The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying Death,
Dying and Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit
be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today
is: “Lazarus of the Gospel and Lazarus of Dario Fo for Morning Manna of the
Sabbath School Lesson Death, Dying and Future Hope”. The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 62 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 43. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. Why do you not
click on this now? --- https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_05.pdf ---One of the
most astounding cases of Jesus divinity was his resurrection of Lazarus. ---He wanted to
do it. As part of the Trinity, the Trinity had a message for humanity. “Resurrection
is coming, it will definitely happen at the Second Coming. See for yourself”. ---So amazing
was Lazarus Resurrection that Pontius Pilate and his wife heard about it as
well. ---The news of
Lazarus thus spread among the Romans as well. ---Christ was
glorified in His humanity here with the Resurrection of Lazarus. ---It is a
biblical fact that Resurrection is reserved for the Second Coming of Christ. ---That is the
belief that Mary told Jesus when He was saying to her that Lazarus will be
resurrected. She thought he was talking about the Second Coming. ---They had to
belief in Jesus as divine and able to Resurrect. Momentarily. ---Jesus on
purpose delayed the arrival at the funeral so that Lazarus was already decayed
for four days. ---Jesus
arrived after the funeral so to speak. ---Mary
believed in Jesus’ power to save people’s lives from illness up to the point of
death. ---He was
insisting that Lazarus is just sleeping and He will wake him up. He also
admitted that Lazarus is dead. ---Satan had no
power with Christ when He intended to wake Lazarus up. ---Demons and
Satan and their audience were pushed aside that day. The whole of the universe
unfallen worlds watched the ability of the Son of God and the Trinity to do
what they promise to do at the Second Coming. ---He spoke and
life flew into the rotten body of Lazarus and he came out alive. ---Dario Fo,
the theater performer of Italy, wrote a play about Lazarus. In the play he
focused on the audience and their reaction. ---The audience
that day had self-interest. They were coming to watch a magical show. ---They were
selling candies among the audience. ---They
complain about people standing in front of them so that they cannot see. ---Someone
screamed congratulations to Christ but at the same time realized someone has
stolen his wallet. Christ and wallet is what he screamed. ---It is a solo
performance. ---When I
watched the performance as a student at a state university, I asked the
performer to come and replay it at our Adventist institution on a Friday night.
---The drama
student did. ---Frail is
humanity amid divinity performing great things for our salvation. ---Our
attention and focus is on ourselves and worldly things even in the presence of
the Almighty. ---We have to
be resurrected as a new person in Christ spiritually so that the hope of
Resurrection is also ours for the Second Coming.