There are times in your life when God will let things get worse before they get better.

Dr. Tony Evans reveals the deeper purpose behind life's challenges.

God allows us to go through death-dealing experiences in order to experience what a resurrection feels like.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

It's been said before that life throws curveballs, those unexpected twists that challenge our faith and understanding.

Today, Dr. Evans shows how Jesus uses a seemingly impossible situation to reveal that God's

plan is greater than any obstacle or circumstance we'll ever face. Let's join him as he takes

us through a powerful story found in the 11th chapter of John. A certain person is sick,

Lazarus of Bethany,

the village of Martha and Mary.

So these are two sisters and a brother.

And they run into a problem.

And the problem is that their brother is very, very ill.

So they do what Christians ought to do.

They pray, they call on Jesus for a solution. They sent

word saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love, verse three, is sick. So they do the spiritual thing.

They call on the Lord and he who you love. So this is an intimate relationship Jesus has with this family. When Jesus gets this

word in verse four, he says the sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God so that the

son of God may be glorified by it. So what this means is that all sickness is not due to sin. He says this

sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God. So you can have sickness for the

glory of God. So anybody who tells you that if you're walking with the Lord, you don't get sick,

this contradicts that. Well, of course, if you're Martha Mary and you get this news, you're going to the Lord, you don't get sick. This contradicts that. Well, of course,

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