So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me.
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… Believe first, see second. So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, Father, remember he's talked about this multiple times. He's going to give glory to the Father. Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me. God is never working on just the thing that we are worried about or praying about. There are so many complexities about the stories. there's there's unbelief and there's wrestle and he's working on the people involved around in the story and there's there's this there's this picture of his glory and that the story is so much bigger than that we can't even comprehend or see and I think sometimes in our life all we can see is the miracle at hand. But remember, there's audiences. There's characters in our lives. There's the people around us. There's the family members. There's the story that is impacting. …
… him, Lord, by now there will be a stench. He has been dead for four days. Jesus said to her, did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me. But because of the crowd here, I have said this, that they may believe that you have sent me. And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out. The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands and his face wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, untie him and let him go. Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. I bet you'd have a seat. so uh one of my uh we a lot of us have guilty pleasure things right so i one of my guilty pleasure uh tv shows i don't know why but all of them almost all of them are surround reality tv i don't know why maybe it's me you're escaping reality by going to reality tv but one of these shows i haven't watched in a while one of these shows was a tv show called the bar rescue and the bar rescue it was always the same setup bar rescue it's one of those kind of genre like …
… of God? So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying, and Jesus lifted up His eyes unto heaven and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by, I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me. And then when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice. I often hear this preached on in the church, and the preacher will say, and Jesus cried with a loud voice, Lazarus. If we're true to the text, what is it saying? That when Jesus stood in front of this open tomb with the corpse of Lazarus inside, He shouted into the tomb saying, Lazarus, come forth. Now I think it's important that we pause for a moment on that because this is how God Almighty created the universe. Out of nothing, He creates the world by the power of His divine call. By His Word, He creates all that there is. And so by His Word, Christ empowers a corpse to come back to life. And as soon as Jesus cries in that loud voice and gives the imperative of God Himself to the dead Lazarus, that heart began to beat and began to pump blood through his vessels. Brain waves began. The rotting tissue became healed. Strength entered back into him, and Lazarus, who had died, came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, his face wrapped in a cloth, but he was alive. And Jesus said to those …