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The Gift of the Working of Miracles | Episode #393 | Encore Episode #064 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and story along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each
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  Speaker 2: one for the profit of all. For to one is
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  Speaker 2: given the word of wisdom through the spirit to another,
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  Speaker 2: the word of knowledge through the same spirit to another,
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  Speaker 2: Faith by the same spirit to another, gifts of healings
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  Speaker 2: by the same spirit to another, the working of miracles
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  Speaker 2: to another, prophecy to another, discerning of spirits to another,
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  Speaker 2: different kinds of tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues
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  Speaker 2: but one and the same spirit works all these things,
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  Speaker 2: distributing to each one individually as he wills. First Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: twelve seven through eleven. As we continue our study of
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  Speaker 2: the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit, we have already
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  Speaker 2: reviewed the gift of the Word of Wisdom as well
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  Speaker 2: as the gift of the Word of Knowledge. We've also
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  Speaker 2: reviewed portions of the gift of faith, and we were
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  Speaker 2: blessed to have a special gift that could give us
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  Speaker 2: more personal experiences in the gifts of healings. But we
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  Speaker 2: now have come to yet another aspect of the nine
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  Speaker 2: gifts of the Holy Spirit, and this is one of
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  Speaker 2: those that people have a tremendous amount of issue with.
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  Speaker 2: It is the working of miracles. Now, as we look
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  Speaker 2: at the gift of the working of miracles, we can
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  Speaker 2: find that the Bible is replete with examples constantly of
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  Speaker 2: miraculous works. There are nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: They work in conjunction with each other for the benefit
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  Speaker 2: of all. They are available to every believer at any
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  Speaker 2: time that the Holy Spirit directs. As we surrender to
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, he will provide manifestations of those gifts
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  Speaker 2: as they are needed in the body. Now, when we
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  Speaker 2: discussed the working of miracles. We can look at Bible
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  Speaker 2: dictionaries that describe what the word of miracles means. One
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  Speaker 2: is an intervention in the natural universe by God, another
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  Speaker 2: is a phenomenon that transcends natural laws. And there's also
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  Speaker 2: a divine act by which God reveals himself to people.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the examples of the actual miracles from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible are such as Jesus and the Apostles healing and
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  Speaker 2: casting demons out of people, and Jesus turning water into
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  Speaker 2: wine at the wedding of Cana, Jesus feeding five thousand
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  Speaker 2: people by multiplying five blows of bread and two fish.
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  Speaker 2: Also in the Old Testament, God parting the Red Sea
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  Speaker 2: for Moses and the children of Israel. Also Daniel not
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  Speaker 2: being eaten by the lions in the Lion's Den. We
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  Speaker 2: also are very much aware of the three Hebrew lads
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  Speaker 2: who were thrown into a fiery furnace. The fire was
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  Speaker 2: so hot that it disintegrated those who put them in
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  Speaker 2: the furnace. And yet the four that were seen, three
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  Speaker 2: that were cast in the furnace bound, and one who
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  Speaker 2: was viewed by King nebuchad Nezar as the son of God.
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  Speaker 2: Had that view been that there were three men cast
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  Speaker 2: into the furnace, but there was a four man seen
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  Speaker 2: by King Nevitenensar. And when he released the three youths,
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  Speaker 2: they came out completely unscorched. There was not even the
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  Speaker 2: smell of fire on them. Certainly another miracle. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course there's the New Testament miracle of the apostle
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  Speaker 2: Peter getting out of the fishing boat so that he
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  Speaker 2: could approach Jesus who was walking on the water. Now
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  Speaker 2: there was one thing to see Jesus walking on the water,
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  Speaker 2: but yet still another miraculous occurrence to see Peter actually
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  Speaker 2: walking on the water. If you studied the Bible very
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  Speaker 2: carefully from start to finish, it is literally one miracle
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  Speaker 2: after another where God the Father, and Jesus Christ all
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  Speaker 2: perform miraculous works, and God still loves to do those
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  Speaker 2: same miracles through his people today. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: God does not change, and if He and Jesus were
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  Speaker 2: constantly doing miracles in both the Old Testament and New
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  Speaker 2: Testament writings, then God will also be wanting to do
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  Speaker 2: miracles in our day and age. And with this specific
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  Speaker 2: gift being listed as one of the nine of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. Then you know that God is trying to
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  Speaker 2: tell all of us that He still wants to perform miracles,
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  Speaker 2: even in the jaded and skeptical times that we are
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  Speaker 2: now currently living in. Again, do not be afraid of
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  Speaker 2: this heavy gift from the Lord, and do not quench
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit with any lack of faith or belief
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  Speaker 2: if he ever wants to try and do one for
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  Speaker 2: either you or any other people you may be working with.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the Bible tells us that absolutely nothing is impossible
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  Speaker 2: with God, which will include any divine miracle that he
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  Speaker 2: will want to perform. When we were talking with Pastor
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  Speaker 2: Mikhail Ashiko, as he was relating the gifts of healings
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  Speaker 2: as they were being manifested to help others, one was
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  Speaker 2: a miraculous act that he was not even aware would happen,
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  Speaker 2: but he was encouraged to pray for a young child
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  Speaker 2: who was born without eyes. After four days of repeatedly
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  Speaker 2: praying for this child, little slits in the skin where
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  Speaker 2: the eyes would become evident began to open, and after
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  Speaker 2: continue praying for this same child for another four days,
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  Speaker 2: eyes appeared and the child was able to see without
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  Speaker 2: any problems. What was the result of this miraculous healing.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly it was a miracle to produce eyes within
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  Speaker 2: a child who was born without eyes. And yet what
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  Speaker 2: was the result that we heard The father of this
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  Speaker 2: child came to know Jesus as Lord and Savior, but
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  Speaker 2: he also came to know him as a miracle working God.
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  Speaker 2: And so we can see today that the gift of
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  Speaker 2: the working of miracles, in conjunction in many cases with
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  Speaker 2: the gifts of healings, do still take place in the
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  Speaker 2: body of Christ. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are
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  Speaker 2: the same today as they were when they were first
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  Speaker 2: rendered by the Holy Spirit himself. You see, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we have come to understand is because
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  Speaker 2: God does not change. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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  Speaker 2: So if he provided miraculous works while he was in
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  Speaker 2: the earth walking as the Messiah, he still provides miraculous
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  Speaker 2: works today.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Homan Bible Publishers and Nash Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again here is Richard.
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  Speaker 1: To wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, greater works than these shall you do? Because
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  Speaker 2: I go to my Father. And he said this because
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  Speaker 2: he was going to send them the Holy Spirit, who
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  Speaker 2: would lead and guide them into all truth and would
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  Speaker 2: perform works through them that would glorify God. The initial
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  Speaker 2: evidence that God is at work in a miraculous form
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  Speaker 2: is that people will be drawn to Jesus is not
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  Speaker 2: to the miracle he performed. And that is today's reflection
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  Speaker 2: on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. Or Richard the entire team. This is Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition Reflections on
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  Speaker 1: the word