Feb 19, 2023

Grief, Rage, And Belief

02.19.23

Grief, Rage, And Belief

Noel Heikkinen

John 11:1–45

Death is our enemy. It is not how the world was meant to be. Jesus faced death with grief and rage and He calls us to believe. Pastor Noel Heikkinen walks us through John 11 as we process the grief, anger, and sorrow after the recent tragedy on campus at Michigan State University.

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So the sisters sent a message to him: “Lord, the one you love is sick.”

John 11:3
 

He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on my way to wake him up.”

John 11:11
 

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

John 11:21
 

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died!”

John 11:32
 

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled. “Where have you put him?” he asked. “Lord,” they told him, “come and see.” Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Couldn’t he who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?” Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

John 11:33-38
 

Jesus wept.

John 11:35
 

He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on my way to wake him up.”

John 11:11
 

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23
 

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 11:25-26
 

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