Does God do miracles today?
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"Does God do miracles today? Do miracles happen today?"
Dr. Thomas Schreiner answers in Honest Answers | Episode 99
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I've seen a straight up miracle when I worked in the hospital. A girl was in stage four lung cancer and she asked the x ray tech,a very on fire believer to pray for her. I didn't think anything would happen,but the next day she ran up to us crying with joy,she was healed,I saw three doctors baffled staring at her chart , scratching their heads and rather upset at it all,but she was 100% healed. I've seen others,but that was the most dramatic.
Amen! Glory to God!
Miracles do happen today. God is the same yesterday, today or tomorrow. God has never changed. Thank you Jesus. God bless us all. ☺️
That talks about his nature
You are confusing who Christ is and what Christ does. That verse indeed says, "Christ IS the same" - however it does NOT say, "Christ always DOES the same thing". Hebrews 9 says, "Christ, having been offered ONCE to bear the sins of many, will appear a SECOND time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." Using your logic, Christ would be crucified again at His second coming. If Christ "being the same" meant he always DOES the same things - then that's the logical conclusion - that he would be re-crucified. But he will not be. The whole point of that passage in Hebrews 9 is to say, "the first time Jesus came to earth he did one thing - suffer - the next time he comes he will do something very very different." You need to actually read what the verse says. Don't read into the verse what you want it to say.
Nope not true. Sorry
@@deancamp4914 Jesus said you'll do greater things
@@libahopeson1296 Jesus said lots of things. Your point is? Is there one? (By the way - who did Jesus say that to?).
I’ve seen a woman paralyzed for 13 years healed. Not on television. Not in front of the whole congregation with the pastor taking the glory. But in response to a simple prayer.
She went to bed paralyzed and she woke up the next morning fully able to walk. She didn’t need physiotherapy. Her legs were healed and returned to full strength over night.
Does God do miracles? Absolutely. It has always been God who does miracles. People have never had that power.
My life is a miracle and definitely gift after gift. I'm in awe of it all.
18 years with no income after car accident, never gone without, on time, not once. Everything I have is a miracle.
Best of all...sharing the story of His miracles from my personal experience... touching hearts is my job.
You dont think they are coincidences or you have "9 lives" like the cat?. If you lived in Sudan, Bangladesh or much of India where there is no welfare, would it be the same ?
@@ralphgoreham3516 I would never assume to convince anyone. However, I cannot ignore that which I have witnessed so many times. I don't get welfare, btw
@@kajun8561 Well out of love and concern we do try to "convince" all we can for Satan wants to bring us all down if he could. Read Mat.24:24
@@ralphgoreham3516 Mathew 10:10
@@kajun8561Amen.
Salvation is a miracle! 😍
10:4 littleAl the greatest miracle!
You are correct. This is the only miracle that happened then and happens now. Everything done in the time of Jesus pointed to and was a shadow of this.
THE ULTIMATE MIRACLE!
The greatest yet understimated miracle only the saved ones can attest to.
The Greatest!
I have always had a gift from God. I have been able to heal pain by touching someone and praying. I don't talk about it I don't go on RUclips or TV I don't make money from it and the last time I did this was years ago. I haven't known anybody in that kind of pain recently.
This is exactly the conclusion that I have come to myself after wrestling with this topic. Thanks for explaining a difficult subject in such a straightforward manner.
I had reached similar. Then I heard JP Moreland on the channel Filter. He’s as rigorous as they come. Check out a channel “the last reformation”
I don't always agree with the theological conclusions presented on this channel but I do appreciate the humble manner in which they present their views, always making room for others who might disagree...we need more of this in The Church.
Depends on what we consider a miracle. For example if someone has stage 4 cancer throughout their entire body and it has eaten them pretty much down to the bone and they are hanging on by a thread but suddenly take a turn for the better and are healed and suddenly out of the hospital going on with regular life then yeah that's definitely a miracle
May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you abundantly. I have heard of people that have no eye, literally getting their eye back. And many more miracles.
I have received healing from God like losing weight supernaturally (no exercise or special diet) and freedom from panic attacks.
God is the Almighty and nothing is impossible to Him. If you ask anything with faith (with no doubts) God will make it.
@@a.f.c.5689 Can you please pray for the miracle healing of my Heart and all the organs and parts of my body 🙏 Thank You. May God Bless You 🙏 Thank You Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 All Glory And Praise Be To God 🙌
@@lacedariel777
Amen, my beloved brother. Let me ask you: Do you go to Full Gospel Church? (A Church that let's the Holy Spirit move supernaturally)
If not, ask God to guide you to one ASAP.
Yeah what the man is saying is that; God is still doing miracles, but is he passing the miraculous power to his prophets and apostles to perform these miracles like the olden days? How many prophets in todays age perform miracles like Jesus did?
I would register if I were you. It doesn’t sound like you understood his message. He believes there are no modern day apostles.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; "In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover"
A believer has the ability to perform miracles(signs and wonders) by faith.
Amen Anthony. That’s what the Word says. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that it stopped in Acts. I don’t know where people get that theology.
Pretty sure this Bible verse was literal. Learning new languages to help spread the Word is a symptom of what a believing missionary might do out of love, just as an example. Animals are calmed by our faith too. One time I save a drowning rat and it didn’t bite me because the poor thing trusted me. I held it in my hands to warm it up for a good 5 minutes. Kinda like the snake idea. Just food for thought. I love that verse, keep on keeping on. 👊
Yes Jesus does. I work in a hospital. I have seen them with these two eyes
Continually watering down the power and action of God in the world with and/or through believers. This is why our church sits in pews on Sundays like a book club, rather than changing the world. The gifts of the Spirit have only been denounced in order to appease human ears, rather than "earnestly desiring the higher gifts" and believing that the "power that rose Christ Jesus from the dead resides in you".
It just so happens that the only spiritual gifts that have "ceased to exist" are those that require a lot of trust, obvious signs, a risk of looking foolish, and with your reputation on the line. But ones that only require organization, or developing opinion pieces and other tasks that do not put us in such a position... of course the church says those still exist.
So go to church and listen to the pastor (teaching a weekly opinion piece), while your kids are in Sunday school in the building made for church that takes your money and determines how to allocate it among their pet projects (administration) and be sure to come back next week.
That's it, apparently those gifts haven't ceased: teaching and administration.
J H
YEP.
Church of Christ
God does miracles every single day. Every single day, babies are born. Never take these amazing miracles for granted.
I'm not minding the gift of doing miracles had ceased, I'm happy enough to hear that God still do miracles today.
God never said the gift of miracles ceased
Years ago, one of the pastors in a church I used to be a member of told us a family story about his late grandfather who, according to his words, "had" (as much as any "vessel" can actually have it's contents) the gift of healing, having ministered healing to a lot of people over the years. Late in his life, said pastor's grandfather became ill with a cancer that ultimately took his life, and many people came to ask him why, if he indeed had the gift of healing, had he not healed himself, of prayed to God to heal him, and the man calmly responded something to this effect "but, why, yes, I did prayed to God asking Him to heal me, on several oportunities, and He said he wouldn't". He did eventually die from that cancer, but his faith and example lead many to Christ.
Just like the same what happened to one of the Priest Who's been used by God to perform Miracle Healings (That's what he said) I've not witness but many people claimed that they were healed. He says in one of his Homily that when he pray for himself to get healed when he is sick , nothing is happening. The miracle only happen to others. And unfortunately he's not in this world now. Many unbelievers become christians because of him ( base on the videos online )
Prayed several times for God to heal him? Would that not be a sign of a lack of faith?
@@billgamelson9964 he’s asking God to heal him it’s God who does the healing sometimes he just projects his abilities through us sometimes but God can just as easily say no
@@adrianpaneda6467 Agreed. God will not heal those who pray for themselves.
I respect these men and their answers but. Woah be careful with this one sir. First off the people who questioned the blind man where the Pharisees the very people who antagonized Christ ministry the most. Also after they was given all the proof they still rejected Christ. The truth is as many people have said in the comments you cannot talk about miracles without talking about faith. Over and over in the Gospels we see that miracles did not happen when faith was lacking and they did happen when faith was abundant. So that skeptical mindset is actually the very thing causing you to not see miracles. There is no Biblical reason to be a cessationist it is an unfortunate doctrine built on a lack of faith by well meaning men and women but still unfortunate.. Believing still in God and his Savior but a systemic doctrinal lack of faith in miracle working power.
Don't confuse scepticism with cynicism.
It doesn’t matter if it was the pharisees questioning the blind man because it was Jesus who sent the blind man to the Pharisees as prescribed in the law of Moses. What the man is saying is that even the Law of God called on witness verification to avoid charlatans making false claims, like Benny Hinn, etc.
Miracles did happen when there was no faith... Sometimes Jesus responded to faith and other times faith was the result of Jesus’ healing (The healing at the pool, the man born blind, etc.) it’s a dangerous statement to say Jesus only acts on our behalf when we exhibit faith. May He graciously help us with our unbelief.
Yes the gifts continue now n forever but never for profit or gain except for HIS NAME.. LORD JESUS.. I've received n witnessed miracles or direct answer to crying out with faith in HIS NAME PRECIOUS LORD JESUS
Amen
I think the reason ppl don't have gifts today in america is because we have become very comfortable and well blessed with freedom and prosperity long ago, where we aren't really in need of them. I come from a house of soviet immigrant christians and when the church was persecuted heavily in the USSR, my family told me of the miracles and gifts that ppl had back then. They have prophesies in church from regular, trusted sources that would reveal things like kgb planted "brothers" in church, kgb raids on unauthorized services and so on. We immigrated to the states in the 80s believing a 50 year old prophesy that told of the iron cutain falling and the soviet union collapsing witbout war, and Christians leaving to america. This all came true in the 90s. So I think God knows when to give gifts to people that are in need and I believe his children in China and other places have gifts to survive the persecution they are experiencing.
My friend raised a child from the dead a few years ago in Madagascar. I’ve seen countless miracles with my own eyes. Broken bones healed and cancer left immediately. Of course they still happen because they are all around if you seek for them
Yes agreed. They are very much real I have witnessed small miracles and Heard many many firsthand testimonials of miracles including the dead being raised. They are so real it’s not even up for debate, this guy doesn’t know that apparently .
Of course you have no evidence for any of your claims.
@@Sam-fp8zm poor chap you're on youtube debating whether other's testimonies of the living God are real. humble yourself and go pray over your family and your neighborhood and you will plant the seeds of faith that lead to God's miraculous works around you. much love in Jesus' name
@@andrewtowle9259 Gods miraculous works are salvation and his chosen people the Christians helping the poor. Humble yourself and go help the poor. You are deceived by false teachers with false signs and wonders just like the bible says.
Why doesn't your friend hang out at funeral homes and hospitals? Why not dig up a dead body and raise it on live TV and prove Christianity true once and for all?
I worked most of my life in the medical profession and we have seen things happen that there is no explanation for other than a miracle.
Share 1 or 2 miracles plz. I would love to praise God for them. I'm a pastor.
AMEN
Everyday is a miracle, to be alive is a miracle, to be saved is a miracle, to know that there is a God SO good and SO great who loves me...? who saved...me? Thats a miracle! for that ill forever be grateful, and eternally in his debt.
God is still in the miracle working business. He never changes
God always answers our prayers...but sometimes the answer is no...or not now...
Even the thought that I'm able to think is a miracle to me
My mom was healed from Sever mental breakdowns. She literally was in a psyche center for almost killing herself. She met Jesus and Today you will never guess that she had anxiety (and she never took pills to this day, 7 yrs later) God healed her and no one can convince me other wise.
The only thing that hinders God's miracle works in our lives is us- lack of faith as those in Jesus' hometown
John 14:12 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father... I believe Christ has given us the guidelines. We need faith like the size of a mustard seed to allow God to perform miracles similar to what we see in the new testament even today.
Context
Salvation is a miracle...so yes.
Amen brother 🙏. God does miracles everyday. Praise God. That is the most important miracle, bringing dead people to life.
The Greatest Miracle is the Salvation of our souls.
This is a hard question because it depends on what we mean by "miracles".
Throughout the Bible history, miracles, signs and wonders happen to validate a ministry. God created the heaven and earth so people may believe. Moses, by the power of God performed miracles in front of Pharaoh to save his people so they may believe. Joshua and prophets showed miracles from God so people may believe. Lastly, Lord Jesus and His Apostles performed miracles through the Holy Spirit to validate that they were from God so people may believe that this ministry is true. That includes healing and tongues, etc.
"Cessation" means that miracles, signs and wonders already stopped after the Apostles because their ministry is the last one. Bible is already complete, no need for miracles. It's either you will believe or not.
With that being said, miracles by our standards still happen. God can still do miracles. But it does not mean that these miracles is still necessary for us to believe Him because those that are written in the Bible should be sufficient. Remember what Jesus said in John after healing on a Sabbath, Father is still working and so is He. They never stopped working so miracles can still happen.
I'm confident I've seen that gift( or something very similar) before in real life. There is a light to be found in the dark and it shines bright. Take care of each other and you'll see
I’ve seen so many miracles in the past 12 years that I’m going to write a book about them...
Did you do it?
@@SauerkrautX not yet!
Miracles are still happening in my church
We won't see many miracles today if we don't believe they are still present.
He's still doing miracle's because I'm up watching your video.
WJ,....You are on the right tract. The only miracle happing is the miracle of salvation. That miracle is done by God alone.
Amen!
@Roger Huffman Jr. ,....Gift of miracles?
Oh Wendy
I think when one carefully considers the times one was physically protected from death, danger, catastrophe, great loss or harm, one could scrutinize these incidents and know they were times that you experienced miracles happening to yourself, without probably realizing it then/at that moment. Considering such times could present important substance for Meditation/Contemplation
If you "truly" need him, he is there for you.
I really love this guy.
Usually don't like commenting unless it's a question because I've seen so much hate among Christians on these things. Oftentimes other comments and replies on Christian teaching and matters are filled with anger and hate. So thank you for putting yourself out there.
I appreciate your point of view. We as Christians should be able to have differing view points on many things without being bitter towards each other. I've seen miracles. No a huge fan because things are usually pretty grim when you need one. However I would probably ask for a resume if someone came to my church saying they had the gift of miracles. Much like I'd ask someone wanting to teach or be a pastor.
May the peace of God be with you all. I feel that we now in our days sometime ask the question “Why doesn’t God do miracles like he used to?”. As in parting the Sea or Revealing himself in a burning bush Exc. However I feel that we are so used to God blessing us everyday by waking us up and giving us life and everything we need to live. We almost take in for granted and really God does do miracles everyday, the breath in our lungs the fact that we know the creator of the universe they fact that everyday we have food to eat clothes to wear and if we ever have a hard situation to navigate through the LORD is always there. God definitely does do miracles and everyday every moment and every second.. May the peace of God be with you all, God bless.
Yes!
I see them daily. You must be looking and aware.
i try but i always get doubts in my head and it makes me feel bad
What’s a miracle?
I seen a miracle today that I didn't expect, I didn't expect to get the stimulus check today or every, because I'm not a tax payer. But I believe God made a miracle for me to get this stimulus check for 1,400, because I remember applying for it last year, but did not receive it. I did recently prayed for it, and now I'm happy God answer my prayers. Thank You!
Not a miracle. That’s Gods amazing providence
Having watched the video and read most of the comments I'm fairly well convinced the vast majority of those who commented did NOT watch the video.
Person believes in Jesus he shall perform miracles today. God is good all the time. The power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is alive Father our God is working nowadays. I am watching from the Philippines 🇵🇭
This answer reminded me of the N.T. text where a man asks Jesus "what is faith?" And the answer he gets is (paraphrasing here ) If you have faith that is no bigger than a mustard seed you can tell a mountain to go here or there and the mountain will go to that spot.
Was it an answer? Yes.
Was it an answer that addressed the question ? No. In no obvious way was that a definitive explanation of Faith. It describes what a little faith will do, but nothing more.
Question here: "Do miracles exist today?"
Answer : Let's talk about a fringe aspect of Gifts from the Holy Spirit, the gift of Miracles....... 🤔
My next question:😶 So? Do they?
Yes. He saves people like me from myself.
One issue in this topic is healing is not always linked with gift. Its linked to authority, Jesus gave us authority
Denominations, which as a group, teach that the supernatural works of the Holy Spirit stopped at the end of the first century, rarely see miracles today, due to their unbelief. Whereas other groups which teach miracles still happen, see them all the time.
Wrong. There are no supernatural gifts as the 100% counterfeit church has deceived everyone to believe. It is all deception.
That’s true
@@mjl0611 Correct Tony. What is a denomination? Why do you think, Pastorat, all the rivavalists, charismatics and pentecostal groups are so hopelessly divided? because Satan and his angels are behind them. Jesus said the holy spirit would teach you ALL THINGS. He is a God of ORDER, not confusion. Thus connect the dots.
Miracles happened as much today as they did then when a person claims to be a man of God or a woman of God but yet cannot believe that Miracles can no longer come from God truly have a lack of belief because during the time of the Apostles Miracles were needed for the unbelievers as Miracles are needed today for the unbelievers sometimes it seems like the more intelligent you claim to be the more foolish you sound God gives you the gift of the Holy Spirit but not the gifts of the Holy Spirit so God has no power today like you did yesterday it's the same Holy Spirit that would mean you would have the same abilities but the problem is most can't see or believe that the Lord can do these things because most isn't walking holy and righteous. I've never met so many people to claim to have true Doctrine but yet the gift of the spirit is dead you need to repent and ask the Lord to show you truth because what you are saying is God has no power that's blasphemy against the spirit of God doubting his ability and this is why you'll never see miracles and even if you did you will be blinded like the Pharisees and scribes where in the days of Jesus it sounds like most of you have become too religious and yourself righteousness it's blinding you to truth. Repent because the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and yes I do take the Bible literally as I hope you do too otherwise there would be no purpose of the Bible before history book
@@ralphgoreham3516 ,....There is all the division and different denominations due to the fact that none of these people have been called by God, they have all called themselves. None of them actually understand the Bible because they have not become born again, they only think they have. This is why they cannot understand the Bible, and get everything wrong. It is just a matter of ones personal interpretation. Then certain people say, I like this or that interpretation and join up with witch ever one suites them the best.
Satan and his angels?
Yes,our God is a miracle working God 🙏
Praise and Glory be to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 🙏
We live in a supernatural world. The Bible says born again believers have God dwelling in them. Angels are all around us. When we pray, God in us and the angels around us take over. John said "less of me, more of him." When we can stop living and thinking carnally the Holy Spirit can manifest in us and through us.
Dr. Thomas Schreiner, I wish you will expand this topic with all the 9 gifts mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12. Again when did some of the gifts, as you mentioned, cease.
Kindly elaborate on those that you consider ceased.
When we fully accept, that the most profound thing we experience, is the mystery of Life; then everything is miracle. The gift of God's grace, is ever evolving. The More awareness (of God grace), the better a tool of potential transmission of God's love. In a full measure of God's grace, the currency of the Ego has no purchase. This is something akin to Heaven on Earth. Only God can render me thus. My part is to orientate myself, consciously, through prayer and contemplation (of God) and acknowledge my humanness (sin) and admit that only He can ameliorate/remove those aspects of my character that are not aligned with His will. This Trinity....this At One Ment (Atonement) is available to all humans; is in itself, a Miracle Formula of healing; a purveyor of peace and a balm for this sorry troubled world.
Just to get a man to Listen to the Word of God..instead of their many Men teaching false doctrine..IS a Miracle!
A miracle is a supernatural act. Satan has been behind miracles since the garden of Eden. And he has used "many men "as his agency to work them. So your comment is a good one.
Ralph Goreham
Yes! You are Right. Satan has worked his miracles on me too.
I worship the same Jesus that the Bible teaches .Christ does the same things He did when He was with us on the earth in the flesh. He gave us His Holy Spirit to be in us and with us . He said if my word remains in you and you remain in me then ask according to my will , anything in my name and I will do it , bringing glory to the Father . God loves us the same way He loves Christ ! I am a miracle worker because I believe in the Miracle Worker who now lives in us by His Holy Spirit, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead . God still is moved by compassion for His creation and still does the miraculous every day ! A small list ,myself ,my wife, my son and daughters , mom, brother ,sisters , etc …… saved from many perils ! Praise be to God and his Son Jesus the Christ !
I appreciate the fact that he says he may be wrong. The bible says Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. God hasn't ceased using the gift of miracles because He never stated He has ceased from using it. All we get from reading the bible is that it is still active. Even if we don't see it. It doesn't mean it's not still active. Maybe it's used in other parts of the world more so than the U.S. Because of the hyper skepticism of the supernatural. Because faith is a huge part of God working those miracles, Jesus says in Mark 5:34 your faith has made you well. Many of the miracles done in the bible was because of peoples faith in it. Maybe our faith is diminished so much so that it stifles or quenches the Holy Spirit. The very thing God warns us not to do. 1 Thessalonians 5:19. Jesus also states will i find faith when He comes back? Luke 18:8. I'm hoping so... but in many places... maybe not.
Yes God does miracles today. When we the Christian deliver the gospel to a person who has not heard. and the Holy spirit goes to work in that person that person then believes on the Lord Jesus Christ and repents of their sin and receives the gift of the Holy spirit THAT IS A MIRACLE. That is a dead person being raised from the dead. Praise God
Amen.
Being an Apostle is not a gift but rather it was a calling and office.
Yes God does miracles today.
Ceasationism is a false ideology. The gifts persist today and always will. What tends to happen sometimes is that seasons come around when there's not nearly enough people who have the requisite consecration to carry the mantles for those gifts. Darkness prevails in that season until God raises another willing and obedient person to be worthy to carry that mantle again. It's the same for all the gifts of the spirit.
Look at the work God is doing at the moment in the African church and much of the developing world. Apostles and Prophets are rising and new mantles are being released from heaven now because of the dispensation we've entered now.
Scepticism is good, it helps us test spirits in the light of scripture, but it should not culminate in an ideology of ceasationism. Jesus is working today as always. He's building His church and raising an army for what's to come.
Acts 1:8 NKJV
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
I believed the scripture with a simple faith and I still seeing healing happening on a regular basis. Same goes to the members in my congregation.
My mother and me we are victims or criminals and injustice. If GOD PERFORMS A MIRACLE THANK YOU GOD IF HE DOES NOT PERFORM A MIRACLE THE SAME BLESS THE NAME OF GOD. AND HAVE HIS WILL WORK ON US. AMEN
Why was the lead question substituted to enable the answer this professor wanted to provide? Please, when you offer such a question, please stick to the question asked. The response provided was honest and challenging while addressing the topic, in my opinion, from the wrong perspective. Perhaps the answer would have better been served if the video had been edited to actually answer the question asked. Just one man's opinion. For the record, God has done multiple miracles in my life and ministry that can be attributed to no other. Blessed be the LORD!
Professor, a good translation of Heb. 11:1 is "Now faith is the substance of things being expected, the legal guarantee of unseen realities." You do not expect miracles; therefore, you do not get miracles. You do not expect miracles; therefore, you do not get miracles. And do not worry, I am preaching to myself also.
Which Bible are you reading? The Bible is very clear on the subject and signs wonders and miracles should be happening today as well.
Some teachers with teaching gift deny miracle. They acknowledge some spiritual gifts not all.
John macarther claims
“Miracles, healing, languages, and the interpretation of languages were temporary sign gifts limited to the apostolic age and have, therefore, ceased. Their purpose was to authenticate the apostles and their message as the true Word of God, until God’s written Word was completed and became self-authenticatin”
Thank God that he loves Thomas just as much as Peter and John. All things are possible with God. Have the faith of God. Do not trust your feelings, brain, eyes, ears that are corrupt flesh in spiritual things. Don’t be foolish either and tempt God. God looks on the heart and the only way to please him is with and by faith. Keep searching God will reveal the truth. Great stuff
Dr. Schreiner’s answer to the question feels more like obfuscation to avoid the the lack of evidence that would make an answer to this question possible. A person doesn’t obtain a doctorate without becoming skilled in the use of data, theories, and concepts. He posits an explanation in the beginning of his answer that he ultimately admits is irrelevant to the answer. In other words, he brings up a debate in theology concerning whether people still receive the gift of miracles from God today. A few minutes into the answer, he then explains that people don’t need to have the gift of miracles in order for God to work miracles today. Well, that makes his 3+ minute explanation of whether people still receive the gift of miracles irrelevant to his ultimate answer to the question about whether God still works miracles today. In answer to that question, he states that he personally believes that God does without citing a single example of what he has considered to be a miracle. The complicated path that he takes in order to arrive at the simple answer, in which he resorts to personal faith, makes his answer appear simply wishy-washy. One does not need a doctorate in order to have personal beliefs that are not based on evidence. The fact that a person who has such a high level of education was interviewed makes it clear that this is an attempt to to give the information that is being shared some credibility beyond the simple mechanisms of faith and believe. One would expect the well-thought out answer of a learned person in the field. The specific reference to an irrelevant debate within the field of theology is an attempt, although an unsuccessful one in my view, to give the illusion that the flimsy conclusion is supported by more than personal faith. The entire video could be shortened to a few seconds: Interviewer: “Does God do miracles today?” Schreiner: “Yes, I personally believe he does.”
To clarify an apostle is one who is sent. Beyond the twelve called by God, we all are apostles in the sense of spreading the good news. Paul was not one of the 12 apostles of the lamb but he was an apostle as were others. Jesus also was an apostle, "Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession..." (Heb 3:1).
Yes he does, he did it for me, whatever I have asked him till now he has given me exactly that. He knows my needs but only condition is you cannot rush it with God. You have to be patience
God answers our prayers immediately. It's satan that gets in the way of us receiving.
God did miracles in the Old testament, God did miracles in the New testament, and the Bible says clearly God never changes.
In my 6 years as a Christian I've seen incredible miracles in my life and others.
Anyone that down plays the power of God ought to be ignored and avoided.
I have experienced a miracle of instant healing only one time many years ago. I was in continual pain then suddenly it was gone. I did not feel it go. But just realized it was gone.
The problem with sensationalism is that men selected which gifts they say have ceased and then teach that as if that is biblical. There is no scripture to support that. This is don’t based on what they are experiencing. God’s word never separated out any gifts and put them in a separate category and called them “sign” gifts. That is a man-made teaching. The bible does say that the gifts will cease, but we don’t know what that will look like or what that appointment timeframe will be. There is no biblical stands for singling out specific gifts and saying that they have ceased while others continue. We may be seeing gifts operate less and less possibly. People may also be refusing to operate in the gifts because they’re being told that the manifestations of their gifts are not actually happening because certain gifts have ceased. Coming from a sensationalist church and growing up in a sensationalist church I have seen it many people ignoring or hiding their gifts because they’re being told that these gifts don’t exist anymore. It’s really sad. And I feel that it is also very harmful spiritually and emotionally; it isolates people in the Body of Christ at times
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Salvation is not a Gift it is God's mercy and love
The creator has a special kind of people here on earth we’re called light workers back in the days of old they called us apostles or prophets
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This series of questions briefly answered is very helpful and edifying.
Is Jesus still active by the Holy Spirit bringing his presence to the church = yes of course. Do continuationists or cessationists believe that God promises to do miracles in all circumstances = no.
Did God do unusual miracles through Paul and the 12 and in the beginning of the Church = yes. Does this mean he does not or can not today = no.
Is continuationism the demand that God do miracles and promises to do so in every circumstance - no.
Is cessationism the insistence that God no longer does miracles today = no.
It's not actually clear what the difference between the positions is here however.
It seems that the definition of cessationism is that big A = apostles not longer exist and that God no longer confers special miraculous gifts on individuals for the formation of the early church and for the validation of the apostolic authority and witness. You don't have to be a continuationist to believe that this is the case however do you?
Is it not possible to believe that God continues to give special leadership (small a - apostle) gifts to the church? We dont call them or identify them as Apostles in the founding of the church sense.
There are individuals with healing ministries and have seen unusually large numbers of miraculous phenomenon during and through their lives. Are they foundational miraculous gifts for the church ? I don't think anyone would argue this. Whether small a apostles or small m miracle workers the works must point to Christ if they are of the Holy Spirit. So does holding a position like this really make you a cessationist or a continuationist ?
Did the Holy Spirit get taken up to heaven or is He still here? Still here and still pointing to Jesus and still doing the miraculous work of salvation and signs pointing to Christ. That has to be so otherwise no one could see Jesus.
You did not employ any scripture to support your statements re your questions. So no substance to your post .Holy spirit is not a person, it is Gods power, or active force. The word for spirit is "pneuma" and context will determine which of 5 different actions/ ways it operates. Wind, an organisms lifeforce, inner dominant feelings, angels, holy spirit and God is a spirit. "Pneuma "comes from the greek "pneo" = to breathe. In the Bible it is defined as "an invisibe force". an extended meaning due to the differing actions it does. Think of a pneumatic tyre or nail gun.
An important distinction is to be made between miracles in general and "signs and wonders." The latter is what some people think of when they ask this question. God is not going around today doing massive supernatural signs to prove Himself the same way He did in the Old Testament and in the life of Christ. He still does supernatural healings sometimes and miraculous acts of providence etc., but He is not likely to part any seas or to cast down any city walls any time soon. The stated purpose of signs and wonders (as opposed to more private miracles) was to prove something to the people at the time "So they may know that I AM!" However, we now have the Scriptures and live in an age of faith. We cannot be so presumptuous as to ask God to supernaturally prove His existence today when He has already told us all we need to know about Him. Besides, humans showed themselves perfectly capable of lacking faith in the past *even* when confronted by miraculous signs. There is really no reason for signs at this point.
It is very hard to clearly understand this term in English. However, in Chinese, miracles means traces of God, and the traces of God are everywhere. Just observe the history.
Just as sure as Faith comes from Believing which God Bestows, "miracles" still take place as God sees fit, a miracles first priority isn't for people to see, but to Bless,,... Today we still HEAR testimony of them and choose to Believe or not Believe the miracle took place, but you'll never convince the person it happened to it isn't real,..
Peter sank when he was walking on water (it was a miracle to walk on water). Did it mean that it was not Jesus will for him to walk on water? What was Jesus answer to him about why he sank?
I think he is taking the biblical miracles literally for what they were then and we don’t see those same types today. I’ll agree with raising the dead from a prayer most likely doesn’t happen in that way. I think the miracle is what happens in someone’s heart in an instance when that said person gets a divine push to pay someones debt, mortgage, hardship or picking someone up financially or emotionally. That would be a miracle because it comes from the inner most place of our hearts and that to me is where the holy of holies exist, where God resides in us.
Thank you for your wonderful message, you are healing me!
I have a question is it possible in some cases the gift of miracle is actually gifted to the bearer instead of the bearer gifting it to another? For example healing the bearer so they can heal others in a grander way?
I would urge you to seek from the bible..But all gift are given by the holy spirit not men..for example if i have gift of miracles I can’t give it to you if the holy spirit wishes to do so he possibly can..that being said i lean towards cessation side of view so😁
I was prayed for and healed and at this same healing conference someone said "now you put your healing on someone else." They quoted a scripture how we're supposed to do this...put your anointing on someone else. But I'm not sure where it is.
For me its YES. When Jesus ascended to heaven , He left us the Holy Spirit to guide, convict, heal, and do miracles just like what He did during the early Christians and apostles through the name of Jesus. And this continues until God takes away all His believers...
Reading the books of the New Testament, we probably asked ourselves more than once: *"Why 2000 years we do not see those miracles that accompanied the Сhurch of Christ in the I century, as described in the New Testament?"* Why do the so-called preachers of Christ have to prove that Jesus really existed and atheists boldly deny the historicity or divine origin of Christ? Maybe because the Сhurch of Christ has not existed for 2000 years?
The Сhurch does not exist in the form in which it is presented in the books of the New Testament, but there are Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and other christian sects claiming to be the place of the Church, but they not have the only thing that distinguishes the divine from the human and is characteristic of just the Сhurch of Christ -the reinforcement of the word with signs, that is, miracles (Mark 16:15-20).
Therefore, some researchers doubt the historicity of Christ, and some of them are not opposed to declaring him a an ordinary philosopher, teacher. But even if Jesus were an ordinary philosopher, his disciples would be ordinary followers of Jesus. And they would not dare to write about the miracles that not only Jesus, but also his disciples, could perform.
If there were the Church in our time as described by the authors of the New Testament books, where miracles are performed, the sick are healed, where prophesied, and the dead are raised, no one would doubt the historicity of Christ. Then there would be the same controversy throughout the world as in the first century - Jesus the Son of God or the false prophet who seduces the world by miracles. As a result, we can say that the emergence and development of christian sects and atheism was the result of the fact that over the 2000 years the Сhurch of Christ did not exist.
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You are right, miracles do not work salvation, or even healing a person works salvation. It is the cross that works salvation. But then, I once prayed for a woman with lung cancer, she was healed, I remember praying for a boy in a wheelchair, he walked. I remember praying for a broken down motorbike, it started working. So yes, healing and miracles do occur, but then is this a regular experience for me? No. I see a gift as a singular incident, which can be repeated more than once. However if ones gets gifts on a regular basis then it becomes a ministry. Many prophesy, but that does not mean they are a prophet.
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"I could be wrong on that". "It is not wrong to be skeptical."
I think this answer is based on his personal opinion because no scripture has been given to back it. Am yet to find a scripture that supports the idea that the gift of the Spirit ceased. For every other doctrine he cites scripture except this one.
Read 1 Cor 13:8--12. It shows the miraculous gifts of the spirit were only for the baby congregation. Their knowledge then was limited, like looking through a "dark glass". Yes this "partial knowledge" would be later replaced by fullness of knowledge, compare Dan 12 :3,4,8,9. I was surprised he did not explain this passage of scipture also.
Why do we not observe the sabbath today in the sense many people still work on Sunday.
Isn’t it strange that most miracles today are only of the kind that are internal to a person? Like you hear stories of cancer being healed (or going into remission) or of being freed from an addiction, but you never hear of a broken leg being healed without being set and cast. Or a limb growing back. Or blindness being healed. It seems only the things that could have a natural explanation are the “miracles” we see...
Is healing the only thing attached to “Miracle”?
You brought up a great point. No healing cannot be the only thing attached to a miracle.
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@@ScruffyWarlord See just above.
The speaker is correct, the transmitting the gifts of the spirit in the 1st century ceased with the death of the apostles. There HAD TO BE one or more present for such to occur. NB, Acts 2:4, 2:43, 5:12, 8:18, 11:15, 19:5,6. Todays so called healings are at best superficial or imagined and always fail.. In the first century there were NO fAILURES as one would expect since then holy spirit was the power behind them. As the presenter noted there is no prophesying as in the days of the apostles. Todays speaking in tongues is demonic. As Paul explained at 1 Cor 13:8--12, tongues , and prophesying and healings, though it does not specifically say so, would be in time replaced by complete and accurate Bible understanding.
@@ralphgoreham3516 I'm sorry, I really understand your view and partially agrees with you but how many places have you been to? How many people have you met? While I agree that there are many misuse of the gift, there are fraud, and treacherous teachers who prey on the people out there, however, it doesn't affirm the extinction of these gifts and none of the scripture references you mention said that as well.
I will probably take sides with you if I haven't seen first hand healing, tongues and other miracles!
However, I don't believe they are above the Authority of the Scripture because everything must be examined through the lens of the Word of God to affirm that which is true and for the edification of the body of Christ! NB: 1 Thes 5v21 & 1 John 4v1
If you watch “the last reformation” channel, it eventually gets hard for one to imagine that *all* of the healings could not be real.
I agree the gift of miracles may not but does God so miracles in people’s life I feel He does. What is the difference in answered prayers or a miracle.
He may Elijah, but the difference is when the gifts of the spirit are attached to bolster particular religious persuasion. IE this must be the true religion or one that God approves. Christian or non Christian.
Appreciate and respect his honesty and personal view in this. Thank you!
However, the BIble clearly doesn't say what continues and what doesn't. It says, what gifts He gives us in the body of Christ but He doesn't say He is taking back those gifts - 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. I think the Apostles (big 'A' because only they had a direct encounter with Jesus when He was on earth and calling to lay down the foundation of the church with correct doctrine) had a specific calling. But that doesn't mean people don't receive the gift to plant church. I consider planting churches as apostolic (small 'a') as well, prophets do exist today as well as Paul encouraged us to earnestly desire prophecy (in fact the word literally means to' lust after'.) - 1 Corinthians 14:1, Ephesians 4:11-13. The Scripture also mentioned, the word 'some' in Ephesians 4:11-13; that means, not everyone functions in this specific ministry.
Just because not everyone function in this form of ministry, does not mean it has ended already. We are the Body of Christ with different roles, calling and functions, and i don't think it has been affected by timeline or a specific someone. This is because the gifts don't come from men but from the same Spirit - 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
Obviously, no one can produce another epistle that can be canon for Scripture/Words of God anymore. That is because that is the direction of the Holy Spirit to set the foundation of the church. The foundation of the church has been done already. We are now carrying forward what has been done so that His Kingdom will never end. We are not building foundation anymore as the foundation has been done already. Ephesians 2:20
This man is spiritually blind. Miracles are everywhere. God is a God of miracles.
It would be nice to have his explanation, not just his opinion. Maybe there is good reason to believing some gifts are ended. Just hoped to find such thoughts here. Opinion would be worth more from someone who is 99% right 100% of the time. Seeing how "unsure" he is about his opinion, what was the point in sharing it?
The term cessationist is non-biblical. There is no grounding for it. God will do what He will do, and enable people with gifts for times that He sees fit. Gifts should be pursued for God's glory and the benefit of those around us. The idea of permanent gifts is also non-biblical. We are all dependent on the giver. Paul could not heal himself of his thorn in the flesh. Peter could not raise the martyrs from the dead. Yet God did give those apostles gifts. Miracles are often signs to help someone trust Jesus. God is God, and we should obey Jesus command to ask, seek and knock, trusting His goodness and sovereign power to act however He wants to. Even if He does not deliver us from the furnace, He is still worthy of gratitude and devotion because He is our majestic eternal redeemer.
I think having the gift means that God granted them the authority to manipulate the nature order of things without needing to consult Him in order for the gift to work. I believe this because in Numbers 20 when he struck the rock twice the water still came forth even though he did it differently than the way God told him to.
Water coming out of desert rock was Gods doing. Over 2 maybe 3 million were thirsty.
@@ralphgoreham3516 God granted Moses the authority to do it though. He was a worker of miracles. The miracle worked even though he did it differently than God wanted it done. That's why I believe the gift of miracles is God granting people the authority to do them.
@@mattwhitaker3801 Moses had an enormous responsibility for so many people and was not a perfect man. He was Gods mediator between He and the Israelites. Dont you feel your connection is a tad stretched. Be careful your reasoning is an attempt at maintaining a comfort zone. Beware of the "god of this worlds" deception.
@@ralphgoreham3516 what comfort zone are you referring to? Miracle workers are extremely rare in the pages of Scripture. How many can you name? It is a rare thing. All I am saying is that there are miracles God works on His own and there are people He allows to perform them. It has been rare but regardless of how you view it the source of the power and authority is God.
i agree!
I think this answer is spot on. Thank you.
Why wouldn't he? If you can't see them, you need to change your "church...."
Sometimes you don’t need to explain, it’s a simple yes. That’s a problem with most of this guys that try to explain everything