2009-09-03

September is coming

John 11
The Death of Lazarus

• A man name Lazarus who live in Bathany sick
• His two sisters are Martha and Mary
• Mary was the one who pured perfume on Jesus’ feet
• Sisters sent Jesus messages about the sickness of Lazarus
• When Jusus heard and said the final result of Lazarus’s sickness is not death
• This event happened to bring glory to God and the Son will receive this glory
• Jesus loved them
• Jesus decided to go back to Judea to visit them with His disciples
• The disciples don’t want to go back especially Thomas because they scared people there will stoned them
• Jesus asid about walking in the day time and night time, who walk in day time with light will not get stumbling
• Jesus knew Lazarus would fall to dead
• Jesus said death is like a sleep
• Lazarus had been buried 4 days before Jesus arrived
• Bethany was less than 3 kilometers from Jerusalem
• There were companies from Judean come for Lazarus’s death to comfert Martha and Mary
• Martha went out to see Jesus when she knew Jesus was coming