At Oasis Church, we believe that the Bible is truth and needs to be
read and obeyed… and that all people following Jesus will do this!
It's part of God's plan to transform us and make us more and more like
Jesus.

With this is mind, the challenge was issued… read
through the Book of John, a chapter a day, for the next three weeks. I
will be sharing a couple of verses and thoughts that jumped out to me
each day… here we go!

John 11: 3- 7  So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, "Lord, your dear friend is very sick."
  4 But when Jesus heard about it he said, "Lazarus's
sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so
that the Son of God will receive glory from this."5 So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,6 he stayed where he was for the next two days.7 Finally, he said to his disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

• Lazarus is sick…but it's not an
  emergency to Jesus

• everything happens for the glory
  of God…including this!

• Just because Jesus did not
  immediately act in this situation, the Bible is clear that He still
  loved everybody involved in this situation

• you and I need to hear this…
  Jesus loves us…even if He is not doing what we think He should be
  doing!

11 Then he said, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up."
  12 The disciples said, "Lord, if he is sleeping, he will soon get better!"13 They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died.
  14 So he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.15 And for your sakes, I'm glad I wasn't there, for now you will really believe. Come, let's go see him."

• Lazarus is asleep… dead!

• Interesting, what we term a final
  resting place, God calls taking a nap… and His perspective is
  correct!

• I love how it says that Jesus has
  to come out and speak plainly… yo, he's dead!

• The same is true for us…
  sometimes, He has to tell us exactly what He means for us to get
  it…

• When that happens, we have no more
  excuses of ignorance… we will either respond to or ignore what
  Jesus is saying to us!

 16 Thomas, nicknamed the Twin,s said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too—and die with Jesus."

• “Doubting” Thomas has gotten a
  bad rap over the years… yet, he is one of the first to say he is
  willing to die with Jesus!

  25 Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?"
  27 "Yes,
Lord," she told him. "I have always believed you are the Messiah, the
Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God."

• Jesus is the life and the coming
  back to life… do you believe?

• I love Martha's response… can
  you say the same about Jesus?