The Disappointed, Part 2

Greer believers go to very intense pain. But Paul says it's always the pain of birth. That is about to be overwhelmed by rejoicing. It is never the pain of despair because God is working in all things that take their decomposition and stamp with resurrection and recomposition suffering in this life is real but see the next life is forever and in light of forever. The pain of this moment just disappear gospel centered Bible teaching ministry JD Greer, pastor of the stomach church in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina. I'm your host Molly, but I'm sure we all know someone who was involved in the church and believed what the Bible said that in their life went wrong. They experience in tragedy and suddenly they didn't know think you really believe in God anymore alone.

Love and trust. Maybe you've wrestled with this kind of doubts to SL, you're in the right place today on Summit life pastor JD Greer helps us think through these questions to find hope through the loss or suffering as part of our series, can't believe after JD titled today's message below a certain man was ill last resumes from Bethany, which is the village of Mary and her sister Martha is Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair. His brother Lazarus was ill so the sister sent him say Lord you love is ill, but when Jesus heard it, he said, this illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the son of God may be glorified through it. Verse five now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Now one of the strangest words in the entire New Testament so when he heard that Lazarus was the only state today's longer the place where he was so that will make any sense to you right there.

Let me say I love my wife so much so I forgot her birthday doesn't make you the Lord. So right there.

Verse seven bid after this he said to the disciples, our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep, but I go to awaken service of inside knowledge so these you know intellectual geniuses they respond.

This waiver form 13 know it will Lord if he will sleep and wake up at his own verse 14.

So Jesus told them plainly, you gotta read that Jesus told them and rolled his eyes, is basically what that says Lazarus has died for 17 now when Jesus came he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days he's been peaceful on their way to get better Lazarus for day verse 21. Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you been here, my brother would not die. Same problem with God that we do.you.you can fix this, this appointment verse 23 Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again. Martha just graduated from seminary so damn I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me that he diet shall he live in. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this, she said yes.

I believe that you are the son of God. Verse 28 when she had said that she would call her sister Mary say the teachers here: for you when Mary Hart's rose quickly and went to him now when Mary Kay November. Jesus was just stalling. She fell at his feet, saying him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died verse 33 when Jesus saw her weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled and he said where have you laid him and I said to him, Lord, and see verse 35 and Jesus wept little in the Greek it says and Jesus burst into tears.

Verse 38 then Jesus deeply moved again came to the it was a cave asked only against Jesus said, take away the stone. Martha sister the dead man said to him, Lord commands, but this time the owner because he's been dead for days. Verse 40 Jesus said to her that I not tell you that if you believe you see the glory of God. So they took away the stone and Jesus looked up his eyes and said father I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around so that they might believe that you sent me and he said he thinks he cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out and the man who would die came out his hands and feet bound with linen strips for space now rapidly went out look like it is fear bound hands and mom immediately didn't roll out like unbind him and let him go watch this.

Martha had warned Jesus not to open the stone because it been four days and she said the body would think she was expecting the stench of decomposition. He knew that what they would find is the glory of recomposition. I think in this lesson, you were supposed to see a picture of how God in all pain is working for good in the pain in your life you expect to find the dictate of decomposition. What you find is that when God finally rolled away the stone find that he is repurposed her pain for good and you don't encounter the stench of decay. What you find is the glory of what God has made new, sometimes you will stone and let you see it now, but see there are other times that you don't get to see him roll away the stone, at least in this life, but when you go into eternity and you see will overwhelm you when he finally rolled away. That stone is not the stench of decomposition is the glory of God made all things you know you will be confronted with the beauty of what he has read composed, not the ugliness of what decompose. If you can already already see a purpose for some of the suffering in your life how God was using it for good. Don't you think that given enough time and an eternal perspective to be able to see a reason for all of that's why Paul calls a believer suffering to get this a light and momentary affliction before you bipolar officer got a problem with a charmed life and did not experience pain scholar syllables. Why probably left him or died as a result of Paul's conversion.

Paul spent most of his life in prison Paul was beaten three times with an inch of his life.

He bent the shipwrights he was.

He was put out of his community spent most of his life ready for like he knows paint reset all that is like momentary and many compared the birth pangs birth pangs are terrible, or so I'm told. But as severe as they are. My wife tells me he's given birth to four children as severe as they are, they are immediately swallowed up in the glory of the little child that is revealed to the point that you can hardly remember the pain that led into the process. What you remember is how beautiful the moment was when you had the child but maintains that real you endure it differently guys and explain to you like this. Imagine your hospital room and you hear somebody moaning in pain in the hospital and next to you what emotion is that creating you what it depends on why they're moaning right there is a woman going through birth. She's going through labor, then yes you feel sympathy for her.

But you know that even in this pain that is about to be filled with rejoicing the person next to you is dying of bone cancer and this is the final stages of doubt, the crime of despair creates a different emotion.

Believers go to very intense pain. But Paul says it's always the pain of birth. That is about to be overwhelmed by rejoicing.

It is never the pain of despair because God is working in all things that take their decomposition and stamp it with resurrection and recomposition suffering in this life is real but see the next life is forever and in light of forever. The pain of this moment to just disappear.

That's what that's what that's what Jesus is saying the Mary Martha is one of the detail here before I go on that to Mary's answer is one other detail that you can't mess if I can be treatment of Christian suffering. That leaves out this detail is woefully deficient, ready to see that phrase deeply moved your ring he saw a couple times it appeared once in verse 33 at once.

In verse 38 scholars tell us that deeply moved, is a terribly deficient English translation. But as I can give you a better word. The problem is English does just doesn't have a great word for the Greek word Embry my my and remount my one scholar says that the word you want to translate it as literally as possible.

You put down snort. That's awkward in English as a Jesus more than a couple times throughout the story right. Is it really has the connotation of an animal snorting in anger as if getting ready to charge John Calvin says that this word indicates Jesus is about to enter the ring like a wrestler preparing for a contest with his most hated foe the violent purity of doubt which he came to overcome now stands in front of his eyes. So his groan is not one of sympathy is one of hatred that he is going to battle verse 43 says he shouts at death in a loud voice, snorting, yelling, shouting. You see what's happening here.

You see this does make a mild Jesus is entering the ring with mankind's greatest enemy that your siblings and John the writer.

This points out in verse 47 that this event, the raising of Lazarus is going to trigger the events that are going to leave the Jesus's crucifixion. So in other words, Jesus is picking a fight in Chapter 11 that begins with him yelling and taunting and shouting and snorting it doubt, but it's getting in a chapters later in the crucifixion when Jesus goes for body contact with death absorbs the debt that we deserve in our place and snap the neck of death through his death forever.

The only way Jesus could interrupt the funeral Lazarus was to commence his own funeral. Two. Jesus got Lazarus to his death by going into his own before you and this was go back and pick up Jesus's reaction to Mary because this is the second great. It's a much shorter much simpler reaction to it is just as important, you gotta get it.

Verse 32.

Mary says Lord of the bed and my brother… In the exact same words but notice the new detail one new detail when Jesus saw her weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled and so Jesus started to weep. Why weep with Mary if in 10 minutes. The issues can be resolved to give you a picture of how Jesus goes to suffering with you.

That's what all these things.

John says her science signs that give you a picture of eternal realities. This is the reaction of a friend, Jesus addressed Martha as a teacher, philosopher, give her the answer you see Jesus Lord is the Savior right now you see him weep as a friend because this is a reaction of one who feels the pain of those that he love and Jesus is not just the Savior is not just a teacher. He is a father and a friend.

And when his children hurt you hurt right along with them and when they Wheatley weeks 10 minutes is not that much different to Jesus than 10,000 years, and Jesus can already see the beautiful into your story for a parent that is lost child in his wet side of the grave at why their child would die.

Jesus can already already you can see that moment when you walk in to have any good when you are reunited with that child and he could see when that child is fully grown, and you see them as everything that you hope they would be. He can already see that he is already living in that moment because he is past present future at all points. All time altogether, but it weeks with you because even though you can see that he knows that your pain is painful because when you call somebody is much as you tell yourself that you see them again in eternity.

It's still painful. Now when you're lonely it hurts when you're in pain when you hurt sometimes what you need is not theological answers.

What you need is the presence of a Savior who feels your pain and who waits with you what a friend we have in Jesus.

He took our sin and our sorrow when he made in his very own.

He bore our burden to Calvary and he suffered and died alone.

He feels as his own. Every broken heart.

Every shattered drape every sorrow because he is father and a friend. There was another time. At least one other that we know about that Jesus wept. One of the one recorded in Scripture, but nobody was there to weep with him. The Gospels tell us that in the garden of Gethsemane Jesus would weep with such great anguish that would make the capillaries of his face, burst, sweat great drops of blood there is the son of God, who in regard to Gethsemane is under such great anguish that he calls out to God was such torment of soul that makes the capillaries in his face not only burst because of the sweat great drops of blood and there is total silence from the father turned his face away. Jesus goes his disciples as I want to stay with me want to weep with me. I came in John 11.

I wept with you.

You had pain I felt. I wept with you. I cried with you, but they all fall asleep so Jesus dies friendless and he dies godless. He died all alone, but because of that. I know that he'll never forsake me, because he was forsaken.

So I would never have to be. He died so that all they could ever separate me from God would be removed. So I would never have a season of suffering were, God would not hear me and my pain. God would not weep with me in my pain decry the load and died alone when I cry and I die I'm never alone. That's what all this is about how Jesus does miracles and you should ask him to read is great. You should but I'm telling you it's about him doing a whole lot more than that is about him walking through death, so that when you walk there. Death is not the same for you this before but the possibility of Donald Ray Barnhouse with the cows about my age when his wife died they way they went to the funeral may leave the funeral go to the grave side of his 11-year-old daughter is loving his wife died 11-year-old daughter looks up at her daddy's is daddy said what is that was the valley of the shadow of death, because Barnhouse referred to that in the eulogy Psalm 23.

Barnhouse thought about how to explain this to 11-year-old a suggested that time is Bill tractor-trailer passed by on the left side of the car and cast a shadow to follow the Carney looks at his 11-year-old axis tree or would you rather be here but that tractor-trailer would you rather be about shadow usual course that, in the shadow Barnhouse said to his daughter. He said Jesus got hit with the truck of death in San so that your mommy and you and me would only have to be pacified shed.

So yes I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, but not all the valley of death. I walked in the shadow but I never have to face abandonment. I never have to face condemnation.

I never had to face corruption because Jesus face all those things in my place and took them so that now I dispatch the valley and I can say gate all over the bow the set of death I will fear no evil because you're with me your rod and your staff will come for me and I know that even in those times. Rossville abandoned. I am not because you are a banner for me because you took the full brunt of abandonment and condemnation in my place.

I know that even when I woke up at Valley.

I am not alone.

Lord, if you have been here, my brother would not have died. As there is always there, why because you walk through the valley for you when you go through it you want to go through it with the despair of those that are dying you go through it with the hope the pain. Yes, with the hope of those who God is bringing glory out of never, never, never will he leave never, never will. He turned his face away or not. Feel your pain and sometimes you need to understand the theological answer, but sometimes you simply simply need to know that he is there that he is present that he is fully committed to you and that is fully in control and do exactly what he said he was gonna do is you that are disappointed when Jesus appeared to you right now.

Later this afternoon just use shows up as is want you to know that this is you're going through. It's for my glory. Let me amount of control the middle of this using for my glory for your good and I need you to be patient. Jesus said that you face-to-face.

Could you endure what you're going through right now. Could you hang all the questions. Could you do is walk Corsica is essentially that's what it stories in there for you in the safety face-to-face. He said it to you in the story could take at this and I know Lazarus is right now and I thought Lazarus is right and I got glasses and speed outcome of interview McQuade anybody anybody here on the one that is Lazarus is dead is Lazarus wanted this again and Mary Martha. This is the way went down to bare their brother another time in this time. Just what Jesus did show up, but don't you think they went through this this next time with a little bit of an understanding that Jesus could speak bring Lazarus out of a grave with the word and Jesus could speak and write them out of a grave of the word. And Jesus says I'm never late am always doing what I need to do that the next time they went through this they could do so with the insurance Jesus was fully control his love for them, had not faltered in his absence did not mean a lack of control or lack of affection don't you think they knew that the next time that you when they went through this, of course they did and so can you. That's why it's here. John 2031. These things are signs there just physical demonstrations of God's eternal plan not one quick objection.

I because I know you I love you people under pastor I know what you think some of you especially young professionals and will maybe I'm suffering as I keep those of the wrong maybe. Maybe I lost my job because I got that work habits. Maybe I could destroy minutes but dental marriage relationships because I got annoying personal characteristics that may be true, and that's why listen. That's why God gave you the church to help you see that God gave you a community like this so that the community can point out hey yeah this is a problem in your life. This is causing the stuff, but that's a community can help you see when it's not because you do, it's wrong.

It's because of the sovereignty of God that God just for his glory and for your good. There's nothing you're doing wrong is is that God is appointed. This see maybe you're in day two and Jesus is not showing up in your day for Lazarus is dead see what the story shows you that he's there is coming to church so he can help you see your making wise decisions to be connected but also gave the church to see God's sovereign plan sometimes works when he seems like he's absent. He's not in the days that are disappointed when we rolled back the stone that is doing something that doesn't have the stench of decay got the glory of recomposition to just hang on some a church.

Do you realize that we worship at the feet of one who could speak a word and bring People out of the grace to work but it was Augustine who said that if Jesus had not put the word Lazarus in front of that last command every dead person at cemetery would walk out. Just a word if that's what he can do with our greatest enemy, death, what is there that he can't do in your life you realize this is the Jesus that works in you. This is the Jesus that works through you. This is the Jesus that walks with you. This is not a prophet who gives you a helpful to do list of moralism's impiety that you want you to perfect this is a Savior who conquered death on your behalf and gave himself up so that you can have eternal life that requires a different kind of response, a fundamentally different kind of response if he's just a prophet and a teacher, you come to church every once in a while large of his wisdom. Person trinkets in the offering plate and go on with your life, but he really is this right here if he's the one that speaks and Debbie will get out of the greatest heavyweight in the gray for you is a different kind of response. That's where you start saying things like, were the whole realm of nature mine, that were present far too small. Love so amazing, so divide my soul, my life, my all different so you are still related to Jesus like you to profit now he's this, he is the one who took on your greatest enemy and safety that requires every week of the series of giving you a chance to respond to Jesus. If you have not before. Are you really a resistive you really put him off.

You realize that nobody in the world is an example of the problem that is dealing with here. The problem of death, the death rate is still holding steady at 100 hundred percent natural enzymes wavering on a dime.

Jesus died when you died, when we have without him.

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