I Believe in Miracles

We live in contemporary times.

Things that our forebears in the faith held dear and common among us are become anathema to modern believers including miracles, one of the fundamentals of the faith through which God validated his men including Jesus Christ and his followers.

No wonder miracles are signs and wonders. In this lesson, we make a first attempt to demonstrate God is a miracle worker and one who delights in the wonders of his power to convince people and dissolve their doubts.

It will be a blessing to you.

Amen.

I Believe in Miracles

Early on in the ministry of the apostles, the high point of preaching the gospel and every proselytizing debate was the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Books of the new testament are chief evidence of this, starting with Acts of Apostles where every public ministry was about God's offer of salvation in the person of Jesus with overwhelming scriptural basis why Jesus is the Christ and the evidence in chief for this is His resurrection from the dead. In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul devoted his a significant portion to present a treatise on resurrection further reinforcing this as a major biblical theme.

Though the setting was a court hearing but the case was with respect to the gospel and the context much broader, Paul appeared before King Agrippa and asked profoundly the following albeit rhetorically:

Acts 26:8
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Except you have a world view that denounces God, the idea of God even in a speculative sense, and where you subscribe to the idea of God in a highly diminished sense, the question is a highly valid one.

1. We, as Christians believe there is one God and He is the Most High.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

Zechariah 14:9
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

Mark 12:29-32

1 Corinthians 8:6
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ , by whom are all things, and we by him.

Ephesians 4:4-6
There is one body , and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

2. Yes, invisible for the most part but first introduced Himself to us in His work of creation.
Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

1 Timothy 1:17
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Romans 1:19-20
Colossians 1:15-16

3. All creation we attribute to Him, the vastness of which suggest the expanse of His power and the magnificence of His person.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Psalms 100:3

4. Biblical evidence strongly suggest His stronghold on the course of history.
God rules in the affairs of men.

5. And in the course of history, working with men, He performed many signs and wonders, activities that were ordinarily impossible in nature. There were times He unexplainably but blatantly bent nature to His will which many that have no regard for God deem natural even when they have no compelling alternative explanation.

In judgement, He brought a flood upon the world in the days of Noah. Genesis 6-8
Furthermore, Egypt also faced ten plagues that seemed natural but was in essence, God's judgement.
Exodus 9:14

Elijah shut up the heavens for 3.5 years that there should be no rain but at his command.
1 Kings 17:1 (18:1, 41, 44, 45)
And Elijah the Tishbite , who was of the inhabitants of Gilead , said unto Ahab , As the LORD God of Israel liveth , before whom I stand , there shall not be dew nor rain these years , but according to my word.

What about food supply?
Israel got miraculous supply of food for 40 years in the wilderness.
Elijah was fed by a Raven twice daily. 1 Kings 17
The widow of Zarephath was miraculously supplied food.

6. In the fullness of time, He made Himself visible in Jesus Christ who continued the miraculous works the high point being raising people from the dead including Himself.
Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

Hebrews 1:1-3

So, Paul's question was appropriate. Why should anyone find it incredible that this God can raise the dead? It is called a miracle, an act of God in divine reality the effect of which is perceptible in significant alteration to human reality to our advantage.

For me, I believe in God and I believe in miracles.
I believe God wrought miracles, in time past, presently and for the rest of this age at least.