WHEN A MIRACLE MAKES YOU MAD (3 OF 4)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Luke 14:1-6
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When a Miracle Makes You Mad (3 of 4)
Series: The Miracles of Jesus
Scott Maze
Luke 14:1-6
When people talk about miracles, they typically think of healing miracles. One day the tumor is there; the next day, it's no longer. Someone prays for a blind man and he regains his sight. Miracles are supernatural events that offer hope and healing to people in need.
We started a series on Miracles on Easter with the resurrection. We are exploring a series of four miracles that Jesus over the course of these four weeks. But today, I want to tell you a story straight from the Gospel of Luke that I'm calling ''When a Miracle Makes You Mad.'' Instead of celebration and leaping, the miracle Jesus performs leaves people silent in fuming.
Let's jump right into today's story...
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. 2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ''Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?'' 4 But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 5 And he said to them, ''Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?'' 6 And they could not reply to these things.'' (Luke 14:1-6)
When a miracle makes you mad. It's so odd just to say those words, ''Mad at a miracle.'' I've prayed for miracles thousands of times to happen and nothing happen. My friends suffered. Good people went throughout life hurting. Or worse, some close friends even died. Miracles don't automatically happen because you follow Christ and they don't always happen when we ask God for His favor. The people in this story were mad because Jesus performed a miracle. But in our day, we are often angry because He doesn't perform a miracle.
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Today, I want to tell the story... the story of three people - Jesus, the miracle-worker, the re ...
Series: The Miracles of Jesus
Scott Maze
Luke 14:1-6
When people talk about miracles, they typically think of healing miracles. One day the tumor is there; the next day, it's no longer. Someone prays for a blind man and he regains his sight. Miracles are supernatural events that offer hope and healing to people in need.
We started a series on Miracles on Easter with the resurrection. We are exploring a series of four miracles that Jesus over the course of these four weeks. But today, I want to tell you a story straight from the Gospel of Luke that I'm calling ''When a Miracle Makes You Mad.'' Instead of celebration and leaping, the miracle Jesus performs leaves people silent in fuming.
Let's jump right into today's story...
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. 2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ''Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?'' 4 But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 5 And he said to them, ''Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?'' 6 And they could not reply to these things.'' (Luke 14:1-6)
When a miracle makes you mad. It's so odd just to say those words, ''Mad at a miracle.'' I've prayed for miracles thousands of times to happen and nothing happen. My friends suffered. Good people went throughout life hurting. Or worse, some close friends even died. Miracles don't automatically happen because you follow Christ and they don't always happen when we ask God for His favor. The people in this story were mad because Jesus performed a miracle. But in our day, we are often angry because He doesn't perform a miracle.
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Today, I want to tell the story... the story of three people - Jesus, the miracle-worker, the re ...
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