Believing Without Seeing..

Welcome brothers and sisters!

Let's take a moment to give our Lord praise, and worship the very Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.  May our hearts and lips honor His name, in all we do. 

It is good to see everyone each week on Saturday nights, and as we journey through the Gospel of John together, we are blessed to have a relationship with God and with each of you, all the time and not just on 1 day of the week!  Today we have our video from last Saturday, where we continued in John 4:46-54.  And as you will see as we get underway in the service, Pastor Scott takes us into a close up look at the interaction between the royal official from Capernaum and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Sometimes we get so focused on the "big thing", we completely miss what's really in front of us and as we so often look at the healing of the officials son from afar....we might have missed the faith and hope he even had to get him to Jesus.  The journey doesn't end with that though, not only did he need to take some big steps to get where he was going, he had to reason within himself that Jesus could actually heal his sick son.  Then the moment arrived, there he found himself in front of the Lord and implored Him to come and heal his son, that he would not die.  However, the Lord said, go for your son will live...and that's exactly what he (the official) did, he left believing the words of the very Word of God Himself.  Fortunately that is not where the story ends all together, for after he returned, he learned his son recovered at the same hour that Jesus told him his son would not die...

So, what would be the next step for him?  What about for us as christians?  Do we often get caught up in the "hopes for a miracle", when we ought to desire to have a living faith?  The bible doesn't give full recourse on what happened with the man afterwards, but in that interaction there is certainly evidence of the call to faith we are commanded to have right brothers and sisters?

It goes without saying that, without faith in Christ, our endeavor's to live beyond the grace are meaningless and disastrous!  We must continue to share the Gospel with this fallen and dying world, in the hopes that 1 would repent and be saved from the wrath that is to come.  The only way to be reconciled to God, is through Jesus Christ, His Son...and living and fruitful relationship with Him.  There is no better news, than that of Jesus Christ and His Gospel.  So today we encourage you to share the Gospel message, with believers, with unbelievers and always doing so in love dear friends.

Don't forget that we are available to help you along the way, and encourage you to visit us online or in person.  We hope to see you next Saturday at 7pm for worship, fellowship and a meal too!

Until next we meet, let's go serve our King!  :)

FRF Team