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Refusing to believe God’s Word can stop your spiritual growth
Disciples vs.
The Religious
I am contrasting disciples as those who believe and Pharisees as those who do not believe God’s Word
Disciples believe God’s Word.
The Religious do not believe God’s Word.
The Religious trip over their own ideas and pass them off to others as God’s Word...
1. God will act to activate our faith in Him
The disciples believed (trusted) Jesus when they saw evidence that what He said was true.
Faith is based on evidence (Hebrews 11:1)
The religious leaders made demands in line with their own thinking.
Even when Jesus met the religious leader’s demand, they refused to believe because it did not line up with their preconceived idea.
2. Revelation is progressive when you choose to believe.
And revelation stops when you refuse to believe.
Even when you believe God’s Word, you can become confused when you expect God to act in line with your thinking.
Mary Magdalene
The disciples were confused, too, because Jesus had not acted in line with their thinking.
What the disciples believed was what Mary said - Jesus’ body was gone - not what Jesus said, that He would rise from the dead in three days.
They were still confused...
Even while Mary was looking at Jesus in the flesh she could not believe He was standing there because Jesus had not acted in line with her expectations… (Preconceived ideas)
Jesus had to shake her out of the fog of self-generated knowledge.
Even after the disciples received Jesus’ message, they remained confused because they had not yet accepted Jesus’ message.
One disciple, Thomas, was not there and refused to believe until his self-generated knowledge could be overcome with indisputable fact...
3. We all face a choice - to believe or not to believe
Jesus helps us to choose to believe by providing us with indisputable proof of Who He really is.
4. Choosing to believe God’s Word produces “life by the power of His Name!”
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