Ed Young - Teachable Moments

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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 now, in
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These three little lessons, you're gonna first of all, we're
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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
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Of 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 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, 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
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To 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,
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They 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
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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.
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What a difference!
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You see, lazarus 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.
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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
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Going to die, 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 we don't
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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?
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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.
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To be absent of the body is to be present with the lord.
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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.
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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.
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So they made him a supper there, and martha was serving."
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That surprise anybody?
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Boy, if there were ever a left-brained person, that
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Was martha.
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"but lazarus was one of those seated at the table with him.
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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."
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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 lazarus 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?
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Wouldn't you like to have been seated there?
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Lazarus telling you about heaven.
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How was that four days?
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Let me tell you something, folks.
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And yet simon saying, "boy, i had leprosy and all my limbs
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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,
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What a moment there!
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And then in the middle of that, mary goes out, and she takes a
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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,
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High-priced perfume, a liquid that they would sell all over
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The middle east, very, very expensive.
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And she took that perfume out and she, at the feet of jesus,
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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
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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
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Best that she had, worth probably $3,500.
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It would be the equivalent of what someone would make for a
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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
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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 he
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Would soon die.
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You say, "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, that's how she
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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 was filled with the fragrance of that perfume.
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There will come a day, ladies and gentlemen, when the heavens
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Will part, and jesus will part the heavens, and he will come
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Accompanied by archangels.
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He'll come, and there'll be the sound of trumpets.
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And he will come, there will be shouting and praise.
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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
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Coming with him.
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And then they shout, he'll begin to call names.
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Jesus said, i know my sheep, and they know me, and when i call,
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They come.
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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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That's the lamb's book of life.
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Jesus will call those names, and if our name is written in the
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Lamb's book of life, we will enjoy and live with him forever
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And forever on a new heaven and a new earth that we can't even
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Imagine the fragrance of that life.
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To say it simply, when the roll is called up yonder, will your
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Name, and my name, be on that roll?
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If so, there'll be a sweet, sweet fragrance forever and
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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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Dr. young: jesus was a master teacher.
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He never missed an opportunity to turn an encounter with him
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Into a teachable moment.
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That is what we have seen in today's word.
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Jesus used these three little stories about mary and martha to
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Teach them about worship and to give them a new perspective on
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Death and to emphasize the importance of
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Their relationship with him.
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Now, listen, as you go through your day,
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Learn to watch for and to be receptive to those times when
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God wants to teach you something that will strengthen your faith
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And help you to grow up.
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Now, how do you do this?
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I think you need to stay alert, to listen carefully,
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And to avoid the busyness that can block us from
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Hearing from god almighty.
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Listen, spend time in his word every day.
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Read it. meditate on it.
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Ask god to apply it to your life.
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And let me thank you for studying god's word
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With me today.
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And i look forward to next week as we take another step together
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On "the winning walk" with jesus christ.
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Ed Young - Teachable Moments

October 7, 2025 | 29:0

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