Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up. Welcome back, three of our deep dive into John chapter 11.

One of the things I want you to see here is how Jesus is going to meet with a couple of sisters

and he meets them right where they are and different people grieve differently and Jesus

gives them what they need according to who they are.

Verse 17, the Bible says, now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

Now, a part of the reason I think the Bible says this, well, one, it just actually happened.

That's how long he was there.

But a Jewish myth had risen up, and they believed that

the soul could actually hang around the body for up to three days. After the third day, you were dead,

dead, and so you were gone. And so a part of the reason that Jesus waits here is because he

wants to make sure that before he raises Lazarus, nobody thinks that he swooned or he was just

kind of a sleeper in a coma,

that everybody in this area, Bethany knows that Lazarus is all the way dead, not sort of dead,

not kind of dead, but he is dead dead. Now, Bethany was near Jerusalem about two miles off.

By the way, this is where Jesus would hang out when he would go to Jerusalem.

And many of the Jews had come to Martha

and Mary to console them concerning their brother. It was actually first century custom that if somebody

died, you could pay whalers and mourners to show up and go to the funeral. And so when you would

cry, they would all cry with you. Verse 20. So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and she met him, but Mary

remained seated in the house. Now what you're going to see is two different personalities that

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