Miracles: Embarrassed By The Supernatural

MIRACLES
Part 1: Miracles
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Mark 16:15-16

“The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.” G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy

• More than 94,000,000 Americans believe they have directly experienced a miracle. 

• 67% of American believe miracles are possible today. 

• 75% of 1,100 Doctors polled believe miracles can happen today.

Throughout the scriptures miracles are the way God identifies himself and asserts his dominance over other forces both physical and spiritual.

John 21:25 

Jesus performs so many miracles in the gospels that scholars Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz write, "Just as the kingdom of God stands at the center of Jesus' preaching, so healings and exorcisms form the center of his activity."

John 14:12 

Why were miracles so important to Jesus’ ministry?

"His miracles were a sign of the inbreaking of the kingdom or the rule-of God. They were a taste of the future, when healing will be complete. Jesus said, ‘But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you?’ These signs were a prelude to the entire restoration, when God will make a new heaven and a new earth. They remind us that a day is coming when there will be no more suffering or pain.” Craig Keener

Or as Eric Metaxas puts it:
“…what if the God who had created us and loved us had found a way to break through into our world and to offer us his hand, to say, If you take my hand I can take you back to where you once lived and to where you really belong, because your heart knows that you do?”