RESURRECTION AND LIFE (6 OF 8)
Scripture: John 11:21-26
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Resurrection and Life (6 of 8)
Series: I Am
Stephen Whitney
John 11:21-26
Death is the one common denominator for all mankind. Psalm 89:48 What man can live and never see death?
George Bernard Shaw, Irish play writer (d. 1950) grumbled, ''The statistics are impressive, one out of everyone dies.''
The writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us that God is sovereign over everything that takes place in our lives here on the earth. Eccl. 3:2 There is a time to be born and a time to die. Every single person eventually dies because we are sinners.
E. Stanley Jones (d. 1973) was a missionary to India and because of his influence was considered the Billy Graham of the country. He wrote his spiritual autobiography when he was 83 years-old which he titled A Song of Ascents, the title given to psalms 120-134 which were sung by the Israelites on their way to Jerusalem
to celebrate their three annual feasts in the temple.
His faith in Christ caused him to write about his coming death. ''I am persuaded that the so-called end is just a beginning . . . Jesus is Lord - Lord of the past, Lord of the present, Lord of the future.''
All of our life is in the hand of God - our birth and life as well as our death and future. For a Christian death is not the end, but the beginning of an eternal relationship with our Savior Jesus Christ.
Psalm 16:10-11 You will not abandon my soul to the grave or let your holy one see corruption, you make known to me the path of life; in your presence, there is fulness of joy.
PERSONAL FAITH :21-22 Physical healing :21
If you had been here - you would have been able to heal Lazarus so that he wouldn't have died. She had faith in the power of Jesus to heal those who were sick because he had in the past. Because Jesus didn't come before Lazarus died, his coming now was too late to heal him.
Spiritual hope :22-But even now - in spite of her disappointment that her brother had died instead of being healed, she believed Jesus could p ...
Series: I Am
Stephen Whitney
John 11:21-26
Death is the one common denominator for all mankind. Psalm 89:48 What man can live and never see death?
George Bernard Shaw, Irish play writer (d. 1950) grumbled, ''The statistics are impressive, one out of everyone dies.''
The writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us that God is sovereign over everything that takes place in our lives here on the earth. Eccl. 3:2 There is a time to be born and a time to die. Every single person eventually dies because we are sinners.
E. Stanley Jones (d. 1973) was a missionary to India and because of his influence was considered the Billy Graham of the country. He wrote his spiritual autobiography when he was 83 years-old which he titled A Song of Ascents, the title given to psalms 120-134 which were sung by the Israelites on their way to Jerusalem
to celebrate their three annual feasts in the temple.
His faith in Christ caused him to write about his coming death. ''I am persuaded that the so-called end is just a beginning . . . Jesus is Lord - Lord of the past, Lord of the present, Lord of the future.''
All of our life is in the hand of God - our birth and life as well as our death and future. For a Christian death is not the end, but the beginning of an eternal relationship with our Savior Jesus Christ.
Psalm 16:10-11 You will not abandon my soul to the grave or let your holy one see corruption, you make known to me the path of life; in your presence, there is fulness of joy.
PERSONAL FAITH :21-22 Physical healing :21
If you had been here - you would have been able to heal Lazarus so that he wouldn't have died. She had faith in the power of Jesus to heal those who were sick because he had in the past. Because Jesus didn't come before Lazarus died, his coming now was too late to heal him.
Spiritual hope :22-But even now - in spite of her disappointment that her brother had died instead of being healed, she believed Jesus could p ...
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