Guys, I just got a most beautiful insight into the incident of the cursing of the fig tree by Jesus in Matthew and Mark. My focus today will be on Mark’s version because of a tiny detail he added which I think makes a lot of difference. But before I begin, let me give you the background story of how I came upon this revelation.
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The last miracle lesson of Jesus that we want to discuss is His lasting victory over death. The Bible puts it profoundly thus: “For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him”—Romans 6:9-10, emphasis mine. Wow!
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It is true that anyone who is a true child of God cannot continue to live in sin. But because we have a war constantly raging in our minds—the spirit against the flesh—we sometimes find the flesh overtaking us through our own lust (James 1:14). This war is a fight for superiority (Galatians 5:17); a war that would last until “this corruptible [imperfection] has put on incorruption [perfection], and this mortal has put on immortality,” 1 Corinthians 15:54, KJV. It was this heated, constant battle that made the apostle Paul to cry out, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24). The answer follows immediately in the next verse, which he also repeated in 1 Corinthians 15:57: “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” The death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, has given us the audacity to challenge sin in our body and have victory over it.
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The third miracle lesson from Jesus’ resurrection that we want to discuss concerns His role as the only mediator or advocate between God and us. Jesus, when He rose from the dead, ascended to heaven, not to go sit at the right hand of God and have some milkshakes and smoothies, but to continue His work in another dimension. The Bible says that “God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,” Philippians 2:9-10. This validates Jesus’ promise: “Whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son,” John 14:13, ESV.
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Throughout His life on earth, Jesus preached that He was the only way to God, the Father—John 14:6. He taught us about how much God wants to have a relationship with us through Him. Since no one can die and rise from the dead except by the power of God, and since Jesus died and rose from the dead, it goes without saying that everything Jesus said was true, including the part where we can now have free access to God through Him.
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the greatest miracle of all time and at the hub of Christianity—the only religion whose founder died by choice and rose again. There are so many lessons to be learned from the resurrection of Jesus Christ but we are only going to look at a few of them over the next few posts. The first lesson we’re starting with is that the resurrection of Jesus reveals that He is indeed God.
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In our topic for today, we have a very well known phrase which some might consider a cliché: “God’s time is the best.” This lesson is closely related to one of the miracle lessons we have already discussed – God Is Never Early or Late (Always Right on Time). However, in this particular lesson, we plan to look at how good God’s miracle or blessing is when it does arrive.
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“Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God…?” We whine and complain, we cry and sometimes accuse God of not caring about us. But when He does come through for us, we forget all about Him and do not try to maintain our relationship with Him. We go about our day as though we deserved His blessing. We put up an attitude that says, “He’s God anyway, and that’s His job.” Now, that’s probably not what we say but what our attitudes show.
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In our story today, we read the record of a miraculous catch of fish – Luke 5:1-11. Peter and his business partners had worked hard all night trying to catch fish and had not been successful. Mind you, these were professional fishermen. It was a family business that they had all been involved in, most likely from childhood; they knew the trade like the back of their hands.
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Today we explore the familiar story of the beloved child of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham. Joseph, also known as the Dreamer, was the beloved son of Jacob’s old age and the offspring of his first love– Rachael. So loved was this child that Jacob made him a coat of many colours to showcase his love and admiration. That stirred the jealousy and spite of his 10 older brothers. And that hate led them to sell the young lad into slavery while they deceived their aged father that the child was killed by a wild animal. That was a callous thing to do, but this turned out to be strongly sponsored by the Lord Almighty because although Joseph had the potential to be an astute businessman and manager, all those qualities were hid beneath the colourful clothe and his father’s doting love.
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