Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, that we may die with him.”Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
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… Lazarus has died and I'm glad for you that I was not there that you may believe. Let us go to him. So Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples let us also go to die with him. When Jesus arrived he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem only about two miles away and many of the Jews who had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went to meet him. But Mary sat at home. Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you. Jesus said to her, your brother will rise. Martha said to him, I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus told her, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, even if he dies will live. And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. …
… but let us go to him. Then Thomas, also known as Didymus said to the rest of the disciples, Let us also go that we may die with him. I want to preach a message today on the last installment of this series. Write down the title. It's called Everything's Better When You're Here. Everything's Better When You're Here. I'm telling you, Jesus, everything gets better when you walk into the room. Everything's better when Jesus is here. Amen to that. I don't know if you've seen this commercial. There's a commercial going on right now. and it's these ladies, these moms that are on a vacation. By the way, every mom deserves a vacation. And these moms are on a vacation. They're at the pool, you know, having like virgin pina coladas. And they're like by the pool. And then one of the moms says, should we call the kids? And the other one's like, should we call the kids? And then they go down to the beach and like at the beach swimming in beautiful water. …
… that I was not there that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go to him. Then Thomas, who is called the twins, said to his fellow disciples, let us also go that we may die with him. And so when Jesus came, he found that he had already been in the tomb for four days. And Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, and many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother. Now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary was sitting in the house. And Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you. Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again. Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. …
… But He says, let's go to Him. And Thomas, who is called the twins, said to his fellow disciples, let us also go that we may die with Him. They're assuming that if Jesus comes back into Judea at this point in His ministry, this close to Jerusalem, this close to the seat of the authority of those who were in opposition to Jesus that they were, by going on this trip, risking their lives. And so that's why the disciples didn't want Jesus to go, because they feared for Him. And then when He said, He's going, Thomas said, let's go with Him. If He dies, let us die beside Him. Of course, that attitude changed dramatically in just a few short days. But let's read then the record of what takes place when Jesus comes to the home of Lazarus. So Jesus came, and He found that He had already been in the tomb four days. Now that minor detail in the narrative that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days was significant to the ancient Jew, because the Semitic people of that day, many of them at least, had this view that when a person died, the soul that had departed from the body would come back and visit the body periodically for a couple of days after death. But by the fourth day, when it was obvious that the decay had set in to the corpse, that at that time it was believed that the soul had abandoned the body once and for all. …