Title: Rise up, Lazarus / John 11:33-44
Contents
Topic: Lazarus, get up!
Scripture: John 11:33-44
1. Living again is not that important in itself.
-Lazarus did not seem to have taken a more precious and important life.
- When the Lord was crucified, He raised me from the dead.
I couldn't even go out. He could not bear the cross instead.
2. The resurrection of Jesus is important.
-Perhaps all miracles are related to the fact that Jesus is the Son of God and the resurrection
It is only a small shadow and a symbol of the content.
Verse 33/Jesus was indignant-
Anger - a state of anger and sadness combined,
Verse 35/Jesus weeps - to sympathize with their grieving hearts.
Poetry.
Romans 12 Weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice.
Jesus, the Comforter who sympathizes with you - How grateful are you?
(Example) Blind mother and blind daughter- Hanheum Ok (God standing outside the door)
<Jesus the True Comforter>
1. Jesus who empathizes
2. The principle of comfort 'If you believe, you will see!!
Verse 40: If you believe, you will see the glory of God!
- The world says you see it and believe it. But if you believe, you will see.
(Example) Israel - Faith -> Seeing Canaan
Abraham - Faith -> Seeing children
Consolation - when things are done, you will be comforted.
However, what is really important is to achieve glory.
If there is the glory of God, it is comforting.
3. Believe, but you must believe completely.
I didn't believe it half-heartedly.
How to fully believe - you have to believe like an encounter with a living person.
It's not conceptual, it's formal.-Prayer as a form?
Verse 41 - Jesus lifted up his eyes and looked up and said, "Father,
Thank you for listening to me.
Why is the martyr's faith strong?
because it is
That's what our beliefs should be.
<Sighs of tears and pain>
Gas explosion in Mexico kills more than 200
1 billion people are starving everywhere
On TV, a child who was beaten to death
In addition to hunger and physical pain, indulging in loneliness,
suffering people,
A person who weeps because he is separated from his loved one, what he wants is meaning
People who cry because things don't work out.
A man who boasted of his strength unexpectedly lost his health, and lay in bed with his eyes closed.
Those who plead for water to be healed.
Unsolvable death or the like, as Lazarus died.
Those who are suffering in front of the field!
If you sweat, shed tears, and vomit blood, it will come true if you work hard.
There are others, but the problem of death is that human limitations are exposed as they are.
Because of this, it cannot be solved by sweating, and it cannot be solved even by tears.
It is the cause of this death that cannot be solved and is not resolved by the shedding of blood.
that's the problem