00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:11 Pastor Rod's Family Update

01:38 The Reality of Death

03:24 Jesus Confronts Death in John 11

05:35 The Resurrection of Lazarus

11:42 Theological Reflections on Resurrection

13:35 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey church, it's Pastor Marc.

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Pastor Marc is here,

and Pastor Marc's here.

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And we're glad that Pastor

Marc's here, but you guys can

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be praying for Pastor Rod.

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He took a last minute trip out to

California to go to be with his family

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his extended family, his brother.

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Philippe and his sister-in-law,

Mariah and some of their other

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family, Philippe, is not doing well.

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In fact, they're gonna be putting

him on palliative care, I believe

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on Wednesday of this week.

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And so you guys can be

praying for his family.

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Just a lot of medical complications

and it's almost a perfect storm where.

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It seems as though God is making

it clear that he's getting ready to

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call Philippe home to be with him.

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And that's gonna be

hard as you can imagine.

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And so please be praying for Pastor Rod.

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Please be praying for comfort for

Philippe and his wife, Mariah.

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From what we understand, Philippe

is a professing believer.

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His church has been involved and been

around there, but this is so incredibly

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hard and so you can be praying for them.

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Keep them in your memory.

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Remind.

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Thinking about them, praying

for them even as Paul says, with

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every memory I prayed for you.

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And so, if there's ways that you can

think about Pastor Rod, be praying for

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him, pray for his family this week.

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'cause this is just unexpected.

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In a lot of ways.

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And so, this is we're glad that he's

gonna be able to be out there with

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his family, but just a hard time.

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So, all that to say, that's why

Pastor Marc is pinch hitting for

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him on the podcast this week.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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It's a good reminder too that

pastors are not immune to the

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problems that everybody has.

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These are struggles that we

have, I can relate in the sense

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that there's challenges like that

that we face on a regular basis.

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Yep.

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And we're not exceptional or excluded

from those things by any means.

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No, for sure.

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In fact it's apropo.

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That we're talking about such heavy things

like death, because in our reading today,

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which is in John chapter 11 Jesus is

gonna take death on square, on head on.

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And a lot of times with death,

we sit in the presence of death.

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Or you go to a funeral, you go to a

memorial or grave side and sometimes

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you'll hear a well-intentioned

pastor say something like, well,

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death is just a part of life.

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And it's.

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I understand the thought process

and the intention there, but it's

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actually, it's not just a part of life.

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It's the exact opposite.

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In fact, it's the ultimate enemy.

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Jesus says, the last enemy to be conquered

is death, and he talks about the fact that

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that will be conquered in the very end.

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One Corinthians 15, the Apostle

Paul talks about that, that.

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On that day, when he takes all things

and puts them into subjection under

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the father's feet, that's that time

that the last enemy to be conquered

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being death is going to be conquered.

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And we talk as well about death.

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Where's your victory?

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Where's your sting?

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And that's about the future that

that's gonna be at that point.

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And Paul says that in one

Corinthians 15 as well.

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He says, then we'll come

to pass the statement.

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Death.

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Where's your victory?

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Where's your sting right now?

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From an earthly perspective, death stings

and death winds that that person is gone.

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They're not there anymore.

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And you feel the sting, and

you feel the loss and the s

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the sadness and the heartache.

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And yet as Christians, we don't

mourn as those without hope.

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And that's where that

phrase comes into being.

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We are going to be sustained

until that day of reunification

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with our lost loved ones by hope.

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By the conviction of the things unseen

and knowing that we will one day be with

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them for eternity right now, death hurts.

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And so for PR and his family as they're

encountering the reality of the impending

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passing of his brother the death of his

brother it does sting and it does hurt.

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And that's why Jesus is going to go head

to head with death in John chapter 11.

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Yeah.

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And our culture wants to normalize

it in the sense that they want

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to sanitize it they want to do

celebrations rather than funerals.

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Right.

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And obviously you wanna celebrate

people's lives, but Right.

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We're not made.

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For death.

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That wasn't God's original design for us.

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A former pastor gave a really

punchy example once that kind of

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has sat with me for a long time.

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And he was talking about how, we go

years and years after somebody we

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love has died and we remember them

and it's odd, it's uncomfortable,

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it's painful when they're not there.

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Mm-hmm.

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And maybe it's Christmas, maybe it's

just a regular Wednesday and it's

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really painful and really, really.

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Really difficult, even years and

years later, and to the testament

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that that's not what we're made for.

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Mm-hmm.

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We're not made for death.

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And he helpfully said, you know what,

if that person who had died came back

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to life you'd be obviously surprised.

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It'd be shocking.

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But 10 years from now, you're not

gonna be like, oh, it's really weird

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that they're here with us alive and

at Christmas dinner, or whatever.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Because that's not how we were made to be.

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Right.

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We're made to be alive, and

so we, we need to be careful.

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We don't normalize it in that sense.

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Right.

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As and as, as much as the culture does.

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Right.

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And it's not an escape too.

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And that's, I think, one of the tragic

things, as I consider it too, is.

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When you look at the lost in the

world, who have rejected God, who have

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rejected the gospel, who have rejected

the existence of life after death for

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them, and this is the unfortunate.

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Reality of those that take their

own lives, it becomes an escape.

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Mm-hmm.

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From pain and suffering and sorrow.

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Mm-hmm.

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And they just want nothing.

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They don't wanna feel anything anymore.

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And the tragic reality is what they

wake up to as death is a doorway.

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As we sing in that Phil Wickham song,

death is a doorway for Christians into

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everlasting life, but for those that

reject Christ into everlasting judgment.

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And so it is sobering.

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Right of Ecclesiastes, king Solomon

says it's better to go to the house

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in mourning than to the house of life.

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For this is the end of all men, and

the living do well to take it to heart.

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So we have occasions to think about our

brevity of life and that reality, and go,

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okay, I need to be ready to meet Jesus.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But the Christian has hope, which is

what we see here in, in John chapter 11.

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Right.

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Absolutely.

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That there is hope that

we have That is, yeah.

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Incredible.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I love the way that John 11

sets up because Jesus is told

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about John's sickness and it says

he loved Mary and Martha and John.

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And so he stayed where he

was for another few days.

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He didn't.

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And we've seen Jesus do amazing things

already in our study of the gospels.

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He's healed the official's child

from a distance and said, you

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know, the official who said,

look, I'm under authority as well.

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If you just say the word

my child would be healed.

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And Jesus does that.

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We've seen him raise the other the little

girl from the death, from the dead.

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The widow's son.

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He raised him from the dead.

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Jesus.

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In that moment without even going to,

Bethany could have just immediately

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in his full deity, said Lazarus.

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Yep, that's right.

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You're not gonna be, you're not gonna die.

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And he doesn't, he stays

and lets Lazarus die.

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And there's that interesting

interchange with the disciples

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where he says, okay, let's go.

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This is a sickness not leading to death.

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He's only sleeping.

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And the disciples are like, well, if

he's sleeping, he's gonna wake up.

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And so Jesus says, he's died.

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He's died.

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And John 11 brings us.

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The sobering impact of

death multiple times.

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It's not just there.

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It's when he shows up and he

begins to weep at the tomb,

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it's the grief that he feels.

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In verse 33, it says, he was deeply

moved in his spirit and greatly

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troubled that the words there in

the Greek conveyed that he was.

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Angry over death.

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And he's not angry at the

people that are weeping.

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He's not angry at Mary and Martha

for being sad that Lazarus is dead.

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He's angry at death

because death is the enemy.

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It's not a part of life, right?

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And so he weeps.

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He's angry there.

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Even when he goes to the

tomb, he's deeply moved again.

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When he comes to this,

he's angry at death.

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He's saying, death, you're

not going to win here.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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And he gives us the explanation for

why he's doing this, which I think is

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a helpful, comforting thing that even

in the present day when we go through

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things right in verse four, he says,

it is for the glory of God so that the

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Son of God may be glorified through it.

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And sometimes we don't get that

direct clarity about our particular

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situations, but we need to remember that.

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We need to remember that these

difficult things and this is specific

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to this situation, of course.

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But we need to remember that God is about

His glory, even in our simple lives.

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Yeah.

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And even in the tragedies that we

face that should bring us comfort.

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Maybe not immediately,

but in a holistic sense.

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It should bring us comfort.

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Yeah, no, for sure it should.

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And yeah, all of John 11

is Jesus setting that up.

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Right.

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And it's similar to when and this

is an even greater scale, when Jesus

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healed the blind man, we saw this

recently, and the disciples came to

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him and said, Hey Lord, who sinned?

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Was it the blind man or was it his

parents that he was born blind?

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And Jesus said it was neither, but

that the glory of God might be seen.

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That the work of God

might be displayed in him.

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And it's kind of the same

thing here with Lazarus.

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He's working this so that he can convey

what he tells to, Marian Martha there,

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what he tells to Martha, at least

when he says in verse 25, he said,

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I am the resurrection and the life.

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Whoever believes in me, though

he die, yet he shall live.

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And he says, and everyone who lives

and believes in me shall never die.

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Do you believe this?

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And Martha's response is one of faith,

and I think I'm convicted by it because

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it's one of sterile doctrine, it seems

to be because she says, yes, Lord, I

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believe that you are the Christ, the

son of God who is coming into the world.

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And it's at one point she says

and I know that in the future

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he's going to live again but not.

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Right.

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She's like, yeah, I know the future

resurrection is coming but right now

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we're just grieving because he's dead.

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And that question, Lord, if you had been

here, you could have done something.

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Why didn't you?

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Why weren't you here?

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Why didn't you do something?

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And so Jesus is trying to

get them to see, no, no, no.

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I the one who I'm here

in the power of this.

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And that truth, that reality.

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Our hope in overcoming the grave

is not ind doctrine and theologies.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's Jesus, it's in.

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Who he is.

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Mm-hmm.

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And that's what he's trying to convey to

Mary and Martha in this this interaction.

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Yeah.

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It's fascinating in this passage, and I

don't, it's not a coincidence going into

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chapter 12 and later, but the responses

that you get one from Martha , that

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you just spoke to, but also Thomas A.

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Little bit up above, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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Fascinating that he says, let us

go also, that we may die with him.

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There's confusion.

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We there, I think we see a little bit of

confusion, uncertainty in even what Martha

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says, although I think that's probably

a better answer than what Thomas gives.

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But by the end of this chapter,

you see clear distinctions, right?

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Yeah.

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The, there's la the lack of clarity

that was there becomes clear,

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and there's those who believe.

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And there's those who want to

kill Jesus towards the end of

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this chapter, which obviously is

the prologue to what comes next.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, he does come to the tomb

and he tells the people there,

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Hey, roll the stone away.

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And you've got the King

James, he stinketh by now.

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Because it had been four days and

there's question as to the significance

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of their, there was a Jewish.

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Belief, and it was tradition that the

spirit of a person remained in their body

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or hovering over the body for three days.

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And so some have said, well, he waited

four days so that nobody could argue.

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Well, the spirit just chose to

reenter the body of Lazarus, and

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that's why all of this happened.

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We're not exactly sure

there, but they obey 'em.

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They take the stone away and LA before.

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Calling him out.

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Jesus prays and he prays for the good

of the people around him, that he allows

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them to e to eavesdrop On his prayer

he says in verse 42, I knew that you

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always hear me, but I said this on

account of the people standing around

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that they may believe that you sent me.

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So Jesus is not expressing this prayer,

doubting whether or not God's gonna

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answer it, but rather he's saying this

to the Father because he wants the

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people around to understand who it is.

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That's really resurrecting Lazarus and

the power that this is taking place with.

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And then he calls Lazarus come out

and the man who had died came out his

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hands and feet bound with linen strips

and his face wrapped with a cloth.

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And Jesus says, unbind him and let him go.

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Everybody's just slack,

jot, and he's like.

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Guys take the C clause off, let

him out so that he can live.

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Just a fascinating story.

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And we don't know much from here about

Lazarus other than he's still involved.

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He's gonna be around and the Pharisees

are now wanting to kill him and Jesus,

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both because Lazarus is a living billboard

of what the power of Jesus can do.

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And he, they're not happy about this.

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And so they the heat gets

turned up here for sure.

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We do know he dies again though.

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He does die again.

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We do know that.

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Yeah, we know that, this is not the

resurrection that we're gonna see

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that Lazarus is gonna see again right

in, in the days to come, which is

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why some people refer to this as a

resuscitation and not a resurrection.

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Resurrection as we think about it, is a

resurrection unto life and not unto death.

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Right.

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And the resurrection that we will

all experience as believers is one

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in which we will never die again.

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Mm-hmm.

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First Corinthians 15.

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Romans chapter six.

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Talks about this resurrection here.

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This is a resuscitation.

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He's back, but he, to your

point, is going to die again.

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Yeah.

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And that's true of also when Jesus dies

on the cross and the tombs are opened

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up and those that are in the tombs

come outta the tombs and walk around.

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I mean, what a strange

situation that one is too.

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They would all eventually die again.

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Jesus is the first roots of

the ultimate resurrection.

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The resurrection, never to die again.

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Yep.

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And all of us will follow in

his footsteps in that, but yeah.

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Lazarus is one of those people

that I'm sure has a long line in

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heaven of people waiting to talk to

him, going, okay, where were you,

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where were you for those four days?

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What was it like?

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What you see?

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Yeah.

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Did you get to having to be like, this

is sweet, and then have God go Lazarus,

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I'm gonna have to send you back.

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That's my question for him.

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Yeah.

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What a letdown.

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Yeah.

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Like, Hey, Lazarus, you died once.

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You're gonna die twice.

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I'm gonna need you to go back.

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Wait a minute, what?

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And then all of a sudden

he hears Lazarus come out.

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He's like, no, no.

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Yeah, who knows, man, I.

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Other than he must have been

as well rested as he had

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ever been in his entire life.

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Yeah.

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That's a good, at that point,

that's gotta be the best sleep Yeah.

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That you could possibly possibly achieve.

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For sure.

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Your sleep score is a hundred percent.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And he's waking up with the rags on

trying to figure out what's going on.

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Yeah.

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That's what, how fascinating man.

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Yeah the Bible's full of

really cool stories like that.

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Yeah.

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It's, and it, not just him, but

you've got the widow's son who died.

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You've got, the little girl that he

said Toletha coo and she rose up.

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You've got all kinds of

stories like that in the Bible.

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So, pretty cools.

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Well, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we when faced with death,

our hearts do feel heavy and they

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grieve, and we do so along with

Pastor Rod and his family right now.

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We pray for him.

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We pray for comfort for them Lord, and in

a way that is unique to what you provide

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for Christians through your spirit comfort

that doesn't come from any other source.

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And so, Lord, I pray that

as they face death even this

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week, that they would do so.

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Not as the world does, but confident

in your victory over death.

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And Lord, I pray that even for Pastor

Rod's brother Philippe right now, that

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even as he is in his last moments, if

he's conscious Lord and aware, I pray that

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his thoughts would be saturated with your

word and your promises and your truth, and

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that'd be holding fast to those things.

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Pray for Mariah, his wife.

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That she would be comforted during

this season as well Lord and

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for Pastor Rod's whole family.

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And so we thank you for Pastor Rod.

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We love him.

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And we thank you for passages like

this one in John chapter 11, that Jesus

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is the resurrection of the life, and

there is confidence and hope that we

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have in him that this is not all there

is, but that there is a life to come.

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And if we believe in him, that

we will have eternal life.

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And we thank you and praise you for that.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said