NH 2026 Monday Evening Celebration - Andy Bannister

We're going to take a look at John chapter 11.

So if you've got a Bible with you this evening in paper or on your phone, feel free to open that up.

It's going to be on the screen, but I appreciate you can't all see the screen.

So if you want to open it up, feel free.

It's a long passage, but there's a lot to help us in here.

So let's take a look at John.

chapter 11 so John tells us now a man named Lazarus was sick he was from Bethany the village of Mary and her sister Martha 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 so the sisters sent word to Jesus saying Lord the one that you love is sick and When he heard this, Jesus said, this sickness will not end in death.

No, it is for God's glory so that God's son may be glorified through it.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.

We now skip ahead to verse 17.

On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

Now, Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.

"'Lord,' Martha said to Jesus, "'if you had been here, my brother would not have died.'" but I know that even now God will give you what you ask.

Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.

Martha answered, I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.

The one who believes in me will live even though they die.

And whoever lives by believing in me will never die.

Do you believe this? Yes, Lord, she replied.

I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.

After she had said this, she went back and she called her sister Mary aside.

The teacher is here, she said, and is asking for you.

When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.