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Jesus Wants to Heal Your Broken Heart
The Gospel of John
John 11:27-45
Sermon by Rick Crandall
Grayson Baptist Church - April 19, 2017
(Revised November 29, 2019)
BACKGROUND:
*Please open your Bibles to John 11 to continue our study of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
In this miraculous Bible story, remember that Lazarus, Martha and their sister Mary were all very close to Jesus.
But vs. 1 tells us that Lazarus was sick.
He was very sick.
In fact, Lazarus was about to die, so Mary and Martha sent someone to tell Jesus.
Verses 3-6 tell us:
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.
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So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
*Then in vs. 7, Jesus said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again.''
By this time so close to the cross, it was extremely dangerous for Jesus to return to Judea.
Most of the leaders who wanted to kill Jesus were there in Jerusalem.
And in vs. 8 the disciples replied, "Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going there again?''
Then in vs. 16, Thomas spoke to the other disciples and said, "Let us also go, that we may die with Him.''
*The Lord did wait two more days before He returned to Judea, but Jesus did not delay out of fear.
He delayed for the glory of God.
As Jesus said in vs. 4, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.''
*Jesus delayed for the glory of God.
He also delayed because He loved Lazarus and his sisters.
Jesus delayed because He knew that He was going to raise Lazarus from the dead.
And Jesus delayed because He wanted us to know that He has the power over death.
*Verse 17 tells us that "when Jesus came, He found that (Lazarus) had already been in the tomb four days."
And vs. 20 tells us that Lazarus' sister Martha was the first to meet the Lord.
We focused on her story last week and heard her great declaration of faith in Jesus.
Please listen again to this part of the story in vs. 20-27:
20.
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
21.
Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22.
But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.''
23.
Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again.''
24.
Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.''
25.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
26.
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
Do you believe this?''
27.
She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.''
*With this background in mind, let's read vs. 27-45, and as we read, please think about what Jesus does for us when people we love pass away.
INTRODUCTION:
*Until I graduated from college, I only went to two or three funerals, and none of them were for people close to me.
Now it's almost 2020, and my dad has been gone 43 years, Mom 24 years, one brother and one sister 11 years, plus many more close relatives and friends.
Unless you die very young, the sting and pain of losing loved ones will come your way too.
And the longer we live, the more we have to say good-bye to people we love.
*But if you are a Christian, if you have trusted in the Lord, God will surely help you in your times of grief.
One of the things Jesus said in Luke 4:18 was this: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has . . .
sent Me to heal the brokenhearted."
Jesus wants to heal your broken heart, and the story of Lazarus shows us how.
1. FIRST: THE LORD COMES TO US AND CALLS US CLOSER TO HIM.
*Whenever we are in grief, the Lord comes to us and calls us closer to Him.
We can see this happen in vs. 27-32.
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(Martha) said to (Jesus), "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.''
28.
And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, "The Master has come and is calling for you.''
29.
As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him.
30.
Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met Him.
31.
Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there.''
32.
Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.''
*These mourners were in deep despair because Lazarus was dead, and many of us here have been there.
One time, Max Lucado was reading these verses, and he thought about all of them going to the grave.
Max said, "Really, in a way, that’s what we are all doing.
We are all going to the tomb."
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*Grief is real in our world, and it can happen so fast.
One Tuesday morning an acquaintance named Matt was driving to Ohio.
On the way, he came up right behind a seven-car pile-up with an 18-wheeler.
Matt and another man tried to help a woman trapped in her crushed car, but there was nothing they could do, and she was gone.
The next day, Matt was grieving over the loss of that total stranger, and he wondered if he could have done more.
But there was nothing more he could do.
Matt and that other man would have had to lift a truck up off that woman's car.
*Sometimes there will be nothing we can do to help other people, and we too will grieve.
But the Lord can give us the comfort we need.
In vs. 28, God's message to Mary was "The Master has come and is calling for you.''
Today, this is God's message for us.
Jesus wants to heal our broken hearts, so He comes to us and calls us closer to Him.
2. WE ALSO KNOW THAT JESUS HURTS WHEN WE HURT.
*Jesus hurts when we hurt!
God's Word shows us this remarkable truth in vs. 32-38:
32.
Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.''
33.
Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.
34.
And He said, "Where have you laid him?''
They said to Him, "Lord, come and see.''
35.
Jesus wept.
36.
Then the Jews said, "See how He loved him!''
37.
And some of them said, "Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?''
38.
Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb.
It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
*Jesus was hurting.
He was hurting enough to groan and weep.
He was hurting for this family, for their friends, and for their lack of faith in Him.
Our Savior's tears help us see how much Jesus cares for us.
The Lord is not distant or withdrawn.
When you hurt, He hurts for you.
Jesus takes part in our suffering.
*In 2 Corinthians 1:5, Paul was speaking about his own sufferings and said, "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ."
Paul called his sufferings the "the sufferings of Christ," and Paul did that in part, because he was suffering for the cause of Christ.
*But Paul's sufferings were also "the sufferings of Christ" because Jesus takes our suffering as His own.
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