David Levin - Class 4: Resurrection as Exhortation (Exhortation)

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   Great Tunes or great Tunes, it doesn’t really matter where or when does it? okay, this is the fourth class in the Senate’s, Peninsula, ecclesial study day on February 2017, the speaker’s, Brother, David Levin. And the topic this morning is resurrection as exhortation of the do Okay, it seems like we have volume. Open it, please your Bibles to Luke chapter 15, 15. And if you’re very familiar with scripture, you probably know what’s in Luke, 15 years.

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   And I’m going to ask you a question about Luke, 15, you skim through it. If you’re not familiar. To get there, be familiar. And unlike the question with which I started yesterday, I’m actually going to ask you for your answer this time. remember yesterday, we started by asking you to write down a list of your Bible Heroes and This time I can ask you another question and there’s five possible answers and I’ll ask you to raise your hand.

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   Through five. Which one? You think? And here’s the question, excuse me, once you allocate your Focus. Look if Tino. Yeah. Yeah that chapter it’s got some Parables. And now here’s the question. How many parables are in Luke 15? How many do you see?

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   So, I’ll go to the hair, and here’s the possible answers. One, two, three, four, or more than 45, or more. There’s no conversion. So it’s the same u.s. or Canadian. So, so, your answer will be the same as mine of were thinking the same way. But go through their kind of skim through what you see in, Luke 15, and determine how many parables to you see and Luke 15.

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   Take a moment moment there. It’s not a trick question. It’s just Okay, so here’s how many people are going to start with number one, how many people say there’s one? Parable in Luke 15, any takers for what How about two?

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   Three parables. Quite a few people z34. Got a couple one and a half to maybe some people moving verging on for how about greater than 4. You see more that it’s 5 or more Parables. Okay, well let’s look and see the let’s look and see. What the justification might be for each answer. Okay nobody raised their hand for one but that that is actually a choice.

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   The reason being in verse 3 it says so he told them this Parable and that’s the only time the word Parable occurs in the chapter, he told the parable and then in verse 8 and verse 11, where the other two narrative Doesn’t say those are different Parables so you could say there’s only one Parable there but it’s told in three different ways so that would be the justification if you want to say there’s really only one Parable.

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   How about to who, who wants to argue for two parables? What do you want to take that one up? Well, you could say two because you could say, well, there’s really just two versions of the one about the coin and the Sheep there, they have the same format. The one about the Lost of the prodigal son is different.

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   So it’s really two Parables. And one is given in two forms. That be I think an argument there. How about three that seems to be the most obvious answer. Is the story about the lost sheep. The story about lost coin and the story about the prodigal son. So, we three would be the prime of facie. I answer, I think, but some people saw more than three. So where is the word?

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    Is a fourth one come from. I think you had your hand up. Yeah yeah. The the parable of the prodigal son is really to there’s two Parables and why it’s the involvement of the older son is just as much as the article son too. So there’d be a good argument for saying religious for four stories for Parables here.

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    How about more than four? Where’s the fifth come from? In the pathology. Okay. So if you want to say this is really a parable about the father’s concern that you got five. Great? Okay. Well the point is that there’s no point, it’s how we read these things but I do want to show a away of how every see them one through five is there’s a cohesiveness here that that ties these together and unusual way and A significant point at the end, and for sake of vocal continuity.

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    I’m just gonna skip a lot of the details that this pair of rich rich rich stuff here. But, I want you to notice that the first two oldest, a episodes of first two, narratives have a moral ending. That is what even? So there is more joy in heaven, over one sinner who repents 9900 or bending her. okay, and the question is, how does that morale? Connect to the the nature of the parable. In other words, how does the parable illustrate repentance Jesus says that?

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    These are about repentance but how does a sheep or a coin repent? There is no illustration of repentance in these two. Policy parables. Even if sheep could repent. Is the Sheep. Does this say that? Is sheep straight away? And then the Sheep realized, oh my goodness. I’m lost. I need to come back to the fold.

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    That’s how, what happens? What happens? They shepherd goes and finds that. She picked it up and drags it back. She is passive that she does not think that she does not illustrate repentance. And a coin. Well that’s not going to happen, Nomad coins. Don’t crawl out of the car and say here I am, you know I shouldn’t rolled away. So there’s a disconnect between what Jesus says is the moral of the story and what the story is actually about the stories are about If anything there about God, going out to find lost people and bring them back, if they’re not about repentance. Yeah.

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    Jennifer is looking thing. Hmm, interesting, interesting. No. Now, keep that kind of in suspense. So, you know, we’re left up in the air here, he stealing these episodes and then saying, just so it’s like, and if you’re listening to these, you’re going to say. But Lord, I don’t understand how is repentance illustrate these stories and he says, okay just keep listening. So then he tells the third story, man has two sons and what happens here.

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    Sun goes away. He takes the money. He squanders that he comes to his right mind. He does what Does he repent? Exactly. He repents, he comes back now. What’s the moral of the third story? You have to go down to verse 24. Please Siri 22 through 24. But the father said to his servants, bring forth quickly the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and make Merry for this.

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    My son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found and they began to make Merry okay. so here at the end of the story where you would expect the father to say for this, my son repented and came home, he says he was lost and is found In other words, there’s a there’s a mismatch here. This is the world that should have been on the first two. This Sheikh was lost and has now found the coin is lost, is now found, but there he has the morals about repentance which should have been here.

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    So you see there, there there, They’re they’re intertwined in a way that you have to hear all three of them and figure out what’s Jesus getting at it. He seems like he’s got the, the ending, the moral story switched up, but what he’s saying is, you know, when we put all these together, Is that repentance?

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    and God searching are going on, concurrently People are not going sir Chic. People have to repent, but God is always directing. God is looking at a searching. God is bringing people back people, repent. God finds the way to bring them into the fold, so he he interconnects these stories that way. House. One more feature of this, we want to look at again. Look at verse 24.

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    And also 32, you can read those two please 24:32 for this. My son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found and they began to make Merry but it was meat to make Merry and be glad for this. I brother was dead and is alive again and was lost.

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    His phone. So there’s an extra phrase. Here it is true. The son was lost and is found but he adds this my son was dead and is alive. Now you don’t need that to make the point of the story. He could have just said he was lost and is found he had gone away in his comeback but by adding the overlay of dead, And alive. He brings us into what I call the exhortation alas. Pecked of Resurrection, this is a description of Resurrection dead and alive.

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    It was as if he was dead, he was gone. He didn’t exist anymore. But yet he has life again in the grace of God in his own repentance. Phrase didn’t need to be in there. But it’s added to show us that when God brings people from whatever circumstance of life, no matter how badly.

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    We mess up our lives. Waste, our inheritance, always lose. He might be dead but you can become alive again. God brings people back, he finds you, we repent. And we become alive again. So, that’s the power of exhortation of right. Resurrection as exportation, This young man wasted, everything comes back to life again. as the father searches for him and his he repents he was lost and is found Turn to Romans chapter 4. And we’ll look at it another way in which Life and death and life is used as an exhortation all manner to show us that no problem is too big for God.

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    No situation is so bad and the god overlays his power as Resurrection in a metaphorical or figurative sense. And this episode has to do with Abraham, And Sarah. Having Isaac. so, the section of Roman Paul is establishing that Abraham, Was justified by his faith. Not his observance to the law by making the point that Abraham believed God. That’s in a quote, stop.

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    Verse 3, Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. That’s in Genesis 15. And he makes the point that that occurred before Abraham was circumcised. And other words, Abraham was a gentile when God accepted his faith. He was an uncircumcised Gentile. Before he became the father of the Jews, he was the father of the faithful but at that point Abraham had no seed. So God could not fulfill his promises of the son of Abraham until Abraham that children that came a bit later. But Abraham’s Faith was reckoned as righteous, and that’s in verse 10.

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    He said, but this was before he was And then he goes on to exemplify how strong Abraham’s Faith was that? Abraham believed that God would make of him a great nation even though he had no children. That Abraham’s belief transcended, his own reproductive inability was Abraham was reproductively dead there was no biological way that Abraham could have. An offspring.

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    But he believed that God would still provide this form. So let’s look at that. So let’s look at Romans 4 and read verses 16 through 24, 16 to 24 for this cause it is a faith that it may be according to Grace to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed not to that only which is of the law but that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us. All As it is written, the father of many nations have I made thee before him whom he believed even God who giveth life to the dead. And calleth, the things that are not as though they were where we going to sorry. 24:24, who in Hope, believed against hope to the end, that he might become a father of many nations according to that, which he had, which had been spoken. So, shall thy seed be without being weakened in faith, he considered his own body now as good as dead, he being about, A hundred years old and the deadness of Sarah’s womb, yet looking not yet.

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    Looking under the promise of God, he wavered, not through unbelief, but wax strong. True Faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that. What he had promised, he was able to perform wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. Now, it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him.

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    But for our sake also unto whom it shall, be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus, our lord from the dead. Okay, let’s look at some of the couple of details here about Abraham’s Faith. Remember God promised him a cedar child. Special descendant, through whom. He would inherit the Earth forever. It’s promises comes through and chapter 12, 13 15. 17. 22 in Genesis is repeated many times and it’s Amplified. Paul tells us in Galatians. 2 seed is Jesus is heat is one which is Christ.

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    We all inherited Jesus. Abraham was an old man. Sarah was not quite as old but still old, when they left or sometime later. When Abraham was 86 he was still however able to impregnate Hagar and give birth to Ishmael, Sarah was Barren all of her life. So she had never been able to conceive but today. He six Abraham was still reproductively viable. However, by time, he gets to be 100 years old. When Isaac is born, he’s no longer because it said Abraham was as good as dead.

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    It’s considered his own body, as good as dead. So sometime between birth is SLI ill and we’ll say your before the birth of Isaac Abraham became impotent. Sarah who is never able to conceive. Had become postmenopausal by this point because it says it it’s in Genesis 18. It had ceased to be with her after the manner of women. So she never had a she’s totally out of it. So both of them are really done for and back in those days having no fertility clinics modern drugs, they’re not children.

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    They’re 100 years old. Nine years old, she’s posting to Basel. He’s impotent. What do they do? He still believes. So there’s a there’s a, there’s a biological background here, Abraham saying we’re dead. We are reproductively dead. But I still believe that God is going to somehow make this happen. Well, because of his faith, they did have the miraculous birth of ice Isaac.

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    Verse 20 again, Irv, hearse 19, he did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead, because he was about 100 years old. It was not true. Even as an old man at the birth of Ishmael, but now it was chew or when he considered the bareness of Sarah’s womb. She was as good as dead, but no distrust made him waiver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he promised.

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    That’s amazing. It’s absolutely amazing faith that he had but the point we want to, see here is those addictions of of how Paul and flex this episode as an instance of Resurrection his body as good as dead Sarah’s body as good as dead and then at the very end of the chapter that Abraham’s Faith being record. As righteousness is not just for him. but for all of those who believe in what, It will be reckoned to us who believe in him, that raised from the dead Jesus. Our lord, who was put to death our trespasses and raised for our justification.

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    So Paul concludes It episode which starts off with a god being greater than any human biological problem. That is he can make life out of death there. But also, I can forgive any sin who is put to death for our sins and raised for our justification. So he segues he shifts. The emphasis from Abraham’s faith and a in a God’s physical into God’s moral power, put to death for a trespasses and raised for our justification.

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    So, the X rotational power message here is that Resurrection is uses a search exit sortation to say that there’s no problem too big for God.

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    There’s no problem too big for God. Good as dead. Not as you God makes life out of death. Yes it’s exhortation to trust in God, in all things. So with that let’s look to the reading we had and go to the resurrection of Lazarus to see our last example of The exhortation of value of Resurrection. Because here were not going to be talking about a man who was as good as dead or can we talk to a man who was dead? There’s no metaphor here.

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    This is not like the prodigal son, who was dead and now he’s alive. This is Lazarus. This dead. This is not reproductively dead. As is not morally dead. This is not lost in sin. This is Dad. Dead gone.

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    Although it’s a wonderful narrative here of which I’m only going to touch on a few relevant highlights. There in Bethany where John 11, there is a family of Two brothers and two sisters, Mary and Martha Lazarus, Judas Iscariot, who was undoubtedly? The brother also not going to go into the demonstration of that. Lazarus is probably a young man.

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    Certainly not all the Jesus, maybe lot younger. His death was tragic, he had some illnesses like a very young person, suddenly dying. Something, this is a devastating tragedy for the family and all the friends of Lazarus.

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    They send for Jesus. While he is yet sick, they know. Jesus can heal him, Jesus purposely delays because while it would have been quite a miracle to heal Lazarus, while he was sick, it would be even bigger meal miracle to heal him while he was dead. They didn’t know that. Jesus knew that. So, Jesus, delays, my time he shows up Lazarus is dead. Harry’s involved, cold.

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    And quite gone. Mary and Martha are so horribly. Distressed that Jesus delayed. They both say the same thing to him. Why did you take so long? If you would come her brother, would not have died. Jesus. Watch this just watch this.

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    Builds up to the say a huge emotional setting. Jesus cries. He finally comes up to the tomb. has the Stone moved away. And does the most observed thing if you were anybody, but Jesus, that is observed thing you can imagine which is to yell into a tomb.

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    To somebody who’s dead and tell them to come out. It says he said with a loud voice, which I obviously can not do today. Lazarus, come out. He’s dead, man. You know what this doesn’t happen but the dead man came out.

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    And the value of belief in that miracle for Jesus own Resurrection to come shortly. As you can see, how close is was to Jesus of, you know, man actually in the Tomb and cold and dead. For three days, that Jesus knew that it would be God’s angels, telling him to come out within.

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    I don’t know a years. So whenever this happened Is that? And for all who saw this, but there’s a few more details here. Really amplify this to even greater story. This is just just the way this text is constructed is absolutely amazing. I will show a few things to you the named Lazarus occurs, excuse me. In chapter 11 and 12, there’s 11 occurrences of the named Lazarus.

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    If you look at verse 14, Where Jesus told them plainly Lazarus is dead. From verse 14 until verse 43. However, the named Lazarus does not occur. There’s a space in which he is only referred to as a pronoun, or your brother, or the dead man named Lazarus disappears from the text. It occurs, five times up to there and the six of cards is in verse 43, where he says, Lazarus come out. So, the whole time Lazarus is dead. He has to Identity.

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    He’s just your brother. He’s the dead, man. He’s him. But the named Lazarus is never used in the text during the time. He’s dead. It’s the emphasized. He’s gone. Even more.

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    Look at verse 39. Jesus said, take away the stone marthis, the sister of who the dead man did say, the sister of Lazarus, remember he’s dead. He’s gone. He’s only the dead, man. It’s the first time that phrases used, and then that is the phrase. And that is shows up again, in verse 44, the dead man, came out, debt meant, don’t come Of graves, but this was different.

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    This was after Jesus called him by name again. So you have the dead man and Lazarus. Come out. The first time this is his actual name is used since way back in first 1314.

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    And now the dead man is alive again. Just remarkable how the text is emphasizing. That’s it and for the rest of 11 and chapter 12, he’s Lazarus again, he’s back to life. but that’s pretty good but that’s even more this emphasis on the name. Turn back one page to chapter 10 of John.

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    This is and look at this. Look at the first. or versus John 10, 1 through 4 verily, verily. I say unto you. He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbing up some other way. The same is a thief and a robber, but he that entereth in by the door, is The Shepherd of the sheep to him, the Porter openeth and the sheep hear his voice and he calleth his own Sheep by name and leadeth them out.

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    When he has put forth all his own, he goeth before them and the Sheep. Follow him for they know his voice This parable of the illustration of the sheep is actually, what’s happening. With Jesus Lazarus.

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    The door that is open the gatekeeper opens. Remember Jesus said move the stone? He calls them by name in verse 3. He calls them by name member Lazarus, come out Jeep. Jesus opens and calls Lazarus and the text in the leaven is so careful about how it uses that. They was worse so he says it calls him by name. It’s as an extra meaning, he’s not the dead man anymore. He’s brought to life again by the use of his name. Jesus calling him by name.

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    And he leads them out. Just as it’s written a John Oliver chapter 11, he came out of the Grave when he is, brought them out. All his own, he goes before them, the Sheep follow him. So, Lazarus is not only brought back to life. He’s brought back because of the voice of Jesus Calling You by name.

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    It’s an act of shepherding as well as an act of Resurrection. And even one more, one more, amplification of this theme. Go back to John, chapter 5. When she uses his discourse hanging on judgment, and how he, the father is given to Jesus all judgment. And those who hear the voice of Jesus will live. Look at John 5 and verse 25,

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    verily, verily. I say unto you the hour cometh. And now is, when the dead, shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they, that hear shall live the hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voice. Of the Son of God, those who hear will live. He’s talking metaphorically about the people dead in sins.

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    But he’s also talking figuratively about what’s going to happen in the Resurrection. The Dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. This was literally true of Lazarus. So I said, you don’t walk up to it tomb and talk to dead people unless you’re Jesus, the dead will hear his voice. Dead can’t hear your voice unless they’re brought back to life.

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    So, it’s more than a story of people being redeemed from sin. It’s about it doesn’t matter where you are in life, even if you’re dead, Jesus will bring you life again. the Redemption from sin is, Given in terms of life and death resurrected, the hour is coming. And now is when the dead will hear, that is people listening to Jesus.

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    Now is John chapter 5 people listening, the spiritually dead here, Jesus the hour is coming and will be when Lazarus will literally hear the voice of Jesus. The hours yet coming and the resurrection. When all those who have died in, Jesus will hear his voice when he says. To them come out. They know him by name. So exhortation, the value were the application of Resurrection is exportation is to teach us that there is no problem too, big for God, not Life Death, no matter how much we sin, no matter how much we mess up.

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    The prodigal son goes away, Abraham dead in his old age Lazarus dead in the Tomb and God said The debt shall be alive. This is the power of Resurrection that encourages us daily to believe that. That’s the Jesus. We believe in that God. Resurrected him in. He has that power in our lives now, and when he returns,