~ Modern Newspaper
Headline 3 ~
Headline
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“Preacher Creates a Foul Odor: The Reading of the Will has
Been Delayed”
This
Series
~ I hope these posts lighten your day as we take a light-hearted look at some
Scripture verses and related spiritual topics. Some of these views or concepts
may be well known to you, but hopefully others will be new.
Scripture ~ “Now a
certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister
Martha. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His
feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. Therefore the sisters sent
to Him, saying, ‘Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.’
When Jesus
heard that, He said, ‘This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of
God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.’ …
“So when
Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. Now
Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. And many of the Jews had
joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their
brother.
Now Martha,
as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was
sitting in the house. Now Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if You had been here, my
brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever You ask of God,
God will give You.’
Jesus said to
her, ‘Your brother will rise again.’ Martha said to Him, ‘I know that he will
rise again in the resurrection at the last day.’ …
“Then the
Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that
Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, ‘She is going to the
tomb to weep there.’ Then, when Mary
came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, ‘Lord,
if You had been here, my brother would not have died.’
“Therefore,
when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned
in the spirit and was troubled. And He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They
said to Him, ‘Lord, come and see.’ Jesus
wept. …
“Then Jesus,
again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay
against it. Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of him
who was dead, said to Him, ‘Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has
been dead four days.’
“Jesus said
to her, ‘Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory
of God?’ Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was
lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, ‘Father, I thank You that You
have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people
who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.’ Now when He had said these things, He cried
with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ And he who had died came out bound
hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus
said to them, ‘Loose him, and let him go’” (John 11:1-44).
~ Robert
Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT
LIFE NOW blog.
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Bible Version:
Quotations are from the NKJV unless otherwise noted. Emphasis is added.
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