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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - Under The Circumstances (Part 1)

June 27, 2026 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - Under The Circumstances (Part 1)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Under The Circumstances (Part 1) | June 27, 2026
  • ...
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  • Andy stanley: hi, everybody, welcome to "your move" where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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  • Every once in a while, somebody asks me why i'm a christian, and
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  • My answer is simple.
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  • I say "because following jesus has made my life better and
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  • Following jesus makes me better at life."
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  • Now, it's not always easier, but it sure is better and why it's
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  • Better is what we're talking about today right here on
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  • "your move."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: a tragedy or a sudden change of circumstances, either
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  • Yours or the circumstances of somebody you love, has caused
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  • You to doubt god, has caused you to be angry at god, has caused
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  • You to wonder if maybe god is angry at you, caused you to lose
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  • Your faith, caused you to walk away from faith.
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  • As strange as it might be to hear this from me, i actually
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  • Understand that, and i don't blame you.
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  • And if i were you, maybe it would be me, too.
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  • And that's what we're talking about today, and that's what
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  • We're gonna talk about for the next couple of weeks in this
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  • Series that i've entitled "under the circumstances: holding on to
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  • God when it appears that god is no longer holding on to you."
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  • We've all been there.
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  • And if you haven't been there yet, you're probably gonna be
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  • There eventually, regardless of what you believe about god,
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  • Regardless of your faith system, regardless of your religion.
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  • It's so strange when bad things happen and circumstances go the
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  • Wrong way, there's something intuitively, or i should say
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  • Instinctively, i think, in human beings, for whatever reason, we
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  • Look up like what's going on?
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  • We just, it's like, "if there's anybody out there, to whom it
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  • May concern, what in the world is going on?"
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  • That's what we're gonna talk about, because that's in you,
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  • That's in me, that's in all of us.
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  • And to start at, you know, the lowest of the low rungs on the
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  • Ladder, i wanna begin by with a statement that maybe, that might
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  • Perhaps be the most insensitive statement ever uttered by anyone
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  • At any time.
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  • And the reason i would take it to that extreme is because this
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  • Statement actually comes from the lips of jesus.
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  • As we're gonna discover today, jesus actually went out of
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  • His way.
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  • He went out of his way, risked his reputation to create, to
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  • Create a scenario, to create a scenario that included pain,
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  • Sorrow, grief, sickness, anger, and ultimately death.
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  • And the reason he went out of his way to create this scenario,
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  • The reason he did this, as hard as it is to believe, it's quite
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  • The story, is to assure us that god the father is aware and that
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  • God our heavenly father cares, and that he is with us in it,
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  • And he can see us through it.
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  • So here's how the story goes.
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  • One of jesus's closest friends, one of his supporters, somebody
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  • Who had hosted jesus in his home many, many times, became sick.
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  • He had two sisters, he lived with his sisters or they lived
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  • With him, and they send a servant to find jesus.
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  • The sisters send a servant to find jesus, and when the sisters
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  • Show up, you know, excuse me, when the servant finds jesus and
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  • Jesus's apostles, the servant says to jesus, "jesus," this is
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  • Amazing, because jesus recognized from whose home the
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  • Servant came.
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  • The servant says to jesus, "jesus, the one that you love
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  • Is sick.
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  • And his sisters are requesting that you would come back to
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  • Bethany and do what you've done for so many people, heal
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  • Their brother."
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  • And, of course, he would.
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  • I mean jesus had healed strangers, and the disciples,
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  • The apostles get up to leave and jesus is like sit back down,
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  • We're not going, and he sends the servant back to bethany.
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  • And jesus stays there where he is with his apostles for two
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  • Days and waits for his friend to die.
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  • And if you only knew this part of the story, you would think
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  • Jesus must despise them.
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  • I mean, he must be angry with them.
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  • No, i'm not gonna go heal somebody i know because
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  • Something bad must have happened and john's like, no, no, no,
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  • I understand.
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  • Jesus actually loved these people.
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  • Then two days later when he gets up to go to bethany, the
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  • Apostles, his disciples, the twelve, they're totally
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  • Confused, you know, why now?
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  • Why go at all?
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  • Because last time they were there, things didn't go so well
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  • For them.
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  • In fact, they say that.
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  • They say, "rabbi, hey, a short while ago, the judeans there in
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  • Bethany, where lazarus and mary and martha lived, the judeans
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  • There, they tried to stone you, and yet you're going
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  • Back there?"
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  • What if maybe you just do one of those work-from-home miracles
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  • That we've seen you do?
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  • And jesus responds with this.
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  • He says, "our friend lazarus," there it is, "our friend," "our
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  • Friend lazarus has fallen asleep; but i'm going there to
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  • Wake him up."
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  • This is how casually jesus talks about death.
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  • His disciples replied 'cause they really don't wanna go,
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  • "lord, if he sleeps, he'll get better."
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  • I mean, and, of course, they're thinking, how do you know
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  • He's asleep?
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  • But hey, you know, you're jesus.
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  • This is the kind of stuff you do.
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  • So jesus, if you're confident that he's asleep, then maybe the
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  • Fever broke, whatever it might be, we don't wanna disturb
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  • Things at bethany.
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  • Let's just stay here.
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  • "so then he told them plainly, "lazarus is dead, and for
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  • Your sake..."
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  • And here's the statement.
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  • Here's the thing that i don't know, when john's writing this,
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  • He's like, do i really put these words in the lips of jesus?
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  • I mean, we're trying to convince, you know, people that
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  • Jesus is who he claimed to be.
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  • This is terrible.
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  • I bet he debated whether or not to include this, but he did
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  • Because it's true.
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  • In fact, it's statements like this next one that caused me to
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  • Believe in the authenticity of the gospels.
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  • They can be trusted.
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  • Because in literature, one of the way that people who navigate
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  • And evaluate literature determine whether something is
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  • True or not, anything that makes the hero look bad is generally
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  • True because nobody would add that later or make it up.
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  • "for your sake," he says, "i'm glad i was not there..."
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  • And they're thinking "because?"
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  • And "you better have a good reason?"
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  • He said, "i'm glad i was not there, so that you may believe."
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  • Now, at this point in the story, this is kind of funny after
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  • The fact.
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  • You remember in "winnie the pooh," the character eeyore,
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  • Remember eeyore was kind of the negative, the downer.
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  • And in a lot of narratives, there's always like the
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  • Downer person.
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  • So jesus has one of those with his apostles.
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  • It's thomas, downer person.
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  • And so thomas, when he finds out they're actually gonna go to
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  • Bethany anyway, he says, well, i love this.
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  • "let us also go, that we may die with him."
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  • Lazarus is dead.
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  • If we go to bethany, we're gonna be dead.
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  • We're just all gonna be dead.
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  • Come on, guys, let's all go to bethany and let's just die
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  • With lazarus.
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  • This is not going to go well.
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  • The end is near for all of us.
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  • I think thomas is saying that "john, john, you don't have to
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  • Put that in there."
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  • Like john's going, "come on, this is what happened," right?
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  • These are real people.
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  • Back to jesus's statement, "i am glad i was not there, so that
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  • You may believe."
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  • But here's the question.
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  • Don't leave early.
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  • This is so important.
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  • Believe what?
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  • And this is so important.
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  • In other words, or let me put it this way, what is so important
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  • For them to believe that he would let a friend die while the
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  • Friend's sisters watched and waited for jesus to show up to
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  • Save the day and jesus doesn't show up and save the day.
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  • What could be so important for them to believe that jesus would
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  • Allow these circumstances to play out the way they did?
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  • And the answer to that question is related to the answer to
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  • This question.
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  • Who is "you"?
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  • In other words, "i'm glad i was not there, so that you
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  • May believe."
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  • Well, obviously, part of the "you" was the 12 apostles
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  • Traveling around with jesus.
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  • But again, john wrote this many years after the event and john
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  • Wrote this many years after the resurrection of jesus.
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  • And the "you" here isn't just the yous in the story.
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  • The "you" is you and you, and those of you whose faith has
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  • Been crushed by circumstances, and those of you whose faith is
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  • Being crushed by circumstances.
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  • Jesus is saying, i've allowed this tragedy to play out the way
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  • It has, so that you, anyone who hears this story and knows what
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  • Happened will believe, will believe, will believe.
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  • Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address a growing
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  • Crisis in america.
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  • Did you know that nearly 75 million americans have no
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  • Religious affiliation, none whatsoever?
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  • Most of us know some of these people.
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  • Many of us are related to some of these people.
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  • So for us, they aren't statistics, they're people we
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  • Love and would love to see return to faith in jesus.
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  • So, at "your move," we are committed to reaching people
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  • With the teaching of jesus right where they are and when they
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  • Least expect it.
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  • We use a research-backed digital strategy that's already making
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  • A difference.
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  • So if you'll stick around after today's message, we would love
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  • To tell you more about it, or visit the website or call the
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  • Number on your screen to learn how you can be a part of this
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  • Revolutionary approach to introducing and reintroducing
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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: so jesus engineered-- think about it.
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  • Jesus engineered a heartbreaking set of circumstances to address
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  • Our "where's god when we need god" circumstances.
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  • That's what this is--
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  • That jesus engineered this, so that in the moment of our
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  • Where's god when i need god?
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  • Where's god when my sister-in-law needs god?
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  • Where's god when my brother needs god?
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  • Where's god when my child needs god?
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  • In our "where's god when i need god?" moments, jesus engineered
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  • These circumstances, this narrative for you.
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  • Do you remember, if you know the story, do you remember what
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  • Happens next?
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  • So they get up and they go to bethany.
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  • Meanwhile, jerusalem, the city of jerusalem is about 2 miles
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  • Away from bethany.
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  • So all of these mourners and all these people have come from
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  • Jerusalem to support lazarus's sisters, mary and martha, in
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  • Their grief, because he's a well-known citizen in the area.
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  • So there's lots of people.
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  • So mary and martha are in the home, and they're grieving and
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  • They're crying, and there're these mourners, and a servant
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  • Shows up at the door and says, "mary and martha, the rabbi is
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  • On his way.
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  • He's coming down the road.
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  • He'll be here in just a few minutes."
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  • And you remember maybe what happens next, right?
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  • Martha, martha decides she's gonna go see him.
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  • And when she does, she expresses what many of us have expressed
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  • And what many of us are expressing right now because god
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  • Has not come through or seemingly not come through.
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  • "martha said to jesus, 'if you had been here, my brother would
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  • Not have died.'"
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  • Translated.
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  • "this is your fault!"
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  • Because you could have kept this from happening.
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  • Look up here.
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  • And in this moment, we are all in the story.
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  • In this moment, this story intersects with my story.
  • 00:11:19.029 --> 00:11:23.834
  • It intersects with your story.
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  • If you have ever leveraged tragedy to make the point that
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  • God doesn't care and god isn't there, if you've ever leveraged
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  • Disappointment with god or something that's happened to
  • 00:11:32.943 --> 00:11:34.779
  • Someone you love, and you step back and you say, you know what,
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  • If there is a loving god that wouldn't have happened.
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  • God would have stepped in.
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  • If god could have, god would have, and since god didn't, god
  • 00:11:40.417 --> 00:11:43.587
  • Must not even exist, or not the god i was taught to believe in
  • 00:11:43.587 --> 00:11:47.324
  • And trust as a child.
  • 00:11:47.324 --> 00:11:49.093
  • And jesus, this is what's so brilliant.
  • 00:11:49.093 --> 00:11:50.694
  • In this moment, jesus goes out of his way in this occasion to
  • 00:11:50.694 --> 00:11:54.632
  • Draw a circle large enough-- to include you and to include
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  • Me because we are all represented by mary and martha
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  • In the story with our disappointment, and our
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  • Frustration, and our anger with the god who could have and
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  • Should have but didn't.
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  • You are included in this story, and here's why, because your
  • 00:12:18.589 --> 00:12:22.159
  • Story is included in the grand story of god's good news of
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  • Great joy for all people, that jesus arranged this for people
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  • Like you and for people like me that perhaps we might believe,
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  • Or believe again, but that's the question: believe what?
  • 00:12:38.442 --> 00:12:42.079
  • You know, i'm glad i wasn't there so that you might believe.
  • 00:12:42.079 --> 00:12:45.783
  • So jesus goes on into bethany, and when martha finds out
  • 00:12:45.783 --> 00:12:51.789
  • That--when mary finds out that he's coming with martha, she
  • 00:12:51.789 --> 00:12:54.725
  • Goes out to see him as well, and she unloads on him in the
  • 00:12:54.725 --> 00:12:57.461
  • Same way.
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  • "if you had been here, our brother wouldn't have died."
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  • And she's weeping, weeping.
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  • Of course, she is.
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  • Now she's weeping because she's lost her brother.
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  • And now, there's the anger and the frustration of being in the
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  • Presence of the very person, who could have kept this
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  • From happening.
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  • Can you feel that?
  • 00:13:12.643 --> 00:13:13.978
  • Isn't that what we would have felt?
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  • Isn't that sometimes what we do feel?
  • 00:13:15.346 --> 00:13:17.081
  • Then john says, "when jesus saw her weeping, and the judeans who
  • 00:13:17.081 --> 00:13:20.885
  • Had come along with her weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit
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  • And he was troubled," to which, you know, the reader is
  • 00:13:25.623 --> 00:13:29.860
  • Thinking, well, if you're deeply troubled and moved in spirit,
  • 00:13:29.860 --> 00:13:33.097
  • Then, i mean, if this bothers you that much, why didn't you
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  • Show up and keep it from happening?
  • 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.435
  • And then they lead jesus to the cave where lazarus is buried.
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  • The text tells us that he stands in front of lazarus's tomb and
  • 00:13:44.241 --> 00:13:48.646
  • "jesus wept." why?
  • 00:13:48.646 --> 00:13:54.051
  • Because mary and martha were weeping.
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  • Mary and martha, who blamed him, were weeping.
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  • And he enters into their pain and their frustration, and their
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  • Loss, and their grief.
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  • And he weeps, and he doesn't just, and it's not that his eyes
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  • Were moist or there was a tear.
  • 00:14:13.504 --> 00:14:15.105
  • He was weeping in such a way that the entire crowd could see
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  • Him being moved by emotion, which was not normally
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  • Appropriate for a man to show in public.
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  • And there's the man, the rabbi, and he's weeping in such a way
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  • That it is public and everybody's looking at jesus.
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  • And while it's true that jesus could have kept this from
  • 00:14:31.555 --> 00:14:33.991
  • Happening, as we see throughout the story, jesus had a different
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  • Agenda in mind.
  • 00:14:37.094 --> 00:14:41.031
  • He had you in mind, and he had me in mind, and he had your
  • 00:14:41.031 --> 00:14:46.737
  • Sister-in-law in mind, and your father in mind.
  • 00:14:46.737 --> 00:14:50.841
  • And jesus steps up and then he does the unthinkable again.
  • 00:14:50.841 --> 00:14:53.877
  • Now we're introduced to a whole new wave of emotion.
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  • And jesus says, "remove the stone."
  • 00:14:57.381 --> 00:15:02.286
  • Moving the stone in place was not a casual endeavor.
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  • The stone is up above the hole, wedged with, is held by
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  • Something that's been there for a long, long time.
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  • They remove the wedge, and the stone actually rolls into place
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  • And gravity is holding it wedged in, covering the front of a
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  • Tomb, and it's supposed to stay there for a long, long time,
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  • Maybe forever, or until they decide to remove the stone to
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  • Take out the body or the bones and put the bones in an ossuary.
  • 00:15:24.408 --> 00:15:27.578
  • But this is a done deal.
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  • You don't remove the stone, and you certainly don't remove the
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  • Stone on that day.
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  • I mean there was a gasp in the crowd when jesus announced,
  • 00:15:36.687 --> 00:15:40.824
  • Remove the stone, and now they have a decision to make.
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  • Do we trust the rabbi who showed up late, who missed the
  • 00:15:45.529 --> 00:15:51.869
  • Opportunity, who missed the funeral?
  • 00:15:51.869 --> 00:15:55.339
  • And besides that, everybody in this audience knows, because of
  • 00:15:55.339 --> 00:15:58.742
  • How much time has gone by, lazarus is not gonna look like
  • 00:15:58.742 --> 00:16:01.979
  • Lazarus after three days in that environment, the whole body
  • 00:16:01.979 --> 00:16:04.782
  • Begins to deteriorate beyond recognition.
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  • These funerals happened quickly.
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  • And martha reminds jesus of this, and she reminds him of
  • 00:16:10.354 --> 00:16:14.925
  • Something else as well.
  • 00:16:14.925 --> 00:16:16.293
  • Remember what she said?
  • 00:16:16.293 --> 00:16:18.295
  • "...by this time, lord, there is a bad odor."
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  • I mean this is a bad situation, and now you're about to--i mean,
  • 00:16:21.465 --> 00:16:25.502
  • Are you kidding us?
  • 00:16:25.502 --> 00:16:27.671
  • You are so late.
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  • "there's a bad odor, for he has been in there four days."
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  • Lord, you weren't a day late.
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  • You weren't two days late.
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  • You didn't simply miss his final moments with us as we held him
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  • In our arms.
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  • You are four days late.
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  • And jesus says, "remove the stone anyway."
  • 00:16:48.592 --> 00:16:53.297
  • It's about to become horrible insult to injury.
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  • Can you imagine this emotion?
  • 00:16:57.968 --> 00:17:00.104
  • Do we do this or not?
  • 00:17:00.104 --> 00:17:02.406
  • And then this is my favorite part of what happened.
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  • Jesus begins to pray, and he prays out loud, so loud,
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  • Everyone can hear his prayer because he wanted everyone to
  • 00:17:11.381 --> 00:17:14.051
  • Hear his prayer, and my friends, he wanted us to hear
  • 00:17:14.051 --> 00:17:18.388
  • This prayer.
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  • So, as they're beginning to remove the stone, this took
  • 00:17:20.057 --> 00:17:22.292
  • Maybe an hour, maybe longer.
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  • Here's what jesus prays, so that everyone can hear, so that john
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  • Could record it, so that we could read it.
  • 00:17:28.465 --> 00:17:31.435
  • "then jesus looked up," because isn't that what we do in times
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  • Of grief?
  • 00:17:34.738 --> 00:17:36.807
  • "father, i thank you that you have heard me."
  • 00:17:36.807 --> 00:17:42.179
  • He'd already been praying.
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  • "i knew, i knew that you always hear me, but" i am saying this,
  • 00:17:44.081 --> 00:17:49.019
  • Or "i said this for the benefit of the people standing here..."
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  • The people navigating circumstances that is slowly
  • 00:17:53.724 --> 00:17:57.127
  • Crushing their faith, the people navigating circumstances in the
  • 00:17:57.127 --> 00:18:00.264
  • Past that totally crushed their faith,
  • 00:18:00.264 --> 00:18:03.734
  • Circumstances that are too hard, too heavy, wondering if god
  • 00:18:03.734 --> 00:18:06.503
  • Cares, wondering if god hears your prayers, wondering if god
  • 00:18:06.503 --> 00:18:09.139
  • Is angry with you, wondering if you did something wrong,
  • 00:18:09.139 --> 00:18:11.441
  • Wondering if you could have done something right that would have
  • 00:18:11.441 --> 00:18:13.377
  • Kept these things from happening, or maybe wondering if
  • 00:18:13.377 --> 00:18:16.613
  • All of this is just fiction, stories, children's stories to
  • 00:18:16.613 --> 00:18:21.351
  • Keep us in line.
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  • He says, "i knew, i knew that you always hear me, but i said
  • 00:18:23.253 --> 00:18:27.057
  • This for the benefit of the people standing here, that they
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  • May believe..."
  • 00:18:30.227 --> 00:18:32.763
  • And once again, believe what?
  • 00:18:32.763 --> 00:18:36.833
  • "i'm glad i was not there, so that you might believe."
  • 00:18:36.833 --> 00:18:41.004
  • Believe what?
  • 00:18:41.004 --> 00:18:43.907
  • And here it is.
  • 00:18:43.907 --> 00:18:45.342
  • And this is a big it, "that they may believe that you sent me."
  • 00:18:45.342 --> 00:18:55.886
  • Okay, jesus, you're telling me, you're telling us that you
  • 00:18:55.953 --> 00:18:59.990
  • Engineered this entire scenario, this entire event.
  • 00:18:59.990 --> 00:19:04.928
  • You engineered this because this was all about who sent you?
  • 00:19:04.928 --> 00:19:09.733
  • Jesus would say yes.
  • 00:19:09.733 --> 00:19:11.268
  • Well, jesus, is that such a big deal that it's worth all of this
  • 00:19:11.268 --> 00:19:15.005
  • Drama and all of this pain and all of this grief?
  • 00:19:15.005 --> 00:19:18.675
  • Jesus would say, yeah, and here's why because this is
  • 00:19:18.675 --> 00:19:24.348
  • So important.
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  • If the father sent the son to show us--we talk about this all
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  • The time.
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  • I don't know if this has gotten from your head to your
  • 00:19:31.855 --> 00:19:33.457
  • Heart yet.
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  • If the father sent the son to show us what the father is like,
  • 00:19:34.791 --> 00:19:38.662
  • Then you can rest assured that the father weeps with you in
  • 00:19:38.662 --> 00:19:46.336
  • Your pain, regardless of your blame.
  • 00:19:46.336 --> 00:19:50.374
  • And this is jesus's point.
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  • If the father sent the son to represent the father, then you
  • 00:19:51.708 --> 00:19:54.745
  • Can know with certainty that god's circumstances are not an
  • 00:19:54.745 --> 00:19:57.814
  • Indicator of god's absence or god's silence.
  • 00:19:57.814 --> 00:20:00.183
  • But you can rest with, you can live with the certainty that god
  • 00:20:00.183 --> 00:20:03.253
  • And the assurance that god has entered into your pain with you
  • 00:20:03.253 --> 00:20:06.323
  • Because this is what the son did and the father sent the son to
  • 00:20:06.323 --> 00:20:09.626
  • Demonstrate his love and his compassion and his care for you
  • 00:20:09.626 --> 00:20:14.665
  • And for me and this is most--maybe more important.
  • 00:20:14.665 --> 00:20:18.669
  • If the father sent the son, if this is what jesus wants us to
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  • Believe, if this whole thing was arranged to prove the fact that
  • 00:20:22.472 --> 00:20:25.208
  • The father sent the son, if the father sent the son, and the
  • 00:20:25.208 --> 00:20:29.146
  • Father has the power to do what the son is about to do,
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  • There's hope.
  • 00:20:33.917 --> 00:20:35.352
  • There's the assurance of god's presence and the assurance of
  • 00:20:35.352 --> 00:20:38.455
  • God's promise about your future and the future of those that
  • 00:20:38.455 --> 00:20:43.894
  • You love.
  • 00:20:43.894 --> 00:20:45.262
  • And so with it, jesus takes a deep breath, and he calls out
  • 00:20:45.262 --> 00:20:48.532
  • Loud, not because somebody couldn't hear him that needs to
  • 00:20:48.532 --> 00:20:51.101
  • Hear him, but because he wanted the crowd to hear him.
  • 00:20:51.101 --> 00:20:53.170
  • And "jesus called in a loud voice, 'lazarus, come out!'
  • 00:20:53.170 --> 00:20:59.576
  • And the dead man came out."
  • 00:20:59.576 --> 00:21:02.713
  • And i'm absolutely confident there were people in the
  • 00:21:02.713 --> 00:21:05.315
  • Audience who passed out in that moment.
  • 00:21:05.315 --> 00:21:10.053
  • Therefore, this isn't a surprise.
  • 00:21:10.053 --> 00:21:13.323
  • "therefore, many of the judeans who had come to visit mary, and
  • 00:21:13.323 --> 00:21:16.626
  • Who had seen what jesus did, believed in him."
  • 00:21:16.626 --> 00:21:19.663
  • Oh yes, they did.
  • 00:21:19.663 --> 00:21:21.832
  • And what did they believe?
  • 00:21:21.832 --> 00:21:24.234
  • They believed exactly what jesus wanted them to believe.
  • 00:21:24.234 --> 00:21:26.703
  • Oh my goodness, no mere mortal can call a man who's been dead
  • 00:21:26.703 --> 00:21:32.042
  • For four days back to life.
  • 00:21:32.042 --> 00:21:33.910
  • Clearly, this man has been sent to us by god.
  • 00:21:33.910 --> 00:21:39.383
  • So what he says can be trusted.
  • 00:21:39.383 --> 00:21:41.885
  • What he's promised can be trusted.
  • 00:21:41.885 --> 00:21:43.987
  • Who he says our heavenly father is can be trusted.
  • 00:21:43.987 --> 00:21:46.690
  • And if the father is like the son, and the son is
  • 00:21:46.690 --> 00:21:49.393
  • Demonstrating the love and the compassion and the concern of
  • 00:21:49.393 --> 00:21:51.762
  • The father, then there's hope, even in the darkest of our
  • 00:21:51.762 --> 00:21:56.733
  • Nights, in the most dire circumstances.
  • 00:21:56.733 --> 00:22:00.604
  • "i'm glad i was not there, so that you may believe."
  • 00:22:00.604 --> 00:22:09.346
  • I'm glad he wasn't there either because now i can believe he's
  • 00:22:09.346 --> 00:22:16.153
  • Here with me, and he's there with you.
  • 00:22:16.153 --> 00:22:19.089
  • And he included us in the story, so that we can face tomorrow
  • 00:22:19.089 --> 00:22:24.828
  • With confidence and hope, knowing that we are part of the
  • 00:22:24.828 --> 00:22:29.466
  • Story of god's good news, of great joy for all people.
  • 00:22:29.466 --> 00:22:33.069
  • I'm glad he wasn't there either, because now we know.
  • 00:22:33.069 --> 00:22:37.174
  • Now we know that circumstances, circumstances are not an
  • 00:22:37.174 --> 00:22:41.044
  • Indicator of god's absence, or a lack of concern or a lack
  • 00:22:41.044 --> 00:22:46.416
  • Of compassion.
  • 00:22:46.416 --> 00:22:47.784
  • I mean think about this.
  • 00:22:47.784 --> 00:22:49.119
  • If the empathy, if the empathy and the compassion, if the
  • 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:53.256
  • Empathy, the compassion, and the concern of the son reflects the
  • 00:22:53.256 --> 00:22:55.792
  • Empathy and the compassion and the concern of the father, then
  • 00:22:55.792 --> 00:23:03.633
  • What the apostle peter would later write is true, and peter
  • 00:23:03.633 --> 00:23:06.169
  • Was there and saw this as well.
  • 00:23:06.169 --> 00:23:08.205
  • And then peter after this, after the resurrection, suffered all
  • 00:23:08.205 --> 00:23:10.874
  • Kinds of things and lost his friend.
  • 00:23:10.874 --> 00:23:12.209
  • He lost james, the brother of jesus.
  • 00:23:12.209 --> 00:23:13.543
  • He lost james, the other apostle.
  • 00:23:13.543 --> 00:23:15.645
  • There was so much confusion.
  • 00:23:15.645 --> 00:23:16.980
  • And yet at the end, peter's like, "hey, but you don't need
  • 00:23:16.980 --> 00:23:19.149
  • To put your eyes on any of that.
  • 00:23:19.149 --> 00:23:20.484
  • Don't confuse your life with the love of god.
  • 00:23:20.484 --> 00:23:22.786
  • Don't confuse life with god.
  • 00:23:22.786 --> 00:23:24.387
  • Don't confuse the circumstances of life with god's love and
  • 00:23:24.387 --> 00:23:27.357
  • God's concern."
  • 00:23:27.357 --> 00:23:28.692
  • Peter would say, "i know better, i've seen better, and there is
  • 00:23:28.692 --> 00:23:30.627
  • Hope for you."
  • 00:23:30.627 --> 00:23:31.995
  • And he writes to christians in the first century, he says,
  • 00:23:31.995 --> 00:23:33.630
  • Here's the right response.
  • 00:23:33.630 --> 00:23:35.031
  • Humble yourself.
  • 00:23:35.031 --> 00:23:36.633
  • "humble yourselves, therefore, under god's mighty hand," that
  • 00:23:36.633 --> 00:23:39.236
  • Is surrender yourself to your loving and compassionate
  • 00:23:39.236 --> 00:23:42.038
  • Heavenly father "that he may lift you up," there's hope, "in
  • 00:23:42.038 --> 00:23:47.277
  • Due time."
  • 00:23:47.277 --> 00:23:48.778
  • And then this, "cast--" that is, throw upon, throw all of your
  • 00:23:48.778 --> 00:23:54.117
  • Merimna, and i use the greek term because there are so many
  • 00:23:54.117 --> 00:23:57.120
  • English terms packed in this powerful word.
  • 00:23:57.120 --> 00:23:59.322
  • He says, i want you to cast all of your worry, all of your
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  • Cares, all of your anxiety, all of your anger, all of your
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  • Frustration, all of your angst, all the stuff that you bring and
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  • Are afraid to bring to god at times.
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  • He says, "no, your heavenly father can handle it."
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  • You bring all of that and you cast your cares on him because
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  • When you do, you honor him with your pain, and you honor him
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  • With your frustration, and you honor him by saying to him, "i
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  • Am in need, and i believe that you can do something about it."
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  • And peter says, "i've seen this.
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  • I've witnessed this.
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  • You just bring it on, and you dump it on your heavenly father,
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  • Because you can know for certain he cares for you, 'because he
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  • Cares for you.'"
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  • Now, i know it's easy for me to stand up here and say, right?
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  • And i haven't heard your story, but i've experienced it, to
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  • Some degree.
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  • But more than that, i have walked with people who've
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  • Experienced it to an extraordinary degree.
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  • In fact, my friend shirley, who i didn't tell shirley i was
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  • Gonna mention her name today.
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  • I did the funeral for both of her sons.
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  • They were both friends of mine, one in 2020, one this year, her
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  • Only kids.
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  • My friend mary anne, who's here, who lost and buried two
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  • Daughters over the course of time from the--one was
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  • A teenager.
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  • One was an adult.
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  • And they didn't get a miracle.
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  • They didn't get a resurrection, but they are confident there
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  • Was one.
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  • And they are confident it's not the last one.
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  • And their hope, their hope, the source of their strength, they
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  • Would tell you, is that jesus came from the father to
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  • Demonstrate what god the father is like.
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  • And they have held onto that like many of you have through
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  • Extraordinary circumstances, extraordinary pain and
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  • Extraordinary grief.
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  • And you have found your heavenly father to be as faithful as
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  • Jesus was faithful to those he loved.
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  • And now, you're invited, or for some of you, you're invited
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  • Back, because it's just been too hard to maintain faith.
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  • You are invited, or you're invited back to cast all of your
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  • Care, and all of your grief, and all of your sorrow, and all of
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  • Your anger and all of your frustration on him.
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  • And you can know with certainty he cares for you because god
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  • Sent the son to illustrate and demonstrate that for us.
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  • And that's the invitation.
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  • And that's where peace is found.
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  • That's where grace is experienced.
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  • That's where you learn to be able to sleep at night.
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  • That's when you learn that you can hold on to god when it
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  • Appears that god is no longer holding on to you.
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  • And we'll pick it up right there, next time, in part two,
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  • "under the circumstances."
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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  • You may find it hard to believe that 75 million americans claim
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  • No religious affiliation.
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  • On a personal note, perhaps you found it nearly impossible to
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  • Believe that your son or your daughter or perhaps a grandchild
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  • Drifted away from faith as part of that number.
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  • This is a crisis culturally and perhaps for you, it's a
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  • Crisis personally.
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  • At "your move," we are committed to addressing that crisis.
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  • We actually have a plan to solve it, but we need your help.
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  • We've developed a digital online tool that invites people to take
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  • A personal assessment that launches them on a journey that
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  • Eventually intersects their questions with the teaching of
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  • Jesus and ultimately with a bible teaching church in
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  • Their community.
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  • Tens of thousands of people are currently engaged in this
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  • Process, but we need your help to continue creating the bread
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  • Crumbs, the content that keeps them moving forward on their
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  • Faith journey.
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  • We're attempting something that no one has ever attempted
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  • Before, and it is already working.
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  • Watching and now it's your move.
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