Key Verse:
“You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.”
(Acts 3:15)(NIV)
Central Truth:
It’s all in the history book called the Bible. For some reason when we read this chapter, it read like an actual account from a history book. These people lived history when Jesus walked this earth. There were eyewitnesses. As the verse above states, “We are witnesses of this.”
It Is a History Book……The BIBLE
As parents, we get questions about our faith from our teenage son every so often. He is sometimes honestly doubtful about Jesus. He has questioned us about the stories of Adam and Eve and creation. Of course, most of these questions are brought to his mind from having science classes during high school. They plant a seed of doubt from all that he has been taught, heard, felt, and believed in his young heart.
As parents, we find ourselves doubting how OUR child could doubt that Jesus walked the face of this earth and that God created our beautiful world. He has been in Sunday school since before he could walk. We pray each morning on the way to school. We try as parents to live Christ-like. He’s involved in Christian youth programs. He’s been baptized. Still, we are so grateful he does share his doubts with us, which gives us a huge opportunity to battle with Satan to keep his heart and soul with Jesus. We’ve also learned that sometimes these questions arise to just get a “rise” out of us! Oh, how you learn so much from the first-born that benefits their siblings.
Anyway, strange as it may seem to some, this chapter just spoke to us in this manner. We should use the Bible as our tool to allow and direct all the questions he has. It is normal to doubt Jesus at some point in our lives. We’ve all done it. But by using the Bible as a learning tool, we have proof: written accounts that Jesus did die for all our sins and then rose from the dead. We pray that each of you remember that the Bible is a “teaching” tool as well as a devotional tool.
“You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.”
(Acts 3:15)(NIV)
Central Truth:
It’s all in the history book called the Bible. For some reason when we read this chapter, it read like an actual account from a history book. These people lived history when Jesus walked this earth. There were eyewitnesses. As the verse above states, “We are witnesses of this.”
It Is a History Book……The BIBLE
As parents, we get questions about our faith from our teenage son every so often. He is sometimes honestly doubtful about Jesus. He has questioned us about the stories of Adam and Eve and creation. Of course, most of these questions are brought to his mind from having science classes during high school. They plant a seed of doubt from all that he has been taught, heard, felt, and believed in his young heart.
As parents, we find ourselves doubting how OUR child could doubt that Jesus walked the face of this earth and that God created our beautiful world. He has been in Sunday school since before he could walk. We pray each morning on the way to school. We try as parents to live Christ-like. He’s involved in Christian youth programs. He’s been baptized. Still, we are so grateful he does share his doubts with us, which gives us a huge opportunity to battle with Satan to keep his heart and soul with Jesus. We’ve also learned that sometimes these questions arise to just get a “rise” out of us! Oh, how you learn so much from the first-born that benefits their siblings.
Anyway, strange as it may seem to some, this chapter just spoke to us in this manner. We should use the Bible as our tool to allow and direct all the questions he has. It is normal to doubt Jesus at some point in our lives. We’ve all done it. But by using the Bible as a learning tool, we have proof: written accounts that Jesus did die for all our sins and then rose from the dead. We pray that each of you remember that the Bible is a “teaching” tool as well as a devotional tool.
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