WELCOME- DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?
MIRACLE DEFINITION
EXTRAORDINARY WORK PERFORMED DIRECTLY BY THE POWER OF GOD IN OUR NATURAL WORLD FOR HIS GLORY AND TO ATTEST TO HIS WORD, PRESENCE AND LOVE.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 11:2-3
2. “WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS IN PRISON, HE HEARD WHAT JESUS WAS DOING. HE SENT HIS FOLLOWERS. THEY ASKED, “ARE YOU THE ONE WHO WAS TO COME, OR SHOULD WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER?”
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 11:4
4. JESUS SAID TO THEM, “GO AND TELL JOHN WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR.
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 11:5
5. THE BLIND ARE MADE TO SEE. THOSE WHO COULD NOT WALK ARE WALKING. THOSE WHO HAVE HAD BAD SKIN DISEASES ARE HEALED. THOSE WHO COULD NOT HEAR ARE HEARING. THE DEAD ARE RAISED UP TO LIFE AND THE GOOD NEWS IS PREACHED TO POOR PEOPLE.
VIEWS ON MIRACLES CONTINUUM
- THERE ARE NO MORE MIRACLES
PICTURE OF YOUNG MAN
- MANOJ YADAV- SURGERY 18 YRS/YEAR REWIRING
SCRIPTURE JOHN 9:1-2
- “AS HE WENT ALONG, HE SAW A MAN BLIND FROM BIRTH. HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM, “RABBI, WHO SINNED, THIS MAN OR HIS PARENTS, THAT HE WAS BORN BLIND?”
- FEAST OF TABERNACLES- THOUSANDS GATHERED
BLINDNESS WAS A COMMON ISSUE THEN
SCRIPTURE RECORDS JESUS HEALING 5 DISTINCT EPISODES- TOTAL OF 7 BUT WE KNOW MOR
SUFFERING=SIN
- THE GENERAL THOUGHT IS THIS
- SOME JEWS THOUGHT BABIES COULD SIN/WOMB
- NO DOUBT CONSEQUENCES FOR SIN
- THE STORY OF JOB REFUTES THAT
SCRIPTURE JOHN 9:3-4
- “NEITHER THIS MAN NOR HIS PARENTS SINNED, SAID JESUS, “BUT THIS HAPPENED SO THAT THE WORKS OF GOD MIGHT BE DISPLAYED IN HIM. AS LONG AS IT IS DAY, WE MUST DO THE WORKS OF HIM WHO SENT ME. NIGHT IS COMING, WHEN NO ONE CAN WORK.
THE DISCIPLES NEED TO LEARN HES NOT A THEOLOGICAL PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED BUT A PERSON TO BE HELPED AND HEALED
SCRIPTURE JOHN 9:5-6
5. WHILE I AM IN THE WORLD, I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. “AFTER SAYING THIS, HE SPIT ON THE GROUND, MADE SOME MUD WITH THE SALIVA, AND PUT IT ON THE MAN’S EYES.
- NOT SUPPOSED TO SPIT ON SABBATH
- DEFINITELY CAN’T MAKE MUD AND RUB OR KNEAD
- JESUS DOESN’T NEED MUD-
- CONNECTS HIMSELF CREATION FORMED YOU
- AGAIN USES WHAT IS PROVIDED PERFORMS MIRACLE.
- CONTRAST “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD” AND THIS MAN LIVING IN TOTAL DARKNESS
- MOM EVER USE SALIVA FOR YOUR HAIR?
PICTURE OF MAN BEGGING
- ALMOST LIKE THIS WAS DEFAULT JOB
JOHN 9:7
7. “GO, HE TOLD HIM, “WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM (WHICH MEANS SENT). SO THE MAN WENT AND WASHED, AND CAME HOME SEEING.
PICTURE OF MAP
- THE DISTANCE A BLIND BEGGER TRAVELED
- HOW DID HE GET THERE? HALF MILE MAYBE
- JESUS AGAIN PARTNERS WITH PEOPLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE MIRACLE
SCRIPTURE JOHN 9:8
8. HIS NEIGHBORS AND THOSE WHO HAD FORMERLY SEEN HIM BEGGING ASKED, “ISNT THIS THE SAME MAN WHO USED TO SIT AND BEG?”
- THIS IS THEIR INTERPRETATION
THE CHOSEN
- THE REACTION OF THE MAN
- SEEING FOR THE FIRST TIME
NEIGHBORS THINK THEY RECOGNIZE HIM
- THESE AREN’T MAGIC TRICKS
- WHO DIDN’T SEE WHO HERE? WAS HE INVISIBLE?
13They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.14Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.15Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight.“He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
16Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?”So they were divided.
17Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
18Theystill did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents.19“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
20“We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind.21But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders,who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put outof the synagogue.
24A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,”they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
SCRIPTURE JOHN 9:25
25. “HE REPLIED, “WHETHER HE IS A SINNER OR NOT, I DON’T KNOW. ONE THING I DO KNOW. I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE!”
SO HOW’D HE OPEN YOUR EYES?
27He answered, “I have told you alreadyand you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?” (JOHN ADDS HUMOR)
28Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses!29We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
BLIND STATS
- JOHN IN 1 CHAPTER- 13 TIMES USES WORD BLIND
- JOHN SAY 5 TIMES HE WAS BORN BLIND
THE MAN WITH NO NAME SAYS:
32Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.33If this man were not from God,he could do nothing.”
UP TO THIS POINT- THE MAN HASN’T SEEN JESUS
SCRIPTURE 9:35
35. JESUS HEARD THAT THEY HAD THROWN HIM OUT, AND WHEN HE FOUND HIM, HE SAID, “DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE SON OF MAN?”
SCRIPTURE JOHN 9:36
36. “WHO IS HE, SIR?” THE MAN ASKED, TELL ME SO THAT I MAY BELIEVE IN HIM.” JESUS SAID, “YOU HAVE NOW SEEN HIM; IN FACT, HE IS THE ONE SPEAKING TO WITH YOU.”
SCRIPTIRE JOHN 9:38
38. THEN THE MAN SAID, “LORD, I BELIEVE, AND HE WORSHIPPED HIM.
MIRACLE TWICE.
- A PHYSICAL HEALING- SIGHT IS RESTORED
- THE GREATER MIRACLE IS A SPIRTUAL ONE
- THERE IS AS MIRACLE BEHIND THE MIRACLE
VIDEO
- MAN SEES COLOR FOR FIRST TIME
- THE ABILITY TO SEE WHAT YOU COULD NOT SEE BEFORE
- SPIRTUALLY-
IS ANY AMONG YOU SICK? LET THEM CALL THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH TO PRAY OVER THEM AND ANOINT THEMN WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. 15. AND THE PRAYER OFFERED IN FAITH WILL MAKE THE SICK PERSON WELL; THE LORD WILL RAISE THEM UP. IF YOU HAVE SINNED, THEY WILL BE FORGIVEN.
THEREFORE CONFESS YOUR SINS TO EACH OTHER AND PRAY FOR EACH OTHER SO THAT YOU MAY BE HEALED. THE PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS PERSON IS POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE.
WAYMAKER LYRICS
You are here, You’re moving in our midst
I worship You I worship You
You are here, You’re working in this place
I worship You I worship You
Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper
Light in the darkness, my God That is who You are
Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper
Light in the darkness, my God
That is who You are
- THOUSANDS JESUS NOTICES THIS MAN
- JESUS GOES AFTER ONE- TWICE