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Illustration:
Martha’s confession ends their conversation.
The conversation has no need to go further.
The end has been met.
This was the stated purpose from the beginning of this whole ordeal.
Jesus has done all this to illicit belief in those who are His.
So, Martha goes and calls Mary secretly.
Remember Mary stayed in the house.
We aren’t told why she goes to her secretly, but we are told the message:
The Teacher is here and is calling for you.
Jesus is there for them.
He has left for them.
He has put himself in danger for them.
And isn’t that what Jesus’s whole life was about?
He has a people he loves
He left heaven for them.
Born of a virgin for them.
Lives perfectly for them.
Dies for them.
Raises for them.
This is the mission of Christ, that he comes to his people to provide help.
This situation is no different.
Again, he loves these people.
And they love him.
Look at verse 29.
We mentioned this past week that Mary does not stay in the house because she has rejected the Savior she once worshipped and anointed.
Whenever she is summoned, she comes and she comes quickly.
Mary is summoned privately, but she does not come alone.
When she gets up, all the mourners who in the house helping her weep will follow her to help her weep.
The mourners come after her and follow her, because they want to be with Mary to help her weep at the tomb.
The tomb is a place of weeping, and they think she is going there.
The tomb even today is a place of weeping.
I’ve been to funerals throughout my life, and no matter how much the pastor will say that it is not a day of sadness, there will certainly be weeping.
But Mary is not going to the tomb.
She is going to Jesus.
Mary has been here before.
Mary, the last time she is at Jesus’s feet is anointing Him, proclaiming hiM AS mESSAIH.
Worshipping Him.
But we should take not here, Just because we worship and adore Jesus, doesnt mean our lives wont be full of pain and suffering.
Befoer she was worshipping, now she is asking why.
What we read here, is the same thing Martha has told Jesus.
Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
A couple of assumptions here:
That Jesus has to be there.
That He would have healed him had he been there.
Both women are saying the same thing, and with their statement, hear what they are truly are saying.
Jesus, you didn’t do what I would have done.
Jesus you didn’t do what I wanted you to do.
Essentially,
Jesus, you didn’t do my will.
And here is where it is important to understand.
Jesus doesn’t do your will.
He doesn’t come to perform your will.
He does His will.
We know this.
This is why we pray.
We pray to God that His will be done.
That is the biblical way to pray.
God you have your way.
And he will...
This is a hard thing to grasp, because often our will and God’s will are not the same.
Certainly, this is what’s going on here with Martha and Mary.
Her will and plan was for Jesus to show up and heal Lazarus, but that’s not what happened, and haven’t we all been here?
We have prayed to God, and he doesn’t do what we want.
Let me make a few things clear here.
God’s goodness is not based upon us getting what we want.
God’s goodness is not based upon us getting it now.
God’s goodness is based firmly in who He is, not what we want.
Please hear me out: If God is doing our will and not His, then he’s not God, we are.
I’ve often heard people after having came through something where God has brought healing, say God is good and He is, and we should celebrate, but what happens when it doesn’t turn out perfect?
Here is the real test of faith: What if it doesn’t happen the way we want it?
Is he still good?
If we a basing his goodness on our current circumstances, then we may have the tendency to answer this wrongly.
Example: My Dad growing up, giving what I needed and not what I wanted.
He is good, because He is good.
And its in the middle of terrible circumstances, that our belief is tested.
Its easy to trust and believe God when things are well, but when things go completely against what we desire and want, that is when we, as His people, have to trust His will and His ways are better than ours.
This doesn’t mean we have to understand it.
Oftentimes, I don’t know why.
We should also understand that He is good because He has the power to make all things good in the end, and this is precisely what He is about to give these people a glimpse of.
here is where we will start to answer the question: How does Jesus deal with death.
Seeing the weeping.
Of Mary, and the Jews.
This incited some emotion in Jesus.
The translation here reads deeply moved in Spirit and then it says he was troubled.
I’m not sure why the translators felt the need to soften this, but Jesus is angry here.
He is agitated.
The word troubled here carries with it that type of meaning.
He sees the weeping and he is angry.
First, sin and death illicit anger from Jesus.
The question here we have to ask is : Why is he angry?
I think Jesus is may be angry for two specific reasons.
The destruction of sin.
He may be mad for them.
When we look at the testimony of Scripture, we see that there are a few things that makes God angry.
Sin and the consequences of sin is one of them.
I believe the best way to approach this response to understand Jesus’s absolute anger with sin and what it has done to those whom He loves.
The weeping of the people.
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