1. Raised from the Dead Doctrine of suffering and Death
John 11:1-44
John 11:1–44 (ESV) — 1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” 12 The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” 17 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.” 28 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29 And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. 31 When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?” 38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” 44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

2. What is death Where to the dead go. What happened to Lazarus
What is death Where to the dead go? What happened to Lazarus? Was Lazarus really dead?
 What is death
 Where to the dead go?
 What happened to Lazarus?
 Was Lazarus really dead?
 Does God allow suffering? For what purpose?
John 9—Blind man

3. Does God allow suffering? For what purpose?

4. The Story Jesus waits 2 more days
Remember the blind man healed in John 9
What is the reason for suffering?
According to the will of God—Blind man
Jesus waits 2 more days
Remember the blind man healed in John 9
What is the reason for suffering?
According to the will of God—Blind man
John 9:1–3 (ESV) — 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

5. Lazarus
John 11:3–6 (ESV) — 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.  
John 11:3–6 (ESV) — 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.  

6. The Delays of Jesus God is never in a hurry. He is always on time.
Jesus hears that Lazarus was in the grave for 4 days
Martha runs to meet Jesus
“If you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Said by both Martha and Mary
God is never in a hurry. He is always on time.
Now, let’s go to Bethany-
Disciples thought Jesus would be killed
Let’s go and die with Him
Lazarus is asleep, He has died
Disciples thought they would die with Jesus
John 11:14–15 (ESV) — 14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
Jesus took two more days to get there.
Jesus hears that Lazarus was in the grave for 4 days
Martha runs to meet Jesus
“If you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Said by both Martha and Mary
John 11:23–27 (ESV) — 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
Mary comes to Jesus and is weeping
“If you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 

7. Jesus wept Jesus goes to the tomb where Lazarus was buried
Jesus calls him out of the tomb 
Jesus goes to the tomb where Lazarus was buried
Jesus calls him out of the tomb 

8. Criticism of people—Same as today
But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?” John 11:37 (ESV)
 John 11:37 (ESV) But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

9. Salvation Pictured as Resurrection from the dead
Giving of life to the dead
“Life” is used 36 times in John
Lazarus represents of the sinner
Giving of life to the dead
“Life” is used 36 times in John
Lazarus represents of the sinner

10. John 11:14 (ESV) Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
He Was Dead (11:14)
John 11:14 (ESV) Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
The non believer in Jesus is not just sick, he is dead
Spiritually Dead
Ephesians 2:1–3 (ESV) — 1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. . .
John 11:14 (ESV) Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
The non believer in Jesus is not just sick, he is dead
Spiritually Dead
Ephesians 2:1–3 (ESV) — 1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
 Colossians 2:13 (ESV) — 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

11. What happened to God’s Creation?
God’s law
Dead Physically—Not responsive to food, temperature, pain.
Dead Spiritually-Not responsive to spiritual things
No interest in God
No interest in the Bible
No interest in church
No interest in God living in you.
 Physical Death-Separation of Body and Soul/Spirit
Spiritual Death-Separation of soul/spirit from God
God’s law
Genesis 2:15–17 (ESV) — 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Dead Physically—Not responsive to food, temperature, pain.
Dead Spiritually-Not responsive to spiritual things
No interest in God
No interest in the Bible
No interest in church
No interest in God living in you.
Physical Death-Separation of Body and Soul/Spirit
Spiritual Death-Separation of soul/spirit from God

12. Spiritual death does not need:
education
medicine
morality
religion
Spiritual death needs a new life in Jesus Christ
education
medicine
morality
Religion
Spiritual death needs a new life in Jesus Christ

13. He Was Decayed (11:39)
John 11:39 (ESV) Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”
Three Resurrections recorded in the Gospels apart from Jesus
12 year old Girl Luke 8:49-56
Young man who had been dead several hours Luke 7:11-17
Lazarus-Dead 4 days John 11
John 11:39 (ESV) Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”
Three Resurrections recorded in the Gospels apart from Jesus
12 year old Girl Luke 8:49-56
Young man who had been dead several hours Luke 7:11-17
Lazarus-Dead 4 days John 11

14. Picture of three different kinds of sinners:
Little Girl-sinner but not in open corruption
Young man--Sinner whose outward corruption begins to show.
Older man-sinner whose definite outward corruption can be seen.
All three are dead
One is not more dead than the other
Only difference is the degree of decay
Little Girl-sinner but not in open corruption
Young man--Sinner whose outward corruption begins to show.
Older man-sinner whose definite outward corruption can be seen.
All three are dead
One is not more dead than the other
Only difference is the degree of decay
Immoral church member is not “decayed like a person on skid row but still dead.

15. He Was Raised and Given Life (11:41–44)
Sisters friends could only sympathize and weep
Christ had to give the man life.
How did Jesus give him life?
The Power of His Word
All three were raised by the power of Jesus Word
Sisters friends could only sympathize and weep
Christ had to give the man life.
How did Jesus give him life?
The Power of His Word
All three were raised by the power of Jesus Word

16. Why did Jesus raise Lazarus
He loved Him, v. 5, 36
Brought glory to God v. 4
This is why He saves us
He loves us
Glorify the Father
He loved Him, v. 5, 36
Brought glory to God v. 4
This is why He saves us
He loves us
Glorify the Father

17. Salvation is not a set of rules
It is a life
John 5:24 (ESV) Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 10:10 (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
When a dead sinner hears the voice of the Son of God and believes, they are given eternal life
To reject that Word is to be dead forever.
It is a life
John 5:24 (ESV) Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 10:10 (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
When a dead sinner hears the voice of the Son of God and believes, they are given eternal life
John 5:25 (ESV) “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
 To reject that Word is to be dead forever.

18. He Was Loosed (11:44)
Lazarus was bound hand and foot and could not free himself
The believer is not to be bound by grave clothes of the old life.
God want us to walk in freedom of the new life
We are to put off the grave clothes and put on the grace clothes.
Lazarus was bound hand and foot and could not free himself
The believer is not to be bound by graveclothes of the old life.
God want us to walk in freedom of the new life
We are to put off the grave clothes and put on the grace clothes.

19. Colossians 3:1–17 (ESV)
 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Raised with Christ
So seek-what is above
Set your minds-on things above where Christ is
Raised with Christ
So seek-what is above
Set your minds-on things above where Christ is
 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

20. Put to death—Make dead-no response to it.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
God’s Wrath
6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
God’s Wrath
6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

21. Put away the things we as Christians excuse
8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

22. No difference in people
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

23. Put on the New Self
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

24. Let Peace of Christ rule in your hearts
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

25. Let word of Christ dwell in you richly
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

26. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

27. Get rid of the grave clothes
Why would you want to hang on to the things of the old life?
Get rid of the grave clothes
Why would you want to hang on to the things of the old life?
Get rid of the grave clothes