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Jun 21, 2020

The Raising of Lazarus

Passage: John 11:1-48

Preacher: Jeremy Anderson

Series:Hit Reset

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One gift God has never really blessed me with is the gift of art. I’m not good at it and never have been, but I appreciate it. I appreciate seeing something that is so detailed, with such great design behind it. One form of artwork that has always captured my attention is abstract art.

Check out this picture of a sculpture. It seems totally chaotic, in absolute disorder. There’s so much confusion, you don’t even know what the pieces are. It actually looks like a giant pile of garbage—and to be honest, it actually is. The artists who created this have taken garbage and repurposed it to make something beautiful. But when you’re looking at it like this, it doesn’t look all that beautiful. It looks confusing. It leaves you wondering what it is and if there’s really a design behind it at all.

The unique thing about this kind of artwork is that you need to bring light to it. See, when the sculpture was formed by the artists, they designed it in such a way that when light shines on it at just the perfect angle, it will cast a shadow on the wall behind that reveals something magnificent, something you can’t begin to picture by looking at the sculpture itself. When the light shines on it just right, it changes the whole thing, revealing a beautiful picture behind it (see page two).

Perspective is so important for us. We all have different perspectives about different things. But the important thing to remember is that our perspectives as humans naturally are flawed.

I’m wearing glasses right now, because a doctor has told me my vision is flawed. I see things blurry and double which is not good. They’ve given me lenses so I can see things clearly again. When it comes to our vision—our perspective of the world—we need some corrective lenses.

The last couple months in our world have been crazy. We’ve had a lot of good things in the last couple weeks—beautiful weather, an opportunity to get outside, a wonderful praise service in the parking lot—but for the last three months we’ve seen this world go through so much chaos and disorder. The events that have taken place are almost similar to looking at that sculpture with a naked eye before putting that light on it, leaving us with questions like, “Where’s God in all this chaos, confusion and unrest? Why do divisions continue to arise? How is this all working out? Where is God?” Our perspective is important. As believers, we need to bring a godly perspective to the circumstances of our lives.

In today’s passage, Jesus is going to be addressing this perspective to bring a biblical perspective to an event that’s taking place.

We’ve been in a series called “Hit Reset,” looking at different miracles in the book of John. In each of these miracles we’ve learned something about what Jesus was doing, Who He was and other really fascinating things. The whole focus of this series has been to see our dead ends as divine opportunities. When we hit a circumstance and can’t see how it’s going to play out or understand what God is doing, instead of seeing it as a dead end, we need to look for what God is doing in the midst of it.

Today we’ll be diving into John 11. I want to invite you to turn there in your Bibles and follow along. We’re also going to watch a video that will take us through this passage. As you watch, I want to encourage you to pay close attention to the conversations Jesus has. How is He addressing people’s perspectives? What is it about their perspectives is He calling attention to? What godly perspective does He bring to them?

Video: A man named Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. It was her brother, Lazarus, who was sick. Her sister sent Jesus the message, “Lord, Your dear friend is sick.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus. This has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory.” Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, yet when He received the news that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two more days. Then He said to His disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

“Teacher, just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone You and are You planning to go back?”

“The day has 12 hours, doesn’t it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world. But if they walk during the night, they stumble because they have no light. Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I will go and wake him up.”

“If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well.” Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought He meant natural sleep. So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. But for your sake, I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe. Let us go to him.”

Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us all go along with the Teacher, so that we may die with Him.”

When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had been buried four days before. Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother’s death. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed in the house.

“If You had been here, Lord, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever You ask Him for.”

“Your brother will rise to life.”

“I know that He will rise to life on the last day.”

“I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in Me will live, even though they die, and those who live and believe in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

“Yes, Lord. I do believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, Who was to come into the world.”

After Martha said this, she went back and called her sister Mary privately. “The Teacher is here and He’s asking for you.” When Mary heard this, she got up and hurried out to meet Him. Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. The people who were in the house with Mary, comforting her, followed her when they saw her get up and hurry out. They thought she was going to the grave to weep there.

Mary arrived where Jesus was and as soon as she saw Him, she fell at His feet. “If You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Jesus saw her weeping and He saw how the people with her were weeping also. His heart was touched and He was deeply moved. “Where have you buried him?”

“Come and see, Lord.”

Jesus wept.

“See how much He loved him,” the people said. But some of them said, “He gave sight to the blind man, didn’t He? Could He not have kept Lazarus from dying?”

Deeply moved once more, Jesus went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone placed at the entrance. “Take the stone away.”

“It will be bad, now, Lord. He has been buried four days.”

“Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believed?”

They took the stone away. Jesus looked up. “I thank You, Father, that You listen to Me. I know that You always listen to Me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe You sent Me.” After He had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” He came out, his hands and feet wrapped in grave clothes and with a cloth around his face. “Untie him, and let him go.”

Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw what Jesus did and they believed in Him, but some of them returned to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the council and said, “What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this Man is performing. If we let Him go on in this way, everyone will believe in Him—and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our temple and our nation.”

One of them, named Caiaphas—who was high priest that year—said, “What fools you are. Don’t you realize that it is better for you to have let one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?” Actually, he did not say this of his own accord. Rather, as he was high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people—and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God.[1]

Can you imagine seeing that event take place? Lazarus is a man who has been dead and in the tomb for four days. Jesus yells at him, “Lazarus, come out!” And a man who was once dead comes walking out of the tomb, still in his grave clothes, alive. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the excitement and awe that I would be feeling watching this take place.

But you know, as exciting as the miracle itself is, there’s so much that’s going on around it. Jesus is having conversations building up to this moment when He would call Lazarus out of the grave. In each of these conversations, He is challenging the perspective of the people He’s talking to. There are four different people whom Jesus challenges.

  • First, at the beginning of John 11, we have some messengers who come from Mary and Martha to bring the news that Lazarus is ill. Right away, Jesus brings a new perspective into this: it’s not about the end here.
  • Then we have Jesus making some plans with His disciples who freaking out about what’s going to happen. Jesus addresses their perspective on the circumstances around them.
  • Then Jesus makes it to Bethany, which is where Lazarus died and where Mary and Martha live. He has a conversation with Martha about resurrection and life, addressing her perspective on that.
  • Finally, Jesus is with Mary and other Jews who are mourning the loss of Lazarus and He addresses their perspective on their mourning and sadness.

 A God-sized perspective challenges our misconceptions.

Throughout, Jesus is bringing a God-sized perspective to the whole circumstance to change the way we view what is happening. Before we can adopt this God-sized perspective, He challenges our misconceptions throughout this chapter. Jesus did this with each of these people

Our panic

Notice that first He challenges our panic. When Jesus announced His plan to go back to Judea, right away His disciples said, “Whoa. We were just there and the people wanted to stone You. And now we’re going back? Why would we do this?” They were concerned for the safety of their Teacher.

Jesus addressed this by saying, “Listen, the mission of what I have come for cannot stop now because of a threat.” Jesus knew how all this was going to play out. He was trying to help His disciples zoom out a little bit and see the bigger picture of what He was doing. But then Mary and Martha were panicking as well. Both of them, at separate times, said, “Lord, if only You had been here, my brother wouldn’t be dead.”

Now, let’s stop for a second. You’ve got to remember that when they sent messengers to Jesus, the messengers took the news that Lazarus was ill. Jesus’ response in verse four was, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” It took me a couple times reading through this passage before I realized that He was sending a message back to Mary and Martha. They received this message and were thinking the message meant Lazarus’ illness wasn’t going to lead to death. But then Lazarus died. I’m sure they were left with a lot of questions. “When is Jesus coming? Why isn’t He here? Doesn’t He know how sick Lazarus really was? If only Jesus had been here...”

Sometimes we ask the same questions, don’t we? When we face trials and suffering, sometimes we ask the question, “Where was God in the middle of my trouble? Where is God now in the middle of my suffering?” In many ways, Jesus’ response to Mary and Martha is, “Hold on. I’m just getting started. Don’t give up yet.” And His response is the same to us in our struggles and suffering. God is not oblivious to them. He’s aware. He knows what’s going on. Sometimes He’s asking us to simply trust and follow Him. That doesn’t mean the trials will go away. It’s kind of like a sailboat. The wind can be a dangerous thing when you’re out in the ocean.

We went on a retreat with our small group years ago. We had borrowed a little fishing boat with a trolling motor on it. On the last day of the retreat, I was given the job of taking the boat back to the launch site, so we could get it on the trailer and be ready to leave. This was the windiest day we were there and there was no way for me to get to the launch site without having to go straight into the wind. When I was heading dead into the wind, I felt like the trolling motor was not making any progress. I looked over at the shore and could tell I was sitting dead still. It took everything that motor had to keep me in the same spot. I started getting a little nervous. What happens if I can’t control this boat, I run into a dock and ruin this person’s boat. Thankfully, it didn’t sink or get damaged.

But when you actually have sails on a boat, the wind can be a very good thing. You reposition the sails to catch the wind and drive the boat. Sometimes in our suffering we need to reposition our sails. We can try to fight that wind all day,  but that’s exhausting and makes us feel defeated. Sometimes we need to just reposition and trust God. It doesn’t take the circumstance away, but it does change how we work through the circumstance. It can take the panic away as we learn to trust in a sovereign God.

Our perception

Ultimately our panic is a symptom of a deeper issue, which is the misconception we have when it comes to our perception and how we view things. If you look at our text, Jesus had an interaction with Martha, who said in verses 21-22, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

Jesus told Martha, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Was she wrong in saying that? No. She was absolutely right. But Jesus was going to expand that. He responded, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” Martha had the right idea. Her perception was true, but it was limited.

As humans, it’s important for us to remember that our perceptions of things are very limited. We don’t always see the full picture. We don’t always understand what God is doing. On a deeper level, we don’t even fully understand the depths of Who God is. We follow an infinite God—infinite in power, infinite in glory, infinite in love. What an amazing God we serve! But we are finite beings, which means our perceptions can always grow and we always have room to deepen our understanding of Who God is. So before we come to a circumstance with our perspective, thinking we have it all figured out, thinking we understand fully what has taken place and what is going to happen, we need to stop and realize God is far greater than we can even begin to imagine.

His purposes and power are greater than we can fathom. His plans are deeper and more thorough than we could possibly come up with ourselves. We serve an infinite God, so we need to remember that our perceptions are limited when it comes to our perspective.

Our pain

Lastly, Jesus challenges our pain. Look at John 11:33-38. Jesus was with Mary by the tomb and He saw her weeping. The Jews who had come with her were also weeping. John says in verse 33, “He was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.” Then go to verse 35, the shortest verse in Scripture, which says, “Jesus wept.” John tells us that Jesus felt a myriad of emotions here. He was deeply moved and troubled in His soul.

We have to stop and ask the question, “What was Jesus so upset about and what does that mean?” My first thought was that Jesus was super upset about Lazarus dying. He was actually angry to the point of tears apparently, according to verse 35. He was so moved and upset in His being that He even came to a point of tears. Why? I don’t think it was because Lazarus had just died, so He was sad that His friend was gone. Did it hurt to lose someone? Maybe, but remember back at the beginning of this chapter, when Jesus said, “This illness doesn’t lead to death”? And just before He wept, He told Martha that Lazarus would rise again. It doesn’t seem to make sense that Jesus would be so broken-hearted because Lazarus was gone if He knows he’s going to be coming right back. So why else might Jesus be so upset?

Well, maybe He’s upset because all these people around Him are mourning, not understanding what He is going to do. We’ve seen throughout the book of John so far, almost every single week, that people didn’t understand everything Jesus was doing. So was this the straw that broke the camel’s back and suddenly Jesus had had enough? Now He’s so upset that people aren’t seeing things and that made Him weep? I don’t know. What seems to make the most sense—and many scholars agree—is that Jesus had compassion and sympathy for those who were mourning the loss of Lazarus. He was so deeply moved, not just because they were upset, but because He saw them suffering as a consequence of sin.

I’m reminded of Romans 6:23 which says, “For the wages of sin is death…”  When sin entered this world, it brought with it all kinds of trouble, all kinds of suffering. Jesus came to conquer sin at the cross. It seems to make sense that Jesus is so upset because of the consequences of sin and its effect on His people, the people He loves. He was deeply troubled because of the disbelief and pain it causes them.

We need to realize that although our suffering may not pass quickly, Jesus is there with us. He sees our suffering. He knows our suffering. Hebrews tells us He’s the great High Priest Who can sympathize with us in our weaknesses. What a Savior we have. What a God we serve. He understands.   

A God-sized perspective considers the Most High.

Once this perspective challenges our misconceptions, we need to bring God into the picture. You cannot have a God-sized perspective without God in it. As we move forward, we need to consider the Most High.

His purposes

Beginning in John 11:4, we can consider His purposes. When we consider the purposes of God, we have to stop and ask the question, “How is God using these circumstances for His glory and for His purposes?” Verse four tells us that in the midst of this difficult time for Mary and Martha and those who loved Lazarus, God was using this as an opportunity to display His glory and to glorify His Son.

Often in our own sufferings, God is at work in ways behind the scenes that we don’t fully understand. If we don’t pause, take a step back and ask, “How is God using my circumstances, sufferings and trials for HIs glory?” then we continue  keeping our perspective focused on us. It’s a lot easier to endure suffering when you can see where God is working. When you’re trusting Him in the midst of it, He gives you strength to persevere, strength to push on, endurance to keep going.

This reminds me of Cisco’s teaching last week about the blind man. When they asked the question, “Who caused this man’s blindness, was it his sins or his parents’ sins?” Jesus responded, “It was neither. It was so the power of God would be displayed.”

Christian, we may suffer in our lives or we may have great success in our lives. It doesn’t matter which way it is or which season you’re in now, we need to continue asking, “How can God be using these circumstances for His glory?”

His power

Then we also need to consider Jesus’ power. Can you grasp the amazement in verse 43? “When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out.’   The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’”  

The power of God was displayed by literally raising a dead man to life. I mean, how often do you see that happen? Amazing! Glory to God, that God did such an amazing act. In this miracle, Jesus displays for the public to see that He has power over death itself. When Jesus said to Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life,” He meant it.

It reminds me of Mark 2, when the lame man was brought to Jesus, and Jesus said, “Your sins are forgiven.” The religious leaders got all upset about this, because it’s blasphemy for man to say sins are forgiven. Only God can say that. So Jesus responded, “What’s easier—to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or to say, ‘Take up your mat and walk’? To prove I am the Son of Man and I have authority in heaven to forgive sins, ‘Take up your mat and go home.’”  The lame man got up and walked away. Jesus used a physical miracle to display the spiritual power and authority He has.

I believe Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead to display that He truly does have power over life and death by literally raising a physically dead person to physical life again. If Jesus has the power to do that, then we better believe He has the power to raise our souls to new life; spiritually speaking, to raise us from spiritual death to spiritual life.

See, when Lazarus was raised, some of the Jews went to the religious leaders who ultimately wanted to kill Lazarus, because it was by his testimony that many people were believing in Jesus. Down in verse 48, they were saying, “If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him.” You can’t deny the power of God at work when you see death become life. You couldn’t deny that Jesus brought Lazarus from death to life.

Christians, for us today, there should be no denying that God has raised us from spiritual death to spiritual life. We should be radically different, changed from the inside out. We should live like we are alive with God, not like we’re dead. Jesus is proving Who He is and the extent of His power. Keep in mind this miracle is just a foretaste of what’s to come.

After this, the religious leaders decided it was right to start planning to put Jesus to death. This was like the key in the ignition that would lead ultimately to the cross where Jesus would lay down His life—a perfect life without sin, a life without failure.

He would give up His life and raise it on the third day to give life to many who would believe, who would turn and follow Him. He would remove the guilt of sin and give us His righteousness, so we would have a restored relationship with the Father and with Himself. Praise be to God! This miracle was a foretaste of what Jesus was going to do at the cross, a foretaste of the life that would be given to those who would believe in His name. Isn’t that a beautiful thing?

A God-sized perspective calls us to move.

As we confront our misconceptions and consider God in all this, having a God-sized perspective calls for us to move. It doesn’t just leave us where we’re at; it asks something of us. It demands that we respond and do something.

Ponder Jesus’ claims

The first way we need to respond is simply by pondering Jesus’ claims. Verse 45 says, “Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.” As we ponder Jesus’ claims, this isn’t just a pondering that’s for an unbeliever. There is something to be pondered here for the believer. Notice, Mary, Martha and the disciples all had to ponder Jesus’ claims throughout this passage. They believed Jesus was the Christ the Messiah, but they still had to ponder and learn.

I had a professor when I was at Taylor whose name was Dr. Harbin who was a genius. I remember him saying that the more he learns about his faith, the more he realizes he doesn’t know. That’s so true. As I said earlier, our perspective and  limited understanding means we have so much to learn. We will never have arrived spiritually. We will never fully grasp the depths of the love of God. We will never grasp the depths of His power, sovereignty and Who He is. We always have a life of learning, a life of growth, a life of deepening our understanding.

So, believer, ponder the claims of Christ. Take them seriously. Meditate on them and how they impact your life. Is Jesus calling you to change your perspective on something? Will that perspective change regarding the way you are to live or think?

If you’re an unbeliever and you’re watching this today, it’s not an accident that you are. I believe God has brought you to this video for a reason. I have to ask what are you going to do with Jesus?

See, if all this is true—if Jesus is Who He said He is and really did raise Lazarus from the dead—it demands a response. There are really only two responses and we see them in our text. Some Jews believed and followed Him, while others went and told the Pharisees and opposed Him. You can believe and follow Jesus, or you can reject Him altogether. You can’t do nothing with Jesus, because doing nothing with Jesus is really rejecting Him. The Bible does not give the option to stay in the middle. You can’t say, “Well, I’m kind of following Jesus and kind of not.” It’s an all or nothing deal. You’re saved or you’re unsaved. You’re a follower of Christ or you’re not. Jesus says you can’t serve two masters (Matthew 6:24); you can only serve one master. Maybe that master in your life right now is your own entertainment, your own pleasures. Maybe it’s success or money or relationships. I don’t know what it is, but whatever is most important to you is your master. Jesus says you can’t serve two masters.

So to believe in and follow Jesus, we need to leave the old behind and follow the new. We need to let Jesus be the Master of our lives, so we will follow in His footsteps and do what He’s called us to do. We need to think the way He calls us to think and let Him transform our lives for the better. You cannot do nothing with Jesus. What are you going to do with Him today?

Point others to Jesus

Did you catch how many times this passage that pointed back to Christ? In verse four, Jesus says it’s about the Son of God being glorified. Down in verse 15, He says, “For your sake  I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe.” Then He talks about Him being the resurrection and the life in a conversation with Martha. In verse 42, Jesus says, “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.”  This is all about pointing people to Jesus.

In our day and age right now, when our world is so broken and crumbled, we need to bring Jesus into the conversation. If we fail to do so, we might as well not have the conversation at all. We need redemption before we can have resolution or restoration. We need the blood of Christ. We need Jesus to be in the conversation we’re having with the world right now, pointing people to Him, showing people that the world needs to be redeemed, that people need a Savior. We need to point them to Jesus. He is the only way. He’s not just a way to salvation. Jesus is it. If that is really true, then Christians, we need to bring this up. We need to have this conversation and Jesus needs to be the central part of it.

We’re not going to solve racial injustice without Jesus. We’re not going to solve human trafficking without Jesus. We’re not going to solve abuse without Jesus. The murdering of innocent babies in the mothers’ wombs. The list could go on and on. . We can’t solve these injustices, these great evils, without Jesus. Jesus is the solution, but if we leave Him out of the conversation, we’re just going to spin our wheels. We need to invite Him in. We need to point people to Jesus.

Pray

Lastly, brothers and sisters, we have got to pray. Jesus hears our prayers. He prays to His Father in this passage, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me.”  First Peter 3:8-12 make a great prayer for us as a church right now:

8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. 10 For

 "Whoever desires to love life

         and see good days,

let him keep his tongue from evil

         and his lips from speaking deceit;

11 let him turn away from evil and do good;

         let him seek peace and pursue it.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

         and his ears are open to their prayer.

But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

We need to go before our Lord in prayer. We need to plead with Him. We need to intercede for our friends and family members who don’t know Him yet. We need to come before Him and pray for peace for our nation. We need Jesus as part of the solution, so we need to pray fervently. We need to lift people up, praying for them by name and praying that God would do a work in their lives.

But before you do all that, pray that God would do a work in your life. Pray that God would be changing your heart, that He’d be continuing to work in your very soul, stirring you up to follow Him. Pray that He would kindle a fire in your heart that would rage to know Him more, a boldness to follow Him wherever He calls you to go, to do whatever He calls you to do—and let it start with you. Pray that God would do a work in your heart.

Listen, Jesus displays magnificently Who He is as He calls Lazarus forth from the grave. Surrounding this is a change of perspective. Surrounding God calling us from death to life is a whole change of thinking, a change of perspective that He's calling us to continue to be growing and deepening in our lives.

Here are some practical perspective shift to apply:

  1. God uses suffering to bring about His glory. Will we suffer well as believers? Will we trust Him? Will we follow Him? Will we obey Him?
  2. Our understanding of an infinite God is finite. Will we continue to deepen our understanding? Will we continue to pursue knowing God on a deeper level, following Him more closely?
  3. Our Savior’s heart breaks deeply over sin—and so should ours. Will we invite Jesus into a broken world? Brothers and sisters, Jesus is introducing a God-sized perspective so that we can view the events that take place and the circumstances of our lives through Him, learning as we go. Will you let it challenge your misconceptions? Will you consider God’s purposes and power? Will you be moved to action?

I want to close with Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1:17-21:

[I pray] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. Amen.

 

[1] https://www.jesusfilm.org/watch.html

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