Our pastor has been teaching from John 10 the last few weeks. He had this quote from Tim Keller's book A Reason for God
in his sermon notes today. To hear the entire sermon from v. 31-42 titled Why Believe in Someone So Many Despised As a Blasphemer (Part 1), go to THIS LINK. Although Dr. Keller is referring to Matthew 28, the application is relevant to both texts.
in his sermon notes today. To hear the entire sermon from v. 31-42 titled Why Believe in Someone So Many Despised As a Blasphemer (Part 1), go to THIS LINK. Although Dr. Keller is referring to Matthew 28, the application is relevant to both texts.The most instructive thing about this text is, however, what it says about the purpose of biblical miracles. They lead not simply to cognitive belief but to worship, to awe and wonder. Jesus's miracles in particular were never magic tricks designed only to impress and coerce. You never see him say something like:
See that tree over there? Watch me make it burst into flames!" Instead, He used miraculous power to heal the sick, feed the hungry, and raise the dead. Why? We modern people think of miracles as a suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not orginally make the world to have disease, hunger and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.
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