[00:00:01] Speaker A: Hey, thanks so much for listening to this message. My name is Jason and I'm one of the ministers here at the Madison Church of Christ. It's our hope and prayer that the teaching from God's Word you hear today will bless your life and draw you closer to Him. If you're ever in the Madison, Alabama area, we'd love for you to worship with us on Sundays at 8:30 or 10:30am if you have any other questions about the Bible or want to know more about the Madison Church, find
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[00:00:38] Speaker B: Multimillionaire media mogul CNN and TBS owner Ted Turner at one time in his life was on fire for God. And some of you actually might know this. At his 15th birthday, when his mom put the candles in front of him and told him to make a wish, the one thing that he wished for was this.
He said, when I grow up, I want to be a missionary.
Well, a few months after he blew out those candles, he ended up finding out that his little sister Mary received this diagnosis. She had lupus.
Now, of course, lupus is a very serious illness that a lot of people we know that have dealt with. And while the, I guess the studies and things have come a long way from where they were then at this time, they didn't have that kind of hope.
And so every single day when the bell would ring, Ted would hop on his bicycle, pedal home. He would leave the bike in the driveway, run in, and every single night till she would go to bed, he would stand by his sister's side and hold her hand.
And while he would stand there and hold her hand, one of the things that he did, just like his dad, is that he would pray and he would pray that Mary would get better.
Well, a few months later, Mary passed away. And when Mary passed away, Ted, in one of his biographies, talks about that this happened when he never forgets when his dad said this.
Why in the world did Jesus not help Mary?
You know, for me, I'll just go ahead and tell you. It's very painful to even have to quote that.
But it's also painful because as you try to enter into that pain of somebody else, maybe some of you in this room can kind of relate and you maybe remember a time in your own life where you've said something similar.
God, where were you when this happened?
Or maybe what you thought is, why in the world, God, did you do this over here? But not this over here, what I'm saying is we've all had questions and we've all wondered.
And if you're here this morning and you have had a question somewhere along the lines that maybe sounds like that, I want you to know you're not alone.
In fact, today we're going to learn about a man named Lazarus that was sick and some of Jesus closest friends, a lot of people would say some of the greatest people of faith asked those very questions. Jesus, where were you?
And as we think about that question, here's what I want us to know from the very beginning is as we dig in this text, what I love so much about what surrounds this I am statement where Jesus says I am the resurrection and the life is when we look into this text, what we see is two things. Number one, we see who we are in this. And so what we're going to do is we're going to do a profile of our own discouragement. But the other part of what we're going to see in this text this morning is who is God? In the middle of my disappointment, here's what I want us to understand is he is the resurrection and the life.
And it's one thing to hear that, but as we dig into the narrative that surrounds this, what you're going to find is a God that enters into pain and difficulty. And he doesn't necessarily always eliminate the situation at hand or to change things how we want to. But here's what he offers that transcends our hurt and our heartache. And it's this one word, hope, that we're gonna look at today. That you can be at a place of grief, but your grief can also be filled with hope. And so as we think about that, I wanna kind of pose this thought from the very beginning. And we're gonna come back to it at the very end of the message this morning. And it's this, that every single person in this room has two things. Every single one of us has a Lazarus.
And what I mean by Lazarus is this something in your life that you desperately need to have some life, something in your life you desperately need to change.
Maybe for some of you, it is that phone call you found out that you maybe you found out that a family member that you love is sick.
Maybe some of you in this room, because I know you are, are caring for an aging parent.
Maybe some of you in this room are in a work situation that is definitely less than ideal. Maybe some of you are in a difficult situation with your kids.
Maybe some of you in this room are in a situation where you so badly want to be married. And what makes it even more difficult is you seem to always be the bridesmaid, but never the bride.
Maybe there's some of you in this room that what you're dealing with is the fact that you desperately want to have a child. And what makes it more difficult is you see other people having the very thing that you want and you want so badly, yes, to be happy for them. But the reality is it still hurts.
What I'm saying is every single one of us have a Lazarus, something we need some life into.
But here's the other part, is every single one of us also have a God, which, I mean, is something we run to.
And I purposely put up here capital G and lowercase G, because we know during times of disappointment and heartache, we all run to something.
And what we run to is really going to say a lot. Maybe you run to a person thinking that they are going to meet a need and fix something. But the reality is, if that person is the thing we run to the most, they're always going to be the wrong person, because no person can fill that void except for Jesus Christ.
And so what I want us to do this morning is to think about that Lazarus, but I also want us to see who God is in the middle of it. And so let's get into the text and it says this. And well, before we get into that, I found this this week. One of you shared this on Facebook and I thought it was really cool.
And why I think this is important for us to talk about today is that there are three things that they say that most people, especially Christians, do in the middle of a disappointing time. Number one, some of them lose their faith altogether.
Maybe you're like Ted Turner's dad. You're like, well, because this happened, I'm just gonna call it quits. I'm gonna walk away.
But here's the second one that I thought was so interesting is sometimes we isolate our questions from our faith.
And here's why I think that's important to talk about. Barna Research did a study on 18 to 25 year olds to try to figure out why in the world they're walking away from faith at an alarming rate. In fact, it's like 73% of 18 to 25 year olds. That's when they walk away.
You know what one of the top three answers was? It's something I think we have to talk about. Can't sweep it under the rug.
Is that they didn't feel like they had a safe place to express, wrestle with and deal with their doubts.
But yet what we're going to see in this text is we have three different people that are doubting in their own way. Yet here's what's interesting is Jesus welcomes them.
But I also want to say this, that there is a such thing as a healthy doubt and a bad doubt.
There's a healthy doubt that is poised to take a step forward. And here's what that looks like. There's a healthy doubt that has questions but is also willing to be open to answers.
But here's the third part is that some people, during the middle of disappointment, press deeper into faith.
That I know people in this room going through something right now and people that have gone through something over the past few months. It was amazing that even in the depth of that pain, they found this out. God and his goodness and his love is deeper than that pain.
And so here's where the text starts. It says there was a man named Lazarus of the village of Bethany that was sick.
He was of course, related to Mary and Martha. And so the sisters sent to him saying, lord, the one you love is sick. I know some of you probably gotten a phone call like that I've shared with you before. When I was at Faultner, it was pre season camp and my dad was awesome about watching my sporting events and so much so he was usually like the team cheerleader, like there was team moms, but that was always my dad. But anyway, he was there all the time.
And so he came to one of my practices. But usually what he would do at practice is he would watch a little bit and then leave. But then he stayed. And so I went up to him and I could tell something was off and different. And I've mentioned this to you before, that I said, dad, what's going on? What's wrong? And he said, well, I want to talk to you about something. I found out that I have cancer. And for those of you that have had anybody in your family hear that, I don't know if y'all are like me, it's one thing to hear that, but it always seems like that's something that happens to somebody else and then it happens to you.
And so I, you know, in my very young mind, I was like, well, is there like a pill you can take? Something you can just, you know? He's like, well, that's part of the reason why I'm here. I wanted to tell you. I found out that I have about six Months to a year to live.
And I was like, oh, hold on, Lord, this is the one I love. Like, when I have times of discouragement, he's the one I call.
Like, even dating advice, sometimes it's bad, but sometimes it's good. And he's the one I call.
He's the one that prays with me. Like, he's the one I love. And now he's sick.
But notice what the Bible says is Jesus said to them, to this. Listen, that this illness is not going to lead to death, but God's going to bring glory through it.
I've never been there before, but y'all know people that have. I can't believe when he said this. He said, andrew, I don't know why, I can't explain it fully, but this has actually been one of the most helpful things for me because it's deep in my prayer life and my worship life and my relationship with God has grown again. I can't fully comprehend that, but yet I do know this. God was glorified through it. And then there's this sentence, and this is something like you would never hear. You would think in a sentence, Jesus loved, so he stayed. Like, usually we would say, hey, because you loved, you went and fixed the flat tire because your wife's on the side of the road. No, this says, because he loved, he chose to stay. Well, why did he choose to stay? Well, he then explains a little bit of the context. He says, hey, guys, I just want y'all to know, Lazarus is not dead. He's just asleep.
Now, you gotta think. The disciples are thinking, man, Jesus asleep and dead are two different things. And he's like, well, yeah, to you they are.
But just like, something is like a thousand years to you. It's like a second for me.
And he said, also, what kind of what's happening here? What I'm about to do is foreshadowing to something personal that what I'm about to do with Lazarus break, bringing him to life in a little bit, is what I'm going to do for you, too. And so then it says this. So when Jesus got there, finally on the scene, he showed up four days later.
Now, I don't know if you guys have any friends that are perpetually late.
Don't point. But just people you know of that are perpetually late. You know, the birthday's at 2, they roll up at 4. And they're like, what's up? And you're like, I'll tell you what's up. You miss Grandpa blowing out the candles, you know, and they're late. In their eyes, Jesus is very late. But y'all, he's not two hours late. He's not two days late. He is four days late. And here's the significance of this.
During this day, there was a superstition that even a lot of the Jews and Christ followers at times believed and bought into. And it was this, that the spirit of a person would remain in their body for three days.
And the reason this superstition started during this time is that people at that time were going into a coma, but they didn't know what it was necessarily. And so then they would come back to life. And so that's kind of where that came into. And so Jesus is waiting four days to say, hey, listen, I know what the superstitions say, and I know what the odds say. I'm trying to take the pagan beliefs. I'm trying to take the scientific beliefs. What I'm saying is I want him to be dead dead so I can bring glory through it.
And so what I'm saying is this, that we see Jesus as being what we might call fashionably late. But Jesus is being functionally late. He has a reason for his late arrival.
And so I want to stop here for a second because I told you from the very beginning we're going to profile ourselves in the middle of this. And I want you to see if you see you in one of these three, when disappointment strikes, maybe some of you are like this guy Thomas.
This is what the text says. So Thomas, known as Didymus, which sounds like a bad rapper name or something called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, let us also go, that we may die with him. It sounds like a very honoring statement or like a very bold statement. But what he's actually saying is he's kind of being not just doubting Thomas here, he's being sarcastic, doubting Thomas.
Well, yeah, we can go into Judea, because last time we were in Judea, they were trying to stone you, Jesus. So, yeah, let's just go and we'll die too. Like, that's what he's saying.
So Thomas here has his doubts.
And maybe you do, too. Maybe part of it is you went to a freshman level college course and you believed, and then you were presented all this other stuff. And then now you're starting to wonder, or maybe it is the situation, what you've been walking through, what you've been dealing with, what you've been seeing.
Or maybe you're kind of like Martha dead in the fact that there's a delay. Jesus, where have you been? Look what it says. When Martha heard the news that was coming, that Jesus was coming, she ran out to him. And she does this twice, by the way.
Mary stayed there. Martha said to Jesus, lord, if you would have just been here, my brother would not have been dead.
I'll go ahead and tell you. If there's anybody in this part that I feel like I connect with personally, it's her. And here's why.
When I was growing up and our Bible class teachers would tell us about when Jesus went to the home of Mary and Martha, and Martha was, like, busy in the kitchen cooking and getting everything ready. And Mary's sitting there at the feet of Jesus, and she's like, what are you doing? You know, I'm busy cooking, and you're just sitting there. I was like, yeah, get them. Like, I was like, the standpoint. Yes. What are you doing, Mary? Because in my mind and in my world, success is always connected to doing, being on the move, making things happen. Like, that's real success.
And so in this text, y'all, she is the one that's making the meal train. She's the one that's cooking the casserole. She's the one that's writing the obituary and writing the eulogy. She's calling the funeral home. She's the one getting all these things ready. And here's what I know about people like me. Doers often struggle with this, delays.
We don't like when things don't happen in our timeframe.
But here's what I want us to see that she's about to learn that I hope we can all believe in. And it's this. Just because sometimes there is a delay, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a denial.
That doesn't necessarily mean if there's a delay, that God's not doing something through it, with it, or around it. God can bring about something even through the delay. Or maybe you're like Mary, because if you notice in the text when Martha's running, what is Mary doing?
She's like hiding under a blanket at the house. She doesn't want to go.
Maybe that's the way you've dealt with grief.
I've talked with some of our counselors here about this, and number one, I just want to say it is natural and it's normal to grieve and to have some time alone when you're going through a difficult time. You know why we grieve? Because we love. And because we love, we Grieve.
But I also know what they told me is that one of the things that's the most important is as you grieve and deal with disappointment, you also can't just stay in the house.
That one of the ways that you have to heal and have healing in motion is oftentimes serving, seeing the needs of somebody reaching out when you're in a time of hurt and the only voice that you listen to is you.
Sometimes that can be dangerous.
And so here's what happens next. Jesus says to her, hey, listen, your brother, he's going to raise again. And look what she says. Oh, I know. Like one day in the last day, he's going to raise again.
Jesus. No, no, you don't understand what I'm saying. I'm saying I am the resurrection and the life. Do you see what's happening?
Jesus said, I'm going to raise him up. And she said, oh, yeah, one day, like, when God comes back and the trumpet sounds, like that's going to be the time. He's like, you missed it.
And, guys, I've missed it too. Because if you asked Andrew Itson what I think about the most when I think about the the resurrection of Jesus Christ, here's what I usually do. I think of it as a past event or a future event.
It's something he did many years ago and we get to celebrate. Or it's something that's going to happen one day. Jesus in this text does not say, I was the resurrection and the life. And he doesn't say, I'm going to be the resurrection and the life. He said, I am the resurrection and the life.
He's saying that when I walk in on a scene, there's hope. When I walk in on a scene, the kingdom is here.
And so because of that, like we talked about this morning, we view death differently.
We view death differently. Even in 1st Thessalonians 4, do you know what it says about the way we grieve? Even that we don't grieve as people without hope.
See, because yes, the reality is God. By the way, hate to spoil the story for you, but God is going to raise Lazarus from the dead. But guess what's going to eventually happen to Lazarus? He's still going to die.
And what's going to happen is they're going to have a moment of hope because of who made him alive.
See, what I want us to see is that when we die with Jesus Christ, it's not some, like, consolation prize, like, oh, that's over. No, there is Resurrection, there is life involved.
But also, please don't miss this, that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just something in the past or the future, it's something that he is doing right now.
And so as we think about that, please know that what we might think of as the resurrection is not just, hey, let's get all these people to heaven. Yes, that is the goal, but the other goal of it is this. Let's get heaven in the people for their hearts and their minds to think bigger than even what they see with our own four dimensional time and space. But here's the neat part about this text, is that John doesn't just lay out our own disappointment. He shows who God is. In the middle of it, look what happens next. It says this. When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary saying, the Teacher is here and he's calling for you.
I mean, could you imagine hearing these words? You're at the house, and the alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, you, Savior of the world says, hey, Jesus called you by name and wants to see you.
And the girl that was staying in the house, guess what happened? She ran.
But do y'all see what's happening? If you're keeping track of the order here, you've got Mary who stayed at home running to the feet of Jesus. You got Martha with her doubts, you've got her delay. You've got Thomas with his doubt and his sarcasm. Which one of those does Jesus receive?
All of them.
All of them.
There's doubts, there's delays, there's discouragement. But here's the key. They brought those to the feet of Jesus. I told you, Doubt can be a foot poised to take a step forward. If you're willing to be open not just to giving your own questions, but also being open to, to receiving some kind of answers.
But then this happens. And this is the shortest verse in the entire Bible. But man, is there a lot of power packed in these two words.
Jesus wept.
You know, we know how this ends, but they do not.
And the reason why I think that's important is because we know the ending. And if you've ever known the ending of something, do you know how we kind of act? We like, if I was Jesus, or if I knew the ending, I'd have been like, hey, Jesus, like, skip the weeping, let's get to the raising, right?
But yet he weeps.
And isn't it amazing that we serve a God, that even when he knows that our pain is temporary, he still chooses to weep with us?
That's incredible.
Like, we don't. We struggle to have that capacity, to maybe not even have that capacity if we know the ending.
One of the reasons I know this, several years ago, when Florida State used to be good at football, there was a Saturday where we were scheduled to play Duke. And if we beat Duke, we would get to go to the national championship game. But one of my family members decided to host a birthday party at the exact same time as this. And so I was very clear that, hey, listen, it wasn't y'all, that I was like, listen, I know what's happening. I just don't want anyone to talk about it. Please don't turn on tv. Please don't make mention nothing. They're like, got it. I'm recording this. I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna watch the game. I had everything planned.
So we leave my parents house, and when we were going down the road, one of our kids has to go to the bathroom. We exit. And when we exit, there's this little country town that decides to have a Christmas parade. And so we're stuck. And I'm like, oh, man, it's gonna be really late when I get back. And so the parade's happening, and the kids are like, dad, can you roll down the window so we can hear the parade? I'm like, sure, roll down the windows. We're sitting there, this car pulls up because the SEC championship was just ending in his radio. And all of a sudden I start hearing Florida State is dominating Duke. And I was like, no. And I was like, yes, no.
And then as we continue to sit there, the only two people that I don't silence on my phone is my mom and dad and Lorianne. And so dad calls like, hey, are you okay? He goes, how about them, Noles? I'm like, are you kidding? Like, we just talked about this, okay? But because I knew the ending that first quarter. They played terrible. But you know how I was watching it?
I was at such peace. Do you know why?
Because I knew the end. Like, I could not address my joy, right? Because I knew the ending. Here's what's amazing. Jesus can simultaneously understand, reach into and connect with your joy and your grief. Knowing the ending at the same time, that is amazing.
He chooses to weep. And so that tells us, number one, I think a lot we can learn about this word empathy from Christ.
Sympathy is feeling sorry for somebody. Empathy is entering into that pain with that person.
I think it was two years ago I told you guys the story about one of the kids in our Campus ministry at Faulkner. He was this sophomore guy named Major.
Major. On his own accord, every single Sunday, would drive to Fayette, Alabama, to preach for this church that had, like, 40 people.
They didn't have a preacher. He took it on his own to do that. It was incredible.
And one morning on a Sunday morning, because the night before, he did what a lot of college students do and didn't go to sleep till late.
He was driving, fell asleep at the wheel, and was killed in a car accident.
And. And me and one of the other ministers at church, when we found out about this, we decided to go to his mom and dad's house in the Atlanta area.
And as we were driving there, it was silent most of the time. But when we pulled up into that driveway, I'll never forget when we were in that driveway, I'd asked him, I said, man, what do we say? What do we say to them in this time? And. And we were kind of like writing a script, mentally, of what to say and all those kinds of things. And he, who was even younger than me, had much more wisdom than me. He said, well, let's just pray about it. And so I was like, oh, yeah, let's pray. And so we prayed. We walked in there. When we walked in there, this started to happen.
His mama greeted us at the door, and she said, hey, I want to take you to his room. I want to show you something. And she began to show us his pictures, and she began to show us some different things. She even showed us how there was one night that he and some of his friends decided to use some. I don't know if this is still a thing where you use toilet paper and roll people's. We don't have trees, by the way, but, like, you use toilet paper, roll people's houses. Anyway, he was doing that with his friends. In the middle of the night, he climbed out the window, and he was a bigger guy, got stuck in the window, broke the window, and some of his shirt was still there. Okay, so they were laughing about and talking about all that. We go into their living room, we sit there, and she's just telling story after story after story, story after story.
And then as she gets done telling that story, he's like, well, hey, can we pray with you guys? And we say a prayer with them. And then right after that prayer, this is what she said. Thank y'all so much. What you said was exactly what I needed to hear.
Y'all know what we said?
Nothing. In fact, one of the greatest gifts God gave that day is he shut my mouth.
And the reason why I say that is, as you think about what we can learn personally, all of us, of how to empathize with people. Number one, sometimes it's just be physically present with them.
Even like, because it leads to this next one, which is listening.
You don't have to have the answer. Here's why. Because you don't.
And especially because when someone's going through a difficult time, they never want to hear that you have some answer.
They just want to know you care.
But here's what I want to encourage you to do is to actually pray with them on the spot. Don't just say, hey, I'm praying for you. Pray with them.
And then. This was neat. It says, then Jesus deeply moved again.
Now, I didn't know this till this past week when I was going through a commentary. One of the commentary said that the word deeply moved is actually a poor translation. The English, that the Greek is actually this. Then Jesus was angry and came to the tomb. That was the actual Greek meaning of what is said there is deeply moved. What the anger is talking about is Jesus was angry at death.
And I love this because a lot of times we tend to focus on what I might call, like the feminine qualities of Jesus. Here is. You kind of see the, the masculine, the. The man side of him, right? Coming out, where he's showing this, this picture of how he's about to go into the ring with death. And as he's walking into the ring with death, don't picture like theme music in the arms of the angels. Picture Rocky. Like, that's what he's doing. I'm going into the ring with the thing I hate the most. And then it says this. So take the stone away, Martha. The sister of the dead man said, lord, by this time there's an odor.
I love the King James version because you know what it says? He stinketh.
So that's a good one. But you notice what's happening. They're trying to point out the fact that rigor mortis has already set in.
He's dead. Dead.
He stinks. But Jesus is like, I know he stinks, but I want to deal with the thing that stinks. And as I was reading that, here's kind of how I interpret it. We're really good at times dealing with things when they're fresh, when they don't have, like a bad stench to it. But those things that stink, those are really hard to bring up. Jesus is like, listen, the thing that stinks, I want that.
And so he Cried out with a loud voice, lazarus, come out. The man who died came out. His hands and his feet were in linen strips. His face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said, unbind him and let him go. There's a implied you here. If you look in the original translation, you unbind him and you let him go. What he's saying is, I'm gonna do the part that I can do, but I also need you guys to do the part that you can do.
When I look over those, I guess now, man, many years I was that old when dad got that diagnosis.
I see people that brought meals to our family. I think about the time when somebody flew me out to Houston to be with him during Thanksgiving. I think about somebody that helped when we didn't have the money to afford caregiving for him, all these kind of things. The reason why I say that is Jesus gets the community of faith to unwrap this guy.
He's saying, I'm going to do what you cannot do, but I need you to do the thing that you can do.
What I'm saying is this, guys, with whatever it is that we have that stinks, you cannot unwrap yourself, that you need Jesus and you need somebody else.
And so somebody evidently called 1-800-WEAW JESUS and told the Pharisees. And so it says the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they could arrest him. Isn't it interesting? Like, they didn't have a problem with Lazarus when he was alive before, but now they do.
Why?
In the same way, Satan doesn't care that people are just alive, but he cares about who makes us alive.
You and I are a threat to Satan. Not just because we're breathing today, not just because we have a pulse, but we are a threat to Satan because of the one Jesus Christ who made us alive.
I love this narrative for several reasons. And one of those is because we're all like Lazarus. Maybe we're like Lazarus because just like Colossians 2 says, every single one of us were dead, in sin, in our transgressions, but we were made alive through. Through Jesus Christ.
Isn't it awesome to read Romans 6 and to see that parallel of the death, burial and the resurrection of Jesus, how it parallels to our baptism. But then if you keep reading, it says that at that point, then we eventually, in Romans 8, 9, receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. God is with us wherever we go.
But the other part is this, that we were all people that were at one Time bound by. But now we're free. And if you're a guest this morning, that is maybe new to even the Bible, and you hear that you're like, what do you mean by bound? But now I'm free. It's the idea and the truth and the reality, as was talked about this morning, because the resurrection was not an event, it's a person.
That what happened is that even though we still deal with pain, even though we still deal with difficulty, we have this hope laden grief because of the one that makes us alive. And so yes, while the reality of death is real, the pangs of death are real. The power of death does not have power over us because of us being alive in Christ. It says, for freedom, Christ has set us free. But the third thing is this, is that every single one of us had no seat, but now we do. In fact, it's really neat that right after Lazarus is risen from the dead, you know what happens?
They go sit at the table.
I tried to look up to see how much of a time frame there was between 11 and 12. And most scholars think that it happened pretty quickly. And so part of me wonders that when he sat at that table, did he stink?
And the reason I say that is this morning when we all gather around the Lord's supper table, guess what we all did? We brought our own stench to that table.
But God gave us a seat.
You know, that's one of the other neat things about how God handles our disappointment. We were people that had no seat. We were sitting at the kids table at Thanksgiving, but he gave us a seat at the table. I want you to think about this morning. What is your Lazarus? What is that one thing in your life that you need to come to life?
I want you to know and to see this morning that we have an empathetic savior that is willing to receive you. So you can bring your delay, you can bring your disappointment, you can bring your doubt, you can bring your discouragement to the feet of Jesus. So if you want prayers this morning, you can come forward and we can pray for you. Or you can go to one of the exits and one of our shepherds, we'll pray with you there while we stand and sing this song.
