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John chapter 11 · Scripture Unscripted

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John Chapter 11, let us pray, O Lord, our God who reigns on
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high. Lord, we thank you for another
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day to come and worship you in spirit and truth.
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God, we are asking for an indwelling today.
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God, we ascend the hill today we have clean hands and a pure
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heart. God, we do not bow down to
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idols. We do not swear by a false God,
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but we want to come in. We are your people, Father.
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We are your sons and daughters, God.
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This is the generation that seeks your face.
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Oh, Jacob, yes, we love you, God, and we want more of you.
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Lord, we're not satisfied with just halfway.
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We're not satisfied with just a little God.
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We want all of you, Father. We want to sit and bask in your
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glory today, God. We want to know that you are for
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us and that you're fighting our battles.
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God, we ask that you will come in, Lord, and help us, Holy
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Spirit, fill us. Yes, Jesus Christ, we exalt your
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holy name. We thank you for the work of the
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cross. We thank you that you've given
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us salvation. We thank you for the hope of
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eternity. We thank you, God, that this
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isn't it, Lord. And we just reach out and we
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grab the hem of your garment, God, and we receive our healing
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today. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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for families. Lord, put families back
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together. Let fathers come back home, God,
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let mothers come back home. God, I pray for the children,
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for the prodigals, God, to come back home.
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Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will strengthen
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us in this hour. God, we pray against
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distraction. Lord, in the name of Jesus, we
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pray against boredom. In the name of Jesus, let us be
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entertained by you, God, and by your word, God, let you be the
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first thing on our minds. Let us fall more madly in love
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with you, King Jesus. God, you are enough.
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You are for our everything and God, we love you, King Jesus,
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and we ask that you will guide us through your thoughts today.
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Holy Spirit, teach us the eternal past.
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Holy Spirit, fill us today. Let us have discernment today.
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I pray you'll correct us today. God, give us divine counsel
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today. Lord, I pray against all malice
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and deceit and division and discord.
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God, in the name of Jesus, we bind the enemy from off of this
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time. We bind the enemy from off of
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our families and our houses. God, we bind the enemy from off
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of our minds in the name of Jesus Christ.
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We cast him into the judgment that you have a waiting for him,
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Father, and we just stand in your presence.
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We love you. King Jesus, shower us with your
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presence. Shower us with your goodness and
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grace and love and mercy. God and I pray that we will be
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found putting our hand to the plow.
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I pray that we will not look back.
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I pray that we will not give up any ground.
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Father will charge the hill today.
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And Lord, it's all about you and Jesus Christ, holy and precious
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name, I pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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Now. A certain man was sick named
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Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
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So we know that Bethany was not too far outside of Jerusalem.
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We know that Jesus loved this family and we know that they
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were all unique and all different, but Jesus loved them
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individually and He loves us the same way.
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It's not a one-size-fits-all when we come to Jesus.
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He made us all unique. He made us all beautiful in our
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time, friends, and He sees us. He sees you friend.
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Verse 2, it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment
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and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was
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sick. So we know that this Mary of
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Bethany, we know that she was the one who poured out the
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spikenard. She was the one who busted the
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alabaster jar. She was the one who anointed our
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Lord, our Savior, our King, and he went to the cross smelling
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like this fragrance, friends, and she is remembered here.
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And Jesus said that she would be remembered three.
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Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he
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whom you love is sick. So they knew Jesus could heal
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from a distance. They did not demand that he
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would come. They knew that he could do it.
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Let's see what old Jesus has to say here.
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For when Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto
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death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be
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glorified thereby. So Jesus here is giving a hint
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of what he desires to do. The timing that his Father has
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given him, knowing that his time is short, knowing that he's
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going to be going to the cross soon, knowing that the Jews are
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trying to stone him and kill him and that he's in their vicinity
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and hear Jesus knows everything and he waits at the proper time
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and it is all the divine appointment.
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Let's see how it goes. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her
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sister and Lazarus, and there's a whole unit study here that can
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be made on these three and their different personalities and how
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Jesus loved them. But suffice to say that he was
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close to them and he slept in their house and he treated them
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like family. What a blessing it is. 6 When he
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had heard, therefore, that he was sick, he stayed two days
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still in the same place where he was.
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It looked as if he was in no hurry.
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He would have went about his daily tasks as if everything was
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business as usual. Seven.
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Then after that, he said to his disciples, let us go into Judea
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again. This would have been a massive
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alarm for the disciples who had seen that he's been almost
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stoned three times recently and the Jews were hostile towards
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him. And here he is, he's already
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left that area and went to the Jordan, got out of their
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district, and now he's saying, let's go back in it. 8 His
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disciples said unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone
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you, and you go there again. 9 Jesus answered, Are there not 12
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hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he
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stumblest not because he sees the light of this world. 10 But
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if a man walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no
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light in him. So Jesus is referencing here
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again that there is only a specific time for the work to be
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done and that he needed to go and that his time was being cut
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short. And he's referencing it here.
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And he has already told them that there's coming persecution.
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There's coming persecution on the early church.
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There would be persecution throughout the ages.
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And then it's going to culminate in the tribulation, the
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seven-year time of hell on earth, where no man can work. 11
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These things he said, And after that he said unto them, Our
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friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up out of
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sleep. So here it looked as if he was
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just sleeping. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleeps,
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he will do well. So they're saying let him sleep.
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Why would you risk your life if he's sleeping, he'll get better.
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13 Howbeit Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that he
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had spoken of taking of rest and sleep.
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So there's some passages as we get on into the New Testament
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that you're going to see that death is referenced in other
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places as just sleep. And when you close your eyes at
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night, friends, you're not aware that you're sleeping.
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And when we take our last breath, friends, we will be in
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paradise. To be absent from the body is to
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be present with the Lord. And it is like sleep.
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Whenever you go to your deathbed, you will close your
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eyes and in a moment you will be ushered into his presence in the
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same way that you close your eyes at night.
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And in a moment it's already morning time.
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It will be that fast. It will be that quick.
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And Jesus is so good at what he does, and he he's referencing
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Lazarus's death as if it's just a peaceful sleep and the
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disciples missed it. 14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly,
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Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was
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not there to the intent you may believe.
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Nevertheless, let us go unto Him.
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So here he is saying, is this is going to work out for the
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better. I'm glad that I wasn't there to
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be pulled on and to be caroused and to be corralled into healing
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and for everyone to beg of me. I'm glad, because you're going
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to see the full power of God's resurrection on display. 16 Then
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said Thomas, which is called Didymus.
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Unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with
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him. This seems like bravado, but it
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very well could have been that he was sarcastic in this.
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Let us go and die with him. Perhaps he was disappointed that
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the ministry of Jesus Christ didn't look like how he hoped it
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to. It was another wrestling that
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Judas had to deal with that Jesus.
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His ministry didn't look like how they thought it would.
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It's another wrestling of the Jews that they thought how He
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did not come in the way that they thought that he should.
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And here you can see that these disciples titles were wrestling
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with the disappointment that Jesus was going back in to
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perhaps die and to be stoned one final time.
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And we know that it was the death on the cross that brought
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about your salvation and mine and Jesus knew it.
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And this Didymus, also known as the twin, there's scholars that
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believed he, perhaps he looked like Jesus and he would have
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been the 1st at risk to be mistaken for Jesus.
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And perhaps this was the reason he said this.
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He was ready to die with him. 17 Then when Jesus came, he found
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that he had lain in the grave four days already.
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So the Jews thought that for three days the Spirit would hang
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around and perhaps by a miracle of God the man would be
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resuscitated, and that would have not been outside of the
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wheelhouse of their thought processes and the culture.
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But four days it was thought that the Spirit was gone and
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that he was dead. Dead. 18 Now Bethany was near
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unto Jerusalem about 15 furlongs off. 19 And many of the Jews
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came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their
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brother. 20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was
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coming, she went and met him. But Mary sat still in the house.
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So we know that Mary was the one who sat at Jesus's feet, and
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Martha was the doer, and she was the busy body, and she was
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begging Jesus to say something to Mary for just sitting there.
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And Jesus told her that Mary had chosen the better.
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And here we can see the busy body at work.
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Mary is still in this mournful state as Martha runs out to meet
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Jesus. 21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if you had been
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here, my brother had not died. 22 But I know that even now,
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whatsoever you will ask of God, God will give it to you.
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So here's the faith. The faith is rising.
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She knows. She knows who she's talking to.
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She knows that it's Jesus, and he has all power and all
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authority. 23 Jesus said unto her, Your brother shall rise
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again. 24 Martha said unto him, I know that he will rise again
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in the resurrection at the last day.
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She had not yet understood that Jesus was going to bring him
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back from the dead. He was going to resuscitate him
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and he was going to go on to die another time in his life.
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This is not the resurrection in the sense that he gained a new
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body. This is the resuscitation back
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to his old body. And here we can see it all on
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display, and she's saying that I know he will rise again in the
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resurrection. She was not a Sadducee.
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She actually believed in the resurrection. 25 Jesus said unto
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her, I am the resurrection and the life, and he that believes
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in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
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You know Jesus is our resurrection, Jesus is our life.
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Apart from Jesus, there is no life, there is no resurrected
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body unto eternal bliss and eternal paradise with Him.
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Friends, you must be connected to Jesus Christ to experience
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life and to experience the resurrection unto life. 26 And
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whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die.
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Do you believe this? That is a promise that you need
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to underline, highlight, circle, you need to journal about it,
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you need to write it in the margin of your Bible, you need
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to memorize it. That if you will believe in
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Jesus Christ, you will never die.
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There is the first death and then there is a second death,
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friends. And for us who know Jesus
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Christ, we do not have to taste in the second death, friends,
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the yes, these mortal bodies must go back into dust, but we
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will be raised to life. And Jesus Christ was the first
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fruits, friends, of that resurrection power on full
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display. And it lives inside of you,
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believer, and you will never die.
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You will live forever with Jesus Christ. 27 She said unto him,
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Yeah, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
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which come into the world. 28 And when she had said so, she
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went her way and called Mary, her sister, secretly saying, The
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Master has come, and he calls for you.
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So Jesus says, go and get Mary. We're about to do something that
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this world has never known, a man that is dead, dead, and he
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stinketh. So he wants Mary there to
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witness, and she goes and tells her secretly. 29 As soon as she
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heard that, she arose quickly and came unto him. 30 Now Jesus
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was not yet come into the town, but was at that.
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It was in that place where Martha met him.
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So he stayed there and waited on Mary. 31 The Jews then, which
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were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw
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Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her,
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saying, She goes into the grave to weep there.
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So they wanted to follow her. They saw that she was in a
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hurry. 32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was and saw
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him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if you
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had been here, my brother had not died, you can see that,
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Martha. You can see that Mary had been
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sitting and conversing, that all it would have taken was for
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Jesus to get off of his daily grind and to come into their
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direction, and Lazarus would have not died.
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And so Jesus has already said that this sickness will not lead
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to death. He's already said that he's glad
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that he wasn't there, and he's already said he's going to
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glorify the Father. 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping
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and the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he groaned in the
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Spirit and was troubled. Jesus Christ groaning in the
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Spirit over death. He conquered death in the grave,
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friends, and he can groan with us whenever we're going through
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hard times. When we're losing the battle for
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our health, he groans with us. But just know he has conquered
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it, friends. He can identify with your
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humanity, friends. You can see it here. 34 And
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said, Where have you laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come
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and see. 35 Jesus wept this weeping God that we serve.
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I pray that God has given you the ministry of tears.
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Friends, I pray that you are broken hearted over the sin of
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your neighbor. I pray that you're broken
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hearted over all of the things that plagued this world, the
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violence and deceit. I pray that you shed tears for
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all the unborn. I pray that you shed tears for
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all the marriages that could not be reconciled.
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I pray that you shed tears for all the fatherless.
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I pray that you shed tears for all the blood that has been shed
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upon the ground in the violence. I pray that you shed tears for
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all those that are hungering and are experiencing hunger pains
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and having to ingest filthy water which is not fit for
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drinking. I pray that you shed tears for
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all of the people that are being trafficked.
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I pray that you shed tears for those that are caught up in
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addiction. I pray that you shed tears for
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those that have lost loved ones and lost limbs and have lost
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mobility. I pray that you shed tears for
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those that are steeped in poverty.
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I pray that you shed tears because he does.
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Jesus weeps. He's going to wipe away every
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tear, friends. He's going to make every wrong
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thing right. 36 Then said the Jews, behold how he loved him.
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37 And some of them said, Could not this man which opened the
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eyes, the blind have caused that even this man should not have
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died? Their faith is increased.
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They know what Jesus can do. 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning
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in himself, he came to the grave.
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It was a cave, and a stone laid upon it. 39 Jesus said, Take you
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away the stone, Martha, the sister of him that was dead, set
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unto him. Lord, by this time he stinketh,
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for he has been dead for days. He's dead, dead and you know,
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you look and see that God wants us to meet him.
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We do the natural and he does the Super.
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We do what we can do in the human terms and he will do the
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miraculous friends. He says take away the stone.
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He could have said it with a word and the stone dissolved.
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But he wants us to get in the game.
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He wants us to be found doing the Lord's work.
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He wants to come alongside of us and get yoked with him, because
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his burden, his life and his yoke is easy, friends, and it's
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easy for him to bring this man back after being dead for four
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days and being stinketh. 40 Jesus said unto her, said, I not
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unto you, that if you would believe, you should see the
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glory of God. 41 Then they took away the stone from the place
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where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted up his eyes and
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said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 And I knew
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that you hear me always, but because of the people which
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stand by, I said it, that they may believe that you have sent
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me. So here Jesus is showing them
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that they can believe on him, because Him and the Father are
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one, and they are acting in full accordance, and they are
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congruent. The same thoughts and the same
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mind, friends, God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy
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Ghost, three in one friends on full display. 43 And when he
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thus had spoken, he cried out with a loud voice.
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Voice Lazarus come forth. It's all he has to do.
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Speak a word, friends and dead things come back to life.
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Graves turn into a garden. Friends And we see the valley of
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dry bones We see. Life going in, And sinews skin
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being made, we see life abundant friends. 44 And he that was dead
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came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face
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was bound about with a napkin. And Jesus said unto them, Loose
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him, and let him go. So we can see here that Lazarus
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came out looking like a mummy, shuffling towards the opening,
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face covered, body bound, feet bound.
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And Jesus says loose him. And he says the same thing to
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you and to me. And those that are caught up in
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sin and they are experiencing death, he says loose him.
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And we go into freedom, friends, we go into eternal life.
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We cannot be afraid of death. We cannot be afraid of it. 45
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Then many of the Jews which came to Mary and had seen the things
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which Jesus did, believed on him. 46 But some of them went
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their way to the Pharisees and told them what things Jesus had
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done. You can see the division.
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You can see that they were believing on him, and then they
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were going and ratting them out. They were going and tattletaling
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to the religious people. 47 then gathered the chief priests and
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the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we for?
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This man does many miracles. What do you do with a man like
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this? How can you keep him from being
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believed upon? How can you keep what he's doing
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a secret in the land? You cannot.
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It's going out and everyone is interested in Jesus and he draws
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the line in the sand and makes them make a decision and you
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cannot stay neutral. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will
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believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both
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our place and nation. So here is the whole crux of the
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whole situation, friends. It's all culminating right here.
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Pay attention, lock in. This was the reason that they
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refused to believe him as their Savior.
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They're saying if everyone goes over and if everyone believes on
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him, then we're going to lose our temple, we're going to lose
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our nation. And they were not willing that
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they would lose it. And so they would rather kill
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this rogue St. preacher that they actually knew was the Son
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of God. And it was prophesied.
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And they killed him and they murdered him.
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And they thought that they were trying to hush up this
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groundswell movement, but all they did was fulfill prophecy
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that had been written about and unknowingly they fulfilled it.
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And it's no different in our day and our hour.
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There are many prophecies that are unfolding all around us.
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And people that are hostile towards God are actually
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fulfilling the prophecies that He said would happen.
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And He says these things must happen, but woe to the one whom
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they come through. Friends, that does not excuse
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them, much like Judas, it does not excuse their sinful
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behavior, even though they are fulfilling prophecy. 49 And one
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of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year,
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said unto them, you know nothing at all.
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So here we can see that Caiaphas had had a prophetic encounter,
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and a prophetic vision and a prophetic speech, and let's see
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what he has to say. 50 Nor consider that it is expedient
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for us that one man should die for the people, and that the
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whole nation perish not. 51 And this spoke he not of himself,
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but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should
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die for that nation, 52 and not for that nation only, but that
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also he should gather together in one in one the children of
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God that were scattered abroad. So here we can see that Caiaphas
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being the high priest, he had prophesied that Jesus would die
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for that nation, and that they would bring in this the ones
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that were scattered. His death would bring in the
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Gentiles. 53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together
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for to put him to death. So it would seem as if they took
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counsel to put him to death to fulfill the prophecies, but it
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seems as if that's not the case. You would think that through
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this passage they knew what they were doing, but they were
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delusional. Even though he had prophesied
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this, he was thinking that by Jesus dying they could just get
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rid of him and so they could keep their little nation.
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But little did he know that he was actually fulfilling the
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prophetic scriptures that said all of these things must happen.
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54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but
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went from there to a country near to the wilderness, into a
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city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
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So we know that Jesus often withdrew to desolate places and
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we know that whenever the disciples went to ask him, they
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said, teach us how to pray because they saw that his prayer
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life was connected to to the power that he had and possessed.
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And all the power was connected to the vibrancy of the
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relationship that he had with Father God.
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And they wanted that then they wanted to know how to pray and
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we should do the same. And you could see Jesus going
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into the wilderness, getting ready for the grand finale,
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getting ready for the final countdown, for the showdown
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between him and the religious leaders, knowing that he would
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go to the cross and give up the ghost.
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And that he would give up his life and no one took it from
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him. And that he would be buried, and
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that he would be resurrected, and that he would ascend to the
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right hand of the Father to make intercession for you and for me.
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55 And the Jews, Passover was near at hand, and many went out
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of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify
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themselves. There is no purification,
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there's no atonement trends other than Jesus Christ, and
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they missed the mark. 56 then sought they for Jesus, and spoke
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among themselves as they stood in the temple.
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What do you think that he will not come to the feast?
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So here we can see that they're very interested in Jesus Christ
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and they want him to make it plain that he is the Messiah.
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And he refused them. Just like when Herod said do a
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miracle. So I'll believe he would refuse
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to do the miracle, friends, because he is not just some
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enchanter, He's not just some magician, He's not just some
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genie in the bottle that you can rub the right way.
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He has got God. He spoke it all into existence.
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He spoke you and He spoke me. He spoke the galaxies in the
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depths of the sea, all into creation and all into existence.
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And we would do well, friends, to lay prostate as a dead man in
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His presence and give them all the glory, Friends, give them
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all of His due glory. He is holy, He is holy, He is
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holy and he is worthy. And only one was found worthy to
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open the scroll, and it is King Jesus.
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And they are just interested in Him and his miracles, and
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they're interested in His teachings, and they're
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interested in Him as just some kind of entertainment. 57 Now
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both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a
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commandment that if any man knew where he was, he should show it,
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that they might take him. Even whenever he was arrested in
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the garden. He just says I am.
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And they fall backwards. He allowed them to take him.
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This is the God that we serve. How amazing is our God Almighty.
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He is all knowing and all powerful and all present
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everywhere, all at once. He's all around you friends, and
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He loves you. I hope that you've been blessed
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by this chapter. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for every single one of you and I love you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.