My Lord and My God.

John Farley
Pastor Teacher
Sunday,
May 11, 2025

“My Lord and my God.”

John 20:24-29

This is a tremendous account of a person coming to believe in Jesus Christ.

When he returned, the other disciples kept on telling him that they had seen the Lord.

He wasn’t going to take their word for it.

Thomas needed visual and physical evidence before he would believe.

Thomas must have heard that a Roman soldier had pierced Jesus’ side.

John 19:32-37

But Thomas was not the only disciple who didn’t believe until they saw the resurrected Jesus.

Luke 24:1-11

The other ten didn’t believe either - until Jesus showed them His hands and His side!

John 20:19-20

The disciples came to believe in the resurrection only when confronted with clear are irrefutable evidence.

John 20:26

He walked through walls to reach them.

John 20:27

Jesus provided
what Thomas needed to believe.

He will leave the 99 to seek out and rescue the one.

Matthew 18:12-14

That moving encounter of Jesus and Zaccheus, a little man who climbed a tree to see Jesus.

Luke 19:1-10

John 20:28-29

My Lord and my God! Jesus did not contradict him.

John wrote his gospel for those who would not see the resurrected Christ.

He gave sufficient proof for anyone to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.

On the basis of the evidence that John presented in his gospel,

millions have come to believe in Christ as God, their Savior, and their Lord.

1 Peter 1:3-9