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ARE YOU DYING?
(12 of 12)
Meet Jesus
John 11:1-44
This morning we are looking at a familiar man in the
Bible—Lazarus.
I have a pastor friend named Fred Wolfe, who for many
years was pastor in Mobile, Alabama, at the Cottage
Hill Baptist Church.
We became great friends in those
years when I was in Mobile.
He told me a story some
time ago which I would like to share with you this
morning.
He said there was a man in Mobile, Alabama, who was
quite a wealthy man.
He went out to the M.D. Anderson
Clinic in Houston, Texas.
While he was there, they
diagnosed his case that he did indeed have cancer.
There was nothing they could do about it and it was
terminal in nature.
They said to him that he had just
a little while to live; you need to set your affairs
in order.
This man called his banker and his lawyer and asked
them to fly out to Houston.
In his room, he met with
his banker and set his financial affairs in order.
Then he talked with his lawyer and he set in order his
legal affairs.
Then, he picked up the phone and called
my pastor friend, Fred.
I'll tell you in a little
while what he said to him when called.
Here is a man who is dying and he is setting his
affairs in order.
It's a good thing to do.
In Isaiah
38:1, the prophet Isaiah said to King Hezekiah, "Set
thine affairs in order for thou shalt die and not
live."
When you are dying it is a good thing to set your
affairs in order and when you are dying, by all means,
if you have not, you need to meet the Lord Jesus
Christ.
When you study the life of the Lord Jesus you will
find that the Lord Jesus attached Himself or
identified Himself when families were going through
crisis experiences.
In fact, you cannot read about the
Lord Jesus Christ and not know that Jesus Christ is
interested in our families and he is especially
interested when we go through crisis times.
Next Sunday morning we will celebrate Mother's Day.
You may recall that when Jesus was dying on the cross—
even in those moments of His death—He stopped dying
long enough to tend to the needs of His mother Mary.
They have sung this morning about the wedding feast in
Cana of Galilee.
What a happy time that is for a
family when a family comes in together for a wedding.
Jesus was there at the wedding in Cana of Galilee.
Jesus was there in the happy times of life—when the
weddings occurred.
But we are going to find out in
these verses this morning that Jesus Christ was also
present with families in the sad times of life—in the
times of death.
If ever a family needs to know Jesus and meet Jesus
and have the presence of Jesus, it is when the family
is going through the loss of a member of that family.
There is nothing that will so test a family as the
death of a loved one.
The death of a family member is
either a cement that will bind a family closer
together or it is a search light that will reveal
cracks in the structure of the family.
Jesus is very near to this family in Bethany.
It is a
familiar in the Bible.
It is the family of Mary,
Martha (the sisters) and their brother Lazarus.
It's a
special family of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is a
family that is going through a time of crisis and it
provides you and me an opportunity to touch life at a
very tender spot in the experience of all of us—the
loss of a member of your family.
The loss of a member of the family is an opportunity
to talk about a family suffering.
I.
A Family's SUFFERING.
Here is a family that is going through one of those
times of suffering in life.
When we read these opening
verses of the 11th chapter we are reminded again how
very dear and how very near this little family was to
Jesus.
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