There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message

given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local church

or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

I'd like you to open the Word of God with me to the gospel according to John.

John chapter number 20. If you were in the Word of God with me to the gospel according to John. John chapter number 20.

If you were in the Bible teaching hour earlier today,

perhaps you have your place marked here already because we started looking at Peter and looking at John and looking at Thomas,

these original disciples that have their own encounter with the Lord.

But I bring you now not to one of the men, to a woman.

Aren't you glad Christ died for every man, every woman, every boy, every girl? I bring you now not

to one of the first disciples. See, some of you might be thinking, well, you know, I'm not really a church

person, I'm not a preacher,

or I'm not a Sunday school teacher, or I'm not, you fill in the blank. Let me tell you something,

Christ died for every man, and God loves all people. And this is fascinating to me. It's really

fascinating. That when Jesus came out of the grave, look, he could have come out of the grave in such a spectacular way, in a public way, that everybody on Earth saw him at that moment.

But he didn't choose to do that. He could have showed up to hundreds of people at one time.

On one occasion, he did just that. As a matter of fact, Corinthians tells us that one time when he showed up and appeared,

he showed himself to 500 people at one time.

There's not some figment of imagination, some fairy tales, some fantasy.

Oh, no, this is factual that Christ came out of the grave, bodily, alive, and showed himself. but here's what I bring you to the first time

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