06-10-2018 – Jesus Wept

06-10-2018

Jesus Wept

John 11:17-36

Read John 11:17-19... As noted, Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days when Jesus arrived.
During the time of Christ, deceased were normally buried within 24 hours (Acts 5:1-10), Ananias and Sapphira lied to God, were struck dead and buried.
Read John 11:20-27... Lord, “Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
Note: Jesus in Luke 7:11–17, raised the son of a widow commanding, “get up,” he sat up and began to talk; in Luke 8:52–56, a 12 year old girl died, Jesus held her hand, saying “My child, get up,” she stood up.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Martha voices her belief in Him, as John writes (John 20:31), “that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.”
Read John 11:28-36... Martha tells her sister Jesus wants to see her. Mary gets up to go to Jesus, many of those comforting her go with her.
Mary arrives at Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” Jesus loved this family, He is deeply moved [implies outrage & indignation]. Jesus is troubled, in Matthew 2:3 Herod uses this word when the Magi are looking for the One born King of the Jews; it is also used by Jesus (John 13:21) at the Last Supper, concerning the one of who would betray Him.
We are told Jesus wept (cf. Isaiah 53:3), “A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” The word wept (verse 35) is only used once in the New Testament. It implies a quiet, bursting into tears, the result of deep grief.
“See how He loved Lazarus!” Jesus came to die for us, to take our punishment, that we might be forgiven for our sins, made acceptable to the Holy God of Creation.
2Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 21, “He [God] made Him [Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Romans 3:23-24, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 5:8, “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:1-2, Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”
Hebrews 9:27-28, “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.”
1Peter 3:18, “For Christ died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.”
Next week Jesus will demonstrate what He said in John 11:25-26, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, God’s Son, Savior? Your eternity depends on your response to Him!