Last week we look at the beginning of John chapter nine, we
saw where Christ Healed the blind man.
We talked about how when times are tough, things are not going the way
we think God should be allowing them to go that it is during these times that
we are able to allow God’s glory to shine the most. We now see that as the once blind man is
walking in his town people are stunned even at disbelief that this is the same
man who was blind now he can see. The
people took the man to the Pharisees, the Pharisees ask him “who healed you?”,
then they told him “this man is not from God who healed you for He healed you
on the Sabbath.” But they could not
shake this man’s belief that Christ was
a man from God. He was finally
excommunicated from the Jews by the Pharisees, since they could no longer
accept the truth that was being spoken to them.
This man who grew up Jewish gladly left the Synagogue that
day to go and accept that Christ was the Son of God. Christ came in and changed his life forever,
even if he had to leave everything he knew he was not going to back down on who
healed him. We must realize that Christ
never said that accepting Him into our lives would make our lives easy. No we are told throughout all four Gospels
that we may have to go through tough times here on earth. But I think that many in the church in this
country have forgotten something very important we are to grow in our
relationship with Christ. We are to walk
away from the sin in our lives and put on a new self. We on the other hand in this country try to
say its ok to be a Christian and still walk in the darkness of this world to
still go and do what we please. Some
people even say that you sin every day that you cannot help it. I disagree with that thought, I do not
believe that Christ came as the light of the world to die on a cross then rise
from the dead, and then send us the Holy Sprite to help us just so we could
still live in sin.
Let us look at the final conversation between this man and
Christ. Christ ask him do you believe in
the Son of Man, the man answered show Him to me because I want to believe. Christ tells him I am the Son of Man, which
prompts the man to worship Christ. Here
is the important part Christ says, “For
judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and
that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who
were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also? Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you
would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.” What is Christ saying here? He is saying, now that those who lived in the
darkness have seen the light they must no longer live in the darkness. The commentator has this to say, “The Lord’s
answer may be paraphrased as follows: “If you admit that you are blind
and sinful, and that you need a Savior, then your sins can be forgiven you, and
you can be saved. But you profess that you are in need of nothing. You claim
that you are righteous and that you have no sin. Therefore, there is no
forgiveness of sins for you.” [1] The first step is admitting that we are
sinners and need Christ then the second step is getting to know now
Christ. The closer we are to God and His
word the easier it is to follow and be obedient to His Word.
[1]MacDonald,
W. 1997, c1995. Believer's Bible Commentary : Old and New Testaments (Jn
9:41). Thomas Nelson: Nashville
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