And These Signs Shall Follow Them That Believe

Rev Raymond Mooi
26-05-2019

John 6:2 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased.[a]

Every miracle of God is a sign to demonstrate truth to mankind.

Jesus performed many signs that speak a message that came from God.

These signs were significant because they caused people to sit up and pay attention.

When He calls the church to go into all the world and preach the good news, when the eyes of the people and ears of the people are open, it would cause the gospel to penetrate into the hearts of people.

We in turn become people that do the works that Jesus Did and do them greater.

Nicodemus was a religious man. He was a teacher. Yet when he as a community leader that kept hearing the things that Jesus was doing, it was astounding to hear the lepers that were cleansed and the blind eyes opened, it started to provoke him and he wonder what was it that was missing in his belief and where was the reality that excited him to see God and His Word that's relevant to his time.

John 3 New King James Version (NKJV)
The New Birth
3 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born [a]again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man [b]who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should [c]not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

We know whom we worship but do we really know Him?

We proclaim the resurrected Jesus. He lives in the church of the Living God. The people saw the signs.

Mark 16:15-18 New King James Version (NKJV)
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who [a]believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they[b] will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Jesus gives us the authority to declare the miracle of God and it will happen because we are believers.

Every miracle is a sign that is a beginning that leads to an glorious end.

The miracles bring a sign that God's kingdom has come.

The world needs those signs. We need to present those signs.

We want our nation to know Jesus. We want our community to know Jesus Christ as Saviour.

There shall come redemption and there is hope for mankind.

He is a miracle-working God.

There was a time when Jesus broke the oppression and He has set us free from condemnation and shame.

But as time passes, when we could learn how to pray and know that He is a prayer answering God and we got it all, we have a problem with God. "Where is God? Why is this happening to me?"

When we have tasted the goodness of God, now we set conditions.

And we lose our way. We lose the joy of our salvation. We get excited and joyful when God blessed us but nobody got excited when we won a soul for God. Is this the kind of church that He has that He is the Head of?

When the church prayed for a change, the prayer meetings are packed with people. But we only wanted to see change that benefit us.

How things can change by affluence and by having the goodness of God, it causes us to go off track. We forget the signs that He would save us and that our eternal hope is heaven.

Jesus is not the saviour of our economy or our politics or our nation. Jesus is the saviour of our soul. He came to seek and save them that are lost.

Can we find the way back to the joy of our salvation? There is no reason for us to muble and murmer. As long as Jesus is my saviour, this world is not my home.

John 6:26-29 New King James Version (NKJV)
26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”

29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

Believe in God. Get the people of the earth to have faith in God.

Are we doing the works of Jesus or are we steering the people to every where else but God?

Are we helping people to find faith or are we helping people to lose faith in God?

Jesus is the Son of God. He is the saviour of human souls.

Do what Jesus did. Pray for the sick. Believe God for the signs and miracles. How amazing signs and wonders are!

Christ Jesus is the Head of the church and we are members of the body. What men cannot do, God can!

God is ready to touch you right where you are. The power of God will come upon you and give you a miracle.