Miracles

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Stephen the Supernatural

• Miracles the Book of Acts

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Do You Believe in Miracles?
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Miracle

• A supernatural intervention of a power that is
  not limited by the laws either of matter or of
  mind
• A power interrupting the fixed laws which govern
  their movements

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Miracle

• An occurrence that is simultaneously above
  nature and above man

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Miracles Science

• Laws of Nature are from God
• (another sermon)
• A miracle is an unreproduceable event that is
  either a suspension of the normal laws of nature
  or a super-addition to the existing laws

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Miracle Jesus Walking on Water

• 1) Cant Reproduce
• 2) Suspension of Law of Gravity - Jesus weighs
  almost nothing
• 3) Super-Addition of Laws - Increased surface
  tension of water

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Initiation of Miracles

• Initated by God
• Resurrection
• Ananias Sapphira Acts 55
• Saul lightning voice Acts 93-4
• Initiated by Men
• Peter Acts 36-7 In the name of Jesus walk
• Paul Acts 1311 Elymas blinded

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Stephen the Supernatural

• 5They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of
  the Holy Spirit also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor,
  Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a
  convert to Judaism.
• 6They presented these men to the apostles, who
  prayed and laid their hands on them
• Stephen Seized
•  8Now Stephen, a man full of God's grace and
  power, did great wonders and miraculous signs
  among the people.

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Wonders Signs

• Teras wonders wonder-producing events
• Producing astonishment of the beholder (Acts
  219)
• Semeion signs
• Evidence of divine commission
• Laying on of hands Moses to Levites Joshua

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Stephen the Supernatural

• Miracles the Book of Acts