In the book of John there are seven miracles of Jesus that John calls “signs”. These are miracles that point to Jesus’ identity as the Messiah and reveal His glory as the Son of God. We are going to spend the next seven weeks going through these “signs” one by one to see Jesus more clearly. Too often when we read Scripture we read it for ourselves. We search it to see how we fit, to find the answers to our questions and the road to our destiny, but Scripture was not written so we could see ourselves more clearly it was written to reveal Jesus, to show Him in all of His glory and power and so that we could decrease by increasing in our vision of Him.
Our seventh and final message in this series is found in John 11, the raising of Lazarus from the dead. This chapter is filled with revelations of Jesus’ glory through Lazarus’ sickness, the sisters request for Jesus to come, Jesus’ delay, His announcement that He is the resurrection and the life, His weeping at Lazarus’s grave and then finally, gloriously calling him from death back to life. In this message we walk through the chapter and focus on three specific points:
1.The glory of Jesus’ love
2. The glory of Jesus’ emotions
3. The glory of Jesus’ power over sin and death
When He raised Lazarus from the dead, Jesus gave us a glimpse of what was to come in His own death and resurrection. Sin caused death and so when Jesus revealed that He had power over death He also revealed that He had power over sin. Through Christ sin has lost it’s power and in Christ no sin can escape His blood.
This series has been an attempt to take Jesus’ miracles and see them as they were meant to be seen, to show His glory. John wrote in the first chapter of his gospel “And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” The works of Jesus are for the purpose of revealing His glory, because when His glory is beheld salvation flows. I pray that through our time in the book of John that we have seen Jesus clearly and that we will follow Him completely, that we will behold His glory and become the sons and daughters of God.