John 2:18-22 – So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

A. The Growing Disciple is a ________________ disciple

1. __________________ thinking – John 2:22, Acts 2:22-24, Phil. 3:10, 1 Peter 1:3-5
2. __________________ thinking – John 2:22, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Psalm 77

B. The Growing Disciple is a ________________ disciple

1. True belief _________ upon credible evidence – John 2:22, Matthew 24:3-14, Matthew 24:35
2. True belief _______ upon credible evidence – Acts 4:19-20, Acts 5:28-29

Martin Luther – “You can readily say, ‘I believe in Christ.’ But it takes the hardest kind of work to keep this faith fixed and sure and permanent in the heart. The defilement of the spirit remains, and neither our reason nor Satan stops working with all their powers to make us do without the Word and rule ourselves by our own opinions.”