Weekly Pulpit John 11:11-13 These things said he: and after that he said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.… Jesus awakes men out of the sleep of IGNORANCE, to give them intellectual life. His teaching — 1. Awakes the power to think. 2. Strengthens the thinking powers. 3. Affords food for thought. II. MORAL INSENSIBILITY, to give them spiritual life. 1. Men are dead in sin. 2. Christ's call awakes the soul, and Christ's power gives it life. 3. Christ supports, develops, and perfects this new life. III. INDIFFERENCE, to give them a life of usefulness. (Weekly Pulpit.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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