{"id":1442,"date":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2023\/04\/04\/move-the-stone\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:00:00","slug":"move-the-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2023\/04\/04\/move-the-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Lesson in Jesus and Lazarus&#8217; Story: Doing What We Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I\u2019m going to keep this short, because short is good. Jesus told short stories, and I love that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Short is powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you know the Lazarus story already? Jesus raises him from the dead in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+11&amp;version=NLT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John 11<\/a>. Think about that: Lazarus has no blood flow. His brain is done. His organs are already disorganized. Decay has set in. He stinks. <strong>He\u2019s a goner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus, however, can raise him from the dead. Do you realize how <strong>remarkable<\/strong> that is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a weird part of the story, though, that doesn\u2019t get much attention: Jesus <strong>tells the people<\/strong> there to move the stone that\u2019s blocking where Lazarus\u2019 body is laying. And they do it, and Lazarus comes walking out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend of mine just told me to think about this: What\u2019s harder, bringing a dead body to life, or moving a stone? Couldn\u2019t Jesus have moved the stone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, he could. But he told people to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus tells us to <strong>do what we can do<\/strong>. It matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if we do what we can do, He will do what we could never do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/star991.com\/djs\/brant-hansen\/\">Brant Hansen<\/a><br>Morning Show Host, STAR 99.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you know the Lazarus story already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24,28,38],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-growth","tag-encouragement","tag-inspiration","tag-trust-god"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 15:07:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}