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"And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth." John 11:43 "And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth." John 11:43
Even that small respite is refused him. Why? Because he was in the natural sense of the word a son of Abraham, a member of the church. He spoke to his own condemnation, for he showed plainly that he had known the way and had not walked in it. He knew that God demanded mercy, and not sacrifice, love,
You who have loved ones far from home may sometimes desire that this work of this young Russian doctor could become advanced and perfected, or better still, that our Lord could lay His hand or speak His Word of Life over those who have gone beyond. And that is to be understood but that desire should
This, finally, brings us to the question, why Jesus recalled Lazarus back to this human life. The deep reason for this was not certainly to dry the tears of these sisters through restoring to them their diseased brother. This reason Jesus Himself disclosed when He said, "This sickness is not unto de
Rev. Dick is pastor of Grace Protestant Reformed Church in Standale, Michigan. The history recorded in John 11 is about Jesus' raising from the dead one Lazarus. We do not know much of Lazarus. He was of the town of Bethany, nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs (two miles) off (11:18). His
right at the gate of the rich man's mansion. The rich man saw Lazarus every day as he went to and from his palace. And every day the rich man had a God-given opportunity to show kindness and to do good to this suffering brother in Israel. Moreover, it would cost this rich man nothing to help thi
Men, having taken the stone away, left Jesus standing before that open grave. But all is not yet ready. You see, every step that Jesus takes is marked with divine purpose. He lifts up his eyes toward heaven and prays. He would have everyone present know how close is that union between him and h
So that whenever you read of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat in sacred scripture, You read, He is Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. So, when scripture refers to Lazarus, it always refers to Lazarus as the man whom Jesus raised from the dead. That's who Lazarus is. John chapter 12 ve
And finally, there's a lesson for us on the sufficiency of scripture. Jesus begins his parable as he does in other parables as well by speaking of a certain rich man. The rich man in this parable is a natural child of Abraham. He's a Jew. And that comes out in the parable as the man later cries
Verse 1 of chapter 12 tells us that it is six days before the Passover. The Passover is the day upon which Jesus will be crucified. So it's six days before he's hung upon the cross. In the portion of John 11 that we didn't read, that we skipped over, we're told that the leaders of the Jews have