KNOWING GOD – THE GOD OF MIRACLES || Lesson 19 

KNOWING GOD – THE GOD OF MIRACLES – Lesson Nineteen

POST PENTECOST MIRACLES

Miracle of the New Birth:  Acts 2:41 – Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Other Miracles:  Acts 2:43 – Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.

Many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles – Example: Acts 3:1-11 – One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer-at three in the afternoon.  ²Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.  ³When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.  ⁴Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!”  ⁵So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.

⁶Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”  ⁷Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong.  ⁸He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.  ⁹When all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

¹¹While the beggar held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade.

V.1 – One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer–at three in the afternoon.

The temple – Herod’s Temple: Note the following examples of Jesus’ attendance at the temple.  Luke 2:21-24, 41-50 – ²¹On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.

²²When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord ²³(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”), ²⁴and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”

⁴¹Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.  ⁴²When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom.  ⁴³After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it.  ⁴⁴Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. ⁴⁵When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.  ⁴⁶After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.  ⁴⁷Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.  ⁴⁸When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

⁴⁹“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”  ⁵⁰But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

John 2:13-21 – ¹³When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  ¹⁴In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.  ¹⁵So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.  ¹⁶To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

¹⁸Then the Jews demanded of him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”

¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

²⁰The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”  ²¹But the temple he had spoken of was his body.  

Matthew 21:12-14 – ¹²Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.  ¹³“It is written,” he said to them, ” ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

¹⁴The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.

Matthew 24:1-2 – Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings.  ²“Do you see all these things?” he asked. “I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

Mark’s account: Mark 13:1-2 – As he was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!”

²“Do you see all these great buildings?” replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

Luke’s account: Luke 21:5-6 – ⁵Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, ⁶“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”

Application:  Let us thank the GOD OF MIRACLES for the miracle of the new birth and continue to seek Him for other miracles.