5. The Blessing Of Faith (John 4:46-54)

It’s easy to have faith in something you can see and feel, but it’s not so easy to have faith in someone’s word. A businessman I knew years ago had a motto on his office wall which said: “In God we trust: all others pay cash.” We don’t readily trust everyone we meet; some people just aren’t trustworthy. We’re continuing our series on faith. The subject of the passage we are studying today (John 4:46-54) is “The Blessing of Faith.” We’re going to see that faith in God’s Word brings the ultimate blessing for all our spiritual needs. We don’t know much about the aristocratic nobleman in our passage (4:46). Perhaps, he was an officer in the court of King Herod the Tetrarch. Probably, he had a large estate and great power. Possibly, he had heard of Jesus’ miracle at Cana (John 2:1-12) and now his son’s desperate illness has driven him to Jesus (4:47). Without this sickness he may never have gone to Jesus but his anxiety and desperation drove him there. What we do know is that he was a loving and devoted father. No pains, no cost, no amount of effort would be spared to find a cure for his son. Perhaps he had tried other remedies without success and this is his last desperate hope. God ha...