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Miracles? Week 2: What’s the Purpose?

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On Sunday, we launched a 5-part series called “Miracles?”. Throughout this series we’re answering 7 questions about miracles. This week we answered the 4th: What’s the purpose of miracles? We discovered miracles are signs to point people to Jesus.       

Main Point | Miracles are signs to point people to Jesus  

Focus Passages | John 2:1-12

Discussion Questions:

  • What were your initial thoughts or takeaways from the sermon, and why?

  • What do you think the purpose of God doing, or giving us, a miracle is?

  • Are you praying for a miracle? Why do you want God to give it to you?

  • Read John 2:1-12, which records Jesus’ first public miracle:

    • What words and phrases stick out to you in this passage?

    • In vs 3, what was Mary asking Jesus to do? What does that reveal about who she believed Jesus was?

    • What did Jesus mean in His reply to Mary in vs. 4?

    • What main point is John communicating in vs. 11 about why Jesus performed this miracle?

  • In his Gospel, John strategically selected and recorded seven of Jesus’ miracles that occurred during His three-year public ministry, prior to His resurrection from the grave: (1) Changing Water into Wine (2:1-10), (2) Healing an official’s son (4:43-54), (3) Healing a disabled man (5:1-15), (4) Feeding the 5,000 (6:1-14), (5) Walking on Water (6:16-21), (6) Healing a blind man (9:1-12), (7) Raising Lazarus from the dead (11:1-44)

  • John tells us what all these miracles have in common in chapter 20. Read John 20:30-31:

    • What main point(s) is John communicating in this passage?

    • What’s the significance of John referring to Jesus’s miracles as “signs”?

    • Based on this passage, how would John answer the question, “What’s the purpose of miracles?”

  • Ronnie said, “Miracles are signs to point people to Jesus.” 

    • If you are praying for a miracle, is this ultimately why you want God to give it to you?

    • What does that reveal about how you view God?

    • How might that be impacting your faith in Him?

  • Ronnie said, “Miracles are at God’s discretion to accomplish God’s purposes for God’s glory.”

    • If you are praying for a miracle, does this explanation change “why” you want God to give it to you? In what way?

    • If God’s purposes were accomplished by not giving you your miracle, are you okay with that?  Why?

    • God has already performed the greatest miracle for us—the resurrection of Jesus. Is that enough for you to surrender to Jesus and follow Him, or do you need another miracle first? Why?

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