This Illness Is for the Glory of God

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🗓️ 10 September 2011

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jesus loved Lazarus so much that he allowed him to die. But he also raised Lazarus to life and promises to do the same for all who trust in him.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from Desiring God.org.
0:04.0	Father, I invite you to and plead with you to pour out the Holy Spirit on our service so that what is impossible for me would be accomplished, namely that this
0:17.4	text would be understood and that the worldview that is in it which is so utterly out of sync with this world would be embraced
0:29.3	by everyone within the hearing of my voice miracle that that would be.
0:36.4	That we would understand what love is,
0:40.8	what it means to be loved by God and by Jesus in the face of death.
0:47.0	So come, grant me to be faithful to what's here and us all to have minds to understand and hearts
0:58.6	to embrace the truth.
1:01.0	I ask this in Jesus powerful name, Amen.
1:04.0	In the beginning, the absolute beginning of all things,
1:18.5	except the one who was there in the beginning, was the word, our Lord, our Savior, and the word was with God and the word was God.
1:28.0	And the word became flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:35.0	And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only son from the Father, full of grace and truth and from his fullness we have
1:46.7	all received grace upon grace. And because he was in the beginning and is God and is therefore infinitely greater than all of our powers to improve upon or comprehend.
2:10.4	He was the most important reality on September 11, 2001,
2:18.0	and he is the most important reality on the 10th anniversary of 9-11 and he is able to encompass and explain and set right the horrors of 9-11 and the tenfold worst horror two years later of the earthquake
2:52.0	in BAM Iraq where 30,000 people perished in a night and the 100 fold worse horror.
3:01.0	Four years later, when 250,000 people died on December 25th
3:10.0	under the tsunami he is able because he is God to encompass, explain, set right, the horrors because in the beginning was the word, and the word was
3:29.0	with God, and the word was God. And since he became flesh, became a man,
3:42.0	and died and rose again. He is able to draw near to every single loss with more tenderness and more closeness and more closeness and
3:59.2	more kindness than any human can imagine, including the loss of Victor Waters on Wednesday.
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