Defeating Death through Resurrection

For Easter Sunday, Matthew Young turns to John 11 and the raising of Lazarus to explain why the resurrection matters. He shows that Jesus does not merely provide resurrection and life but embodies it as the great I AM, that Jesus is present with us in sorrow, that Jesus is not neutral toward death but angry at it, and that Jesus was willing to walk into death to bring life. Framing Christ's confrontation with death as a three-round fight already decided, he invites hearers to believe into Jesus and live without fear of death.