Miracles of Jesus Christ

[stephen]

Excellent information about the Lord Jesus. "He reached down His hand for me....." also.

Talking of miracles, last Sunday evening took the form of an 'impartation night'. Hallelujah. One of our young Pastors preached....
he was ablaze with 'passion' as he delivered the message the Lord had given him.

He said at one point that Jesus healed all that He prayed for.........but he did not pray for all, He prayed for those who wanted
to receive. He spoke about Jairus Mark 5:22. and the woman with an 'issue of blood' In the first story 'they laughed Him to scorn'
the funeral party waited, but her daddy had 'faith' In the second the woman was desperate........Jesus was her only hope.

God is our only Hope so often.

Just 5 weeks ago I was worried about something that had again overtaken my body. As an elderly person my chance for N.H.S.
surgery were slim. I was most concerned, knowing that it (I) would deteriote. A painful, bloody, discomforting ail-ment. With me
the last 4 years.

I was concerned as I attended my church to hear a visiting Evangelist, on a Saturday morning. 5 weeks ago.

He taught from the scripture. We had a break for tea and pasteries. Then he prayed for folks. I was close to the front of the building,
but he began to pray at the opposite side and went down that way. He eventually came to where I stood. I was almost afraid. He beckoned
me into an open space.....He looked me in the eye and said.....God is going to heal your body"

He shouted 'fire' and I went flying 10 ft down the room. Earlier I heard him say "Do not be in a hurry to get up" So I lay there..worshipping Jesus.

From that moment this disease began to dry up.

Now I do not have to minister to myself every morning, and throughout the day...as used to be the situation. O thank you Jesus.

If you have a problen in the area of your health...or whatever. Do not resign to it. Yes I have done that too, I am no different from you.

"None of these diseases".......God said.

 

[Jaareshiah]

Does healing of a person mean that God did the healing ? Jesus, in identifying the true religion, said: "Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you ! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness."(Matt 7:21-23)

Jesus identified that ' prophesying in Jesus name' (as Harold Camping did), expelling of demons as many religious leaders have done "in Jesus name", or performing ' powerful works in Jesus name ', such as healing, is not the mark of true Christianity. Rather, Jesus said that doing his Father's will establishes those who are pleasing to God.

And what is the Father's will ? The apostle Paul made this note: "This is fine and acceptable in the sight of our Savior, God, whose will is that all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth."(1 Tim 2:3, 4) How are individuals of "all sorts" able to "come to an accurate knowledge of truth" ? By just reading the Bible or perhaps attending some church, listening to a sermon of a preacher, but doing nothing more ?

What example did Jesus set for his disciples to follow in his "footsteps" ? At Luke 8:1, the account says that "shortly afterwards he went journeying from city to city and from village to village, preaching and declaring the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him."

Later, Jesus assigned seventy to do what ? Luke 10:1 says that "after these things the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come." Jesus now mentions a "harvest work", saying: "The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest."(Luke 10:2)

What then did the early disciples do in order to help others "come to an accurate knowledge of truth" as Jesus taught ? These became "workers" of the "harvest", going from "city to city", from "house to house" (Acts 20:20), teaching persons in their homes God's word the Bible, such as what our Creator, Jehovah God originally purposed for mankind, the living on a paradise earth forever that will come about by means of God's kingdom.(Matt 5:5; Ps 37:11, 29; Matt 6:9, 10) Jesus, while hanging on a torture stake with two evil-doers beside him, told one that showed sincerity: "Truly I tell you today, You will be with me in Paradise.”(Luke 23:43)

Thus, healing of a person (or other "powerful works") does not determine God's backing, but the one doing of God's will, being "workers" in the "harvest" that requires a person to accurately use the Bible in conducting home Bible studies. Are the churches doing this ? No. The preachers and pastors (the clergy) are paid to preach a sermon to a group of pew sitters (the laity), but even then never mentioning "the good news of the kingdom", except in passing, and thus never explaining the "mysteries of the kingdom".(Matt 13:11)

The "laity" are basically just "seat warmers", with these seeing no need to follow in Jesus "footsteps" (1 Pet 2:21), but would rather see a "miracle" than doing God's will of being actively engaged in telling others about "the good news of the kingdom", such as Philip, who declared to the inhabitants of Samaria "the good news of the kingdom of God".(Acts 8:12)

Or of the apostle Paul, who traveled extensively, "preaching the kingdom of God to them and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with the greatest freeness of speech, without hindrance."(Acts 28:31)

 

[Strypes]

*sigh*

I would much rather talk about how God healed me (My name is "Strypes" for a reason) but I feel I must address Jaareshiah's post.

(off topic AGAIN .. Sorry Chad)

Jesus did not die on a torture stake. He died on a Roman Cross. Jehovah Witnesses are taught that "jesus" (Michael the Arch Angel that is), was "impaled" on an upright post or "Torture Stake". They don't use the word "crucified" or "Cross" because only "They" have "accurate knowledge". It is part of the mind control process. Secret knowledge that only the cult possesses. Such is used to bolster their sense of uniqueness. That they are "right" and everybody else is wrong.

They teach that Jesus was impaled on a torture stake (Nailed to an upright beam with his hands above his head using one nail through both hands). Why do they teach that Jesus couldn't possibly have been crucified on a Cross? Because the Cross is a PAGAN symbol. In use way before the time of Jesus by PAGANS.

Tell me Jaareshiah, Why wouldn't the PAGAN Romans use a PAGAN MEANS (crucifixion) to execute Jesus? Because they were Pagans?..


Bible evidence you demand? ok..

The plural "Nails"

John 20:24 Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe." 26 Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe." 28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

The Sign (King of the Jews) was placed above Jesus' (the REAL Jesus) Head... not above his hands...

Matthew 27:37 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews."

Strypes<== sings an Old testament Passover Song...

:singingfly:

"With mighty hands and OUTSTRETCHED arms.. His love endures forever"... (Psalm 136:12)


There is so much more in your post Jaareshiah that I wish to address (the copy and paste of Watchtower publication materials... The use of the New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness Bible) for your bible quotes as that translation was deliberately miss-translated to belittle Jesus' Deity etc. The sneaky way you try to push the false doctrines of the Watchtower. (namely only JW's are "DOING".. ) But all of that would be again "OFF TOPIC"

I am going to paste your post to the "OFF Topic" thread I created for the purpose of discussing Jehovah's Witness Doctrines that you post in Threads..

THIS THREAD Is about the Miracles of Jesus...

Here is the link to the thread where we can discuss "OFF TOPIC" Jehovah's Witness Stuff

http://www.talkjesus.com/bible-stud...-reason-together-seek-truth-3.html#post210091

 

[EphremHagos]

Jairus highly honored Jesus in the following ways because of which his daughter was raised from death.
1. Throwing himself down at Jesus' feet and begging desperately for his daughter's healing; and,
2. Obeying Jesus’ commandment: “Don’t be afraid, only believe” against the worse of odds.
“Just a touch of Jesus’ clothes” by the woman, who had suffered terribly from severe bleeding for twelve years,proved a highly effective measure of her personal knowledge of Jesus Christ’s divine identity and absolute authority.
Stephen, you yourself judge whether or not your healing was a genuine variation of these and other healings in the Bible that apply known spiritual principles.
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Excellent information about the Lord Jesus. "He reached down His hand for me....." also.

Talking of miracles, last Sunday evening took the form of an 'impartation night'. Hallelujah. One of our young Pastors preached....
he was ablaze with 'passion' as he delivered the message the Lord had given him.

He said at one point that Jesus healed all that He prayed for.........but he did not pray for all, He prayed for those who wanted
to receive. He spoke about Jairus Mark 5:22. and the woman with an 'issue of blood' In the first story 'they laughed Him to scorn'
the funeral party waited, but her daddy had 'faith' In the second the woman was desperate........Jesus was her only hope.

God is our only Hope so often.

Just 5 weeks ago I was worried about something that had again overtaken my body. As an elderly person my chance for N.H.S.
surgery were slim. I was most concerned, knowing that it (I) would deteriote. A painful, bloody, discomforting ail-ment. With me
the last 4 years.

I was concerned as I attended my church to hear a visiting Evangelist, on a Saturday morning. 5 weeks ago.

He taught from the scripture. We had a break for tea and pasteries. Then he prayed for folks. I was close to the front of the building,
but he began to pray at the opposite side and went down that way. He eventually came to where I stood. I was almost afraid. He beckoned
me into an open space.....He looked me in the eye and said.....God is going to heal your body"

He shouted 'fire' and I went flying 10 ft down the room. Earlier I heard him say "Do not be in a hurry to get up" So I lay there..worshipping Jesus.

From that moment this disease began to dry up.

Now I do not have to minister to myself every morning, and throughout the day...as used to be the situation. O thank you Jesus.

If you have a problen in the area of your health...or whatever. Do not resign to it. Yes I have done that too, I am no different from you.

"None of these diseases".......God said.

 

[EphremHagos]

Does healing of a person mean that God did the healing?
Definitely not! Jesus said, "False Messiahs and false prophets will appear; they will perform great miracles and wonders in order to deceive even god;'s chosen people, if possible."
Matt. 24:24

How are individuals of "all sorts" able to "come to an accurate knowledge of truth"?
"if you obey my teaching you are really my disciples; you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."
John 8: 31-32

According to Jesus Christ, absolute truth is progressively taught, defined and personally knowable in the context of his verifiably Spirit-active, perfect and diacritical death on the cross --a theme systemattically developed only in the 4th Gospel by the longest disciple-in-training from the first day to the last day.
John 1:51; 3:3, 5, 11, 33; 8:32; 14:6, 18-21; 15:26; 16:13; 18:37

What example did Jesus set for his disciples to follow in his "footsteps"?
Then Jesus said to his disciples , "If anyone wants to come with me, he must forget self, carry his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his own life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Not another cross but a duplicate of the cross of the power-laden and divinity-revealing "cross of Christ" refers.
Matt. 16: 24-25

What then did the early disciples do in order to help others "come to an accurate knowledge of truth" as Jesus taught?
The answer to the question is found in the Day of Pentecot whence Simon Peter witnessed about his new-found knowledge on the completely independent cause and effect of Christ's death on the cross according to the Scriptures.
Acts 2

Are the churches doing this?
Of course not! In fact, the churches by definition are obstacles to knowledge of God inherent in Christ's death on the cross!
Matt. 16: 22-23

Does healing of a person mean that God did the healing ? Jesus, in identifying the true religion, said: "Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you ! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness."(Matt 7:21-23)

Jesus identified that ' prophesying in Jesus name' (as Harold Camping did), expelling of demons as many religious leaders have done "in Jesus name", or performing ' powerful works in Jesus name ', such as healing, is not the mark of true Christianity. Rather, Jesus said that doing his Father's will establishes those who are pleasing to God.

And what is the Father's will ? The apostle Paul made this note: "This is fine and acceptable in the sight of our Savior, God, whose will is that all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth."(1 Tim 2:3, 4) How are individuals of "all sorts" able to "come to an accurate knowledge of truth" ? By just reading the Bible or perhaps attending some church, listening to a sermon of a preacher, but doing nothing more ?

What example did Jesus set for his disciples to follow in his "footsteps" ? At Luke 8:1, the account says that "shortly afterwards he went journeying from city to city and from village to village, preaching and declaring the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him."

Later, Jesus assigned seventy to do what ? Luke 10:1 says that "after these things the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come." Jesus now mentions a "harvest work", saying: "The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest."(Luke 10:2)

What then did the early disciples do in order to help others "come to an accurate knowledge of truth" as Jesus taught ? These became "workers" of the "harvest", going from "city to city", from "house to house" (Acts 20:20), teaching persons in their homes God's word the Bible, such as what our Creator, Jehovah God originally purposed for mankind, the living on a paradise earth forever that will come about by means of God's kingdom.(Matt 5:5; Ps 37:11, 29; Matt 6:9, 10) Jesus, while hanging on a torture stake with two evil-doers beside him, told one that showed sincerity: "Truly I tell you today, You will be with me in Paradise.”(Luke 23:43)

Thus, healing of a person (or other "powerful works") does not determine God's backing, but the one doing of God's will, being "workers" in the "harvest" that requires a person to accurately use the Bible in conducting home Bible studies. Are the churches doing this ? No. The preachers and pastors (the clergy) are paid to preach a sermon to a group of pew sitters (the laity), but even then never mentioning "the good news of the kingdom", except in passing, and thus never explaining the "mysteries of the kingdom".(Matt 13:11)

The "laity" are basically just "seat warmers", with these seeing no need to follow in Jesus "footsteps" (1 Pet 2:21), but would rather see a "miracle" than doing God's will of being actively engaged in telling others about "the good news of the kingdom", such as Philip, who declared to the inhabitants of Samaria "the good news of the kingdom of God".(Acts 8:12)

Or of the apostle Paul, who traveled extensively, "preaching the kingdom of God to them and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with the greatest freeness of speech, without hindrance."(Acts 28:31)

 

[cranquar]

John 14:12 "Verily, verily I say Unto you. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

14:13 "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."

(I've heard that the word ask is defined as the word demand in this scripture.)

Peace and love to all......

 

[EphremHagos]

I agree!

The words "ask" and "demand" are synonymous by virtue of the privileged faith involved in personal knowledge of Jesus Christ as intimated.

 

[RayJay]

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for His miracles. I am one and my love for Jesus knows no bounds.

 

[EphremHagos]

SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

THE GREATEST MIRACLE OF JESUS CHRIST, a.k.a., "the faithful witness: the first-born from the dead and the Father of many", has surprising paraells to the final act of creation "in the beginning", on exactly the same day, i.e., the 6th Day (Friday), whence God created human beings making them like himself, a.k.a., "gods"!!!!!!!!!

We had better take another look at him whom they pierced!

(John 10: 34-36; 14: 18-21; 19: 30-37; Rev. 1: 4-8)

 

[EphremHagos]

Miracles of Jesus: The Incomplete List

• Turning water into wine (John 2:1-11)
• Healing of a nobleman's son (John 4:46-54)
• Delivering a man in the synagogue from demonic spirits (Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37)
• Healing Peter's mother-in-law (Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39; Matthew 8:14-15)
• The first of two nets of fish and the calling of His first disciples (Luke 5:1-11)
• Cleansing a leper (Mark 1:40-45; Matthew 8:1-4)
• Healing a paralytic (Mark 2:1-12; Matthew 9:2-8; Luke 5:17-26)
• Healing of the man at Bethesda (John 5:1-15)
• Healing a man with a withered hand (Luke 6:6-11; Matthew 12:9-13; Mark 3:1-5)
• Healing the Centurion's servant (Luke 7: 1-10; Matthew 8:5-13)
• Raising the widow's son (Luke 7:11-16)
• Casting out a dumb and blind spirit (Luke 11:14-26; Matthew 12:22-32; Mark 3:22-30)
• Calming a storm (Mark 4:35-41; Matthew 8:18-27; Luke 8:22-25)
• Healing a man possessed by demons at Gadara (Mark 5:1-20; Matthew 8:28; Luke 8:26)
• Healing a woman with an issue of blood (Mark 5:25-34; Matthew 9:18-26; Luke 8:40-56)
• Raising Jairus' daughter (Mark 5:21-43)
• Healing of two blind men (Matthew 9:27-31
  [*]Casting out a spirit (Matthew 9:32-34)
  [*]Feeding 5,000 with five loaves and two fish (John 6:1-14; Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17)
  [*]Walking on water (Matthew 14:22-33; John 6:15-21; Mark 6:45-52)
  [*]Delivering the Syrophoenician's daughter (Matthew 15:21-28)
  [*]Healing a deaf and dumb man (Mark 7:31-37)
  [*]Feeding another 4,000-plus (Mark 8:1-10; Matthew 15:32)
  [*]Healing the blind man of Bethsaida (Mark 8:22-26)
  [*]Casting demons out of a lunatic boy (Mark 9:14-29; Matthew 17:14-21; Luke 9:37-42)
  [*]Pulling a coin from the mouth of a fish (Matthew 17:24-27)
  [*]Healing a man born blind (John 9:1-41)
  [*]Healing a woman with an 18-year infirmity (Luke 13:10-17)
  [*]Healing a man with dropsy (or edema) (Luke 14:1-6)
  [*]Raising Lazarus (John 11:1-46)
  [*]Cleansing of ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19)
  [*]Healing blind Bartimeaus (Mark 10:46-52)
  [*]Cursing the fig tree (Mark 11:12-26)
• Healing of Malchus' ear (Luke 22:49-51)
• A second net of fish (John 21:1-12)

Two KEY MIRACLES are missing, viz.:

1. The PRELUDE: the Incarnation of God, a.k.a., the first-born from a virgin, for Mary et al. (Luke 1: 26-38) and
2. The FINALE: God's perpetual self-revelations, a.k.a., "the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead", for the whole world (Matt. 27: 50-56; John 19: 30-37; 21:25; Rev. 1: 4-18)