Do you believe in miracles?

Do you believe in miracles?

Let us look at a passage of scripture that can us some answers on what people believed about two thousand years ago.

Luke 9:7 now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him (Jesus); and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

Luke 9:8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

Luke 9:9 Herod said, “John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?” So he sought to see Him. Luke 23:8 now when Herod saw Jesus he hoped to see some miracle done by Him.

Let us look at what the people were saying: some said, others said and Herod heard. What do you think that they were talking about? Let me give you a clue. Miracles!

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Let me give you an example or a picture of what could of took place back in Jesus day and even before Jesus came.

There were a few men gathered at the marketplace waiting to get hired (Matthew 20:6) talking amongst themselves. One of them said: have you heard that John Smith is alive now. Yeah, he just pushed back the dirt and came out of the grave. One of the other men said: Wow, that’s extraordinary.

Then the other man said: when did he die? Then the first man said: about a hundred years ago. Then the third man said: How old was he when he died? And the first man said: about ninety years old. The second man said: that is amazing; can you believe that another man has risen from the dead this year?  

Then the third man said: how did he look? Then the first man said: he looked to be about seventy years old, pretty good I would say. The second man said: Wow. The third man said: what will he be doing now? Then the first man said: flipping houses, you know that he was pretty good at remodeling homes.

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Do you get the picture? Everyone believed in miracles back then. The Jews, Gentiles, romans, Kings and the common people. Why don’t we today believe in miracles? I can understand why the world today does not believe in miracles, because Jesus performed more miracles than anyone who ever lived. But the Church and Christians should believe in miracles.

Some say that miracles were only for the early Church. NOT! Jesus taught His disciples to cast out demons, heal the sick and raise the dead and then in: Mat 28:20 “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Miracles should be happening until Christ comes back. Hello!

Jesus is the same today as He ever was, so miracles should still be happening: Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Casting out demons is a miracle. Mar 9:38 now John answered Him, saying, “Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow us casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.”

Mar 9:39 but Jesus said, “Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My name can soon afterward speak evil of Me.

Pastors and Teachers are a higher position in the Church then Miracles. 1Co 12:28 and God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

Pastors and Teachers should be casting out demons today, but unfortunately many cannot even cast a stone from their own driveway.

Jesus is always at work: John 5:17 in his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

This is wonderful miracle told in the Old Testament and the food lasted for 3 years: 1Kings 17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.”

1Kings 17:11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

1Kings 17:12 So she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

1Kings 17:13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son.

1Kings 17:14 “For thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth.’ ”

1Kings 17:15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days.

1Kings 17:16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke by Elijah.

Jesus said that when He comes back, will He find faith. He did not say: will I find Christians. God wants His people to believe in Him and the works that He called us to do. Two things need to happen. First grow your faith, and then use it. Second get in the Spirit and not in the flesh. When you are under the law, you are in the flesh. The Kingdom of God is not just some kind of talk (1 CO 4:20) but in power.

Bill Naugle