John 10:37-38

THE EVIDENCE OF THE MIRACLES

‘If I do not the works of My Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not Me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.’

John 10:37

Observe the importance which our Lord Jesus Christ attaches to His miracles. He appeals to them as the best evidence of His own Divine mission.

I. The mighty miracles which our Lord performed during the three years of His earthly ministry are not considered as much as they ought to be in the present day. These miracles were not few in number. Forty times and more we read in the Gospels of His doing things entirely out of the ordinary course of nature. We are so familiar with these things that we are apt to forget the mighty lesson they teach. They teach that He Who worked these miracles must be nothing less than very God. They stamp His doctrines and precepts with the mark of Divine authority.

II. Unbelieving men have tried to pour contempt on Christ’s miracles, and to deny that they were ever worked at all. But they labour in vain. Proofs upon proofs exist that our Lord’s ministry was accompanied by miracles; and that this was acknowledged by those who lived in our Lord’s time. Objectors of this sort would do well to take up the one single miracle of our Lord’s resurrection from the dead, and disprove it if they can. If they cannot disprove that, they ought, as honest men, to confess that miracles are possible. And then, if their hearts are truly humble, they ought to admit that He Whose mission was confirmed by such evidence must have been the Son of God.

III. Christianity has abundant evidence that it is a religion from God.—Whether we appeal to the internal evidence of the Bible, or to the lives of the first Christians, or to prophecy, or to miracles, or to history, we get one and the same answer. All say with one voice, ‘Jesus is the Son of God, and believers have life through His Name,’