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Jesus wept. John 11:35 March 13, 2011 Rev. David B. Hanson Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas. Jesus Wept. Jesus Wept. The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible The story in John 11 The death of Lazarus Lazarus, a friend of Jesus
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Jesus wept. John 11:35 March 13, 2011 Rev. David B. Hanson Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas Jesus Wept
Jesus Wept • The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible • The story in John 11 • The death of Lazarus • Lazarus, a friend of Jesus • Lazarus’ two sisters, Mary and Martha
The Story of John 11:1-45 • Lazarus was sick. • Mary and Martha asked Jesus to heal Lazarus. • Lazarus died. • Martha met Jesus. • Jesus said, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:” • Mary and her friends met Jesus and wept. • Jesus wept. • Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.
Jesus Wept • Jesus was true man. • Weeping shows that Jesus was true man. • Jesus’ humanity: Jesus wept for Lazarus. • Jesus’ divinity: Jesus raised him from the dead. • Jesus was true man of sorrow. • Weeping shows Jesus’ sorrow for people’s pains and sufferings. • Jesus felt pains and sufferings when He was whipped and crucified on the cross.
Jesus Wept • Jesus was true man of sympathy. • Weeping shows Jesus’ sympathy for people’s loss and helplessness. • Jesus was true man of rage. • Weeping shows Jesus’ rage against the tyranny of death over mankind.[
Jesus’ Victory over Death and Sin • I Corinthians 15:55-58 • 55O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? • 56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. • 57But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. • 58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.