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Series: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
Message: Believing is Seeing
Text: John 4:46-54 (ESV)
Pastor Tom Cogle
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Target: Walking by faith is more than eyesight, it’s the combination of hindsight and foresight.
I. A Father’s Desperation: “So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.” (Vs. 46)
A. No Matter the Distance: “at Capernaum”
B. No Matter the Title: “an official”
C. No Matter the Perception: “When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked (Begged, Implored) him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.” (Vs. 47)
II. A Healer’s Hesitation: “So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” (Vs. 48)
A. Basis for Believing: “Signs and Wonders”
1. Testing God: Is our belief in Jesus based upon His performance or His presence?
2. Trusting God: If you didn’t get what you wanted, would you still follow Jesus?
B.Relentless Request: “The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” (Vs. 49)
C.Option of Obedience: “Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.” (Vs. 50)
1. Word of Faith: “Go; your son will live.”
2. Faith in a Word: “believed the word”
III. A Servant’s Revelation: “As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.” (Vs. 51)
A. Healing Happened: “son was recovering”
B. Hour it Happened: “So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” (Vs. 52)
C. Hope Happened: “The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” (Vs. 53a)
IV. A Family’s Salvation: “And he himself believed, and all his household.” (Vs. 53b)
A.Individual Decision: “he himself believed”
B.Inspirational Decision: “all his household”
C.Invitational Decision: “This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.” (Vs. 54)
Takeaway: Miracles can happen at a distance in an instance.