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Flip the Script: When God Redeems Your Story – From Death to Life

John 11:17-35
THE FLIPPING POINT
-Mary & Martha sent word to Jesus and He doesn’t show up in time
-Their brother has been dead for days
-As they watch Jesus weep, their hope had to be crushed

What’s true in this moment?
• Lazarus was absolutely no doubt, dead. Four days dead.
•Their faith didn’t make any noticeable difference
• There was no good reason to hope

What situations have you been in that looked completely and utterly un-redeemable?

And in the midst of this desperate moment, Mary & Martha might miss a powerful truth:
Jesus weeps WITH YOU

It’s not that He weeps FOR YOU, like your situation is helpless, but rather that He weeps WITH YOU.  Jesus grieves with you in your brokenness and pain.
 John 11:36-44
Bottom Line:
“Redemption means the final word is HIS.”

This is the difference
This is the powerful truth

That through redemption, God has the final say, the ultimate authority, the final word

John 11:25-26

“I am the resurrection”
Martha speaks of the resurrection as an event in the future, but Jesus speaks of resurrection as a present reality made possible through Him.  

Through his death and resurrection, Jesus proved that there is life that does not bow to the empty threats of the grave. 

In your story, who gets the final word? 

Ephesians 2:1-5

Flip the Script: From Evil to Good
Genesis 37:12-28
As Joseph is carted off to a foreign land….what could he be thinking?
What’s true in this moment?• The people who should have loved Joseph, didn’t.• For whatever “crimes” Joseph may have committed in their eyes, the punishment didn’t fit.• Everything about his future is uncertain at the very best, deeply dark at worst. At the flipping point, he’s lost everything except his life.
What situations have you been in that looked just like that?
Genesis 50: 15-21
Notice that both the brothers and God had intentions through Joseph’s story. The brothers MEANT evil & God MEANT good.
The question of ‘WHY?’
-David asked that question “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.”‭‭Psalms‬ ‭22:1-2‬
-Jesus himself, on the cross, asked that question “About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ).”‭‭ Matthew‬ ‭27:46
The bottom line: Hope grows not because we understand the WHY, but because we trust the WHO.
The WHY is about clarity.The WHO is about trust.
Romans 8:28
“For those who love Him”…In a loving relationship there is trust being built.
A prayer to guide us: “Even though….yet I will trust you, Lord.”
Psalms 56:3-4
-“Even though my financial need is great and I don’t see how we will make, yet I will trust you, Lord” -“Even though the future seems uncertain and I don’t know what tomorrow holds, yet I will trust you, Lord” -“Even though I don’t like it, even though I don’t understand it, yet I will trust you, Lord.”