Jesus Is Outnumbered (1 of 2)
Series: Miracles
Scott Maze
Luke 8:26-39
In our multi-year journey through the Gospel of Luke, we arrive at a narrative where Luke reports a series of three miracles: 1) Jesus Confronts a Demonized Man; 2) Jesus Heals the daughter of a Synagogue Ruler; and 3) A woman who has bled for twelve years touched Jesus’ clothes and was healed. Each of these three stories is designed to show the tremendous power Jesus possesses.
In the brief span of just two Sundays, I want to explore these stories of Jesus’ miracles in some depth. But I also want to entertain three questions everyone should ask themselves concerning miracles.
1. Why Should I Believe in Miracles?
2. How Can Miracles Happen to Me?
3. Why Doesn’t a Miracle Happen to Me?
That Jesus was a miracle worker is central to Christianity both then and now. There is a high prevalence of miracles inside the gospel stories for whenever anyone reads the pages of the Bible, they are confronted by numerous miracle stories. From the sun standing still in Joshua’s day to snake bites instantly cured in Moses’ day, from the animals going in two-by-two into Noah’s ark to Lot’s wife turning into salt upon fleeing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and from Daniel reclining inside a den of hungry lions to the ten plagues in Egypt that would set
the children of Israel free. The Bible is a book of miracles. Luke alone includes some twenty miracle-stories in his Gospel.
1. Why Believe in Miracles?
Some people can’t believe the miracles of the Bible. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, used a razor to cut out the supernatural sections of the gospels of the New Testament. While he was President, Jefferson used a razor and then glue, he proceeded to cut and paste selections from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John by removing Jesus the Faith Healer and leaving only Jesus, the Moral Teacher.
In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of 150 scholars called the Jesus Seminar t ...
Series: Miracles
Scott Maze
Luke 8:26-39
In our multi-year journey through the Gospel of Luke, we arrive at a narrative where Luke reports a series of three miracles: 1) Jesus Confronts a Demonized Man; 2) Jesus Heals the daughter of a Synagogue Ruler; and 3) A woman who has bled for twelve years touched Jesus’ clothes and was healed. Each of these three stories is designed to show the tremendous power Jesus possesses.
In the brief span of just two Sundays, I want to explore these stories of Jesus’ miracles in some depth. But I also want to entertain three questions everyone should ask themselves concerning miracles.
1. Why Should I Believe in Miracles?
2. How Can Miracles Happen to Me?
3. Why Doesn’t a Miracle Happen to Me?
That Jesus was a miracle worker is central to Christianity both then and now. There is a high prevalence of miracles inside the gospel stories for whenever anyone reads the pages of the Bible, they are confronted by numerous miracle stories. From the sun standing still in Joshua’s day to snake bites instantly cured in Moses’ day, from the animals going in two-by-two into Noah’s ark to Lot’s wife turning into salt upon fleeing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and from Daniel reclining inside a den of hungry lions to the ten plagues in Egypt that would set
the children of Israel free. The Bible is a book of miracles. Luke alone includes some twenty miracle-stories in his Gospel.
1. Why Believe in Miracles?
Some people can’t believe the miracles of the Bible. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, used a razor to cut out the supernatural sections of the gospels of the New Testament. While he was President, Jefferson used a razor and then glue, he proceeded to cut and paste selections from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John by removing Jesus the Faith Healer and leaving only Jesus, the Moral Teacher.
In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of 150 scholars called the Jesus Seminar t ...
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