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Setting the Stage
Jesus is given the news that Lazarus is ill.
Lazarus, Mary and Martha are seen in the gospels as family to Jesus.
They believed in Him and He always stopped in their home when He was in town.
He cared for them and they knew of His love for them.
They do not even ask for Jesus to come, they already knew He would.
Jesus responds to the concern by capturing the whole of his ministry, to come and pervade our everyday with the truth of a relationship with God and His kingdom.
Jesus tells the disciples that Lazarus is enduring this so that God may be glorified through it.
When we know God, our lives become canvases for His glory to shine.
We go through nothing in vain, but in all things, as we rely on God, He is glorified.
Jesus is setting up His disciples for what is yet to come.
This moment will mark the precursor to His glorification as He too will rise from the grave.
The disciples are afraid to return with Jesus to Bethany for they tried to stone Him at the Feast of Dedication.
Bethany was only a couple miles from Jerusalem.
Jesus responds to them by reminding them that there is only a certain amount of time for Him to complete His work.
In the same manner, we need not fear what tomorrow holds, our days are numbered for His glory.
Jesus meets the disciples where they are at in their questioning and further explains that Lazarus is dead and now is the time to go.
Thomas responds short sidedly.
I Am The Resurrection and the Life
John 11:17-
The Jewish custom of mourning.
Martha breaks this custom and comes out to meet Jesus.
In her coming, she confronts Jesus with the trauma in her life that would define her.
My brother is dead and if you had only been here then you could make him well.
We all face trauma in our lives.
Trauma is allowed to define us for as we endure trauma, we create the means by which we could have been saved from the trauma.
In doing so, we take the place of God in our circumstances.
We demand the outcome that is limited by our perspective.
God is always faithful to respond in our trauma.
His plan in our trauma though may not fit our plan.
Jesus responds to Martha by pointing her to God’s plan.
God longed to raise Lazarus from the dead.
This would serve as the catalyst to Jesus own death.
Martha though responds with her own religiosity.
She said the thing that we all think that we are supposed to say.
Jesus though responds with revealing truth to her of who He is and who God is.
She need not believe empty religious cliches, she knows the true and living God who can do what is impossible.
Mary comes out and Jesus responds to her trauma.
He weeps.
Compassion is the gift that moves and changes the heart.
Jesus continually shows compassion on His people.
He was moved to compassion to act and send out the disciples as He saw the crowds like sheep without a shepherd.
Here Jesus has compassion on their tears and despair and He weeps with them.
The Kingdom Revealed
John 11:38-
Jesus calls forth Lazarus.
After four days of being in the grave, Lazarus rises again.
As Jesus stands before the tomb, he points all those who could hear to how all of this is possible, through the power of God.
God is life.
He had complete control over the greatest determiner of man’s destiny, death.
Death is what man fears.
Death defines a man’s days.
But God knows not death.
He is life.
This miracle shows the purpose of Jesus’ coming, to meet us where we are at and heal our past and show us the present future.
The kingdom of God is not tomorrow, it is today.
We live in the truth of the cross of Christ.
We live as redeemed people.
The baby in the manger has laid down His life and taken it back up again.
Will we believe?
Will we trust Him to see the glory of the Father?
Not tomorrow, but today.
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