Lessons in Lazarus
From John 11:38-44
This New Year there can be – by this world but .
Lesson is Lazarus:
1. is not .
📖 John 11:6 (ESV) “So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.”
📖 John 11:17 (ESV) “Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.”
“God, if only you had been here ____________”.
📖 2 Peter 3:8 (ESV) “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
📖 Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
📖 Acts 1:7 (NLT) “He replied, “The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know.”
📖 Psalm 27:14 (ESV) “Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!”
📖 Isaiah 40:31 (ESV) “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
📖 Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV) “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.“
If only on the , my is renewed and I won’t be and my path will be made .
Lesson is Lazarus:
2. is found in .
📖 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?””
- I am the Bread of Life (John 6:35) | Jesus gives to the world.
- I am the Light of the World (John 8:12) | Jesus is .(John 1:5)
- I am the Door (John 10:9) | Jesus is the to the Father.
- I am the Good Shepherd (John 10:11,14) | Jesus for and down for me.
- I am the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25) | Only in Jesus is .
- I am the Way and the Truth and the Life (John 14:6) | Jesus is the way to God.
- I am the Vine (John 15:1,5) | Jesus causes in me.
Lesson is Lazarus:
3. when I .
📖 John 11:43-44 (ESV) “When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” 44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.””
- What is my away from my ?
- What has Jesus ?
- Jesus makes and what has bound.
Lesson is Lazarus:
4. have always .
📖 John 11:45-46 (ESV) “Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.”
Sermon in a Sentence:
calls me out of of into a .
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