What's so remarkable there is that he had asked Jesus to come.

Would you come?

Come with me.

And Jesus, instead of coming, said, go.

Your son will live.

And this man did not raise a peep of disappointment.

Does faith require seeing or is the word of Christ enough? In this episode of light and truth,

John Piper explores John 4, 43 to 54, to show how a desperate

father's trust in Jesus reveals the nature of true belief.

This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on August 16, 2009.

John, chapter 4, verse 43.

We know that Jesus had just spent two days in Samaria, and they were spectacularly

successful days.

More successful among the half-breeds than his own people.

That is no accident.

That will be significant.

These are people nobody in Judaism likes, and he went out of his way to go there,

and the whole town of Sycar evidently is responsive and they'd use words like

he's the Messiah.

He's the savior of the world.

And the focus there was not on signs and wonders.

It was on the word.

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