Do you need a miracle to believe?

What will it take for you to believe in Jesus? What kind of miracle would you need? Once I was watching a program where they asked people what would have to happen to believe in Jesus? One person said, "When this lamp post falls down!" Then the lamp post did fall down but he still wouldn't believe. The fact was,he did not want to believe.

In this story Jesus performs his biggest miracle yet. Jesus keeps pushing the boundaries of our faith. This story shows in detail how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. He waited four days. Four days! The body was already decomposing.

Lazarus was alive again! This report reached the leaders of Israel. Yet they were not happy. They didn't argue the facts, but they did fear the results of this miracle. Everyone was talking about it. The leaders refused to see the miracle as an act of God. They neglected the foretold message that the Messiah would come. They wanted to stop Jesus because in their world he was creating chaos, they were losing power.

The most important religious leader made a prediction: “Don't you realize that it is better for you to let one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?” Without knowing it, his prediction showed the real purpose of Jesus’ coming to earth: To rescue us all. Do you believe that this was Jesus' real purpose?