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John 6:44-45 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me.

Seeing is Believing Without Seeing

John 20:19-29 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Thomas gets a bad wrap (pun intended) as the unbelieving disciple for demanding to see before he believes. Yet when confronted by the resurrected Christ to see (touch) and believe, he believes without seeing (touching).  Thomas becomes the first to confess Christ as Lord and God.  You cannot make a greater confession of faith than that.  It exceeded that of the other disciples in scope and depth.  Jesus was not only Lord over all his life, now, but God himself, unwrapped (see The Gift Unwrapped) for all to believe.

Jesus is not rebuking Thomas when he says, "“Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  He is saying, "See, it is more blessed to believe without seeing because your faith now comes from Me."

John Wesley's Commentary - John 20:28: And Thomas said, My Lord and my God - The disciples had said, We have seen the Lord. Thomas now not only acknowledges him to be the Lord, as he had done before, and to be risen, as his fellow disciples had affirmed, but also confesses his Godhead, and that more explicitly than any other had yet done. And all this he did without putting his hand upon his side.

See, seeing is believing without seeing when if comes from God.  Be a believing Thomas, this Easter.  You will truly be blessed.

by Pastor John

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