Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I am Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this teaching on January 5th, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. Your word will not return void. And I pray a blessing upon the listeners of this teaching that their hearts and minds are open to see, hear, receive, and believe the living word of God. to believe in the life and the resurrection of Jesus Christ and to choose life and to walk in life. Father God, I thank you that the message penetrates so deep that it is never forgotten. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. I'm so glad you could join me today, January 5th, 2025.

This is my first teaching in 2025, but we have a lot of teachings on the website. go. A lot of videos, a lot of published documents. We've been doing this since um either the year 2000 or the year 2002. No, the year 2002 or the year 2004. Not sure exactly when the start date happened. My dad founded this ministry and it has been going since. And um he is retired. Uh every once in a while he'll write a new published document. He doesn't want to do videos, but that's okay. As uh he does get inspired by the Lord, he'll write something. And I think he's working on something right now. He made a comment about it. We'll see how far he gets to it. But praise God, we are here. And we're going to be talking about Jesus saying, "I am the resurrection and the life." Let's go to our opening scripture here in John 11:25. We will be in the Gospel of John in chapter 11 for this entire teaching. Verse 25. Jesus said unto her, talking to Martha, I am the resurrection. The word resurrection means stand up again and the life. He that believeth, which is to have faith in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. We're going to get to that conversation here. What I want to teach on today is there are two different approaches to reaching Jesus. Now, in those approaches, there's a lot of dynamics that take place here being a believer in Christ. And and and both these approaches are believers in Christ. They're just two different approaches to Jesus. This is why I want to teach on this when this when I read this the other day. I'm in my personal reading in the Gospel of John right now and uh and in Psalms, but I'm in John and I was at John 11 a few days ago and I read this and it just hit me in such a way that I was like, I got to teach on this. So that's why we're here today. So we're going to start in verse four so we can get a background that's going on here. This is about when Lazarus dies, by the way. So that's what we're getting to. uh verse four uh in John chapter 11 when Jesus heard that he said this sickness is not unto death. So, what he heard is, "Hey, Lazarus is sick. You might want to come home. Jesus, you love Lazarus. Martha, Mary, you're good friends with the family. Um, you have a very good, strong relationship with them." I want you to take a look at that. This is talking about people who have a strong relationship with the Lord. You're going to catch a lot in this message. I'm going to read a lot of scriptures in this message, but the whole point of it is I'm letting the Holy Spirit speak to you as I just throw in little things that he's speaking to me about. So, listen very carefully because you're going to be hearing the Holy Spirit. So, here you had uh Jesus just heard that Lazarus is sick and he's responding, "The sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the son of God might be glorified thereby." Okay, he just said it's not unto death. Many of us have realized that Lazarus does die.

Let's pause for just a moment because I think this is worth it.

Lazarus died, but Jesus said it wasn't unto death. Jesus is the allsane word. Something disobeyed Jesus. But Jesus allowed it to happen because what did he say? But for the glor This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the son of God might be glorified thereby. So even though he says it's not unto death, we know that Lazarus ends up dying and we know that he's being risen from the grave. So Jesus is allowing this to glorify God. So there's a purpose here. We know why Lazarus ends up dying. We know why he is risen. And look what else it says here. Verse 5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. So let's stop to think about this for just a moment. Things happen around us all the time. Uh for an example, my mom dealing with cancer. I didn't abode two days before I went to go see her. I ran. And here Jesus stopped for two days. And not only is he stopping, he's saying it's not to death. He prophesied it's not to death, but yet he knew Lazarus was going to die. You're going to see the further conversation he's going to have here in just a moment. And it it fascinates me to realize that Jesus knew exactly what was going on. Which means as believers in Christ and we're Christlike, if we're spending time in the Holy Spirit, we're spending time in the word, we should know exactly what's going on at all times. And I've heard a lot of testimonies throughout the years of people just, yeah, I was being obedient to the Lord. He told me to go do this and I did that. And it's wow. And it would have seemed like, oh, that was too late. No, no, no, no, no. It's not because it's to the glory of God. This is to glorify God. That's the whole point. Let's go to verse seven. Then after that saith he to his disciples, let us go into Judea again. So his disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither, and goest thou thither again." You want to go there again? They want to stone you. I want to pause here also for this moment. So Jesus knows this is to the glory of God. And yes, the Jews, um the Pharisees, Suh Sadducees, um the Sanhedrin, they want to come kill him. They already want to stone him to death. They and they know it. They're aware. You see, you should be aware of your surroundings. You should know exactly what's going on always. That's as a believer in Christ. So they know this. And they're like, "You want to go there where you're gonna be close?" Because see, Bethany, which is where Lazarus, Mary, and Martha lived, not far from Jerusalem. So, yeah, he wants to go there. Yeah, he might get, you know, they're going to try to stop. But see, Jesus is in control of everything. Jesus is the one who gives permission. You see, he gave permission for Lazarus to die because nothing can overcome Jesus. And Jesus prophesied that it wasn't unto death. I hope you're grabbing this. I hope you're getting it. Uh Jesus answered verse 9, "Are there not 12 hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not because he seeth the light in this world." Now, he's going back to the uh his disciples and saying, "You need to be aware of what's going on. If you're not aware of what's going on, you you're not in the light." He's saying, "But if a man walk in the night, now he's talking the darkness side of it. He stumbleth because there is no light in him. See, to have the light, you need to have Jesus in you. You need to have the Holy Spirit. Remember, Jesus already went and got baptized. He rose from uh came out of the water and the dove landed on him. So, he was water baptized and spirit baptized at the same time. So, as he came out, he came in and then he went into the wilderness for 40 days and defeated Satan there. So here now he has a situation where he's showing us how we can come to him. He says one you need to be aware of the things going on around you. I want you to catch that. Now look at here. He says these things these things said he and after that he saith unto them our friend Lazarus sleepeth but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples Lord if he sleep he shall do well. Usually sleep helps when you're sick. And and so the disciples are like he should be fine. He's sleeping. And then Jesus, how be it? Jesus spake of his death, but they thought that he has spoken of taking a rest in sleep. Then Jesus then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead, and I'm glad for your sakes that I was not there to the intent ye may believe. Nevertheless, let us go on to him. So he's having this conversation about going there. And then he says, now I'm glad he's he died. You see, he allowed it to happen to give God the glory. But now he's looking at his disciples. His disciples believe, but they weren't aware.

How many Christians are out there that aren't aware of the power of God that exists or are not aware of the things that you can do as a believer in Christ? I hope you're catching this. This is very powerful and I'm glad you were not there. That's so powerful. Then said Thomas, which is called Ditimus unto his fellow disciples, let us also go that we may die with him.

Obviously, now the disciples are becoming aware something's happening. Oh, he's going to go fight. He's going to go to war. Okay, we're going to go with him and die with him. So they went from not believing the situation or not even being aware of the situation to now being aware of something else going on but not quite right, not quite the awareness that they were looking for. Uh verse 17, then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. So by the time Jesus got to Bethany, which he purposely delayed himself, he's dead now four days. And that's very significant. The the number four is very interesting. Four is creation or a completed thing. So you've got father, God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit, and then you you make up the four. And when the four of you work together, well, you can raise somebody from the dead is what Jesus is saying here. So but the point of him being dead for four days is to make sure that the people knew this man was dead. He is dead. There was no, "Well, he might have been dead and he got up three days later." No, he was dead. He had been wrapped up completely. The stone had been put in front of his grave. He's dead. Now, that was the disciples point of view of having to go to raise this guy from the dead, knowing full well they might be stoned. And so, Thomas is like, "Let's just go do it anyways. If we die, we die with him." you know that he's motivated for that kind of stuff. Okay, but there's something else going on here because now we're going to see the perspective of Martha and we're going to see the perspective of Mary and this is just so powerful and is so interesting. Uh verse 20, then Martha as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming went and met him. But Mary sat still in the house. So we are just talking about Martha right now. This is Martha having a conversation. I want you to look. Okay, you had disciples who followed Jesus but were unaware of what was going on but felt that okay, he's going to go do battle. Let's go do battle with him. If we got to get stoned, we got to get stoned. That's how they're looking at it. So now you've got Martha who what's the first thing she does? This is a believer in Christ. This is a believer. She says, "Then Martha said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hast been here, my brother had not died. Since you weren't here, he died because you didn't heal the sick. See, she believed in his healing. He could have been healed from being sick. But this is a point where now Lazarus went to death. He died and he's been dead four days. And she's like, "Dude, you should have been here." And you were She's accusing him. How many Christians accuse Christ of not doing something?

You got to get past that point. By the way, who's the accuser? Ain't that the devil? Shouldn't he do his own job? Let him do his own job. Now, let's go to verse 22. But I know that even now, so she accused him. She She laid it out. She's like, I'm laying this. I'm being truthful. You should have been here. He'd be well. So verse 22, but I know that even now whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. How many times did Jesus tell us, "Whatever you ask, I will give to you." Martha knew that. So even though she accused him of not being there, which by the way, we know that Jesus is everywhere now, which is awesome. but because he wasn't there. But I know that if you ask God, you will get your answer of God. She didn't say ask God for him to live. Oh, catch that. She didn't ask if he could live. She says, I know whatever you ask, God will answer. Because she's saying, you know what, I'm the sinner. But and yeah, I'm mad at you, but at the same time, I know that you can ask and it will be given. Whatever belief you have, whatever level you're at with Christ, you let him do it. You say, "I have to trust you because there's nothing else I can do, Lord." Look what Jesus says. Jesus saith unto her, "Thy brother shall rise again." Remember, Jesus already said this was a sickness, not unto death. He's got prophecy that he laid down on his behalf. I hope you're getting more golden nuggets than I am. I'm very excited about this. This is so neat. Verse 24, Martha said saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. And and she's like, he's going to rise again. I know that. I know, in fact, in even in my mind, I know that all of us eventually are going to be on the other side, whether heaven or hell because everybody dies eventually. So, everybody is going to die eventually. But see, here's the thing, and I really want you to catch this. We have been promised everlasting eternal life.

And that life begins here and now even in the flesh as we believe. Which means we don't go out until God wants us to go out and he gives permission for that. Which means sickness can't take us get that. You see, you know, when I pray for my mama, you know, I'm praying for her to be healed. Yes. Why? Not till she lived forever and outlived me and suffered that. No, I don't pray that way. I pray that she gets up out of the sickness and get back into the ministry of the Lord and go when God calls her to go. And nothing like sickness or cancer, whatever, can take her because God is not giving that permission because she's a believer in Christ. That's what we're talking about. So Martha though is already assuming and as a believer he's dead. He's been dead for four days. It's done. And Jesus says, "No, he'll rise again." She said, "After the resurrection." And then he goes to say, "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." Now, here's something that's very interesting. Hebrews 9:27 tells us that every man is appointed to die once. We're dead before we become a believer. And the moment you become a believer, life springs up in you and you are alive and your name is written in the lamb's book of life. So even though he's talking about resurrection of Lazarus, which Lazarus is dead, he's also showing here's Martha, a type of believer who came to Christ, who says, "All right, Lord, if you were here, if you had moved when I said you move, none of this would have happened." And then she's acknowledging, "All right, I've come to the conclusion. We're going to make it through to the resurrection on the other side." And he says, "I am the resurrection and the life." And then look what else he says. That whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this. She saith unto him, "Yeah, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the son of God, which should come into the world." Martha had to say that. Why does she have to say that? As a believer in Christ, each and every one of us needs to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Uh first John, I believe it's four and it might be in multiple scriptures throughout all of First John. John is telling us that you will know an unbeliever from a believer, by their fruit, but even by what they speak. Uh an unbeliever cannot say Jesus is the son of God. You will find an unbeliever say something, "Yeah, well Jesus, he was an okay guy. He was cool. He's a prophet. He did good things. That was his thing. And he did good. And uh they can't say that he's the son of God because they don't believe. And so now, you know, based on what Martha just said, she believes. So now Jesus is breaking through the barriers. First, he broke through the barriers of his disciples. He got through them to go there because they're like, "Okay, we're going to get stoned to death, but okay, we're going to go. I'm going to die with you. That's how they took it. That's how they believed. But they believed. They went. Their action was faith. They went in faith. Now he got Martha to acknowledge that he is the son of God. So he's broken down two barriers. Now let's look at the third barrier. This is very interesting. Verse 32. Then when Mary was come where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, "Lord, if thou hast been here, my brother had not died," she, the same as Martha, did the exam exact same thing. In fact, Martha kind of manipulated her and told her, "Jesus called for you." So, she went to Jesus, but Jesus had not called for her or it wasn't recorded in the scriptures anyways for her. But she shows up. She gets it. She's now in front of Jesus. How many believers does it take or how much time does it take for a believer to get before Christ in their need in their hour or even after the hour has passed and you're grieving? She finally gets to Jesus. She stayed back. She waited. And it was like another believer encouraged her. Go to Jesus. Just go to Jesus. Which is what we're all called to do. Go to Jesus. I point to Jesus. Everything I teach here is through the scripture and I point it to Jesus because I want you to go to Jesus. I want you to have a relationship. I would love for you to start teaching your own the scriptures of how it's taught or how you understand it. Sometimes it just takes reading it. That's all that's all that needs to take place. And here Mary finally showed up. But she did the same thing. She said, "If you had been here, my brother would not have died." So now something now Jesus responds differently. He responded with Martha because he knew where Martha's belief was. He knew that Martha had to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Mary has already done that. She's the one, if you read at the beginning of chapter 11, she anointed him with her hair in the house, with the perfume in the house. So now she already knows he's the son of God. He doesn't have to get her to acknowledge that cuz she's already done that. But look what happens now. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled.

Why would Jesus, who set all of this up, be troubled

after seeing Mary? Because here is a believer who called Jesus the son of God and is in grief grieving because she's not recognizing the resurrection that Jesus is.

And because of that, she's grieving and weeping. And he's weeping not because she was I mean it got to him but it says here look at verse 34 and said where have you laid him? Because now he's asking where is he? They said unto him Lord come and see. And Jesus wept. The anointing of the Holy Spirit is moving. When you are filled with the anointing of the Holy Spirit many many times you'll weep. Water is a form of getting into the spirit and sometimes we have to provide our own water and that is through our tears and it moves us on the inside in such a way that it causes Jesus to move too. So here you had a believer who needed to acknowledge Jesus as the son of God. That's Martha. Here you had disciples who had to acknowledge I'm willing to go to die for you which needed to happen. And now you have Mary who simply said, "If you had been here, he'd be alive." And just laying a fact of the matter down. And now here Jesus responds, "Where is he?" And he's emotionally charged. So now verse 36, "Then said the Jews, behold how he loved him." Now he's talking and getting all the people around him emotionally charged so that he can do what he wants to do needs to do now which is raise g Lazarus from the dead. Now Jesus can raise him any which way he wants. What Jesus is doing here is getting them all involved as part of the process so that he can teach us so we know what to do in the future with our faith when it grows. Amen. Verse 37. And some of them said, "Could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused that even this man should not have died?" See, now everyone is emotionally charged of he didn't do the preventive part. He didn't prevent the problem from happening, which we know he did it purposely. He let it happen purposely to the glory of God. How much bigger is the testimony from him rising from the dead than him healing and taking away the sick, which he had been doing all along? You see where Jesus is going with this? He wants us to see that even unto death, he is the resurrection. He is the life and we can come back out of it and we will. And he's growing our faith. So yes, he could prevent, but now he's showing not only could I could have prevent it, but I'm going to show you when I don't prevent how much I can raise him from the dead. Hallelujah. Verse 34. and said where uh and Jesus wept and said the Jews bel uh behold he loves him. And some of them said could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused that even this man should not have died. Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave and a stone laid upon it laid. Jesus said take ye away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead saith unto him Lord by this time he stinkketh for he hath been dead four days he had been dead four days the whole point of that four and I had talked about it before I think uh if not I'll reiterate it here the four is bringing us together God the father god the son god the holy spirit you he's making a complete image of the son of god because we complete god We're of God. We're a part of God. We are co-joined with him. Co-airs, joint hes. So, as we come together, because that's the whole point of life in general is to have a relationship with God. You're here to have a relationship with God. You're here to make the picture complete. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and you and the four of you work together. So, here he's got everybody together. And she says he's been dead for four days. He stinks.

You know, if you remember the prodigal son, do you think stinky smells bother God? I have a feeling they don't. Why did he make some of us with a schnoz like this where it does bother? I don't know. But obviously Martha must have had a schnoz like this because I'm gonna tell you right now. Yeah. I couldn't handle the smell. She's like, "Dude, he stinks." Oh, word. Oh, Lord Jesus. So Jesus said unto her, "Said I not unto thee that if thou wouldest believe, thou should see the glory of God." Do remember this is to the glory of God. So he's telling her, "You're going to see the glory of God." Yeah. In the stink, you're going to see the glory of God. And maybe because nobody ever said that he stunk after that. She's assuming he's going to stink. I think he came out not stinking. Oh, let's read. Let's continue to read. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me." You see, there's something about Jesus and God. Jesus says, "I'm here because of you, and I am doing exactly what you're telling me to do. So, I'm following everything you told me to do, and I know you're hearing me." Imagine having that relationship with God the Father. So much so that you can go to God. God, I know you heard me already. I know you know the c the circumstance. Remember why do we pray? Why do we pray? This is exactly here. This is I know you heard me. And meaning he's already been praying. He says, "And I knew that thou hears me always." He hears him in the groaning of the spirit, in the spoken word, in being in his presence. He hears them all the time. He says, "But because of the people which stand by, I said it that they may believe that thou hast sent me." You see, now the glory becomes apparent. The glory is that God sent the only begotten son to redeem us. And they needed to believe that. They needed to see that. We need to see that that he is our redeemer, the one who has pardoned us. Oh, hallelujah. And when he thus has spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto him, Loose him, and let him go. I didn't hear anything in that scripture that said he stunk, so he didn't stink, but God rose him from the dead. Look what else. Verse 45. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did believed on him. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees and told them what things Jesus has done. Sometimes no matter how great a miracle is, somebody's just not going to believe. But as you can see, this was the catalyst point in which the Jews seriously went after Jesus. You can go read further on in the chapter and the next chapter as to um the conversation they had amongst them amongst themselves so that they can go after Jesus and get him get rid of him which that was the whole point. It's to glorify God and and Lazar was a Lazarus was a part of that plan for that matter. Mary and Martha were a part of that plan. The disciples were a part of that plan. You and I here today listening and reading this event that happened in history which is a true event by the way. There's um some sayings about Lazarus and his second death rumored through the Catholic Church and other areas. You can go Google that and check it out. But I'm telling you that we're a part of the glorifying of God, the raising up of Jesus, this sending of his only begotten son through a virgin named Mary and him dying on the cross 33 years later as the Passover lamb. so that the enemy and all the condemnation that is sent against this world that is written through the law passes over all of us. We're a part of that as believers in Christ. We have we have the ability to stand up and not let death take us. And I keep saying I keep teaching on this and there's more scripture that supports us that we should be walking in the anointing and in the living word of God and not

just giving up and letting the dead be dead. We can raise people from the dead. The issue is this is a generation with no faith. Well, we're the House of Faith Ministries. So, I'm teaching on faith and I'm walking in faith and I know my mom is healed from cancer because that's not the way she's going to go. She's going to go when God wants her to come home and it's going to be in peace and it will not be in pain and suffer. And by the way, she is not in any pain or suffering. She's regaining her strength right now. In fact, her hair is already growing back out and she's looking great. She's doing fantastic. That's what we're talking about. And the power of prayer. We've anointed her. We've gone and pray. I look forward to seeing her get up. And hopefully once we get her back up and out of this, maybe we can have her on here and have her share her testimony. Amen. Well, let's close in a word of prayer. And I hope you see this message and I hope that you um apply it to your lives and don't forget you have the power of the resurrection of the belief in Jesus in your hearts. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Let it not leave our hearts. Let it penetrate. Let it keep deeping keep sinking deeply into our soul and spirit. Thank you, Father God, for your holiness. Thank you for glorifying yourself as the son of God. And Lord, we believe that you are the son of God. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next teaching. Bye-bye.