Sermon
Jesus Raises Lazarus and Reveals Resurrection Life
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Welcome. Just hand Away tagalog sermon podcast Your daily does
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We hope that this podcast finds you.
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In good shame and now here's your message. You're listening
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to a podcast from Victory Discover more about how Jesus is,
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the resurrection and the life in week seven of our
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series Beyond the Signs.
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And we'll be talking about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
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It's actually a resurrection story. But as we start this story,
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I want you to look at this in the lens
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of what is going to happen days after when Lazarus
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was raised from the grave. Jesus days after would die,
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be crucified and will also be resurrected Barton prequel of
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what was going to happen to Jesus himself. This miracle
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is also the last miracle that Jesus did here on Earth. Okay,
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And because it was the last miracle, he was going
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to confront his last and greatest enemy, which is death.
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Because when Christ is able to confront death, he can
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now proclaim to the entire known world, I am the
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son of God, nobody made a way for a dead
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person to come alive again. So that's why this is
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a very crucial science and wonders that happened during the
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time of Jesus. Now, for the past six weeks, what
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we've been saying is signs and wonders are.
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Tools by God to deliver a greater message.
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The message is not just Jesus can raise people from
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the dead. That's a signs and a wonder for Lazarus.
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But there was a greater message he wanted to tell
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the people. And again we look at John e. Levin,
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which is another long chapter. So I won't go verse
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by verse. We won't have any time. Would be good
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to go verse by verse and look at every angle
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of chapter eleven, but will jump up from verse seventeen.
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And as I jump up from verse seventeen, let me
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give you a background first, and they will pray. Okay,
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background is there was this man named Lazarus who was
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a friend of Jesus. They were close friends in a
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way Barcade Sileni, Lordna and Jesus was close with the
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sisters of Lazarus, Mary and Martha, Okay, very famous Bible characters.
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They would go out together they're good friends. Okay.
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In fact, in scripture Indiana kulang nacinabid on. This is Lazarus,
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Mary Martha, whom Jesus loved.
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Rarely do you get those verses.
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In the Bible, because it was saying that they were
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close to each other. And what happened was when Lazarus
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was ill was sick. Mary and Martha pm Jesus and
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said it says here. Gave a message to Jesus saying,
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the one you love is greatly ill or sick. Can
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you please come here and maybe do your thing and
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pray for your.
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Best friend Lazarus. When Jesus heard of this and sabing
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the Lord, nah, he'll not die.
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Instead, what Jesus did was spend two more additional days
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in Judea, did not go to his best friend's house
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and said, no, he's.
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Going to be by bye time in Chen.
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It stayed two more days, and after two days they
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received the news Jesus, your friend Lazarus is now dead.
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Jesus looks at the disciples and tells.
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Jesus, no, he's just asleep. Oh you mean he will recover. No,
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So the disciples couldn't understand, but for Jesus. What he
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was saying is I had things to do here. I
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can't go to my friend's side at this time. Imagine
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what two days you know. I love this because this
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message shows to us that even though we're dearly loved
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by God, there will be times will be hit by
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things that are common to all men. We get sick,
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we get accidents, we experienced calamities, trials, storms in life.
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Those are possible even to someone whom Jesus dearly loved.
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Were not immune to all these things because we live
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in a fallen world.
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And for Lazarus to be sick to the point of death,
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and now he's died, he died with Jesus not visiting him.
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It was kind of hard for Mary and Martha to
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receive Callaoba friend Muyan Ninita at Sinajamopa Madelena two days.
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That's why he is now, then, Verse seventeen.
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Now, when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already
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been in the tomb how many days?
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Four days.
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Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off. Now when
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Jesus came, not only was Lazarus dead, he was dead
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for four days. He missed visiting the hospital. He missed
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the funeral service. Ilagarao, missed the burial, and now his
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friend is buried for four days, long days.
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Jesus was saying, I have my own timeline. I'm not late.
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In fact, be happy I'm late because I'm about to
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do something. This is what he said in John eleven,
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in the first few verses, I'm glad he's dead. Imagine
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Mona Beaux, I've been a friend Mossillah, I'm glad Shell
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is dead.
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But that was what Jesus was saying. Oh he's dead. Oh,
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I'm glad.
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Because of his death, the glory of God will be revealed.
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Jesus was about to do something far more greater than
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what has happened in the family of Lazarus. But for
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Mary and Martha, they couldn't receive that. It was hard
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the emotion that they had with this. Now Bethany was
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near Jerusalem, about two miles off. What that meant also
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was sobron strategically, Lord Sabah, No, I'll be delayed for
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a few days. Why because this was Passover. During the Passover,
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millions of people would come to Jerusalem. And when millions
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of people would come and if you're just two miles
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off the tomb where Lazarus is spoiler alert time Abu
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boys in Lazarus, dita a right. If Lazarus comes back
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to life, the news would spread like wildfire, and it
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would spread throughout. And it's just two miles of Jerusalem
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where everything the Passover is happening.
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Millions now would get to.
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See and encounter this god, this Jesus who claims to
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be gone. So this was in his own timeline. Orelan
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deliberately today kaya Yan. But they couldn't understand. The friends
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could not understand.
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And many of the Jews had come to Martha and
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Marry to console them concerning their brother. So when Martha
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heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him,
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but Mary remained seated in the house. Again contacts Macriano Hindito,
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Ahwaintans Hindito pastor membern. They were close friends. So when
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Martha heard Jesus came, Martha said, I'm going to meet Jesus.
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Mary says, no, I'm staying here. Lord Lord. Mary remained
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and saying I'm not yet ready to meet Jesus. But
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Martha went. Everything was done, the funeral, the burial was
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all done.
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When Jesus came, Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you
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had been here, my brother would not have died, a
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very familiar phrase. Lord, if you had been here earlier,
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if you were here two.
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Days ago, he might still be alive. Lord, if you've
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been here two months earlier, my loved one might be
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still alive if you just showed up when we were
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praying as a family to go to you past now mine.
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But Lord, you're late. If you had been how many
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times you'd prayed prayers like that?
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Lord, if you had been here, if you showed up, Lord,
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if you had exposed the man that I was going
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to marry and not in this marriage. Now, Lord, you're late.
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But sometimes you have to be glad that Jesus is late.
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Martha said, my brother's now dead. If you had been
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here earlier, he would have been alive.
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But look at how.
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Martha goes on after saying, Lord, if you had been here,
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the wrestling, the tension of her emotion, and how she's
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trying to understand Jesus. But then she said, but even now,
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I know that whatever you ask from God, God will
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give you girl and a girl.
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Now, bit this much shift, okay.
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Lord, you have been here earlier, Lazarus, mus Myda have
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not died.
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But but I know if you pray, God will listen
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to you. You see the emotions that's happening. I'm not
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really just talking about girls. I'm talking about all of
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us here. Imagine, Lord, have you've not been but I
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know you're going to do something. And I've experienced the
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same thing. This was years ago, four years ago, when
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my son was to be.
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Operated and he was a week old and they had
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to open him up.
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We were praying the whole time. Lord, Come, Lord, He'll
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called text that everyone, thousands of people praying for my son.
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Until the very last minute where he's being entered into
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the into the operating room.
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We were praying Lords out of a boss and doctor to
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the wow, supernatural, hallelujah. Did not happen. Lord, if you have.
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But at the same time, but even now, I know God,
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till the very last minute, I'm holding onto you that
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healing is going to come. But it's not the answer
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that I was expecting in the same way from Martha.
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But Lord, even I know now if you ask the Lord,
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God will do something to my brother. Here's what Jesus answered,
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Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.
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Now look at Martha's answer. Martha said, I know that
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he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.
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See Martha diaman alam.
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It has been passed on to her. This is deep
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stuff what Martha said here. This is the reason a
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lot of Christians who know their Bible have hoped even
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in their death bed. I've visited people who read Love
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the Lord and they're about to die in a week's time,
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and I come out of there. I'm the one crying,
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why so bless, But Mamatai, you know, Lord, worship MAMAMATAI.
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Why because it's Christians we have hope. He is a resurrection.
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And this was the promise in Revelation.
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You're paying bat because one day, when you die, you
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will have glorified bodies. In the last days. I will
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see whoever my my loved one who's died, who's also
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of the faith, and.
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Bank Comfortina one day. And this was what Martha was saying, Yeah, Lord,
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I know one day Mcgigitar is a resurrection, the last
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day with glorified bodies. Right, And this was what Martha
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was conversing with Jesus so in her heart, imagine again
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what's going through her mind in her heart, Lord, your late.
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Now my brother's dead, but I know God, I know God.
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He will come alive one day.
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Hope. This is what we have as Christians. That's why
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we have Easter. Hope. You can't buy hope, can't buy hope,
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you can't download hope. Hope is given to us by Christ.
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That's why a Christian who understands resurrection will live differently
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from someone who doesn't believe in the resurrection.
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And later Jesus will challenge the very premise of if
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you really believe in the resurrection, this your life would
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be different. So Martha said, on the last day, I
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will see Lazarus. And then Jesus answered, and this is
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the message, more than just raising Lazarus from the dead.
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Jesus said, I am the resurrection in the life. He
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who believes in me will live even though he dies,
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And whoever lives and believes in me will never die again.
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Jesus declares, and I am statement. I am what the
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resurrection and I am the life. Two declarations for this miracle.
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I am the resurrection and I am the life. If
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I want your brother alive he will be alive resurrection.
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If I want your brother dead and you're going to
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see him in the resurrection days, in the last days,
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it's going to happen. Why I am the resurrection. I
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am the life. He who believes in me, though he dies,
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yet shall he live.
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This is eternal life.
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I'm Christian lang sabu mundo and kaya declare pagahona matai
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lang patinoba.
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And for some people that's what bragging. Yeah, bong holy calam.
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MOSI no, no, it's not. When I say when I die,
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I'm going to heaven. What I'm saying is I'm acknowledging
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on my own. I can never go there because Jesus
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is my resurrection in my life. Therefore, when I die,
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I'm going to heaven, not because I'm so good, but
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because God is so powerful.
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He is my resurrection. He is my life.
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Jesus is telling all of us that I am your resurrection.
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I am the way anybody gets resurrected.
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You want a life that is eternal, you go to me.
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I am the resurrection. I am the life. You can't
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find it anywhere else. Only I could offer that. And
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everyone who lives in me shall never die. Then he
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looks at the disciples with Mary and Martha and.
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Said, do you believe in this?
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Why ask that question the same way he asked in
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John six when everybody departed him.
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This is again another hard teaching. You see religion today,
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all gods.
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Not trying to offend anyone. Here, all God's human worship.
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You go to their tomb and the founder is still there.
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Only through historical evidence and biblical evidence can you see
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that the tomb.
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Of Jesus is empty.
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We long debate that there was this Jesus who existed.
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Even atheists would say, yeah, there was a Jesus. It's
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all in the historical records. That's why we don't need
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to debate.
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If Jesus existed.
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And I actually don't need to debate if Jesus resurrected
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because I'm a Christian and so Jesus was saying, here,
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I am the resurrection.
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In the life. Do you believe in this? And abado?
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Because people will malign you, people will persecute you if
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you believe in this, I am the resurrection and the life.
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For you to say that you will be born again,
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people will laugh at you. Do you believe that I
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am the resurrection. Do you believe that only I can
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give you that life? So when he asked do you
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believe in this, what he was saying is is there
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anything radical happening in your life? Because if you believe
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in the resurrection, your life should be different from someone
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who doesn't believe in the resurrection. The very foundation of
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Christianity is now on this resurrection.
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That's why I first got in ten fifteen.
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Paul said, if Jesus did not resurrect, our faith is useless.
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You don't need to go to church, you don't need
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to read your Bible, you don't need to surrender your
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life to.
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A dead God.
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Why sing a song to someone who's dead he cannot hear.
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Why go to church and worship to a dead God?
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This is futile, This is useless. Ha been in, Paul.
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So if you don't believe in the resurrection, no need
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to go to church next week unless condito. But if
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you really don't believe, you don't have to go. But
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as Christians, we believe in the resurrection.
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Paul was saying, because this is the thing that gives
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us our very own life.
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I am the resurrection in the life.
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Imagine when the demons heard this when Jesus declared, I
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am the resurrection in the.
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Life as venion or what's happening? Why?
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Because their ultimate plan was to what nail Jesus in
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the cross and he'll die in the cross. That was
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the plan. Kill the son. We win if we kill
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the son. Now, that's what I said. This is prequel
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to what is going to happen days after.
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When Jesus will resurrect. For Jesus, this is it my
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last enemy death. And so he declares, I am the
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resurrection and the life. Do you believe in the resurrection
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in bamboh my hope.
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Malakas and hope malaldi ma hop we can hope because
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we believe in the resurrection. That's why it's Christians we
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value life. What we're saying is that person is hope.
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There's no hopeless case kaya Governor Bryan. Why because hope
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resides in us. You cannot look at someone and say, Jared,
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no hope. I cannot, though I was tempted, no.
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Right.
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Imagine if somebody looked at me and said, Hope you
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can get You got the disciple.
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Yet, imagine why would someone invest their life in me? Hope?
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God can use this person hope when we're sick, Why
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do we pray for healing?
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Hope? Why do we pray for our nation? Na presidented
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a Dio Hope not in man, but in God resurrection.
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We believe. We hope as Christians, and that's why.
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We believe in the supernatural. We believe in signs and wonders.
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We believe in healing. There's no such thing as incurable
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for us. Why hope? It's God's business to heal. It's
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my part to hope in Christ. Hope romans for assuring
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us that God will also count us us righteous if
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we believe in him, the one who raised Jesus our
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Lord from the dead. Look, the Bible tells us the
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reason we will be saved is because of the resurrection.
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If Christ rise from the dead, it means, Wow, I'm saved.
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But if he remains dead, useless prayer, Go, Lord coming
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to my life, coming to me. He won't hear he's dead.
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He says, It's the same I made righteous because Christ
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was raised from the dead. He was handed over to
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die because of our sins, and he was raised to
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life to make us what right with God? He was
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raised to life so that I could be made right
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with God.
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What makes me right with God? My good works, No,
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the resurrection.
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Because I put my hope in the resurrected Jesus. I
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am now made right with God because of what he
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did on the cross for me, not what I do
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for him. I know I keep repeating this almost every
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week already, but sometimes we just have to put it
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sometimes in our heart, head and heart. It's not about you.
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You can never save yourself. It is the resurrection power
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of Christ that saves us. Our sins were paid in full,
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and it's legitimate. Because Jesus rose from the grave, He's alive.
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So when Jesus said to Martha, do you believe that
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I'm the Resurrection in the life, she said to him, Yes, Lord,
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I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
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who is coming into the world.
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I believe in you. I believe you're the restaurant.
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But Martha had no idea what Jesus was about to do.
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Siguru in her mind, yeah, I believe I will see
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Lazarus when I die in heaven, we.
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Will see I believe. I believe what I read.
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I believe the theology, the doctrines that has been passed on
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to me. But Jesus was revealing now an ultimate message.
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Now when Mary came, so Martha said, I believe. Now,
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Mary came out to.
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Where Jesus was and saw him. She fell at his feet,
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saying that, Lord, if you had been here, my brother
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would not have died. Same same line, imagine, it's the
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same line, condeala and lady Lord, Gondela, Lady Lord. Now
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Mary goes there, we holds to Jesus feet and started weeping. Lord,
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if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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When Jesus saw this, saw her weeping, and the Jews
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had come there with her, also weeping. Everybody was crying.
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He was deeply moved in his spirit. See Lord, you
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know he knows he's going to raise Lazarus from the dead.
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So forth, friend, Yeah, he was deeply moved. He was
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greatly troubled. Two emotions.
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That's why sometimes you have to read the Bible slowly,
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because there's two emotions here. He was deeply moved my empathy, awahaha.
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And he was greatly troubled. Now, the word greatly troubled,
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when you translate, it means bellowing with rage gall it
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so emotion nothing.
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Now when it says greatly troubled bellowing with rage, mikal
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silent anger. No, you bellow with rage? The ban so
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I bellowing with rage?
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Yeah?
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Or the name cassinola laam okay bellowing with rage ma.
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Union. Yeah. You knew alm Jesus was greatly troubled.
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Now you asked why why is Jesus angry? Was it
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because the women were crying? And Lazarus, what's happening?
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Why is he mad? And here's the reason why he
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was angry at death. Not because your last this is
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the very last enemy.
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He's going to confront death for the wages of sin
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is what death.
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Sin has caused death, kalit neglichi lords are sin that
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has destroyed so many people, so many families, so many
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lives of kids in nations because of sin. He bellowed
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with rage because he knew that this was death.
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John Calvin said upon reading this text, see Jesus though.
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And kalabana death parado champion magi pasan. That is what
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greatly troubled means. I want to defeat this. I'll do
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what ever it takes. That's why his statements in scripture
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very strong. I came here to destroy the works of
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the devil. His mission was so clear. I came here
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to die on the cross.
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Why because I am going to destroy the works of
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the enemy. He would say, the thief comes to still
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kill and destroy. I came that you might have life
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and have life to the full.
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And the only way to do that is to defeat death.
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Strong words from Jesus. Looks at the disciples, and that's
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the disciples.
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I've given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions
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and to overcome all the power of the enemy. When
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it comes to fighting Sin, Jesus was all business. I
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got on your passion.
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I don't want Sin to destroy because Sin has destroyed
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so many people.
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And he said, where have you laid him? They said
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to him, Lord, come and see the shortest verse in
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the Bible. Jesus wept as.
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They were walking.
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Imagine the scene, best friend of Martha Mary Lazarus on
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the tomb.
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Where did you put him? Everybody was crying.
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Imagine he wept because he felt grabbing Lord nat empathy
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laz Rospero, because you have didn't in Indiana. Guy does
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know I'm the resurrection?
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It is is it? The Lord love?
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So everybody was crying empathy, very strong virtue, that everybody
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must have.
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Gal it empathy to let me Lloyd.
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Here's how mad Jesus is when it comes to death.
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First courting Tien's fifteen.
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For as in.
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Adam will die, even so in Christ shall all be
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made alive.
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For he must reign. How does he.
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Reign till he had put all his enemies under his feet?
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is what death.
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If I overcome death, I will reign.
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The enemy has no power. Why because the only thing
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the enemy can do to us? John ten ten.
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Still kill, destroy? Jesus said, Oh you still kill and destroy?
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I'm putting you under my feet. That's why when you
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read the scripture, sometimes we look at the Bible in
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a different way, in a false way. Why we think
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if I read my Bible, the bad people will become good.
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The Bible is not a book to make bad people good.
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It's a book to make dead people come to life.
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And you need to see it that way. Preachings like
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this every Sunday is not so that Parama. What we're
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trying to do is to call out what was once
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dead and make it come alive. In Christ, why Because
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the last enemy is death and it is sin that
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has brought death.
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So we need to address sin. And how do you
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address sin by doing more good works? No way, we
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cannot do this on our own.
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We need someone to fight for us.
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And Jesus was saying, I'm fighting for us, I'm standing
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for us, I'm defeating.
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Death for us. So the Jew said, see how he
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loved him.
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But some of them said, could not he who opened
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the eyes of the blind man, John six also have
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kept this man from John nine kept this man from dying.
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Dibah Prea chapters ago eyeballs Niginya.
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While they were walking, imagine there was a paid a
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discussion going on.
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Then Jesus deeply move again, came to the tomb.
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It was a cave and a stone lay against it.
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When you die before and you have a certain amount
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of money, you can actually get a tomb okay. And
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this was a cave okay.
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And Nazarus was inside, and Jesus said, take away the stone.
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Now. Martha, the sister the dead man, said to.
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Him, Lord Margie, she go to Maga forty plus, n
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Martha a thirty plus learn learn yeah, friends to it,
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inter mine imagine in their mind, Ah, Jesus wants to
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go to the tomb to pay lest respects. He missed
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the funeral and the burial. At least go to the tomb.
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So in their mind it was like.
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Okay, now when Jesus said, now move, take away the stone. Oops,
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you coordinate? No no, no no.
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If we can't, there will be an othor. For he
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has been dead for days. It's going to be smelly.
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What's the message here?
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You see death? It stinks.
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Sin stinks when there's sin in our life. Very cultural
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for us. Jesus now confronts the very root of death,
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which is sin, and confronting sin would be stinky.
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But he was ready. He was saying, I'll go to
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the place where it stinks the most.
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Removed the stone. I'm confronting that sin. Someone must confront
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the sin. But Lord, Pa, we live in a shame culture.
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I I nating now malham problamnating. I've heard so many
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lines even inside the church, watin sharto may problam ati
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natah a victory group.
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You may problam, problam the Lord. And are you open
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to share your stink so that Christ can do something
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about it?
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Because if you hide it, it can never be confronted.
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Jesus said, take away the stone. He was willing to
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save you where it stinks. And he say, I'm ready.
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I'm going to do.
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Something and I will confront that sin by my death
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on the cross, which was going.
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To happen days after. Why why can he do that?
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Because he's the resurrection in the life.
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You need him, big dilk, That's why he's coming, and
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he wants to transform.
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And he says, take away the stone.
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Are you ready to take the stone away and be
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vulnerable this year? And say I need help, I need Christ,
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I need this resurrection, I need this life. Why my
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marriage is thinking, my faith is thinking, my.
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Health is thinking, my mind stinks. I need help only
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if you're willing to remove.
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The stone for Christ to come so that you would
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experience resurrection, power and life. Then Jesus said, did I
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not tell you that if you believed, you would see
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the glory of God. At this point, he looks at
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the crowd. Now there might have been hundreds now following him. Okay,
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because this is Jesus who did six miracles. Already, we've
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been through it the six weeks, right, But Sina become
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guest speaker. Na Jesus weeks been buento and not in
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six weeks.
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At the next week in Ditasha, you would invite everyone. Right,
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everybody's there.
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Now they're looking and Jesus tell them told him, did
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I not tell you that if you.
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Believe, you would see the glory of God. So now
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they were, oh, what's gonna happen, what's gonna happen?
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So they took away the stone, and Jesus lifted up
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his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you
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have heard me. Started to pray, Lord, thank you, because
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you are a god who listens to my prayers. I
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knew that you always hear me, but I said this
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on account of the people standing around that they may
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believe that you sent me.
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This was the dagger sat Lord Salam, that I am
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the resurrection in the life, the one that you've said.
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This was the same crowd who heard him say I
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am the Resurrection in the life. And now the demonstration
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is about to happen.
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And he made sure.
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Everybody heard because this is going to spread. In the
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last of John eleven the Pharise, He's heard this and
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tried to make a way to murder Jesus O Jerusalem,
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this is my message.
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I am the Resurrection and the Life.
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And I hope you're hearing it now coming from a
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Chinese pastor, but I hope you hear the voice of
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Jesus saying I am the Resurrection, I am the Life.
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I'm the one who can give you hope, who can
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give you life.
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Not people, not not not your achievements, not what you
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do for me that will never give you life. I
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am the resurrection in the life.
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But there needs to be a part in us to
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get out of our sin, the stinking sin, our addiction,
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our strongholds, our caves. We need to get out and
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be set free. We've got to grab hold of that life.
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That is found in Christ.
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And in verse forty three, he cried with a loud voice.
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He says, Lazarus come forth, and he who had died
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came out.
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I want you to imagine the scene.
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Scholars tells us specifically he called Lazarus come forth.
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Could be that's why it was specific Lazarus. That was
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the power of his resurrection.
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What is being shown here when he said Lazarus and
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it was specific, it was a glimpse of his glory's.
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Right but that will.
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Happen according to what Martha was saying, it will happen
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in the resurrection.
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And how does it happen today?
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It happens today when we pray for the Sikh and
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healing comes. It's a glimpse of what's about to happen
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in the future of the glory of God. It happens
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when we pray for the impossible and something happened miraculously.
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It's a glimpse.
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Yuma Halamo, hopeless case Beglongbago and gin Christiano Nebago, Marage
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and Bago turned around. Wow, it's a glimpse of what's
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going to happen when Jesus rules and reigns in the
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whole earth in his fullness, in his glory.
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So for this one, it was a glimpse. And see Lazarus.
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Can I heal everyone?
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Yes, But I'm just giving you a glimpse of what's
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going to happen in the future. And that's why it's
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what's only Lazarus. Lazarus come forth, and Lazarus and a
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dead man came out. And I want you to look
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at this picture because we preached this a million times
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already and we miss it most of the time.
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I want you to imagine that Lazarus, come forth. A
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dead man came out. The man who died came out,
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his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his
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face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to the man
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to them, unbind him and let him go. Lazarus, come forth.
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He can't walk all right, he had to jump. Imagine
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the picture. Now everybody's amazed. Imagine if this happens today,
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what will you do?
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Lazarus, come forth, my baba worship whoa had Ambaudi came alive.
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But I want you to see the picture here. Don't
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miss the picture. He was tied, he's alive, and Jesus
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now calls out. You look through all the New Testament.
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You see the pattern, even when the church was birthed
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in the New Testae. Jesus unbind him and let him go.
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It takes others to fully experience the resurrection and the life.
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Can't do this on your own. You need community. The
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best thing about Lazarus Mary and Martha friends connected. They
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had to unbind him and let him go, so brandam Christiana,
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Kayawa and credibility. But then they preaching no resurrection. Back
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at friend what are you doing? Why nobody knows you?
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You're not in community, you don't have others. It's just you,
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super Christian, doing everything on your own, not being disciples,
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running away from accountability, running away from community. Yes you
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can do that, Yes I will see you in heaven.
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But while here on earth you're going to hop and
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you can't move.
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Why do you need to be en? Because when resurrection.
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Power comes over our lives, the main goal is not
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just to save you, all of us we have a mission,
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imagine mono, but the very purpose of the resurrection is
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just to save us.
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You know what would be a good idea?
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Resurrection power comes, everybody dies and goes to heaven. But no,
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how come when somebody receives Christ in his life, he
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doesn't die. He's still alive, but now as a new
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creation with a new mission to go and make disciples
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of all nations say young young power, but feeling not
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a new resurrection power. They and lang it paro. It
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takes to be part of community to let others unbind
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you and lose you so that you can go. The
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other version, I think King James powerful Light, lose that
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man and let him go.
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Lacking n with a mission. It's going to be very
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fruitful and productive life here on earth, doing damage in
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the kingdom of darkness.
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And doing great things for the Kingdom of God. The resurrection,
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the power of the resurrection. God has given you life,
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resurrection life. But please do it in the context of community.
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Let others unbind you and run with the vision.
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The call that God has given you.
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Today, you've got to lose that man and that woman
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and let him go and do what God has called
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him to do. Can be bought on our heads and pray, Lord.
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We thank you for the life a Flazarus. Lord.
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The story shows to us you're never late, but you
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move in your own timeline. That the greater message behind
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this miracle is not that only God can raise people
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from the dead, but that Lord, you are the resurrection
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in the life. And Lord, you want to bring about
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transformation in me by first making me take away the
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stone and exposing my stink of sin that causes death,
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in my relationships, in my faith, in my fruitfulness, in
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my calling.
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Lord. I pray today, Lord.
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That we would let you take charge and take control
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of the thing that causes us to stink, because you
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are coming like a champion wanting to fight death, and
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that you want to put death under your feet. John
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ten ten, the thief came to steal, to kill and destroy.
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But Jesus you came that we might have life, and
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have life abundantly. And Lord you declared, I am the
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resurrection in the life. Lord you want to give this
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to us today. And so Lord, we receive your resurrection power.
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And Lord, I pray that I will be in community
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from this day on, make an effort to be in community.
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Lord, thank you.
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