April 7, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms
John 20:30-31
• The Apostle John writes the last gospel. He doesn’t follow the same chronological format as the other gospel writers but rather chooses seven miracles to serve as teaching moments.
1. Water to wine: Jesus symbolized the water of duty into the wine of the Spirit.
2. Jesus healed an official’s son from afar
3. Jesus healed the man at the Pool of Bethesda
4. Jesus fed the five thousand who chose to go without physical food to be fed in their spirits, by the teachings of the Lord.
5. Jesus walking on the water. Jesus is walking on top of our dilemma.
6. Jesus heals the man that was born blind.
7. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after four days.
Unlike most of Jesus’s miracles, this last miracle is not for the crowd. This miracle is for some of Jesus’ closest friends. He stays in their home, eats their food. But Jesus still wants them to “live” the resurrection. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26). God wants to use our individual lives as his testimony. This explains why Jesus repeatedly invites us to believe for audacious things.
With God all things are possible…
Speak to the mountain…
Whatever you ask in my name…
Greater works than these...
• God wants to not only do great things for us but through us.
• We should desire the miraculous as a testimony of the love of God and as a manifestation of God's glory & power.
• Jesus wants our faith to grow & to ask for great things. We should ask for something big.
• We sometimes allow our faith to be destroyed by stupid things.
• We are not called to only go to church, but instead, we are called to be a testimony of the miraculous.
• We should exercise our faith to make it stronger and stronger.
