";s:4:"text";s:4279:" The epilogue, verses 45 to 48, “Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in Him.” Are we getting an idea of what this whole thing was about?Now, notice, this is classic. Do you believe? Help!”And instead of it getting better, it doesn’t get bad, it doesn’t get worse. He wants us to believe that! He wants us to believe. You don’t really want to go there, And then Jesus gives a little metaphor – a quick picture.
‘Come and see, Lord,’ they replied. How did the world come into existence, Hebrews 11? ‘Take away the stone,’ He said. God breathed. Sermons in this Series. “If You really cared, if You really loved me, You would have come. It doesn’t matter. And it was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
By the way, that’s what faith is all about.
We’ll go with you.”Well, Jesus now goes back, verses 17 to 37, and we’re going to find that He gives a better gift to Martha and Mary. We need a new teaching pastor! The text will tell us. “And then He said to His disciples, ‘Let’s go back to Judea.’ ‘But Rabbi,’” that word for “You’re the teacher, You’re the one with authority, You’re the one that has wisdom.” And he’s calling Him Rabbi for a reason.
Jesus solves the problem.And I want to suggest that the better gift that He gave to Martha and Mary and the one He wants to give you, I don’t want to miss it, is this: so often we want God to solve the big problems in our life and what God is saying is, “I want to give you a better gift.And that problem, when it won’t go away, when it goes from being hard and difficult, to worse, to impossible. And what I know is, He will allow some things to go from bad to impossible until you die to yourself, until you die to your agenda, until you and I die to our demands, until we get where if we could just be with Jesus and if He would look us in the eye, and if His Spirit, through His Word and through His family would speak life into our soul that would say, “He’s the resurrection and He is life.” He will take you through some times like that.And then after you die, He will do what can only happen when you die. He wants us to learn to trust, first, the depth of His compassion. The evidence is so overwhelming they realize everyone will believe in Him, but they won’t. Great! I know that You always hear Me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe.’”Are you getting the message? And it’s that step of action that demonstrates you believe.And so sometimes, to teach you that He does miracles and that He loves you, He won’t fix your problem and He won’t fix mine. It is life unto your soul. Why does He do that? We all get exactly what we deserve, unless we cry to God and ask Him for mercy and grace, freely available.And we make up reasons why.
It is life unto your soul. They said, “A short while ago the Jews tried to stone You there, and now You are going back there?” Notice he didn’t say, “We’re going to go back.”I love these disciples. He’s up to that more than fixing the problem.And so here He does it.
June 7, 2020. If you're experiencing a difficult season you don’t understand and you’re wondering, “God, what's going on?” this message is for you.Is it possible to be a Christian without being religious? Then Jesus looked up and said, ‘Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. He understands.But some of them said, first, “See how He loved him!” Interesting two groups. I want a new job, I want a better job! We don’t know, yet, what’s going to happen in this story but what we know for sure is the author is making it very clear.Remember, this is Martha, and this is the friend, and this is Mary. “everyone will” – what? Bring Down The Walls. ‘Take away the stone,’ He said.