Believing is Seeing – John 4:43-54
4 scenes that show us how Christ confronts and conquers unbelief, through his mighty word, and great mercy.
Expository Sermon Series Preached by Pastor Tim Cantrell at Antioch Bible Church.
4 scenes that show us how Christ confronts and conquers unbelief, through his mighty word, and great mercy.
3 images of Jesus, that we would believe in His person, and share in His mission.
People are worshippers – we are always worshipping something or someone. “But the hour is coming when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the father is seeking such people to worship him.”
2 Lessons of our Lord, who turns adulterers into worshipers.
When’s the last time you had to worry if you might die of thirst? Probably never. NOT SO in biblical times. If you couldn’t get access to water, your crops would fail, your flocks would perish, and you and your family would die…
Jesus called him the greatest man who ever lived. – Surely also one of the greatest preachers who ever lived! – YET, most of his preaching was never recorded or preserved. Only a few brief snippets given in the Gospels.
~ C.S. Lewis: “Well, now, we have come to the center. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is pride. Unchastity, anger, grief, drunkenness and all that are mere flea bites in comparison. It was through pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice. It is a complete […]
(A sermon preached on the 20th of April). Whosoever believes – Part 1. 6 portraits of Christ – the Saviour of the world, calling all to come to Him by faith alone.
…I saw at once the way of salvation. Oh, how I did leap for joy at that moment! I know not what else [the preacher] said, I did not take much notice of it. I was so possessed with that one thought. Like as when the brazen serpent was lifted up, they only looked and were healed. I had been waiting to do fifty things, but when I heard this word, ‘Look!’ what a charming word it seemed to me! Oh, I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away; and in heaven I will look on still in my joy unutterable.”
Continuing our feast on the classic biblical text about the new birth: Jesus Meets Nicodemus for a night-time theology class on regeneration, and some 1-on-1 personal evangelism with the most religious man in Israel.