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Dealing With Doubt?
(1 of 12)
Meet Jesus
Jerry Vines
John 1:45-51
2~/10~/2002
If you are dealing with doubt, then you need to meet
Jesus.
In John 1 I have taken a scene from the life of
our Lord which I think will address this particular
problem.
Life is a series of problems.
If you do not have a
problem this morning, just hang around, before it's
over you are going to have a problem.
All people are
in one of three stages when it comes to problems.
They
are either coming out of the problem, in a problem, or
heading to a problem.
Life is a series of problems.
The good news about the Lord Jesus Christ is that to
know Jesus Christ as your Savior gives you access to
Someone who is the great problem-solver.
I do not know
what problem you may be experiencing today, but
whatever that problem may be, ultimately and
fundamentally, when you get down to the root of the
matter, you will discover that Jesus Christ is able to
help you with that particular problem.
One of the problems I'm going to deal with this
morning (and I'll be dealing with a number of them in
the weeks ahead) is the problem of doubt or
skepticism.
There are many people filled with
skepticism and doubt in the world in which we live.
In some ways it is a part of our training.
We have
been trained in our schools to think skeptically—to
think from a scientific perspective and to be
skeptical so that we get to the facts and know what
the facts may be.
That aura or that atmosphere of skepticism has bled
over into religious life and there are many people
today who are dealing with the problem of doubt.
Somebody has said that doubt is a swinging bridge
between faith and unbelief.
Faith says—I believe.
Doubt says—I'm not sure.
Faith says—I trust.
Doubt
says—I don't know.
Here is a man in the Bible who has a problem with
skepticism or doubt.
His name is Nathanael.
The
indications from the words of the Lord about this man
Nathanael are that he was indeed a doubter, but he was
also a sincere doubter.
There are many people who are
not sincere in their doubts.
Many times intellectual
doubts are merely a cover for an immoral lifestyle.
Some people throw out a few doubts because they are
trying to cover over the kind of life they are living.
That's not really the problem at all.
But evidently
Nathaniel was one of those sincere doubters.
Somebody said that doubt is either the agony of some
earnest soul or it is the trifling superficial doubt
of a superficial fool.
The name, Nathanael, means "gift of God."
I don't
know if his parents gave that to him out of hope that
he would indeed be a gift to the world.
Or out of
hope that he would be a special gift to them from God.
When you get to Matthew, Mark, and Luke you don't find
the name Nathanael.
You do find the name Bartholomew.
Most people believe that Nathanael and Bartholomew are
names for the same man.
Nathanael does not appear much
in the Bible.
He appears on the first page of the book
of John and the last page.
In chapter 1, he makes his
cameo appearance and in chapter 21 he gives his final
curtain call.
But he is a man that has a message for
you and for me this morning.
He is a man who shows us
that if you have a problem—what you need is to meet
Jesus.
Jesus can help you with your problem today—
whatever that problem may be.
I want to call you attention, first of all to—
I.
The DOUBT He MANIFESTS.
In verse 45 it says, "Philip finds Nathanael."
That
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