In difficult days and facing dire circumstances, it is always good to remind ourselves that God is greater than all.

Scott Pauley is examining the miracles of Jesus recorded for us in God's Word.

Our hope is that the message in these miracles

will become real in your life. Christ is enough. Let's open our Bibles and join the study now.

How would you like to spend 40 days with a risen Christ?

I tell you, if you're a believer, you're going to get much longer than that.

We're going to have all eternity with him.

We have a lot to look forward to.

But the disciples, immediately after the resurrection of Christ,

had the privilege of spending 40 days with the Lord Jesus. Imagine this. Christ himself bodily, personally, powerfully rose from the dead.

Here he is with holes in his hands and feet, with a scar in his side, and he spends 40 days with these disciples.

Acts 1, beginning in verse 1, we read this, the former treatise, that's the gospel according to Luke.

The former treatise have I made, old Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

until the day in which he was taken up after that he through the Holy Ghost had given

commandments under the apostles whom he had chosen, to whom also he showed himself alive

after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them 40 days, and speaking of

the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Many infallible proves.

No doubt about it.

In fact, in scripture, the number 40 is always symbolic of trial or testing.

You can study through your old and New Testament,

and wherever you find the number 40 connected

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