Sermon Tone Analysis

This is your life - Switchfoot.

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead

Yesterday is a promise that you've broken

Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes,

This is your life

And today is all you've got now

And today is all you'll ever have

Don't close your eyes.

This is your life, are you who you want to be

This is your life, are you who you want to be

This is your life, is it everything you've dreamed

That it would be when the world was younger,

And you had everything to lose?

Yesterday is a kid in the corner

Yesterday is dead and over

This is your life, are you who you want to be

This is your life, are you who you want to be

Paul Said it Better.

Ph 3:4-7

Everything in my life was awesome.....

As awesome as it was, it doesn’t matter.

And can I add to that - as bad as it was it doesn’t matter

All that matters is this moment and who has your life right now.

Our Text -

Lets Talk about The Characters.

Lazarus -

He died - it’s coming

His Disciples

Suffered deep sense of loss

Life is hard sometimes.

Martha

Meets Jesus as he approached the city

The accusation

Had some understanding of the eternal life.

Story of a person who tried but couldn’t get it.

Jn 11

Jn

This is the Martha that kept trying to work things and got frustrated rather that realizing that hearing from Jesus is more important than working to please him… “I just want to be with you.”

Blames Jesus for the suffering she was experiencing - your late.

You weren’t moving fast enough.

Mary - the saddest story

Many commentators believe that this Mary was the lady who the pharisees brought to Jesus being caught in the act of adultery - yes in the middle of the act, and according to the law of that day she should have been stoned… but Jesus rescued her.

(Jn 7:52-8:11)

As a result of this dramatic rescue Mary entered a home where Jesus was dining and poured perfume on His feel and wiped them with her hair.

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This Mary got it right by choosing to listen to Jesus rather than do the dishes.

(Sitting under the word of God and worshipping Him is more important that any idea we have.)---

John Barone story.

His Mary was one of only 4 of Christ’s friend that were at the cross.

(Jn 19:25)

This Mary saw the resurrected Jesus first.

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But in this moment she did not rise up and go see Jesus.

Her wound of the loss of her brother and the disappointment with a possible that rescued her caused her to be despondent.

And don’t we feel like that sometimes… When we suffer sometime when we don’t deserve it.

When we do everything we think is right.... Don’t we feel like that?

We just lose hope?

We become just dead inside.

I want to make a proposal to you......

The most dead person in this story is not Lazarus… It’s Mary.

The disciples were following him through the story.

Martha at least got up to meet Him even if it was only to accuse Him of being late.

Mary couldn’t move until she was prodded to move.

Her hurts and frustrations paralyzed her.

Us

This is you life.... are you who you want to be.

right now, this moment.

Forget yesterday

your hurts, your joys, your successes, your fails, none of it matters.... none of it.

This is your life… are you who you want to be… are you?

Lets go over the best place.

Mary sat at the foot of Jesus letting the rest of the worls go away so she could hear His words and worship Him.

She gave up all dignity to weep over his feet and anoint Him with expensive perfume.

She had a faith that lasted right to end of Christ’s life and kept her going until she saw His resurrected life.

But today........ THIS IS YOUR LIFE>>> ARE YOU WHO YOU WANT TO BE>

Christ

Always the main person of every Bible story.

When the disciples we told of the death of Lazarus Jesus adds this weird statement.

Jn

Jesus tarried on purpose to teach us something.

Jn 11:25-26

jn 11:25

Jn

jn 11:25-2

Jesus is the source of life.

When death comes he is the source of giving it back

If you only believe - you never die.

Jesus wept

because they couldn’t see the bigger picture.

THE LIFE HE GIVES TRANSCENDS THE LIFE.

THE PHYSICAL DEATH THAT WE EXPERIENCE - OR WILL EXPERIENCE

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Ro 6

LIFE

Ge 2

Jn 1:

eph 2:

eph 2:1-

Conclusion

If you don’t leave changed today, nothing has happened.

The goal is this.... we have to give up our life and take on the life he gives.

THIS IS YOUR LIVE---------ARE YOU WHO YOU WANT TO BE?