Bible Readings:
Isaiah 52:7-53:12
John 20:19-31
Sermon Outline:
John 20:27 (NKJV)
27Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
I Thomas’s doubt
John 11:16 (NKJV)
16Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.”
John 14:5 (NKJV)
5Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
John 20:25 (NKJV)
25The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”
II Confession of faith
III Blessed believers
John 20:29–31 (NKJV)
29Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
30And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;
31but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
Upon a life I did not live,
Horatius Bonar
Upon a death I did not die;
Another’s life, another’s death,
I stake my whole eternity.