From John 11

📖  John 11:25–26 ESV Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

The hope of resurrection is not a but with Christ.

1.  Before Jesus, I am in my .

📖  John 11:1–3 ESV Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 

📖  1 Corinthians 15:43 ESV (The body) is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

📖  John 11:4 ESV But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

📖  John 11:5–6 ESV Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

📖 John 11:21 ESV Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

📖 John 11:26–27 ESV and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”

📖  John 11:39 ESV Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”

We are all and we all and yet by the .

2. Before Jesus, I am in .

📖  John 11:17 ESV Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

📖 Ephesians 2:1 ESV And you were dead in the trespasses and sins.

📖  Ephesians 2:4–5 ESV But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

📖  John 11:33–35 ESV When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept.

3. Through Christ, I am by .

📖 John 11:43 ESV When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”

📖 Isaiah 43:1 ESV “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine."

4. In Christ I am but still .

📖 John 11:44 ESV The man who had died came out… bound with linen strips

📖 2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

doesn’t just apply to your , it applies to your .

5. Because of Christ, I’m in this .

📖 John 12:10–11 ESV So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

📖 John 15:18 ESV “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

6. With Christ, I am at the .

📖 John 12:1–2 ESV Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

📖 Ephesians 2:6 ESV (He) raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

📖 Luke 22:29–30 ESV I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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