A ''COME TO JESUS'' MOMENT (2 OF 7)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: John 4:43-54
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A ''Come to Jesus'' Moment (2 of 7)
Series: Seven Signs of Christ
Jeff Strite
John 4:43-54
OPEN: An instructor was conducting a seminar for executives and focusing on the topic of decision making. So he started out telling the story of 5 frogs sitting on a log.
''Four of the frogs decide to jump into the water. How many frogs are there left on the log?''
The class almost unanimously responded: ONE
''No,'' the instructor smiled. ''All of them are still on the log. Deciding is different than doing.''
Our story this morning, tells about this idea of people making decisions.
Just to give you a little background. Jesus has just left the Samaria a couple days before where he met with a woman at a well and now He has returned to Cana where He did His 1st sign in Galilee. No sooner does He get there than a man approaches Him. The man's son is dying and he has traveled 20 miles to see Jesus and ask Him to heal his child.
As I first looked at this text I was a little shocked by Jesus' first words. John 4:48 tells us ''So Jesus said to him, 'Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.'''
And I'm thinking to myself... that's pretty harsh! This man's son is dying. He's walked 20 miles to see Jesus - and Jesus rebukes him? I figured there was something here that I wasn't seeing here, because this didn't make any sense at all. Why would Jesus say something like THIS to a grieving father!
So I looked it up in the Greek and found that while Jesus addressed the father, He wasn't saying (to the dad) YOU will not believe unless you see signs and wonders, He was saying YOU'ALL will not believe... unless you see signs and wonders. It was plural. Jesus was talking to everyone who was there. (Depending on your English version the translation will either make that clear in the text, or will put a footnote at the bottom of the page explaining this).
What Jesus says is here is - they weren't really believing in Him. All they seem to want are signs an ...
Series: Seven Signs of Christ
Jeff Strite
John 4:43-54
OPEN: An instructor was conducting a seminar for executives and focusing on the topic of decision making. So he started out telling the story of 5 frogs sitting on a log.
''Four of the frogs decide to jump into the water. How many frogs are there left on the log?''
The class almost unanimously responded: ONE
''No,'' the instructor smiled. ''All of them are still on the log. Deciding is different than doing.''
Our story this morning, tells about this idea of people making decisions.
Just to give you a little background. Jesus has just left the Samaria a couple days before where he met with a woman at a well and now He has returned to Cana where He did His 1st sign in Galilee. No sooner does He get there than a man approaches Him. The man's son is dying and he has traveled 20 miles to see Jesus and ask Him to heal his child.
As I first looked at this text I was a little shocked by Jesus' first words. John 4:48 tells us ''So Jesus said to him, 'Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.'''
And I'm thinking to myself... that's pretty harsh! This man's son is dying. He's walked 20 miles to see Jesus - and Jesus rebukes him? I figured there was something here that I wasn't seeing here, because this didn't make any sense at all. Why would Jesus say something like THIS to a grieving father!
So I looked it up in the Greek and found that while Jesus addressed the father, He wasn't saying (to the dad) YOU will not believe unless you see signs and wonders, He was saying YOU'ALL will not believe... unless you see signs and wonders. It was plural. Jesus was talking to everyone who was there. (Depending on your English version the translation will either make that clear in the text, or will put a footnote at the bottom of the page explaining this).
What Jesus says is here is - they weren't really believing in Him. All they seem to want are signs an ...
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