Comments on: People trump power [Jn11] https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/03/people-trump-power-jn11/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:15:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: Looking Glass https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/03/people-trump-power-jn11/comment-page-1/#comment-4815 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 08:18:47 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=6162#comment-4815 To borrow from Isaiah 53:5 (ESV): “But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.” Christ does. And then we go and sin again. Hurting our Lord. Learning that lesson is a hard one, as Sin has slain this body, but we are alive in Christ.

The fascinating thing about the story of Lazarus has, to me, always been this: it’s only in the Gospel of John. John is, generally, accepted to be the last of the gospels written. Possibly after most of the Apostles had been martyred. Mark & Matthew would have been there, yet it is only John has the story. I’ve felt that part of that is what you are getting from the story. The Lord weeps over us, yet he has the Power & Authority over Death itself. It is not that God will save us in this life, it is that he has *saved* our Soul and given us New Life.

This is something we always easily forget.

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