Joh 4:49 The nobleman
said to Him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!"
50 Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your
son lives." So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he
went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told
him, saying, "Your son lives!" 52 Then he inquired of them the hour
when he got better. And they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour
the fever left him." 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in
which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." And he himself believed,
and his whole household. 54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had
come out of Judea into Galilee.
Let us read this text
and rejoice at the birthing of unshakeable saving faith! This nobleman had
journeyed to see Jesus because his son was near death and his only hope was a
miracle! A miracle that he believed could only be accomplished if Jesus were to
travel with him back to his home. That’s the way miracle workers work….in
person, with an audience.
Jesus was indeed a
respected miracle worker, hence the nobleman initially addresses Him with the
title, “sir,” but before it’s over, Jesus will be his Lord!
Faith in Jesus is
birthed in His command, “Go your way!” The nobleman’s confident obedience to
that command, without further discussion is proof positive of a supernatural
faith in the words of Jesus. That my
friend is faith. It is an unexplainable trust in the words of Jesus and it is a
gift from God! Eph 2:8,9 says, “For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest
anyone should boast.”
The nobleman’s first
step back to Capernaum sums up all that faith is.
But doubt is ever
lurking in the matter of faith. The devil continually seeks to snatch the Word
of faith away. I mean, what if, it was just a coincidence that the fever left
the boy. Well, God, in His providence took care of that little argument.
Q. What’s the last thing
Jesus said to the nobleman?
A. “Your son lives.”
Q. What’s the first
thing the nobleman’s servants said to him?
A. “Your son lives!”
And if that’s not
enough, the nobleman asks, “when did my son get better,” and they replied, “yesterday
at 1 in the afternoon!” That was the same hour that Jesus told the nobleman his
son lives!
Not only was the faith
of the nobleman strengthened, but his whole household acknowledged Jesus as the
Lord!
There we have it, an
eyewitness account of saving faith being birthed through this second sign from
the Gospel of John!
One other note, in case we
get confused about the timing here. The healing took place at one in the
afternoon. The servants left to tell the nobleman the news at the same time the
nobleman headed back home. They met sometime after sunset, (the start of a new
day by the reckoning of the Jews, hence the reference to yesterday)
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