Acts 3:10 (KJV)
And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
I recently received a question from a man who is an avowed atheist. (I haven’t taken much time to research him, but apparently, he has written a popular grade school textbook to teach children the process of evolution.) He told me he had never asked a Christian this question before: "Why don’t Christians today do miracles like the early Christians did?"
He makes several assumptions in his question that I believe are incorrect. However, one thing he is right about is that those so-called Christians claiming to do miracles today are not doing anything close to what we see in the Bible.
I notice, first, that this miracle was performed in a common area—
not where a faith healer had “set up” to do miracles.
I notice, second, that the apostles received no money, no offerings for their “performance.”
In fact, they explicitly said they had no silver or gold. I challenge the so-called faith healers of our age to match that!
I notice, third, that the message they preached had almost nothing to do with the “scripturalness” of charismatic gifts.
They preached Christ and Him crucified.
I notice, finally, that the man they healed was no obscure cripple.
The venue was so public, and he had been there for so long, that virtually everyone knew him to be a cripple—and now, they could see incontrovertible proof that he had been healed.
The Bible says this gift would cease. It was a sign gift, given to a small number of men to verify the message God had given them to preach. It has no purpose in today’s spiritual economy because we have a perfect and complete Word of God.
This gift did, in fact, cease. What so-called Christians perform as faith healing today is, in my opinion, a scam meant to bring recognition not to Jesus, but to themselves—and to line their pockets with money.
End of story.
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