Man And Miracles

MAN AND MIRACLES

JESUS! The very Name has within it miracle-working power, even to this day, though nearly two thousand years have rolled away since He walked with men. Jesus, the Galilean, was a miracle worker. Jesus’ life was a miracle.

His wisdom and teachings were miraculous.
He lived and walked in the realm of the miraculous.
He made miracles common.
His death was a miracle.
His resurrection was a miracle.
His appearances were miraculous.
His ascension was a staggering miracle.

But perhaps the most outstanding miracle of all those wonder days was the event of Pentecost. From the upper room, went forth men and women boldly to testify of Jesus’ Name, who fifty days before shrank in fear from the very names of the High Priest and his associates.

Peter, the trembling, fearful Peter, is now clothed with a power and fearlessness that is inexplicable; he goes out and faces the Sanhedrin, Senate, and High Priesthood with a courage that amazes us.

A stream of miracles flowed from the hands of the apostles that upset Judaism and shook the Roman government to its foundation. They made a discovery-the Name of the Man Whom they had loved, Whom they had seen nailed to that cross in nakedness, now has power equal to the power that He, Himself exercised when He was among them.

The sick were healed, the dead were raised, and demons were cast out by simply breathing that Name over the afflicted ones. What a stream of miraculous love, life, hope, and joy showered from the ministry of those humble Galileans.

Those first thirty-three years of early history as seen in Acts, were sample years of the acts of the Church until the return of Her Lord and Master. Man is the offspring of the miracle worker. The miracle-working desire is embedded deep in the consciousness of man. Christianity is based on a series of miracles culminating in Pentecost.