Don't Miss Your Miracles

Don’t Miss Your Miracles Hebrews 1:1-9

Sermon by: Rick Crandall

McClendon Baptist Church Dec. 21, 2005

*Christmas is a time for miracles...

-Gabriel’s announcement to Mary...

-Joseph’s dream of guidance to take Mary as his wife...

-The virgin birth...

-Angels appearing to the shepherds...

-The Bethlehem star...

*Christmas is a time of miracles...

-And our God still works miracles today.

*Think about it...

-A miracle may be a 1 in a million thing...

*But there are over 6 billion people in the world today

-And if only 1 in a million received a miracle today...

--There still would have been over 6,000 miracles!

*Take a look at this video clip from our Lottie Moon materials this year...

-It tells of a miracle that happened during the Tsunami last December.

-(IMB 2005 video clip...)

*Our God is a miracle worker...

-And He surely has some miracles for you...

--We can find them here in the WoG.

1. God wants to give you a miraculous revelation.

-(And we see this in vs. 1-2...)

*God speaks to us... -Now that’s a miracle!

1-And vs. 1 tells us that He speaks to us in many ways...

-God can speak to us through His creation...

A. As Psalm 19:1-3 says:

-The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.

-Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge...

-There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

B. God can speak through nature, through His prophets,

*And even through people like you & me...

BI. This morning I was visiting Betty Sawyer...

And she said,

-It’s amazing how many people here at the hospital want to talk about God.

*But you see, she was the one starting the conversations...

-As she talked to people about the Lord, her Sunday School class & our church.

C. God can speak through people like me & you...

2-But the greatest way God has ever spoken is through His Son, Jesus Christ.

A. As vs. 2 says:

-He has spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds...

B. What a miracle! *God became a man!

-The One who made the worlds...

-In vs. 3, the brightness of the Father’s glory...

-The One who holds all creation together by the word of His power.

C. This is the One who came down to reveal God to us...

*God wrapped up in human flesh to speak to us...

-That’s the miracle of revelation...

D. And He still speaks today!

*Because His words have been recorded in this Book...

-And His Holy Spirit is here with us.

DI. Alexander Rostovzev is a great example of God’s revelation...

*Years ago, he was a famous actor in atheistic, Communist Russia.

-Alexander once played the role of Jesus in Moscow...

*It was a very sacrilegious play called Christ in a Tuxedo...

-He was supposed to read 2 verses from the Sermon on the Mount...

--Then take off his robe & shout,

-Give me my tuxedo & top hat!

*But as Alexander read the words,

-Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

-Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted...

--He began to tremble.

*Instead of following the script, he kept reading from Matthew 5...

-Ignoring the coughs, yells & foot-stomping from the other actors.

*Finally, Alexander remembered a verse he learned as a child & he cried out,

-Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom!

E. Before the curtain could be lowered, Alexander had trusted Jesus Christ as his Lord & Savior.

*It was a miraculous revelation! (1)

2. God wants to give you a miraculous revelation.

*And a miraculous salvation.

-(We also see this in vs. 3...)

A. Jesus purged, cleansed, washed away all of our sins...

*And notice that He did it by Himself...

-Nobody else could have done that!

--It took an absolute miracle...

B. Jesus Christ worked that miracle when He died on the Cross...

*And this miracle of salvation is for you!

-You just have to receive it by receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior & Lord.

BI. When I was getting ready for the funeral the other day...

*I came across a story that Bro. Savoie told me one time

*I am a little vague on the details...

-But it happened when Bro. Savoie was a little boy.

*There was some kind of big storage container near their house...

-I think it was probably for rice:

-Like a big metal box with a hole on top.

*One hot summer day Preacher got curious about it...

-And he dropped into the hole.

--It only took a few seconds to realize there was no way out!

*The hole was too high to reach & he was trapped...