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Met by Martha outside the village, He stands to proclaim the reality of His Godhead. But how? Would He triumph over the creature He had made, who is crushed before the moth? He will be glorified, not by consigning man to the grave, but by displaying to all the universe that He can righteously raise up His saints from it. What an answer at once to the oft put question, why did God allow sin to enter the world? He might have prevented it, and so manifested His power He allowed it to enter that He might display His glory. Through death, the act of God in Government towards His sinful creatures, His Son should be glorified. In death, the consequence of man’s sin, the enemy seemed to have triumphed completely. “This sickness is not unto death (i.e., death is not the ultimate object of it) but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.” This was a new view of death, which He, who is the resurrection, first brought forward. The messages of the sisters moved Him not to go to Bethany, because He thought first of God’s glory the death of Lazarus decided Him to go there, because the time for God’s glory to be displayed had drawn near.
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The perfection of His manhood He manifested to the disciples beyond Jordan, the reality of His Godhead He announced to Martha outside the village of Bethany. Perfect Man, as well as Son of God He is.
#The raising of lazarus full#
His person, His heart, His power are all three exhibited in this chapter, that His people may learn to confide in Him as one who has gauged the full measure of their sorrows, and is not only able but willing to enter into them. But more is met with than all this, for this history is intended in harmony with the rest of the Gospel to teach us what the Lord Jesus is, and can be, to His own that whilst He is absent from us, we should be able to reckon on Him for all that we need. They will be called nationally out of their graves, the dead bones be united bone to his bone, and the nation be resuscitated at the word of the Lord. So, whilst an illustration of resurrection from the dead, as living again on earth, we may see here pictured the future resurrection of the people of Israel. He died again, they will live to die no more. He returned to earth, they will ascend to Heaven. He came back from the grave, they will rise from it. But, whilst we trace in the history of Lazarus the outlines of resurrection, we must remember the great difference between that of Lazarus and the hope of the sleeping saints. Lord the wine new in the Father’s Kingdom. Lazarus died and was buried, but he came forth from the grave, and sat at meat with Jesus in his own house, so will the sleeping saints one day rise and drink with them.
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The child of God can look forward to life beyond death, resurrection from the dead, and the closest personal communion with his Lord. There is a power superior to death, there is a voice which can be heard in the grave.
#The raising of lazarus free#
That door which no mere human power can open, and which, when once it closes on its victim, seems to enclose him within its portals forever, can be pushed back, and man be set free from the grasp of death. Death, the end of man s existence here, is not the end of man.