Miracles.
What is a miracle?
That's pretty simple.
A miracle is an event that defies natural laws
and it can be accounted for only with a supernatural explanation.
Yet, for example, the birth of a child.
That's not a miracle.
It's wonderful, but it's not a miracle.
But defying the law of gravity and walking on water?
Not bad.
That's a miracle.
Again, there's nothing miraculous about reviving a person with CPR.
But bringing a dead person back to life?
Not bad and that is miracle.
Some people claim not any type of miracle would be impossible.
Why do they say this?
The main reason that people claim that all miracles are impossible
is because they reject any idea of the super natural.
They don't believe in God.
They believe that the material universe-- the natural world--is all that there is.
And, see, in their minds, there can't be anything that could interfere with the
natural world because natural laws they say are the only things that exist
are nature and material.
Once a person denies the existence of God, he's forced to deny miracles.
Regardless of how good of evidence you can present,
he has to say no miracles can occur because the material world is all that there
is.
But if we can prove that God exists and we can then we can show that miracles
They're not only possible, but they're probable.
You know, of course, Jesus Christ is probably the most famous miracle worker of all time.
He used miracles to prove that He is God.
When Peter preached to the Jews-- who had put Jesus to death--
He reminded them that Christ's identity as the Son of God have been
proven by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst
even as you yourselves also know Peter said to the Jews.
The Jews did know they had witnessed Christ's miracles almost on a daily basis.
Even Jesus's enemies, often they had to admit that
nobody can do what Jesus did unless God was with Him.
Jesus performed all kinds of miracles.
He performed miracles of physical healing such as healing a man who was paralyzed.
He healed people who were sick.
He healed the nobleman's son.
He healed ten lepers and healed deafness.
He healed blindness.
He also stilled the storm and performed miracles of a natural order.
He raised people from the dead.
He even predicted his own death and rose three days after he died, exactly like he
said.
Unlike some modern-day miracles, Jesus's miracles...
They weren't performed under controlled conditions.
They weren't faked for television cameras.
When Jesus healed a person, that person was healed.
Jesus's followers, they were empowered to perform miracles as well and they were
empowered to perform miracles to prove that they
were God's servants.
In fact, that's what we see.
The purpose of miracles to have been.
They were used to confirm the Word of God that was being preached.
Today, we've got God's Word and the Bible.
There's no longer need to confirm the Word because miracles have done that for us
and the inspired Word of God has been confirmed.
There's no need for miracles today to confirm the word because we have
it.
Miracles certainly can and did happen.
And once we establish that God exists, miracles fit perfectly into a correct
view of the world today.
We've got God's Word confirmed.
We don't need miracles anymore like we once did,
but miracles are certainly something that happened in the past
and were used to confirm that Jesus is God's Son
and that the Bible is His Word.