![]() ![]() Jesus wants to declare to the world that He is the Conqueror of death! I think the Lord intended to allow Lazarus to die and to bring him out of the grave. Jesus stays in Jerusalem when He hears Lazarus is sick. John tells us that Jesus could have stopped Lazarus from dying (Jn 11:3-6). Jesus performed many miracles, and He could have stopped Lazarus from dying. Mary says to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” I’ve known some people in my time who couldn’t get through the death of a loved one without a great deal of help–I even had to help one family pick out a casket and make arrangements, and they had known death was coming for months. It’s almost as if the crowd thinks that Mary is so fragile that she cannot get through this without a great deal of help. Mary gets up to go where Jesus is, and the crowd that is in the house gets up to follow Mary, thinking that she is going to the tomb. ![]() Martha had encountered Jesus first, and she went to tell Mary, her sister, that Jesus wanted to see her. ![]() According to our inspired text, “ Jesus Christ is the Conqueror of death.” Let’s explore our text to learn that lesson. I really think it’s a shame that a lot of people know nothing about this text except that “Jesus wept.” This passage presents Jesus as so much bigger than One who simply gets angry and grieved over death. Kids learn that this text contains the shortest verse of Scripture. That’s the unmistakable conclusion from this morning’s text. Some of you have made prearrangements at the funeral home, and you’re not all that keen on the funeral home carrying out those arrangements anytime soon.īut, we’re not the only ones who hate funerals and funeral homes: Jesus hates funerals. Many of you have gone to the funeral home to say goodbye to someone who meant more to you than life itself. There’s not a person here this morning who doesn’t hate funeral homes. ![]()
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