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Batteries
Who didn’t get a Father’s Day gift last week?
Drives me crazy when I pick up something that I need to use and the batteries are dead.
TV remote
Flash light
When you need these things, you need them.
Smoke and CO detectors
Life-threatening.
Some are serious!
We have a remote control for our ceiling fan and light.
When the battery starts to die the remote does things on it’s own.
You know how frustrating it can be for me to have mic problems here.
One Sunday I saw a red light.
I had changed them in a while and I was about to go on.
In my haste I put the new batteries in backwards.
No bueno.
Slow down, batteries in the right direction so that there is a good connection.
B/C, only when there is a good connection will things come to life.
There has to be a good connection.
But, when there is, what was dead comes to life.
Miracle #11. .
Jesus resuscitates the widow’s son.
Luke 7:11-17
Context
Up to this point in Luke, the primary emphasis has been the ushering out of the old and bringing in the new.
Jesus just healed the Centurion’s servant.
Non-Jewish.
First time.
Totally unexpected.
There’s a new way of life coming!
The religious leaders of the day completely disconnected from God made up their own way based on rules.
Jesus came into our world, into the home of the Centurion, and into the lives of those who believe first and obey second.
Immediately after the widow’s son Luke wrote about the exchange between John the Baptist’s disciples and Jesus.
“Are You the One?
Or, should we watch for another?”
Jesus is the One.
Don’t expect anyone else.
God came as a man so we could connect to Him.
Everyone who connects to God lives forever.
The connection is a relationship, by faith; not rules and laws.
Something brand new was happening for Jews and non-Jews alike.
The Messiah, The Savior, will bring the dead to life.
Jesus said, “Believe in Me and you will live.”
Great!
Prove it.
The Setting
Luke 7:
The city
Nain, about 25 mi.
away from Capernaum, a day’s journey
Historically significant to Jews.
Elisha, one of the great prophets of old, resuscitated the son of a Shunammite woman 900 years earlier.
The last time there was a period when miracles were more common (not common, just more so).
Elijah and Elisha leading Israel back to faithful obedience in the PL.
The graveyard
The city is famous for its graveyard.
It’s still there.
Death is an attraction in Nain.
A common theme.
This day, a young man had died and his mother is leading a funeral procession thru the city gate to the graveyard.
The collision
The parade of death
We don’t know much about these people at all.
They are Jewish, it’s a Jewish community.
And, this is her second funeral, 2nd great catastrophe.
This one, far worse (a child, last opp for an income)
She’s a widow, so she’s buried her husband.
The person being carried out now is her only child, a son.
Women couldn’t own property, get a job, own a bsns, or earn a salary.
She was facing 3 choices.
Move back in w/ her father
Become a beggar
Prostitution
No idea which of these were even available to her.
Typically, someone in this position would not attract much of a crowd.
But, for some reason, she did.
She’s popular, maybe for the very sad reason that she’s left alone now and there is an outpouring of support.
Maybe it’s for the very sad reason that she’s left alone now and there is an outpouring of emotional support.
But, there would be no financial support.
Her wound would be fresh.
Burials occured the same day the person died.
The body would be wrapped in a burial cloth, lying flat on a plank of wood.
No coffin.
She’s all alone.
No male representation or protection.
The sadness would be palpable.
Weeping.
Moaning.
Drudging along.
This sad parade collided with a parade led by Jesus who had just brought the centurion’s servant back from the brink of death.
It would have been a party.
The parade of life
By this time, Jesus’ 2nd year of ministry and a track record to react to, He had drawn quite a posse to travel w/ Him.
They had traveled all day, it was the end of the day as they neared Nain when the encountered the funeral procession.
The Prince of Life met the Prince of Death.
15-20 minutes either way the never would have seen each other.
Clearly, Jesus knew.
Timing is everything.
This was no private reception.
It would have been a very large crowd.
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