WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:18.559 practical ways. Good morning, Jeff, it was so close I 4 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:19.280 got you that. 5 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:24.320 Yeah, I was for it's a three feet yeah, okay, 6 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:25.559 I was. 7 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.519 I was gonna seject everybody to three in a row. 8 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:32.399 Yeah. If you're new to the podcast, Chris on occasion 9 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.799 will delight all of our listeners with his rendition of 10 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:36.759 good morning. 11 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.119 Yes from from Singing in the Ringing. 12 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:42.200 In the Rain, and the previous two he went back 13 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:43.600 to back, Monday and Tuesday. 14 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:45.960 I will give you a fake dollar if you could 15 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:49.000 tell me who sings that song in the original movie 16 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:53.759 Singing in the Ring. No, okay, well, actually he participates. 17 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:55.079 But who's the lead of that song? 18 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.479 A girl? Yes? Yes, who's who is it? 19 00:00:58.479 --> 00:00:59.640 It's Princess Leah's mom. 20 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:02.679 It's Kerry Fisher's y Fisher's mom. Yes, yeah, I don't know. 21 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.640 Well they're both dead, yeah, kay Fisher's mom Debbie Reynolds. 22 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:07.359 Oh okay, there it is very good. 23 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:09.239 Okay, so we are. 24 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.680 This first minute has been incredible. Okay, people, if you 25 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:15.120 like the first minute, just wait for the next twenty. 26 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:19.519 Four whatever, incredible whatever. Jesus says, I am the Resurrection 27 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:22.840 and the life, which is a famous saying. And if 28 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.799 he were doing this podcast, he might cover the story 29 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:26.840 of the raising of Lazarus. 30 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.359 Oh this might You're right, yes, Oh that's a good one. 31 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:31.760 He probably would. In fact, I would argue and say, 32 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:35.040 this is probably the biggest miracle outside of his own 33 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:38.760 resurrection that took place in the life of Jesus. 34 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:41.000 Oh definitely. Would it created a buzzouldn't it? 35 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:41.239 Well? 36 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:41.640 It did. 37 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.480 In fact, this is right before passover, and it says 38 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.519 that people showed up at Passover because they heard that 39 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:48.079 he raised lives. 40 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:49.719 Was a big deal. Yeah. 41 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.040 So anyway, before we get to that, Desiree has a 42 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:53.519 segment for us called would you rather? 43 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.239 These are fun, they're always would you rather? Yeah? 44 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.079 And it usually gives us two awful. 45 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:59.879 Choice and it gives people a little insight into the 46 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:02.879 the dynamic relationship the two of us have. 47 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:07.719 Yeah, and and more importantly enigma that is Jeff fort. 48 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:15.479 And Chris Well, yeah. 49 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:16.800 Okay, would you rather have to do finger guns? 50 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:19.960 Would you? It's so funny? 51 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.919 Would you rather have to do finger guns? Every time 52 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:28.280 you make eye contact? That is so funny or shout 53 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.479 I'm a genius every time you get something. 54 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.520 Right. Well, I already do the I'm a genius thing 55 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.520 every time I get something sort of sort. 56 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:40.639 Of maybe not really, you don't, but but it is. 57 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.280 It is maybe something that you might have an easier 58 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:47.639 time doing. Yeah, but the guns, the guns every time 59 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:48.719 you make eye contact. 60 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:50.479 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you would really want. 61 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.479 To think about this every time you make eye contact. Dude, 62 00:02:56.039 --> 00:03:00.000 Come on, I'd have to do I'm a genius because 63 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:02.560 as you could downplay the I'm a genius, and but 64 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:03.560 you can't downplay this. 65 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:05.199 So the only time you have to shout I am 66 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.360 a genius is every time you're right, which is which 67 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.280 is rare. Okay, okay, right, So you'd have to do 68 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:14.759 finger guns way more often. Is that it? 69 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:16.319 Or not look anybody in the eye. 70 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.240 Yeah, well there you go walk around your eyes closed. 71 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:19.240 Okay, So what do you choose? 72 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:20.280 Genius genius? Yeah? 73 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:20.759 Okay, me too. 74 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:22.400 Yeah, that's I think you'd have to do it way 75 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.960 less often. Yes, would you rather have a voice that 76 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.639 echoes dramatically or a laugh that sounds like a kazoo. 77 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:33.439 That's a weird set of questions right there. Weird choices. 78 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:37.159 Yeah, echoes dramatically, it's that that's my voice whenever I 79 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.919 do like a dramatic voice, like like the like the 80 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:45.680 the Monster Truck shows. Yeah, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. 81 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.039 Yeah, but it's saying echoes dramatically. It's your whole voice, 82 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.639 which means every time you speak, or just a laugh 83 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:53.479 that sounds like you speak for a living. 84 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:59.879 Yeah. As opposed to the laugh as a kazoo, I 85 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:01.520 think I think we'd have to. I'd have to do 86 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:02.520 the laugh as a kazoo. 87 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.360 Well I would too, because nobody could, you know, have 88 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:06.879 all of their voice echo. 89 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:12.439 Well, we're not professional laughers, we're professional speakers, right, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah. 90 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:16.560 Wow, professional speakers. Wow. I guess that is true. I 91 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:20.360 never think about that all right. Number three? Would you 92 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.480 rather only be able to speak in dad jokes or 93 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:27.040 have to laugh at every dad joke you hear, even 94 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:27.759 the bad ones? 95 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.800 Oh that's easy, just laugh at the bad ones, holy cos. 96 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.560 Well no, it's actually laugh at every dad joke, even 97 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:35.040 the bad ones. 98 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:36.959 Yes, that's what I'm saying. I would laugh at every 99 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:37.439 dad joke. 100 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.319 Yes, it's actually a pleasure to laugh because every dad joke. 101 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.160 Only being able to speak in dad jokes means again, 102 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.759 as professional speakers, right, it may be difficult for us 103 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:47.519 to actually. 104 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:49.920 And by the way, even those who don't speak as 105 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:51.319 professional speakers. 106 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.040 Yeah, you still speak, that's right. 107 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.839 You can't just speak in dad jokes like Desire's in 108 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.439 the back right there, and Josh is listening, he's doing 109 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.759 the audio. They couldn't live their lives only in dad jokes. 110 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:04.759 Yes, you're right, Yeah, you're correct. 111 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.000 Yeah. And they're not speakers, they're sound people. 112 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.439 All right. Would you rather have a fridge that sings 113 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.519 opera when opened or a toaster that screams when your 114 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:14.240 toast is ready? 115 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.000 A fridge that sings opera went opened? That that sounds hilarious, 116 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.000 by the way. A toature that screams, oh, definitely, a 117 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:22.759 toasture that screams when your toast is ready. 118 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:24.399 You open your. 119 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:28.399 Fridge way more at number one number two. Opera could 120 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:29.000 be rough. 121 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:30.079 In the morning, it depends on what song. 122 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.199 Well, in the mornings it's still pretty rough. 123 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:33.079 I don't know. 124 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.079 You you sneak out of it. You can never sneaking 125 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:37.040 at at midnight's net. 126 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.680 That's true. So our fridge does sing. Our fridge has 127 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:41.759 Alexa built into it. 128 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:42.199 Oh does it? 129 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:44.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, so Bonnie always has it playing music anyways. 130 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:45.600 Oh that's funny. 131 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.439 And but screaming when your toast is ready is helpful. Actually, 132 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:50.800 so you put them so. 133 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.519 I'd love it. Yeah, you like that? Be great? Okay, 134 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:56.600 Hey I bought your toaster. 135 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.680 Oh it's great. Yeah, yeah, you bought me a toaster 136 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.120 and and it actually toasts. 137 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.000 If our listeners are wondering what kind of relationship we have, 138 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.040 we have a toaster buying relationship. Yes, that's the level 139 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:08.879 of our friendship. 140 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.160 And he bought me a toaster for my birthday and 141 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.680 it's and it toasts the face of Bob Ross on 142 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:18.639 the toaster and onto onto the toast. And I have 143 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.120 to tell you, I have never loved the gift more. 144 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.639 I love it and and uh and then you and 145 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.199 you left me a note and you said, yes, you 146 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.439 said to the most creative person that I know. 147 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.000 That's right, which I will never forget. So you and 148 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.199 Bob Ross, I appreciate the two of you are rate 149 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.759 at the same level on my list creative people, creative people, and. 150 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:42.480 Only only he says, we'll make a happy tree. We'll 151 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:43.720 just make this a happy tree. 152 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:44.160 It's right. 153 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:46.839 Yeah, I don't say that, but I do do it 154 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.680 when I paint, I make happy trees all the time. 155 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:51.279 How could you not? 156 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:53.160 Right? That's right? 157 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:58.319 All right? Number five? Would you rather exit every conversation 158 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:05.720 with a bow and farewell peasants or enter every room 159 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:10.759 with jazz hands and a wink? You have got to 160 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.480 be killing This is hilarious. 161 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.680 These are good ones, This is these are great. 162 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:22.120 Okay, exit every conversation with a bow and saying farewell peasants. 163 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.680 I already do that. Yeah, right, you do that. The 164 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.279 arm now as the boss. Okay, today, for the rest 165 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:32.720 of the meetings we have today, it is farewell peasants, 166 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:33.600 Farewell peasants. 167 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:35.360 So I have a meeting. I have a meeting for 168 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:38.040 Transform one, and we're gonna go down to Bethesda. We're 169 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:39.480 gonna meet with the staff. 170 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:50.399 Farewell. Okay, let's let's table that idea about. Let's decide 171 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:50.800 not to do. 172 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:52.399 I don't think I could do that to them. 173 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:54.839 Well, then when you walk in, then it has to 174 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:55.519 be jazz hands. 175 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.680 Jazz hands, which is more my style, it is, right, Yeah. 176 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:01.560 I think that's what she did, is she chose our 177 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:04.160 styles and gave us one sid well, of course, of 178 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:06.720 course that's what happened. That Farewell Peasants is you. Jazz 179 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.879 hands in a week is me? For sure. I know 180 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.199 that Farewell Peasants is me, But the jazz hands and 181 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:12.879 winks not me. 182 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:14.639 Well, it's you when you're joking. 183 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, I mean you don't think. 184 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:19.639 That you just you could easily joke that way, that's right. 185 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:20.160 Yeah. 186 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.120 So yeah, I mean like like I would really embrace 187 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.279 jazz hands in a wink. Yes, right, I would do 188 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:25.879 it as a joke. 189 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:29.240 So those are great. Okay, that might be my favorite 190 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:31.600 one we've done in quite some time. I agree, those 191 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:33.159 are great there, I agree. 192 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.200 Yeah, way to go, good John Desk. 193 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.240 Talking about some of the favorite things you've ever done. 194 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:44.399 Hey, speaking of jazz hands in a wink, that's I 195 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.960 believe that's what Lazar's did when he came out of 196 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:49.320 it too. 197 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.679 Doesn't say it, but in no. 198 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:57.879 In my mind, I picture Lazar is doing jazz hands 199 00:08:57.879 --> 00:08:58.360 in a wink. 200 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:04.120 No, that's okay. I was gonna say. One of the 201 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.200 favorite things Jesus ever did was raised his friend from 202 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:08.919 the day. Yours is better? 203 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:09.440 Yep. 204 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.879 Okay, So we are in John chapter eleven, yep, and 205 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.320 we're one through forty four, so we go to get 206 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:17.639 with it. I got a lot of reading to do. 207 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:19.200 We're not gonna be able to talk very much about it. 208 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.360 We're just gonna read the story. Trust you can be 209 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:25.639 able to pick up. Excuse me. So it says a 210 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:29.080 man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with 211 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.600 his sisters Mary and Martha. This is the Mary who 212 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:33.600 later poured the expense of perfume on the Lord's feet 213 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.840 and wiped her them with her hair. Her brother Lazarus 214 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.480 was sick, so the two sisters sent a message to Jesus, 215 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.879 telling him, Lord, your dear friend is very sick. But 216 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.039 when Jesus heard about it, he said, lazarus is sickness 217 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.519 will not end in death. No, it happened for the 218 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:51.000 glory of God, so that the Son of God will 219 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:56.200 receive glory from this. So, although Jesus loved Martha, Mary 220 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.120 and Lazarus, he stayed where he was for the next 221 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.759 two days. Finally he said to his disciples, let's go 222 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.360 back to Judea. But his disciples objected, Rabbi, They said, 223 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:07.080 only a few days ago the people in Judee were 224 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:11.080 trying to stone you are you going there again? Jesus replied, 225 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.480 there are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day, 226 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.639 people can walk safely. They can see because they have 227 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:18.720 the light of this world. But at night there is 228 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:20.919 danger of stumbling because they have no light. And then 229 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:23.879 he said, our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But now 230 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:26.639 I will go and wake him up. Disciples said, Lord, 231 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:28.679 if he's sleeping, he will soon get better. They thought 232 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:32.159 Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus 233 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.799 had died. So he told them plainly, Lazarus is dead, 234 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.080 and for your sakes, I'm glad I wasn't there. For 235 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.799 now you will really believe. Come, let's go see him. 236 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.679 Tom has nicknamed the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, 237 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:49.200 let's go too and die with Jesus. When Jesus arrived 238 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.159 in Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been 239 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:54.000 in his grave for four days. Bethany was only a 240 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.080 few miles down the road from Jerusalem, and many of 241 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.480 the people had come to console Martha and marrying their loss. 242 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:01.960 When I got word that Jesus was coming, she went 243 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:05.919 to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house. Martha 244 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.200 said that Jesus, Lord, if only you'd been here, my 245 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.759 brother would not have died. But even now I know 246 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:14.519 that God will give you whatever you ask. Jesus told her, 247 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.440 your brother will rise again. Yes, Martha said, he will 248 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.799 rise when everyone else rises on the last day. Jesus 249 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.039 told her, I am the resurrection in the life. Anyone 250 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.720 who believes in me will live even after dying. Everyone 251 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:30.679 who lives in me and believes in me will never die. 252 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.519 Do you believe this, Martha, Yes, Lord, she told him, 253 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:35.679 I've always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, 254 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.159 the one who's coming too the world from God. Then 255 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:40.879 she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the 256 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.120 mourners and told her the teacher is here, wants to 257 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.200 see you, So Mary immediately went to him. Jesus stayed 258 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.600 outside the village at the place where Martha met him. 259 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:51.759 When the people who were at the house consoling Mary 260 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.919 saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going 261 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.320 to Lazarus's grave to weep, so they followed her there. 262 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:59.840 When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feets. 263 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.120 Of Lord, if only you'd been here, my brother would 264 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.240 not have died. When Jesus saw her weeping and saw 265 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:07.879 the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled 266 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:10.519 up within him, and he was deeply troubled. Where have 267 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:13.519 you put him? He asked? They told him, Lord, come 268 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:17.320 and see, and then Jesus wept. The people who were 269 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:21.159 standing nearby said how much he loved him, but some 270 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.120 said this man healed a blind man. Couldn't you have 271 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:27.159 kept the Lazarus from dying? There's always critics it was 272 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.720 so funny. Jesus was still angry as he arrived at 273 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:32.879 the tomb a cave with a stone rolled across his entrance. 274 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.559 Rolled the stone aside, Jesus told them, But Martha, the 275 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:38.879 dead man's sister, protested the Lord. He's been dead for 276 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:41.840 four days. The smell will be terrible. And the King, 277 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:47.399 James says he thinking think so funny. Jesus responded, didn't 278 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.120 I tell you that you would see God's glory if 279 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.600 you believe. So they rolled the stone aside, and then 280 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:55.039 Jesus looked up to heaven and said, Father, thank you 281 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:57.159 for hearing me. You always hear me, but I said 282 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:58.720 it out loud for the sake of all these people 283 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:02.679 standing here, they will believe you sent me. Then Jesus shouted, 284 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.519 Lazarus come out, and the dead men came out, his 285 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:09.759 hands and feet bound in graves clothes, and his face 286 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.759 wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them unwrap him and 287 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:17.000 let him go, loose him and set him free. 288 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:18.919 Oh that's where we end. 289 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:20.279 Yep. That's it verse forty four. 290 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:25.200 Yep. And so yeah, there it is. What a great story. 291 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.200 And Jesus very intentionally stayed back. And what was he 292 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:29.840 at Beseta? 293 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.840 Was he? And no, no, he's down in Judea. And 294 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:38.559 now he was in Jerusalem and then in Judea and 295 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.399 he left. So Bethany is just over the hill of 296 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.399 the Mount of Olives. If Bethany's on the backside of 297 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:46.279 the same hill that we would call the amount of Olives, 298 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.720 on the other side facing the Eastern gate in Jerusalem. Okay, yeah, 299 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.759 so he's just outside the city of Jerusalem. 300 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:58.960 So he ends up staying there on purpose, knowing that 301 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:01.879 he's going to raise lads Us from the dead. He 302 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:04.240 says to his disciples, Hey, once you see this, you're 303 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.960 really going to believe, right, So he knows the entire 304 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:08.200 time he gets there. 305 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:09.919 This is gonna be amazing. 306 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.360 This is gonna be amazing. Buckle up, right. That's really 307 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.679 essentially what he's doing is preparing them for for something 308 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.159 that's going to be great. And he even says, Lazarus 309 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:21.799 is dead, but it's not going to end in death. 310 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:24.639 I'm gonna go wake him up. So he's announcing the 311 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:27.600 miracle even before he does it. So can you even imagine, 312 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:30.320 you know, they said, well, wait a minute, if he's sleeping, 313 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.240 is gonna get better? No, no, he's dead. Now come with me, 314 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:35.559 And so he'd already said I'm gonna wake him up, 315 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.679 and then he says no, no, no, no, he's dead, which 316 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.519 means they can figure it out. Like you know, he 317 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:43.759 didn't say I'm going to raise him from the tomb, 318 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.279 but he said I'm going to wake him up and 319 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:49.120 it's not going to end in death. So it's pretty 320 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:53.159 clear that he's announcing to his disciples beforehand that he's 321 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:57.399 going to raise Lazarus from the dead. And now Peter, 322 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.639 James and John they would have seen Jesus raised the 323 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.679 young girl, right, So, but they were told not to 324 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.320 tell anybody, so I often wonder did they tell the others, 325 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:11.679 like did they tell the other ones or did they. 326 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.679 Care to John? Yeah, yeah, Oh that's interesting. I don't know. 327 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.639 Yeah. So so you know, with this. 328 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:19.639 One, I think everybody was seeing the little girl. 329 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.440 Right, but you know how it is. I mean other towns, right, 330 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:27.399 I mean like other towns far away. It didn't necessarily 331 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.440 have to travel all the way back. Not to mention, 332 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.480 Jesus told the whole room not to tell anybody, right, 333 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:36.519 give her something to eat? Remember, So So yeah, I 334 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:40.159 just I often wonder if Peter, James and John is like, 335 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:43.279 oh I believe this because we've seen this, And then 336 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:47.120 I'm wondering if the other nine are just like what 337 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:49.279 do you mean, Like, are you actually going to raise 338 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.399 somebody from the dead? And I wonder if they had 339 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:52.399 no knowledge of the girl. 340 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.759 Oh yeah, so that that phrase, don't tell anybody. We 341 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:57.440 didn't talk about this yesterday. It's funny that we're talking 342 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:01.720 about it now. Yeah, that that phrase. I've heard some 343 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:06.080 scholars say. It's not like stay silent and if you 344 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:07.519 say anything, I'm going to be mad at you. It's 345 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.759 a secret, right, It's not that it's there's no need 346 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.799 to brag about this. Let the deed speak for itself. 347 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:19.039 That's more along those lines, because like the maniac of Cadera, 348 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.279 he comes out. He was insane, he was they chain 349 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.679 him up. He's running naked and howling at the moon 350 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:26.840 in the middle of the of the tombs, right, that's 351 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.879 where he's living, full of demons, the Bible says, and 352 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.039 then Jesus cast the demons out. Next thing you know, 353 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.559 he's sitting clothed in his right mind in front of Jesus. Jesus, 354 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.519 I want to follow you, and Jesus, don't go tell 355 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:42.960 anybody what happened, just write go home. Well, everybody would 356 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.960 have seen it, and so Jesus isn't saying keep it 357 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.559 a secret. Jesus is saying, let what happened to you 358 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.480 speak louder than your words, speak about it. That's that's 359 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.559 what he's saying. So it may not have been keep 360 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.159 it a secret as much as it was let the 361 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.200 deed speak for itself, because everybody saw the little girl 362 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:58.639 walking around. It's not like it was a secret. 363 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:02.360 Yeah, right, And could be that. Remember, he was always 364 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:09.519 see he seemed like he always was conscious about his fame, 365 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.640 right like like like for instance, there are times where 366 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:15.720 he said, hey, I've not told anybody this. Uh so, 367 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.920 so don't tell anybody, right, I'm not ready for you know, 368 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.079 he told his Yeah, he told his mom, My time 369 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.519 is not yet come. He was he was pretty aware 370 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:30.759 and in tune of releasing information about himself in stages, 371 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:33.920 right and and and uh and you know it wasn't 372 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.400 even halfway through his ministry before, you know, even his 373 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.759 own disciples said, I'm pretty certain you're the Christ, the 374 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:44.359 son of the Living God, right after they'd seen multiple miracles. 375 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:48.480 So I think that, uh, I think that the h 376 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:51.960 that could have been attached to this don't tell anybody 377 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:52.519 kind of thing. 378 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.000 So you have Mary Martha and Lazarus. Mary Martha and 379 00:17:56.079 --> 00:18:00.559 Lazarus are brother and sisters, yes, and they live together. 380 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:04.720 And there's some of Jesus's closest personal friends. Yes, Jesus 381 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:08.240 stays with them many times. They have a friendship with 382 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.319 Jesus that is different than almost any other interaction you 383 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.279 see in the Bible period. With Jesus, he has a 384 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:18.640 fondness and a friendship with his disciples, and he says 385 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:20.279 at one point, you don't have to call me master, 386 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.480 you're my friends, right, that kind of thing. But with 387 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:27.279 these ones they're not like following disciples everywhere Jesus goes. 388 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.200 They're not just packing up. But when Jesus is in town, 389 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.440 he always stays at their house. They hang out, They 390 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:34.880 sit at Jesus' feet and listen to him speak. They 391 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:38.000 fix the dinners, they hosted the events, all that kind 392 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.839 of stuff, and it seems to be a meaningful friendship, 393 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:44.440 and there's something sort of sweet here. On the one side, 394 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:46.759 Jesus wants to go, but doesn't because he knows that 395 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:50.279 the miracle is more important than than just a healing. 396 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:52.160 Let's raising from the dead, and this is going to 397 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.400 be one of those signs that gets everybody's attention that 398 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:56.839 I really am who I claim to be. So he 399 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.519 has to wait. But then when he shows up, Martha 400 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.880 comes out first, which is interesting because in a previous story, 401 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.599