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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mary and Martha | April 6, 2026
- Let me tell you something.
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- The resurrection
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- Is already begun in your life, and in my life.
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- As we receive christ, we have that resurrection power,
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- And therefore we have
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- A new perspective of death
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- To be absent.
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- The body is to be present with the lord.
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- Before the resurrection,
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- There was a dark, dark friday.
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- Silence.
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- Sorrow, uncertainty.
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- But easter is coming.
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- And when the sun rose that morning, everything changed.
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- The cross was not the end of the story.
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- The tomb could not hold the son of the living god.
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- The same resurrection power brings light into your darkness
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- And into my darkness in every moment.
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- The resurrection reminds us
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- That god specializes
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- In turning endings into beginnings.
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- Whatever you're facing today,
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- Thank you for joining me today on the winning walk.
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- Let's get started.
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- Open your bibles, if you would.
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- Let's start off with luke, my favorite gospel.
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- By the way.
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- Luke chapter number ten.
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- We'll look at verse 38
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- Through 42.
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- Now in these three little lessons,
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- You're going to first of all, we're going to learn something
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- At martha's dinner party
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- About mary and martha.
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- We're going to learn something at lou's
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- At lazarus's funeral.
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- We're going to learn something at simon's dinner party.
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- So we got two dinner parties and a funeral.
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- We get great insight here.
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- Look at it in martha's dinner party.
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- Now, as they were traveling, jesus, the apostles,
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- He entered into a village, bethany.
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- And the woman named martha was welcoming him in her home.
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- She had a sister named mary who was seated
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- At the feet of jesus.
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- And by the way,
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- Every time you meet mary, there are six marys
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- In the new testament.
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- Every time you meet, there's mary, the sister of martha.
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- She was always at the feet of jesus.
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- She was seated at
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- The lord's feet, listening to his word.
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- But martha was distracted with all of her preparations,
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- And she came to him and said, lord,
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- Do you not care that my sister,
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- My sister, it has left me to do all the serving alone?
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- Then tell her to help me.
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- The lord answered and said, martha, martha,
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- You are worried and bothered about so many things.
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- But only one thing is necessary, for mary
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- Has chosen the good part
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- Which shall not be taken away from her.
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- You get the setting.
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- Jesus came with the apostles.
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- Now martha's in the kitchen.
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- She is just working, trying to prepare some gourmet falafels,
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- And she is got a lot of pressure.
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- There's jesus and there's her sister
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- Who lives there with mary, and she's at the feet
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- Of jesus listening and worshiping.
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- And she goes in there and says, jesus,
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- Tell my sister
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- Mary to come here and help me.
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- And there are three words they're using how martha felt.
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- And you put them all together.
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- She had, in the words of a southern, household.
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- She had a hissy fit.
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- You know that word?
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- Great.
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- Deep philosophical word.
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- She was upset. she was mad.
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- I'm doing all the work around here, i need help.
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- Jesus.
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- Tell mary to get in the kitchen.
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- We got to get these gourmet falafels
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- Prepared for these very important guests.
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- Here's what we have.
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- We have jesus.
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- Some people think sort of putting down martha.
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- He was not.
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- He was simply saying, and this is the operative word
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- In this little story that jesus wants us to get.
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- It's a word priority.
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- How we get our priorities in line.
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- And it is the number one priority.
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- Jesus says, is to worship.
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- Now he knew about working.
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- He was a carpenter, sort of a carpenter.
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- He knew the necessity of work.
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- He would say, well, don't work.
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- Spend all your time worshiping.
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- No, he would put it in the right order.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, understand
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- That worship needs to proceed.
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- Work.
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- And when worship precedes
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- Work, wonderful things happen.
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- Our work begins to work.
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- What do we do?
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- Whatever you're calling. whatever your vocation.
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- Recreation. recreation. what are we doing?
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- It in of itself becomes worship when we begin with worship.
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- Worship flows all the way through everything we do.
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- A lot of people are fretting around.
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- I'm worried about this.
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- I don't know what to do about this.
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- I'm upset in here.
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- This or that or the other.
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- And you start with worship.
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- And in that quiet time, in that personal time,
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- A little bit in that boat and listening
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- And talking and praying out of that experience,
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- Everything begins to work.
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- We have not our best judgment.
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- We have the mind of god almighty being brought
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- To bear on your challenges and oh my challenges.
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- Do you see jesus move to see us?
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- That moves us to see the priority.
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- The first place
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- Of worship.
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- Now the next story is even, i think, more powerful than that.
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- And we learn something else.
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- Take your bibles if you would, and turn
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- Over to the gospel of john.
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- John chapter number 11.
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- Now this is the funeral of lazarus, the death of lazarus.
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- Look what we learned there.
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- We've learned the priority of worship right?
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- And the first little story jesus involved.
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- Now we learn the perspective of death.
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- We get a whole new view of death.
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- Look at it.
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- So the sisters mary and martha sent word to him,
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- Jesus saying, lord, behold the one whom you love.
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- Lazarus, their brother, is sick.
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- When jesus heard this, he said,
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- This sickness is not to end in death,
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- But for the glory of god, so that the son of man
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- May be glorified by it.
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- Sickness and death is for listen the glory of god.
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- You say, well, how does this work? watch it
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- That jesus
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- Loved martha and her sister mary and lazarus.
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- Verse five.
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- So that when he heard that he was sick,
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- He then stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
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- Then after this he said
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- To the disciples, let us go to judea again.
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- So now he left.
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- He was way up north, the other side of the jordan,
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- And he crossed the jordan, and he started to the south.
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- And look what happened.
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- The disciples said to him, rabbi,
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- The jews were just now seeking to stone you.
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- You are going there again.
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- And they debated where they should go.
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- And he went. look at verse 14.
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- So jesus then said to them plainly,
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- Lazarus is dead, and i am glad.
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- And you get a hold of that one.
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- Lazarus is dead.
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- And jesus says, i am glad you see
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- Jesus had a perspective of death that you and
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- I need to have looked at the rest of the sentence.
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- For your sake that i am not there,
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- So that you may believe.
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- But let us go to him.
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- Therefore, thomas doubting thomas, who was called
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- Didymus, said to his fellow disciples,
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- Let us also go, that we may die with him.
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- Now there's thomas.
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- His name is daedalus, which means twin.
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- Thomas had a twin.
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- Can you tell me when we meet his twin in the bible?
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- We don't meet him.
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- You're his twin.
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- I'm his twin.
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- Oh! doubting thomas.
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- Oh, show me the friend you're in.
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- And here thomas says, well, if we go back there,
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- They're going to kill you. jesus.
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- They're going to kill us all.
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- Let's all dress in black clothes and go down
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- There and die. you
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- Know, people like that.
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- We get like that.
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- And then verse 17, it says.
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- So when jesus came, he found that
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- He, lazarus had already been dead in the town for days.
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- Now bethany was near to jerusalem, about two miles
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- Off, literally a mile and a half as the crow flies.
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- And many of the jews
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- Had come to mary the mother, to console them.
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- Good story there, brother.
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- So, martha, therefore, when she heard that jesus was
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- Coming, went to meet him.
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- But mary stayed at home.
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- Martha then said to jesus, lord,
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- If you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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- We don't hear that another time or two.
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- If only there's.
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- If only that.
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- Even now, said martha.
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- I know that whatever you ask of god, god will give you.
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- Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.
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- Father said to him, i know that he will rise again
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- In the resurrection on the last day.
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- Jesus said to her, great verse,
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- I am the resurrection and the life.
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- And he who believes in me will live, even if he dies.
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- And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
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- Martha, do you believe this?
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- She said, yes, lord, i believe that you're
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- The christ, the son of god, even he who comes in the world.
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- Did you notice something?
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- Martha's profession of faith
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- Did not live up to her practice of faith.
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- Is that true of us sometime?
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- What i profess to believe.
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- Oh, that's my faith, but my actuality and my living up
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- To that faith doesn't match my profession of faith.
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- So martha said, let's go get mary.
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- I love this.
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- When she said this, he went away and called mary,
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- Her sister, saying,
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- The teacher is here and he's calling for you.
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- And when she heard it, she got up quickly
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- And was running to him.
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- Verse 31,
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- Then the jews who were with her in the house
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- And consoling her, when they saw that mary
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- Got up quickly and went out.
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- They thought he was she was going to the tomb.
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- Verse 32.
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- Therefore when mary came where jesus was, she saw him.
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- And guess what felt this heat saying to him, lord,
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- If you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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- My, we just heard that
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- When jesus therefore saw her weeping,
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- And the jews who came with her also weeping,
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- He was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled, and said,
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- Where have you laid him?
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- And they said to him,
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- Lord, come and see.
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- Then that little verse,
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- Jesus wept.
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- You know, i've used that a lot of times.
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- And saying, that's one verse
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- I first memorized when i was a boy.
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- Shortest verse in all the bible.
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- Jesus wept.
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this
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- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- Your life.
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- Right now.
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- I can tell you something about that verse.
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- Perhaps in all the scripture
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- There is no verse, no point in the bible
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- Where you see the humanity of jesus
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- And the divinity of jesus right there in those words.
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- Do you get that?
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- You see the humanity of jesus
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- And you see the divinity of jesus.
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- The humanity of jesus was
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- He saw his good buddy had died.
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- And so
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- The grief of his sisters, the grief of all their friends,
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- They were weeping.
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- And all the jews in that community,
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- They were broken hearted.
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- Lazarus had died.
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- And he begins to weep as a human being
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- For compassion for all of those who are weeping and wailing.
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- And by the way, the words of jesus weeping
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- Here of strong words, it wasn't just a few tears.
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- He was weeping, weeping profusely weeping.
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- We see is humanity also there we see his divinity.
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- Well, how do you see his divinity?
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- You see, jesus knew that
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- Lazarus had died of sickness.
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- He'd been put in the tomb,
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- But he was already in heaven,
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- And he'd been there about four days.
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- So he was weeping for lazarus
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- Because he knew he was going to bring him back to the earth.
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- Do you get that?
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- Jesus knew heaven.
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- That's been his home.
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- That is his home.
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- And he knew the glory and the majesty
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- And the creativity and the and the dynamism
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- And all the magnificence of the resurrection body.
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- And now
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- He's weeping for lazarus because he's got to come back
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- And live again in the land of the dying,
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- When he had already gone to live in the land of the living.
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- So he was weeping as a divine god man, knowing
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- He had to bring lazarus back to this earth.
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- If anybody here. thanks.
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- You'd like to bring anybody back
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- Who died in christ when there was a little baby,
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- Or there's a mature person.
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- Oh, i'd love to bring my dad back.
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- All my mother or my wife or a brother or sister.
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- Man, you don't know anything about heaven.
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- And you haven't comprehended the gospel.
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- It'd be total selfishness.
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- My glory to come back and live for scores.
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- 3 or 4, a little bit.
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- What in the deal is that when you've got the privilege
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- And the joy and the celebration of eternity.
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- We see the divinity and we see the humanity
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- In jesus when he says
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- He wept, he wept.
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- And look at the rest of it.
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- It's just it's just a beautiful,
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- Beautiful passage that we have here.
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- And he said, and for us, 43 and when he said these things,
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- He cried out with a loud voice, lazarus, come forth!
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- And i believe they heard him all the way to jerusalem.
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- The man who had died came forth, bound hand
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- And foot with wrappings, and his face was
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- Wrapped around with a cloth.
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- And jesus says, unbind him, and let him go.
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- And therefore many of the jews who came to mary,
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- And so he doesn't believe but others.
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- Next verse they did not believe.
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- They did not believe.
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- Now notice something.
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- What i did not read is they went
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- And rolled the stone away from lazarus grave.
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- I've been right down that very road.
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- I've looked in that little bank of caves that are there,
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- Where they have stones rolled in front of graves,
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- And they rolled the stone away.
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- So what?
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- Lazarus could get out,
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- Right? he came out bounding.
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- They unbound him.
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- And jesus says, let him go.
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- Now notice what jesus it is resurrection.
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- They roll the stone away not to get him out.
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- They rolled the stone away to show everybody.
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- He'd already been resurrected.
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- He'd gone out with his resurrected body,
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- Which is not limited by physics.
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- What a difference.
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- You see, lazarus was resuscitated.
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- He had his old body back.
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- When he came back to life.
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- And one day he died.
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- Jesus.
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- He was resurrected.
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- Like will be resurrected and have our new body
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- And be prepared and be built for eternity.
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- What a difference.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- It says jesus love, lazarus,
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- Everybody who jesus loves and everybody who loves jesus.
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- Guess what? they're going to die.
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- Shocked. shocked. shocked.
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- Write that down.
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- Pastor said everybody's going to die.
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- That's what we learned in church today.
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- And the when and the how and the where and the in between.
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- We don't know, but thank god he's in charge of that.
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- And we need to get a new perspective of death
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- That we get here with the resuscitation.
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- And we could say in one sense, the resurrection of lazarus.
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- Do you think that we'll be resurrected
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- After we die if we're in christ?
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- Let me tell you something.
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- The resurrection
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- Is already begun in your life, and in my life.
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- As we receive christ, we have that resurrection power,
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- And therefore we
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- Have a new perspective of death
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- To be absent.
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- The body is to be present with the lord.
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- And the clear word that jesus said
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- To martha, i am the resurrection of life.
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- You don't die in christ.
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- You live forever.
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- And then the the last little vignette that's here
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- Is so good.
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- It's still the gospel of john is the 12th chapter.
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- Jesus there for six days before the passover came to bethany,
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- Where lazarus was, whom jesus had raised from the dead.
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- So they made him a supper there.
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- And martha was serving.
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- That surprised anybody.
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- But if there were ever
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- A left brain person, that was martha.
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- But lazarus was not one of those seated.
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- It was one of those seated a table with him.
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- Mary took a pound of very
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- Costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed
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- The feet of jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair.
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- And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
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- I love that verse.
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- I love that story.
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- Mark tells us they were in the house of, simon.
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- Simon the leper, as he indentified
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- Was in all probability the brother of lazarus
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- And the father of mary and martha.
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- Now they're in his house.
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- And, boy, that would be a table, wouldn't it?
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- Wouldn't you like to be seated there,
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- Lazarus telling you about heaven.
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- How was that for days?
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- Let me tell you something, folks.
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- And yet simon's saying, boy, i had leprosy.
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- And bob, my limbs were gone.
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- And now they came back in this room.
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- Let me tell you about that, folks.
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- He married martha, have you?
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- Boy, what a what a banquet.
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- What a moment. there.
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- And then in the middle of that,
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- Mary goes out
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- And she takes her
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- A box.
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- It has pure nard in it.
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- And that was a perfume
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- That they would find only in the mountains of the himalayas.
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- That's in india.
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- And they would go and take this nard.
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- And it was a high,
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- High priced perfume, a liquid that they would sell
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- All over the middle east very, very expensive.
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- And she took that perfume out and she,
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- At the feet of jesus began to anoint the feet of jesus.
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- And he took her hair down.
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- And that day a woman's hair was a mark of her glory.
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- And she dried his feet with her hair
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- With a pure perfume that was there,
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- And drying his feet in an act of worship.
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- What was she doing?
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- The bible tells us that she
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- Was preparing for his death.
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- She didn't save all these on much as they did,
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- As they would anoint a body when the body would die
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- In that day, she gave it to him as an act of worship.
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- Everything she had
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- The best that she had worth, probably $3,500.
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- It would be the equivalent of what
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- Someone would make for a year of working
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- 35 plus $100.
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- She poured all of it out on his feet, about 12oz.
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- We would imagine.
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- And then we see, taking her hair,
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- Drying his feet with their tears.
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- What did mary know?
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- That most of them had already missed?
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- Four days later, jesus would be crucified.
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- Three days later, he would be resurrected
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- From the dead she gave to him while he was living
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- Because she saw that he would soon die.
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- He said, well, how did she know that?
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- How did the apostles.
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- She spent a lot of time at the feet of jesus
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- At that she knew it.
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- That's how she knew it.
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- And then that wonderful phrase,
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- The room
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- Was filled
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- With the fragrance
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- Of that perfume.
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- There will come a day, ladies and gentlemen.
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- When the heavens
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- Will part and jesus will part.
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- The heavens, and he will come
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- Accompanied by archangels.
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- He'll come and they'll be
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- The sound of the trumpets.
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- And he will come.
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- They will be shouting
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- And praise the dead in christ will be raised.
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- Those who are alive will be caught up with him in the air.
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- Those who are dead will be coming with him.
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- And then the shout, he'll begin to call names.
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- Jesus said, i know my sheep,
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- And they know me.
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- And when i call, they come.
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- And in that shouting they will be name called mary,
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- Alice, bill, tom, joe, edwin.
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- Will your name be called?
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- Will your name be called?
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- That's the lamb's book of life.
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- Jesus will call those names.
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- And if our name is written in the lamb's book of life,
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- We will enjoy and live with him forever and forever
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- On a new heaven and a new earth that we can't even imagine.
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- The fragrance of that life.
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- Said simply.
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- For the roll is called up yonder,
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- Where your name
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- And my name
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- Be. on that roll.
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- If so,
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- There be a sweet,
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- Sweet fragrance.
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- Forever and forever and forever.
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- Because he lives,
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- We are so confident that we too
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- Shall live.
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this
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- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- We're not talking about something complicated here.
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- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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- 15 minutes.
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- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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- Your home on what matters the most in christ
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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