In verses 23 through 26 for our sermon text, Matthew 19, 23 through 26. Verse 23 reads, Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, with men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Jesus said a lot of amazing things. He said a lot of things, of course, that took people back, particularly his disciples. And here we have another instance of that very thing. But of course, we remember Jesus spake the truth always. And so he did not embellish anything, nor did he, in speaking, underestimate anything. He was dead on accurate all the time. And it's also good to remember and train yourself to remember it could not have been said by anybody else any better than what Jesus said. It was as pure. as it could be. So Jesus makes a statement here, and it's one I'm sure you're familiar with because it is, and has been through the years, proverbial about a camel going through the eye of a needle. And we want to speak to you from this text today, and I'm going to entitle the message, The Greatest Miracle. And right off, let me say it's not a camel going through the eye of a needle, okay? That would indeed be quite miraculous. We can't do that. God could if he wanted to, but that's not what I'm going to speak to you about. It is very interesting to note, however, that in the Gospels, we have only two instances where Jesus mentioned a camel. And this is one of them, and it's recorded in some of the other Gospels, exactly what we read right here. But the other instance where Jesus mentioned a camel makes my introductory point, so I want to read it to you. It's about two or three pages over in your Bible in Matthew 23, the woe chapter to the scribes and Pharisees, and verse 24. And so here are three chapters apart, the two times Jesus mentioned a camel. And there he said, ye blind guides which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. So these are the two times Jesus mentioned a camel and in both times he was using it in an example or an illustration obviously to make a spiritual point. And that's where I'd like to begin. What are we talking about? when we're talking about the greatest miracle in that sense. Well, Jesus' point to those scribes and Pharisees over there was that, again, you strain at a gnat and yet you'll swallow a camel. Under the Mosaic law, insects were non-edible. And the Jews went to the nth degree to strain their liquids, whatever it was, to make sure there was no bug in there. even something as small as a gnat. So that's why Jesus was saying you'd strain to keep a gnat out, but you're willing to swallow a whole camel, you know. And you read the verse after that, and you know the painted scepter's full of dead men bones. You wash the outside of the plate, but you don't care for the inside. So he was making that spiritual lesson. Well, that reminds us of something when it comes to miracles in that sense. How that due to sin and as sinners, we have the tendency naturally to follow after, to seek after, to pursue after the frivolous and unimportant things to the neglect of the obvious and important things. And I bring that to your attention because we're gonna be talking about miracles. Miracles. And again, human nature, like the Pharisees, is prone to pay no attention or little attention to reality, to the facts, to the things that are, to the obvious and clear things in life, and yet spend time infatuated with speculation, secret things, things that are unknown, things that are not revealed, or theories and hypotheticals. And there's many places where they see this very evident. The Bible tells us about creation. What we see, what we experience in life, verifies creation. what God has said about creation. If nothing else, then like begetting like. Yet people would rather spend time, energy, effort thinking about things evolving than the very things that are around them. Now I bring this up often, but again, I'm making an elementary point If I ever saw an apple tree make an apple this year and a pear next year, I would be very open to the thoughts and theories and things of evolution. If I ever saw a dog that could meow like a cat all the time, I would be very open to those things, you see. But nobody has ever seen and experienced any of that. Yet the world is consumed with theorizing on the things that have never been seen, experienced, or proven. When what the Bible says can be proved every moment of every day. Because the things that God made from the beginning are still here, and like still be getting like, and the heavens declare the glory of God, and we don't have two sons now where we used to have one or any of that. It's all still here and in order. And then we have the neglect, and this is what's burdensome to us as believers, is we have here the Bible which tells us more about ourselves than everything else that's ever been written by everybody put together, and is obviously more accurate from history and human experience. We have the divine diagnosis here of who we are, why we're here, where we're going and what we're supposed to do while we're here, while nobody else, philosophers and all, have been able to satisfy that or unify. And yet, rather than accepting what is revealed and what is experienced and what is a fact and what is history, where do people infatuate themselves? I wonder if there's life on Mars. I wonder if those things that people were seeing that they thought were drones are really aliens. I mean, the alien craze has taken over in our lifetime, hasn't it? I mean, people are just infatuated. So again, instead of believing that a God that has declared himself to be and has manifested the evidence of his existence, we'd rather believe in, or many people would rather believe in, stuff happening from nothing. or believing that there's life somewhere where God has said he made the earth to be inhabited and doesn't tell us he made anything else anywhere else to be inhabited. And I don't believe it's out there because it doesn't fit the plan of redemption. That's why I don't believe there's any life other than man and woman that God created and everything he created in Genesis and angels, you know. But again, you know where I'm going with this. You can see the illustrations. Man will focus on his body rather than his soul. What will you give in exchange for your soul? Christ asked the question. Yet we're living in a day, in an age now where you can constantly be changing your body, your looks, your whatever, you know. So again, skipping the obvious and important and focusing and being infatuated with the non-existent or the theory or whatever. Well, nothing could make this point any greater than when we come to miracles. We live in, again, a generation that is infatuated with miracles, right? And if you kind of follow this, if you looked at human history, obviously the Bible is the miracle book. We'll talk about that in a moment. But down through history in the dark ages the only things that really represented or had any basis for miracles was visions and apparitions and things sometimes people in the Catholic Church had or again people who were pagans and taking drugs and hallucinogenics and things like that and having visions you know and so There was no basis for it. However, when the Pentecostal movement got going, then we have miracles, you know, happening everywhere by all kinds of means, and them promoting and bringing back that people have the same powers and abilities today the apostles had and can work miracles and believe in miracles and et cetera, et cetera. So there's an infatuation with miracles, as you well know. And a lot of people are living for and looking for and praying for a miracle in their lives and so forth and so. And there's a real irony to this when you stop and consider that in reality we're surrounded by miracles every day and yet people spend their lives trying to look for one. of some sort that would satisfy. More to say on that later. But what are we talking about when we're talking about a miracle? From the biblical perspective, okay? There's two Greek words in the New Testament that are used to translate miracle in your Bible. One is used quite a bit more than the other, and there's still not many usages of the word when you consider the whole of the Bible for miracles. But the most common word for miracle or miracles in the Bible and in reference to the Gospels, Jesus and apostles and things like this is a word that is translated a sign or a token or a wonder. Something that is above average or not common that you would wonder at it, be amazed at it, be bewildered by it, and it would be a very unique token or sign in that respect. And this is the most common word used in reference to Jesus is miracles. And that's very important because why did Jesus perform miracles? to verify who he claimed to be. To fulfill Old Testament prophecy. Because the Messiah was to be a person that would be a quote-unquote miracle worker in more than one way, in the common way. So, in that respect, a sign or a token. And so Jesus, remember this, Jesus performed the miracles that he performed to prove, to make it obvious that he was who he claimed to be. The genuine proof. If he were not, he could not do what he did. He did what he did to prove who he was. All right? So that's something very fundamental you need to remember about miracles. and who knows how many he performed. Have you ever wondered, well, what in the world was going on at that time? It seemed like every other person was demon-possessed or something, you know, in that regard. I believe with all of my heart that God in his providence had allowed demons to do the things they were doing at that time that Christ could do the mighty works that he did to verify who he was. Might also entertain, well have there ever been demons of that degree since then? Yes, they're still here today. We've just not seen the manifestation in the sense of somebody pitching a fit in the middle of the street or something like that maybe like was common then. So different degrees, different times, different places. God's in charge of all that. He put them all to cage right now if he wanted to. But a lot of them are running loose, and there is a bunch of them in hell right now that's not coming out till a later time. But again, God's in control of that. And so God can allow evil, because he's got a plan to overcome it, and that's throughout the Bible, you know. And certainly I believe was the case when Jesus was here, and we see all that demonic possession and oppression of the devil that caused all kinds of problems. Well, it's still going on today. It's just we have it there spotlighted and highlighted in the way to show us the Lord Jesus Christ. The second word refers to power or mighty work or strength. And certainly a miracle is that, right? I mean, if it's ordinary, it can't be a miracle. If it just takes ordinary or average strength or ability to do something, we're not going to call that a miracle, are we? Not at all. So these two words and their definitions, when you think about it, have a very unique relationship. A sign or a token, power, strength, or ability. And in fact, that word, the latter one for power, the word there that's translated miracle there is translated power 77 out of 120 times. So obviously, when we're talking about a miracle with that word, we're talking about power. So this is what I would say this relationship is. It is reciprocally complementary. And I'm not trying to daze you with words or vocabulary. But something reciprocal is, you know, if it's reciprocal, we love God because He first loved us. We have a reciprocal love. If He hadn't loved us, we wouldn't love Him, but we love Him because He loved us. So that goes both ways. It reciprocates, like a reciprocating saw. It goes out, it comes in, right? I mean, it reciprocates both ways. So that's what we mean. So again, if a miracle is a sign, It's a sign of great power. And if a miracle takes great power, then that great power is a sign or a token. And Jesus obviously manifested both of those, didn't he? He showed that he had great power to do things out of the ordinary, and then when he did it, it became a sign of who he was and that he was indeed God because he had the power. So back and forth, back and forth. Either way, start with the power and it ends up a sign. Start with the sign and it has to have the power. So that's what a miracle is in that regard. A sign of manifest power and God, of course, was manifesting himself with miracles in the Bible. Well, let's talk about that a little. God and miracles. Just think of the two words. They're synonymous. If we're going to talk about miracles, we've got to talk about God. And if we're going to talk about God, we're talking about miracles. Again, a reciprocal, complementary relationship. In fact, if we're going to define miracles, you're going to have to talk about God, the God of this book. We can't talk about man. We can't talk about nature. We can't talk about other stuff. If we're going to talk about a genuine miracle with genuine power, extraordinary power that shows a sign, a token, that there's nothing like it, then we've got to talk about God. So when we talk about God, we're talking about miracles, and we're always talking about miracles when we talk about God. Think about it. God and miracles. Always, everywhere, every time, everything. Right? You've heard me say before, and I'm going to keep on saying, God has never done anything small. It's impossible. It's impossible. Now you and I do things small because we are small. God is sovereign. Unlimited power. Therefore, everything he does is big, great, and miraculous. Wrap your thinking around that. I'm not stringing you out into fantasy land or la-la land. That's true. Simply because of God and who He is, everything He does is miraculous. Because He is infinite, unlimited in power and in knowledge, etc. That's the way you need to think of God. God has never done anything ordinary. God has never done anything average. It is always extraordinary and above average because He's God. He can't do anything else. The Bible is a record of God's miraculous being and God's miraculous doing. That's what makes it a book of all books. That's why there's nothing comparable to it. You read the books of other religions. They're ordinary. They're average. They were written by ordinary people. They have human authors. This is a miraculous revelation. from a miraculous God. That's why there's a difference. That's why all of them put together do not compare to this book. This book is miraculous in that it is God-breathed, in that God could take men, some 40 or so, And over a period of 1,500 years or so, speak through them like speaking into a microphone what he wanted to be known. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. That's miraculous. That's why this book's different. That's why the books, you lay them side by side, read their substance, read this, it's not even close to any open-minded person. Yeah, they can be poetry and they can be this and there can be that, but overall, not even close. So this is God's book of miracles, the Bible. And it don't matter if you're reading the Old Testament or you're reading the New Testament. You can read this book about the past, you can read this book about the present, You can read this book about the future, and miraculous is the label you can put with all three periods of those times. Eternity, folks, will be miraculous. In fact, heaven could be described as miraculous in that regard. And we should stand in awe of that. We believe in a miraculous God that does miraculous things. Many people believe in gods that have eyes that can't see, ears that can't hear, mouths that can't speak, and hands that can't do nothing. Not our God. What he speaks is miraculous. What he does is miraculous. What he's promised to do is miraculous. And if you're a child of God, you know about that miraculous power of God. We start with creation. Just think of a few things. I mean, the miracle of creation. Thank God we have a starting point. I sympathize with those that do not. A big bang, that's not the beginning. We read in the beginning, God. They say in the beginning, big bang. That's really not the beginning because you had to have something to bang. So where's the beginning in your thinking? And we grieve over that, don't we? God gave us a starting point himself. You say, yeah, but what did he do all the time before he created? God's an eternal being. There's eternity before. There's going to be eternity in the end. We're just caught in this little gap here called time. So creation itself is miraculous, isn't it? God spoke. What power. The flood was miraculous. God opened heaven. God opened the windows of the deep. Again, I'm just hitting a few little mountaintops here just to verify what I'm saying. But we're not going in the valleys. We'd be here forever. All that God did in Egypt. And as I say this, I want you to think particularly about Egypt. The 10 miraculous plagues that God sent on Egypt. I mean, every bit of it was miraculous. And as human beings, I know I've thought this and I've even said it concerning some of the miracles of our Lord and maybe other things in the Bible. You would think that if a man come in here today and said all the water in Aztec is going to be blood in the morning, and you got up in the morning and you couldn't find any water in Aztec that wasn't blood, that that would cause people to wake up and change and shape up, wouldn't you? Nobody ever seen anything like that. And yet people go on tomorrow in spite of the miracles, just like they did today. And then there was another one, and then there was another one, and there was another one, until there were 10. And those people in Pharaoh's heart was still hardened. And at least some of them was wising up a little bit, and they said, you need to get rid of these people so we can quit. having these bad miracles. I mean, that's just kind of self-preservation instinct, but nevertheless, they're smart enough as an animal to figure out that if we could get rid of these people, we'd get rid of these plagues. But others were still so hardened and stubborn, they wouldn't even go that far. But nevertheless, you know what I'm talking about. Miracles don't convince people. That's astounding, isn't it? Just astounding. And we're talking miracles like you and I have never seen and never will see in this life. One after the other. The Exodus journey. I've thought, I've meditated, have you? About what it would have been like to go through the Red Sea. Dry shod, wall of water on either side, that the day before you stood there and looked at it and said, how in the world will we ever get across this? We can't. Who can fathom? While we're talking about sea, can you imagine the disciples and the Lord, peace be still? You'd have to be there to see it. And still, it'd be hard to believe. Elijah, Mount Carmel, pour all the water you got on her, boys. Go get some more. Fire come down from heaven. You know, I mean, this is the stuff this book tells us about. And then we have the Lord Jesus Christ, which a lot of time at Christmas they say, well, the greatest miracle ever was when Christ was born. No, it's not. It's not. I'm going to talk to you about the greatest miracle today, and it wasn't the birth of Christ. Was it miraculous? Absolutely. Nobody ever been born of a virgin. Was the resurrection miraculous? Absolutely. Everything about Christ is miraculous, because he's God. Again, we gotta hurry here, but just think about, we read in the gospels in times and places, it seems like from daylight to dark, he did nothing but heal people. And you immediately, okay, how many can that be in one day? And then if he did that for three and a half years, it looks like he healed everybody there was in the world that was ever sick and ever diseased and everything. I mean, how many were there? You just can't wrap your mind around. And there was nothing too big or too difficult. Now there were some for the disciples, weren't there? But not for Jesus. The greatest quote unquote miracle worker there ever had been. Proving all power and that he was who he said. The apostles, he gave them that, didn't he? Remember that? He gave them power, signs, stuff. Mark's Gospel 16 and 17, you might remember there, the commission, it says there, Jesus said, and these signs shall follow them. That's the word for miracles. Same word. They'll be tread on serpents, you know, and scorpions and do this and do that and everything. So he's talking about those miracles. And yet people will not accept those things as miracles. I was thinking about it on the commute down this morning, thinking about how, you know, okay, people say, well, that's just a myth that Christ existed, and that's just a myth about Him doing all that. No, you go back and read human history at that time, and it's in the history. You won't find an overwhelming bunch of history At the time of Christ, it said this man didn't exist except in some people's minds. This man didn't do what he, no, it's all historically there. The miracles are quote unquote documented in history. His person, his presence, and so forth and so on. So people will refuse that. and yet live in anticipation or seek one. And we're all prone to this. It's sad that people would be so infatuated with seeing one miracle in their lifetime when they stumble over a hundred every day. And I want to make the point, that's exactly what happens. In our study in Romans, we've covered this scripture a number of times, but Romans 1 And verse 20, it says there, for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and God did so that they were out without excuse. So every day when you look at creation, you see the miracle of creation. The sun still rises in the east. In Genesis, God put it there to rule the day with light. The moon comes up at night. Cycles every 28 days, all these things, you know. I mean, it's miraculous. The sun's been coming up for a long time, but every time it comes up, it's miraculous. It's all miraculous. It'll always be miraculous. And yet people will look at that and forget God. They'll look at the weather. You know, and not see God, the seasons changing regularly, all in order and in harmony. The more we discover at medicine, the more we find out about the miracle of how God made us. I mean, the very fact that that little scab there is gonna heal up on my flesh, and in a short period of time, even though I'm old, you won't ever know that happened, miraculous. I mean, you say, well, yeah, I don't know about it. You're missing the point if you don't see this stuff is miraculous. And what, I've got to make this point, what is more miraculous than reproduction? Because in reproduction, whether you're talking about a tree or a plant, a vegetable, an animal or humanity, You're talking brand new life that never existed before. Miraculous. People been having children, elephants been having elephants, and orchids have been producing orchids. But every time that seed does that in whatever capacity, it's miraculous. If you don't see what I'm saying, you're not on the same frequency I am. Yet our text speaks of the greatest miracle that there ever has been. And it's not the camel through the eye of the needle, as I said. As you know, precursor to this, the setting is a rich young man comes to Jesus seeking eternal life or questioning Jesus about eternal life. And Jesus ends up saying the things that we read in our text this morning in relationship to this young man who went away sorrowful because he had great possessions and could not give it up unto the poor and follow the Lord. So he was a rich young man. So Jesus gave the illustration after he made this statement how difficult, extremely difficult, and then even almost impossible it is for they that are rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. And if you read this in the context, you'll praise God you're not rich, because if you were born rich, that would have been a hindrance. It's not an impossibility, but it's stacking things against you. making it more difficult. So, then he said, again I say unto you, so he stresses the point, he says this twice, doubles up on it in verse 24, that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. Now, I don't think any of us can understand the magnitude of that illustration, do you? I mean, cause we've probably all seen a camel and seen a picture of a camel and we've probably all seen the eye of a needle. And I've seen some pretty big needles and it was still been awful difficult to put a camel through it. I mean, if you could reduce the camel down to pure liquid, how long would it take to put that liquid through the eye of a needle? I don't know if we'd ever get done, do you? And so this is what Jesus is saying. And again, we can't say, well, that's just hyperbole. He's just exaggerating. No, Jesus couldn't exaggerate because he was Jesus. God doesn't exaggerate. And let me caution you that. When Jesus says, when God says that there is a fiery furnace called hell, where the worm dieth not and the flames not quenched, He's not exaggerating. When that man says he was tormented and wanted one drop of water to cool his tongue and he thought that would have been his salvation, that's not exaggeration. That's as real as it gets. So when Jesus says that a rich person being saved is as impossible almost as a camel going through the eye of a needle, or that impossible, He means it. And the disciples then prompt the question, enlarging upon this, saying, well, who can be saved if it's that difficult for the rich? And Jesus answers in verse 26. is an answer to both of these questions, to both things that he said. Number one, when he says, with men it's impossible, yeah, he's talking about the camel through the eye of a needle. But if God wanted to do it, God could do it. But more importantly, he's answering the question right before it, who can be saved? And the same answer is given, with men it's impossible. But with God, all things are possible. Now, you can't be saved and believe the one and not the other. I mean, a God can save your soul is a God that can put a camel through the eye of a needle, however you want to think of it. He can make the eye of the needle big enough for the camel to walk through without touching the sides, or he could shrink the camel down to a size he could still go through the eye of a needle as it is when still not touching the sides. God can do that if he wanted to. Likewise, it shows us that salvation is only possible if God does it. And that's the point we're talking about. It is the greatest miracle ever will be when God saves not just a rich man, but any sinner. And I want you to think about that. Because we're talking about something that God does by His grace, by His power, that no other power can do, like all that God does in that respect. You think about a sinner and what the Bible says a sinner is, and what a sinner's motives is, and what a sinner's thinking is, and what a sinner's actions is, and the direction a sinner's headed, and it's all unchangeable. and hopeless unless God intervenes. Man can't change no more than the Ethiopian can change his skin color or a leopard can lose its spots. Man can reform, but man can't transform. But God can and does. And the Bible, again, is full of that very thing. The Bible presents man as dead in trespasses and sin and says that there's nothing that can resurrect or give life to that dead sinner but God. The miracle of life, quickly. In Genesis, what do we read? The only life there was, God. God created man, right? What does it say? He formed him out of the dust of the earth. And you visualize that as it reads there. There he was a body without life, just like people we bury. There he was. And it says God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And he became a living soul. You don't get no more miraculous than that. God alone has that power and ability to give life. to take life, to resurrect life. Jesus manifested that. And so to the sinner that's dead and trespasses in sin, you can try anything you want to on him, and you can't give him life. We preach our hearts out and our preaching is vain of ourselves to give sinners life, unless he who is life is pleased to do it. Unless the Spirit of God empowers the Word that we preach, there won't be any life. But He can do that. And that's the greatest miracle in the world. What am I saying? Quickly here in closing. I'm saying everything God has done, everything God is doing, and everything God will do, as I've stated, is miraculous. But I can easier understand how God could divide the firmaments speak things into existence, then I can comprehend how God saves a sinner. Now that's a work. That's a work. And yet in the Bible, we see so many examples of it. We see a man like Nebuchadnezzar. We see a man like Manasseh, I read to you this morning. We see a man like Zacchaeus. We see a man like Saul of Tarsus. We see a woman who was a harlot laden with many sins. We see thieves, adulterers, and all kinds of people. And that's all they'll ever be. That's all they can be. That's all they want to be. They themselves or nobody else can ever change it but God. And He does. Let me remind you of that, shall I? 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 9, know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor adulterers, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves, mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortions, shall inherit the kingdom of God." And by the way, that's all there is for the kingdom of God. And such were some of you, but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God. There's the greatest miracle that can ever happen. And that does happen. And God is pleased to do that. Ezekiel calls it taking out the stony heart and putting in a heart of flesh. Christ said to Nebuchadnezzar, the new birth. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 19, I'll read this and we'll wrap up. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according to the working of his mighty power? It's all his power. John's Gospel chapter 1 in verse, let me find it here, verse 12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even them that believe on his name. Nowhere is the power of God more visible or experienced than when God saves a sinner. If you're a child of God today, Don't spend your time looking for a miracle for somebody to perform like Jesus, the apostles, or quote-unquote some faith healer. You're probably not going to see it in this life. Do I believe in miracles? Absolutely. Just not in the way in the manifestation God used to do it. Okay? He don't give men that gift today like he did in apostolic times, in the early church time, because there's no reason for it now. But does God perform miracles? I told you again, everything God's doing every day is a miracle. And it don't have to be you being healed or whatever happens to you in a material sense. But everything God does is miraculous. So we don't spend our time living to see a miracle, especially if you've already experienced the greatest one that ever has been. But the world is infatuated with miracles. Let's conclude. It's overwhelming again, I mentioned it earlier, to think how many people have witnessed miracles, even Old Testament, but especially during the time of Christ and the apostles and the early church. How many peoples saw how many miracles and yet perished in spite of it? That's just, it's incomprehensible to our minds, is it not? That Jesus could speak to someone that was lame from birth and he'd pop up and walk off? Medicine would say that's an impossible. Bible says nothing's impossible with God. that he could speak and it would be done, or he could put clay on somebody's eyes and do it a different way. He could send a leper seven times dip in the Jordan River, or Jesus could come speak. It's just showing unlimited power and means. I can do it this way, I can do it that way. I can do it another way tomorrow. How many people saw that in Yent Parish? because they didn't experience the miracle of salvation and the new birth, that Jesus came to give that miracle above all miracles. It's mind boggling, I realize. Well, if you are without the greatest miracle and lost today, we have advice and good news to you. Or to have the greatest miracle. Many saw miracles and didn't want one. Some got them that didn't want one, you know, and so forth and so on. But if you see yourself as lost today, do you desire to have the greatest miracle? And that's really a key. Christ came for sinners. If you don't see you're a sinner in need, then there's probably no miracle for you. But I would give it to you like this. If you would like to have the miracle of salvation from a merciful and loving God, if you have that desire, all you have to do is obey the Gospel, which says, repent of your sins and believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ. With this attitude, and I want to read this, Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 8. And as you turn there, if you read it with me, Remember, chapter 8 begins at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, chapters 5, 6, and 7. So it says, when he was come down to the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And our advice to you, if you're lost today and without the greatest miracle, the miracle of salvation by faith in Christ, then this should be your attitude. Behold, there came a leper and worshiped him and saying, Lord, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. What did Jesus say? With men it's impossible. With God, all things are possible. Man can't save, God can. If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. You gotta believe God's able to do it. And you've got to trust Him to do it. Ask and you shall receive. The psalmist said, Lord, cleanse me. Wash me. Jesus put forth His hand and touched him saying, I will be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Your sins can be forgiven that instantaneously if you're desirous and obedient. And we pray God today that he would give you the grace to do so if you're lost. That you might, like we who believe, recipients of God's mercy say, I don't need to see a miracle. I've experienced the greatest one that can be had when God saved my soul.