![]() That’s the setting for Jesus’s amazing words about death and love and the glory of God. And before long (see “just now” in John 11:8), Mary and Martha, his friends from Bethany near Jerusalem, sent word to Jesus that their brother Lazarus was very sick. He traveled east and north and crossed the Jordan. ![]() Just before this chapter begins, the crowds in Jerusalem had picked up stones to kill Jesus (John 10:31), and in verse 38 they tried to arrest him, but he escaped. And this is what the King has to say to us today. ![]() This is where we are in the Gospel of John. I didn’t choose this text for the anniversary of 9/11 or for the Watters family. And how these three relate to each other - suffering, love, and the glory of Christ. We are not gathered as a school to hear a lecture, but as “a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession” to hear a word from our King, Jesus Christ - word about suffering and death, word about love, and a word about his own glory. And we are gathered to worship him in his word. This is our God whom we worship, Jesus Christ, infinite in his divine majesty and as close and caring as a mother’s hand. “The God we worship is infinite in his majesty and as close and caring as a mother’s hand.” Fully Divine and in Absolute ControlĪnd because he was in the beginning, and is God, and is therefore infinitely great beyond all our powers to exceed, he was the most important reality on, and is the most important reality in all the world today on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and is in himself able to encompass, explain, and put right not only the horrors of 9/11 but also the tenfold worse horrors of the earthquake in Bam, Iraq, two years later, and the hundred-fold worse horrors of the great tsunami of 2005.Īnd because he became flesh, and lived a human life and suffered and died and rose again, he is in himself able to encompass, explain, put right, and comfort personally, intimately, and tenderly the loss of every individual life, including the life of fourteen-year-old Victor Watters, whose funeral we will do this afternoon at four o’clock. and from his fullness we have received grace upon grace (John 1:1, 14, 16). ![]() and the Word became flesh - the God-man Jesus Christ - and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father full of grace and truth. And the Word was with God and the Word was God. ![]() In the beginning - the absolute beginning of all things, except the one who was there in the beginning - was the Word, our Lord and Savior. ![]()
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