The Resurrection
I am: Jesus according to Johns Gospel • Sermon • Submitted
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Opening prayer
Lord, thank-you that we can gather today to hear your word. May it be your words we hear, guided by the Holy Spirit. May we each humble ourselves to learn what it is in this moment you want to teach us. May todays message spur us on to be bold to declare Your good news to the people you put on our hearts. Amen
I AM
Memory Verse Test
1. John 6:35 “I am the Bread of life.”
2. John 8:12 “I am the light of the world.”
3. John 10:9 “I am the gate.”
4. John 10:14 “I am the Good Shepherd;”
6. John 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the Life.”
7. John 15: 5 “I am the Vine;”
All different Attributes, All God - overlapping
Promise I AM with you
Central Idea: Jesus is with us (has compassion for us) and has defeated death
Reflect
Read John 11:17-37
“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
If you were here this would not have happened
Both Mary and Martha repeat this
Ukraine, Housing crisis - homelessness, COVID
If you had been here, done something he/she would not have died.
We have how we think and feel things should go.
The fact that he was there started the journey to the cross, his own death and resurrection.
The last time he came to Jerusalem they tried to kill him and we find after the Lazarus resurrection in v45 the plot to kill Jesus.
He knew this and still came, came at a time to show God’s authority over death
Not off in the distance, eternal life that triumphs over death is now. Jesus the embodiement of the promise to be with us and to be our salvation.
We have been learning about the attributes of God, through Jesus statments of I AM, Light for all to see in the world, He meets all our daily needs like bread, he leaves an open door for us, knows us each by name as a good shepherd does, teachers the true way in life and grafts us into his family to abide and thrive.
Today Jesus shows he knows what we are up against and choses to triumph over it.
These words of God incarnate in Jesus are given emtion in the phrase:
Jesus wept.
Jesus Wept - He is with us, He feels our pain, and shares in the emotion of our hearts.
When was the last time you wept?
Being a dad now.
Me wepting with Shane Warne funeral, kids movies (sacrifice)
It has been wonderful to get visiting
I feel the weight of entering into this passage.
I know that some here have experienced far greater than me the pain of the death of a loved one for what feels before their time. To you I say, Jesus sees you and he weeps beside you.
Compassion - He knew he was going to fix it but was present with them in the moment.
So often Jesus was just present with people, poor, outcasts, sick, in pain. He saw them all, was present and brought freedom to those that believed in Him.
Another emotion present - troubled of spirit, Jesus deeply moved - v33 and 38
Commentaries say different things here, is he troubled at the fact that people don’t trust that he can do what he is saying.
One view is that in fact, he is troubled and deeply moved by what he can see as the pain and anguish that death brings.
Jesus was always aware of the spiritual reality around him when others missed it. I would say we often do too.
Jesus was angry at the consciousness of the evil of death, its unnatualness, its ‘violient tyranny’.
Death is the object of Jesus' wrath and towards Satan the one behind such pain of death.
He looks around at the pain, loss of relationship and fear. speaking into it He declares.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;
and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Do you believe this?
Recognise
‘What is the best news ever?’ (We often think about ‘what is the worst that could happen) but what’s the best news that you could receive today?
To answer that, let’s ask another big question: ‘What is ultimate?’
What is the ‘default state’ of the universe, what is the rule and what’s an exception?
Many people assume that ‘silence and death and nothingness’ is the rule of things. If there’s life, light and sound for a while, that’s an exception. But it all runs back to death. Your device runs out of batteries, it defaults to ‘off’. Blank screen. Zero wins.
But there IS a force that outlive, outlasts and outplays the darkness and chaos and silence: God speaks. He brings life: ecosystems, landscapes, animals, people – an incredible symphony. And He created us to be creatives – a force of creativity. God’s love, light and life are the rule; death, darkness and silence the exception. That’s the Greatest News Ever Part 1.
Just as Nothingness Couldn’t Last, So the World’s Brokenness Couldn’t Either.
Tragically, what was meant to be a harmonious symphony became a broken. (Music played badly: worse than silence!)
But the Greatest News Ever Part 2 is The Composer Himself steps in. We celebrate his arrival as a baby at Christmas, and the ressurection of Lazurious brings us into Jesus' compassion and promise to be with us.
Read Luke 19:28-40
Palm sunday - In many ways Jesus’ triumphal entrance into Jerusalem is THE COMING OF THE TRUE KING. The one promised and prophesied and longed for centuries. What a moment! The descent of the world into brokenness and destruction would not be allowed to go on.
This all that Jesus saw when he was troubled in spirit, that death and loss of life had to end.
Respond
And What Does That Mean for Us?
Write this down these three points
What have we learnt over this series
(1) Listen (Jesus Listened, Jesus disciples listened)- They were the first to grasp the enormity of who Jesus is. Jesus speaks life
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
the first thing to do is to stop and listen. You cannot stop God from speaking. There’s just the choice of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying ‘lalalala’ or of paying attention. Which one are you? ‘Who has ears to hear?’
we need to give time to listen to God and listen to others, to respond to the compassion shown to us with the compassion toward others.
rhythms - daily - with my supervisor - Sunday afternoons - lunch and weekly review.
Lord, there’s lots of things I could do today, and lots of things I might like to do today; BUT WHAT SHOULD I DO - what would You have me do today? Guide me, and help me steward well my focus and my time and my energy, for Your glory. Amen
(2) Praise If you do tune in and if you grasp even just a bit of how good and kind and noble Christ is, then it’s right to raise your voice in praise. It’s not really a discipline. When your team wins or you hear great news it’s quite natural to pump your fist and cry out ‘YES!’ (Eagles winning)
If you’ve understood the great news, you don’t need to manufacture praise, it’s just a simple choice not to hold it in!
(3) Share (I think it’s the Greatest News Ever Part 3!) - we get to be a part of the life-giving, lovegiving,silence-silencing voice of God when we share the news about Him with others. It’s not so much about getting the words exactly right. No one ever has yet! The greatest theologians write 5000 pages and will still freely admit they haven’t bottled it neatly. We have just taken 8 weeks to look at the different attributes of God and that is only scratching the surface.
You see, you will never have the perfect words! The thing is to not bottle it. To let it out, and to let others in. To freely give, just as we have freely received. We have the Greatest News Ever. We have Jesus with us and the Holy Spirit to guide us. Can I encourage you in the space on the outline to write 3 names that over Easter you could share this Greatest News Ever with?
Listen, praise , share the Greastest News Ever. explore more of this message over Easter.
Closing Prayer
Who Can you invite this Easter to one of the Easter Services?
Who can you Share the Greatest News Ever with this Easter?
Memory Verse Test
1. John 6:35 “I am the __________ of life.”
2. John 8:12 “I am the ________ of the world.”
3. John 10:9 “I am the _______.”
4. John 10:14 ““I am the __________ ________;”
5. John 11:25 “I am the ______________ and the _________.”
6. John 14:6 “I am the _____ and the _______ and the _______.”
7. John 15: 5 “I am the ________;”
