"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Act" Series, titled "Wait For The Whisper"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Act" Series, titled: "Wait For The Whisper" (Broadcast #6999)
Scripture References: John 20, Ephesians 3:20

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much and hello again radio friends. How in the world are you? Doing alright today? Well, I trust so. Bless your heart. This is your good friend, Bob Cook. And I’m glad to be back with you to share some highlights from the Word of God. I do these broadcasts at odd hours when I can. My schedule is cut up these days by a number of things, and so it happens that right now it’s four minutes after midnight. And it’s just you and me and the Lord and the Bible. Everything’s quiet. And I’m just glad for the chance to share some things with you. Does it ever come over you how good the Lord has been to give us to each other? I couldn’t have set this up by myself, nor indeed, I suppose, could any of you, if you wanted to that is. But God has put us together in this precious fellowship of His inerrant, inspired, infallible Word, the Bible. Some of the things that the Spirit of God says to all of us turned out to be very special to some of you. And that, of course, is an answer to my prayer. I pray everyday before I begin these messages that God will speak, especially, to some needy hearts. I’m glad when He does.

I’ve been just summarizing the highlights, you might say, in some of the chapters of the Gospel of John before we turn to another portion of the Word of God. I’m looking now at the 20th chapter and I just wanted to stop and emphasize the importance of being with God’s people regularly. Thomas missed out. Thomas, one of the 12, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. This is after His resurrection. The other disciples therefore said, “We’ve seen the Lord.” But he said, “I saw Him die. I was there. And except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side. I saw… I was there.” he was saying, when that Roman broad bladed spear went into His body, and blood and water came out. “Unless I can see that and put my hand into that wound, I won’t believe.” Now, don’t be too hard on Thomas. We call him doubting Thomas. That’s the appellation that we’ve hung on him through the years, doubting Thomas. Don’t be too hard on him. Death is a terrible reality, and when you’ve seen someone die, you know that it’s final.

And all that Thomas was doing was just being human, and at the same time, giving voice to the terrible hurt that was in his heart. When people lash out in what seems to be doubt or even verbal abuse, don’t lash back. They’re hurting and they’re human, and that’s just how it is. That was what it was with Thomas. Well, a week went by, and this is after eight days. “Again, His disciples were gathered and Thomas now was with them. Then came Jesus.” The door was being shut. He didn’t have to knock on the door, He just walked in. That new resurrection body was no longer limited by time and space. It was as though he said to the atoms in the door, “Move aside. Your creator is coming through.” And so, He came and stood in the midst and said, “Peace be unto you.” Then he said, “Thomas, all right. Where’s your finger? Reach your finger, behold my hands. Reach hither your hand, thrust it into my side. Be not faithless but believing.” And Thomas, of course, was convinced. He said, “My Lord, my God.”

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Isaiah 55:11:
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”