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Daily Bread

Go, Your Son Will Live!

Date: Jan. 26, 2018

Passage

John 4:43-54  (ESV)

43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.

46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

Daily Bread

Key Verse: 4:50

Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

1. Come and heal my son (43-47)

Jesus went to Cana in Galilee where he changed water into wine. Many welcomed him but Jesus did not recognize them because their faith was based on his miracles and not on his word as the people in the Samaritan village. A royal official came from Capernaum and asked, "Come and heal my son, for he is almost dead." Jesus rebuked the Galileans as well as tested his faith saying, "You will never believe until you see the miracles."

2. He took the Lord at his word (48-54)

The royal official persisted, "Lord, come before he dies." Jesus challenged him again saying, "Go! Your son will live!" What did the royal official do? Taking the Lord at his word, he went home! He found then his son was alive! When he carefully checked, it was exactly the same hour when Jesus commanded him to go. So he and all his family believed in Jesus. Praise Jesus who trains and blesses his people to have absolute faith in his word.

Prayer: Lord, thank you for challenging each of us to have absolute faith in your word. Let me take the Lord at his word!

One Word: Take the Lord at his word.

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