 What does it mean by that? All right we'll begin once again. We were looking at verses 34 to 39 in John chapter 10 and I thought it would be good if we can look specifically at verses 34 to 36 just to see what the Lord means in those particular verses. The overall passage of course was you know Jesus saying that I am doing the works of the Father and the works prove that I am from the Father so based on that you should be believing in me rather than trying to stone me so that's the overall context but then let's also look specifically at these verses 34 to 36 just to have some clarity on what Jesus means when he uses the term gods over there. If someone could read out for us verses 34 to 36. Jesus answered them. Jesus answered them. Is it not written in your law? I said you are gods. If you call them gods to whom the word of God came from, king and scripture cannot be broken. You say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, you are blasphemy because I said I am the Son of God. All right so here Jesus just refers back to Psalm 82 where the term I have said you are gods is mentioned. So over there you know most of the commentaries, I mean if you were to look up the commentaries for Psalm 82 all of them very clearly indicate that over there it's talking about the judges of Israel. The people who had been placed in positions of power and they would be determining whether a death sentence should be given or a person should be spared whether someone should be declared innocent or condemned as guilty. So these are the high authorities who literally have the power of life and death in their hands. So based on what God says they are supposed to you know meet out the judgment. So in a sense they are the spokesman of God. They are the voice of God and they will be meeting out his justice you know to the people. So in that sense they are gods because they are representing him and we see this kind of terminology used even regarding Moses right. So that would kind of help us to understand in what sense Psalm 82 is using this term. So if we could just very quickly go to Exodus chapter 4 verse 16 and look at how this whole idea of God is used over there that would kind of you know help us to understand better. So if we could have one person read out Exodus chapter 4 verse 16 please could we have someone read out Exodus 4 verse 16. Yes ma'am. So he shall be your spokesman to the people and he himself shall be as a mouth for you and you shall be to him as God. Amen. You shall be to him as God. Now is the Lord saying over here Moses from now on you are a God most definitely not. All that the Lord is saying that is that you know you will be saying what I want you to say. You will be doing what I want you to do and Aaron will take these things and he will pass it on to the concerned people. So you will be directly like my representative you know on this earth. So in that sense you will be a God literally representing me the one who is you know the one that the true God. So in that sense here as well in Psalm 82 the judges are described as gods because they are supposed to be representatives of the true God Yahweh and they are supposed to give judgment according to what Yahweh wants. So the ones that Yahweh condemns they should not spare. They should condemn and they should judge. On the other hand the ones who are innocent that the ones that Yahweh regards as innocent they do not have the right to exploit them or you know bring false judgment upon them. They should not be doing those things but what happens actually in Psalm 82 is that these people they start thinking like as if they are really gods you know and they start exploiting the power which is which has been given to them in their hands and they no longer are representing Yahweh correctly. They are using their position to pervert justice rather than meet out justice the way God wants it to be meted out. These people are in fact perverting justice and so in Psalm 82 it says that you know you may think that you're gods but you're going to die just like everyone else and that will prove that you are no gods at all you know. So in that sense the term is used in Psalm 82 and so here Jesus is referring to that and he says you know mere human beings who are authorized by God to carry out justice they were regarded as gods and here I am I have literally come from the Father and my works are clearly showing that he's backing me up and I am the one who's going to be you know judging everything because he says that I think it was in chapter 5 John chapter 5 you know where he talks about yes it was John 522 where he says the Father you know will will commit all judgment to me I am the one who will be doing all the judging so I am literally from the Father and he has appointed me to be judge over all so me being in that capacity why do you even think it is wrong for me to call myself God when mere human beings human judges were considered as gods you know in that in that sense of small g so so that is the argument which Jesus uses over here simply because it would have kind of made them pause and think a little bit I mean these are people who are supposed to be learned in the Old Testament so they would you know kind of think about this argument this new argument which Jesus is presenting and say ha humans when they represented God they were regarded as gods with a small g so here is someone who is claiming to be literally from the Father you know he because he says right no one has seen him but then I know him so all that he says so they would have to reconsider and think okay because of who he is if he is claiming to be God then maybe we should take him seriously so this reasoning may not sound very you know it may not really strike us but to them who are very familiar with the Old Testament scriptures and the and the the thought which was presented in in the scriptures for them this would have sounded like a valid argument if they were in a position you know to open their ears and hear but if they've already made up their minds and they have closed their ears and they've closed their eyes then of course the argument would not work so moving on from there we would come into John chapter 11 which is the passage where you know Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead and if we could maybe read verses three two six yeah three four five six if one person could read out was three onwards yeah so when he heard that Lazarus was you know he stayed two days longer in the place where he was well actually I was aiming for from three verse three itself you know verse three and then four five six yeah if you could please it was Mary who anointed the Lord with appointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was ill so the sisters went to him saying Lord he who loved he whom you love is the help but when Jesus heard it he said maybe we could have another person read because probably her sound is not working very well you know maybe at the bible college the sound is not working very well if if another person could read out please chapter 11 verses three to six John chapter 11 verse three to six therefore his sisters sent unto him saying Lord behold he whom you love is sick when Jesus heard that he said this sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the son of God might be glorified thereby now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus and when he had heard therefore that he was sick he stayed two days still in the same place where he was yes there's a lot of emphasis in this passage again and again it is repeated that Jesus loved these people okay so I think it's like four or five times that this gets mentioned that Jesus loved them so here we have in verse three where the sisters themselves use this term and they say Lord the one you love is sick okay so they say that and now then this is the message which Jesus sends back to them so the sisters have sent a messenger to Jesus saying that the one that you love he is sick so you know please come at the earliest to help you know that kind of a message has been sent now this is Jesus reply and this is the reply which he sends back to the sisters when he heard this Jesus said the sickness will not end in death no it is for God's glory so that God's son may be glorified through it so Jesus has sent a message back to them saying don't worry this sickness is not going to end in death God is going to glorify himself so when the sisters got that message they would have been very you know relieved it would have been such a great relief to receive that message from Jesus and then in verse five again it is emphasized it is said Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus and having loved them with this attitude of love it says he chooses to stay there another two days okay so he is staying over there an extra two days not because he does not love them but because you know he wants to glorify God he has been doing everything in line with the father so far according to the father's will and so now he wants to continue glorifying God by you know following the father's timetable and the interesting one thing that we see over here in this verse is how does the how does God glorify himself if we look at verse four it says no it is for God's glory so that God's son may be glorified through it there are two very interesting ways in which God glorifies himself he glorifies himself not by just lifting himself up he glorifies himself by glorifying the son you know I mean if you look at all the rest of the New Testament we see it in so many places where God being who he is takes everything that is his and he places it before the son so that through the son those things will be will be accomplished so the father is always engaged in glorifying the son and the son is always engaged in glorifying the father they are never thinking in terms of self but they're always thinking in terms of the other it presents a very beautiful picture of how actual glorification should be done you know so we see here that God glorifies himself not by just exalting himself but by glorifying the son and the other lovely thing that we see about how God glorifies himself is that he does it by doing good to people because that's what he says when we know when they first encounter that blind man the person who had been blind from birth it is said over there Jesus says this is this has been allowed so that God may be glorified God is going to glorify himself by helping this man by healing this man and now again the same thing we see here where God is going to glorify himself by doing something good for Lazarus by doing good something good for those sisters you know so God glorifies himself by glorifying the son and he glorifies himself by doing good to people so when we sing all the songs you know in church on Sunday about you know God's glory and then you know we cry out to God and say Lord glorify yourself what we are doing is good because you know we are saying you deserve the glory Lord and you deserve to be glorified but the beautiful thing is that God he's going to be glorifying himself not just simply by exalting himself but by reaching out to these people who are singing and doing good for them because his heart is always towards them because he's a shepherd it's not just a king but he's also a shepherd so he is always you know reaching out and helping those who are under him so anyway we see over here that after two days Jesus decides to go over there to that place and we have this very nice statement from Thomas who says okay if Jesus is going to walk into danger you know by going over there we'll also go ahead with him and if he's going to be attacked it's all right you know we will die with him a very lovely thing that Thomas you know says he's showing his loyalty towards Jesus so finally they come over here to this place and you know for lack of time we are kind of moving on because there are many many things that we can meditate upon reflect upon in this passage so moving into verse 20 and maybe even yeah okay if someone could read out verses 20 to 22 so when Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went and met him but never in me seated in the house Martha said to Jesus Lord if you have been here my brother would not have done but even now I know that whatever you ask from God God will give you okay so now in those days you know when someone has passed away and that family is in mourning they would obviously just stay in the house mourning and then people would come to them so which is what is happening over here but then when Martha hears that Jesus is coming she immediately gets up and goes out Mary has not yet received the news she still doesn't know that Jesus has arrived but when Martha hears it she immediately gets up and goes to meet him and this is what she says you know in verse 21 she says if you had been here my brother would not have died you know because earlier he had sent the message saying this will not end in death the sickness will not end in death that's the promise that he had given them and that's the assurance that they had held on to but now there has been a delay and she doesn't know why the delay has taken place and she says very regretfully if you had been here my brother would not have died because you know you would have fulfilled your word Lord what you promised us you would have done so over here it's not a word of complaint she's not complaining she's just you know expressing regret and she's saying if you had got here then he would not have died and then she goes on to say in verse 22 but I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask so even though in this particular case it did not work out you know for my brother because you got delayed and you came late but if you had I know for a fact that my brother would have got well I know it because you know she says God will give you whatever you ask so she is you know speaking from that angle she's not aware that he deliberately delayed she does not know that I'm not sure whether her faith would have stood up to that kind of a test but right now here she's not aware of that she's just assuming that circumstances led to the delay and so she just expresses regret and she confirms and says I know if you had gotten here in time I know you would have saved him because even now I believe that God will give you whatever you ask and then Jesus replies to her and says your brother will rise again you know because she's not thinking at all about his coming back to life because later on we see that very clearly right because when Jesus says you know move the stone and she says no Lord it's like too late you know you move the stone now there'll be a real terrible stench because by now the decay would have started so she in no way at all is she thinking about his immediate resurrection right here and now so she so but Jesus even as she's talking in this manner in this in verses 21 and 22 Jesus says to her your brother will rise again and Martha still doesn't get it and so she says yeah I know he will rise again you know in the resurrection of the last day because she has believed she and her sister and Lazarus have placed their faith in Jesus that he is the Messiah you know she confirms that so maybe we can actually read out these words um you know and absorb them so if someone could read out verses 23 to 27 please you said to her your brother will rise again Martha said to him I know that he will rise again in the resurrection and the last day she's a said to her I I am the resurrection and the life whoever believes in him though he died yet shall he live and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die do you believe this she said to him yes lord I believe that you are the Christ the son of god who is coming into the world so she does believe that he is the Messiah she does believe that he can resurrect but she just assumes that this resurrection will be at the end time you know when all the righteous are resurrected to live with him forever and ever and she is not thinking about his immediate coming back to life right now um friend then moving on from there uh if we look at yeah maybe we can look at verses 33 to 38 because they're very relevant 33 to 38 and Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her also weeping he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled and he said where have you laid him they said to him lord come and see Jesus wept so the Jesus so the Jews said see how he loved him but some of them said could not heal who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept this man from dying 38 the Jesus deeply moved again came to the tomb it was a cave and a stone lay lay against it Jesus said take away yeah yeah yeah that should be um that should be all right okay so uh here in this passage which we just read now uh it talks about Jesus groaning uh twice all right two times it says that he groaned um and the word that is used over there the greek word is something called embryo embryo my or whatever you know you could look it up in bible hub uh where you'd have the greek word mentioned over there uh the word over here almost expresses anger indignation and it sounds rather strange you know because um when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping he groaned you know he's indignant he's enraged uh and that doesn't sound um uh you know um logical and we would wonder why what is there to get angry about she's weeping because uh you know her brother is dead and the Jews who have come with her they are weeping because they have loved this family and they're very hurt by what has happened why would Jesus you know the word over there very clearly I mean I looked up in two three different places the word very very clearly implies a kind of anger a kind of indignation so I think over here and and it's also followed by another term uh so it says here he groaned in the spirit and was troubled the word troubled over there that's the greek word terra so and again uh that's a word which talks about very had being something being very agitated um the word terra so is in fact used in in our uh john chapter five verse seven where it talks about how an angel is supposed to come and stir up the waters you know where you literally agitate the waters and get them moving so here this is Jesus response when he sees her crying uh mary crying when he sees mary crying and all the Jews who are with her crying he he is um um stirred up and indignant angry in his spirit and he is all stirred up on the inside he's troubled on the inside so I would very clearly say over here that this is not anger against them he's not saying oh they should not be weeping because you see he himself weeps he also cries so he's not against their weeping that is not what is making him angry I think his anger is being directed towards sin and death and the works of the evil one which have you know um brought these things upon people the shepherd is so indignant for his sheep that something so terrible so painful is being you know unleashed upon humanity and so he is is stirred up and is so angry and he's going to take action you know so uh when we are in a tight spot uh when we are being suppressed and oppressed by you know um circumstances of life or when people are acting against us maybe or even if when the devil is directly targeting us we would really love the lord to have this kind of an anger on our behalf you know this is exactly the way we would like him to get angry on our behalf because here he's saying I will not allow this to pass you know I will take action I will do something about it so he's not angry at the people who are grieving rather he is angry at uh sin and death and the devil who have brought these things upon people and then um if we move on from there um you know so that that would be verse 34 where he groans in the spirit and he's troubled and then verses 37 and 38 where after Jesus weeps along with the people so someone says now he's weeping but then you couldn't he have done something about it couldn't he have helped him from dying uh you know the man who can open the eyes of the blind he could have kept this person from dying so someone you know makes this kind of a very sarcastic remark and now in verse 38 again at the same word Embry Maoma is used and Jesus again groaning in himself came to the tomb so over here the anger and the indignation is you know uh directed against the people who are wrongly judging the situation they are passing a judgment against God the father and against him very very wrongly not understanding the motives of God's heart and the heart of Jesus okay so they are questioning him very wrongly and so now this time the second groaning his anger his indignation is being directed against these people who have who are passing a wrong judgment because God has very clearly allowed the situation to glorify himself by helping Lazarus not by harming Lazarus okay that's very very clear God always glorifies himself by helping his people not by harming them something so uh true that we can just hold on to in our own times of trouble because sometimes when certain certain things happen to us and you know we wonder oh my how did this this terrible thing happen to me is God acting against me you can always be very very sure God glorifies himself by helping his people not by harming them okay we can always have this assurance um so we should not be like this person you know standing over there and passed off a casual remark saying that oh you know may God is not acting in this person's best interests no we can always have the assurance that the shepherd will always act for his sheep in their best interests because he has come not to steal or kill or destroy that's what the thief does he has come to give life and to give it abundantly so we can have this trust and faith in the shepherd and another thing that maybe we could you know just highlight over here where it talks about how Jesus wept this is something that is so Christian in the sense the Greeks at that time the gods that they believed in they admired gods who would feel nothing you know for them that term stoic stoicism that basically is the ability to feel nothing so they admired gods who are stoic who would feel nothing and they felt that that is the ideal kind of God a God who feels nothing can be moved by nothing who's just there you know they considered that as strength but then we see strength a far greater strength over here where this God he cares so much about his people he's allowed his son to come down among them and be fully involved in their lives and participate in their suffering so you know whom would we say is a is a is a better ideal you know of God of Godhood someone who is stoic uncaring unfeeling just distant and sitting out there or someone who loves to such an extent so deeply that he becomes fully involved with his with his sheep you know so we see this very beautiful picture of Godhood of what actual true Godhood is like where because we see that the creator he weeps with his creation with his people when they are going through this time of stress he is not weeping because he has given up hope because he knows exactly what he's going to be doing he has already very clearly told the sisters that right in the beginning itself he said this will not end in death so he knows so he's not weeping because the situation is hopeless he is weeping because he's sharing in the pain of his people he understands what they are feeling and I think this is a very great comfort to us especially when we know we lose our family members we can really know that even as we are standing over there and weeping and hurting he understands how we feel because he too felt that you know so it says that he's a high priest who who has you know gone through everything that we have gone through and so he fully understands what we are experiencing so when he was on this earth he experienced every aspect of pain and grief so whatever situation you may be going through whatever kind of pain that you are going through it is something that he has experienced he knows what it feels like so you know that's the beauty of our God we cannot just say to him there you are Lord sitting on your throne and you know you're allowing these troubles to come to me what do you know how it feels you know what do you know you're sitting up there in all of your comfort and here I am in the middle of this and you know people whom I trusted have turned against me and now they are persecuting me and I'm going through all of this we can never say that to him because everything that we have gone through he personally came down and experienced along with us he participated in all of it with us that's the amazing beauty of this shepherd so yeah moving to the actual the the crux of the passage Bejesus you know is now making the miracle happen he begins with a prayer and it's nice to see what he prays if we could have someone read out verses 41 and 42 please that is 41 and 42 then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was laying and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said father I thank you that you have heard me and I know that you always hear me but because of the people who are standing by I said this that they may believe that you sent me okay so here Jesus says he's making a prayer only it's not really a prayer because he says I thank you that you have heard me okay he says and then he says I know that you always hear me but I'm saying this for the benefit of the people who are standing here because you see a little earlier some people had come to Jesus in the previous chapter and they said now please plainly tell us whether you're the Messiah so now Jesus is providing the ultimate proof that he is indeed the Messiah sent by God you know because now he's going to be demonstrating that he has the father's backing hundred percent okay so he's deliberately speaking out these words just to point out the fact that when he approaches the father regarding something the father gives it to him hundred percent there is he has he has the father's complete backing he is the one sent by the father he is the promised Messiah so he is going to be proving all of that because in the next verse it's very interesting he doesn't say a prayer and say Lord now please raise up Lazarus rather he speaks out it says when he had said this Jesus called in a loud voice Lazarus come out so he's not making a prayer to the father and saying father you please raise up Lazarus rather Jesus is speaking out in his own authority and he's declaring and saying Lazarus come out and Lazarus does so here we see you know in Genesis we see the creative act of God where the word speaks out and says let there be light and there is light and using the word God brings forth all of creation and now over here you have this dead person being brought back to life through the word of God the spoken word of God so Jesus is showing demonstrating that he has the power to use his word to make things happen to bring even a dead person who is beyond hope who is in fact a decade to an extent where he is you know smelling such a person just by a word Jesus has the power to release life into that dead person and bring him forth so Jesus is demonstrating his authority his power and he is also showing that he has the full fathers backing in this is not this is not something that he's doing on his own he's doing it in line with the father because first he's had a conversation with the father for the benefit of the people to show them that this is not something that he's doing on his own but he's doing it with the father's backing so over here you have the backing of the father clearly proved and you also have the authority of Jesus very clearly proved so those people who said in the earlier passage plainly tell us whether you are the messiah well here's the proof you know here's the very clear proof that this is indeed the messiah who has been promised and so we see the response now Jesus has made it very very plain it can't get plainer than this you know a person who was literally had reached a point of cutrefaction where his body was stinking now he's come out fully alive fully well and now this is the reaction to that versus 45 and 46 if someone can read out okay so it's remarkable a lot of people who have seen this now they believe in him he has made it very plain that he's the messiah and they believe him but you still have some people who are now going you know and instigating the Pharisees it's very very I don't know shocking astonishing that after seeing something like this you know instead of literally getting down on their knees and rejoicing and saying oh my finally the one that we have been waiting has arrived he is going to you know release the works of the father on this earth and and now there is going to be hope you know instead of just you know breaking out in praise these people what is their immediate reaction they want to quickly go and tell the Pharisees this is what happened now what are we going to do next so it just so clearly exposes the motives of their heart they have they're not feeling any happiness for this family you know these two sisters who have got their brother back there's no love at all in their heart for this family they don't care at all what happens to this family they are very very and in fact it's strange they're not even in awe of what Jesus has done you know they should be like shocked and they should be thinking my goodness how did this take place maybe we should really reconsider our stand regarding Jesus no we don't see any of those responses here is a people who have genuinely closed their eyes I mean no one made them they have chosen to close their eyes and so they very very quickly go and report to the Pharisees what has happened because now they really have a crisis on their hands this is like one of the you know most amazing miracles that has been done and now there's going to be a huge response from the crowd and so now they are very very concerned and so they go into defense mode and it's all very very sad this should not have been the response they should have all just fallen on their knees and you know changed their ways but the hardness of people's hearts you know we see a very very different kind of response taking shape in the following verses so if maybe one person can read out verses 47 and 48 okay so they say this person is now too powerful you know he's able to perform signs he's able to make everyone believe in him and if he everyone believes in him then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation doesn't really make sense right I mean why on earth would the Romans be interested on whom the people believe in why on earth would they come and take away the temple and the nation from them it's because these these Pharisees and these religious leaders they cannot allow things to continue like this they would be forced to take action and start off a series of riots directed against Jesus and his followers and there would be a lot of unrest and when the unrest happens the Romans would quickly respond and react and they would put down all of the unrest and they would say these people are unable to govern themselves on their own any longer so let's just take away their you know whatever privileges they have had so far and we will completely put 100 percent Roman rule no more authority no more sharing of power no more of giving privileges it will it will become you know 100 percent Roman control over even the little places and the Jews would be the Jewish leaders would be left nowhere so over here you know where it's very ironic the writing would be started by the leaders and the leaders would start the writing to save their position and they would be saving their position because they would be trying to save their position because all the people would have gone to Jesus side and now how they can't they can't use logic they can't use science and wonders to draw people back to their side they would have to resort to violence they would stir up people you know spread false stories about Jesus and then the people would get all worked up and then they would go and have a clash us with Jesus followers who are basically you know peaceful people they're not very they're not violent at all so it's the the entire tumult and writing would be started by the Jewish leaders they are the ones who would be doing it and then because they would be doing that then the Romans would come and intervene and whatever privileges they had had up to that time they would lose all of those privileges so the Pharisees and the chief priests and the leaders are very very concerned about all the rights that would take place the rights which they themselves would be starting to save their next and to save their political power and if because if things were left peacefully you know as they are people would just peacefully lovingly follow Jesus and they would be praised and worship everywhere and and they would be no violence at all but the Pharisees they don't want that because if that happens then people will turn to Jesus and they will have nobody left under them and they would lose their position so so it's not Jesus who would make the Romans come and take away the temple and the nation rather it is something that the Pharisees would bring upon their heads because of the violent steps which they would take to hold on to their power and so then Caiaphas the high priest comes up with this brilliant solution which is completely selfish you know and so which verses would that be so yeah if we could once again just read verse 48 and then also 49 and 50 so 48 49 50 if we can have one person read out we let him go on like this everyone will be living him and the Romans will come and simply build their place in our nation but one of them Caiaphas who is high priest that's here said to them you know nothing at all nor do you understand that it's better for you that one man should die for the people not that the whole nation should perish okay so he says no no no we cannot allow this kind of a situation to you know take form before um you know things move to a stage where we will have to take active steps and then there would be a lot of clashes there would be a lot of unrest we can't allow all of that simple solution kill off the man you know be done with him because once he's gone status quo will you know come back so that is the selfish solution which the high priest the top leader the main chief leader he does that's the you know decision that he takes he says no we cannot allow you know any unrest to continue form forming and developing we cannot allow more people to go over to Jesus side before any of that happens let's just kill him off because then the nation will be saved now the high priest is has been you know is supposed to be in a position he's supposed to be like the chief shepherd where he is watching out for the safety of the nation where he is supposed to be shepherding the people and doing what is best for their benefit but here we see a high priest who's nothing like that he's very much a high link is not a true shepherd and so even though he talks about protecting the nation and you know saving it from destruction what we actually see is that this man is just trying to you know save his own position and hold on to his power so he is a very clear example of a higher link and then it says something very interesting in versus 51 to 53 so if if we could read out that please 51 to 53 now this continue continue please go ahead now this he did not say on his own authority but being high priest that here he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation and not for that nation only but also that he would gather together in one the children of God who was scattered abroad then from that day on they plotted to put him to death so even though the chief priest technically the chief shepherd of the nation of Israel even though he had closed his eyes and closed his ears and he had you know hardened his heart because of the position that he is holding God uses his words to actually speak out a prophecy to speak out what Jesus would accomplish so of course it's not saying over here that Caiaphas you know understood God's heart and spoke what God wanted no he was only speaking out of his selfishness but without meaning to he actually spoke out what God had planned and so sometimes it's a very scary thought a very very scary thought we can be in positions of Christian leadership and you know just because God is using us to accomplish his plans and purposes we may be under the impression that you know everything is fine and we are fine and at the same time maybe you know we have gone very very far away from God so it's something that we need to check upon every single day you know when we spend time with him you know during our private devotions we need to re-examine ourselves and see whether we are really in line with the father or not because he will continue to use our position you know the position of leadership which he has placed us in he will use that position to get his work done to accomplish his purposes but are we living in the right way are we as people you know in in in line with his will we need to check ourselves and make sure others will be like you know like Caiaphas you know fools who think that we are accomplishing what we are meant to accomplish but actually we are very very far away from his will so it is something that we should never just simply trust our position and we should not simply be falsely secured just because God is using our position to get things done but we must also check and see whether as people at a personal level whether we are still in line with him and whether we are still responsive and sensitive to him that is something that we would very very clearly need to watch out for and so it says over here that from that day on they began to plot against Jesus and it also says in verse 55 that the Passover feast was you know nearing and that's basically the time when almost all the religious leaders would go to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast and so there's a lot of talk among people and they're wondering will he come will Jesus turn up for that because and if he turns up what's going to happen so all of that you know talk is generated even as the Passover feast is nearing so these are the just some of the main things that we could go through we have about one minute anyone wants to raise any kind of you know question or just you know express your views regarding something otherwise you know we will actually close with the word of prayer so anyone at all wants to say anything otherwise we can close yes we have Albu Kirk brother raising his hand please go ahead yes in verse number four I when Jesus talks about him for the glory of God is the Son of God may be glorified through it I just wanted to ask question as human beings are we also can we also get get glorified by God and how if so how can it mean how is it manifested oh could I have the verse because I'm unable to find it here oh in chapter 11 verse 4 11 he talks about you know the sickness and death but for the glory of God that the Son of God may be glorified through it so I was just wanting to know that as human beings can can we also get glorified by God and how how is this manifested so yes now I wish I had scriptures to back me up because you know there are actual scripture references which where it talks about how we too would be glorified we would share in this glory but my scriptural knowledge at the moment is rather limited but we do have scriptures very very clearly says that we would be sharing in God's glory so in that sense we too would be glorified we would get to share in his glory and how exactly would we be glorified I would say it is mainly through the reward that we would receive where he would say you know I mean this person has faithfully served me and accomplished my purposes so it's like a public declaration from God himself affirming that what we have done is right and he's pleased with us so in that sense we would be glorified and to a lesser extent maybe we could also say that the things that we do in line with God's will which are a blessing to people that kind of places us in a position where people look up to us you know they see that we are people who are representing God right and to an extent that kind of gives us some influence but I think these are all things which I should probably you know properly laid out with scripture references so I will do that all right I will actually do that I will put it in the stream page where I will show versus which talk about us being exalted you know to an extent because we are in a particular position where we are representing God and I'll also mention those scriptures which talk about how we will share in this glory and I'll put it all up you know in a small paragraph of three four sentences or so with the scriptures I will do that because right now what I'm saying is like vague and I'm not backing it up with scripture I shall do that yeah anything else at all otherwise you know we're kind of a little over time we would close anyone else no okay let's just pray and we will close and I will put up the you know references on the stream page later in the afternoon Lord we just thank you so much for today's class thank you oh Lord for all the things that we could learn today we pray oh Lord that we would implement these things in our own lives thank you for that beautiful faith which Martha expressed where she said that even though the delay has happened even now she says I believe that whatever you ask the father he will give it to you such such simple faith oh Lord these early Christians they expressed in you and we pray oh Lord that we too would have that same kind of faith where we will be sheep who are willing to open our ears wide and hear from you oh Lord help us to never become people who will deliberately close our eyes to truths just because those truths make us uncomfortable help us a lot to to truly be your sheep and truly hear your voice and genuinely follow you oh Lord in all that you ask us to do thank you Lord in Jesus name amen amen thank you so much for participating in the class and we'll meet again next week see me and pastor go bless you thank you