{"id":2534,"date":"2012-07-31T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2018-07-20T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:49:24","slug":"the-resurrection-and-the-life-a-sermon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2012\/07\/the-resurrection-and-the-life-a-sermon-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The Resurrection and The Life: A Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Sunday I had the joy and privilege of joining in worship with the people of Old First Presbyterian in downtown San Francisco.\u00a0 The following sermon belongs to our ongoing series, Jesus Epithets:\u00a0 All the Names Jesus Gets Called in Scripture,<\/em> and takes as its inspiration John 11:17-27 and Isaiah 65:17-25.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.When Martha heard that Jesus<\/em> was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, \u2018Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018Your brother will rise again.\u2019 Martha said to him, \u2018I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?\u2019 She said to him, \u2018Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.\u2019\u201d<\/em> \u2013 John 11:17-27<\/p>\n

Lazarus has already been dead now for four days. His sisters, Mary and Martha, have been going through all the customary motions of grief. The burial on the day of death. The long procession to the tomb. An even longer procession of empty-sounding words- all those well-meaning expressions of sympathy that can ring a bit hollow in the immediate clutches of great loss:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so sorry for your loss.<\/em>
\n\u00a0Let us know if there\u2019s anything we can do.<\/em>
\n\u00a0He\u2019s no longer in pain.<\/em>
\n\u00a0He knew the Lord, so he\u2019s in a better place now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine with me for a moment that you\u2019re Martha. Can you picture the scene? Tearful hugs and empty Kleenex boxes. Flowers and more flowers on the kitchen table. Hordes of family you haven\u2019t seen in ages, including crazy, old Aunt Ethel. The last time you saw her she was stockpiling her purse with a second, embarrassingly large portion of meatloaf and corn muffins in the buffet line at Golden Corral. (Note to self: avoid cafeteria restaurants\u2026)<\/p>\n

But, oh no!, that reminds you- because when you\u2019re Martha you\u2019re always thinking of what needs to be done- there is still the reception for the memorial service to worry about and the caterer to call and the menu to review. Mini pigs in a blanket? Probably not. Artichoke and goat cheese crudit\u00e9 or tomato bruschetta? Maybe\u2026<\/p>\n

But, I don\u2019t know. Do I have a choice?, you wonder?\u00a0 What else is on offer?<\/em><\/p>\n

What about a world in which loved ones don\u2019t get sick and die? What about a world in which God actually lives up to God\u2019s side of the bargain? What about a world in which a dear friend like Jesus who is supposed to be the Messiah, the very Son of God, shows up when it matters- when something could still have been done, when healing and recovery weren\u2019t so out-of-this-world impossible?<\/p>\n

Martha would rather have ordered that instead. In fact she\u2019s already tried. Four days ago when Lazarus was in a bad way but still alive, Martha had dialed the 1-800-HELP number for God; she had pressed \u201csend\u201d in her g-mail account; she was sure God had gotten the message.<\/p>\n

But God hadn\u2019t come. God hadn\u2019t even replied to say God had other, bigger, more pressing things to attend to, like putting out wars or rescuing the oppressed. The promise of a new heaven and a new earth in which weeping is no longer, in which the labor of our hands is not in vain, in which bad things don\u2019t happen to good people? All this was supposed to be on the menu, or so Martha had thought, because God loved her, because she and God had been extra chummy, because God in Jesus was doing a new thing for this broken world full of broken people.<\/p>\n

But now Martha is choosing finger foods instead for the memorial service reception; and if truth be told, Martha would still take a second chance for Lazarus over artichoke and goat cheese crudit\u00e9 any day.<\/p>\n

“If only God had shown up in time,” <\/em>she\u2019s saying, like everybody else who knew and loved Lazarus.<\/p>\n

Because when Jesus finally does show up on the scene, when he comes to Martha and says, \u201cYour brother will rise again,\u201d Jesus\u2019 arrival seems too little, too late. And, maybe we can forgive Martha for dismissing Jesus\u2019 words to her as yet another empty expression of sympathy, much in the same category as \u201cyour brother\u2019s in a better place now.\u201d Because Martha, like most Jews in her time, is accustomed to believing in some distant future resurrection. She knows by heart all the religious code language. If she were here today, she\u2019d be used to reciting the Apostles\u2019 Creed each week. \u201cI believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord\u2026I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The resurrection of the body and life everlasting<\/em>. It is in there after all. We mouth the words every week. And Martha knows the drill. She knows all the religiously clad niceties and to nod in agreement at them. She knows not to question polite expressions that \u201call will be well\u201d someday even when inside she\u2019s going to pieces. Martha can appreciate the utility of placating others with their own assurance that \u201cthis too shall pass,\u201d even if there seems no immediate end in sight to the pain and the tears.<\/p>\n

If the resurrection of the dead is some far-off reality that Martha can\u2019t really see or touch or imagine, if it does little to comfort her now, Martha will at least lip sync her faith like most everyone else. She\u2019ll at least stand in the receiving line for Communion. She\u2019ll at least pretend that she really buys all the code language.<\/p>\n

I suspect that those of us who have spent any period of time in the traditionally more churched and church-going South can identify with Martha. Some of you may be familiar with the joke about the difference between a Northern fairytale and a Southern fairytale? A Northern fairytale begins, \u201cOnce upon a time.\u201d A Southern fairytale? \u201cY\u2019all ain\u2019t gonna believe this shit!”<\/p>\n

But if expressive melodrama is the stuff of Southern fairytale, I venture to guess that most of us in the church, regardless of where we come from, are a little more tight-lipped and refined when it comes to airing our deepest, real-life doubts and griefs. At least in \u201choly\u201d places like this one.<\/p>\n

Resurrection of the dead? <\/em>When you\u2019ve settled into your grief for a while, when you\u2019ve learned to accept life\u2019s disappointments with a kind of sad but pragmatic resignation, when you\u2019ve come to see that so much of life is learning over time to let go in the face of loss of one sort or another, \u201cresurrection\u201d can sound a bit concocted or artificial. Maybe even like just another retail gimmick.<\/p>\n

The other day I happened by the Macy\u2019s Estee Lauder cosmetics counter. The sales lady, in addition to insisting that I sit for a full make-over, was all the while singing the praises of the latest in Estee Lauder skin products. Estee Lauder\u2019s nightly repair serum had done wonders for her skin and would for mine. Those under-eye wrinkles? Those stress lines? Those sun spots? They didn\u2019t have to be the final story. With Estee Lauder\u2019s nightly repair serum, I would be resurrected to a more youthful looking version of myself. (And if you have to know, she convinced me.) \u201cResurrection\u201d was standing right in front of me in the shape of a very expensive, fancy-looking, one-ounce bottle, and I believed it.<\/p>\n

But when \u201cresurrection\u201d is standing right in front of you in the form of a person, a person who says, \u201cI am the Resurrection and the Life,\u201d a person who has healed all sorts of strangers but then failed to show up for his own friends- you and your brother, Lazarus- you might not be such a sucker. You might not be eagerly grabbing for your wallet to learn that the price is simply believing.<\/p>\n

Because we, like Martha, can catch on pretty quickly that life manages to go on in the face of death. Often mind-numbingly so. Often without rhyme or reason. If it\u2019s not the loss of a dear friend or family member, there are all those \u201cmini\u201d deaths to contend with. The child we once thought had a bright future struck down by a life-threatening addiction. The relationship we once believed to be a storybook romance now in pieces. The mass lay-off at work in the job we thought we were to retire in. The untimely diagnosis of cancer. We all have our often hidden griefs to bear- those things that over time we have learned to hold quietly to ourselves. It\u2019s hard to imagine resurrection in these places where we find ourselves saying with Martha, \u201cif only, God.\u201d<\/p>\n

But many of us also know the end of this story. If Martha has reason to doubt that Jesus signifies new life in the immediate moment, the kind of spiritual rebirth that defies even death itself and will one day be embodied in a new, perfected, physical body for ourselves and for all creation, then in just a little while Martha will be obliged to change her mind. First she\u2019ll watch Jesus become so greatly troubled- \u201cangered\u201d the original Greek implies- by a world in which people have to die. Then she\u2019ll watch as Jesus in the presence of many onlookers commands Lazarus to come out of his tomb. And then the most mind-blowing, earth-shattering thing of all will happen: she\u2019ll watch as Lazarus obeys Jesus and does in fact stumble out, as if waking from a long sleep and rubbing his eyes while accustoming himself to the light, his burial garments still clinging to his skin like a dummy come back to life.<\/p>\n

And then and there Martha will see that there really is reason to believe that in Jesus are fulfilled all the promises of old of the prophet Isaiah. Promises of a new heaven and a new earth. Promises of a dwelling place in which weeping and suffering and death are no more, where all is put right with our broken world.<\/p>\n

And then Martha won\u2019t have to mouth her belief in just some theory about some distant resurrection of the dead, because then and there her theory will come to life. Like those old, dry bones the prophet Ezekiel speaks of: all those lessons she learned in Sunday school will become a living, breathing, flesh-and-bone reality.<\/p>\n

Because when Jesus says He is the Resurrection and the Life, He is saying that God\u2019s very nature is one of second chances. That God is as dependable as the dawning of each new day when it comes to offering us newness of life in each and every moment. And, these little spiritual rebirths are but a foretaste of a day when in God\u2019s perfect timing the dead shall rise, when all of our paths shall be made straight, and when God\u2019s seal of grace and truth and unending life will finally and decisively set itself upon our wayward hearts, like a lover with a long-awaited beloved.<\/p>\n

Belief in this context is little more than surrendering. Surrendering to God\u2019s economy of grace. Accepting that, as the poet T.S. Eliot puts it, \u201cin my end is my beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belief here means letting go of one\u2019s expectations for how God should work, because resurrection never happens apart from God\u2019s timing and on God\u2019s own terms. And God\u2019s timing and God\u2019s terms, as Martha will soon discover, don\u2019t abide by our \u201cI-must-have-it-now\u201d culture of instant gratification.<\/p>\n

Frank Partnoy, a professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego School of Law, has written a book titled, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay<\/em>, in which Partnoy makes the case that learning how to manage delay, or what some of us would call \u201cprocrastination,\u201d is one of the most important lessons in life. People who can learn to wait for good things will be happier and more fulfilled, and will make better decisions, Partnoy believes.<\/p>\n

I suspect many of us have wondered like Martha why God procrastinates so much when it comes to our own agendas. But I\u2019m guessing this is also because God is simply a whole lot better than we are at managing delay. Maybe we, like Martha, must discover why God\u2019s delayed ways are so far superior to our own hasty ones.<\/p>\n

Because if resurrection is central to the very character of God, it is also entirely an act of God to which we can only surrender at any given moment.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine who worked twelve years as a correction officer in a juvenile rehabilitation center in Kansas City, Missouri was sharing some of her stories with me the other day. I asked her what it was that kept her going in what would seem like a depressing job in one of our nation\u2019s most depressed regions. (Kansas City apparently boasts one of the highest rates of black-on-black, inner-city violence in this country).<\/p>\n

By way of example my friend shared her story of one boy who by the age of fourteen had spent years on the street as a hardened gang member. One day this boy, who according to my friend was not a small boy, became belligerent. My friend, seeking to restrain the boy, had grabbed him in an iron-tight bear hold. In those few, tense moments, as she stood there holding a kid who had seen far more of his fair share of death and violence in his young life, who by common parlance in my friend\u2019s line of work was a useless \u201cthrowaway\u201d to his parents and a ward of the state\u2026in those moments as she held this kid who had probably not been hugged in a very long time, my friend\u2019s heart opened and her grip on the boy relaxed. There they stood, locked in a great, big bear hug, my friend and this rough and tough kid who began to sob like a scared, little baby who just wanted for once to be held and told everything would be alright.<\/p>\n

Resurrection<\/em>. Resurrection for Martha. Resurrection for a no-nonsense correction officer and a hardened, under-age criminal. Resurrection for you and for me, too, whatever your circumstances. On God\u2019s terms. At God\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

What that resurrection will look like from one person to another will vary as wildly as our circumstances this morning. Imagine with me today just one of the many possible scenarios.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re alone, and the old siren call is stronger than it has been in a long while. It\u2019s telling you that you\u2019ll never amount to anything, that you\u2019re doomed to past mistakes and bad habits that have told you who you are for so long, that a drink or two will solve all that. The first of two remaining beers in the fridge goes down so quickly and so smoothly. And then the second. The siren call is now sounding stronger, so you\u2019re grabbing your keys to head to the liquor store, but then the doorbell rings. You wonder momentarily whether to answer it, but then you do, and a friendly man greets you with a smile and a firm handshake. He has some materials about a charity for handicapped children.<\/p>\n

\u201cCould you make a donation?,\u201d he\u2019s asking. \u201cEven $20 will do.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so you do. You write a check and you thank him for coming, and then you shut the door, and you say to yourself, \u201cI don\u2019t need a drink after all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something in this exchange with another human being, in the simple act of showing love and in the gratitude of the recipient, awakens you once more to the serendipitous possibilities for new life that God in Jesus is holding out to you. At any given moment. New life that tastes and satisfies so much better than that can of beer in the fridge. New life that descends on your head like flames of fire, burning away all your residual griefs and what if\u2019s and wooden pronouncements about a distant, happily ever-after, fairytale ending; summoning you instead into the presence and promise of a new heaven and a new earth in which each new day- each new moment even- can be an encounter with the One who is Himself the Resurrection and the Life.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n

Benediction: And now as you leave this place, may you go as a people who believe in resurrection and live like it, because of the One who gave Himself for us so that we might have life and have it abundantly. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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