Fifth Sunday in Lent. DATE 2 nd April 2017 (Year A) Encounters on the Journey Jesus and Lazarus. Ezekiel 37: 1-14
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1 SUNDAY Fifth Sunday in Lent DATE 2 nd April 2017 (Year A) PREACHER Linda Pilton Encounters on the Journey Jesus and Lazarus Ezekiel 37: 1-14 The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, Mortal, can these bones live? I answered, O Lord GOD, you know. Then he said to me, Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath* to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath* in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD. So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath:* Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath,* and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. Then he said to me, Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely. Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act, says the LORD. John 11: 1-45 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, Lord, he whom you love is ill. But when Jesus heard it, he said, This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it. Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, Let us go to Judea again. The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them. After saying this, he told them, Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him. The disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right. Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead. For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him. Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. 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 was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, Lord, 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. Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the
2 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? She said to him, Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world. When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, The Teacher is here and is calling for you. And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see. Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, See how he loved him! But some of them said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying? Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days. Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me. When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, Unbind him, and let him go. Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
3 Intro We have been blessed the last few weeks with hearing how Christ's love encounters us on our spiritual journeys today, by reflecting on some of the encounters Jesus had with various people on his journey through life. I am privileged today to share with you some of my reflections on the theme of Encounters through Lent. Mark began our Sunday Lenten Journey using images connected with his pilgrimage and so it seems appropriate to take that idea to round out our series today. A pilgrimage is a intentional spiritual journey that leads us toward God. While people can take particular times in life to travel to particular places of religious or spiritual significance, I would want to argue that we can make our whole lives a pilgrimage. Our Lenten journey has been a pilgrimage, within the grand pilgrimages of our lives. As a community, we continue to travel together and separately gaining sustenance from each other and from God, as we discover what it means to lives as followers of Jesus of Nazareth. Both our readings today have some striking similarities. Both are stories of life being brought to places of death. For Ezekiel and for Mary, Martha and Lazarus, God is the bringer of life. It is ultimately God's ability to bring life that is central in both stories. Interestingly, in both stories God does not act alone. It is Ezekiel who is told what to say to bring life to the dry bones and While Jesus calls Lazarus, he answers the call and it is the communities job to unbind him. In places beyond hope, God is the author and instigator of life, but there is also a role for the people. Reachout In my role as assistant chaplain and teacher of religious education, I have been honoured to be in the presence of students who have been bearers of God's love. They think I'm a little bit crazy, when I tell them that I see God in them, but, from time to time I think they need to hear this. One of the most profound times, when I have encountered God brining new life to seemingly hopeless situations, has been on pilgrimage to Manila. To give you a little bit of background, for those who haven't already heard of Nicola's work as one of our pilgrims, Reachout was a programme run by the Anglican Schools Commission. We took students from a number of our schools to work with some of the internally displaced communities in Manilla. Our students would spend their days teaching Predominantly English and Maths to the children of these communities who often would struggle to attend school. They also provided funds for the meals for the children while we there. The women of the community would cook these meals and our students would serve and clean up. Building relationships was the primary focus for the programme. Our students generally came back with a greater appreciation for both the abundance of their own lives, as well as an awareness that a lack of material wealth does not mean that people are unable to appreciate and enjoy life. Tears One of the most profound moments that I had on these pilgrimages was to witness the tears of some students, as they came to grips with the fact, especially in times of severe weather, that they were safe in our accommodation and that they had secure homes with warm beds to return to. When our newly made friends were living in mostly
4 pretty basic lean -tos. The unjust nature of that situation and our lack of ability to do any thing substantially to change it, caused many tears. For me, those tears were sacred tears. They were the tears that God was also shedding over this situation. They were the tears that Jesus wept as he entered into the grief of Mary and Martha and their community. Both the tears of my students and the tears of Jesus were signs for me of God's participation in the lives of humans. Those tears were starting point and perhaps the herald of new life. New life for Lazarus certainly, new life for our student pilgrims as they began to shape their lives with a greater degree of purpose in their role in the world, but perhaps, more importantly, new life for the communities we served in Manila. Let me explain how some of that new life came about. Macabud One of the communities we visited, Macabud, was, as I said, a community of internally displaced people. They are not recognised by the Filipino govt. and do what they can to eke out an existence. This particular community makes its living by scavenging off the rubbish tip. They live on the rubbish tip and they retrieve what they can, that might be recyclable and sellable. Children as young as 10 are allowed to earn a living this way. Many of these children did not go to school. It was too difficult, If they could manage to afford the uniform, the books and the transport costs to get them to School, once they got their they were treated by their teachers and the other students appallingly. Because they were seen as scavengers, they were called dogs, by teachers and their peers, they were put at the back of the room and ignored. The matriarch of the Macabud community told us that because our pilgrims treated these children with respect and care, More and more children from Macabud were gaining the courage to go to and stay at school. Remember that education is one of the most important tickets out of poverty. For me, this is a sign of God garnering and working with the will of people to bring life to a place seemingly beyond hope. It does not happen often in the time frame that we want, but it is a sign of God's willingness to bring all his creation into fullness of life Dark Night Allow me, if you will, to change focus, from a particular type of pilgrimage to a life pilgrimage. Many of you know that I started out my adult life training for and becoming a minister in Churches of Christ. Some of you might also be aware that I am a reasonably capable person. I can keep a number of life balls in the air at once, mostly without dropping the really important ones. When things go wrong, I can generally maintain a sense of calm and work out ways to minimise damage and reach whatever goal may have been set. As many of you will know, those things that are our positive attributes can also be our flaws. It could be argued that I have control issues... What many of you probably don't know is that I took about eight years to complete a four course. I got into my third and fourth years of study and training, things started to go wrong. I began struggling to concentrate on my reading, to the point wherei could read individual words but not make meaning from them. This made writing assessments and exams almost impossible. I couldn't sleep at night, couldn't stay awake during the day, was bruising easily, I remember having to talk myself through the steps of completing simple tasks like washing clothes in the washing machine. My GP diagnosed chronic fatigue. Those couple of years a still a bit of a blur for me, my memories of that time are not quite as reliable as other life memories. I went from being a very capable person, to someone who could barely perform simple tasks. I had lost control. My image of myself at that time was at the bottom of a mud pit. No matter
5 how hard I tried to pull myself out of it, I could not get a firm grip and kept sliding back down. It was for me, as St John of the Cross puts it, a dark night of the soul. Yet, there wasn't an absence of God, more that God seemed not to be active. Although I don't remember what it felt at my lowest point, I think the trigger for re entering life was giving up study for a while. A symbolic way of giving up control. Slowly, with the assistance of all sorts of people from my community of faith, who sat with me and helped unbind those things that were limiting me, and with a sense, that God was in the middle of all this, coaxing me back and giving the community the sustenance and ability to care for me as I regained not only my former sense of self, but a stronger sense of reliance on God. These days, I sometimes need a gentle reminder that I am not the one who controls everything. That if I want to participate fully in life, I need to rely on God, and draw my life from God's eternal life. But also in doing this, I get to help be part of a community that brings God's eternal life to places. The God who worked with Ezekial to breathe new life into Israel, The God who worked through Jesus and the Community of Lazarus and Mary and Martha, to bring new life and to allow full participation in that life, continues to work today... Where might your Lenten pilgrimage and your life pilgrimage be leading you? Are you sensing a call, like Ezekial, to breath God's life into a situation or community? Are you on the journey with Jesus, wondering why he is taking so long to reach someone he supposedly cares about? Perhaps you are consumed by grief and a sense of powerlessness at what appears to be the enormity of the power of death? Maybe you are hearing the call of Jesus to new life and like Lazarus struggling with something that is binding you. It could be that you are being asked to help unbind someone from whatever is stopping them from participating fully in life and community. How will we work with God, to bring new life to people and places that seem beyond hope? The Lord be with you.
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