’s wrong with you people?”

He says Where is Lazarus’ grave?

It was Death itself that grieved His soul.

The great enemy of mankind and the wages of sin with all the pain and destruction it brings…

Job calls it the King of Terrors that tears away a man’s life and brings him to nothing (Job 8:14, Job 14:1-2).

Paul calls it the Last Enemy to be destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:26).

And Hebrews says it is through fear of death that fallen man is bound a life of slavery knowing death brings the judgment and condemnation of their sins (Hebrews 2:14-15).

Jesus was deeply moved and greatly troubled… snorting like a horse if you will…at Death and all the carnage that it brings.

It was never meant to be this way… Death is an invader in God’s good world.

Its the result of our sin and the manifestation of our rebellion against God.

And along with Sin and Satan Himself… it was one of the chief enemies Christ came to conquer in His death… to save us from His sins.

And with Lazarus, Christ was entering into that Battle.

In just a few short days He was going to face death head on at the cost of His life that through death He would conquer death by the power of His perfect… sinless… indestructible life (2 Timothy 1:10, Hebrews 7:16).

Because that’s the good news of the Gospel.

Through His death, Christ conquered death and swallowed it up in victory (Isaiah 25:8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55).

Where O Death is your victory? Where O Death is your sting?

Christ died and rose again… the resurrection and the life… to give life to all who believe in Him.

Weeping

That’s why it says Jesus wept.

This is the shortest verse in the whole Bible but its loaded with theology.

It reveals His humanity.

His compassion that He is near to the broken hearted and sympathizes with our weaknesses (Hebrews 7:25).

But most of all He wept because of His great love in coming to save us from our sins.

The word wept is a different word then the one that is used for Mary and the mourners.

That word meant to wail and cry loudly.

The word used here for Jesus means to silently burst forth in tears.

Its a word that is used to express the kind of deep grief and sorrow that just cannot be held back…

And its used to express the deep pain and grief Christ felt over Death and the agony and destruction that was caused by all our sin.

Jesus wept because this is precisely what what He came to save us from… sin and death.

He wept to turn our mourning into joy (Jeremiah 31:10-14).

To save us from the grief and sorrow of our sin and the Death that it brings to satisfy us with God’s grace… goodness… mercy… and steadfast love in salvation.

He wept so that one day He would wipe away every tear from [our] eyes, [where] death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away (Revelation 21:4).

Verse 38…

John 11:38–39 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”

Again that idea that Lazarus was surely dead and this miracle was only possible by God’s almighty power and grace.

Verse 40…

John 11:40-44 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

Remember… the resurrection of Lazarus was not just a great miracle of raising a man who had been in the grave for four days from death to life…

It was also a sign…

A sign that theologically pointed to and manifested the glory of the person and work of Jesus Christ.

We should see the resurrection of Lazarus, and in the resurrection of Lazarus the good news and power of the gospel!

The resurrection of Lazarus shows us that Christ really does have the power to save from sin and death.

He cried out with a loud voice… a voice of victory… that’s His death on the cross.

He calls us each by name (John 10:3).

Lazarus come out. That’s the effectual call of the gospel.

And when we believe in Christ we are raised from death to life.

Ephesians 2:1-6 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked…[living] in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind [that’s sin], and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

He is the resurrection and the life.

Everyone who believes in Him does not come into judgment but has passed from death to life (John 5:24).

Salvation… Eternal Life… reconciliation with God and the forgiveness of all our sins.

That’s what Lazarus shows us.

The fullness of salvation and eternal life that we have in Jesus Christ.

A salvation so full, so perfect, so complete… that Jesus says Unbind him and let him go.

All our grave clothes are gone.

We have been raised to new life and are clothed in the dazzling white robes of the perfect righteousness of Christ washed clean once and for all in the precious blood of the pure and spotless Lamb (Revelation 7:14).

And that takes us to the end of the passage where we must be quick.

How is it that Christ is the resurrection and the life for all who believe in Him?

Verses 45-57 make it clear that Christ is the resurrection and the life because He is the Substitute Lamb and the Passover Lamb who alone can atone for all our sins.

Verse 45…

Substitute Lamb

John 11:45–48 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Verse 49…

John 11:49-53 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

Similar to when Joseph’s brothers sold Him into slavery in Egypt, what Caiaphas meant for evil, God meant for God (Genesis 50:20).

Unbeknownst to him, he prophesied what Christ would accomplish in His death on the cross.

Don’t you understand its better for one man to die for the people, than the whole nation to perish?

Christ died as our substitute.

He died in our place for our sins.

He became a curse for us and suffered the curse of the Law our sins deserved… death (Galatians 3:13).

He suffered and satisfied the wrath of God to pay for the sins for all who trust in Him.

And not for the nation only… that is the Jews.

But also for the Gentiles… but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

All who come to Him by grace through faith.

Christ died as our Substitute.

He suffered as our Passover Lamb.

Verse 54…

Passover Lamb

John 11:54–57 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples. Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?” Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

In the providence of God it was no coincidence that Christ was crucified at Passover.

He is the resurrection and the Life.

The True and Greater Exodus from the slavery and bondage of our sin.

Remember what the Passover Lamb was for.

In the last plague against Egypt, God said that the Angel of Death would sweep through the land of Egypt and kill the firstborn in every house.

But to save His people, God provided salvation.

He told them to take a lamb without spot or blemish and spread its blood over their doors and eat its flesh (Ex. 12:3-13).

And when the Lord passed through the land of Egypt to pour out His wrath and judgment and bring death to every house…

He would see the blood on the door… remember His promise… and passover that house to save His people from death.

That’s who Jesus is for us.

He is the True Passover Lamb.

And by eating His flesh and drinking His blood… putting our faith in Him… His blood covers us (John 6:53-56).

So that by His sacrifice when death sweeps through the land and comes to our door, God’s wrath and judgment passes over us.

Through the blood of Christ and we are saved from the condemnation of our sin.

We are saved from the wages of our sin which is death and redeemed from a life of sin and bondage and delivered into the Promise Land of Eternal Life.

Conclusion

Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life and the only answer for all our sin.

We started this sermon with Jesus saying “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26).

And that’s the question I want to leave you with today.

Mary

To believe means to have the faith of Mary.

Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.

You are the Prophet Priest and King.

The only way to know God.

The only way to be saved from my sin.

And the only Lord of all my life.

You are the Son of God… the eternal Son of God who took on human flesh and laid down your life for me to deliver me from my sin.

Thomas

And to believe means to have the discipleship of Thomas.

Let us go also, that we may die with him.

All or nothing… no matter the cost.

If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me (Matthew 16:24).

You must lay down your life, and follow Him.

For as He says elsewhere Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:27).

Jesus is the resurrection and the life and the only way to be saved is by grace through faith in Him.

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