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John 11
6-23-02
!! Preparation for Death and Resurrection
John 11:20-27, 32-35, 38-40, 43-46,53
Ill.
We don’t prepare for our deaths very well.
We don’t want to talk about them.
In Ecclesiastes 7:2, God says this: \\ It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, \\ for death is the destiny of every person; the living should take this to heart.
Martin Burnham - “He died well.”
Mary and Martha have the same problem we do, when we face death or crises of soul shaking proportion.
“What is going on?
How are we to make sense of this?”
Jesus moves through the ruins of their lives with four things:
1.
Tears –Mary (32-35)
2. Anger –tomb (38-40)
3. Truth –Martha (20-27
4. Grace – everybody (43-47,53)
We need these four.
! I. Tears of Jesus – Mary
Mary asks a pretty big theological question.
“Lord, why weren’t you here?”
Jesus can’t even speak.
He weeps.
All He can say is*, “Where have you laid him?”*
He is troubled.
He is deeply moved.
This is amazing.
Jesus had two things you and I don’t have:
1.
He had knowledge.
He comes in knowing why this has happened.
He knows what He is going to turn this into – a glorious manifestation of the power of God.
He knows that in 10 minutes they are all going to be rejoicing.
He knows why.
He knows the purpose.
We have no idea.
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On the door of the patient rooms – oxygen in use; NPO; please check in at the nurse’s station; “This sickness is so that the glory of God might be manifest.”
Jesus knows where this fits in the Father’s plan for revealing who Jesus is.
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He had power.
He could do something about it.
We go in with nothing we can do to undo it.
If you had knowledge and power, and knew that you were going to turn weeping into joy, (the funeral is going to be a party) why would you weep?
Why would Jesus do that?
Why would you enter into the trauma and the pain?
Answer: because he is perfect.
He is perfect love.
He will not close His heart for ten minutes.
He does not say, “Well, we can put this grief all away because we’ll see it differently in ten minutes.”
He goes in.
What do we learn from this?
a.
There is nothing wrong with weeping in times of sorrow and loss.
There’s nothing wrong with falling apart.
The best people will be the biggest weepers.
All tears are not an evil.
The people who are more like Jesus will be pulled into the grief.
Weeping does not indicate a lack of maturity or information or faith.
You just feel sucked into it all.
The healthiest hearts are those who can weep…and rejoice.
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We think we need to fix it.
Jesus does not consider the ministry of truth; i.e. telling people how they should believe and turn to God is enough.
He doesn’t even believe that the ministry of fixing things is enough.
He is a proponent of the ministry of tears.
The ministry of truth without tears isn’t Jesus.
*Weep with those who weep.*
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.
Not as the world gives , give I unto you.
Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
I Thes.
4:
“Grieve, but don’t grieve as those without hope.”
There are two opposite mistakes you can make in the face of tragedy, death and suffering.
On the one hand, you can try to avoid grief.
You can try to avoid weeping.
Put it out of your mind and get past it right away.
That will make you hard and inhuman or it will erupt later on and bite you and devastate you.
There is another mistake.
It is to grieve without hope.
The Bible indicates that the love and hope of God and the love and hope that comes from one another has to be rubbed into our grief, the way you have to rub salt into meat in warm climates or it will go bad.
Your grief is either going to make you bleaker and weaker or it could make you far more wise and good and tender, depending on what you put into it and what you rub into our grieving.
Mike and Debbie Johnson lost their first son.
I’ve learned a great deal from observing as they minister to others in situations of tears.
When Benjamin died, someone captured some timeless images of this little boy who was taken from them too soon.
Jill Johnson will read “Benji”.
*Benji*
Dining room chair;
A child’s pulpit.
Not quite four
Preaching in his formal attire:
Knee-destroyed Grover overalls;
Tattered snow boots.
Repent!
He says
Beating
The words across his pictured Book
Speaking from a courageous, but failing heart
Salt dripping from a father’s eyes,
Loneliness on
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