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WHO CARES? (3 OF 3)

by Central Christian Church of Arizona

Scripture: Luke 13:10-35, Luke 14:1-6
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Who Cares? (3 of 3)
Series: Miracles
Cal Jernigan
Luke 13:10-17; Luke 14:1-6


Big Idea: Miracles are most often an expression of the compassion of God.

1) Getting Started

a) Greetings

b) Today we begin a new series: Miracles

c) Explanation of jumping all over
i) Miracles
ii) Parables

d) Get out:

i) Journals:
(1) Title: Who Cares?
(2) Big idea: Miracles are most often an expression of the compassion of God.

ii) Bibles
(1) Text:
(a) Luke 13; 10-17
(b) Luke 14:1-6

2) About Miracles

a) Everybody loves a good miracle

i) While this is not totally true, most people love miracles

ii) Miracles:
(1) Capture our attention
(2) Give up hope

iii) In this ever increasingly Godless culture, it's a miracle that anyone believes in miracles... but many do... and more are

iv) A 2012 article about Americans' belief in miracles summarized the following statistics gathered from recent surveys:
(1) 55 percent of Americans are ''certain'' that miracles happen (a 20 percent increase from 1991)
(2) 80 percent believe that miracles ''certainly'' or ''probably'' occur.
(3) 23 percent of respondents said they had witnessed a miraculous physical healing and 16 percent said they had received a miraculous healing.
(4) 75 percent of respondents said they had prayed to God to receive healing from an illness or injury; nearly 85 percent had prayed for someone else's healing
(a) David Briggs, Belief in Miracles Climbs in the Age of Oprah

b) What is a miracle?

i) By definition: ''An effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.''

ii) Most often this effect or event is considered as a work of God.

iii) God suspended ''natural laws'' and intervened ''supernaturally''
(1) Super-natural means ''above'' natural

c) It's a miracle!

i) Sometimes when an unlikely outcome occurs...
(1) In 2007 when two brothers, Alcides and Edgar Moreno, ...

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