Our Excuses Don't Add Up

"...Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and sign which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves also know." Acts 2:22

This morning I saw something that I had never noticed before. It seems that Jesus did what he did, not because he was God in the flesh, but because God worked through him by the power of the Holy Spirit. If God could work through Jesus by the Holy Spirit, could not God also work through us today by that same Holy Spirit who was given on Pentecost?

Another thought for you God in the flesh believers. Why did Jesus have to pray if he was God in the flesh? God does not pray. He hears and answers prayer. Why did Jesus need to learn obedience as it says in Hebrews 5:8?

"though he were a son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered."

Jesus surely suffered on the cross. Was he disobedient up until then?

I think that making Jesus to be Christ before the resurrection is an attempt to cover up our unbelief. We grudgingly allow miracles and divine healing through the original apostles, but not after they all passed from the scene. They believe that God can do anything if God wants to, which he rarely does. It's easier to say that healing and miracles and speaking in tongues passed away after the death of the apostles and the printing of the Bible than to admit that we cannot heal anyone and that we do not speak in tongues in prayer and in worship. If Jesus did what he did in olden days because he was God, we cannot be expected to do greater works than Jesus because we are not God.

I fear that much of the church world today does err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

For the Evangelical world the only miracles that God does anymore is to save sinners. The Bible teaches that salvation is only the beginning. God has so much more!