Live Like It's True {Bible Podcast}

How To Process A Story That Makes You Wonder If God Is Good {Lazarus in John 11-12}

Shannon Popkin Season 2 Episode 16

How do you respond when God allows you to get hurt? How do you pray after he fails to prevent the pain you're experiencing? Or when he fails to do the thing that would seem most consistent with his kind and loving character?

Bible Passage: John 11:38-44 and12:10-11 

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 Music: Cade Popkin Music

The True Story of Lazarus

The two women in our story today are experiencing this very thing. Mary and Martha both know Jesus could have prevented their brother from dying, but he didn't show up. Then when he shows up four days late, they say, "Jesus, if you were here..." They don't say but seem to imply: "Why didn't you come? Don't you care?"

In this True Story of Easter Series we're talking through some pieces of the story which make us look at Jesus with jaw-dropping astonishment. He doesn't do what we expect him to do. And this story is no exception. I'm going to be talking through some of the story elements that we find in John 11 and 12, and then I'll be retelling the True Story of Lazarus.

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