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John 20 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament in each episode, we take just a few minutes to focus
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  on one chapter of the New Testament.
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  Exploring the. Truths God is teaching us
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  through His Word and expanding our view of who?
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  He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready.
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  Let's dive into God's Word together.
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  In John chapter 20, we are given yet another Gospel account of
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  the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  We see the empty tomb. We see Jesus reveal himself to
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  Mary Magdalene and then to his disciples.
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  He is alive. Of all the miracles we've seen
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  Jesus perform up to this point, this is the greatest of all, His
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  own victory over death through his resurrection.
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  Where I want us to spend our time today, though, is in the
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  last two verses of this chapter. Here John gives us his purpose
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  in writing the book. He lets us in on why he wrote
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  this gospel account, and in particular why he wrote it in
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  the way he did. Listen to these two verses.
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  Therefore, many other signs Jesus also performed in the
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  presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book,
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  but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus
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  is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have
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  life in His name. John tells us that this account
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  is not an exhaustive account of the life of Jesus.
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  That is not his purpose. In fact, he will tell us in the
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  next chapter that if all that Jesus did was to be written in
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  detail, the whole world could not contain the books that would
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  be written. So why did John write the book
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  that he did? He wrote these things, these
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  particular teachings, signs and counters so that his readers
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  might do one thing, that you and I might respond in one
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  particular way to Jesus, that we might believe faith.
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  That is what John is trying to stir us up towards.
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  He wrote these 21 chapters so that we may believe that Jesus
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  is the Christ, the Son of God. And what will happen if we
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  possess that faith? What will be accomplished for us
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  if we believe Jesus to be who He says He is?
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  We will have life in His name. The tune hasn't changed since
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  John 1/4. In him was life, and the life
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  was the light of men. It hasn't changed since John
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  316. For God so loved the world that
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  he gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him
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  shall not perish, but have eternal life.
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  It hasn't changed since John 1010.
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  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
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  I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
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  Or John 1125, I am the resurrection and the life.
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  He who believes in me will live even if he dies.
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  Or John 14, six. I am the way and the truth and
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  the life. No man comes to the Father, but
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  through me Jesus came and lived a perfect life and died the
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  death that we deserve, and rose again after three days
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  conquering sin and death so that you and I, if we put our faith
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  and hope and trust in Him, could have life, real, eternal,
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  abundant life in the presence of God forever.
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  That is why Jesus came and that is why John wrote the book.
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  So don't miss the main thing, Don't miss Jesus.
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  Don't miss out on the life that he offers freely to you and to
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  me today. Believe in Jesus and receive the
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  life that is found only in Him.