When in doubt Believe it out.
When in doubt Try it out.
When things of excitement happen in our lives we often times purtray them in an exciting way.
Many years ago I was doing a renovation job in Rockland county NY. I had about 12 guys working on the project. The date was 9-11-2001.
We seperated to take our break. Bobby a good friend of mine came back from his break early and told me the radio said that a plane flew into the trade center. I told him that that was not true and then from the sound of his voice I could tell something was different. You could hear the fear - confusion- He replied no I am serious. Something is happening.
We went to our job box and grabbed a portable radio and tuned into the radio. At this point the radio was sounding chaotic. I then told the guys with me to follow me. I knew that the Trade Centers could be seen from the roof of the building we were renovating. I took all of the guys to the roof. To my disbelief - I could clearly see the trade centers. The one on the left was in smoke. The awe that sunk into our hearts. The fear that chilled our bones, The confusion that filled our minds.
We stood watching helplessly as the smoke willowed out of the Tower. The radio spoke of a plane that then flew into the Pentagon and when I heard that I could feel the reality sinking in as less than a minute later we saw a plane going up the Hudson River making a uturn.
The plane as in slow motion slowly turned in the bright blue clear sky and then slowly declined as it flew into a head on coarse towards the second tower. We could do nothing. We just stood there in total unbelief as the second plane flew into the second tower. In total disbelief of what our eyes had witnessed we could see the black specks dropping out of the building. The billowing smoke infiltrating out of the sides of the towers into the bright morning sky.
Shock - at it most powerful, all of us there just stood in awe. Disbelief of what we saw as our minds were just starting to grasps the reality of what we had just seen, From the base of the second tower a billowing cloud started rolling out from the ground and the bottom stories started dissappearing. The smoke on the upper floors took a swirl in an upwards direction as the building started to just start dissappearing before our eyes. Floor by floor the Tower was collapsing and the cloud of smoke on the upper floors slowly covered the top of the tower as the it lowered in its place collapsing floor by floor. The blazing blood in our veins sank to our feet as each floor dissappeared from the bright blue clear fall skyline.
As we watched as we saw this happening we could not believe even what our eyes saw. What our minds recorded on that dreadful morning had not even the time to comprehend the current events that hit our day.
It was at later that day - It hit me that they hand is quicker than the eye. But the mind is very slow in comparison to the eye.
It is ok to doubt what you sometimes see. But there are ways to process truths.
Today we are going to talk about doubting Thomas. A desciple who walked with Jesus - Talked with Jesus and followed Jesus.
Rumors today - Jesus is Risen! The word is going around. Three days after being beaten in front of them, tormented, abused, whipped with the cat of nine tails. After being dressed in a purple robe and a crown of thorns being made and pressed deep into his scalp. Jesus The King of the Jews - suffering and tormented was forced to carry his own wooden cross.A small piece nailed about 4ft below the intersecting placement of the crossbeam to support the weight of Jesus. A Sign written - King of the Jews was nailed above his head height.The Cross weighed approxiamately 400 pounds.
He had to walk 8/10ths of a mile. Almost a mile with his own cross. Then laid down they hammered nails into his hands and drove a spike into each foot. Then the soldiers lifted the cross and placed the base of the pole into a whole that was dug. Jesus' weakened broken body must have shivered from the agony of each hammer swing and then they raised the cross up and dropped the bottom into a hole dug to hold the cross upright.
The jolt from them dropping the cross into the hole had to escruatingly painful. As Many sat and watched as the Life of Jesus was slowly drifting out of his body.
6 hours He hung on that cross till he finally said it is finished and gave up the ghost.
An hour for each day of the week God created. The seventh Day God rested and the Seventh Hour Christ died.
So the on lookers knew - they saw Jesus Crusified. They knew he died. Eight days after Christ died is where we are today. Jesus was buried. and Thomas was about carrying along his daily life. Thomas did not hand around after the burial of Christ. So when he met up with some of the other disciples they were telling him that they saw Jesus.
Which brings us to:
John 20:24-29
24 Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord." So he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."
26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace to you!"
27 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."
28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"
29 Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
NKJV
Jesus understood the disbelief of Thomas. Jesus does not want us to live in disbelief. He told Thomas to do an action. Put your hand into the hole they pierced in me so that you can beleive.
We as christians say biblical things -
I will pray for you - God will see you through this problem - God will find a way. But do we really believe it - Today is the day to change that way of thinking in disbelief.
We feel we are fighting a losing battle against the World. We feel that our problems are bigger than our God. Today we need to rise up and take an action. The action is doing something to make our belief work. Electricity will never turn on the light even though the wire is ran. We need to flip that switch. We need to do something to build that faith and only then will we start to seeing the truth in a new light.
John 14:12-14
12 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
NKJV
Jesus made us a promise - now I personally do not want to make the dead rise. But Jesus is clear that we will do great works even greater than what he did.
Think about the promise he declared here -
Jesus tells us whatever you ask in my name. There is no limit in the order - There is not a stipulation - This is a direct statement - If you believe in Jesus - The works that He did you will do also and greater works than these you will do because Jesus will go the His Father - Our Father.
Why does Jesus give us this profound promise? God wants to prove to you He is God. God will be Glorified in the Son.
See God wants us to rely on him. Our hands - our eyes - even our own minds put us in the realms of a physical world. That physical world is our reality. - But when you start believing - start walking - start living - Start being - Then the other reality starts to come through - That Faith - That belief - That you know that you know that you know - GOD IS ABOVE THE PHYSICAL REALM. You start living in that spiritual realm - inside of a physical world that hides the very truth from us.
I am telling you today - God is GOD! There is nothing He cannot do. Build - Lift you Up - Give you the answers you need - Strengthen your body - Heal your body. The lack of miracles today is not because God quit doing them - It is because of our own lack of belief in them.
Jesus confirmed that in verse 29 with Thomas - He said Thomas you have seen me and that is why you believe - Then Jesus says "Blessed are those who have not seen me and yet they have believed.
The joy Today is JESUS IS RISEN! He has given us life - He has given us a new life - He has given us the power to overcome - not just in our lives - Even Power over Death.
The power is within us. It is up to us to grab it.
May God Bless and Keep you -
Pray this into your life and see God work miracles the miracles into your life.
When things of excitement happen in our lives we often times purtray them in an exciting way.
Many years ago I was doing a renovation job in Rockland county NY. I had about 12 guys working on the project. The date was 9-11-2001.
We seperated to take our break. Bobby a good friend of mine came back from his break early and told me the radio said that a plane flew into the trade center. I told him that that was not true and then from the sound of his voice I could tell something was different. You could hear the fear - confusion- He replied no I am serious. Something is happening.
We went to our job box and grabbed a portable radio and tuned into the radio. At this point the radio was sounding chaotic. I then told the guys with me to follow me. I knew that the Trade Centers could be seen from the roof of the building we were renovating. I took all of the guys to the roof. To my disbelief - I could clearly see the trade centers. The one on the left was in smoke. The awe that sunk into our hearts. The fear that chilled our bones, The confusion that filled our minds.
We stood watching helplessly as the smoke willowed out of the Tower. The radio spoke of a plane that then flew into the Pentagon and when I heard that I could feel the reality sinking in as less than a minute later we saw a plane going up the Hudson River making a uturn.
The plane as in slow motion slowly turned in the bright blue clear sky and then slowly declined as it flew into a head on coarse towards the second tower. We could do nothing. We just stood there in total unbelief as the second plane flew into the second tower. In total disbelief of what our eyes had witnessed we could see the black specks dropping out of the building. The billowing smoke infiltrating out of the sides of the towers into the bright morning sky.
Shock - at it most powerful, all of us there just stood in awe. Disbelief of what we saw as our minds were just starting to grasps the reality of what we had just seen, From the base of the second tower a billowing cloud started rolling out from the ground and the bottom stories started dissappearing. The smoke on the upper floors took a swirl in an upwards direction as the building started to just start dissappearing before our eyes. Floor by floor the Tower was collapsing and the cloud of smoke on the upper floors slowly covered the top of the tower as the it lowered in its place collapsing floor by floor. The blazing blood in our veins sank to our feet as each floor dissappeared from the bright blue clear fall skyline.
As we watched as we saw this happening we could not believe even what our eyes saw. What our minds recorded on that dreadful morning had not even the time to comprehend the current events that hit our day.
It was at later that day - It hit me that they hand is quicker than the eye. But the mind is very slow in comparison to the eye.
It is ok to doubt what you sometimes see. But there are ways to process truths.
Today we are going to talk about doubting Thomas. A desciple who walked with Jesus - Talked with Jesus and followed Jesus.
Rumors today - Jesus is Risen! The word is going around. Three days after being beaten in front of them, tormented, abused, whipped with the cat of nine tails. After being dressed in a purple robe and a crown of thorns being made and pressed deep into his scalp. Jesus The King of the Jews - suffering and tormented was forced to carry his own wooden cross.A small piece nailed about 4ft below the intersecting placement of the crossbeam to support the weight of Jesus. A Sign written - King of the Jews was nailed above his head height.The Cross weighed approxiamately 400 pounds.
He had to walk 8/10ths of a mile. Almost a mile with his own cross. Then laid down they hammered nails into his hands and drove a spike into each foot. Then the soldiers lifted the cross and placed the base of the pole into a whole that was dug. Jesus' weakened broken body must have shivered from the agony of each hammer swing and then they raised the cross up and dropped the bottom into a hole dug to hold the cross upright.
The jolt from them dropping the cross into the hole had to escruatingly painful. As Many sat and watched as the Life of Jesus was slowly drifting out of his body.
6 hours He hung on that cross till he finally said it is finished and gave up the ghost.
An hour for each day of the week God created. The seventh Day God rested and the Seventh Hour Christ died.
So the on lookers knew - they saw Jesus Crusified. They knew he died. Eight days after Christ died is where we are today. Jesus was buried. and Thomas was about carrying along his daily life. Thomas did not hand around after the burial of Christ. So when he met up with some of the other disciples they were telling him that they saw Jesus.
Which brings us to:
John 20:24-29
24 Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord." So he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."
26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace to you!"
27 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."
28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"
29 Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
NKJV
Jesus understood the disbelief of Thomas. Jesus does not want us to live in disbelief. He told Thomas to do an action. Put your hand into the hole they pierced in me so that you can beleive.
We as christians say biblical things -
I will pray for you - God will see you through this problem - God will find a way. But do we really believe it - Today is the day to change that way of thinking in disbelief.
We feel we are fighting a losing battle against the World. We feel that our problems are bigger than our God. Today we need to rise up and take an action. The action is doing something to make our belief work. Electricity will never turn on the light even though the wire is ran. We need to flip that switch. We need to do something to build that faith and only then will we start to seeing the truth in a new light.
John 14:12-14
12 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
NKJV
Jesus made us a promise - now I personally do not want to make the dead rise. But Jesus is clear that we will do great works even greater than what he did.
Think about the promise he declared here -
Jesus tells us whatever you ask in my name. There is no limit in the order - There is not a stipulation - This is a direct statement - If you believe in Jesus - The works that He did you will do also and greater works than these you will do because Jesus will go the His Father - Our Father.
Why does Jesus give us this profound promise? God wants to prove to you He is God. God will be Glorified in the Son.
See God wants us to rely on him. Our hands - our eyes - even our own minds put us in the realms of a physical world. That physical world is our reality. - But when you start believing - start walking - start living - Start being - Then the other reality starts to come through - That Faith - That belief - That you know that you know that you know - GOD IS ABOVE THE PHYSICAL REALM. You start living in that spiritual realm - inside of a physical world that hides the very truth from us.
I am telling you today - God is GOD! There is nothing He cannot do. Build - Lift you Up - Give you the answers you need - Strengthen your body - Heal your body. The lack of miracles today is not because God quit doing them - It is because of our own lack of belief in them.
Jesus confirmed that in verse 29 with Thomas - He said Thomas you have seen me and that is why you believe - Then Jesus says "Blessed are those who have not seen me and yet they have believed.
The joy Today is JESUS IS RISEN! He has given us life - He has given us a new life - He has given us the power to overcome - not just in our lives - Even Power over Death.
The power is within us. It is up to us to grab it.
May God Bless and Keep you -
Pray this into your life and see God work miracles the miracles into your life.
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