Today’s Podcast
- Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
- Has anyone ever told you a story that just seemed too incredible to be true? We’ve all heard those before. Put yourself in Philip’s place as he listened to Jesus’ words at that last Passover supper.
- Scripture
- John 14:9-12
- Jesus (to Philip): I have lived with you all this time, and you still don’t know who I am? If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father. How can you keep asking to see the Father? Don’t you believe Me when I say I abide in the Father and the Father dwells in Me? I’m not making this up as I go along. The Father has given Me these truths that I have been speaking to you, and He empowers all My actions. Accept these truths: I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me. If you have trouble believing based on My words, believe because of the things I have done. I tell you the truth: whoever believes in Me will be able to do what I have done, but they will do even greater things, because I will return to be with the Father.
- Devotional
- My father-in-law was an insurance claims manager for many years. Every once in awhile he would bring home a claim story that just sounded too incredible to be true.
- Working on the roof
- Slipped on the shingles
- Hit the ladder and tool box
- The tool box hit the chimney and ladder fell back against the chimney
- No ladder and fell off the roof
- Ladder broke the chimney
- Bricks fell on the man’s head
- Sounds like Wile E. Coyote
- As Jesus closes His ministry and speaks to His disciples, must have sounded much like that story
- Going where you can’t go
- You’ll look for me but you won’t find me
- Soon you’ll see me again and then you won’t see me
- I’ll leave but I’ll be with you
- My Father and I are one
- If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen My Father
- How do you put all this together?
- Hide-and-seek?; you’ll look but you won’t find me; I’ll leave but come back
- Father and Son twins?
- This stuff sounds about as crazy as the story of the man fixing his roof
- But He says, “I’m not making this stuff up as I go along.”
- My father-in-law had to investigate the circumstances surrounding the man on the roof injuries and discovered they were true
- When we investigate Jesus’ words by looking into God’s word, we find His words are true.
- We can believe all He tells us
- It was hard for the disciples on the other side of the resurrection
- We have the evidence of an empty tomb to tell us Jesus is who He said He is
- He and the Father are One
- He invites us to believe in Him and be empowered to live transformed lives as He makes us more like Him each day
- My father-in-law was an insurance claims manager for many years. Every once in awhile he would bring home a claim story that just sounded too incredible to be true.
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