John 18:20-21 and 37
There once was a man who went to many doctors and many hospitals and was still afflicted. He found a small book about prayer in his garage about and how people with all types of illnesses had prayed to God and he had healed them. He remembered the stories in Sunday school about the wonderful miracles that God had performed in the Bible. He started to seek the God who had wrought all those miracles in the Old Testament. Something led him to a Pentecostal church in the town where he was living. The second service he attended two people were getting baptized. An elder in the church motioned him to where he was sitting and told him about Acts 2:38. The man agreed with the elder that Bible says we should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus was answering the high priest in verses 20-21 how he had taught openly in the synagogue. The high priest had heard the words that Jesus spoke but he had not heard his voice. Pilate heard his words but did not hear his voice either, because he asked "What is truth?"
Many people read the Bible and it is simply black and red ink on white paper, but Jesus stated everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice. The young man in the church service not only read the words but heard the voice he had been looking for all of his life. The voice of the Lord Jesus Christ, let us all remember how blessed we are to have heard his voice and obeyed the truth.
Mike Green
