1 AM - the Resurrection and the Life
Update: 2016-12-11
Description
John 11:1-44
Celebration Guide
notes:
Celebration Guide
notes:
- Sometimes we make things and people the most insanely important things in our life and it causes more clouds than clarity.
- When Jesus becomes the most insanely important Person in our life, he brings clarity.
- If you take Jesus out of every relationship you have, you have immediate difficulty.
- Lazarus comes from the Hebrew word 'eliezer' which means 'God is my helper.'
- If Jesus is the most important Person in your life, than we must be students of him.
- You and I are deep studiers of whatever is most important to us in life.
- When Jesus says "I am" he is claiming that he is self-sustaining and self-existent. This separates God from everything and everyone else. Jesus doesn't need anything or anybody else. This is Jesus' claim to deity.
- "Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live..." (John 11:25 )
- We can't have our best life now, the best is yet to come. Apart from the resurrection, this is your best life now. But when the resurrection is injected into your life, your life is completely changed by the fact that you will not stay in the grave but have eternal life...
- Lazarus' illness is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it. (John 11:4)
- When Jesus allows calamity in your life, it will be a clarifier. You will either be hostile to God or it will allow you to awaken to the glory of God and build your faith, even in the midst of calamity.
- Jesus teaches a parable about the sovereignty of God in verse 9. The disciples were baffled that Jesus wanted to go to Judea again, because they thought he would get stoned if he went there. Nothing or nobody can thwart the plans of God, Jesus still had work to do and it was going to happen in Judea. We cannot dictate what God does or does not do.
- His disciples thought Lazarus was only asleep, but Jesus told them that Lazarus was dead. (vs. 14)
- "and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." (vs. 15)
- The resurrection was going to create a saving level of belief in the disciples. After the resurrection, we believe in a whole new level.
- If you are wandering what it is that you need to say to God, "Yes, Lord" (vs. 27).
- Martha was asked by Jesus if she believed this (that everyone who believes in him shall live and not die).
- Mary came and said the same thing from a different posture, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." (vs. 32)
- Jesus responded to Mary by being deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. (vs. 33)
- Jesus does supernatural things when he sees his children hurting.
- Jesus said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, 'Lord, come and see.' (vs. 34)
- "Jesus wept." (vs. 35) He wept because he saw the affect of sin on mankind. He saw the result of sin and death.
- In verse 39, "Jesus said, 'Take away the stone.' Why did he say this? Jesus will only do for you what he can only do for you. But he asks for us to do what he has given us the ability to do.
- Lazarus had been dead for 4 days!
- Jesus said to Martha, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" What Jesus wants us to value is the eternal things not temporal things.
- "Lazarus, come out." –Jesus
- Who took the cloths off of Lazarus? Not Jesus. We are to bring the grave clothes off of one another in small groups and by fellowshipping with other Christians
- Sometimes we make things and people the most insanely important things in our life and it causes more clouds than clarity.
- When Jesus becomes the most insanely important Person in our life, he brings clarity.
- If you take Jesus out of every relationship you have, you have immediate difficulty.
- Lazarus comes from the Hebrew word 'eliezer' which means 'God is my helper.'
- If Jesus is the most important Person in your life, than we must be students of him.
- You and I are deep studiers of whatever is most important to us in life.
- When Jesus says "I am" he is claiming that he is self-sustaining and self-existent. This separates God from everything and everyone else. Jesus doesn't need anything or anybody else. This is Jesus' claim to deity.
- "Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live..." (John 11:25 )
- We can't have our best life now, the best is yet to come. Apart from the resurrection, this is your best life now. But when the resurrection is injected into your life, your life is completely changed by the fact that you will not stay in the grave but have eternal life...
- Lazarus' illness is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it. (John 11:4)
- When Jesus allows calamity in your life, it will be a clarifier. You will either be hostile to God or it will allow you to awaken to the glory of God and build your faith, even in the midst of calamity.
- Jesus teaches a parable about the sovereignty of God in verse 9. The disciples were baffled that Jesus wanted to go to Judea again, because they thought he would get stoned if he went there. Nothing or nobody can thwart the plans of God, Jesus still had work to do and it was going to happen in Judea. We cannot dictate what God does or does not do.
- His disciples thought Lazarus was only asleep, but Jesus told them that Lazarus was dead. (vs. 14)
- "and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." (vs. 15)
- The resurrection was going to create a saving level of belief in the disciples. After the resurrection, we believe in a whole new level.
- If you are wandering what it is that you need to say to God, "Yes, Lord" (vs. 27).
- Martha was asked by Jesus if she believed this (that everyone who believes in him shall live and not die).
- Mary came and said the same thing from a different posture, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." (vs. 32)
- Jesus responded to Mary by being deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. (vs. 33)
- Jesus does supernatural things when he sees his children hurting.
- Jesus said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, 'Lord, come and see.' (vs. 34)
- "Jesus wept." (vs. 35) He wept because he saw the affect of sin on mankind. He saw the result of sin and death.
- In verse 39, "Jesus said, 'Take away the stone.' Why did he say this? Jesus will only do for you what he can only do for you. But he asks for us to do what he has given us the ability to do.
- Lazarus had been dead for 4 days!
- Jesus said to Martha, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" What Jesus wants us to value is the eternal things not temporal things.
- "Lazarus, come out." –Jesus
- Who took the cloths off of Lazarus? Not Jesus. We are to bring the grave clothes off of one another in small groups and by fellowshipping with other Christians.
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