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NASB | 1 Corinthians 13:8 ¶ Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 13:8 ¶ Love never fails [it never fades nor ends]. But as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for the gift of special knowledge, it will pass away. |
Subject: Are miracles for today? |
Bible Note: survivor The magic word here is confirmed. I believe where God does miracles today people aren’t looking for confirmation they are just glad God intervened. There are fabulous stories coming out of third world nations of exciting miracles. Can they be confirmed no, there were no before and after pictures, there are no medical records. Why? Because they don’t have cameras and have never seen a doctor. But none the less the people of their community knew and saw the before and after. How many sworn affidavits signed with an x or the single name do you think it would take to convince the skeptical? So why even try. I say truly lost because there are lost that either pretend to be saved or have totally and completely rejected the gospel and as a generalization you will never convince them of anything. Then there the truly lost those looking for hope that haven’t heard about Jesus. When God does a miracle before them they don’t try to figure out how it happened they take it for what it was. Therefore God moves in their midst (as far as miracles). Remember the Pharisees wanted to see Jesus do yet when they got a report they always explained it away and Jesus never worked a miracle in their sight. Leg growing back yes I’m familiar with such an event, I’m also familiar with two paraplegics confined to wheel chairs standing up and pushing their chairs around a running track. A person blind from birth seeing for the first time. Can I prove them? No. Would I try? No what would be the point? Those that will believe, will believe and those that won’t, won’t. In any case while they were fantastic and I treasure them, they are nothing compared to the miracle of Jesus saving a person for eternity from the sentence of sin. That is a miracle that will live on forever. EdB |