Jesus is the Resurrection with Todd Tomasella and Travis Bryan III

1. Jesus remains WITHDRAWN for four days and lets Satan and his power of death (Heb 2:14; 1 Cor 15:26) do all he can do. God does not cause people to die of sickness. Satan does. John 8:44; 10:10. Satan is always "the destroyer." 1 Cor 10:10-11. Jesus takes the blame from Martha for what Satan has done as He did with Job and Job's three friends. Job 1, 2 and 42.  Jn 11:32. To have rescued Lazarus before the appropriate time would have been to miss out on much testimony, revelation, blessing, freedom and glory!
2. Jesus' purpose in withdrawing and allowing Satan to attack Lazarus is REDEMPTIVE: to glorify His Father by raising Lazarus before a great crowd of people and to "loose" Lazarus from his bindings, a type of freeing of Lazarus which symbolizes our being freed from bondage to sin, self, death, the law and Satan's power.  Rom 6:7; 7:1-6. Our death with Christ causes our chains of slavery to the law and sin to be broken apart and fall away. The veil is also taken away from our eyes thru the cross. 2 Cor 3:14-18. Lazarus' face had been covered with a napkin. V44.
3. God GRIEVES and SUFFERS WITH US when we get sick, suffer or die at Satan's hands. "Jesus wept." See V45, which by the way is the shortest verse in the Bible.  
4. God allows Satan .....  

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