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Very intriguing passage about the signs that Philip performed. It almost connotes that the crowds paid attention to Philip's teaching of Christ because of the signs...We are in an age of grace, the age of miracles was clearly during the life of the apostles. I believe that God is still in the business of miracles but not to bring people to Himself. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. We can easily identify through Scripture how experiential minded mankind is and how quickly it becomes disenchanted as we read many accounts of God's grace and mercy throughout the O.T. especially in the accounts of Exodus. Although they saw Jesus healing people by the groves of incurable diseases and conditions including raising people from the dead, they still had "stiff necks" and " hardened hearts" as they rejected and impaled Him to the cross. We have God's heart and mind penned out in Scripture which is the infallible, inherent word of God. It is given to us for the Holy Spirit to use as God molds, shapes and transforms us into His Son's likeness. Satan is cleaver and does all He can to engage our flesh and our sin nature. He has many schemes and uses them under the guise of Christianity. My prayer is that the Lord will help us to keep our eyes focused on Him and the finished work of the cross and that we will faithfully worship God by loving Him wholeheartedly, obeying Him supremely and trusting Him completely as we study His word!