The sermon 'Believe in the Messiah Who Bears the Marks' by Jason Dohm focuses on the importance of belief in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, emphasizing the physical and prophetic signs that identify Him as the Savior. It begins with the account of Thomas's doubt and subsequent belief upon seeing Jesus' crucifixion marks, illustrating the blessing of faith without sight. The sermon highlights the Gospel of John's testimony, where John selectively records signs and miracles witnessed by Jesus' disciples, which serve as a testament to Jesus' divine mission and fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. These signs are not just miracles but serve as messages authenticating Jesus as the Messiah, distinct from any other religious figure. The sermon further discusses the irrationality of unbelief, stressing that the abundance of eyewitness accounts and fulfilled prophecies provide a solid foundation for faith. It calls listeners to abandon unbelief, emphasizing the urgency of accepting salvation through Jesus, as time is limited. The message concludes with an exhortation for believers to be a link in the chain of testimony, sharing the Gospel and inviting others to find life in Jesus' name.

Good morning. Our scripture for today is John 30 and 31. I'm going to be starting in verse 24 through the end of the chapter. Now Thomas called the twin, one of the 12, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen the Lord.

So he said to them, unless I see his hands, the prints of the, in his hands the prints of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side. I will not believe." And after eight days, the disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace to you. Then he said to Thomas, reach your finger here and look at my hands and reach your hand here and put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving but believing.

And Thomas answered and said to him, my Lord and my God. Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Father, we recognize the privilege to be able to come and worship before you. We ask that you fill our hearts with your Spirit, help us to understand, to truly hear your word and to apply it in our lives through Christ. Amen. The title of the sermon this week is Believe in the Messiah who bears the marks. It's sort of an exhortation more than a title.

Believe, Believe, believe in this Savior who bears the marks. There's a double meaning here. One is Jesus literally, physically bears the marks of his sufferings on behalf of sinners. The Messiah must be the suffering servant of Isaiah 53. If you want to know if Jesus is, you look at his hands.

You put his hands in the prints of the nails. He has marks in his hands and his feet in his sides. Secondly, as we've been saying all along, all through the Gospel of John, The Messiah was to have certain marks, certain signs, certain circumstances and works in his life that would identify him as the fulfillment of all the messianic prophecy, of all that the prophets said that the Savior God would send would be. So Jesus bears the marks literally physically. If you want to know if he's the suffering servant, look at his hands and his feet, his side.

But he bears the marks of the prophetic marks of the Messiah as well. That's really what John is speaking of as he begins the conclusion to the Gospel of John here in the last two verses of chapter 20. In our previous two texts, John the Gospel writer has walked us through Jesus' first two post-resurrection appearances to his disciples. In the first, he appeared to the ten, the twelve, minus Judas, minus Thomas. Thomas wasn't there.

And then eight days later to the eleventh, Thomas is added back, Jesus appears to them. And verse 29 was Jesus' admonition to Thomas. Really it's probably better, a gentle rebuke to Thomas. Look at verse 29, it leads into our text. Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed.

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. So this is our context. John the Gospel writer is giving us The basis for the belief of all who have faith but haven't seen. That's you and me and all the people throughout the centuries. Even the time in the preaching, the direct preaching of the apostles, but who hadn't seen the resurrected Lord.

They have a belief not based on sight. They are walking not by sight, but by faith. Well, faith in what? What is the basis for that faith? What is the ground of that faith?

What is the footing of that faith? John the Gospel writer gives us the basis of my faith, a believer who has not seen the resurrected Lord. So as we come to our text, let's ask the Lord to help us. Jesus, we humble ourselves at your feet, relishing the opportunity to hear your word. We thank you that all who come to you by faith have life in your name.

All. All. All. No one is left out who is willing to be saved in your name, comes to you by faith, is ever cast away. All are received.

This is a glorious truth. I pray that you would help us as we come to your word. Send your Holy Spirit to teach today in Jesus' name, Amen. Not much to subdivide here today, but we are going to subdivide. These two verses will split it in half.

So, follow along as I reread John chapter 20 verse 30. And truly, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book. Here in this verse, John the Gospel writer assures us that he has been very selective if you are taking notes by filling in blanks on the handout, selective fills in the blank. John the Gospel writer assures us, he declares that he has been very selective. He's been picking out of a lot to pick from.

John is a disciple and he is declaring that he was present, he was there, he saw with his own eyes with the other disciples, he has brothers in Christ, and he's declaring, we were there, we were all there together, and we all saw it together. When Jesus worked many other supernatural miracles, events that defy any naturalistic explanation, things that don't happen according to the quote unquote laws of nature. There were a lot of those things that I've written about. We were all there together. We saw them.

They defy explanation other than this man was from heaven. I didn't write them all down. I gave you a few. John uses the term signs. This means more than miracles.

They were miracles, signs and wonders. They were wonderful things that defy a naturalistic explanation. But signs means a miracle with meaning. They indicate something. We are meant to get a message with the miracle.

The miracle is sort of a mini sermon about truth. It is a miracle with meaning. Listen to parts of the Greek lexicon. The Greek lexicon for a Greek word will expand out beyond one or two words the definition of the Greek word so that you get the full depth and breadth of the Greek word. Because we don't speak that language.

So we need more than just a one word to get the depth and breadth you needed expanded out in our language. So that's what a lexicon does. Listen to parts of the Greek lexicon. A sign, mark, or token by which a person is distinguished from others and known. These things that Jesus did that defy a naturalistic explanation, they distinguish him.

They set him apart as not like me, not like you, not like any other preacher or religious person. They set him apart. Continuing in the Greek lexicon. Miracles and wonders by which God authenticates the men sent by Him. That doesn't fit Jesus.

Miracles and wonders by which God authenticates. It's really God putting his stamp. I sent him. He is not just a talker. He has the proofs that the talk is words from heaven.

Listen to John 2.11. John 2 is the wedding at Cana. They run out of wine, but if Jesus is there and willing, you are never out of wine because He is able to just take vast vats of water, great jars of water, and just turn the water into wine. So after this has happened, here's what John the Gospel writer says of it happening in John 2, 11. This beginning of signs, first sign, Jesus did in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him.

So understand the tie into our text. Jesus turned vats of water into wine and it was a manifestation of his glory. It was a display that he is not like you, or not like me or any other religious person with claims. It was a display of glory from heaven and the result was his disciples said, We believe in him. So that is exactly where we are in John.

Signs are miracles with meaning. They indicate something. You are meant to get a message with the sign. It is sort of a mini sermon of the authenticity that the person who performs them has power from heaven to do it. It's the stamp of approval from heaven on the performer of the sign.

It is a manifestation of God's glory when Jesus changed the water from wine. And the result was the disciples believed. This is the beginning of turning them into a group of men who could turn the world upside down, even though they were just fishermen and tax collectors. We've been calling these wonderful works the signs of the Messiah. That's a phrase, I don't know how many times I've used it in preaching through John, but many, many times, or the marks of the Messiah.

In other words, God said through Old Testament prophets, you won't have to guess when the Messiah is on hand because He'll be doing these things. He'll be the stamp from heaven that this is Not just a claimer to being the Messiah, but actually the Messiah, the signs of the Messiah, the marks of the Messiah. No one speaks better of this, or more directly to this, than Jesus Himself. Turn to Luke chapter 7. This is really the perfect exposition on what John the Gospel writer is saying is what Jesus doesn't says in Luke chapter 7.

So turn to Luke chapter 7. Luke chapter 7, I'll be reading verses 18 through 23. So In the lead up to this, the context is that Jesus, so to speak, ruined a funeral. How did he ruin a funeral? Well, he raised the dead man.

Funeral is over. All the plans for the funeral changed. Jesus raised a man from the dead. And this is what happens right on the heels of it. Luke chapter 7 beginning in 18, reading through 23.

Then the disciples of John reported to him, to John concerning all these things. So John's in prison. And he gets the report of all these things. And John calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus saying, Are you the coming one, or do we look for another? This is stunning.

Why would John do that? Because things are not unfolding as John thought they would unfold. John thought that Jesus' first coming would be like his second coming. John, like many of the prophets before him, didn't understand that there would be two comings of the Messiah, the first in humility, to do a work of dying in the place of his people and the second for judgment and glory. So John had a view that this was his coming in judgment and glory.

How do we know that? Because he said, Oh this Messiah is going to be like a winnowing fan, like a consuming fire. Oh, it's going to be judgment. And so, he's languishing in prison wondering where he went wrong. I think is what's happening here.

Verse 20. When the men, the two sent by John, had come to him, Jesus, they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you saying, are you the coming one or do we look for another? Now look at this, verse 21, this is stunning. And that very hour he cured many infirmities afflictions and evil spirits and To many blind he gave sight on the spot Before he says anything to answer the question, he does these things. Verse 22, Jesus answered and said to them, Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard.

The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the death hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them, and blessed is he who is not offended because of me." What is Jesus doing? He's pointing to Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah. When the Messiah comes, the blind will see. He gives people their sight on the spot. When the Messiah comes, the deaf will hear.

He gives the deaf their hearing on the spot. When the Messiah comes, the deaf will hear. He gives the deaf their hearing on the spot. When the Messiah comes, the good news will be preached to the poor. He is preaching the good news to the poor.

He is raising the dead. Listen to Isaiah 35. Any Jew would have recognized Isaiah 34 is all about judgment to the nations and out of this prophetic chapter about God's judgment on the nations springs Isaiah 35 which is a promise that God will send a savior. Listen to Isaiah 35 verses 4 through the first part of 6. Say to those who are fearful hearted, be strong, do not fear.

Behold your God will come with vengeance with the recompense of God. He will come and save you. Now this tips us off that these are the times of the Messiah. God is going to come to save you. Now listen to this.

Then, when God comes to save you, then the eyes of the blind shall be opened. And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing." So Jesus just does these things. He fulfills Isaiah 35 on the spot, or Isaiah 61, the good news would be preached to the poor. He goes right to messianic prophecies and just fulfills them on the spot and sends these two men back to John the Baptist and says, tell them what you saw.

He'll know what to make of that. He'll know what this means. Jesus didn't hope that someday someone would eventually connect the dots. He connects the dots. God through the prophets said, you'll know the Messiah by these marks, by these signs.

And then he's done all the marks and done all the signs. John references many other signs not written in this book. I assume John means not written in his gospel. I think it would be useful to recount the signs that are written in this book or written in John's Gospel. Let me give them to you.

Eight. Number one, in chapter two, Jesus turns a vast quantity of water into a vast quantity of really good wine. Number two, in chapter four, Jesus heals the nobleman's son who is miles away. The nobleman has come to get Jesus and fetch him back to his son who is on death's doorstep. Jesus says, he doesn't say this, but he doesn't need to go, he just heals him.

If I remember right, he's 15 miles away from the son who's sick. It doesn't matter, Jesus doesn't have to be physically present, he can just pronounce him healed. And he's healed from that same hour. Number three in chapter five, Jesus heals the man at the pool of Bethesda who has been a paralytic for 38 years. This man has not walked for 38 years.

Jesus comes, heals him. Number four in chapter six, Jesus takes five barley loaves and two small fish and feeds five thousand people. Number five, also in chapter six, Jesus walks on water. Number six in chapter nine, Jesus gives sight to the man born blind. He was born blind.

He's never seen a sight in his life. He's lived all his life that way. He's an adult now. Jesus just gives him his sight. Number seven, in chapter 11, Jesus calls a corpse out of the grave.

Here comes Lazarus. Somebody needs to unwind him from his grave claws. Number 8 in chapter 20, Jesus rises from the dead himself. Not too shabby, Jesus! Amazing list!

Jesus we say, what does John say? Just scratching the surface. Just picking and choosing a few here and a few there from the things we all saw. He did them right before our eyes. John tells us he has been very selective.

There are many other signs that he did. Not just in John's presence, but in the presence of them all. Now, are these many other signs, signs which have been recorded in the other gospels, or signs above and beyond what has been recorded across all of the gospels put together? Here's the answer. It could be, it either doesn't matter.

I suspect from reading the very last verse in John where he says, if we wrote everything that Jesus did, the world couldn't contain the books that would be written. I would read into that. Maybe it's more things than even is in any of the Gospel accounts, but it really doesn't matter. Let's consult Matthew Henry. Matthew Henry says this, the penman, he's talking about the gospel writers, the penman write with a noble security relating what amounted to a competent proof sufficient to convince those that are willing to be taught and to condemn those that were obstinate in their unbelief.

And if this satisfied not, more would not. So what is Matthew Henry saying? He's dividing the world into two groups. Those who are willing to be taught and those who are determined not to believe no matter what. And he says that the signs given to us in the Gospel of John or all the Gospels together, take your pick, it doesn't matter, the signs given are sufficient to convince anyone who is willing to be taught and to condemn anyone who is determined not to believe for other reasons.

So he says these gospel writers, They wrote with a noble security, meaning they know the evidence they're putting forward is sufficient. Anyone who's willing to be taught will be satisfied with what they're writing. Anyone who's determined not to believe, it doesn't matter if you gave them a thousand more miracles, they still wouldn't believe. Because they started with a commitment, I'm not believing. He says, if this satisfied not, more would not.

If you can't be satisfied with this, you'll never be satisfied. Well how many are there across the Gospels? I chased down a couple of good lists, meaning itemized, and takes you right to the spot in the Gospels. One good list has 34, The other had 37. Why do they differ?

Well, you're having to say, is this the same one as this one? Is this one in Matthew the same one in Mark or a distinct one? And they came to a couple of different conclusions. Which is why one list has a few more than another. So here's the point.

We'll take the small number. The Gospels across them have 34 distinct signs of the Messiah. Here's the point That John's making. You'll believe if there are 35. You need one more.

There's a group out there that won't be satisfied with the 34 that are given in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. If they just had 35 that group would believe. That's not true. That's absurd. On the face of it.

Here's the point that John the Gospel writer makes. We are given not one miracle reported by hearsay. My neighbor says he saw this crazy unexplainable thing happen. That would be one miracle by hearsay. My neighbor saw this unexplainable thing happen.

Or even a few miracles by a few eyewitnesses. My brother and his friends said they saw this, or me and my brother, sorry, this eyewitness accounts, me and my brother saw this inexplicable thing happen. What we're given is many signs, 34 or 37, 8 in John completely defy any other explanation. Eight of the many signs. Dozens of signs by many eyewitnesses.

Eleven. And then of course there are many more eyewitnesses to many of these things. If you were one of the 5, 000 that was fed, that's a lot of witnesses. But let's just say just the 11 faithful disciples who then backed up their eyewitness testimony with their lives. 10 martyred, John exiled.

What will give John the points for accepting exile over renouncing his testimony? A multitude of miracles, many signs reported by many eye witnesses is what we have. What are the people who believe without seeing? What are they believing and on what basis? They are believing many eye witnesses about many signs that fulfill Old Testament prophecy about the Messiah.

That's what they are believing on. So if anyone tells you that Christians have blind faith, they don't know what they are talking about. They certainly are contradicting John which says, me and my brethren, many eye witnesses, we were present for many miracles. Most of what you believe in life has so much less to offer itself as a basis and foundation for that belief than this. Think about that.

Most of the things you believe in life you've never seen and offers much less of a sound foundation, but you believe it totally without question. It doesn't have many eye witnesses and it wasn't many inexplicable things by any other way than what the Gospel said before us. Verse 31. Hopefully you are back in John chapter 20. Last verse, verse 31.

But these are written, these signs that are picked from, that are picked out of the many, but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name. John the Gospel writer explicitly gives us the purpose of his Gospel. So if you're taking notes, filling in blanks on the handouts, purpose. John the Gospel writer explicitly gives us the purpose of his Gospel. Why has John given to us a written record of these signs?

He has not left you to guess why. It is that you would believe in Jesus and that in believing you would be saved. It's not an academic exercise for John. He's not here to satisfy the curious. He wants you to put your faith in Jesus and in putting your faith in Jesus receive eternal life.

That's why he's writing. That's exactly why he says he's recording these signs that he and his brother saw with their own eyes. You, he's addressing you, look at the verse. These are written that you, who is you? Anyone who reads John's Gospel, if you've read John's Gospel, he's writing to you with a specific purpose in mind that you would trust this man who did the signs before his eyes.

And that in trusting, you would have life in His name. If you are reading this that I have written, know this, I laid out the marks of the Messiah that you might believe and be saved. John is pressing home the inescapable conclusion of these things. If Jesus did these things that this writer claims he saw with his own eyes in the presence of ten others. He must be who he says he is.

So this is where John is driving you. John is painting you back into the corner. He's cornering you. I've given you these eight marks. I've just picked out these eight among many very selectively.

And if you believe me, I say I said them, I say that I saw them with my own eyes, and that I was with A group of men who lived with Him knew Him, and we all saw them together. And If you believe that, he must be who he says he is. He must be the Christ, the Messiah, the promised Savior, the one anointed by God to come do the saving work. He must be that. He must be the Son of God sent from heaven to say all and only what his Father sent him to say and to do all and only what his Father sent him to do.

John strips away everything else by setting himself forward as one of many eye witnesses of many marks of the Messiah. What do I mean by saying he strips everything else away? John here pushes everything else to the outside of the circle. He makes everything else peripheral and demands that you deal with this first. I was there, my ten friends were there, we were the men who lived with him, knew him, and he did it right in front of our eyes.

We all saw these many fulfillments of messianic prophecy right before us. Now what are you going to do with that? So you set aside everything else. What are you going to do about that? What are you going to do with my testimony and the testimony of our friends who say we saw it all with our own eyes, he leaves you with these choices.

The testimony is true and I will act or the testimony is false and I will do nothing. That is the corner that John the Gospel writer desires to paint you into. He wants to back you into this corner, so there's only two ways out I Believe these eyewitnesses and also I'll act on it, or I don't believe these eyewitnesses. I'll do nothing But know this there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. This is what Peter says when he's preaching in Acts chapter 4.

Here's how Peter summarizes that. Peter in Acts chapter 4 as he's preaching to unbelieving Jews is backing them into exactly the same corner. There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. You will have life in the name of Jesus or you will not have life at all. He has the words of eternal life.

Only He has the words of eternal life. He did the work on the cross to secure life. Only He has done this work. If you want life, you have to go to Jesus. There's nowhere else to go.

Jesus said this to the stubborn, unbelieving Jews in John 5 verse 40. Just listen to this. He's addressing that group that is indicating that they've decided no matter what, they're not going to believe. He says, You are not willing to come to me that you may have life. Not willing to come to me that you may have life.

You can have life. All that is required is that you come to me. You're not willing. I am not willing that you may have life. You're not willing to do this one thing that is required to have life.

Come to me. My friends, life is offered to you today. Life is within your grasp today. It's right here. It's right here.

If you come to Him, you'll have life in His name. But there's no other name. You will have life in Jesus Christ or you'll not have life at all. You have only to come to Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, by faith, and throw yourself upon Him to save you. He will not offer you one more sign.

All that he's given is more than enough. There's no problem with the evidence. There's no shakiness in the foundation or the basis for believing. It's all there before you. You have more than enough to believe he is who he claimed to be.

Go to him without delay. Any of you who are shuffling your feet, your reluctance is not about evidence. John is saying that in our text. You who are shuffling your feet, delaying your reluctance has nothing to do with evidence. There's an avalanche of marks, signs, that God said hundreds and thousands of years beforehand, you'll know the Messiah when He does these things.

You'll know the Messiah when the blind receive their sight, the deaf receive their hearing, the dumb can talk, the dead come from the graves. You'll know Jesus did all those things. How do we know? Because many eyewitnesses backed up their testimony that they saw it with their own eyes, with their death. They sealed it with their blood.

The witnesses of these things have sealed their testimony with their own blood. Your reluctance is not about evidence. The Puritans believed and preached that every tick of the clock the guilt of the unbeliever increases. Because your greatest sin, your smallest lie, because of God's infinite worth and holiness, Your smallest lie is enough to keep Him banishing you from His presence for all eternity. That's enough.

But the Bible doesn't say that's anywhere close to your greatest sin. Your greatest sin is keeping the Savior at arm's length. Refusing His salvation is your greatest sin. So the Puritans preached, The clock is ticking and every tick of unbelief increases your guilt. You think your lies are your sin?

That's not what's keeping you from this God. You think your selfishness is your sin? That's not what's keeping you from this God. You think the hatred in your heart is your sin? That's not what's keeping you from this God.

You think the hatred in your heart is your sin? That's not what's keeping you from this Holy God. It is the rejection of his Son. And the clock is ticking and you are refusing him and refusing him and refusing him and your guilt builds by the second More weight and more weight and more wait, and you refuse him still. What will it be like for you to stand before him, having him kept God's Salvation at a distance for a lifetime.

Explain yourself to this judge. And the terrifying thing is, none of us know how many more ticks of the clock we have. The God of perfect righteousness cannot just overlook your sins. The God of perfect righteousness cannot just ignore that you have refused to salvation for another tick of the clock. It demands death.

It demands death. It demands your blood, or Jesus' blood in your place. Let me conclude with this from Matthew Henry. Those that recorded the resurrection of Christ were not put to fish for evidence to take up such short unscanty proofs as they could find and make up the rest with conjecture. No, they had evidence enough and to spare, and more witnesses to produce than they had occasion for.

The disciples in whose presence these other signs were done were to be preachers of Christ's resurrection to others, and therefore it was requisite they should have proofs of it in abundance that they might have a strong consolation who ventured life and all upon it. They did venture life and all upon it. They turned the world upside down. And they sealed their testimony with their blood, all except John. So many did believe without seeing, believed their testimony.

And if you are a believer today, There is a chain of belief and testimony that stretches back to them. Have you ever thought of it that way? I'm a believer in 2019. The gospel didn't come to me mystically. There was a link in the chain that brought the gospel to me.

Testimony to me. If you're a believer today, there is a chain of belief and testimony that stretches all the way back to these eyewitnesses. There is no gospel of Jesus, the gospel according to Jesus. It was his eyewitnesses and their friends that wrote the gospels. Two applications.

Number one, unbelief is irrational. Number one, unbelief is irrational. The world says, belief in Christ is irrational. Exactly opposite. You have an abundance of eyewitnesses, of an abundance of unexplainable, from a naturalistic perspective, events.

Abundance of eyewitnesses, of abundance of signs. The things that God said through his prophets hundreds and thousands of years in advance. You'll know the Messiah when. Unbelief exists because people love self and sin. Period.

That's what Paul says in Romans chapter 1. You suppress the truth and unrighteousness. Your unbelief, your reluctance to believe isn't about evidence, it's about love for self and sin. Period. If you're in that state today, I've already said it, I'll say it again.

Abandon your unbelief and be saved right this minute. When Jesus says repent and believe the gospel is the repentance turning away from all sin? Is that your experience? It's not mine. I'm not turned away from all my sins.

I keep sinning. Well, then what is it repentance from? Unbelief! More than anything else, fundamentally, the repentance in the phrase repent and believe the gospel is a repentance, a turning away from unbelief to only trusting Christ. Repent.

If you're in that state today, do not wait. The clock is ticking. And Every tick of the clock increases the weight of your sins against God. Because what is keeping you from God is not the lies or the selfishness or the hatred. What is keeping you from God is your unbelief.

That is the sin that is damning you. And it's increasing every time the clock ticks. Number two, if you've been saved by grace, resolve to be that link in the chain as much and as often as you can. If you've received the grace of God, say, Oh God, make me the link in a chain to someone's belief unto life. Connect people who are throwing themselves headlong into destruction with the testimony of eyewitnesses.

Connect them with the eyewitness testimonies that Jesus fulfilled every mark of the Messiah. He bears all the marks and they can believe in Him on such a round, rock solid basis and footing. All who come to Him by faith have life in His name. All. We should just be inviting people to come and have life in His name.

God, I'm just stunned and in love with the Gospel of John more than ever to look at it. Just a couple of verses at a time is such a privilege. How beautiful it is. It's given me such confidence and joy this week That what we're being asked to believe is on such solid footing. An abundance of eyewitnesses who saw an abundance of inexplicable signs other than you have stamped this man with approval.

You have authenticated him from heaven by causing him to be the Sign Worker. I do pray that you would come into our midst today bringing salvation, giving salvation, giving faith. Ask it in Jesus' name, Amen.