Then I can see back there in them days, when Jesus went forth and demons screaming, signs a following, it got just about the time where our text begins now, and I want you to notice Him. There He was, and He went away from the home of Lazarus. And as soon as He left the home, sorrows and troubles come in. And when He leaves your home, sorrows and troubles are coming in. They’re headed your way when He leaves your home. In this case He wasn’t driven away. He went away because His work called Him, and Satan seen the advantage of it, so he strikes Lazarus down. I believe Jesus knowed all the time that Lazarus was going to die. For I can prove it by the Scriptures. When He got at the grave of him when He was back over there, said “Our land—friend Lazarus sleepeth.” But said, “For your sake I’m glad I wasn’t there, but I go wake him.” When at the grave He said, “Father I thank Thee, Thou—Thou hast already heard Me. But I said it just ’cause these was standing by.” He said, “I can do no but what the father has showed Me.” He’s done showed Him the resurrection of Lazarus, and that’s the reason He left.

Believest Thou This?, 1951-10-03, New York, NY, §54