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

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Great Tunes or great Tunes, it
doesn’t really matter where or

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when does it?
okay, this is the fourth class

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in the Senate’s, Peninsula,
ecclesial study day on February

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2017, the speaker’s, Brother,
David Levin.

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And the topic this morning is
resurrection as exhortation of

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the do
Okay, it seems like we have

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volume.
Open it, please your Bibles to

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Luke chapter 15, 15.
And if you’re very familiar with

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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

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skim through it.
If you’re not familiar.

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To get there, be familiar.
And unlike the question with

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which I started yesterday, I’m
actually going to ask you for

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your answer this time. remember
yesterday, we started by asking

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you to write down a list of your
Bible Heroes and This time I can

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ask you another question and
there’s five possible answers

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and I’ll ask you to raise your
hand.

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Through five.
Which one?

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You think?
And here’s the question, excuse

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me, once you allocate your
Focus.

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Look if Tino.
Yeah.

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Yeah that chapter it’s got some
Parables.

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And now here’s the question.
How many parables are in Luke

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15?
How many do you see?

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So, I’ll go to the hair, and
here’s the possible answers.

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One, two, three, four, or more
than 45, or more.

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There’s no conversion.
So it’s the same u.s. or

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Canadian.
So, so, your answer will be the

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same as mine of were thinking
the same way.

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But go through their kind of
skim through what you see in,

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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.

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It’s just Okay, so here’s how
many people are going to start

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with number one, how many people
say there’s one?

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Parable in Luke 15, any takers
for what How about two?

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Three parables.
Quite a few people z34.

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Got a couple one and a half to
maybe some people moving verging

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on for how about greater than 4.
You see more that it’s 5 or more

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Parables.
Okay, well let’s look and see

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the let’s look and see.
What the justification might be

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for each answer.
Okay nobody raised their hand

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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

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Parable and that’s the only time
the word Parable occurs in the

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chapter, he told the parable and
then in verse 8 and verse 11,

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where the other two narrative
Doesn’t say those are different

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Parables so you could say
there’s only one Parable there

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but it’s told in three different
ways so that would be the

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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?

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What do you want to take that
one up?

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Well, you could say two because
you could say, well, there’s

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really just two versions of the
one about the coin and the Sheep

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there, they have the same
format.

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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.

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That be I think an argument
there.

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How about three that seems to be
the most obvious answer.

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Is the story about the lost
sheep.

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The story about lost coin and
the story about the prodigal

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son.
So, we three would be the prime

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of facie.
I answer, I think, but some

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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.

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Yeah yeah.
The the parable of the prodigal

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son is really to there’s two
Parables and why it’s the

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involvement of the older son is
just as much as the article son

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too.
So there’d be a good argument

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for saying religious for four
stories for Parables here.

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How about more than four?
Where’s the fifth come from?

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In the pathology.
Okay.

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So if you want to say this is
really a parable about the

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father’s concern that you got
five.

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Great?
Okay.

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Well the point is that there’s
no point, it’s how we read these

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things but I do want to show a
away of how every see them one

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through five is there’s a
cohesiveness here that that ties

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these together and unusual way
and A significant point at the

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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

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rich rich stuff here.
But, I want you to notice that

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the first two oldest, a episodes
of first two, narratives have a

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moral ending.
That is what even?

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So there is more joy in heaven,
over one sinner who repents 9900

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or bending her. okay, and the
question is, how does that

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morale?
Connect to the the nature of the

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parable.
In other words, how does the

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parable illustrate repentance
Jesus says that?

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These are about repentance but
how does a sheep or a coin

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repent?
There is no illustration of

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repentance in these two.
Policy parables.

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Even if sheep could repent.
Is the Sheep.

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Does this say that?
Is sheep straight away?

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And then the Sheep realized, oh
my goodness.

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I’m lost.
I need to come back to the fold.

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That’s how, what happens?
What happens?

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They shepherd goes and finds
that.

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She picked it up and drags it
back.

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She is passive that she does not
think that she does not

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illustrate repentance.
And a coin.

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Well that’s not going to happen,
Nomad coins.

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Don’t crawl out of the car and
say here I am, you know I

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shouldn’t rolled away.
So there’s a disconnect between

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what Jesus says is the moral of
the story and what the story is

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actually about the stories are
about If anything there about

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God, going out to find lost
people and bring them back, if

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they’re not about repentance.
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Jennifer is looking thing.
Hmm, interesting, interesting.

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No.
Now, keep that kind of in

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suspense.
So, you know, we’re left up in

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the air here, he stealing these
episodes and then saying, just

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so it’s like, and if you’re
listening to these, you’re going

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to say.
But Lord, I don’t understand how

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is repentance illustrate these
stories and he says, okay just

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keep listening.
So then he tells the third

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story, man has two sons and what
happens here.

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Sun goes away.
He takes the money.

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He squanders that he comes to
his right mind.

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He does what Does he repent?
Exactly.

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He repents, he comes back now.
What’s the moral of the third

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story?
You have to go down to verse 24.

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Please Siri 22 through 24.
But the father said to his

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servants, bring forth quickly
the best robe and put it on him

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and put a ring on his hand and
shoes on his feet and bring the

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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.

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He was lost and is found and
they began to make Merry okay.

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so here at the end of the story
where you would expect the

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father to say for this, my son
repented and came home, he says

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he was lost and is found In
other words, there’s a there’s a

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mismatch here.
This is the world that should

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have been on the first two.
This Sheikh was lost and has now

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found the coin is lost, is now
found, but there he has the

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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

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way that you have to hear all
three of them and figure out

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what’s Jesus getting at it.
He seems like he’s got the, the

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ending, the moral story switched
up, but what he’s saying is, you

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know, when we put all these
together, Is that repentance?

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and God searching are going on,
concurrently People are not

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going sir Chic.
People have to repent, but God

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is always directing.
God is looking at a searching.

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God is bringing people back
people, repent.

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God finds the way to bring them
into the fold, so he he

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interconnects these stories that
way.

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House.
One more feature of this, we

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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.

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My son was dead and is alive
again.

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He was lost and is found and
they began to make Merry but it

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was meat to make Merry and be
glad for this.

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I brother was dead and is alive
again and was lost.

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His phone.
So there’s an extra phrase.

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Here it is true.
The son was lost and is found

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but he adds this my son was dead
and is alive.

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Now you don’t need that to make
the point of the story.

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He could have just said he was
lost and is found he had gone

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away in his comeback but by
adding the overlay of dead, And

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alive.
He brings us into what I call

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the exhortation alas.
Pecked of Resurrection, this is

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a description of Resurrection
dead and alive.

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It was as if he was dead, he was
gone.

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He didn’t exist anymore.
But yet he has life again in the

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grace of God in his own
repentance.

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Phrase didn’t need to be in
there.

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But it’s added to show us that
when God brings people from

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whatever circumstance of life,
no matter how badly.

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We mess up our lives.
Waste, our inheritance, always

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lose.
He might be dead but you can

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become alive again.
God brings people back, he finds

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you, we repent.
And we become alive again.

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So, that’s the power of
exhortation of right.

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Resurrection as exportation,
This young man wasted,

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everything comes back to life
again. as the father searches

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for him and his he repents he
was lost and is found Turn to

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Romans chapter 4.
And we’ll look at it another way

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in which Life and death and life
is used as an exhortation all

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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

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Resurrection in a metaphorical
or figurative sense.

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And this episode has to do with
Abraham, And Sarah.

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Having Isaac. so, the section of
Roman Paul is establishing that

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Abraham, Was justified by his
faith.

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Not his observance to the law by
making the point that Abraham

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believed God.
That’s in a quote, stop.

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Verse 3, Abraham believed God
and it was reckoned to him as

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righteousness.
That’s in Genesis 15.

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And he makes the point that that
occurred before Abraham was

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circumcised.
And other words, Abraham was a

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gentile when God accepted his
faith.

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He was an uncircumcised Gentile.
Before he became the father of

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the Jews, he was the father of
the faithful but at that point

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Abraham had no seed.
So God could not fulfill his

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promises of the son of Abraham
until Abraham that children that

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came a bit later.
But Abraham’s Faith was reckoned

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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

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exemplify how strong Abraham’s
Faith was that?

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Abraham believed that God would
make of him a great nation even

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though he had no children.
That Abraham’s belief

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transcended, his own
reproductive inability was

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Abraham was reproductively dead
there was no biological way that

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Abraham could have.
An offspring.

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But he believed that God would
still provide this form.

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So let’s look at that.
So let’s look at Romans 4 and

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read verses 16 through 24, 16 to
24 for this cause it is a faith

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that it may be according to
Grace to the end that the

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promise may be sure to all the
seed not to that only which is

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of the law but that also which
is of the faith of Abraham who

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is the father of us.
All As it is written, the father

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of many nations have I made thee
before him whom he believed even

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God who giveth life to the dead.
And calleth, the things that are

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not as though they were where we
going to sorry. 24:24, who in

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Hope, believed against hope to
the end, that he might become a

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father of many nations according
to that, which he had, which had

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been spoken.
So, shall thy seed be without

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being weakened in faith, he
considered his own body now as

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good as dead, he being about, A
hundred years old and the

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deadness of Sarah’s womb, yet
looking not yet.

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Looking under the promise of
God, he wavered, not through

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unbelief, but wax strong.
True Faith, giving glory to God,

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and being fully assured that.
What he had promised, he was

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able to perform wherefore also
it was reckoned unto him for

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righteousness.
Now, it was not written for his

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sake alone, that it was reckoned
unto him.

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But for our sake also unto whom
it shall, be reckoned, who

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believe on him that raised
Jesus, our lord from the dead.

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Okay, let’s look at some of the
couple of details here about

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Abraham’s Faith.
Remember God promised him a

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cedar child.
Special descendant, through

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whom.
He would inherit the Earth

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forever.
It’s promises comes through and

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chapter 12, 13 15. 17. 22 in
Genesis is repeated many times

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and it’s Amplified.
Paul tells us in Galatians. 2

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seed is Jesus is heat is one
which is Christ.

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We all inherited Jesus.
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Sarah was not quite as old but
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sometime later.
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however able to impregnate Hagar
and give birth to Ishmael, Sarah

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was Barren all of her life.
So she had never been able to

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conceive but today.
He six Abraham was still

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reproductively viable.
However, by time, he gets to be

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100 years old.
When Isaac is born, he’s no

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longer because it said Abraham
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It’s considered his own body, as
good as dead.

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So sometime between birth is SLI
ill and we’ll say your before

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the birth of Isaac Abraham
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Sarah who is never able to
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Had become postmenopausal by
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it’s in Genesis 18.
It had ceased to be with her

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after the manner of women.
So she never had a she’s totally

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out of it.
So both of them are really done

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for and back in those days
having no fertility clinics

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modern drugs, they’re not
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They’re 100 years old.
Nine years old, she’s posting to

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Basel.
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What do they do?
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So there’s a there’s a, there’s
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Abraham saying we’re dead.
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But I still believe that God is
going to somehow make this

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happen.
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did have the miraculous birth of
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Verse 20 again, Irv, hearse 19,
he did not weaken in faith when

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he considered his own body,
which was as good as dead,

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because he was about 100 years
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It was not true.
Even as an old man at the birth

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of Ishmael, but now it was chew
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bareness of Sarah’s womb.
She was as good as dead, but no

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distrust made him waiver
concerning the promise of God,

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but he grew strong in his faith
gave glory to God, fully

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convinced that God was able to
do what he promised.

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That’s amazing.
It’s absolutely amazing faith

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that he had but the point we
want to, see here is those

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addictions of of how Paul and
flex this episode as an instance

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of Resurrection his body as good
as dead Sarah’s body as good as

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dead and then at the very end of
the chapter that Abraham’s Faith

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being record.
As righteousness is not just for

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him. but for all of those who
believe in what, It will be

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reckoned to us who believe in
him, that raised from the dead

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Jesus.
Our lord, who was put to death

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our trespasses and raised for
our justification.

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So Paul concludes It episode
which starts off with a god

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being greater than any human
biological problem.

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That is he can make life out of
death there.

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But also, I can forgive any sin
who is put to death for our sins

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and raised for our
justification.

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So he segues he shifts.
The emphasis from Abraham’s

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faith and a in a God’s physical
into God’s moral power, put to

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death for a trespasses and
raised for our justification.

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So, the X rotational power
message here is that

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Resurrection is uses a search
exit sortation to say that

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there’s no problem too big for
God.

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There’s no problem too big for
God.

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Good as dead.
Not as you God makes life out of

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death.
Yes it’s exhortation to trust in

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God, in all things.
So with that let’s look to the

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reading we had and go to the
resurrection of Lazarus to see

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our last example of The
exhortation of value of

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Resurrection.
Because here were not going to

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be talking about a man who was
as good as dead or can we talk

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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

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alive.
This is Lazarus.

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This dead.
This is not reproductively dead.

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As is not morally dead.
This is not lost in sin.

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This is Dad.
Dead gone.

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Although it’s a wonderful
narrative here of which I’m only

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going to touch on a few relevant
highlights.

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There in Bethany where John 11,
there is a family of Two

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brothers and two sisters, Mary
and Martha Lazarus, Judas

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Iscariot, who was undoubtedly?
The brother also not going to go

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into the demonstration of that.
Lazarus is probably a young man.

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Certainly not all the Jesus,
maybe lot younger.

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His death was tragic, he had
some illnesses like a very young

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person, suddenly dying.
Something, this is a devastating

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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.

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Jesus can heal him, Jesus
purposely delays because while

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it would have been quite a
miracle to heal Lazarus, while

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he was sick, it would be even
bigger meal miracle to heal him

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while he was dead.
They didn’t know that.

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Jesus knew that.
So, Jesus, delays, my time he

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shows up Lazarus is dead.
Harry’s involved, cold.

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And quite gone.
Mary and Martha are so horribly.

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Distressed that Jesus delayed.
They both say the same thing to

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him.
Why did you take so long?

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If you would come her brother,
would not have died.

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Jesus.
Watch this just watch this.

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Builds up to the say a huge
emotional setting.

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Jesus cries.
He finally comes up to the tomb.

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has the Stone moved away.
And does the most observed thing

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if you were anybody, but Jesus,
that is observed thing you can

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imagine which is to yell into a
tomb.

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To somebody who’s dead and tell
them to come out.

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It says he said with a loud
voice, which I obviously can not

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do today.
Lazarus, come out.

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He’s dead, man.
You know what this doesn’t

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happen but the dead man came
out.

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And the value of belief in that
miracle for Jesus own

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Resurrection to come shortly.
As you can see, how close is was

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to Jesus of, you know, man
actually in the Tomb and cold

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and dead.
For three days, that Jesus knew

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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

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that?
And for all who saw this, but

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there’s a few more details here.
Really amplify this to even

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greater story.
This is just just the way this

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text is constructed is
absolutely amazing.

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I will show a few things to you
the named Lazarus occurs, excuse

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me.
In chapter 11 and 12, there’s 11

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occurrences of the named
Lazarus.

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If you look at verse 14, Where
Jesus told them plainly Lazarus

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is dead.
From verse 14 until verse 43.

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However, the named Lazarus does
not occur.

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There’s a space in which he is
only referred to as a pronoun,

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or your brother, or the dead man
named Lazarus disappears from

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the text.
It occurs, five times up to

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there and the six of cards is in
verse 43, where he says, Lazarus

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come out.
So, the whole time Lazarus is

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dead.
He has to Identity.

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He’s just your brother.
He’s the dead, man.

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He’s him.
But the named Lazarus is never

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used in the text during the
time.

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He’s dead.
It’s the emphasized.

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He’s gone.
Even more.

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Look at verse 39.
Jesus said, take away the stone

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marthis, the sister of who the
dead man did say, the sister of

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Lazarus, remember he’s dead.
He’s gone.

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He’s only the dead, man.
It’s the first time that phrases

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used, and then that is the
phrase.

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And that is shows up again, in
verse 44, the dead man, came

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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.

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So you have the dead man and
Lazarus.

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Come out.
The first time this is his

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actual name is used since way
back in first 1314.

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And now the dead man is alive
again.

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Just remarkable how the text is
emphasizing.

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That’s it and for the rest of 11
and chapter 12, he’s Lazarus

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again, he’s back to life. but
that’s pretty good but that’s

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even more this emphasis on the
name.

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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

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John 10, 1 through 4 verily,
verily.

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I say unto you.
He that entereth not by the door

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into the fold of the sheep, but
climbing up some other way.

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The same is a thief and a
robber, but he that entereth in

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by the door, is The Shepherd of
the sheep to him, the Porter

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openeth and the sheep hear his
voice and he calleth his own

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Sheep by name and leadeth them
out.

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When he has put forth all his
own, he goeth before them and

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the Sheep.
Follow him for they know his

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voice This parable of the
illustration of the sheep is

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actually, what’s happening.
With Jesus Lazarus.

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The door that is open the
gatekeeper opens.

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Remember Jesus said move the
stone?

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He calls them by name in verse
3.

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He calls them by name member
Lazarus, come out Jeep.

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Jesus opens and calls Lazarus
and the text in the leaven is so

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careful about how it uses that.
They was worse so he says it

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calls him by name.
It’s as an extra meaning, he’s

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not the dead man anymore.
He’s brought to life again by

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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

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Oliver chapter 11, he came out
of the Grave when he is, brought

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them out.
All his own, he goes before

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them, the Sheep follow him.
So, Lazarus is not only brought

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back to life.
He’s brought back because of the

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voice of Jesus Calling You by
name.

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It’s an act of shepherding as
well as an act of Resurrection.

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And even one more, one more,
amplification of this theme.

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Go back to John, chapter 5.
When she uses his discourse

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hanging on judgment, and how he,
the father is given to Jesus all

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judgment.
And those who hear the voice of

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Jesus will live.
Look at John 5 and verse 25,

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verily, verily.
I say unto you the hour cometh.

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And now is, when the dead, shall
hear the voice of the Son of God

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and they, that hear shall live
the hour is coming and now is

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when the dead will hear the
voice.

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Of the Son of God, those who
hear will live.

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He’s talking metaphorically
about the people dead in sins.

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But he’s also talking
figuratively about what’s going

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to happen in the Resurrection.
The Dead will hear the voice of

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the Son of God.
This was literally true of

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Lazarus.
So I said, you don’t walk up to

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it tomb and talk to dead people
unless you’re Jesus, the dead

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will hear his voice.
Dead can’t hear your voice

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unless they’re brought back to
life.

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So, it’s more than a story of
people being redeemed from sin.

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It’s about it doesn’t matter
where you are in life, even if

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you’re dead, Jesus will bring
you life again. the Redemption

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from sin is, Given in terms of
life and death resurrected, the

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hour is coming.
And now is when the dead will

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hear, that is people listening
to Jesus.

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Now is John chapter 5 people
listening, the spiritually dead

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here, Jesus the hour is coming
and will be when Lazarus will

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literally hear the voice of
Jesus.

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The hours yet coming and the
resurrection.

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When all those who have died in,
Jesus will hear his voice when

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he says.
To them come out.

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They know him by name.
So exhortation, the value were

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the application of Resurrection
is exportation is to teach us

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that there is no problem too,
big for God, not Life Death, no

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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

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Lazarus dead in the Tomb and God
said The debt shall be alive.

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This is the power of
Resurrection that encourages us

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daily to believe that.
That’s the Jesus.

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We believe in that God.
Resurrected him in.

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He has that power in our lives
now, and when he returns,