Amen and amen and amen. Church, if you got your Bibles and I hope you do, grab them.

We are going to be in John chapter 21, the final chapter. For 28 weeks, we have been studying

the gospel of John a firsthand eyewitness account of the life, the ministry, the death, the resurrection of Jesus

written by his best friend. This is a really, really big deal. And so now what John is going to do

is John's going to wrap the whole thing up, and there's a whole lot of implications for people

like you and me. Chapter 21 verse 1 says this and after this. And the this

that he's talking about is what we talked about last week. The this that he's talking about is that

Jesus has been resurrected from the grave. And that Thomas is like, I don't know, I don't know,

I got to see it for myself. You see, Thomas missed church and he don't want to miss church.

Because if you miss church, you might miss an encounter with Jesus. And so he didn't show up one

week and then Peter and James and John and everybody else is like, seriously, Jesus is alive

and Thomas is like, I don't know, man. And so then Jesus appears a second time, shows up to Thomas

and proves himself to Thomas. That's the this that's happening here, which is really good news.

That means if you've got a whole bunch of doubts, you've got a whole bunch of questions,

you've got a whole bunch of, I don't know about that, then you can make a really, really good

disciple.

This is the this that just has happened.

And then John says back in chapter 20, he says that he has written these things so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

So fundamentally, the question I want to ask you today is this, do you believe?

Do you believe?

Because what we're going to see in John, chapter 21, is what happens in the life of someone who believes.

What we see in John 21 is how, when you believe in Jesus Christ as the Lord, the Son of God,

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