MONDAY, FOURTH WEEK OF LENT- YEAR-B

I Reading: Isaiah 65:17-21: No more will the sound of weeping or sound of cries be heard.

Gospel: John 4:43-54: Go home, your son will live.

The Evidence of Faith, Jn 4:43-54

This passage teaches the evidence of faith.

1. Jesus entered Galilee (v.43)

2. Evidence 1: Honoring Jesus (v.44)

3. Evidence 2: Welcoming and receiving Jesus (v.45)

The Stages of Faith, Jn 4:46-54

The nobleman’s experience reveals the various stages of faith, the kind of growing faith that every person should experience.

1. A beginning faith (v.46-47)

a. There was a desperate need

b. There was hearing about Jesus

c. There was coming to Jesus

d. There was beginning Jesus to help

2. A persistent faith (v.48-49)

a. A lesson in faith

b. A desperate insistence

3. A trusting, obedient and working faith (v.50)

a. The promise: your need is met

b. He believed and obeyed Jesus’ Word

4. A confirmed faith (v.51)

a. He “was on the way”

b. He received glorious news: His prayer was answered

c. He confirmed the upper natural vs. natural

d. He believed and knew that Jesus had healed his son

5. A witnessing faith (v.53-54)

Thought: There is no real faith apart from obedience and work (Jn 2:24;5:9).

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