Read the passage: John 11
Read the passage: John 12
The responsibility of seeing and benefiting from God’s power.
v.43 1. Right response has been made to what Jesus has declared.
(Lazarus , come forth.)
It encourages a believer's attentiveness.
v. 44 2. Past dead deeds have no present hold.
(And he that was dead come forth, ...)
The wonder of God's forgiveness, release, and restoration is received. It encourages a believer's faith.
v.44 3. Life with liberty is Christ's gifted provision.
(...Loose him, and let him go.)
The liberty to be all Jesus wants us to be.
The liberty to fit in to His great plan for our life.
The liberty of free grace.
It encourages a believer's partaking.
12: 4. There is a unique understanding and assurance of the person of Christ.
1, 2 (...but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.)
It results in intimate fellowship with Jesus.
v.9, 5. Unprecedented opportunity is given to witness of the power of Christ.
11 (...but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the
dead.)(Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and
believed on Jesus.)
It allows others to benefit from Christ's message.
v.10, 6. It also brings fellowship with Christ's sufferings.
11 (that they might put Lazarus also to death; ...)
It allows the formation of Christ's character within.
7. The fellowship of His sufferings brings the privileges of His victory.
the victory of the cross.
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