"And God was doing the extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul. So that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them."
When they first saw the new and creative way to do some of the miracles, the sons of Sceva tried to so the same thing by using the name of Jesus and Paul. But since they do not know Jesus as their personal relationship, they had no protection from the evil spirit. So when they asked for the extraordinary miracle (extraordinary power), then they are asking for the extraordinary evil spirit as well because their temple are empty due to no relationship. So, "the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded."
But because Paul was willing to do something different as the Holy Spirit led him to do so, the extraordinary miracle brought "a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all." They saw that the sons of Sceva were overpowered by the evil spirit, so they recognized the need of having that personal relationship with the Lord. So they dumped their value and it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver in total!
Can we experience something extraordinary today? Yes I believe we can experience something extraordinary today! But we will need to have a deeper relationship with Him first before we can do something extraordinary and creative! In this generation, I believe that we are in the need of the extraordinary miracle to reach those scattered people out there. We need to do something new to reach them like how Paul reached and healed the others through handkerchief and aprons, we need to reach others through something extraordinary to accomplish His final missions! FIRST, GO TO HIM!
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