Christianity is a Miracle

Christianity is a Miracle

God is a miracle worker. Jesus Christ was a miracle and is a miracle. The Bible is a miracle Book. If we take the supernatural out of Christianity, we have a religion. Miracles are not out of harmony with the desire of humanity. A miracle worker, either real or false, will draw a greater congregation than the greatest philosopher or statesman in the world.

This love of the miraculous is not a mark of ignorance but rather an outreaching after the unseen God. Education does not eliminate the desire for the miraculous in man. That desire is intensified, as education unveils man’s impotence in the presence of the laws of nature and shows him his utter dependence upon the unseen.

It is not a mark of great scholarship, piety, or mental acumen to deny the miraculous.

The Universal Man Believes in Miracles.

The Bible is a record of miracles and Divine interventions. It is the history of the outbreakings of the supernatural realm into the natural. Beginning with Abraham all of the major characters of Old Testament history were miracle workers-or better, God wrought miracles through them. The thing that lifted Joseph from the prison to the office of the premier of Egypt was a miracle. Israel’s deliverance from Egypt’s bondage was by a series of miracles that shook Egypt to its very foundation.

The crossing of the Red Sea and the forty years in the wilderness were a series of miracles unparalleled in human history. The object of these miracles was to separate Israel from the dead gods of Egypt and bind them to the worship of the Living God of Abraham. Judaism was Judaism as long as the miracle-working God was manifest.

When miracles ended, Israel lapsed into heathenism and only came back into fellowship with their God after a series of staggering miracles. Had we space, it would be interesting to study the miracles of the Conquest of Canaan, the period of the Kings, of the Four Great Miracles recorded in Daniel that sent Israel back from captivity into their own land, free from idolatry, establishing a precedent of a nation of slaves set free, and sent to their own country with permission-aye, more-with funds to rebuild their city, their temple, and establish its worship; it has no parallel in human history, it is a distinct and definite miracle.

When Jesus began His public ministry, it was a ministry of miracles. When the Church began her ministry it was a ministry of miracles. Every revival since Pentecost that has honoured the humble Galilean has been a revival of miracles. The Church has never been rescued from Her backslidings by great philosophical teachers but by humble laymen who have had a new vision of the Christ, of “Him Who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

We crave the manifest presence of the Spirit in our religious services, a dry, dead meeting has no drawing power but a service where men are being richly blessed in the unfolding of Scripture or the saving of souls, the healing of the sick, or the filling with the Spirit, has a drawing power.
An outpouring of the Spirit is a challenge to a community at any time.

All normal men crave the supernatural, they long to see the manifestation of the power of God and to feel the thrill of the touch of the unseen.