Palm Sunday / Confirmation

Bible Readings Isaiah 42:1-6 John 12:20-26, John 11:1-43

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Pastor Paul A. Tullberg

Sermon text: John 11:1-7, 11-43

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was the same Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.

3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, saying, “Lord, the one you love is sick!” 4 When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not going to result in death, but it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed in the place where he was two more days. 7 Then afterwards he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”….

11 He said this and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”…

17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. 19 Many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, while Mary was sitting in the house.

21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24 Martha replied, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the Last Day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even if he dies.

26 And whoever lives and believes in Me will never perish. Do you believe this?” 27 “Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

28 After she said this, Martha went back to call her sister Mary. 32 … When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in His spirit and troubled. 34 He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept.

36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not He who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

38 Jesus was deeply moved again as He came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 “Take away the stone,” He said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, because it has been four days.”

40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. Jesus looked up and said,

“Father, I thank You that you heard me. 42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I said this for the benefit of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”

43 After He said this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The man who had died came out with his feet and his hands bound with strips of linen and his face wrapped with a cloth.

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

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