Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

The Transition from Old to New

• Intercession. He was man of prayer (Matthew 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16; 6:12; 9:28). • Miracles and healing. Seventeen bodily cures, nine miracles over the forces of nature, six demonic deliverances and three raised from the dead (as recorded). 16 • Visions. Jesus saw the fall of Satan (Luke 10:18). • Outward features. He made authoritative statements ("I say to you") and performed symbolic actions-for example, conducting the Last Supper, cursing the fig tree and entering Jerusalem. (Note the chart below.) • Teaching. His teaching was prophetic in form and content (He spoke in parables, short sayings, poetic form) and brought a prophetic mes sage to His nation. • Insight and emphases. He displayed discernment of human charac ter, prophetic insight into contemporary political, social and inter national conditions and made predictions.17 • Fate. Jesus fulfilled the prophet's role of rejection, persecution and martyrdom.

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Sign Miracle

Meaning

Reference 2:1-11

His ministry would be miracu lous (power over nature), and His new ministry would be better than the old, estab lished traditions Faith invalidates the need for Jesus' physical presence Jesus challenged Sabbath tradi tion and the Jews' unwilling ness to come to Him "Those who do not see may see; and . . . those who see may become blind" (9:39) Whoever "lives and believes in Me shall never die" (11:26) We should believe in His accomplishment (note 2:18)

Changed water to wine

Healed nobleman's son

4:46-54

Healed lame man at Bethesda

5:2-9

Fed 5,000 with bread and fish Jesus is the bread of heaven Healed blind man on Sabbath Jesus' purpose in coming:

6:5-14 9:1-16

11:43-47; 12:18 20:14, 19, 26

Resurrected Lazarus

Appeared after resurrection

Note: Miracle (KJV), wonder-work (Williams), sign (NASB), attesting miracles (NASB margin), signs of some underlying reality (F. F. Bruce). All are explicitly called signs except the story of the lame man at Bethesda. Other uses of sign: John 2:23; 3:2; 6:2, 26, 30; 7:31; 9:16; 10:41; 12:37. 18 ■ 138