God of Anything | EASTER 2022
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WE EXIST TO HELP PEOPLE KNOW JESUS AND FIND PURPOSE
Have you ever felt completely let down?
Restaurant — Cake — Cookie? — remember going to find hand sanitizer?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT’S GOD THAT LET’S YOU DOWN
Today we celebrate the greatest event that changed the world. — YOUR BIRTHDAY DETERMINED BY IT — BUT THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE LET DOWN BY JESUS
1 A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha. 2 This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick. 3 So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”
We all pray when things go crazy — Pray not to go to church — Test— Cop — Failed test
A close family member is sick and they send word to Jesus. YOU’RE DEAR FRIEND
4 But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.” 5 So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, 6 he stayed where he was for the next two days.
Why Wait? You have the power… — THERE WERE TIMES WHERE JESUS HEALED REMOTELY
MAYBE SOME OF YOU ARE HERE… You are asking God to do something that only He can do. And it feels like he’s waiting… Maybe you don’t do the CHURCH THING.
John 11:11–15 (NLT)
11 Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.” 12 The disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will soon get better!” 13 They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died. 14 So he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15 And for your sakes, I’m glad I wasn’t there, for now you will really believe. Come, let’s go see him.”
JESUS MUST HAVE KNOWN SOMETHING THAT WE DIDN’T. THAT WE DON’t.
Then that means even when life is hard… the loneliest of times, The hardest of times.. that GOD CAN WORK IT FOR MY GOOD.. THAT NOTHING IS WASTED. THIS IS HAPPENING SO THAT YOU CAN BELIEVE.
ISN’T IT AMAZING TWO PEOPLE CAN SEE THE SAME MOVIE and have two different opinions. Two conversations and have two different thoughts about it.
*** THE AMAZING THING ABOUT FOLLOWING JESUS IS NOT THAT IT STOPS BAD THINGS FROM HAPPENING TO YOU!! ***
THIS HAPPENED SO THAT YOUUUU COULD BELIEVE!!!!!
32 When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him, and he was deeply troubled. 34 “Where have you put him?” he asked them. They told him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Then Jesus wept. 36 The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!” 37 But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”
Put yourself for a minute in the mind of these two sisters.
“JESUS WHY DIDN’T YOU DO WHAT I NEEDED YOU TO DO? WHY WEREN’T YOU THERE WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST.”
HERE IS THE QUESTION WE HAVE TO ANSWER. CAN JESUS DO ANYTHING… .OR JUST SOME THINGS? CAN HE REALLY DO THE IMPOSSIBLE? CAN HE REALLY DO ANYTHING???
38 Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance. 39 “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.” 40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” 41 So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. 42 You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” 43 Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”
45 Many of the people who were with Mary believed in Jesus when they saw this happen. 46 But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
53 So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus’ death.
THIS IS THE LAST MIRACLE THAT JESUS PERFORMS
39 One of the criminals hanging beside him scoffed, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us, too, while you’re at it!”
46 Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last. 47 When the Roman officer overseeing the execution saw what had happened, he worshiped God and said, “Surely this man was innocent.” 48 And when all the crowd that came to see the crucifixion saw what had happened, they went home in deep sorrow.
1 Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb. 2 Suddenly there was a great earthquake! For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone, and sat on it.
5 Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.
WILL YOU DENY AND PUSH AWAY THE SACRIFICE THAT WAS MADE FOR YOU. OR WILL
YOU BELIEVE? BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS WE ARE ALL IN NEED OF JESUS. AND IF THE RESURRECTION IS REAL… IT CHANGES EVERYTHING. So what if today you got rid of your hesitations.
MARY AND MARTH WERE NOT LET DOWN THEY WERE SET UP!
JESUS IS HERE WITH OPEN ARMS
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.