Men of the Word Sermon Podcast · Grace Community Church

I Am the Resurrection and the Life

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Bear lived 11 months, and the sermon uses his death to ask why God gives life at all.

1. Men of the Word Sermon Podcast focuses on John 11:25-26 and the line, 'I am the resurrection and the life.' 2. The unnamed pastor teaches the sermon and says his job is to frame life, death, sickness, and belief around Jesus Christ. 3. The central question is whether listeners believe that Jesus is 'the resurrection and the life' and will live accordingly. 4. He starts with David, Bathsheba, and the child in 2 Samuel 12, where Nathan confronts David after adultery, murder, confession, and repentance. 5. He reads David’s line, 'I will go to him, but he will not return to me,' as a statement about God’s control over life and death. 6. He then turns to Job 1-2, where God calls Job 'blameless and upright,' gives Satan permission to afflict him, and limits what Satan can do. 7. Job’s response, 'The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away,' becomes a model for worship after loss. 8. The speaker says these stories are about God, not mainly about David, Bathsheba’s baby, or Job. 9. He argues that God knows what humans cannot know and that asking why beyond Scripture can become presumptuous. 10. He says believers should trust, obey, grieve, and worship because God gives life, takes it away, and heals. 11. The sermon moves to John 11:1-4, where Lazarus of Bethany is sick and Jesus says the sickness is 'for the glory of God.' 12. He treats that verse as teaching that sickness is from God, purposeful, and effective in glorifying him. 13. He contrasts the believer, who can find peace in that explanation, with the unbeliever, who will hear it as empty or laughable. 14. Jesus tells the disciples in John 11 that Lazarus has died, even though Jesus is miles away, showing knowledge beyond ordinary sight. 15. Martha tells Jesus, 'if you had been here, my brother would not have died,' and Jesus answers, 'Your brother will rise again.' 16. The speaker uses Martha’s exchange to say Jesus has power to prevent death and to reverse death. 17. He then emphasizes Jesus’ statement, 'I am the resurrection and the life,' as a claim to divine authority over resurrection and eternal life. 18. The sermon says Jesus weeps in John 11:35 not because Lazarus is lost forever, but because his people grieve as if death were final. 19. The tone is expository, scriptural, and direct, with repeated appeals to 'Do you believe?' and several long Bible readings. 20. Listeners who want a Bible-heavy sermon on sovereignty, grief, and resurrection will fit this episode; listeners wanting light conversation may skip it.

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