How Shall the Young Walk By Faith?

Introduction

Well, I’ve always been a morning person. I’m usually the first one up in my house. My mind is fresh in the morning. I like the quiet and peace of the morning. And if by chance you’re not a morning person, then that’s one of the reasons we have the booklets to follow along, just to try to keep your mind engaged in the direction of our study. And if you’d like to use that to fill in the blanks as we go, by all means do that. If you want to keep writing notes or other passages we use, I want those to be helpful to you as we go through our study today and this weekend. Hopefully, you will see the purpose for starting with last night’s lesson as the foundation.

Because when your relationship with God is what it ought to be, then that’s going to affect every other relationship you have. If that relationship is not on solid footing, then you won’t see the point of serving God in those other relationships. The reason that you want to be a good son or daughter to your parents or be a good friend to your friends is because you want to follow what God said to do. The reason you want to be an influence to people and to spread the gospel is because that’s what God wants you to do. So we started with remembering our Creator, because that’s the foundation upon which everything else we do matters.

There is a very popular mindset in our world today that unless you see it with your own eyes or touch it with your own hands, you are foolish to believe that. They don’t call themselves atheists or agnostics. They call themselves rationalists. Now, what does that imply about those who don’t fit in their camp? If they’re rationalists, what does that say or imply about everyone else? What are we? Irrational. Irrational. Foolish. You mean you follow something that you’ve never seen with your own eyes? Several months ago I got a summons for jury duty in the city of Deer Park where we live. And I showed up for jury duty and found out that we were going to be deciding about this guy who got a traffic ticket.

Now, Texas is one of the few states left where you still get a jury trial for a traffic ticket. There were 40 of us who came for jury duty. They were only going to pick six of us to serve. But whether we got picked or not to serve, each of us was going to get six dollars to appear for jury duty. Now, the person who had been given the speeding ticket was going to make their case, and then we were going to hear from the police officer who gave him the ticket, and we were going to have to decide whether or not he was guilty and deserved the fine. Well, what I found interesting is that while all this was going on, there wasn’t anybody who came for jury duty and said, Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, I can’t serve on this jury.

I wasn’t there. I wasn’t standing on Highway 225 in Deer Park. I didn’t see the radar gun put on this car. I didn’t see the car drive by. And so I’m excused from jury duty because I didn’t see it with my own eyes. When you’re in a court case, how do you decide whether a person’s guilty or innocent? How do you make that decision? Say it louder. That’s right. You hear the evidence. You hear from pardon me. You hear from we call them the eyewitness testimony. And so even though we weren’t there and we didn’t see the crime committed, we’re able to weigh the evidence and say guilty or innocent. Now we see that with a jury trial. I want you to see that we use those same, the very same process by studying the evidence of the scriptures.

Just because we walk by faith and not by sight does not mean we are irrational. It doesn’t mean we’re foolish. It doesn’t mean we’re just following our way blindly because we didn’t see it with our own eyes. I want you to see that we have eyewitness testimony. Turn to first John chapter 1. We’re going to look at two passages to begin of those who were eyewitnesses, just to see that we’re making our case based on testimony. First John chapter 1, and I need a volunteer to read verses 1 through 4. First John 1 through 4. Go ahead. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard. We have seen our eyes, which we have put upon, and our hands have handled the word of life.

The life is being tested, and we have seen, and bear with me, we can declare to you that eternal life with the body, which was with the Father, and was manifested us. That which we have seen and heard, we declare to you that you also may have fellowship with us. Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with that Jesus Christ. And these things be right to you with your joy.

Thank you. Very good. Now John was one of the twelve apostles. He was one who was chosen to be a special ambassador for Jesus after his death and resurrection. But I want you to notice what John said. Now, who is this word of life in verse 1 that he’s talking about? Who is that? Who is the word of life? What person is he referring to? Yes, he’s talking about Jesus. Remember, in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. And notice what he says, and you just fill in the blanks when we get there. This is taken right out of the passage that was read for us. What we have what heard what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked.

Looked, okay. Mine has beheld, and our hands what? Touched. Anybody have a different word? Handled. He said, This Jesus that we are proclaiming to you. He goes on to say, in verse 3, what we’ve seen and heard, we proclaim to you. This Jesus, we saw him with our own eyes. And we heard the things that he said. And not only that, we reached out and our hands touched him. We experienced him with all of our senses, and so we are proclaiming this to you. We’re preaching Jesus so that you can see him and you can hear him and you can reach out and touch him. Verse 4, these things we write so that our joy may be made complete. I want you to see that when we read the gospels about Jesus Christ, we are reading eyewitness testimony.

It’s as if we are a jury in a trial and we’re listening to the witnesses come through and say, This is what we saw, this is what we heard. And so you have to make your decision based on these facts. Again, it’s not being foolish or without reason. We’re listening to testimony. Let’s look at one more. That’s going to be in what Peter, another of the apostles, wrote in 2 Peter chapter 1. Here’s somebody else who’s going to talk about an event in Jesus’ life that he witnessed personally. Second Peter chapter 1. And this time I need someone to read starting at verse 16. Who would like to read this? Okay, start with verse 16 and just go till I tell you to stop. Okay, stop.

No, just kidding. Alright, go ahead. Okay, so we did not call us a really good guy in this year that the power of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is my love and I removed our soldiers that is very supporting born from heaven.

Okay, well stop right there. Now keep your place there, because we’re going to come back and read the rest of the chapter. What event does this is Peter referencing here? There’s a mountain, there’s this is my beloved son in whom I’m well pleased. You remember what we call that event that only Peter, James, and John got to witness?

Okay, the transfiguration. Yes, that’s when they saw Jesus’ figure change his clothes, it said we’re so white, and they saw him talking to Moses and Elijah. But notice that Peter said, We’re not asking you to follow these fairy tales or fireside stories when we make known to you the gospel. He said, We were eyewitnesses. We heard with our own ears on the mountain the voice of God say, This is my beloved son with whom I’m well pleased. We saw, we were there. Alright, now notice how he said this is going to affect them the word that you hear. Start with verse 19, and then just finish the end of the chapter, please.

So the knees are the morning start right here.

Alright, very good. Notice he said, now we have the prophetic word made more sure. That’s your Bible. Now you have the documents which tell of this eyewitness testimony. He said, you would do well to pay attention to this. Remember, it’s not fairy tales or fables. This is eyewitness testimony. We have the evidence. And you’re going to have to weigh the evidence, examine it for yourself, and you’re going to have to make your own decision. I want you to see this morning that you’re in the jury box. And we’re going to call in some witnesses to Jesus. And you’re going to have to make your own decision. And hopefully at the end, you will say that walking by faith is not inferior. Walking by faith is superior.

1. The Town of Nazareth: Look With an Open Mind

Because even though we did not see Jesus with our own eyes, we never saw him heal someone. We never heard him preach a sermon or a parable. But we can say, Lord, I believe. I walk by faith. Because of what we see. Alright, well, let’s look at we’re going to look at three witnesses of Jesus. We’re going to call them one by one and decide about him based on the evidence. The first witness is about his life, and it’s going to be the town of Nazareth. We’re going to call to the box, the town of Nazareth. Let’s turn to John chapter one. And we’re going to read verses forty-three through fifty. Who would like to read this one first? John one, forty-three through fifty. Okay, is it slate?

Is that right? All right, very good. John, the gospel of John, chapter one. Yes.

All right, thank you. Very good. Now I want you to think about if you were writing the Bible story, if it was the gospel according to, and then you just put your name there. Now you’ve got the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who is coming from heaven to earth, and he’s going to live here for a period of time. If you’re writing the story, what kind of place are you going to have the King of Kings live in? What’s it going to look like? Or describe the place where he’s going to live and grow up? What would you think would be fitting for the Lord of Lords?

Alright, city of gold. what else do you see there?

Yes, it’s gonna be a huge place. There’s not gonna be anything like it, and there’s gonna be great security there, and there’ll be people around him, the finest teachers are gonna help him as he’s growing up in school, and all these wonderful things. He’ll have servants at his beckon call. He wakes up in the morning and he rings a little bell and they run in and say, Yes, Lord, whatever thou wilt. And so that’s where we’re gonna put him, isn’t it? But you know, one of the greatest evidences of the Bible being inspired by God is it’s not written like man would write the story. What do we really know about Jesus’ birth and when he came to the earth? What were the conditions of his arrival?

Born in the stable. Okay, born in a stable. What about his parents? Were they wealthy people? No, he was born into a poor family, the son of a carpenter. And he grew up in this village of Nazareth. And apparently that was a pretty small and insignificant city because what does Nathaniel say about Nazareth in verse 46? Philip comes up to him and says, We’ve got great news. We found the Messiah. It’s Jesus of Nazareth. And what does Nathaniel say in verse 46? What’s his question?

Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? You’re telling me that’s the city where God’s anointed has come from? And the song we’re going to sing after the session today. We saw thee not when thou didst come to this poor world of sin and death, nor yet beheld thy cottage home in that despised Nazareth. Can you imagine how close Nathaniel came to missing Jesus altogether? Because he had already figured out, no, he can’t come from Nazareth. That must be the wrong one. If this is God’s anointed, surely he’s going to come from a better place than that.

I learned this technique from one of my great teachers, Marty Pickup. You see my Bible here? Now I’m not telling you that it’s wrong for you to write in your Bible and to put notes there and underline passages and highlight. By all means, if that’s how you want to help remember where things are, then do that. But one of the reasons I do not is because I want to have a fresh look every time I read a verse. I found that when I was putting notes in the Bible and I would read a verse, my mind would automatically go to what I already knew. But when I look at it with a fresh slate like this, then that helps me to try to read it again for the very first time and start over.

I want you to see that you must look at the facts with an open mind.

Boy, these guys are just all over the place. If you go into something thinking you already know what the answer is, then how are you going to come to an honest evaluation of the facts? You have to start with an open mind. Now, can you think of a time or can you think of a discussion where somebody finds out where you go to church and they automatically assume certain things? Can you think of when you tell people I’m a member at the Decker Prairie Church of Christ? What are some things that they will automatically think of about you or about what they’ve heard of where you go to church? Can you think of any?

Oh, y’all don’t believe in music. As if we just shut our eyes and say, no, music doesn’t exist. As if to say the only kind of music is instrumental music. Alright. So that could be something where they’ve already decided the conclusion before they’ve investigated it with all the facts. Somebody might say something like, Oh, well, you think you’re the only ones going to heaven? Or somebody might say, Oh, we well, you believe all those other denominations are wrong. We have to be very careful that when we start studying, especially with things about the scriptures, that we start with an open mind, with the idea of, I want to learn here, and it may mean that I’m going to find something new. Nathaniel already had it figured out at first.

Nothing good can come out of Nazareth. Now watch what happens since he proceeded. Jesus said to him in verse 47, Behold, an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile. Nathaniel said to him, How do you know me? Jesus said, Before Philip called you under the fig tree, I saw you. And now notice what he said in verse 49. Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel. And Jesus said, You shall see greater things than these. You see, because he investigated things further, instead of just stopping with what he thought he knew, he was able to confess. First, he said, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? What he’s going to find out is that the greatest story ever told came out of Nazareth.

2. A Roman Centurion: An Honest Confession

And he was able to say, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel. So we have this witness, eyewitness testimony, the city of Nazareth. The unlikeliest place to start this story of Jesus. But there with an open mind we see came the greatest story ever told. All right, we need to move on. Number two. It would be one thing to call Jesus’ disciples as witnesses. We’ve already looked that they have their testimony of those who saw him. But I want to call an unlikely witness of Jesus’ death, and that is a Roman centurion. A Roman centurion is going to come and testify about Jesus’ death. Now somebody tell me, what is a centurion? What’s an easy way to remember what a centurion is?

He has the answer.

Okay, so you think of a century, which is a hundred years, and a centurion, for the most part, was a captain of a hundred men. Now there are times in history where that number went one way or the other, but generally speaking, we can remember it as a commander of a hundred men. Now, can you think of some centurions that are mentioned throughout the gospel accounts or in the New Testament? Can you think of any centurions that we know about just because they were there in New Testament times?

Anybody think of one? Peter went to the house of one in Acts chapter 10 and taught him the gospel. Do you remember his name? The house of Cornelius was a centurion. There was one in Mark chapter 8 who had a servant that was sick, and Jesus healed his servant. But this centurion is revealed for us in Matthew chapter 27 at the cross of Jesus, and he said something that was astounding. We’re going to read Matthew chapter 27. Someone read for us, starting with verse 45. Who’s going to read that? Anyone who’s not read yet would like to? Okay, go ahead.

And some of those who were standing there when they heard it began to say that is called Michael. Immediately it went up and prayed.

Can you just cry out again with a loud voice and yielded on the spirit? And behold the veil of the temple to talk about sure.

The centurion goes over the window getting rid of her Jesus.

Alright. Very good. Let’s stop there. Now the centurion was a Roman official who would have been placed there by Pilate just to make sure that everything was carried out the way it was supposed to. He was in charge of the crucifixion. And so he would have commanded the soldiers, for instance, to drive the nails through the hands and the feet of Jesus.

Remember, they were casting lots for Jesus’ clothes. They were trying to find out which of one of us is going to get his coat. He’s not going to need it anymore after he’s dead. So they were there kind of just as bystanders. They were watching things and seeing what people were saying about Jesus. But there were some other things happening at the crucifixion that caused the centurion to realize something’s going on here that’s not normal. For instance, it was supposed to be the brightest part of the day from twelve to three p.m. But what was happening? There was darkness. It was pitch black. And there was a great earthquake, and it said the tombs were split open, and all of this was happening after Jesus gave up the ghost.

And so what does the centurion say in verse 54? Truly this man was the Son of God. Now I want you to think about how remarkable that is. Again, we would expect one of Jesus’ disciples to confess that. But this man was not a follower of Jesus. We would expect somebody who is being taken to death because of their faith and being asked, Do you have anything else to say before you’re executed? We would expect them to say, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And I’m going to take this to my grave. We would expect some of Jesus’ disciples to say that. But this man was not on trial. He had nothing to gain by saying what he said. But I want you to see when he was presented with unmistakable truth, he made an honest confession.

That is exactly what we are after. You see, when you start with an open mind, and you say, I’m going to follow the evidence wherever it takes me, then it’s going to take an honest heart to speak what you have found, to make an honest confession. Keep your finger here, but turn back to 1 Kings chapter 10. And I want you to notice something remarkable that happened during the days of Solomon. You remember 1 Kings 10 is where we’re going. You remember that Solomon had asked God for wisdom to be a good king who could judge the people well, and he was blessed with wisdom. We read that it was like the sand of the seashore. And so you can imagine how Solomon’s fame was starting to spread into different places.

Well, it came to the queen of Sheba, and she decided she wanted to investigate this. First Kings chapter 10. Now, when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questions. So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. And Solomon answered all her questions. Nothing was hidden from the king, which he did not explain to her. When the queen of Sheba perceived all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he built, the food of his table, the seeing of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

Then she said to the king, it was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. Nevertheless, I did not believe the reports until I came, and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity, the report which I heard. Now, I want you to see that she came at first as a skeptic. She said, I heard about this guy’s wisdom. Well, I’m going to load up on all these difficult questions. And I’m going to try to ask him something that he can’t answer or doesn’t know anything about. Well, she got there, and she starts asking her questions, and what happens. Yeah, it’s like she asked him, What’s one plus one?

And it’s two, by the way, Scott. Scott was gone. Oh, anyway, I don’t know what that means. Oh. She couldn’t believe it. And so she said, I’d heard about this, but what was going to cause her to believe it? What did she have to do first? I’ve got to investigate this myself. And when she did, she didn’t say, Oh, well, somebody probably told him the answers, or somebody probably clued him what I was going to ask him, and so I just I still can’t believe it. No, she said, it’s true. I was a skeptic and I doubted, but now that I’ve seen it, she made an honest confession. The half has not even been told. I want you to see that when you investigate things about Jesus, and you see things you’ve not seen before, and you recognize that things are happening, that there’s no other explanation other than God was intervening, you must be like this Roman centurion who had nothing to gain, but still confessed honestly, this man was the son of God.

And you have to see that with your own eyes. It’s important for you to have faith that comes from your mother and father. And share faith of leaders here that you respect, but it must become your own. It starts with an open mind, but then it must lead to an honest confession. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Though I did not see him with my own eyes and hear him with my own ears, I’m going to evaluate the testimony of those who did. And from that, I’m going to confess.

3. Doubting Thomas: You Must Have Your Own Faith

Doubting Thomas. You mean you’re going to call someone who was a doubter? Well, I want you to see the transformation that he went through in John chapter 20. John chapter 20. Now, how would you like it if your whole life was summed up by one thing that you said? How would you like it if people remembered you after you died because of one thing that happened in your life, and not just one thing, but one thing they got to choose. Out of your whole life’s work, they picked one thing and said, This is how we’re going to remember him. This is how we’re going to speak of her. That wouldn’t be very fair, would it? Well, I want to submit to you that Thomas gets a little bit of a bad rap when we say doubting Thomas.

And even people who are not religious people will speak of someone who’s not on board with some project and call him a doubting Thomas. And it’s as if to say that he was the only one who ever expressed any doubts after the resurrection. That everybody else was on board from day one, but poor Thomas, we just had to kind of drag him along because he was a doubter. And that was not the case. Neither is Thomas, this kind of weak, spineless figure, as if all the other apostles were stronger than him. For instance, we won’t go there now just for time’s sake, but in John chapter 11, when Jesus said, We’re going to have to go to Jerusalem. They were afraid that Jesus would be killed if he went to Jerusalem because of all the people there that hated him.

And so they were trying to talk Jesus out of going. But Jesus said, No, Lazarus has died. We’re going to go to Jerusalem. And do you know what Thomas said? This doubting Thomas, as he’s called? Thomas was the one who said, Well, let’s go to Jerusalem, and if they kill Jesus, we’re going to die with him. To get Jesus, they’re going to have to come through us. Let’s go and we’ll all die. Now, does that sound like somebody who’s weak? Well, after the resurrection now, Jesus has died and has been raised. And in John chapter 20, he starts making appearances to the disciples. Let’s let’s read the part that involves Thomas, and then we’re going to look at what happened before and after that. So let’s start with verse 24 and 25.

I need a volunteer to read that. Someone who’s not read that would like to. You got that, Paul? Okay, John 20, 24 and 25.

So the other type of soul that we have the same as we tested this.

See it in his hands. The mark of the nails. And place my finger, you can see the mark of the nails. And place my hand into the side. I will never be. Now, here’s another little incident where if man’s writing the book, we’re going to put in details just because we’re curious about things like this. We learned that Thomas was also called Didymus, which is twin. He had a twin brother. Guess what? It is never mentioned who Thomas’ twin is. We don’t know who that was. Now, if I’m writing that, I’m just going to throw that in, just in the bonus features somewhere. You know, people are going to want to know, so I’m going to put that in so that it’ll just be something interesting.

But this wasn’t written for our curiosity. It’s written that you may believe. That’s not essential to your belief, and so we’re just not going to include that. Again, imagine how big the Bible would be if all of those little details were put in. So Thomas was a twin. We’ve seen the Lord, they tell him in verse 25. And what does Thomas say? You fill in the blanks. Unless I shall see in his hands the imprint of the nails and put my finger into the place of the nails and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

Look back to verse 19. When therefore it was evening on the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, Peace be with you. And he had said this, he when he had said this, he showed them both his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus therefore said to them, Peace be with you as the Father has sent me, I also send you. So Thomas was not there on that occasion when all the disciples got to see and touch Jesus. They probably came and told him about that. We’ve seen him and we’ve touched him. And so what Thomas says is, Well, I want to do that.

You got to experience him after the resurrection. I want to do just what you did, and unless I see it for myself, I’m not going to believe.

No, we saw him. He’s come out of the grave. And so you can imagine them saying, Before I go all in again, I need to know for sure. I want to touch him. Well, eight days later, verse 26, when his disciples were inside, and Thomas with them, Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, Peace be with you. Then he said to Thomas, Why, you doubter, what’s wrong with you? I’m not showing you anything. You just better believe and take my word for it. He said to Thomas, reach here your finger and see my hands, and reach here your hand and put it in my side, and be not unbelieving, but believing. I want you to know that it is essential that you have your own faith.

You must have your own faith. It is not wrong for you to question. It is not wrong for you to want to know the evidence. It’s not wrong for you to ask why. You remember when the Israelites were given the feast of the Passover when they came out of Egypt, and God said, You’re going to celebrate this Passover as your deliverance out of Egypt. He said, There’s going to come a day when your children will see you observing this Passover. And do you remember what he said? The children will ask the parents.

And she looked up at the man holding the plate and said, That’s not Jesus. But she wanted to know why are we doing this? The Lord said, Your children are going to ask you, what does this mean? Why are we celebrating this? And were the parents just supposed to say, because I said so, that’s why. No, they would explain it to them. Well, many years ago we were in slavery in Egypt, and God passed over, and we killed a lamb and ate of it and got ready, and that night he led us out of Egypt to our deliverance. And they would explain that to them. It is not wrong for you to say, well, why do we worship this way? And why do we preach these things?

Why do we teach it this way? You must have your own faith. Thomas was just wanting to say, I want to see it for myself. It’s not that I don’t believe what you said. I want to see it for myself with my own eyes. Now, why is it going to be important for you to come to your own conviction about what you believe? Why is it important for you to have your own faith? All right, it’s going to result in your salvation. You’re going to believe it and obey it so that you can be saved. That’s that’s one reason. Why else is it important for you to stand on your own faith and not the faith of another? What’s another reason? Yes, sir.

All right, very good. One of these days, you’re gonna have to do it for yourself. Your parents will try to encourage you while you’re in your house, but one day that’s gonna be your own responsibility. And so if you have your own faith, you’re not just doing it because mom and dad said so. You’re doing it because the Lord said so. Very good. All right, can you think of another? Why is it important for you to know why you believe what you believe? And for you to have worked that out in your own mind.

Or tries to belittle something you believe. Why would it be important in that instance to have your own faith?

You would not be the slave and probably tell us that. Alright, that’s exactly right. You’re gonna be able to give an answer. If somebody questions you and you’re just believing what somebody else says, well, you’re gonna say, Well, I don’t know. But when you say, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that’s called into question, you say, Well, this is why I believe that. I read this, and I saw that, and I put those together, and that’s what I believe. You see, you’re gonna have to be ready to give an answer. You have your own faith. Thomas in verse 28 answered him and said, My Lord and my God. Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me, have you believed?

Blessed are they who did not see and yet believe. You see, there was only a 40-day window where people would get to see the resurrected Jesus with their own eyes. Forty days, and then he was going to go back to heaven. And so everyone who has lived since then didn’t get to experience what Thomas did. But remember, we have the testimony of those who did. And so we’re not following just a blind faith. We’ve examined the evidence. We’ve heard what they heard, we’ve seen what they’ve seen, and so we can say with Thomas, my Lord and my God. Not because that was their faith, but because we’ve made it our own faith. Our world says seeing is believing. You don’t believe it unless you see it.

Conclusion

See, when you walk by faith and not by sight, when you see with a superior vision, you can say, believing is seeing. One day we will see Jesus face to face. Sometimes I wonder if he will still have the nail prints in his hand. We can just reach out like Thomas did and touch them. Every eye will see him. Every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. Let’s make certain that we do it on this side. That out of our own free will, because of the testimony we have believed, we can say, though we did not see him, still we believe.

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