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May 30, 2024 · Given all the reasons He came, the Bible gives us many instances where Jesus displayed His power and authority. Jesus’ works of power always connected with His mission — to testify about who He is and about His work (Luke 7:18-23; John 10:25; John 21:24-25).
Jan 14, 2024 · The episode showed Jesus’ dominance over the forces of chaos and darkness that wage war against God’s kingdom. Christ’s power and authority over the storm pointed to his supreme power over Satan and demonic powers as well.
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- Unity of The Son of God
Many theologians of the modern era, emphasizing Christ’s humanity, have puzzled over the two natures of Christ, assuming they’re in a kind of competition. Because two natures can’t occupy the same “space” within one person, Christ’s identification with our humanity required him to always or mostly forsake the right to his divine attributes. How, th...
On the surface, Jesus walking on water in Matthew 14seems to affirm that he worked miracles as a man empowered by the Spirit. In Matthew’s narrative, Jesus has just finished feeding the 5,000. His disciples get into a boat on the Sea of Galilee. Rather than get in with them, however, Jesus withdraws to a mountain to pray. By the time it was between...
Three clues in this passage, however, point to a different understanding of this miracle. First, when Jesus reveals to his fearful disciples that “it is I” (Matt. 14:27; Greek ego eimi), this isn’t a call to recognize his human features that mark him out as “Jesus from Nazareth.” Rather, he’s appropriating Yahweh’s name revealed in Exodus 3:14 (I A...
Because the incarnate Son of God is one person with two natures, we should expect to see Gospel episodes reflective of each nature. Even in this profound revelation of Jesus’s divine power on the sea, he uses human feet to walk on water, a human arm to save Peter from sinking, and a human voice to reassure his disciples of his divine identity. Jesu...
Feb 27, 2023 · In this week's podcast episode, Tim and Jon talk about the way Jesus uses his power and authority as the cosmic firstborn. When Jesus touches people who are unclean, they get healed and become clean too––it’s like his holiness is contagious.
In Matthew 8 and 9, we see some demonstrations of the power of Jesus. In these two chapters, Matthew describes ten miracles performed by Jesus. The miracles were sometimes performed to meet human needs; sometimes they were performed to prove that Jesus was the true Messiah.
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Nov 3, 2021 · In Mark 5, Scripture gives us a glimpse of God’s divine power at work through Jesus; there we see our Lord rid a demon-possessed man of his burden using dunamis (Mark 5:6-8), and He raises a dead child to life through the same power (Mark 5:40-42).
