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Published: April 9, 2009, 12:06 p.m.

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(John 14:12)\\xa0 \\u201cI tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.\\u201d

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(John 11:1-4)\\xa0 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.\\xa0 This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.\\xa0 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, \\u201cLord, the one you love is sick.\\u201d When he heard this, Jesus said, \\u201cThis sickness will not end in death.\\xa0 No, it is for God\\u2019s glory so that God\\u2019s Son may be glorified through it.\\u201d

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The Death Trap

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\\xfc We don\\u2019t understand how God works.

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(John 11:6)\\xa0 \\u201cYet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.\\u201d

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(John 11:11-13)\\xa0 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, \\u201cOur friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.\\u201d\\xa0 His disciples replied, \\u201cLord, if he sleeps, he will get better.\\u201d\\xa0 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

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\\xfc We get caught up in doubt.

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(John 11:16)\\xa0 Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, \\u201cLet us also go, that we may die with him.\\u201d

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\\xfc We give up on God.

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(John 11:20)\\xa0 \\u201cWhen Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.\\u201d

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Question:\\xa0 What in my life is dead or dying?

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(John 11:25-26)\\xa0 Jesus said to her, \\u201cI am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?\\u201d

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1.\\xa0 Settle in your heart who Jesus is.

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(John 11:27)\\xa0 (Martha said) \\u201cI believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.\\u201d

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(John 11:21-22)\\xa0 \\u201cLord,\\u201d Martha said to Jesus, \\u201cif you had been here, my brother would not have died.\\xa0 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.\\u201d

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\\xa02. Stop analyzing everything.

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(John 11:38-39)\\xa0 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb.\\xa0 It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.\\xa0 \\u201cTake away the stone,\\u201d he said.\\xa0 \\u201cBut, Lord,\\u201d said Martha, the sister of the dead man, \\u201cby this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.\\u201d

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(Romans 4:19-21)\\xa0 \\u201cWithout weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead--since he was about a hundred years old--and that Sarah\\u2019s womb was also dead.\\xa0 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.\\u201d

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3.\\xa0 Start living again.

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(John 10:10)\\xa0 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

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(John 11:43-44)\\xa0 Jesus called in a loud voice, \\u201cLazarus, come out!\\u201d\\xa0 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.\\xa0 Jesus said to them, \\u201cTake off the grave clothes and let him go.\\u201d

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