7 Signs - Healing a Sick Son

Matthew 13:53-58, And when Jesus had finished these parables, He went away from there, and coming to His hometown He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said….  

Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 

Is not this the carpenter's Son? 

Is not His mother called Mary? 

And are not His brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 

And are not all His sisters with us? 

Where then did this Man get all these things?” 

And they took offense at Him. 

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.” And He did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.

Big Idea:  Jesus desires to move us to a deeper faith.

1.  Unbelief expected.

(Journal) John 4:43-45, After the two days He departed for Galilee. (For Jesus Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 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.

Luke 4:28-30, When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up and drove Him out of the town and brought Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw Him down the cliff. But passing through their midst, He went away.

2.  Unbelief confronted.

(Journal) John 4:46-49, 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. 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. 

So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 

Mark 9:22b-24, But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

3.  Unbelief overcome.

(Journal) John 4:50-54, Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” 

The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 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.” 

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. 

This was now the second sign that Jesus did when He had come from Judea to Galilee.

Acts 16:31-33, And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the Word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

Next Step:  Consistency brings progress…. 

Figure out what is keeping you from consistently growing deeper and make a change.

2nd Peter 1:5-8, For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.