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Reminders about the purpose of John
Deity of Christ
Pastor in Asia Minor
Weirsby
In this chapter is the seventh of the miracles John recorded.
Here we see salvation pictured as resurrection from the dead, the giving of life to the dead.
Use your concordance and see how much John has to say about life; he uses the word thirty-six times.
Lazarus represents the salvation of the lost sinner in seven ways.
Let’s take a closer look at each of these.
11 Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.
6 So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
7 Then after that, He said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea again.”
8 “Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”
9 “Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered.
“If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”
11 He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”
12 Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”
13 Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.
14 So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.
15 I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe.
But let’s go to him.”
16 Then Thomas (called “Twin”) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go so that we may die with Him.”
I.
He Was Dead (11:14)
The unsaved person is not just sick; he or she is spiritually dead (Eph.
2:1–3; Col. 2:13).
When a person is physically dead, she does not respond to such things as food, temperature, or pain.
When a person is spiritually dead, he does not respond to spiritual things.
She has no interest in God, the Bible, Christians, or church until the Holy Spirit begins to work in her heart.
God warned Adam that disobedience would bring death (Gen.
2:15–17)—physical death (the separation of the soul from the body) and spiritual death (the separation of the soul from God).
Revelation 20:14 calls hell the second death, that is eternal death.
What sinners dead to God’s ways need is not education, medicine, morality, or religion; they need new life in Jesus Christ.
V 3 “the one you love” - writer wanted to make a point that Jesus loved Lazarus.
V4 Jesus glorified
V 6 “stayed 2 more days” - made the miracle even harder
V 11 “has fallen asleep” - clearly Jesus meant that Lazarus had died
V 17 Jesus was going to heal Lazarus after he had been dead 4 days!
The Resurrection and the Life
17 When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
18 Bethany was near Jerusalem (about two miles away).
19 Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.
20 As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him.
But Mary remained seated in the house.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
22 Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”
23 “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
24 Martha said, “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.
The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.
26 Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever.
Do you believe this?”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she told Him, “I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”
Jesus Shares the Sorrow of Death
28 Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
29 As soon as she heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him. 30 Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. 31 The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out.
So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.
32 When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!”
33 When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved.
34 “Where have you put him?”
He asked.
“Lord,” they told Him, “come and see.”
35 Jesus wept.
36 So the Jews said, “See how He loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”
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He Was Decayed (11:39)
There are three resurrections recorded in the Gospels, apart from that of our Lord Himself.
Christ raised a twelve-year-old girl who had died (Luke 8:49–56), a young man who had been dead several hours (Luke 7:11–17), and an older man who had been in the tomb four days (John 11).
They present a picture of three different kinds of sinners:
(1) The little girl.
Children are sinners, but open corruption has not yet set in.
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