From the campus
of Andrews University
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this is "New Perceptions"
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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There's a blessing
in this house for you
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There's a blessing
in this house for you
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Even though you can't see it
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The Lord knows you need it
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Believe me when I tell you
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There's a blessing
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in this house for you
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Let's pray.
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Father, we recognized
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that this is not
like any other morning.
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This is Your Sabbath day
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and we don't
necessarily come with our best.
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We don't necessarily
come having given our all
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but we pray Father,
that as we gaze upon You
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and as we reflect
on the awesome God
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that You are that we would
be compelled by the Holy Spirit
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to offer not just our
best but all of ourselves.
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And that we offer not
just a bit of our time
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but all of our time.
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So Father, move us
this morning in such a way
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that gives You honor and glory.
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In that we may become
living sacrifices to You.
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In Christ name we pray, amen.
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Join us as we sing,
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our opening hymn this
morning Christ is alive.
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Christ is alive!
Let Christians sing
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His cross
stands empty to the sky
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Let streets and
homes with praises ring
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His love in death
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Shall never die
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Christ is alive! No longer bound
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To distant years in Palestine
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He comes to
claim the here and now
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And conquer every place
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And time
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Christ is alive! Ascended Lord
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He rules the
world His father made
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Till, in the end His love adored
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Shall be to all
on earth displayed
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His body the
bread His blood the wine
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Broken and
poured out all for love
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The whole earth
trembled and the veil was torn
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Love so amazing
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Love so amazing
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Jesus Messiah
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Name above all names
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Blessed Redeemer,
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Emmanuel
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The rescue for sinners
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The ransom from heaven
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Jesus Messiah,
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Lord of all
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All our hope is in You
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All our hope is in You
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All the glory to you God
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The light of the world
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Jesus Messiah
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Name above all names
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Blessed Redeemer,
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Emmanuel
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The rescue for sinners
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The ransom from heaven
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Jesus Messiah
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Lord of all
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Jesus Messiah
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Lord of all
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All of You
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Is more than
enough for all of me
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For every thirst and every need
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You satisfy me with Your love
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And all I have in You
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Is more than enough
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You are my supply
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My breath of life
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Still more awesome than I know
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You are my
reward worth living for
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Still more awesome than I know
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All of You is more
than enough for all of me
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For every thirst and every need
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You satisfy me with Your love
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And all I have in You
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Is more than enough
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You're my
sacrifice of greatest price
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And still more
awesome than I know
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You're my coming King
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You are everything
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Still more awesome than I know
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And all of You is more
than enough for all of me
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For every thirst and every need
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You satisfy me with Your love
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And all I have in You
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Is more than enough
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More than all I
want More than all I need
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You are more than enough for me
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More than all I know
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More than all I can say
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You are more than enough
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All of You
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Is more than
enough for all of me
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For every thirst and every need
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You satisfy me with Your love
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And all I have in You
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Is more than enough
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Couple of years ago this side
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of the world in this hemisphere
experienced a catastrophic event
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on the Island of Espaņola.
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It's an island
that shared on one side
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by the Dominican Republic
and on the other side Haiti.
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Since that
tragedy, Andrews University
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in many different
ways has been involved
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in helping to rebuilt some
of the structures that are there
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and revitalized the
university community.
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Chantel is part
of the architectures
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master's program
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and she's gonna
tell us little bit about
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what it's been like
in last couple of years.
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Chantel.
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Good morning, church.
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Imagine-- if you
look around you imagine
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every single person here
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and many more
just being homeless.
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All you have is the
spot that you are in.
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That is pretty much
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what happened to these people
within a matter of minutes.
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And a lot of them are
lucky to still be alive
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but have nowhere to go
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and don't have
structures to work in, no jobs.
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And what we were
trying to do as a school
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as a community has come together
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and try and find a
way that we can help them
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rebuild themselves and to,
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you know, find a way
to get back on their feet.
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Right now in the sister
school in Port-au-Prince
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they have most of their
students almost all their--
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pretty much all their students
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are still
living in tents since--
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since that happened
a couple of years ago.
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And a lot of the buildings they
use to have their own business
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that would-- that would
kind off give them some income,
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those were devastated as well
and they try to work outside
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but it's still not,
you know, sufficient.
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So we're gonna go and
try our best to go out there
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and see what we can do
to try and bring them back
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on their feet and be
able to become better than
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what they were
before the incident so.
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So tomorrow
morning at about 4 am
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15 to 20 architecture students
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are loading a bus
heading to Chicago
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and gonna get on a plane
and spend the next ten days
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in Haiti at our
sister university.
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What's the thing that
you are doing specifically?
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Specifically we have a
couple of different groups
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and a few professionals
coming with us as well
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and we're gonna--
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in the morning
we will be working
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actually physically
building block by block.
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We're going to be
building a parapet wall
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on one of the
churches that were destroyed
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and a lot of the
campus was attacked
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compared to the surroundings
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but they do need
facilities there is no --
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boys dormitory and so
we're going to be designing
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and remodeling and taking notes
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so that we can further
build in projects down there.
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It is awesome to know
that we are part of a community
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that not only rebuilds buildings
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but are resurrecting a
university life down there.
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Could you
imagine coming to school
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and seeing nothing but tents.
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It sounds like camping.
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Don't think I
would enjoy camping
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and ten inches of snow though.
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We're blessed
because these students
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are dedicating their
skills, their education,
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their time along
with the faculty and staff
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in partnership with
the university down there
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to resurrect this campus.
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Our prayers are with you, amen.
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Soon I will be done
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With the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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The troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done
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With the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the
world Troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I'm going to live with God
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I'm going to live with God
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In the morning soon
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I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the
world Troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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I'm going home to live with God
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the
world Troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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I'm going home to live with God
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No more weeping and a wailing
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No more weeping and a wailing
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No more weeping and a wailing
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I'm going to live with God
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No more weeping no more wailing
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No more crying any more tears
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No more weeping
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No more wailing
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No more suffering
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No crying
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No weeping
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No wailing
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the
world Troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I'm going to live with God
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I'm going to live with God
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I'm going to live with God
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I'm going to live with God
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Amen.
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My friend Jim Harry sent me this
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and I am gonna pray with you.
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A century ago these words
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written what's
so-- what's a big deal
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about collective
praying? Here you go.
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The promise of the Holy
Spirit is made on condition
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that the united prayers
of God's people are offered
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and in answer to
"these united prayers"
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here it comes "In answer"
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I twitted this line
last night to send it out
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"An answer to
these united prayers
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there may be expected
a power greater than that
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which comes in
answer to private prayer"
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greater power and the bands
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are bound together in that
laser beam all bound together.
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Greater power in united prayer.
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So come join us
Wednesday night 7 O'clock.
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Let's pray.
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Dear God, one day we shall rise
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and of course
will swell all is well,
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all is well, till that
day may the grace of Christ
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abide with us in the hope of
His return be bright within us
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and let our
teaching this morning
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fan the embers of that hope.
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In this faith we
pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Now a certain man was
sick Lazarus of Bethany
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the town of Mary
and her sister Martha.
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It was that Mary who anointed
the Lord with fragrant oil
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and wiped His feet with her hair
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whose brother Lazarus was sick.
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I want to be honest
with you, let me be please.
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I have wondered,
may be you have too.
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I have wondered does
Jesus have special friends.
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Men, women, teenagers,
young adults, children
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that He is
especially close to, does He?
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More than the others even.
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And as I've wondered --
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I have wondered to myself
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could I become one
of those friends of His?
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Of course, I love being with Him
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but does He love being with me?
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And then I was reading
Desire of Ages this week,
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came across this line
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I wish you read Desire
of Ages in the New Year
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it will bless you to the max,
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this classic on
the life of Jesus.
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So I was reading Desire of Ages
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on this chapter of Lazarus.
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Have a little app on my iPhone,
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EGW you can get it
at the iTune store.
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Everything is at
EGW so I just touch EGW
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and here it is Desire of Ages.
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By the way you can't
afford a whole lot of books
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you get them all
with one little app.
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Desire of Ages
page 524 listen to this,
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the savior -- this is
speaking about of Mary,
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Martha and Lazarus.
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"The Savior blessed
all who sought His help.
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He loves all the human family,"
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Now, here it goes,
"but to some He is"
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not He was "But
to some He is bound
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by peculiarly
tender associations.
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His heart was knit by a
strong bond of affection
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to the family at Bethany,
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and" for them "for one of them
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His most
wonderful work was wrought."
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Isn't that something?
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His heart is bound by peculiarly
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tender associations.
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Apparently there are some people
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that He is able to draw
closer to by the tender ties,
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mutual ties
that draw Him to them
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and them to Him.
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I will tell you what I want be
one of those friends of Jesus.
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I want to be somebody
He wants to be around.
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Besides who knows the
day may not be there far off
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when I'm gonna need
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the very same
miracle Lazarus God.
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I mean you will be
resurrected too may be you too.
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So open your Bible with
me please to John Chapter 11,
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John 11 the most
dramatic narrative
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outside of cavalry
in the fourth gospel.
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This is the longest narrative
without teaching embedded in it.
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Outside of cavalry
this is longest story
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in the fourth gospel.
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Open your Bible to
John 11 a familiar chapter
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but I'm praying that as
we journey back through it
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something fresh will
emerge and the Spirit will say
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that's for you, my friend.
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That one is for you.
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All right, let's go John 11.
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You didn't bring--
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you didn't bring your
own Bible grab a pew Bible.
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It does not have any snow on
it, its warm you can open it up
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and not worry about getting
wet so grab up your Bible.
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It will be page
723 in the pew Bible.
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While you are
doing that I want to--
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we need to do two
things simultaneously
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and so ushers,
thank you right now,
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we want to put in
your hand the brand new,
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this is the first of
the new year study guides.
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So hold your hand up--
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if you didn't
get your study guide
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just hold your
hand up our friendly
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ushers are coming your way.
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Put the title
slide on the screen now
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for those of
you who are watching
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or listening at this moment.
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This is a new series
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they we are
entitling "The Last Days"
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the seven last days of Jesus.
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We're going to
spend the entire semester
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around the seven
last days of Jesus.
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It would be framed of course
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in the fourth gospel
title of today's teaching
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"How To Get
Resurrected This New Year?"
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"How To Get
Resurrected This New Year?
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You got the website,
those who are listening
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watching www.pmchurch.tv
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you look for the new
series the last days,
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you will see a big banner
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click on to the first teaching
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"How To Get
Resurrected This New Year?"
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Says study guide you
have the same study guide
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you want these quotations.
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I trust that will
be a blessing to you.
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All right John 11, let's go,
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John 11:1
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keep your hand up the
ushers are coming your way.
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John 11:1 "Now a
certain man was sick, Lazarus"
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his name really was Eleazar
00:24:29.01\00:24:31.13
it's in the Greek that
it sounds like Lazarus,
00:24:31.16\00:24:33.48
its Eleazar
means God is my help.
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"Now a certain man was
sick Lazarus of Bethany,
00:24:36.98\00:24:38.89
the town of Mary
and her sister Martha.
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It was that Mary who anointed
the Lord with fragrant oil
00:24:41.06\00:24:44.00
and wiped His
feet with her hair,
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whose brother Lazarus was sick."
00:24:46.49\00:24:52.02
John's readers at
the end of the century
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have heard about this Mary.
00:24:54.41\00:24:55.44
So John in
search-- oh, by the way,
00:24:55.47\00:24:57.11
he says I want to tell you
next Sabbath the story about
00:24:57.14\00:24:59.62
of "Perfume and
Tears and Grumpy Old Man."
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That's our teaching next Sabbath
it will be the story about the--
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about what John has just
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mentioned here
Mary with her long hair
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but he wants the readers to know
00:25:08.32\00:25:09.47
before they get to the
story this is the same Mary.
00:25:09.50\00:25:11.47
"Therefore" now verse 3
00:25:11.50\00:25:12.87
"the sisters
sent to Jesus saying
00:25:12.90\00:25:15.02
'Lord behold, he
whom You love is sick.'"
00:25:15.05\00:25:20.52
There are some Christians today
00:25:20.55\00:25:22.30
and I have seen
their preachers on TV
00:25:22.33\00:25:24.14
who are proponents of
what's called the Health
00:25:24.17\00:25:26.66
and Wealth Gospel.
00:25:26.69\00:25:28.11
So called because they teach it
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if you have faith enough
00:25:30.31\00:25:31.56
and if you are close
enough to God you will have--
00:25:31.59\00:25:34.16
you will be healthy
you will be wealthy.
00:25:34.19\00:25:36.45
So buy my book
and figured it out.
00:25:36.48\00:25:40.88
I wish those
preachers and their followers
00:25:40.91\00:25:42.58
would linger extra
long over this line
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you and I have just read,
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this is desperate
message sent by Mary and Martha.
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"The one you love is sick."
00:25:49.98\00:25:54.29
It's a point of reminder to us
00:25:54.32\00:25:55.59
that you can be
very close to Jesus.
00:25:55.62\00:25:57.93
Perhaps even His
closest friend on earth
00:25:57.96\00:26:00.98
and you can still
contract an illness, a disease,
00:26:01.01\00:26:04.52
a condition from which
you will not be healed.
00:26:04.55\00:26:06.79
And from which is we are about
to find out you will be die.
00:26:06.82\00:26:10.52
You can be close to Jesus
00:26:10.55\00:26:12.79
and in that
condition as Lazarus was.
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Living in the land of the enemy
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that's a high price that we pay
00:26:17.52\00:26:19.63
for being friends of Jesus
00:26:19.66\00:26:21.81
but don't let anyone please,
don't let anyone ever tell you
00:26:21.84\00:26:24.95
that it's because you
don't have enough faith
00:26:24.98\00:26:27.09
and you aren't close to Jesus
00:26:27.12\00:26:28.65
that you have been
healed yet, rubbish.
00:26:28.68\00:26:31.48
Just remember
the story of Lazarus
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the one you love is sick.
00:26:32.99\00:26:35.80
Verse 3 we read it again,
00:26:35.83\00:26:36.86
"Therefore the sister
sent to Jesus, saying,
00:26:36.89\00:26:38.42
'Lord, behold, he
whom you love is sick'
00:26:38.45\00:26:41.58
and when Jesus heard that,
00:26:41.61\00:26:43.40
He said, 'This
sickness is not unto death
00:26:43.43\00:26:48.12
but for the glory of the God
00:26:48.15\00:26:49.55
that the son of God may
be glorified through it."
00:26:49.58\00:26:52.45
Oh, my, what are you saying?
00:26:52.48\00:26:56.82
You did that with
the blind man too.
00:26:56.85\00:26:58.49
You said the blind
man was not born blind
00:26:58.52\00:27:00.98
because of his sin so
that God might be glorified.
00:27:01.01\00:27:03.02
Now you are
saying Lazarus is sick
00:27:03.05\00:27:04.42
so that God might be glorified,
so that I might be glorified.
00:27:04.45\00:27:07.47
What are you saying?
00:27:07.50\00:27:10.09
Craig Keener the New Testament
00:27:10.12\00:27:11.32
scholar in his
commentary on John
00:27:11.35\00:27:14.04
I put his words on
the screen for you.
00:27:14.07\00:27:16.27
"Lazarus's sickness
and raising also lead to
00:27:16.30\00:27:20.71
and prefigure Jesus'
own death and resurrection
00:27:20.74\00:27:23.01
and so the promise
of Jesus glorification
00:27:23.04\00:27:26.28
through Lazarus's death
constitutes a double entendre."
00:27:26.31\00:27:32.00
Two meanings, one declaration.
00:27:32.03\00:27:35.15
"Jesus is glorified
00:27:35.18\00:27:38.52
because Lazarus's
raising leads directly
00:27:38.55\00:27:41.00
to Jesus arrest and passion
by which he is glorified."
00:27:41.03\00:27:45.57
In other words,
Jesus is saying hey listen,
00:27:45.60\00:27:47.35
don't worry the disciples
can not comprehend this at all.
00:27:47.38\00:27:50.04
But He is saying
listen I'm gonna be glorified
00:27:50.07\00:27:52.24
because when Lazarus is raised
it would be shown I'm whom I'm.
00:27:52.27\00:27:57.50
You will see that I'm divine.
00:27:57.53\00:27:59.30
And number two,
I will be glorified
00:27:59.33\00:28:01.56
because that
resurrection will precipitate
00:28:01.59\00:28:04.77
my tragic execution.
00:28:04.80\00:28:10.11
His raising will
send me to the cross.
00:28:10.14\00:28:12.61
And in the fourth gospel
whenever Jesus goes to the cross
00:28:12.64\00:28:15.74
that is the
pinnacle glorification,
00:28:15.77\00:28:17.57
that's the
summation of glorification.
00:28:17.60\00:28:19.78
So either way He's
gonna be glorified.
00:28:19.81\00:28:24.31
Verse 5 chance
is, wait a minute--
00:28:24.34\00:28:27.53
I don't want you to think
Jesus is cold and calculating
00:28:27.56\00:28:29.87
hey let the sisters
agonize and Lazarus die.
00:28:29.90\00:28:32.83
No, no, John says, I
need you to know verse 5
00:28:32.86\00:28:34.94
and so He sticks his end.
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"Now Jesus loved Martha and
her sister Mary and Lazarus.
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So," verse 6 "when He
heard that Lazarus was sick,
00:28:43.46\00:28:46.34
He stayed two more days
in this place where He was."
00:28:46.37\00:28:48.85
Now wait a
minute time out there--
00:28:48.88\00:28:50.24
look something is
wrong with this picture.
00:28:50.27\00:28:54.11
I mean you love them really,
00:28:54.14\00:28:55.40
so you chose delay hearing
to their suffering sides.
00:28:55.43\00:29:01.71
Oh, no, Elizabeth
Viera Talbot writes,
00:29:01.74\00:29:05.94
no, no, no there is
nothing wrong with this picture
00:29:05.97\00:29:07.78
this is the way it works.
00:29:07.81\00:29:09.42
I want to put her
words on the screen for you,
00:29:09.45\00:29:10.72
you have to fill them in.
00:29:10.75\00:29:12.19
Her marvelous little
book Jesus one on one,
00:29:12.22\00:29:14.54
John: God Became Flesh.
00:29:14.57\00:29:17.09
Elizabeth Talbot
is a powerful preacher
00:29:17.12\00:29:18.81
in our community of faith.
00:29:18.84\00:29:20.34
We were both together at Arizona
00:29:20.37\00:29:21.91
and Oregon camp meetings this
summer and I will tell you what,
00:29:21.94\00:29:24.90
she is one of the most
powerful preachers I have heard.
00:29:24.93\00:29:28.16
So she wrote this little book
put it on the screen for you.
00:29:28.19\00:29:30.12
"How strange!" Elizabeth writes
00:29:30.15\00:29:31.99
"It doesn't make sense to say.
00:29:32.02\00:29:33.17
'He loved so He
delayed.' Or does it?
00:29:33.20\00:29:35.99
Obviously it isn't
the lack of affection
00:29:36.02\00:29:37.73
that delayed the son of God.
00:29:37.76\00:29:38.81
So what was it?"
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.18
I personal
testimony now "I" she writes
00:29:40.21\00:29:42.88
"have come to trust God's timing
00:29:42.91\00:29:44.56
even though I
usually don't understand it.
00:29:44.59\00:29:46.55
I have a motto that has
helped me countless times,"
00:29:46.58\00:29:49.72
Here comes the motto fill it in.
00:29:49.75\00:29:51.24
"Delays are designed
00:29:51.27\00:29:52.74
to show the magnitude
00:29:52.77\00:29:55.51
the magnitude" "of the miracle."
00:29:55.54\00:29:59.21
You think about it folks,
00:30:02.05\00:30:03.12
if we always got what we wanted,
00:30:03.15\00:30:05.20
when we wanted it the
miraculous nature of God
00:30:05.23\00:30:07.50
response would
hardly be evident.
00:30:07.53\00:30:08.89
I mean, hey, please give
it to me quick, quick, quick.
00:30:08.92\00:30:12.40
Delays are designed to show
the magnitude of the miracle."
00:30:12.43\00:30:16.35
Some of you are
experiencing and a--
00:30:16.38\00:30:18.50
a delay right now
you have been asking
00:30:18.53\00:30:20.57
and asking and
it almost feels like
00:30:20.60\00:30:22.72
nobody is even
listening anymore.
00:30:22.75\00:30:24.81
My friend, could
it be that the delay
00:30:24.84\00:30:27.10
is going to
heighten the magnitude
00:30:27.13\00:30:30.02
of God's intervention one day.
00:30:30.05\00:30:31.70
So don't quit,
don't quit asking,
00:30:31.73\00:30:33.47
don't quit praying.
00:30:33.50\00:30:37.16
Desire of Ages from
this chapter on Lazarus
00:30:37.19\00:30:39.65
this beautiful promise
00:30:39.68\00:30:41.08
and I put it on
the screen for you.
00:30:41.11\00:30:42.92
"To all who are reaching out
to feel the guiding hand of God,
00:30:42.95\00:30:46.44
the moment of
greatest discouragement
00:30:46.47\00:30:49.39
is the time when
divine help is nearest."
00:30:49.42\00:30:52.86
Write that in.
00:30:52.89\00:30:54.55
When you are
the most discouraged
00:30:54.58\00:30:56.40
that's when the
help is nearest from God.
00:30:56.43\00:30:58.95
Keep reading,
"They will look back
00:30:58.98\00:31:00.96
with thankfulness upon the
darkest part of their way."
00:31:00.99\00:31:05.91
You look back and
say thank you, Jesus.
00:31:05.94\00:31:09.31
You were that close
00:31:09.34\00:31:10.78
I didn't sense it
then but thank You.
00:31:10.81\00:31:13.52
So take courage my friend,
00:31:13.55\00:31:16.17
and in your
darkness hang on to Him
00:31:16.20\00:31:17.97
for when God does respond.
00:31:18.00\00:31:19.41
You will see the
magnitude of His miracle.
00:31:19.44\00:31:22.04
So Jesus delays two more days.
00:31:22.07\00:31:23.78
Not a word about Lazarus,
00:31:23.81\00:31:25.73
not a word about Mary and Martha
00:31:25.76\00:31:28.65
and suddenly after
two days He says, hey,
00:31:28.68\00:31:30.01
let' s go back to
Judea and the disciple say--
00:31:30.04\00:31:32.24
they forgot all about
Lazarus, Mary and Martha.
00:31:32.27\00:31:34.08
What don't You
understand that in chapter 10
00:31:34.11\00:31:37.18
they just tried to stone you.
00:31:37.21\00:31:38.54
You can't go back to Judea.
00:31:38.57\00:31:40.13
Verse 9, "Jesus answered,"
00:31:43.78\00:31:46.13
look "'Are there not
twelve hours in the day?
00:31:46.16\00:31:49.58
If anyone walks in the
day, he does not stumble,
00:31:49.61\00:31:52.67
because he sees the
light in this world."
00:31:52.70\00:31:54.67
"But" verse 10 "if
one walks in the night,
00:31:54.70\00:31:57.52
he stumbles, because
the light is not in him."'
00:31:57.55\00:32:01.07
My hour is not quite
yet, its still life for me.
00:32:01.10\00:32:06.29
We must go "These" verse 11
00:32:06.32\00:32:08.74
"These things He said and
after that He said to them"
00:32:08.77\00:32:11.40
oh and by the way
"'Our friend Lazarus sleeps,
00:32:11.43\00:32:15.50
but I go that I
may wake him up.'"
00:32:15.53\00:32:17.95
His disciples who are
always taking Him literally
00:32:17.98\00:32:20.68
"His disciples said, 'Lord,
if he sleeps he will get well."'
00:32:20.71\00:32:23.79
Everybody knows a
sick man needs his rest.
00:32:23.82\00:32:27.05
However verse 13,
"Jesus spoke of Lazarus death
00:32:27.08\00:32:30.41
but they thought He was speaking
about taking rest in sleep.
00:32:30.44\00:32:32.72
Then Jesus said to them plainly"
00:32:32.75\00:32:34.44
verse 14, "'Lazarus is dead."'
00:32:34.47\00:32:39.68
Isn't that stunning?
00:32:39.71\00:32:41.52
I mean look at-- jot this down
00:32:41.55\00:32:42.58
"To the word made flesh
what is death but a sleep."
00:32:42.61\00:32:48.57
A dreamless sleep from
which you can be awaken one day,
00:32:48.60\00:32:52.37
that's what Jesus is
teaching His disciples
00:32:52.40\00:32:54.12
that's what He is teaching
00:32:54.15\00:32:55.20
that's what He is
telling you and me this morning.
00:32:55.23\00:32:57.41
When you die you fall asleep.
00:32:57.44\00:33:00.00
Now you may
fall asleep gradually
00:33:00.03\00:33:02.09
as death for some approaches
00:33:02.12\00:33:05.40
or you may fall asleep
suddenly even violently
00:33:05.43\00:33:12.60
but no matter how
death comes you fall asleep.
00:33:12.63\00:33:16.75
But I can awaken you
"Our friend Lazarus is dead,
00:33:16.78\00:33:21.19
but I am going to awaken him!"
00:33:21.22\00:33:24.61
That's the point
00:33:24.64\00:33:27.32
when I had my unexpected
surgery this last march
00:33:27.35\00:33:31.50
they wheeled me
into the operating room
00:33:31.53\00:33:32.71
at Lakeland hospital.
00:33:32.74\00:33:33.77
They're just a fine
team docs and nurses there.
00:33:33.80\00:33:40.20
So they wheeled me
into the operating room
00:33:40.23\00:33:42.01
and a cheery nurse tells me
00:33:42.04\00:33:43.96
that this is time
to me to go to sleep
00:33:43.99\00:33:48.24
as if I could protest.
00:33:48.27\00:33:49.90
There was no
countdown 60, 59, 58
00:33:49.93\00:33:52.91
it was just like that gone.
00:33:52.94\00:33:57.49
I was as we say
dead to the world,
00:33:57.52\00:34:01.69
dead to the world.
00:34:01.72\00:34:05.33
A very next voice I
heard was another cheery nurse
00:34:05.36\00:34:11.50
in recovery saying
Dwight, its time to wake up.
00:34:11.53\00:34:15.19
Dwight, Dwight, Dwight,
00:34:15.22\00:34:16.25
wake up, wake up and I woke up.
00:34:16.28\00:34:20.31
I had absolutely no clue
as to the passage of time,
00:34:20.34\00:34:22.80
was it two
minutes was it two hours
00:34:22.83\00:34:24.59
was it two days I didn't know.
00:34:24.62\00:34:28.86
I knew nothing, I heard nothing,
00:34:28.89\00:34:31.66
I felt nothing, its
gone then I woke up.
00:34:31.69\00:34:38.69
Because of the sleep metaphor
the Jesus intentionally uses,
00:34:38.72\00:34:41.51
here by the way the
Old Testament is rife
00:34:41.54\00:34:43.84
with this metaphor as
it is the New Testament
00:34:43.87\00:34:45.81
because of this metaphor
00:34:45.84\00:34:46.91
we know that for
all who die the space
00:34:46.94\00:34:50.09
between their death
and return of Christ
00:34:50.12\00:34:52.61
is compressed into
one single spilt second.
00:34:52.64\00:34:58.03
Just like that.
00:34:58.06\00:34:59.26
I like the way my
friend, Cliff Goldstein
00:34:59.29\00:35:01.04
described in an column
he wrote this last summer
00:35:01.07\00:35:02.82
in Adventist Review, June.
00:35:02.85\00:35:05.49
Put it on the screen for you
00:35:05.52\00:35:06.58
and you have it in your study
guide you have to fill it in
00:35:06.61\00:35:08.16
"Whether Abel, the
first recorded dead man,
00:35:08.19\00:35:11.03
or whether the
last saint to perish
00:35:11.06\00:35:12.57
before probation
closes," before Jesus comes
00:35:12.60\00:35:15.07
"or whether the
untold number of deceased
00:35:15.10\00:35:17.30
in between as far
as they are concerned"
00:35:17.33\00:35:20.10
all the death are concerned,
"Jesus comes instantly."
00:35:20.13\00:35:24.67
Instantly our
eyes close in death
00:35:24.70\00:35:27.11
and our next sensation
whether after five millennia
00:35:27.14\00:35:30.46
or five minutes
is Christ's return.
00:35:30.49\00:35:36.09
Abel's
experience will be the same
00:35:36.12\00:35:37.74
as everyone else's
who has died in faith."
00:35:37.77\00:35:40.98
For it be just a
spilt second for Abel.
00:35:41.01\00:35:45.93
Our friend Lazarus,
how did Jesus put it
00:35:45.96\00:35:48.73
"Our friend Lazarus is death,
but I am going to awaken him!"
00:35:48.76\00:35:55.18
And so they come striding
into that little village
00:35:55.21\00:35:57.15
about two miles away from
Jerusalem and been to Bethany.
00:35:57.18\00:36:02.53
They come to the
outskirts of the village
00:36:02.56\00:36:03.66
and they discovered the Lazarus
had already been dead four days.
00:36:03.69\00:36:09.99
Verse 20 "Now Martha"
she hears about them coming.
00:36:10.02\00:36:15.03
"Now Martha, as
soon as she heard
00:36:15.06\00:36:16.16
that Jesus was coming,"
00:36:16.19\00:36:17.39
and Jesus wisely
stayed out of the village.
00:36:17.42\00:36:19.83
There's a death
threat on Him you understand.
00:36:19.86\00:36:22.90
He is not going to precipitate
and an untimely death.
00:36:22.93\00:36:26.94
He will dictate
the terms and the time
00:36:26.97\00:36:30.49
but He wisely stays
outside the village.
00:36:30.52\00:36:34.19
Martha when "she heard that
00:36:34.22\00:36:35.25
Jesus was
coming, went and met Him,
00:36:35.28\00:36:36.77
but Mary was still
sitting in the house.
00:36:36.80\00:36:42.79
Now Martha said to Jesus,"
00:36:42.82\00:36:44.89
verse 21, oh, how
often we have heard,
00:36:44.92\00:36:48.30
perhaps even spoken
these words ourselves.
00:36:48.33\00:36:50.48
"'Lord, if You had been here,
00:36:50.51\00:36:53.77
my brother would not have died."
00:36:53.80\00:36:58.36
Oh, God what were You thinking,
00:36:58.39\00:37:00.98
we were asking and
praying and pleading.
00:37:01.01\00:37:04.82
We had many
people asking and pray
00:37:04.85\00:37:07.87
and pleading why didn't
You come when we needed You?
00:37:07.90\00:37:11.29
Martha goes on verse 22
00:37:17.06\00:37:19.86
"'But even now I know
that whatever You ask of God,
00:37:19.89\00:37:22.90
God will give You.'
00:37:22.93\00:37:24.99
Jesus said to her, 'Your
brother will rise again.'"
00:37:25.02\00:37:28.66
No hint that it will be today.
Your brother will rise again.
00:37:28.69\00:37:32.57
"Martha said to Him, 'I
know that he will rise again
00:37:32.60\00:37:34.46
in the
resurrection at the last day.'"
00:37:34.49\00:37:36.02
Verse 25, but
"Jesus said to her,
00:37:36.05\00:37:38.00
'I am'" I am the bread,
00:37:38.03\00:37:45.93
I am the water,
00:37:45.96\00:37:48.64
I am the light, I am the wine,
00:37:48.67\00:37:53.65
"'I am the
resurrection and the life.
00:37:53.68\00:37:59.01
He who believes in Me,
00:37:59.04\00:38:00.23
though he may
die, he shall live.'
00:38:00.26\00:38:02.88
And whoever
believes and whoever lives
00:38:02.91\00:38:04.84
and believes in
Me shall never die.'"
00:38:04.87\00:38:07.44
Can't mean he will
never die Lazarus just died.
00:38:07.47\00:38:11.58
"'Whoever lives and
believes in Me shall never die.
00:38:11.61\00:38:13.67
Do you believe this?
00:38:13.70\00:38:14.82
And she said to Him, 'Yes, Lord,
00:38:14.85\00:38:17.08
I believe that
You are the Christ,
00:38:17.11\00:38:19.77
the Son of God, who is
to come into the world.'"
00:38:19.80\00:38:25.06
Martha then sends
quietly word to Mary.
00:38:25.09\00:38:28.83
She wants the authorities
to know that Jesus is here.
00:38:28.86\00:38:31.88
She sends a word to Mary.
00:38:31.91\00:38:33.68
Mary her eyes swollen red
00:38:33.71\00:38:35.72
with tears comes
running to Jesus.
00:38:35.75\00:38:38.92
Verse 32 "And when
Mary came where Jesus was,
00:38:38.95\00:38:41.34
and saw Him, she
fell down at His feet"
00:38:41.37\00:38:45.44
You can see this in your eye.
00:38:45.47\00:38:47.46
"She fell down at His feet,
00:38:47.49\00:38:51.28
saying to Him,
'Lord,'" the identical words,
00:38:51.31\00:38:53.23
"'Lord if you had been here,
00:38:53.26\00:38:57.32
my brother would not have died.'
00:38:57.35\00:39:02.25
Therefore, when
Jesus saw her weeping,
00:39:02.28\00:39:05.23
and the Jews who
came with her weeping,
00:39:05.26\00:39:07.90
He groaned in the spirit"
00:39:07.93\00:39:09.48
this is deeply
emotional language in the Greek.
00:39:09.51\00:39:12.17
"He groaned in the
spirit and was troubled.
00:39:12.20\00:39:15.24
And he said,
'Where have you laid him?'
00:39:15.27\00:39:16.84
And they said to Him,
'Lord, come and see.'"
00:39:16.87\00:39:19.70
And verse 35 shortest line
in all scripture, "Jesus wept."
00:39:19.73\00:39:27.67
On this page of my
Bible right at the top,
00:39:27.70\00:39:30.34
I have these words by the poet
William Blake scribbled in pen
00:39:30.37\00:39:34.69
"Till our grief is fled and gone
00:39:34.72\00:39:39.73
He doth sit by us and moan."
00:39:39.76\00:39:46.07
"Jesus wept" The
word made flesh, wept.
00:39:46.10\00:39:52.01
A writer somewhere and
I don't know who or where
00:39:54.06\00:39:58.52
but I will not forget
the line put it this way.
00:39:58.55\00:40:02.35
When Jesus wept the
ground of all being shook.
00:40:02.38\00:40:08.12
Jesus wept.
00:40:11.40\00:40:13.01
Christianity is
the only religion
00:40:13.04\00:40:17.44
beautiful baptism this
morning of our Hindu students
00:40:17.47\00:40:22.88
who has accepted Jesus Christ
are sure as his Lord and Savior.
00:40:22.91\00:40:27.43
Christianity is the
only religion on the earth
00:40:27.46\00:40:30.75
with the God of the
religion is immersed
00:40:30.78\00:40:35.08
in the
suffering of his children.
00:40:35.11\00:40:41.06
But Desire of Ages
draws the veil of side
00:40:41.09\00:40:44.07
to this two word deceleration.
00:40:44.10\00:40:47.86
With these words I put
it on the screen for you.
00:40:47.89\00:40:49.66
This is something but--
00:40:49.69\00:40:50.75
"But it was not only
because of His human sympathy
00:40:50.78\00:40:52.90
with Mary and
Martha that Jesus wept.
00:40:52.93\00:40:55.00
In his tears there was a sorrow
00:40:55.03\00:40:56.59
as high above human sorrow
00:40:56.62\00:40:58.39
as the heavens are
higher than the earth.
00:40:58.42\00:41:00.56
The weight of the
grief of ages was upon Him.
00:41:00.59\00:41:03.54
He saw the terrible effects
00:41:03.57\00:41:04.70
of the
transgression of God's law.
00:41:04.73\00:41:06.38
He saw that in the
history of the world,
00:41:06.41\00:41:08.00
beginning with
the death of Abel,
00:41:08.03\00:41:09.58
the conflict between good
and evil had been unceasing.
00:41:09.61\00:41:12.89
Looking down the years to come,"
to where you come and I come
00:41:12.92\00:41:16.41
"He saw the
suffering and sorrow,
00:41:16.44\00:41:18.11
the tears and death that
were to be the lot of all of us.
00:41:18.14\00:41:21.58
His heart was
pierced with the pain
00:41:21.61\00:41:23.77
of the human family of
all ages and in all lands.
00:41:23.80\00:41:27.57
The woes of the sinful
race were heavy upon His soul,
00:41:27.60\00:41:31.58
and the fountain" write that in.
00:41:31.61\00:41:33.76
This wasn't just a little tear
that trickled down his cheek.
00:41:33.79\00:41:36.69
"And the fountain of
His tears was broken up
00:41:36.72\00:41:40.60
as He longed to
relieve all our distress."
00:41:40.63\00:41:47.83
The fountain,
00:41:47.86\00:41:49.99
He didn't pull a hanky
out and say sniffles once.
00:41:50.02\00:41:52.40
He is sobbing now,
00:41:52.43\00:41:54.58
He is sobbing
beside that grave, a cave.
00:41:54.61\00:42:01.01
Jesus wept-- and because
he did ladies and gentlemen,
00:42:01.04\00:42:04.35
there is hope for
the likes of you and me,
00:42:04.38\00:42:07.15
because he wept.
00:42:07.18\00:42:10.30
Verse 38 "And Jesus
again groaning in Himself,
00:42:10.33\00:42:13.71
came to the tomb.
00:42:13.74\00:42:14.77
It was a cave, and a
stone lay against it.
00:42:14.80\00:42:17.25
Jesus said,
'Take away the stone.'
00:42:17.28\00:42:19.06
Martha" just oh-- don't move.
00:42:19.09\00:42:22.69
Master, you
apparently misunderstood me.
00:42:22.72\00:42:28.62
"Martha, the sister
of him who was dead,
00:42:28.65\00:42:30.09
said to Him, 'Lord, by
this time there is a stench,
00:42:30.12\00:42:35.05
for he has been
dead four days.'"
00:42:35.08\00:42:38.34
Twice now in a single narrative
00:42:38.37\00:42:40.59
we have been reminded
he has been dead four days.
00:42:40.62\00:42:45.56
Craig Keener notes
that among Palestinian Jews
00:42:45.59\00:42:48.13
at the time of Christ there
was a tradition they believed
00:42:48.16\00:42:51.01
that after the death of
an individual the person
00:42:51.04\00:42:53.54
or the soul of
the deceased remain
00:42:53.57\00:42:58.39
in that place for
three more days until--
00:42:58.42\00:43:00.94
until decomposition set in.
00:43:00.97\00:43:06.62
And at the end of the third day
00:43:06.65\00:43:09.41
as the decomposition set in
00:43:09.44\00:43:11.23
that the person
quote and quote "Left."
00:43:11.26\00:43:17.73
It is no accident then that
Jesus waits until the fourth day
00:43:17.76\00:43:21.99
to come to make certain
that no bid of folk law,
00:43:22.02\00:43:25.00
no little local tradition
would be allow to counteract
00:43:25.03\00:43:28.08
and gainsay what is
about to take place.
00:43:28.11\00:43:30.71
And Martha's
interrupting response
00:43:30.74\00:43:32.73
at the grave loud enough
for everyone there to hear
00:43:32.76\00:43:36.75
confirms that is a
death four days old.
00:43:36.78\00:43:42.43
Decomposition has now
set in, in that hot climate.
00:43:42.46\00:43:46.85
That's what happens.
00:43:46.88\00:43:48.29
It's the fourth day.
00:43:51.83\00:43:55.63
Verse 40, "Jesus
said to her Martha,
00:43:55.66\00:43:58.97
'Didn't I say to you
that if you would believe you
00:43:59.00\00:44:00.85
would see the glory of God?'"
00:44:00.88\00:44:03.33
And take that stone away
00:44:03.36\00:44:05.60
verse 41 "Then they took
away the stone from the place
00:44:05.63\00:44:08.87
where the dead man was lying.
00:44:08.90\00:44:10.95
And Jesus lifted up His eyes
00:44:10.98\00:44:15.10
and He said "Father,
00:44:15.13\00:44:17.07
I thank you that
you have heard Me.
00:44:17.10\00:44:20.09
And I know that
you always hear Me,
00:44:20.12\00:44:22.11
but because of the people
who are standing by I said this,
00:44:22.14\00:44:24.95
that they may
believe you sent Me.
00:44:24.98\00:44:27.70
Now when He had
said these things,
00:44:27.73\00:44:30.29
He cried with a loud voice,
megale phone in the Greek.
00:44:30.32\00:44:35.11
Megaphone, He cries
out with a megaphone voice,
00:44:35.14\00:44:38.17
"'Lazarus come forth!'"
00:44:38.20\00:44:43.72
And Verse 44,
00:44:43.75\00:44:44.79
"And he who had died
00:44:44.82\00:44:47.91
came out bound hand and
foot with grave clothes,
00:44:47.94\00:44:52.05
and his face
wrapped with a cloth.
00:44:52.08\00:44:54.55
Jesus said to them,
'Loose him, let him go.'"
00:44:54.58\00:45:00.72
Death be not proud so loose him,
00:45:00.75\00:45:06.32
let him go, I'm
resurrection in the life.
00:45:06.35\00:45:12.21
He who believes in Me though
he dies yet shall he live,
00:45:12.24\00:45:16.46
she who believes in me though
she dies yet shall she live.
00:45:16.49\00:45:23.52
With incontrovertible evidence
00:45:23.55\00:45:26.64
Christ says now proven His claim
00:45:26.67\00:45:28.51
that He is
Almighty God made flesh.
00:45:28.54\00:45:32.08
Sanctified imagination,
00:45:37.84\00:45:40.36
it's not hard to
picture the glorious pandemonium
00:45:40.39\00:45:44.72
that explodes around
that grave cloths corpse
00:45:44.75\00:45:48.74
who with tiny little
steps has made his way
00:45:48.77\00:45:52.42
to the front of the cave.
00:45:52.45\00:45:55.07
And no doubt he's
calling out through the cloth,
00:45:55.10\00:45:59.91
would somebody unwind me?
00:45:59.94\00:46:01.99
Desire of Ages concludes
the chapter with these words,
00:46:06.45\00:46:10.65
"Lazarus is set free,
00:46:10.68\00:46:14.89
and stands before the company,
00:46:14.92\00:46:16.00
not as one
emaciated from disease,
00:46:16.03\00:46:17.74
and with
feeble, tottering limbs,
00:46:17.77\00:46:19.41
but as a man in
the prime of life,
00:46:19.44\00:46:21.30
and in the vigor
of a noble manhood.
00:46:21.33\00:46:23.36
His eyes beam with intelligence
and love for his Savior."
00:46:23.39\00:46:28.42
You can just see
that look on his face
00:46:28.45\00:46:30.30
locked on Jesus eyes.
00:46:30.33\00:46:33.09
"His eyes beam
00:46:33.12\00:46:36.21
with intelligence and
with love for his Savior."
00:46:36.24\00:46:38.15
And in a detail note
recorded in the gospel.
00:46:38.18\00:46:41.60
"He casts himself in adoration
00:46:41.63\00:46:46.61
at the feet of Jesus."
00:46:46.64\00:46:50.56
What else will we do on
that great getting up morning,
00:46:50.59\00:46:54.15
when from the dust of the earth
00:46:54.18\00:46:55.64
we arise to gaze upon
the face of our life giver.
00:46:55.67\00:47:00.82
Will we not too cast ourselves
00:47:00.85\00:47:04.24
in attrition at His feet?
00:47:04.27\00:47:09.99
Desire of Ages, continues
00:47:10.02\00:47:11.50
"The beholders are
at first speechless"
00:47:11.53\00:47:14.36
this is a great understanding.
00:47:14.39\00:47:16.35
"The beholders are at
first speechless with amazement.
00:47:16.38\00:47:20.43
Then there
follows an inexpressible"
00:47:20.46\00:47:23.13
meaning there
is way to tell you.
00:47:23.16\00:47:24.67
"Then there follows
an inexpressible scene
00:47:24.70\00:47:26.88
of rejoicing and thanksgiving.
00:47:26.91\00:47:28.47
The sisters receive
their brother back to life
00:47:28.50\00:47:30.44
as a gift of God,
and with joyful tears"
00:47:30.47\00:47:33.34
Mary and Martha,
"brokenly are trying
00:47:33.37\00:47:34.90
to express their
thanks to the savior.
00:47:34.93\00:47:36.43
But while
brothers, sisters and friends
00:47:36.46\00:47:38.14
are rejoicing in this reunion,
00:47:38.17\00:47:40.14
Jesus withdraws from the scene."
00:47:40.17\00:47:42.79
And "When they
look for the Life-giver,
00:47:42.82\00:47:46.28
He is not to be found."
00:47:46.31\00:47:49.09
He is gone.
00:47:49.12\00:47:50.34
The end.
00:47:53.97\00:47:56.62
Let me conclude by sharing
with you two fascinating facts.
00:47:56.65\00:48:02.34
Fascinating fact number one,
00:48:02.37\00:48:03.58
did you know
that in John's gospel,
00:48:03.61\00:48:06.51
Jesus public
ministry begins and ends
00:48:06.54\00:48:10.06
with a public
miracle. Did you know that?
00:48:10.09\00:48:12.88
It begins with the happiest
00:48:12.91\00:48:13.96
of all human
gatherings a wedding,
00:48:13.99\00:48:16.15
where Jesus turns
the water into wine
00:48:16.18\00:48:19.02
and it ends with the saddest
00:48:19.05\00:48:21.05
of all human
gatherings a funeral
00:48:21.08\00:48:23.63
where Jesus
turns dead into life.
00:48:23.66\00:48:28.80
A miracle at the
beginning at a wedding
00:48:28.83\00:48:32.13
and a miracle at
the end at a funeral
00:48:32.16\00:48:36.56
because when
Jesus is in your story,
00:48:36.59\00:48:40.17
there is a
miracle in store for you.
00:48:40.20\00:48:44.96
Write that down.
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.64
When Jesus is in your story,
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there is a
miracle in store for you.
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So what's a miracle in
store for you this New Year?
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Could it be a resurrection?
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You say come on Dwight,
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I'm not dead yet, I
hardly need one of those.
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Let me rephrase the question.
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Could it-- is there anything
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in your life
right now that is dying?
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Something down deep inside
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that is ebbing away
in spite of all the CPR
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that you have
administered to keep it living.
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It could be a
relationship that is dying,
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a friend, a
lover, a child, a parent
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right before
your eyes it is dying.
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It could be a marriage.
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And in spite of
all the resuscitation
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that you have
attempted it is slipping away
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while you watch in
heart broken disbelief.
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It could be an ambition
that you've cling to for years
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hoping against hope
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that the right
opportunity for that ambition
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might yet present
itself but after all this time
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it is finally clear
that, that opportunity
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is not gonna ever come your way
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and that
ambition will have to die.
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Is there anything in your life
this New Year that is dying?
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Your academic dream,
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the major you would always
hope to successfully conquer
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but your grades have made
its clear the dream is dead.
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You'll have to
change that major,
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you'll have to
abandon that career.
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Perhaps it's your
health it's dying,
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and try as you
and the doctors have,
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you can't turn it around
and death seems inevitable.
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It maybe your faith
that is on its death bed.
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No amount of girding
and striving and pretending
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seems able to resuscitate
the faith you grew up with.
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Could it be and anyone of these
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might be a
miracle in store for you.
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The resurrection you have
been longing for this New Year,
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I suppose it could.
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But, but, what if,
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what we want to have resurrected
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isn't what needs
to be resurrected.
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What if Jesus has
purposely stayed away
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just long enough for
that which is dying in me
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to die in me, be it my health,
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or my ambition, my
dreams, in my marriage,
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what if He stays away in hopes
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that with that dying.
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I might turn to Him
as I never would have
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had that which is
dying not died in me.
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Does my brooding make sense?
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Are you following this?
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What if, what if what is dying
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is not what needs
resurrecting right now
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as important or as
precious as that dying is to me?
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What if as it was with Martha?
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But Jesus longs to
resurrect most this New Year
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is an unshakable trust in Him
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and unbreakable bound with Him.
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"What if He allows
that particular death in me,
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so that He might resurrect
that particular part of me?"
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So He allows that
ambition in me to die
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that He might resurrect
an ambition to live for Him.
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So He allows that
relationship to die in me
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so that He might resurrect
in relationship to live for Him.
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So that He allows
that dream to die in me
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that He might resurrect
a dream to live for Him.
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Fascinating fact number one,
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"A miracle at the
beginning, a miracle at the end,
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because when
Jesus is in your story,
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a miracle is in store for you."
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And finally
fascinating fact number two,
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archeologist have discovered
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a burial cave in Bethany today,
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that days back to
the time of Christ
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and inside that cave
they examine the walls
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and they discover a list of
names carved on those walls.
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And as they carefully
read through their names,
00:53:14.83\00:53:16.72
they came upon three
names that appear together,
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Mary, Martha and Eleazar
which in Greek is Lazarus.
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Isn't that something?
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Dust is all that
remains of their remains
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but when they
were buried trust me,
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I know this is true.
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When they were
buried those three siblings,
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those three friends of Jesus
I'm certain enough to believe
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you can be absolutely
certain too that each of them,
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I don't know who died first
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but each of them died confident
in the unassailable truth.
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That one day
some day their friend
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and Savior Jesus would return
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to that very
same cave in Bethany.
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One day He will call all
three of them forth to life
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with Him forever and ever, amen.
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And that my
friend, is the miracle
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that is in store for you too.
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If my friend,
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if Jesus is in your story too,
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so the question is, this
New Year is He in your story?
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Take out your hymnal, please.
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Turn to hymn 175.
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A powerful
confession of the life
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that is
resurrected in Christ Jesus.
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Let us stand as
we sing hymn 175.
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Now the green blade
rises from the buried grain
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Wheat that in dark
earth many days has lain
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Love lives again,
that with the dead has been
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Love is come again
like wheat arising green
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In the grave they laid
Him Love by hatred slain
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Thinking that He
would never wake again
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Laid in the earth like
a grain that sleeps unseen
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Love is come again
like wheat arising green
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Forth He came in
triumph Like the risen grain
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He that for three
days in the grave had lain
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Raised from the dead
My living Lord is seen
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Love is come again
like wheat arising green
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When our hearts are
wintry, grieving, or in pain
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Your touch can call
us back to life again
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Fields of our hearts
that dead and bare have been
00:57:17.04\00:57:23.65
Love is come again
like wheat arising green
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Father, we pray
what we have sung
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when our hearts are
wintry, grieving, or in pain
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Your touch can call
us back to life again.
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Oh, God,
resurrect us this New Year
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through Christ Jesus our Lord
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who is the
resurrection in the life, amen.
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