Where Science shrugs, God answers (Part 1)

I am not undermining science one bit, I believe we have learned so much about the world we live in and what goes on in it through science. Science plays a vital role in figuring out what went on in the past, present, and future. Through science we have learned to prevent illnesses and cure disease. Science has helped us to answer many of life’s questions and figure out ways to prevent catastrophes but it still has its limits. Tonight lets talk about miracles and purpose. If we rely on science as our foundation for all knowledge we may find ourselves to claim there is no purpose or reason for being here, our reason is to simply live by fulfilling our basic needs. What if I said there is a purpose to living and there is a reason why were all here? You would ask me where I got this information and be skeptical as to how I got it. Lets go back a couple thousand years to the days of Jesus. There are two things Jesus could have been, a lunatic who only sought after praise from others. Or He was everything he claimed to be. Lets first go over the miracles of Jesus. Gary Habermas once said “Why should miracles be rejected as actual events unless we have prior knowledge that they can never be factual.” Miracles happen outside the realm of science which allows God to demonstrate his omnipotence which cannot be explained through it. You may be thinking “ok, lets go back to Jesus where does he fit in with all of this?” Flavius Josephus published a history of the Jews in twenty books around 93 CE(1916 years ago). In Antiquities 18.3.3 he writes,
"Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day."

Notice how Josephus writes “Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him that.” Though he had the body of man Jesus was recognized as something more than a simple teacher or prophet. Lets check out the next sentence “for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure”. Jesus performed many miracles. He calmed storms (Mark 4:39-41), He healed the sick (Matthew8:16), Casting out demons (Luke 8:26-33) and spoke truth to others so that they may know the way to salvation which was through him, John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus is the Christ. The resurrection of Jesus (a miracle) in the New testament is recorded as an actual event (Matthew 27). So many miracles then and so many now all still our Father in heaven. You may be asking right now “Why is it then that these miracles aren’t happening anymore?” My response to that is, they are, we have a terrible habit of labeling things as coincidence and overlooking the wonderful things that we have. God blesses us with a miracle everyday, when you get a chance I urge you to take some time to think about what He has done for us, and thank him for it.