The Blessing of Believing Faith

In John 10, Christ Himself explained why most people do not believe in Him. It wasn't enough for them to see His glorious miracles, nor that He Himself had preached the Gospel to them. They still did not believe in Him.

So Christ explained it to them: "You do not believe, because you are not my sheep."

Many false preachers today are sure that Jesus got that backwards. They suppose the truth is, that when people believe in Jesus, then they become His sheep.

But Christ puts it correctly: a person believes on Him only if that person is His sheep. A person does not believe because he is not Christ's sheep.

Belief doesn't make us Christ's sheep! Instead, we believe BECAUSE we are Christ's sheep already.

Then Jesus makes it clear how He got His sheep: His Father gave them to Him!

Because God gave Christ His sheep, therefore they believe in Him, and follow Him, and know His voice.

When Jesus rose again from the dead, most of His disciples refused to believe it, even though both Christ and the psalmist had promised it!

Think of what this says about faith, and how impossible it is for us to believe without the Holy Ghost's power working in us!

Jesus confronted their unbelief when He showed them His wounded hands and side. Only then did most of them believe!

But Thomas the apostle wasn't there, and still didn't believe that Christ had risen from the grave. He demanded to personally examine the wounds of Jesus before he would believe it.

The resurrection is impossible for natural man to believe. It is so contrary to the universal experience of humanity.

Jesus said we who believe on Jesus are blessed of God with that faith to believe, even though we have never seen Him!