Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and John 11:38-44.

Raising Lazarus from the dead is the incident that provokes the religious leaders to plot actively for the death of Jesus. See the irony. If Jesus has the power to bring another person back to life, would he not also have the power over his own life? Jesus gives another “I AM” name to Martha and Mary: “I AM the resurrection and the life.”

Next Sunday is Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. Prepare now by rededicating your whole life to the Lord, being one with him in the movements of the coming holiest week of the year.

“I will raise him up on the last day.” One interpretation of this phrase is to see the “last day” as Good Friday. If you are clinging to the cross when Jesus dies, you will rise with him. For John, all this happens at once on that great Friday of our salvation.

John 11

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Example: Faith in You: I’ll never die. v. 25

Fridays are dedicated to the Gospels.
In the Seasons of Lent and Easter this year we read the Gospel of John.

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