“I am the Resurrection and the Life”

Easter Sunday April 12, 2009 Jn.11(17-27,38-44)    Play AUDIO (mp3)  Play VIDEO (wmv)

●    A COSTLY LITTLE LAPSE IN JUDGMENT

    ○    top officer’s failure to cover documents a serious slip
    ○    news of Lazarus’ miracle proves disastrous for Jesus (11:46)

●    JESUS TARRIES: OUR HAPPINESS IS SUBORDINATE TO GOD’S GLORY

    ○    “if ...my brother would not have died” (6,21,32; Mt 8:13, Jn 4:50, Mt 15:28)
    ○    God’s goal His glory rather than our ease (4,40; 2Thess 2:14; 1Pet 5:10; Heb 12:10f)

●    JESUS’ TEARS: GOD SYMPATHIZES WITH US

    ○    emotional solidarity with the distressed - sympathizes with our weaknesses (33,35,38; Rom 5:8; Heb 4:15)
    ○    Bruce Marchiano interpretation of Jesus notable for tears, touch, joy

●    JESUS’ TRIUMPH: LIFE CREATING ANEW FROM THE DEEPEST CORRUPTION

    ○    contact with Father assures Jesus is walking in light of His guidance (8ff)
    ○    believing the key to life / seeing God’s glory (25f,40, 20:31)
    ○    change in lives of disciples / martyrs hard to account for apart from risen Christ

●    BACK FROM THE DEAD

    ○    hostage situation surprisingly resolved by faith, not finances