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Welcome to Day 2351 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to\xa0Wisdom He Is Risen - Blessed Are You Who Have Not Seen, and Yet Believe \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 03/31/2024 He Is Risen \u2013 Resurrection Sunday: Blessed Are Those Who Believe Without Seeing Me \u2013 John 20:19-31 \xa0 Today, we finish our five-week Lenten series this Resurrection Sunday. Today, our message is \u201cBlessed are those who believe without seeing me.\u201d Our Scripture passage for today is John 20:19-31 on pages 1686-1687 of your Pew Bibles. 19\xa0On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders,\xa0Jesus came and stood among them and said,\xa0\u201cPeace\xa0be with you!\u201d\xa020\xa0After he said this, he showed them his hands and side.\xa0The disciples were overjoyed\xa0when they saw the Lord. 21\xa0Again Jesus said,\xa0\u201cPeace be with you!\xa0As the Father has sent me,\xa0I am sending you.\u201d\xa022\xa0And with that he breathed on them and said,\xa0\u201cReceive the Holy Spirit.\xa023\xa0If you forgive anyone\u2019s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.\u201d 24\xa0Now Thomas\xa0(also known as Didymus[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.\xa025\xa0So the other disciples told him, \u201cWe have seen the Lord!\u201d But he said to them, \u201cUnless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side,\xa0I will not believe.\u201d 26\xa0A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said,\xa0\u201cPeace\xa0be with you!\u201d\xa027\xa0Then he said to Thomas,\xa0\u201cPut your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.\u201d 28\xa0Thomas said to him, \u201cMy Lord and my God!\u201d 29\xa0Then Jesus told him,\xa0\u201cBecause you have seen me, you have believed;\xa0blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.\u201d 30\xa0Jesus performed many other signs\xa0in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.\xa031\xa0But these are written that you may believe[b]\xa0that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God,\xa0and that by believing you may have life in his name. There is no more important question than, \u201cDid Jesus rise from the dead?" Because if Jesus did rise from the dead, then he has conquered sin and death. But if he did not rise from the dead, his claims are entirely false. There's nothing to them and no hope to be found in them. Either Christ is the hope of the world, or he is the great...