Jesus is the answer to death.

Death is a well-known fact but is it a solution to suffering and pain? The death of those close to us does bring suffering and pain to the living and this can last for decades. The more important question is one that is sometimes asked at funerals … do you have hope for the future?

In this passage we find that Jesus’ friends, Martha and Mary, looked to him to save their sick brother from death but out of love he took a different course. He allowed Lazarus to die. Martha and Mary were confused. There was however a deeper meaning which would benefit them … death would not be the end. Jesus told them that their brother, Lazarus, had ‘fallen asleep’. This was another way of saying that Lazarus had died.

He told the sisters ‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me will live even if he dies’. Jesus waited 4 days after Lazarus had died and been placed in the tomb. Lazarus came out of the tomb at Jesus command to show that he brings life to both the physically and spiritually dead. We can trust Jesus and his stupendous words because he proved it by his own death on the cross and glorious resurrection.