04-28-19 Morning Worship - Peace be with You
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TRANSFORMING TRUTH
● Peace comes from circumcision not circumstances
DOUBTING THOMAS
● Read John 20:24-31
● Tell the Story
○ Apostles tell Thomas they have seen Jesus alive
○ Thomas refuses to believe them w/o evidence
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
● Genesis 17:11 - Circumcised as sign of covenant (Cut away)
● Romans 2:28-29 - Circumcision is a matter of the heart (Cut away blindness)
● Deuteronomy 30:6 - The Lord will circumcise your heart
● Genesis 17:12 - 8th Day (New Creation)
EIGHT DAYS LATER
● Circumcision - Jesus entered and removed Thomas’ hardness - Faith
● Sunday - This was worship on the 1st day of week - New Creation
THE NEW HEART
● Ezekiel 36:26-27 - A new heart & God’s Spirit
● What does a new heart look like? - Consider Apostle’s lives
○ According to tradition as noted at GotQuestions.org & Christianity.com
○ Paul - beheaded (Rome)
○ Peter - crucified upside down (Rome)
○ Andrew - Crucified X-shaped cross (Greece)
○ Thomas - Pierced by spears of 4 soldiers (India)
○ Philip - Cruel death retaliation for leading proconsul wife to Christ (N. Africa)
○ Matthew - Stabbed (Ethiopia)
○ Bartholomew - Flayed by whip (Turkey)
○ James son of Zebedee - By Sword (Beheaded) by Herod
○ James son of Alpheus - Stoned then clubbed to death
○ James (brother of Jesus) - Thrown from Pinnacle of Temple (100 ft) then
beaten to death
○ Simon the Zealot - Killed for refusing to sacrifice to the sun god
○ Matthias - Death by burning
○ John - Natural death after miraculously escaping death - Boiled in basin of
boiling oil then exiled to the mines on prison island of Patmos
● These all died proclaiming salvation is found by faith alone in Christ alone
○ John 20:31 Eternal life by believing Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God
○ John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me.”
JOHN’S MESSAGE TO YOU
● Believe Jesus is the Son of God
● Believe Jesus is God
● Believe Jesus took the punishment you deserved
● Believe Jesus perfection is counted as yours by faith
● Follow Jesus and call upon his name daily
● Circumcise your heart and no longer be stubborn (Deut 10:16)
○ You are upset because you stubbornly seek your own way
● Agree with Christ that it is better to do the Father’s will than to be in control or to
have comfort
○ Seek first the kingdom of God (in your heart)
● Colossian 3:17 Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the
Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
TRANSFORMING TRUTH
● Peace comes from circumcision (of the heart) not circumstances