(John) the Mighty Miracle — Willie Mullan

The Mighty Miracle of Lazarus

We're turning again this evening to John's Gospel, Chapter 11, please. John's Gospel, Chapter 11, and last Tuesday we looked up the first ten verses. We made up the introduction to this wonderful chapter, and we're going to try to go through from verse eleven this evening, right down to the end of verse forty-four.

From verse eleven, right down to the end of verse forty-four, and this portion brings before us the mighty miracle of bringing Lazarus back from the dead, and we're going to talk about the might of the miracle.

Very closely connected with this, of course, is the mourning of Mary, and I've just got a few things to say about the mourning of Mary. For tears have wept, and then I shall go from that to the mistakes of Martha.

I think I must underline these for you this evening, because Martha's faint, as she was, she made mistakes, and they're recorded for our learning, of course, that we may do without making them. And, of course, in this wonderful portion, we have not only the might of the miracle and the mourning of Mary and the mistakes of Martha, but we have a wonderful picture here this evening of our marvelous Master.

And that's where I'm starting tonight, drawing the picture for you of our marvelous Master. There are the headings, our marvelous Master, the mistakes of Martha, the mourning of Mary, the might of the miracle.

The Knowledge of the Son

And we're commencing now at verse eleven. These things said he, that refers, of course, to the things that we just with last week. And after that, he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go, that I may awake him out of his sleep.

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleepeth, he shall do well. Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death, but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest and sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

And again, just now, I want to underline for you the marvelous knowledge of our wonderful Lord. You see, when these disciples said, Lord, if he sleepeth, he shall do well, it is perfectly clear to all of us that no one had brought a message of the death of Lazarus.

You see, the Master standing there, he just knew that Lazarus was dead. My, what wonderful knowledge. You know, there are moderns who say that Christ was limited in his knowledge. Well, I think they want to go over John's gospel very carefully, and they will change their miserable opinion.

I believe, of course, as I've taught you before, that John's gospel was written for one purpose. Do you remember it? All right, go to the end of John, chapter 20, and you'll see it again. This is why John's gospel was written.

John, chapter 20, verse 13, and many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.

So I believe that John's gospel was written to bring before you the glory and the beauty and the majesty and the wonder and wealth of our wonderful Lord. The gospel brings out the glory of the Son of God, and here's a study for all you young students.

If you take all the 21 chapters sometime, and you go through them like this, you can find in every chapter the knowledge of Christ. You can find in every chapter the power of Christ. You can find in every chapter the grace of Christ.

You can find in every chapter the glory of Christ. Can't miss it. Supposing we only took the knowledge. Let's see how much you remember of the chapters. In the first chapter, you remember that he knew all about Nathanael before he'd ever met him.

Quite the first moment that Nathanael walked into his presence, he looked him up and down and said, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guide. And Nathanael nearly jumped out of his skin. He said, Whence knewest thou me?

And Jesus said, Before thy fillet called thee, whence thou was under the fig tree, I saw thee. He knew all about it. He knew all about the deep, dire need of the King of Galilee marriage, and the idea that was in his most heart.

He turned and said, What have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. He knew the whole history of the woman at the well in chapter four. He knew what he would do when he was going to feed the five thousand before he ever tested Philip.

He knew how many years the man had lay up the beautiful, up the pool of Bethesda. You remember the whole story. We went into all these details last week. And chapter by chapter, you can find the unique knowledge of our wonderful Lord.

And here it's coming out again. Last week, when the messenger came from Bethany and said, He whom thou lovest is sick, the Lord could reply immediately, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God.

He knew the end of the thing. How it would end. I'm now standing there without a messenger coming or going. He said, Nobody came and told. But he knew. There are no limitations here. Praise God. His knowledge was never limited.

As he was God, he knew the end from the beginning. Quite correct what you find in the last chapter of this very gospel. When Peter looks into his eyes, almost in the last baptism test, thou knowest everything.

Remember he taught these very disciples that so many sparrows were sold for so many farthings, and yet not one of them falls to the ground. Not even a sparrow falls to the ground without my father, see?

And he whose eye is on the sparrow. He knows every detail of everything. Friend, learn this this evening. The marvelous knowledge of our wonderful Lord. And then I want you to notice this. This follows on closely.

The Wisdom of the Servant

See? Verse 14. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. I am glad for your sake that I was not there to the intent ye may believe. Now I think that this brings out the wisdom of the servant.

I think the other was the knowledge of the son. But we must remember that the son became the servant. And remember it was of the servant of God, out cold-heartedly for the glory of God, that he abode two days where he was, while all this took place at Bethany.

It was God's will that his son, who was then his servant, would abide at the place. You see, he was just an obedient servant. But I want you to watch this. You see, through his obedience as the servant of Jehovah, Lazarus was allowed to go down into death, that he might experience the power of Christ's resurrection.

And it was well that Christ abode where he was. But wait a minute. He didn't only stay where he was in obedience to the Father, that Lazarus might experience the power of his resurrection, but he stayed where he was that Mary and Martha might see the glory of God in his wholehearted affection for them in their hour of need.

But still further, he was staying where he was, not only that Lazarus might have an experience and that Mary and Martha might get a blessing, but that the faith of his own disciples might restrain him.

There's a tremendous point there, isn't there? Why can't you see the wisdom of the servant? He says, I'm glad for your sake. Well, you wouldn't have thought that these fellows were connected with this thing at all, would you?

You wouldn't have thought that this was the hour of Lazarus's pain and Mary and Martha's concern and darkness and loss and sorrow. But he was working all things together, as always, for good to them that love him.

And he was glad that he abode there for their sakes, that they might come and see demonstrated the mighty power that belonged to him in the resurrection of Lazarus, and that their faith might be strengthened.

Well, it's one of those cases again where he works all things together. You know, I went to visit the gentleman yesterday who got struck with a car the other day and lost a very valuable eye. Got the eye cut clean out of him and his jaw broken in two places.

And I found him way down under the juniper tree, wondering why. And this and all the rest of it, all the questions that are usually there. And the first thing that he said to me as I stood by the bedside, he said, why did this happen?

So I said, look, drop the word happen just for the moment. I don't think that things happen to believers. Believe that God works all things together for good. We always talk about happen, but God works all things.

I told him the story of Joseph. Do you remember how his brethren threw him down into the pits? And we'll call that the bitterness of brethren. It's to be experienced before you really know how bitter it is, the bitterness of brethren.

And then he went down into Egypt, and you know all about the wickedness of the world, don't you? They told lies on him and sent him down into prison with his character blackened. Oh, that's the wickedness of the world.

And then down yonder, you remember how he told the different men their dreams, and when one of them got out, he forgot all about Joseph. And that's the forgetfulness of friends. And you take the bitterness of brethren, and the wickedness of the world, and the forgetfulness of friends, and God works them all together for good.

And I sat quietly by the side of the bed, and I said, did you ever see a woman baking a cake? And she takes soda. You just have a mouthful of it, and you spit it out. And she takes flour, and have a go at that.

And you won't take it either. And she takes salt, and maybe just a touch of lemon. And if you take them individually, you'll spit them out, you won't taste them. But when she begins to work them all together, the production is good.

Have you got the hold of that? That our wonderful Lord can take death, and disappointment, and sadness, and sorrow, and so many other things that we could name, and he works for good for them that love God.

That's the wisdom of God, and it was the wisdom of the servant. The thought, oh, the servant was just abiding. This is marvelous wisdom, isn't it? All right, let's move on from here. We're looking at the knowledge of the Son.

He knew Lazarus was dead, and we're looking at the wisdom of the servant. I am glad for your sakes I was not there. Nevertheless, let us go on to him. Then said Thomas, which was called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, let us also go that we may die with him.

For Thomas thought that our Lord Jesus would be stoned to death when he went back into Judea. Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. Just mark that in passing by.

Now, Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem about fifteen furlongs off, not quite two miles away, and the Holy Ghost has been very particular to put it in, I believe, for this purpose. Because this mightiest of miracles was being wrought away at the end of the ministry of Christ, and it was being wrought on the borderline of Jerusalem, so that all that were against him in there would again be challenged by the power of the Lord.

Verse 19,. And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary sat still in the house.

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died, and will not deal with anything about Martha just now. But I know that even now whatsoever thou wouldst ask of God, God will give it thee.

Jesus as the Resurrection and the Life

This is the first word our Lord Jesus said to her. Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Sometimes the Lord just gives us a little word, and it's to draw out the very grace that he has placed into our hearts.

He just looked at her and said, Thy brother shall rise again. And Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection of the last day. You see, she had the common knowledge of all Jews.

This is what the Judaizers thought at Jerusalem, that there would be a resurrection at the last day. This was her persuasive theology just at that moment. But here's what the Master said. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life.

You see, he's wanting her to get away from her persuasions and theories. He's wanting to turn every affection of her being, looking full into his wonderful face. And that's a wonderful thing, you know.

So he said, I just want you to see me, Martha. I want you to get the hold of this, never mind about theories. Never mind about your persuasion, I want you to get this, I am the resurrection and the life.

Never mind about the last day. I am. He's turning her attention upon himself. So that's always good preaching. If you can get the congregation to look full in the face of our wonderful Lord, my many things on earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace.

But I want you to get the hold of exactly what he said. He said, I am the resurrection and the life. Now, I want you to face this. Why did he put resurrection first? Why did he not say, I'm the one that gives life and then brings them out?

He said, Martha, I want you to get the hold of this, dear. I am the resurrection. You know, friend, I want you to get the hold of that. He was trying to let her see that personally and actually and eternally and doctrinally and dispensationally he was and is and ever will be the resurrection.

He tried to get the hold of the depth of this. Supposing we look at the case in the spiritual way first. You know, when the Lord came first to us, he said, get the hold of this over again tonight. At that time we were dead.

He didn't say we were dead. Getting new life is first of all passing some test. He was putting it in the proper order. You see, actually and impressionally and doctrinally this is the proper order. And dispensationally too because he's coming back again, isn't he?

Well, when the Lord himself descends from heaven with a shouting, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God, the dead rise fast a little. He's wanting her to get the hold of this, you know.

Martha, I want you to see this. I want you to see that I'm the resurrection. You don't need to wait, you know, to the last day. The Lord Jesus said this, I am the resurrection, I'm the life. You know, it's a wonderful thing to go through the scriptures and you'll find this.

The dead face in his presence. Oh, no. And you can't find me anywhere where it did either. No, you can't. I want you to get the hold of this. Jesus never stood at a deathbed while somebody died. And the very existence of death would be in contradiction to what he really, eternally, actually, personally was.

Nobody ever does. And I'll tell you this, every time that he came into contact with death, death departed. He walked into a wee room one day. There's just a wee laugh there. She's 12. She's dead. One of the greatest pictures in the Bible is he took her by the hand.

Just a weak, tiny, cold, lifeless, childish hand. And he took it in his and he squeezed it and said, arise. Jerusalem. And he's coming into the city and here is a funeral procession coming up. And he stopped the procession and touched the coffin and the dead arose.

Let me tell you this, he had to die on the cross before the other two or they wouldn't. It was a wonderful procession. Never mind about your theories. Never mind about your Jewish persuasions. Never mind about your pharisaical theology.

The resurrection and the life and there are no problems after that, brethren. None at all. The whole thing's straightforward now. I want you to get the hold of this. Let's get on with it. What? 35. Jesus says unto her, I am the resurrection and the life.

He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. That is spiritually. Now he's going to put Martha dead up against it. He's made a revelation and he's made a declaration.

And then he says this. This is an interrogation. Believest thou this? Now comes out her confession. She says unto him, yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.

She actually didn't answer the thing at all. You know, what I want you to get the hold of just here is these sayings of the Savior. Martha, really marvelous. Did you see the knowledge of the Son? He knew when Lazarus had died, though nobody told him.

And he's quite a bit away from the spot, too. Did you see the wisdom of the servant? My, there was gladness in his heart that he'd obeyed the Lord, that the blessings might come to one and all. Do you see?

Christ's Compassion in Grief

Do you see the sayings of the Savior here? My, they're marvelous, aren't they? Now, we move on from the knowledge of the Son and the wisdom of the servant and the sayings of the Savior. We move on to the compassion.

And it should have been the sympathizer, but the printer put the Savior. It doesn't matter. Just go down the chapter a little bit. We'll gather this up again. Verse 33, When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in spirit and was troubled and said, Where have you laid him?

They said unto him, Lord, come and see. And the shortest verse in the Bible is before us, Jesus wept. I think that we need to take time with this because let's get this into our hearts first. Remember, he knew the end from the beginning.

Oh, he knew that he would ask for the stone to be rolled away, and he would call Lazarus out, and he would bring him back to life again for the glory of God. He knew it all. Yes, yes, yes. He entered into the sorrow of repentance.

I think that's wonderful. I suppose natural beings, if we were absolutely sure of how a thing would turn out, we could almost smile no matter how dark the day would be. But remember our wonderful Lord entered into the sorrow and sadness and loss and bereavement of Jesus.

Sometimes we pray this prayer of Paul's, where he pulled out his whole soul in the and cried that I renew him unto the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings. And of course the fellowship of his sufferings are the fellowship of his sufferings in life, not in death, in life.

So here's one place where he suffered in life. You know, he felt the burden of the sadness of the bereavement of this home. I wonder, do we, with those that we pray there of one another, do we enter into it?

And the very compassion here brings forth how marvelous he was. And then down the chapter, he rolled the spoon away in two words, Lazarus, come forth! And we see the power of the suffering. You know, all this brings before us our marvelous master.

Do you see his knowledge? Do you see his wisdom? Do you hear his saying? Do you watch his compassion? Do you mark his power? What a marvelous master we have. But let's get into this other bit, because we mustn't miss this.

Martha's Limited View of Christ's Power

The mistakes of Martha. Let's go back up the chapter now. Verse twenty,. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary sat still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Now remember that is perfectly true. I'm not altogether sure where she saw the great truth of him being the life, as we have been talking about it, so that while his presence would have been near the bedside of Lazarus, Lazarus would certainly not have died.

But the bit that we must mark is this, that she limited his power. My, she was just saying, you know, you couldn't do the thing when you were a wee younger. Ah, but that is wrong. The wonder of his power.

You remember on one occasion when we had the talk here, I pointed out that he was at Cana of Zalemene, and a centurion's servant was at Capernaum, and there were so many miles between, and he spoke the word only, and at the precise moment, the disease left.

You know, sometimes we are very much like Martha. You know, when the storm howls in our life, and the darkness deepens, and grief is written on the gates of our hearts, and our reason can see nothing but ruin, and our sense can see nothing but horror, we sit under the juniper tree and we wish that Jesus would come in through the door.

But you can't trust him to do something for you from heaven, can you? You say, Lord, you would need to be here. That's what Martha would say. Oh, if you had just been here, Lord. But she hadn't got the faith to think that he could have done it from yonder.

No, she has limited the wonder of his power. But what she went on with is, verse 21,. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

Martha's Misunderstanding of Christ's Divine Sonship

Now, I think that was a very sad statement she made. There are two words in the Greek New Testament, you can look them up sometime, and they're both translated by the English word, ask. And one of them is used always and without exception for the creature asking the creator, for some blessing.

Always used of the creature asking the creator. And the other one is used for a son asking the father. But the word that Martha used here was the word for the creature, the creator. And here's what she said.

She said, but I know that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask, you're just a creature asking God. Tremendous mistake. She should never have used such a phrase. My dear friend, look, she missed the glory of his passion altogether.

My over in the other chapter in John 10, remember forever this word, I am the father of them. But she was bringing him down to the level of a creature. He was no more to her than one of the Old Testament prophets at that moment.

And it was a tremendous mistake. Never let us make this mistake. Never let us think about Jesus as just a creature. Let's remember that all power in heaven and earth for all eternity belongs solely and entirely and completely and absolutely to him.

Martha Flees the Test of Faith

Never let us miss the glory of his passion. But watch again. Did you notice this? That when Jesus made this revelation, I am the resurrection and the life. And then these proclamations, and then put this interrogation, believe it thou this, you know, Martha ran away.

Verse 28, And then she had so said she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come and calls for thee. Now where in the conversation before this did our Lord Jesus call for me?

Nowhere. You know, there's a great argument going on here among scholars. Some come out bluntly and say that Mary, that Martha, told an untruth. I don't believe that. Some say that there is a part of the record left out.

And I don't believe that they're trying to cover her up now. I believe this. I believe that the Lord was revealing and expanding and explaining things that were so deep spiritually that Jesus couldn't grasp it.

And she believed that her sister, who was more spiritual than she, was the one that should have been there. I believe that. I believe she ran away and said, Mary, you know, the Master's come and it's you that should be there.

Talking about things that I don't understand. And you know, sometimes we're like that. My, when the Lord begins to take us into the depths of the deep sins of God, the babes in Christ would need to run home, wouldn't they?

That's the time you would need to hold on to the Lord. That's the reason there are so many babes. They'll not take their time at the Master's seat. That's where Mary spent her time, as we'll see in a minute.

But I believe that she was fleeing here from the probing of his preaching. He was coming very close to her when he said, believe this, thou, this. And she didn't really answer. But you'll notice this, that the way down to chapter 39, Jesus said, take thee away the stone.

Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, Lord, by this time is pincus, for he hath been dead four days. You know, she was resisting the very plan of his performance. You see, that is like this.

You're like this. You remember last week that they supplicated. They said, Lord. You remember the word, Lord, behold. And I said one translation was, Lord, listen. He whom thy lovers protect. And they were bringing no trouble.

And they were bringing no burden. And they were laying it before the Lord. And sometimes when the Lord comes to perform in his own wonderful way, to answer the very cry of our hearts, this is the Lord.

Then we do. We're not prepared for his way, you know. We'd like to have it all prepared for his way. Very often we find out in the depths of our hearts that his way is not our way. And his thoughts are not our thoughts at all.

And here are the mistakes. Do you see them? Yes. My, she limited the wonder of his power. And she missed the glory of his presence. And she fled from the proving of his preaching. And she resisted the plan of his performance.

Mary at the Feet of Christ

God keep us from these mistakes. But let's get down to the mourning of Mary. Verse 32. Then when Mary was come where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at the feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died, and it's the very same thing over again.

I know that some commentators try to get Mary out of this, but I can't honestly do it. It's exactly the same wording. Ah, but there's this difference. Mary fell down at his feet weeping. Watch this, verse 33.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping. You know, friend, tears have a great weight with God. And they have. I want to show you one or two things just about tears. Have a look at this one. It's in 2 Timothy.

And it's the first chapter. Paul's second letter to Timothy. And it's chapter 1. Second Timothy, the first chapter. Paul is writing to Timothy. Verse 2. My dearly beloved Son, grace and mercy and peace from God the Father, Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God who myself and my forefathers with pure conscience that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy peace. It's a lovely little phrase.

You see, that teaches us this. That somewhere a way back yonder this young man had wept openly for the great apostle. And oh, Paul may have forgotten many things. He said, I never forgot your feelings.

Being mindful of thy peace. Let me tell you this. If you went through the Bible tonight, you would find that Hezekiah, and he's got the conscience of death. He turned towards the wall and wept in God's hands.

I have seen my tears. And you'll find that young Esther, when she came in and fell before the throne, it was of tears. You'll find that when the Lord turned and looked at Peter, he went out and wept bitterly.

My tears. I wonder whether you knew about them. Did you ever weep before the Lord, before your loved ones? Did you know anything about them? Maybe her language was all mixed up in muddles. And I think it was.

But there was no doubt at all about this insanity. And I saw it. Will you leave memories like this behind you? Did you ever sob in your life for a soul? Did you ever shed one tear? Everywhere you meet Mary in this book.

I haven't time to go over it tonight, but if we went to Luke chapter 10, you remember when the Lord came to the house of Bethany. Martha had a sister called Mary which sat at Jesus' feet and heard His words.

Everywhere you'll find Mary in this book, you'll find her associated with the feet of Christ. She sat with Him. And when we go to the next chapter, next week, chapter 12, you'll find this. That she anointed His feet and wiped them with her hair.

Some of you would have bothered wiping them with your hair if you haven't got any to wipe with. You're cracking at home? That's what they're meant to do. I want you to get the hold of this. That Mary stopped at His feet listening, at His feet worshipping.

Mary held at His feet weeping. Aye, she could bring Him her love. Aye, and she could bring Him her soul to be fed. Aye, and she could bring Him her tears and get answers. Oh, how lovely to live your whole life at the blessing feet of Jesus.

Christ's Power in Raising Lazarus

How lovely. Let's get on to the last part of this. Verse 38, Jesus therefore again, groaning in Himself, cometh to the grave. It was the cave and the stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone.

Martha, the sister of Him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord, by this time it sinketh, for He hath been dead four days. I think there's something about these four days. When we get numbers, they're not placed here for fun.

When we go to the back of the book, we find that one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day. And do you know when our Lord Jesus Christ came down into this world to be the Savior of the world?

My, from Adam to that very moment, four thousand years on the cross. And I'll tell you this, God had tried man out in every conceivable way. He had put him under conscience, under human government, under law.

And man had proved himself to be utterly caught. He was thinking in the mouthproof of God. And He ejected him. I have much more so tonight. And you know, the Lord had come to say, Oh, it's a wonderful picture of poor, sinful, half-damned human nature.

And here it is. But remember this, when the Lord sets out to save a soul dead and corrupt and stinking, remember He's willing to take servants to live with Him. Roll your way, the stars. You know, it's wonderful in all the great things that the Lord has done in this book.

You remember the first miracle. Oh, yes, He turned the water into wine. But before He did, He said to the servants, Fill the water pots with water. There was something for them to do till worthless was gone.

You remember when the multitude of five thousand were over there and the Lord had the bread here in His hand that He'd break and give to His disciples. And then between the clouds in the Christ were the workers.

And again you find that He's prepared to have some co-workers with Him in this great miracle. Roll away the stone. You'll see another bit of it just in a moment. And then the first master tried to step in.

Jesus rebuked the thing and said, I knock unto thee that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.

And I knew that Thou hearest me always. But because of the people which stand by, I said that they may believe that Thou saidst. And when He had thus spoken, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

And he that was dead came forth, found hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Now here's something that I think that all the preachers ought to take note of.

That this man in this tomb was absolutely hopeless in himself. You know, some of the fellows that work miracles now, if they try it and it doesn't come off, they blame the fellow they worked it on if they had no faith.

Well, they'll have better trouble getting faith into this fellow in the grave. He's dead absolutely. He's in the dark. Yes, here he is, a stinker, going into corruption. And I want you to get the hold of this, that the person of Christ, and the word of Christ, and the power of Christ, were working together to bring him life.

The Word of Christ and the Believer's Freedom

Our job as preachers is always to present and uplift and exalt the person of Christ. You must exalt the person of Christ, and you must preach the word, and you must depend on the power and strength. If you're going out preaching, if I never told you anything more than this, the power of Christ, you see, wonders before.