4:35
God did these things to demonstrate how different He is from the gods of the nations, and so that the people might know that the Lord is God. God wants us to know that He is a powerful God, a God of miracles. Now it is true that some parts of the charismatic churches that are decidedly flaky, but there are also parts of the cessationist churches that are devoted to teaching that God is not a God of miracles now (I stress the word “parts” for both these caricatures, the comments apply only to the extremes of both).
4:36-38
As well as doing miracles, God “made you hear His voice”. God wants us to hear Him, it is not difficult to hear God unless we deliberately close our minds to Him. “Because He loved ...” God has a relationship with His people, He loves us. God brought them out of Egypt “by His Presence and His great strength”. And He did all this in order for them to “drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you”. We should not be dismayed when the godless forces in society seem to be so strong, for they are nowhere near as strong as our God.
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