Beyond A Doubt 3-31-2024
March 31, 2024
Beyond A Doubt
Pastor Jason West
March 31, 2024
I. The Resurrection Moves Us from
John 11:14-15 “Then Jesus told them plainly, ‘Lazarus has died , and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.’”
John 11:16 “So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, ‘Let us also go, that we may die with him.’”
II. The Resurrection Moves Us from
John 14:3-4 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
John 14:5 “Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’”
John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’”
A. The Way
B. The Truth
C. The Life
John 10:10b “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly”
III. The Resurrection Moves Us from
John 20:19a “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews …”
John 20:19b-20 “Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”
John 20:21-23 “Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.’”
A. Don’t Miss the
John 20:24-25a “Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’”
B. Listen to the Eye-Witness
John 20:25b “But he said to them, ‘Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.’”
John 20:26 “Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them with you.”
C. See How
John 20:27 “Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.’”
D. Stop
E. Leave Your
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
F. Renew Your
John 20:28 “Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’”
G. Receive the
John 20:29 “Jesus said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’”
1 Peter 1:8-9 “Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”