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Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life
John 11:1-27
Series: The Great I Am
Sermon by Rick Crandall
Grayson Baptist Church - Feb. 16, 2014
BACKGROUND:
*Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
That means He is also God the Son, one with God the Father, and conceived as a man by God the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was sent into world as a man to reveal the one true God to all people.
He was sent by the love of God, sent to die on the cross for our sins, and sent to save everyone who will trust in Him.
*How do we know?
-- The Bible makes this truth clear in many places.
John 1:1-4 calls Jesus "The Word," and says:
1.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. He was in the beginning with God.
3.
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
4. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
*In John 1:18, the Apostle said this about Jesus:
-"No one has seen God (i.e.
God the Father) at any time.
The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him."
*Jesus affirmed this truth in John 6:44-47, where He said:
44.
"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
45.
It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
46.
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.
47.
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
*And in John 8, Jesus said this to some unbelieving Jews:
23. . .
"You are from beneath; I am from above.
You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24.
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.''
*Before He was born as a man, Jesus Christ was the great "I AM", Lord God Almighty who appeared many times in the Old Testament.
That is the main reason why the Lord made His "I AM" statements in John's Gospel.
For us the "I AM's" reveal great truths about our Savior.
But through these statements, Jesus also rightly claimed to be the God of the Old Testament.
*About 1,400 years before Christ was born as a man, God appeared to Moses in the burning bush.
And when Moses asked God His name, God said this to Moses: "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'''
In Hebrew this name "I AM" was Jehovah or Yahweh.
God used this name almost 7,000 times in the Old Testament.
*The New Testament is also saturated with this "I AM" name for God, because "Jesus" means "Jehovah is salvation."
Or we could say: "'I AM' is salvation."
Jesus Christ the great "I AM" is salvation!
*Please open your Bibles to John 11, to see another of the Lord's famous "I AM" statements.
This morning we will begin by reading John 11:1-27.
MESSAGE:
*Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life!
-- What does this mean for us?
1. First: We should trust the Lord when life is a mystery.
*Jesus' plan for our lives contains some mystery, and we can see this truth in vs. 1-6:
1.
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3. Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.''
4. When Jesus heard that, He said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.''
5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6.
So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
*Here is the mystery when it came to Mary, Martha and Lazarus: Jesus' love was not in doubt, but He left them in despair.
God's Word goes out of the way to confirm the love that Jesus had for these people.
They were very close friends.
*Verse 2 mentions one of what must have been many times Jesus visited in their home.
In vs. 3, the sisters sent a message to Jesus saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.''
And vs. 5 plainly says: "Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus."
*But even though Jesus loved them, He left them in despair, at least for a while.
And it was a mystery.
Please look at vs. 5&6 again:
5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6.
So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
*That sounds like an odd thing to say, just the opposite of what we would expect.
Not: "He loved them, so He got back there as quick as He could."
-- But: "He loved them, so He stayed away.
*Many times we see such mysteries in the Bible: Why did Abraham and Sarah have to be so old when Isaac was born?
Why did the Children of Israel have to stay in Egypt for four hundred years?
Why did that man in John 9 have to be born blind?
Why him?
Why us?
Sometimes, we are left to wonder why.
*I remember Pastor Mike Barnett's dad taking an early retirement from one of the big oil companies.
The reason why was so that he and his wife, Linda, could do mission work out west for the North American Mission Board.
*They went, and the work was going great.
New churches were started.
People were getting saved.
Then, at the age of 51, Linda was diagnosed with the advanced cancer that cut her life short.
*Why did that happen to Mike's parents just when they hit their stride in new service to the Lord?
I can't tell you why.
But I can tell you that God sent them special help at their lowest point.
Mike's mother was in a dreary depression.
She didn't feel like eating or even getting out of bed.
*Their TV was broken and Mike's dad decided he would get it fixed, so she would have something to take her mind off her sickness.
He called a repair shop, and sometime later a man arrived at their house.
The repairman walked into the room with his toolkit, pulled the TV out from the wall, and sat behind it.
Mike's dad couldn't see what he was doing.
*After about 5 minutes he stuck his head out from behind the TV and said, "Sir, your heart is troubled, isn't it?"
Mike's dad told him about the struggle his wife was having with cancer.
Then the repairman went to a chair in the living room and started talking to Mike's dad about the love of God.
He quoted Scripture and spoke with such power that Mr. Barnett was greatly encouraged.
*Mike's dad was so encouraged that he asked the man to wait a minute while he went into the bedroom to get his wife.
Mike's mom came out and lay on the couch while the man talked for 30-45 minutes about the love of God.
*When the man finished, he said, "Your TV is fixed."
Then he walked out the door.
Mike's dad never saw the man again.
and he never got a bill for the work.
They believed that God might have sent an angel to them that day.
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