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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Teachable Moments | December 23, 2024
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- Dr. ed young: what is a christian?
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- Most of us can give an answer to that.
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- A christian is someone who is convicted of their sin.
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- They confess that sin, they turn away from that sin, and they
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- Invite jesus christ to come into their life and to clean up their
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- Act and give them a brand-new life.
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- We call it being born again.
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- You don't improve, you become brand-new.
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- And then the question comes, okay, now that we have become a
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- Christian, we have, paul would say, taken off our old clothes
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- And put on our new clothes.
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- We have been totally revolutionized.
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- We're new inside, and therefore this expresses the
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- Newness outside.
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- And then in the verbiage of francis schaefer, in one of his
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- Books, how should we then live?
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- We've invited christ in our life, he has saved us, but the
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- Process, we call it sanctification, doesn't mean we
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- Gettin' halos around our head, but it means, as we grow up.
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- Jesus's life revealed the truth about god and from his life,
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- We get lessons, do we not, of how we are to live.
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- So today, we're gonna look at three little stories, three
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- Little quick vignettes, and learn from them lessons, very
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- Practical lessons, as to how we are to then live.
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- So, open your bibles, if you would.
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- Let's start off with luke.
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- My favorite gospel, by the way.
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- Luke chapter number 10, we'll look at verse 38-42.
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- Now, in these three little lessons, you're gonna first of
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- All, we're gonna learn something at martha's dinner party,
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- To--mary and martha.
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- We're gonna learn something at lazarus' funeral.
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- We're gonna 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're gonna 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, he entered
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- Into a village, bethany, and a woman named martha was welcoming
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- Him in her home.
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- She had a sister named mary who seated at the feet of jesus."
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- And by the way, every time you meet mary, there's six marys in
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- The new testament, every time you meet this mary, the sister
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- Of martha, she was always at the feet of jesus.
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- She was seated at the lord's feet, listening to his word.
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- "but martha was distracted with all of her preparations, and she
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- Came to him and said, 'lord, do you not care that my sister has
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- 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 he said, 'martha, martha, you are worried
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- And bothered about so many things.
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- But only one thing is necessary, for mary has chosen the good
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- Part 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, now martha's in the kitchen, she
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- Is just working, trying to prepare some gourmet falafels,
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- And she is got a lot of pressure, there's jesus and
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- There's her sister, who lives there with her, mary, and she's
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- At the feet of jesus, listening and worshiping.
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- And she goes in there and says, "jesus, tell my sister, mary, to
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- Come here and help me."
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- And there're three words there using how martha failed.
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- And you put them all together, she had, in the words of a
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- Southern household, she had a hissy fit.
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- You know that word?
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- Great, deep, philosophical word.
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- She was upset, she was mad, i'm doing all the work around here,
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- I need help.
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- Jesus, tell mary to get in the kitchen, we gotta get these
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- Gourmet falafels prepared for these very important guests.
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- And jesus said, "martha, martha, the best part, mary is chosen to
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- Sit at the feet of jesus and to worship, and to be instructed.
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- And what she's chosen will be with us forever and forever when
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- We worship.
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- And we'll forget about whatever we have for dinner tonight."
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- Now, there's not a female here who's not had the experience
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- Of martha.
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- Everybody was out there watching the game, fellowshipping, having
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- A good time, and here you are locked up in the kitchen, trying
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- To prepare for everybody, and everybody seemed to be blind and
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- Helpless in realizing you might need somebody to get the
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- Meal ready.
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- Right, ladies?
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- So, here's what we have.
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- We have jesus, 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 in this
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- Little story that jesus wants us to get, it's the word priority.
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- How we get our priorities in line.
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- And it is the number one priority, jesus says, is
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- To worship.
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- Now, he knew about working, he was a carpenter, the son of
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- A carpenter.
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- He knew the necessity of work.
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- He wouldn't say, well, don't work, spend all your
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- Time worshiping.
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- No, he would put it in the right order.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, understand that worship needs to
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- Precede work.
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- And when worship precedes work, wonderful things happen.
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- Our work begins to work.
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- What we do, whatever your calling, whatever your vocation,
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- Recreation, re-creation, what are we doing.
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- It and of itself becomes worship.
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- When we begin with worship, worship flows all the way
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- Through everything we do.
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- Lot of people are fretting around, i'm worried about this,
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- I don't know what to do about this, i'm upset, and here's this
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- 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, a little bit in
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- That book, and listening, and talking, and praying.
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- Out of that experience, everything begins to work.
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- We have not our best judgment, we have the mind of god almighty
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- Being brought to bear on your challenges, and on
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- My challenges.
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- Do you see?
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- Jesus wants us to see the priority, the first
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- Place 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 over to the gospel
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- Of john.
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- John, chapter number 11.
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- Now this is the funeral of lazareth, the death of lazareth.
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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, we get a whole new view
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- Of death.
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- Look at it.
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- "so the sisters, mary and martha, sent word to him, jesus,
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- Saying, lord, behold, the one whom you love," that's lazarus,
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- Their brother, "is sick."
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- "when jesus heard this, he said, 'this sickness is not to end in
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- Death, but for the glory of god so that the son of man may be
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- 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?
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- Watch it.
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- "that jesus loved martha and her sister, mary, and lazarus,"
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- Verse 5, "so that when he heard that he was sick, he then stayed
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- Two days longer in the place where he was.
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- Then after this he said to the disciples, 'let us go to
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- Judea again.'"
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- So now he left, he was way up north, the other side of the
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- Jordan, and he crossed the jordan, and he started to the
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- South, and look what happened.
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- "the disciples said to him, 'rabbi, the jews were just now
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- Seeking to stone you.
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- You are going there again?'"
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- They debated whether he should go, and he went.
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- Look at verse 14.
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- "so jesus then said to them plainly, 'lazarus is dead, and i
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- Am glad.'"
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- Can you get ahold of that one?
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- Lazarus is dead, and jesus says, "i am glad"?
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- You see, jesus had a perspective of death that you and i need
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- To have.
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- Look to the rest of the sentence.
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- "for your sakes that i am not there, 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, 'let us also go, that
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- We may die with him.'"
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- Now there's thomas, his name is didymus, 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. i'm his twin.
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- Oh, doubting thomas, oh show me the print in your hand.
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- And here thomas says, "well, if we go back there, they're gonna
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- Kill you, jesus.
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- They gonna kill us all.
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- Let's all dress in black clothes and go down there and die."
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- Know people like that? we get like that.
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- And then verse 17, it says, "so when jesus came, he found that
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- He, lazarus, had already been dead in the tomb four days.
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- Now bethany was near to jerusalem, about two miles off,
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- Literally a mile and a half as the crow flies.
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- And many of the jews had come to mary and martha to console them
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- Concerning their brother.
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- So martha therefore, when she heard that jesus was coming,
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- Went to meet him, but mary stayed at home.
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- Martha said to jesus, 'lord, if you'd been here, my brother
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- Would not have died.'"
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- We're gonna hear that another time or two.
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- If only this, if only that.
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- "even now," said martha, "i know that whatever you ask of god,
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- God will give you.
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- Jesus said to her, 'your brother will rise again.'
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- Martha said to him, 'i know that he'll rise again in the
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- Resurrection on the last day.'
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- Jesus said to her," great verse, "'i am the resurrection and the
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- Life, and he who believes in me will live even if he dies and
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- 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 the christ, the son
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- Of god, even he who comes into the world.'"
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- Did you notice something?
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- Martha's profession of faith did not live up to her practice
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- Of faith.
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- Is that true of us sometimes?
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- What i profess to believe, oh, that's my faith, but my
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- Actuality and my living up to that faith doesn't match my
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- 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 her sister,
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- Saying, 'the teacher is here and is calling for you.'
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- And when she heard it, she got up quickly and was running
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- To him."
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- Verse 31.
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- "then the jews who were with her in the house and consoling her,
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- When they saw that mary got up quickly and went out, they
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- Thought she was goin' to the tomb."
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- Verse 32.
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- "therefore, when mary came where jesus was she, saw him and,"
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- Guess what?
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- "fell at his feet, saying to him, 'lord, if you'd been here,
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- My brother would not have died.'"
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- Seemed like we just heard that.
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- "when jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the jews who came
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- With her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and was
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- Troubled, and said, 'where have you laid him?'
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- And they said to him, 'lord, come and see.'"
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- Then that little verse, "jesus wept."
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- You know, i've used that a lot of times and saying
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- That's one verse 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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- I can tell you something about that verse.
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- Perhaps in all the scripture there is no verse, no point in
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- The bible, where you see the humanity of jesus and the
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- Divinity of jesus, right there in those words.
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- Did you get that?
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- You see the humanity of jesus, and you see the divinity
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- Of jesus.
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- The humanity of jesus was he saw his good buddy had died, and saw
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- The grief of his sisters, the grief of all their friends, and
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- They were weeping, and all the jews in that community, they
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- Were brokenhearted.
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- Lazarus had died, and he begins to weep as a human being for
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- Compassion for all of those who are weeping and wailing.
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- And by the way, in the words of jesus, we've been hearing strong
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- Words, it wasn't just a few tears, he was weeping,
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- Weeping profusely.
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- Weeping.
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- We see his humanity.
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- 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 lazarus had died of sickness.
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- He'd been put in the tomb, 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, that is his home, and he knew the glory
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- And the majesty and the creativity and the dynamism and
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- All the magnificence of the resurrection body, and now he's
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- Weeping for lazarus because he's got to come back and live again
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- In the land of the dying when he'd already gone to live in the
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- Land of the living.
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- So he was weeping as a divine, god-man, knowing he had to bring
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- Lazarus back to this earth.
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- If anybody here thinks you'd like to bring anybody back who
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- Died in christ, whether it was a little baby, whether it was a
- 00:15:43.988 --> 00:15:48.092
- Mature person, "oh, i'd love to bring my dad back, or my mother,
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- Or my wife, or a brother or sister.
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- Man, you don't know anything about heaven, and you haven't
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- Comprehended the gospel."
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- It'd be total selfishness.
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- My glory.
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- To come back and live four score three or four a little bit, what
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- In the deal is that when you've got the privilege and the joy
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- And the celebration of eternity?
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- We see the divinity and we see the humanity of jesus when it
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- Says, he wept.
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- He wept.
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- And look at the rest of it, it's just a beautiful,
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- Beautiful passage that we have here.
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- And he said, in verse 43, and "when he said these things, he
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- 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, and foot with
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- Wrappings, and his face was 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, and saw what
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- He'd done, believed, but others," next verse, "they did
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- Not believe."
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- They did not believe. now notice something.
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- What i did not read is they went and rolled the stone away from
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- Lazarus's 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 where
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- They have stones rolled in front of graves.
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- And they rolled the stone away so what?
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- Lazarus could get out.
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- Right?
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- He came out bounding, they unbound him, and jesus says,
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- "let him go."
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- Now notice with jesus, it is resurrection.
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- They rolled the stone away, not to get him out, they rolled the
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- Stone away to show everybody he'd already been resurrected
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- And he'd gone out with his resurrected body, which is not
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- Limited by physics.
- 00:17:46.177 --> 00:17:49.113
- What a difference!
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- You see, lazareth was resuscitated, he had his old
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- Body back when he came back to life, and one day he died.
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- Jesus, he was resurrected like we'll be resurrected, and have
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- Our new body and it will be prepared and be built
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- For eternity.
- 00:18:07.999 --> 00:18:11.068
- What a difference.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- It says jesus loved lazarus.
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- Everybody who jesus loves, and everybody who loves jesus,
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- Guess what?
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- They're going to die!
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- Shock, shock, shock, write that down, pastor said, everybody's
- 00:18:25.383 --> 00:18:28.119
- Going to die, that's what we learned in church today.
- 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:32.223
- 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, that we
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- Get here with a resuscitation, and we could say, in one sense,
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- The resurrection of lazarus.
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- Do you think that we'll be resurrected after we die if
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- We're in christ?
- 00:18:55.479 --> 00:18:57.148
- Let me tell you something.
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- The resurrection has already begun in your life and in
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- My life.
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- As we receive christ, we have that resurrection power.
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- And therefore, we have a new perspective of death.
- 00:19:05.223 --> 00:19:12.230
- To be absent of the body is to be present with the lord.
- 00:19:12.230 --> 00:19:15.633
- And the clear word that jesus said to martha, "i'm the
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- Resurrection and life."
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- You don't die in christ, you live forever.
- 00:19:21.172 --> 00:19:25.009
- And then the last little vignette that's here, it's so
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- Good, it's still the gospel of john, it's the 12th chapter.
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- "jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to
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- Bethany where lazarus was,
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- Whom jesus had raised from the dead.
- 00:19:39.323 --> 00:19:41.759
- So they made him a supper there, and martha was serving."
- 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:44.762
- That surprise anybody?
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- Boy, if there were ever a left-brained person, that
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- Was martha.
- 00:19:51.736 --> 00:19:53.938
- "but lazarus was one of those seated at the table with him.
- 00:19:53.938 --> 00:19:56.574
- Mary took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and
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- Anointed 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."
- 00:20:07.952 --> 00:20:12.523
- I love that verse!
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- I love that story!
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- Mark tells us that they were in the house of simon.
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- Simon the leper, as he's been identified, was in all
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- Probability the brother of lazareth and the father of mary
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- And martha, now they're in his house.
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- And boy, that would be a table, wouldn't it?
- 00:20:35.446 --> 00:20:38.049
- Wouldn't you like to have been seated there?
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- Lazarus telling you about heaven.
- 00:20:40.851 --> 00:20:43.554
- How was that four days?
- 00:20:43.554 --> 00:20:44.789
- Let me tell you something, folks.
- 00:20:44.789 --> 00:20:46.023
- And yet simon saying, "boy, i had leprosy and all my limbs
- 00:20:46.023 --> 00:20:47.558
- Were gone, and now they came back and the scales were gone."
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- Let me tell you about that, folks.
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- Mary and martha, you have jesus--boy, what a banquet,
- 00:20:50.728 --> 00:20:53.230
- What a moment there!
- 00:20:53.230 --> 00:20:55.733
- And then in the middle of that, mary goes out, and she takes
- 00:20:55.733 --> 00:21:00.571
- A box, it has pure nard in it, and that was a perfume that they
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- 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, and it was a high,
- 00:21:14.518 --> 00:21:17.888
- High-priced perfume, a liquid that they would sell all over
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- The middle east, very, very expensive.
- 00:21:21.325 --> 00:21:24.695
- And she took that perfume out and she, at the feet of jesus,
- 00:21:24.695 --> 00:21:27.798
- Began to anoint the feet of jesus, and he took her
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- Hair down.
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- In that day, a woman's hair was a mark of her glory, and she
- 00:21:31.435 --> 00:21:35.039
- Dried his feet with her hair with a pure perfume that
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- Was there.
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- And drying his feet, an act of worship.
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- What was she doing?
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- The bible tells us that she was preparing for his death.
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- She didn't save all these ointments as they did, as they
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- Would anoint the body when a body would die in that day.
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- She gave it to him as an act of worship, everything she had, the
- 00:21:57.862 --> 00:22:01.599
- Best that she had, worth probably $3,500.
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- It would be the equivalent of what someone would make for
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- A year of working.
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- $3,500 plus.
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- She poured all of it out on his feet, about 12 ounces, we
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- Would imagine.
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- And then we see, taking her hair, drying his feet with
- 00:22:18.349 --> 00:22:22.820
- Her tears.
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- What did mary know 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 from the dead.
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- She gave to him while he was living because she saw that
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- He would soon die.
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- You say, "well, how did she know that?
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- How did the apostles?"
- 00:22:47.711 --> 00:22:49.346
- She spent a lot of time at the feet of jesus, that's how she
- 00:22:49.346 --> 00:22:52.349
- Knew it.
- 00:22:52.349 --> 00:22:54.418
- That's how she knew it.
- 00:22:54.418 --> 00:22:56.387
- And then that wonderful phrase.
- 00:22:56.387 --> 00:22:58.989
- The room was filled with the fragrance of that perfume.
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- There will come a day, ladies and gentlemen, when the heavens
- 00:23:07.465 --> 00:23:13.637
- Will part, and jesus will part the heavens, and he will come
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- Accompanied by archangels.
- 00:23:20.678 --> 00:23:24.014
- He'll come, and there'll be the sound of trumpets.
- 00:23:24.014 --> 00:23:29.253
- And he will come, there will be shouting and praise.
- 00:23:29.253 --> 00:23:35.259
- The dead in christ will be raised, those who are alive will
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- Be caught up with him in the air, those who're dead will be
- 00:23:37.628 --> 00:23:41.031
- Coming with him.
- 00:23:41.031 --> 00:23:43.501
- And then they shout, he'll begin to call names.
- 00:23:43.501 --> 00:23:47.438
- Jesus said, i know my sheep, and they know me, and when i call,
- 00:23:47.438 --> 00:23:52.576
- They come.
- 00:23:52.576 --> 00:23:54.245
- And in that shouting they will be named, called mary, alice,
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- Bill, tom, joe, edwin!
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- Will your name be called?
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- Will your name be called?
- 00:24:06.790 --> 00:24:08.292
- That's the lamb's book of life.
- 00:24:08.292 --> 00:24:10.728
- Jesus will call those names, and if our name is written in the
- 00:24:10.728 --> 00:24:14.532
- Lamb's book of life, we will enjoy and live with him forever
- 00:24:14.532 --> 00:24:18.636
- And forever on a new heaven and a new earth that we can't even
- 00:24:18.636 --> 00:24:22.239
- Imagine the fragrance of that life.
- 00:24:22.239 --> 00:24:32.783
- To say it simply, when the roll is called up yonder, will your
- 00:24:32.850 --> 00:24:40.391
- Name, and my name, be on that roll?
- 00:24:40.391 --> 00:24:47.731
- If so, there'll be a sweet, sweet fragrance forever and
- 00:24:47.731 --> 00:24:56.440
- Forever and forever.
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- And because he lives, we're so confident that we too
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- Shall live.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Ed young: we have all felt alone.
- 00:25:10.287 --> 00:25:12.823
- Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
- 00:25:12.823 --> 00:25:16.727
- On earth.
- 00:25:16.727 --> 00:25:18.295
- But god did not create us to live in
- 00:25:18.295 --> 00:25:20.497
- A constant state of loneliness.
- 00:25:20.497 --> 00:25:22.766
- We need community and fellowship
- 00:25:22.766 --> 00:25:25.035
- With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
- 00:25:25.035 --> 00:25:28.305
- Listen, if you are experiencing loneliness today,
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- 00:26:01.538 --> 00:26:04.575
- Ed young: jesus was a master teacher.
- 00:26:07.311 --> 00:26:09.546
- He never missed an opportunity to turn an encounter with him
- 00:26:09.546 --> 00:26:13.584
- Into a teachable moment.
- 00:26:13.584 --> 00:26:15.619
- That is what we have seen in today's word.
- 00:26:15.619 --> 00:26:18.922
- Jesus used these three little stories about mary and martha
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- To teach them about worship, and to give them a new perspective
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- On death, and to emphasize the importance
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- Of their relationship with him.
- 00:26:30.701 --> 00:26:32.936
- Now listen, as you go through your day,
- 00:26:32.936 --> 00:26:35.039
- Learn to watch for and to be receptive to those times
- 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:39.009
- When god wants to teach you something
- 00:26:39.009 --> 00:26:43.113
- That will strengthen your faith and help you to grow up.
- 00:26:43.113 --> 00:26:46.183
- Now, how do you do this?
- 00:26:46.183 --> 00:26:48.485
- I think you need to stay alert, to listen carefully,
- 00:26:48.485 --> 00:26:52.022
- And to avoid the busyness that block us from
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- Hear from god almighty.
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- Listen, spend time in his word every day.
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- Read it, meditate on it, ask god to apply it to your life,
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- With me today.
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- On "the winning walk" with jesus christ.
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