The Lord Jesus had 12 original disciples, but those men were just the first of many more followers of Christ.

They are an example for us to learn from and a reminder that God works in ordinary people.

Are you a true follower of Jesus Christ?

Let's study the 12th with Scott Pauli today

and find truth that will help us all to follow more closely to Christ.

Many of these disciples, God gives us so much information about.

I mean, frankly, as you walk through the gospel records, you take somebody like Simon Peter or John, there are all these conversations and biographical facts and just lots of information, so much so

it's hard to summarize them in one study. But today, we have come to a man who was one of our

Lord's original disciples. He was one of the 12. And the only thing we know about him is his name.

That's it, literally. His name is in every list of the

disciples, and yet there's not a single incident recorded, not a single conversation, not a single

record of something accomplished, and yet I want to say to today that God speaks to us through

this man. He includes him in the list of the disciples and tells us

nothing else, and he speaks to us not through what he says about him, but through what is not said.

Let's go back to our original list for just a moment. It's found in Mark chapter number three.

You'll remember that we are following this pattern in Mark three with one exception, and that is we began with

Andrew. Andrew is not first on any of the list, but we started with him because that's where Jesus

started. Remember, Andrew was the first to follow Christ, and then through Andrew, the Lord

witnessed to Peter, and Peter then became a follower of the Lord. So we began our study with

Andrew. And then following this list, you have Simon, who Jesus surnames Peter. You have James,

the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James. Then you had Philip, you have Bartholomew,

you have Matthew, you have Thomas.

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