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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. Sometimes the things people say are just really hard to believe. Can you imagine what it was like for Mary and Martha when Jesus asked them to believe we truly never die?
3. Scripture
   1. John 11:23-26
   2. Jesus:  Your brother will rise to life.

Martha:  I know. He will rise again when everyone is resurrected on the last day.

Jesus:  I am the resurrection and the source of all life; those who believe in Me will live even in death.  Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never truly die. Do you believe this?

4. Devotional
   1. Some people try everything they can to cheat death.
      1. Trillion dollar industries
      2. Cosmetics
      3. Exercise regiments
      4. Vitamins
      5. Cryonics
   2. Imagine when Mary and Martha heard these words for the first time
      1. “Believe in Me and live”
      2. “All who believe will have life everlasting”
      3. Easy until looking death in the face
      4. “Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never truly die”
      5. “Do you believe this?”
   3. Two different major sects among mainstream Jews
      1. Pharisees believed in resurrection after death
      2. Sadducees believed death was final and there was no resurrection
      3. Listened to Jesus and believed what He said, believed there was a judgment and resurrection
      4. Couldn’t put together the thought of moving between the two
      5. Couldn’t think about His power over death
   4. Still the question hung in the air
      1. Do you believe everyone who lives and believes in Me will never truly die?
      2. Mary and Martha watched their brother take his last breath
      3. They washed his body and wrapped it in linen clothes filled with spices
      4. They put their brother in a tomb four days earlier
      5. He will never truly die? What do you call what happened?
   5. We have 2,000 years of testimony from people who have lived the assurance of Jesus’ message.
      1. Still we have trouble believing
      2. Yet Mary and Martha voiced the words and took Jesus to the tomb with the expectation of Jesus doing something spectacular for their brother
      3. If they could believe that we never truly die when we believe in Him, without having knowledge of His resurrection, don’t you think we should be able to believe
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