The Principle of Faith

Tom Shrader examines Thomas's encounter with the risen Jesus in John 20, distinguishing between saving faith and faith for daily living. Using Thomas as an example of courage rather than doubt, he shows how true faith operates when we can't always feel God's presence. The teaching emphasizes that what we know from Scripture must trump what we feel, encouraging believers to trust God's character even in unanswered questions.

“I know Christianity is true because it's true, not because my experience validates it.”

— Tom Shrader

Series: Recovering Our Lost Legacy

Recorded: July 21, 2005

Duration: 39 min

Themes: faith, doubt, courage, trust, questions, feelings, presence, scripture

Scripture: John 20:24-31, Acts 17:11

Theological Themes: saving faith, sanctification, biblical authority, spiritual maturity, daily discipleship, christian living, faith development, scriptural truth

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All right, if you have Bibles, open them to John chapter 20. We are in the last week, the eighth week, of a series titled Recovering Our Lost Legacy. Today the principle of faith, if you look on your outline, we're defining faith. As you look at it, it probably raises more questions than answers: you won't always feel like God is there.

When we use the word faith in this evangelical context, our tendency is to think of saving faith. Do you have faith in Christ? We take that to be saving faith. Have you come to that point in your life where you've come to Christ in repentance and faith, where you've acknowledged your sin and that it separated you from God and that Christ died so you could have eternal life? When we use faith, we conservative evangelicals tend to talk about that saving faith.

What I want to get at here is bigger than that in the sense that it's faith for living. It's not just faith to secure your salvation and your future.

The Reality of Life and Death

I'm going to die—not big news. I had to look up my dad's birthday and I knew the day but I didn't know the year. I thought I knew the year but wasn't exactly sure. I didn't know where to look, so I went to his obituary and found his obituary on the internet. He died in 2006, which I missed that—I thought it was like a year ago. It says James Edward Schroeder, born such-and-such, died unexpectedly July 2nd.

Every time I read that I feel compelled to come back and go, his death wasn't unexpected, the timing was. My dad's death was not "wow, we never thought that was going to happen," but the way or the timing he died. The closer I get to it, the better it looks. He went down on a Saturday night, watched Lawrence Welk, and went upstairs. My mom heard a thud and he hit the ground. By the time they got to the hospital, they believed he was probably dead when he hit the ground. So that he died wasn't unexpected, but the timing was.

I know I'm going to die; I don't know when that's going to be. I'm going to heaven and God's kind of stuck with me. In other words, He made the promise that if I come in repentance and faith I'd have heaven. He's stuck with that; He can't undo that. His character won't allow that. My thing is between now and then and the faith between now and then. By definition it kind of means not having all the answers, otherwise it wouldn't be faith.

A Culture of Religious Confusion

I was driving last year during Christmas season and I was listening to the Christmas Channel—I think it was 95.1, the new Christmas Channel. It took an early jump. I got a great idea of how you market if you come into a new city and want to dominate a market: do that Christmas Channel and build up your listener base for the regular year. A bunch of people I knew wanted early Christmas music and went to it.

The guy who's playing the music one day said this, and I stopped and wrote it down because I knew I'd need it: "Whatever your religious preference, remember the reason for the season." I thought, well that's odd. Are you telling the Muslim to remember that Jesus is the reason for the season? I get the sense that he was going at some sort of bigger thing about being nice to everybody for 30 days or something.

We live in this pluralistic society where we protect and encourage different beliefs, but we don't for a second suggest they're all correct. We believe there's a certain faith and we want to talk about that in a minute.

Five Signs of Missing Faith

On your outline you'll see the form we've taken. If you don't get this principle of faith, here are five things that you'll see.

Number one, you'll look for experience to validate your beliefs. You're driven by experience. Felt this, did this, I had this. My friend Larry Wright—those of you that are around know it, and those who haven't been around, I'll give you the testimony of it—is the guy I admire most of anyone in my life. Larry used to say the only thing, and when he'd say it I would cringe, and I'd say, "Doc, don't say that." He would say, "I know Christianity is true because I put it in the test tube of my life and it works."

He would say that, and I could not get him to stop—not that I'm the determining factor in his life, but I tried. People rallied to that, and it sounds good. No, I know Christianity is true because it's true, not because my experience validates it. If I don't have faith, I'm running around looking for experience.

Here's the second thing: I'm unable to defend my beliefs from the Scripture. A couple weeks ago I had an experience that I have about every once a quarter. I'm doing a men's conference this weekend up in Williams, and this will happen to me this weekend—it always does at a men's conference. Somebody will come up, they'll talk about their life with Christ, and they'll start like this: "Well there's one verse that's meant so much to me."

You know, okay, good. But they won't let it go. That verse has become my north star, it's my compass. I put everything through it. This verse, and I'll say, finally after a while, he wears me down because I feel like he's trying to get me, and I'll say, "What verse is it?" And every time it'll go like this: "I can't really recall it right now." And I want to say, tattoo it. Do something. But all of a sudden you got these beliefs, and you go, how'd you get there? But without faith, you can't go to the Scripture.

Here's the third thing: you're prone to be discouraged from unanswered prayer. You're praying and praying and praying, and it's not going

You want to be careful with the next two. Number four, you entertain doubts about God. Now, I want to be careful here. I'm not talking about honest questioning. I'm talking about serious doubt, lack of faith, not quite denial, but at least vulnerable toward it. And then lastly, if I don't get this whole faith thing, I start to feel a little distant from God. I begin to wonder if He really cares about me.

Have you done that? Or listened to somebody? If God really loved me, why would He allow this? Why would He do that?

Meeting Thomas the Courageous

We're going to look at a guy today who, I hope after we're done, you go, wow, I see him a little bit differently now than I did then. His name is Thomas. Cool name. And if I do word association with you and I say Thomas, you would say what? Doubting. I'm going to come back and go, I don't think you have the courage to be Thomas. See if I can light it up for you today. Because he actually is pretty courageous here.

You've got it in John chapter 20 verse 24. Let me read it, come back and pick up the points in the outline. "Now Thomas, one of the twelve, was not with the disciples. So Judas is gone. Thomas is gone and Jesus comes to the other ten. And the disciples told Thomas, we've seen the Lord. And he said, unless I see the nail marks in His hand and put my finger where the nails were, put my hand in His side, I won't believe."

So you get that self-explanatory. A week later, His disciples were in the house again. And Thomas was with them. So now the ten are there. Thomas is there. And though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." And then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here. See My hands. Reach out your hand and put it in My side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said, "My Lord and my God." Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed."

The Background: Easter is About a Risen Christ

So the background is this. Jesus has been crucified and died and was buried. And now He's risen. Now get this. It may look like a distinction without a difference to you, but it's a big deal. Easter's not about an empty tomb. It's about a risen Christ.

So these disciples at one point knew that the tomb was empty, but they're afraid and locked upstairs because they don't know why it's empty. Those that say they stole the body, that's kind of silly behavior. If they stole the body, they're not upstairs cowering. But then Jesus appears. That's what Easter's about is Jesus is alive.

Thomas isn't there. A lot to be said. If you study guys that teach this passage, there's a lot of freedom you can take, a lot of conjecture about Thomas and why he's not there. The reality is we don't know why. And sometimes they like to make a big point that he was off sulking or he was out maybe pursuing employment opportunities or whatever. We don't know. Maybe he needed to be alone. Sometimes you just need to be alone.

The Vulnerability of Being Alone

There's something that's said for solitude. I'm going to get to Williams tomorrow a couple hours early and I'll have a chance to just kind of sit back and it'll be cool. It'll be about 70 and I'll be able to sit back and just sit by myself and just relax, think, doze off, read a sentence or two. There's a time to be alone, but there's a vulnerability to being alone.

One of the things that I've seen over 20 years of doing the Bible studies in the church thing is when you've got somebody that's been consistently involved in your small group or something and all of a sudden they disappear, you better go after them. Not because you don't want to see the small group shrink. Who cares about the small group? You got to go, why aren't you here? Are you okay? Because they tend to get away. And when you get away, you really can be very vulnerable.

Watching a show one night on zebras and crocodiles and they're at this place in a river where the zebras cross and the crocodiles are there to get them. And the zebras are kind of gathering. I don't know if they're talking or they're getting a plan or what they're doing, but the crocodiles are there. Now, if I'm a crocodile, here's the way I would think. Sit in the middle of the river and they're going to come at you as a herd and then just pick one off. You got them all around. It's like mixing metaphors, shooting fish in a barrel. It's easy.

That's not what the crocodiles do. As the zebras come, one of the crocodiles will find one on the fringe and kind of move in and isolate him further, move him away from the herd. And then another crocodile comes and then one gets his head and one gets his tail and they spin till they break him in half. It doesn't make sense to me, but he's so vulnerable by himself. So are you as a person. I don't want to go down and make a huge point there, but if that applies to you, take it.

Thomas's Courageous Skepticism

Here's the first thing we see. Thomas, here's the testimony. Thomas, one of the 12, wasn't with them. And they said, "We've seen the Lord." Thomas hears it.

The second point is he's pretty skeptical in verse 25. He said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in His hand and put the finger where the nails were and put my hand in His side, I won't believe." That's what I mean by courage. Think of the peer pressure here. Thomas has just spent 11 years with these guys. We got the 10, but just think of three of them, Peter, James, and John. And they're saying, "Here's what we saw." And Thomas is saying, "I'm not buying it." That's pretty courageous. Might be stupid, I guess.

There's a certain individuality there of saying, "Listen, I'm not going to say I understand something when I don't or believe something if I didn't." The last time I was called for jury duty, I was there, and the question was, "Could you be an impartial juror?" I said, "I don't think I could." I don't know. And the question they asked was, "If the police officer said the sky was blue and the defendant said the

The Power of Doubt and Validation

Let me share a personal story that illustrates something important about doubt. I was once called for jury duty, and during the selection process, they asked if I would be more likely to believe a police officer or someone who had been indicted. I said that if both parties told completely opposite stories - say one claimed the sky was blue while the other said it was red - I would be prone to believe the police officer. Now, I know many of you in this room understand from experience that there are bad cops, but generally speaking, if I had a guy that was indicted and a cop saying exactly the opposite things, I would tend to believe the cop.

But that didn't get me off jury duty. I wasn't trying to get out - I simply said there's something in me that says there must be some degree of guilt or we wouldn't be here. Then the question came: do any of you jurors know each other? A guy put up his hand and said he knew me, pointing in my direction, saying we go to the same church. I thought I better say the same, so I said I know him too - we go to the same church, though I didn't recognize him at first.

The judge then asked if this other juror said in deliberations that he believed someone was guilty, would I have the strength to say they were innocent, or vice versa? I said yes. Then he asked the other man the same question in reverse, and he said yes. The judge was driving at the power of peer pressure.

There's a lot of courage here in Thomas. Maybe it's misplaced and he's wrong, but he expresses his skepticism and he obtained validation. He said, "Listen, I'm not going to buy this unless I can touch and feel."

A Week of Isolation

Then a week goes by in verse 26. Imagine that week for Thomas - that's a pretty isolated week. You know what it's like when you're together but don't have a lot to talk about. It's that awkward time when football's over and basketball's not in the playoffs and baseball season hasn't really started - there's not much to talk about.

So these guys are probably saying, "Thomas, you really don't buy this?" And Thomas is saying, "I don't." I can see the pressure mounting.

Jesus Appears to Thomas

A week later, they're all together, and Jesus comes. He comes though the doors are locked - He comes in through the wall. And He says, "Peace be with you. Relax." My sense is one guy in the room at that moment needed to hear that more than anybody else.

That's what Jesus is all about - shalom, whole peace. Not just the absence of conflict for a moment, but whole peace. Wholeness, life - life that you might live abundantly.

He turns to Thomas. I can't imagine the moment - I couldn't possibly build this up for you dramatically enough. But imagine: there's Jesus, and He said, "Here you go, buddy. You got your wish. Go ahead and put your hand in here and your finger here. And stop this doubting."

And Thomas says, "My Lord and my God."

Then there's a mild rebuke: "You believe because you've seen. There's a whole bunch of people one day who aren't going to see, but they're going to believe."

The Evidence We Have

But we have this great testimony in front of us. We have this book right here.

I have a friend - he was my best friend out of college back home. He has since passed away. I got down here, he stayed in Davenport, and God saved me. I started to share with Him, and my friend started to get into it a little bit and listen to tapes. One day I'm back home, and it's one of those things where we get together - you've got friends like this - and it's like you pick up right where you left off. There's never a gap.

So I went over around eight o'clock to his place, and now it's about 3:30 or four o'clock in the morning. I'm 35 years old and worried that my mom's going to ground me when I get back home since I'm staying with her. He said, "Schrager, if I could see a miracle, I'd believe."

I said, "Well, I'm a miracle because I was dead and now I'm alive. And here's a book of miracles. So there's the evidence. What are you going to do with it? You won't believe because you won't believe."

The Pattern of God's Intervention

Look at the Old Testament where you see God intervene again and again. You see Him say, "Let my people go." He parts the Red Sea. They don't have any food, and He gives them manna. They don't have any water, and they tap the rock and there's water. You see it again and again and again and again and again.

Then you get the ultimate proof - you get a risen Christ. I know it's a cliche, but at least in my life, it takes more faith to not believe this than to believe it at this point.

The Historical Evidence

I taught at Scottsdale Bible Church two weeks ago, and I pointed out that when I'd been a believer two or three years, I was sitting in that very section when Josh McDowell came and did a series called "The Resurrection Factor" - it's a little segment of his book "Evidence that Demands a Verdict." For me, it was one of those moments where everything went "wow" because it was an all-day conference on the historical accuracy of the resurrection.

I remember going, "Wow, if that's true and Jesus is alive, it just takes that faith to a whole new level." It's not me out there going, "I wish, I wish, I wish." It's me going, "There it is." Even Wikipedia tells me Jesus died. Now I know why - for my sin - and He's alive.

Christ Found Us

A long time ago I gave up trying to argue people into faith. I didn't give up caring, but I gave up trying to argue people into it. People say "I found Christ." Well, He was never lost. That picture wasn't on a milk carton somewhere with an Amber Alert saying "Anybody seen Jesus?" It's not "I found Christ" - He found you. You simply come, and it's available to anyone, and there are the facts.

John's Purpose

That's why this book, the Gospel of John, is that go-to Gospel. If you have your Bibles, it's right there at the end - John tells us why he wrote. I read a lot of books. Well, that's not true - I start a lot of books. And almost always in the introduction, the author will say "my aim in writing" or "my purpose in writing." In every book I have - I've got one in the car right now that I've read and reread and want to read again this afternoon - there's a place where it's circled and marked "purpose" or "aim."

John tells you why he's writing the Gospel of John, but he tells you here at the end, John 20:30. "Jesus did many other miraculous signs. So this is not an all-inclusive record of Jesus' life, but they're not recorded in this book. These are written, so think of the story we just looked at, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ"—that is, that Jesus is the Messiah—"and that by believing in Him you might have eternal life."

It's available to everybody. Just like my dad, you're going to die unexpectedly in timing, but not the event. And hanging in the balance is heaven and hell.

The Reality of Death and Eternal Life

I'm going through this death thing right now, and I know this is stupid because you've figured this out, but when you're dead, you're just gone. I'm not talking about the end and heaven and hell. I'm just gone. Calling up my dad's not an option. You don't exist. You're here.

I don't want to argue all the theology of that, but I'm saying you were alive and you were walking around, and you were at the ball game, or you went and played bingo, or you went on a cruise, or you played golf—you do whatever you did—and then you're just gone. Your clothes are there, and there's some pictures of you, but you're just gone. That's coming.

But that's not the end. You can believe and have eternal life, and when we think of eternal life, we tend to think of forever. I'm alright with that, but forever begins today. I'm in my part of eternal life right now, and the faith that we're talking about is not just the faith that assures for me heaven. It's the faith that's here with me, and it doesn't always feel like it.

What You Know Trumps What You Feel

Here's what He says: "I'll never leave you or forsake you," but sometimes it kind of feels like it, doesn't it? This didn't happen, and that didn't happen, and the project's off timing, and this guy didn't make this date, and this guy didn't make this date, and this guy needs to be paid, but I can't pay him until I get paid. And sometimes it feels like He left you or forsook you, but that's not true. How do I know that? Because He said "I'll never leave you or forsake you."

Sometimes you sin. I almost said screw up. Make a mistake. But it's sin. You sin, and you're going, "I don't get it. I do this all the time. I know better. I love Him. I say I love Him. Maybe I don't love Him. If I really loved Him, would I do this? How could He possibly love me? I think maybe I've reached quota. The only thing I've exceeded in quota is my sin. I'm over sin quota. He can't forgive me."

Here's the problem: He's stuck with you because He said, "I forgive your sin." So it doesn't feel like it. Here you go.

Five Practical Things

So simple. So basic.

**Number one: Spend a consistent time in the Word.** You're going, "Do I even need to waste the ink to write that down?" For me the last year, this has been very hard for me. I am not a disciplined person. I'm a lazy person, and I'm not very disciplined. And for me, I always disciplined myself to be in the Word by keeping my teaching schedule full. I haven't been able to teach because I can't get through the day. I read a verse or two and go, "I think I know all about that," and then I'm sidetracked.

You have to be in that Word. I don't care how boring it is or how repetitive it feels. Here you go: Master the Gospel of John, and master the book of Ephesians, and master Ecclesiastes. That's going to take you a while, and it's going to put you in that Word, and you'll start to see them on every page.

**Here's the second thing: Pray.** Pretty soon we see here this is relational. Pray. Open honest conversation with God. Not one of those "These and Thou" told me to. Not that. Just honest conversation. And even watch yourself manipulate God. "God, we've got a big decision to make tomorrow. We can do A or B or C or D. God, I want wisdom." And He said, "Really? Q. I wasn't even thinking Q." It wasn't even on the list. "God, I don't want that. I don't want to do this."

Honest Prayer in Action

I had a moment the other day where I said, "God, the last thing I want to do"—it's Kentucky Derby weekend—"the last thing I want to do is go to Williams and do a men's conference. Talk to a bunch of guys who probably heard this a million times and aren't going to do anything about it, and I'm going to go through it all. I don't want to do it. I just don't want to do it. I don't feel well. I hurt. It's 7,000 feet. I should just get a room at Flagstaff Memorial Hospital right now because that's where I'm going to be. That's where I'm going to be Saturday night. I don't want to go."

And then I got a call from the guy putting on the conference. I thought, "Perfect." "Hello?" "Is that you, Tom?" "Yeah." "I saw you at Scottsdale Bible last week. You did a good job." "Thank you. I really gave it all I had. Really wiped me out." "Are we on for next weekend?" I said, "Oh, next weekend already? You know, I'll be there. I'll give you everything I can."

What are you doing? Honest. And God goes, "Really? So I want to understand this. You say I'm Lord and Savior. I'm going to give you a chance to speak to 563 men about me. And you're trying to figure out how to get out of it so you can watch the Kentucky Derby? That just doesn't seem right." Now, did God say that in an audible way? No. Common sense kind of drove that home to me.

The Key to Loving God

This is the key to loving God: You have to spend time with Him. I told Sandy the other day, I said, "Our third anniversary is coming up on May 25. And I said, I love you more than I did when we got married." And she said, "Really?" I said, "Yeah." "Why is that?" I wasn't trying to get into a discussion here. I wasn't looking for a dialogue about it. I think it's true, and I thought you'd like it, and you'd say thank you, give me a little kiss, and maybe bake some cookies or something or whatever.

"Well, I don't know. I don't know because it's how I feel." What you know trumps what you feel. "But I know that I love you more." She said, "Well, why?"

Faith Grows Through Relationship

I said, "Here's what I think, because I know you better. I think that's it. I know you better. While I thought you were this, you're that and more." We talk, and I get to see you, and I see you under pressure situations. I see you with the grandkids, and then you get into, are they my kids, or your kids, or grandkids? We don't get into that, but you treat them like they're not even grandkids, but your kids. It's amazing to me how you do it. I see your discipline, and I just love you more.

My assumption is I'm going to love you more next year even, because I'm going to know you better. I'm not fabricating that. I'm just trying to—love is a hard thing to verbalize. That's why you pay some guy in Kansas City to write a card for you, to give it to him. It's a hard thing to say. I said, that's just the way I feel.

That's exactly true with God. Your feelings are going to deepen. Your confidence is going to grow. Your faith is going to expand if you know Him. The only way you can know Him is to let Him talk to you. That's through His word. And you talk to Him—that's through prayer.

Settling Doubts Through Personal Devotion

Here's the third thing: Settle your doubts through personal devotion. I think there are certain things that you're just going to doubt, because you don't have all the facts. You just have the reputation, the facts of the character, the one who's telling you. There are some times when God doesn't explain everything to you. He just says, "Do it."

I have two daughters. Haley was very easy. Sarah was very much like me. So with Sarah, you would say, "We're going to do this." And she would say—not disrespectfully; she wasn't ever disrespectful—she would say, "Well, why are we going to do that?" I'd give her an answer, the best I had. And she said, "OK. Well, why do you feel that way?" Once in a while, not very often, because I know I hated to hear this answer, I'd say, "Because I'm your dad. So get in the car."

Every once in a while, not very often, God says to you, "Because I'm your dad. I'm God. FYI, I'm God. You aren't. I understand. You're never going to understand. I've got this infinite brain, and you've got this little pea brain that can't figure out your smartphone."

Measuring Experience by Scripture

Here's the fourth thing: Measure your experience by the scripture, like the Bereans in Acts chapter 17, verse 11. What does God say? Not your personal feeling.

There was a guy on TV I was watching. I've started again, because I'm kind of off news. I can't handle it. So I'm watching—and this is dumb, because at that point, go to MLB or the Golf Channel—I go to Christian TV. Stupid. There's a guy on there, and here's what he said. He's a prosperity guy: "I'll never apologize for the house I live in, the car I drive, or the plane I fly. I'm all right with that. God said He's going to bless me. He's given me all this stuff, and I'm never going to apologize for it. And in essence, He'll bless you that way."

Well, that message—go to Nepal today and preach prosperity. It doesn't work. But the gospel is universal. Now, we can argue about it. If he was here, he would plead a very powerful case and by the end have you feeling sorry for the fact that jet fuel's rising in its cost. But I'm measuring it not by my experience, but by the biblical standard.

Accepting Unanswerable Questions

The last thing is: accept the existence of unanswerable questions. It's not that God owes you an answer for everything. Some things you aren't going to ever get, and that's OK. That doesn't disprove Him.

I made an observation from my own experience. Wrote it down to make sure I get this right: Most heresy flows from our efforts to explain or understand the unexplainable, the non-understandable, if that's a word. So I'm trying to put God in a box and figure out how would God work. I don't know what He does. I don't know why He's doing it. The big answer: for my good and His glory.

A Prayer of Faith

I was going through some files the other day and found something from years ago. It was a prayer that was accredited to an unknown Confederate or Civil War soldier. Doesn't matter the author. I really like this, and it speaks to this whole issue.

"Sometimes I wonder when things go wrong, has God forsaken or left me alone? Then I remember through trials and distress, He's always with me. I'm most richly blessed. I ask God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn to humbly obey. I ask for health that I might do great things. I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I ask for riches that I might be happy. I was given poverty that I might be wise. I ask for power that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I ask for all things that I might enjoy life, and I was given life that I might enjoy all things."

Here's the payoff: "I got nothing I asked for, but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. He's always with me, and I, among all men, am most richly blessed."

It's faith. It's faith to believe God, to trust Him.

Conclusion

That's the end of eight weeks on the ideal legacy and eight great topics. Eight weeks left till our summer break. We'll start a series next week. I'll go through and try to find eight-week series. That's what we'll look at next week.

By the way, I know how things go. Some of you are going to go, "I want to have a copy of that prayer." You think I'd be smart enough to make a copy of that prayer? I didn't. But take two lines: "I got nothing I asked for and everything I hoped for." If you Google that, you're going to find that.

Father, thank you for answers. Thank you for those times when we don't understand, but you give us the faith to move ahead based on your word and your character. I pray for those right now who are in some sort of struggle that you'll give them comfort, that you'll drive us to your word, to you in prayer. Father, we ask that in Christ's name.

I notice this transcript appears to be just the closing words of a sermon ("name, amen. Have a great week. I'll see you next week.") rather than the full content.

To properly edit a sermon transcript into a blog post format, I would need the complete transcript including the main teaching content, scripture exposition, illustrations, and arguments that Tom presented during the sermon on John 20 - Faith for Living.

Could you please provide the full sermon transcript?