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Supernatural Signs Will Follow Those Who Believe
by Pastor Jim Feeney, Ph.D.
Sermon Summary: The supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit are available to believers today. If you can believe, God will use you in spiritual gifts.
Romans 10:17, KJV So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
•• I want to revisit a bible truth today where I think that our faith is too low.
• That is, our expectation that supernatural signs will follow.
• I want God’s Word to bring FAITH today.
1 Corinthians 2:4-5 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, [5] so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
•• Want to see a “demonstration of the Spirit’s power”? Then let “your faith...rest on...God’s power.”
• Don’t dwell on man’s words, but on the power of God.
• Don’t dwell on your doubts, but on the power of God.
• Let your expectation be the words of Psalm 63:2: “TO SEE thy power and thy glory.”
1 Thessalonians 1:5, KJV For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Ghost...
•• This is the clear, New Testament pattern — the Gospel is to come in WORD AND POWER!
• Let your expectation be the Bible pattern, not man’s failure to live up to that pattern!
• Believe this, seek this, pray for this word-and-power.
Mark 16:15-18 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.... [17] And these signs WILL accompany those who BELIEVE: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; [18]...they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
•• Our main text today: “These signs WILL accompany those who BELIEVE.”
• Do YOU BELIEVE that they WILL?
• Jesus said, “Believe, and they will follow.”
• Did Jesus lie? Or did He tell the absolute truth?
• Jesus: The supernatural will accompany believers.
• Not just apostles/evangelists, etc., but believers!
• They WILL accompany believers.
Hebrews 2:3-4 How shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. [4] God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
4, KJV “God also bearing them witness” -- supernaturally.
•• Supernatural signs WILL accompany your ministry, because GOD is determined to BEAR WITNESS with signs, miracles, spiritual gifts, etc.
• The death of His Son was too important to leave the results up simply to men and women.
• God stays involved in our ministries — “God [bore] them witness” in those supernatural ways.
• He will bear you witness in supernatural ways.
• Mark 16:20 Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
• You never minister alone; the Lord works WITH you and will CONFIRM your ministry with supernatural signs.
Luke 10:19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy.
•• Believe this, receive this from Jesus: “I have GIVEN YOU authority...[over] all the power of the enemy.”
• Not just the 12 apostles, but believers — here, 72 unnamed disciples.
• Jesus has given YOU spiritual power & authority.
Acts 1:8 “...YOU will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you...”
• Peter? Yes. Paul? Yes. But also YOU!
1 Corinthians 12:7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
•• “To EACH one”! That includes YOU and me.
## Today let FAITH come by the WORD you have heard.
## Today determine to believe, and to see the fulfillment, of Jesus’ words: “These signs WILL accompany those who BELIEVE.”
## Determine to BE such a BELIEVER!
Preached at South Valley Church, Phoenix, Oregon, Wed., September 22, 2004
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