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THE MIRACLES OF JESUS
(Continued from Page Two.)
this God works a series of miracles,
such for example, as the delivery of
Daniel from the mouth of the lions,
and the delivery of the three Hebrew
children from the fiery furnace.
These miracles were for the purpose
not only of creating wonder and
amazement and the revelation of a
power above the natural, but for
the purpose of accomplishing certain
beneficent results, which results
would stand out as a sign attesting a
worthy message and a worthy mes
senger.
Then the world moves again with
out miracles until we come to the
days of Jesus Christ and the apostles
and here we find again the same
principle we have already seen con
cerning miracles. Prophets have
prophesied and poets have sung
about the coming of the Messiah.
John the Baptist has gone up and
down the -wilderness region of Judea,
proclaiming that the Messiah is at
hand, and the Messiah has come.
His first official act is to submit to
the Baptism of John who had pro
claimed Him already to the world,
and the world stands and looks with
wonder and amazement in their
hearts and minds; they cannot take
it in. It is too great a truth to
break upon them and they must have
more proof, so Jesus, to convince
them of His Messiahship, works
these miracles; He feeds the hungry,
heals the sick, cleanses the leper,
opens the eyes of the blind, raises
the dead, and preaches the gospel to
the poor and outcast, the last being
as great a miracle in that day and
time as any of the former.
I want you to observe that these
miracles of Jesus also contained the
four elements of a miracle. In the
first place, they are wonders. In the
next place they are wrought by su
pernatural power; in the next place
they are to accomplish certain bene
ficent results, and in the next place to
attest a worthy message and messen
ger. No miracle was ever performed
by Christ or before Him that was
simply for the beneficent purpose.
No miracle was ever performed by
Christ simply for the purpose of
creating wonder and raising a stir
and a sensation. No miracle was
ever performed by Christ simply to
reveal the fact that He was possess
ed with extraordinary power, for the
devil can accomplish all these things.
The devil can work wonders of a cer
tain character, but they are not mir
acles; they do not contain these es
sential elements. He can perform
wonders, he can perform works of a
power above the natural; and much
of what is known in the world today
as miracles is nothing more nor less
than a revelation of the power of the
devil. But no miracle of the devil
contains this last element, namely, to
attest a worthy message and a
worthy messenger. All the miracles
of Jesus are for the purpose of ac
complishing in the last analysis this
end. Jesus never worked a miracle
for any man simply to bless him.
Jesus never healed a sick man simply
to heal him. Jesus never cast a
dumb spirit out of a man simply for
the purpose of freeing him of the
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dumb spirit. Jesus never unstopped
the deaf ears of a man simply for the
purpose of allowing him to hear; he
never opened the eyes of a blind
man simply that he might see. All
this is incident to the one great un
derlying purpose, namely, to attest
a worthy message and a worthy mes
senger.
What is the message of Jesus
which He proposes to give? It is
His Messiahship. Take the first mir
acle that He wrought, converting the
water into wine on the occasion of
the marriage feast. What is the un
derlying purpose of that miracle?
It is not simply to make wine; not
simply to furnish wine for an occa
sion that needed it; it was for the
purpose of proclaiming His Messiah
ship.
Now, my brethren, follow me fur
ther. It was exactly this way with
the miracles of the Apostolic Church;
the, miracles of the Apostles. They
wrought miracles in those days. Why
did they work miracles? We always
have to come back and take the con
dition of the world and stuuy it and
then understand and interpret in the
light of those conditions, the work
of our Lord.
I have on a former occasion called
your attention to the dominant
thought at the time of Jesus. I have
called your attention to the fact that
there were three schools of thought
—the Essenes, who withdrew them
selves from all contact with the world
and lived to themselves. There was
the school of the Sadducees, the un
believers, the skeptics of the time;
there was the school of the Pharisees
who were the exclusive religionists
of the time. Now this condition of
things faced the Apostles when they
started out for the work of estab
lishing the Christian Church. And
wherever they went to plant the
Christian Church they were confront
ed with the existing schools of
thought. It was necessary, therefore,
that there should be some sign from
Heaven, proclaiming Christ as the
Messiah. And so, all along in con
nection with the establishment of the
Church of Christ through and by the
preaching of the Apostles we find the
miraculous power of Jesus manifest
ing itself through their hands; the
sick were healed, not for the purpose
of healing, not simply and alone for
the purpose of working works of be
neficence, as worthy a thing as that
is, but always that through these
there might be the sign of the Christ
of God; the Messiah of prophecy.
That is the underlying motive in all
the miraculous work of all the Apos
tles and the New Testament Church.
Just here I want to say that the
same is true today with refer
ence to the work of the Christian
Church. Jesus Christ never saves
a soul only for the purpose of saving
a soul. Os course that is important,
but one soul is saved that through
one soul He may reach another, and
the other soul saved that through
that soul He may reach still another,
and on and on; all forming a chain of
salvation. That is the purpose of
Jesus. And if you have been saved
think you not that your salvation
which is in itself a miracle, is finished
■until at last you shall have laid down
your life and gone to your reward!
And then it is not finished for the in
fluence that you leave will go on ac
cumulating force and power and mag
nitude and strength until the angel
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