http://www.calvaryhillsboro.org/

Thank you for supporting Calvary Hillsboro. Donate Online: https://www.calvaryhillsboro.org/members/online-giving

Subscribe To Watch More: https://www.youtube.com/c/CalvaryChapelHillsboro

Thank you for watching. God bless you and your family!
We would love to hear your comments and please like and share this video.

Passover and what it represents is the most important pivotal point in the Bible. For that matter, it is the most important pivot point in all of history. The root of Passover can be found in the book of Exodus where Moses under the direction of God first institutes Passover.
They had to slaughter an unblemished lamb and put the blood of the lamb on the doorposts of their houses so the angel of death would pass over their houses, thus preventing the death of their eldest son. The blood of this lamb had no saving power, so why did it prevent the death of the eldest son of the household? The power lay in what it symbolized.
This event would become a picture and a prophecy of the real Lamb of God who was to come. Hundreds of years later, on another Passover, Jesus became the sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the world. His blood was the blood that held the real power. But his death was not enough. Something else had to follow to ratify the decree of forgiveness. There had to be a resurrection. It would be the proof that the power of death had been broken forever.
1 Corinthians 15:19-20, If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
Jesus alluded to His resurrection on another occasion with the death of Lazarus, another situation that seemed hopeless. But with this event, Jesus gave a promise that would impact eternity.
We are going to look at the word of hope Jesus spoke into their temporal life, but with far reaching consequences to everyone’s eternal future, including ours. This is the key to living victorious in this life, and the next. We will see how this applies to our lives, our problems in the temporal, and how we are called to action by Christ is this world.
I. Hold on to Hope
There are two dimensions to this event. The physical dimension impacting Lazarus and his loved ones, and the eternal the spiritual dimension. Christ was using this event to teach an eternal foundational truth. He is Lord over death and what happens after we die physically.
The only way He could prove it, was by returning someone from the other side of the grave. This would show that He had intimate knowledge of what happened after death and in eternity, that He was active in that dimension also, and had the power to impact both dimensions.


A. Hold on to temporal hope
 Verse 17 - so when Jesus came, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
 The situation seemed hopeless. Jewish tradition taught that a person’s spirit departed from his body after three days. In the minds of the mourners, it was hopeless. Lazarus’ spirit had already departed.
 Is there a situation in your life that looks hopeless? It is dead and buried? Is the problem already past its sell by date? Jesus specializes in hopeless cases. When there is no way out, nowhere left to turn, we can turn to Him. There may not be a way out, but we can look up.
 Verse 21 - Martha says to Jesus, that if He had been there her brother would not have died. She is troubled by this. In other words, “Jesus, I don’t understand. Why is this not working out? Why weren’t you here?”
 Sometimes we have the same type of questions when we don’t understand what is going on. But immediately we hear her heart of faith. She says, “even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give you.” This shows that even though she doesn’t understand, she still has faith in Jesus.


Pastor Rich Jones
Pastor Matthew Dodd
Rich Jones Calvary Chapel
Calvary Chapel Worship Center
Calvary Chapel Hillsboro
Calvary Chapel Oregon
Calvary Chapel Beaverton
Calvary Chapel Portland

Tags:
Pastor Rich Jones
Pastor Matthew Dodd
Rich Jones
Matthew Dodd

Rich Jones Church, Rich Jones Christian, Rich Jones Christian Church, Rich Jones Bible Study, Pastor Rich Jones Faith, Rich Jones Teaching, Rich Jones Bible Teacher, Rich Jones Bible Verse, Rich Jones Transformation, Rich Jones Salvation, Rich Jones Truth, Rich Jones Sermons, Rich Jones Calvary Chapel, Calvary Chapel Worship Center, Calvary Chapel Hillsboro, Calvary Chapel Beaverton, Calvary Chapel Portland, Calvary Chapel Oregon