Good morning. From
that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the
woman who testified about Him. This is what is supposed to happen to us. We
share what God has done for us with others, and then they believe in Him
through our testimony. Jesus then went back to Galilee. He testified that a
prophet has no honor in his own country. They received Him because they had
seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast. They did not believe
because of His words; they believed because of the signs He did. He returns to
Cana where He turned the water into wine. A royal official from Capernaum heard
that Jesus was in Galilee. His son was sick, so he implored Jesus to come and
heal his son; for he was at the point of death. Unless you people see signs and
wonders, you simply will not believe. Like any normal parent, he ignored Jesus’
criticism - please come before my child dies. Jesus simply said, go, your son
lives. Most of us would’ve said, but You don’t understand – You need to come
right now and lay Your hands on him, and heal him. We want God to do things
exactly the way that we ask for them to be done. In the end, this was an even
greater miracle than if Jesus had come and laid His hands on him. By the way,
Jesus could have done it this way with Lazarus. He could have simply spoken the
word and healed Lazarus. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and
started to go back home. If he had not gone, his son probably would not have
been healed. Before he got home, he was met by people from his house who told
him that his son was living. When did it happen? It was the same time as when
Jesus told him that his son lived. The man believed, and his whole household.
He had believed that his son would be healed, or he would not have gone home –
he would’ve stayed and continued to beg Jesus to come. Now he and his whole
family become believers in Christ. Help the reader to have a great time with his/her
family. Give them beautiful weather to do whatever they want to do.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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