Why Do You Believe? | New Testament | John 20

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

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Does Jesus demand blind faith? What is actual blind faith? Do you need to see in order to believe? In today's episode, Patrick discusses John 20 and why you don't need blind faith to follow God. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: John 20

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life,
0:09.0	in the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:20.7	In John 20, we see Jesus after he's resurrected and he's speaking to his disciple Thomas, who has come to believe that Jesus is not dead, he truly is alive.
0:25.3	And Jesus asks him, do you believe Thomas because you've seen?
0:30.1	That's the question Jesus asks Thomas right after his resurrection.
0:34.0	And the underlying question is clear, Thomas, why do you believe?
0:39.0	You didn't use to believe, but why do you believe that I'm resurrected? It's a question that applies
0:44.2	to more than just believing in Jesus. I mean ask yourself why do you believe that
0:49.2	anything is true, that the earth is round, that the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776.
0:56.8	Why do you believe anything?
0:59.6	Before we get to this part of the Gospel of John, we hear about the story of Thomas and Thomas is
1:04.8	hearing from all of his friends that they've seen Jesus alive. He's come back
1:09.2	from the dead. How does Thomas respond to them initially? He says,
1:13.6	Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails and place my finger into the mark of the nails and place my hand into his side,
1:20.8	I will never believe.
1:23.8	For Thomas seeing is believing.
1:26.8	And honestly, who can blame him?
1:29.0	Thomas lived in the same world we live in, a world where people don't come back to life after they die.
1:35.2	Did his friends just expect him to blindly believe just because they said so?
1:41.6	The story continues in John 20, verse 26. Eight days later Jesus's disciples were inside again and Thomas was with them.
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