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All right, welcome back to day five of our deep dive in John

chapter 11. This is the grand finale. We're going to pick it up in verse 38. Then Jesus

deeply moved again. Again, this is kind of this mixture of he's sad for his people, but he's also

angry at death. He came to the tomb. It was a cave and a stone

lay against it. And Jesus said, take away the stone. And Martha, the sister of the dead man,

said to him, Lord, by this time, there will be an odor. The King James says, Lord, it stinketh.

I think that's funny. Four, he has been dead for four days.

Now listen to this. Do you remember a few days ago when she said that Jesus asked her the question,

do you believe? And she says, I believe, I believe you are the resurrection in the life. I believe

you are the son of God? And he goes, okay, are you sure you believe? And she goes, yeah, I believe. And then now when he is about to do the thing that she said that she believed in,

now she's got questions.

So let me ask you this.

I know it's easy to believe when you're sitting in church and you hear a good sermon.

But what about when you were confronted with the actions that are required based on what you said that you believe?

Like believing without doing is worthless.

James says faith without works is dead. Like do you believe in the forgiveness of the cross?

Okay, then why don't you act like it? Do you believe that forgiving people are supposed to forgive people?

Okay, then why do you hold on to the grudge? Do you believe? Verse 40. And Jesus said to her, did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? And so they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.

And when he said these things, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out.

I love what Charles Spurgeon says here.

Charles Spurgeon says he had to call out the name Lazarus because if he had just said,

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