John 11:38-44 – Jesus Raises Lazarus from the dead.
- ”Performance”
- Jesus performs a miracle.
- ‘Performing’ a miracle seems like an odd phrase. After all it’s not about the performance is it?
- Well actually yes it is.
- In this particular Jesus emphasizes two aspects of the case the sign and wonder.
- He prays in order that people understand that He is sent from God and purposely prays it out loud so people around will hear.
- He tells them they will see God’s glory because He has left it so late.
- Miracles were not simply performed to help people on the surface level; they had a deeper meaning.
- Signs and wonders were literally that; they were a sign of Heaven on earth.
- They were object lessons!
- They were metaphors of Heaven for those who had not seen Heaven yet.
- Importantly therefore Jesus rarely performed them the same way because there were different facets of the Kingdom of God that He was trying to teach.
- He particularly wanted them to understand the miracle rather than just want one either to
- receive an earthly blessing or
- in some cases to see something spectacular.
- What about you and I?
- Are we looking for God to do something in our lives for those two reasons or are we also hoping to understand something more about the Kingdom by the way in which God does it?
- Jesus performs a miracle as an object lesson. There are two parts; the object and the lesson. The second part is even more important than the other.
- Hoping to learn my lesson today because every new day is a sign and wonder.
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