Besides the washing with blood, that with water is essential, and this doubly. And do you say that he was born blind? Here we begin with that which John alone records the resurrection of Lazarus. And he said, I don't know. believe in him as the Son of God for righteousness and life: he He believed that he had power to heal him, and he inferred that he must be a prophet, John 9:17. He had entered in Himself by the door, not of the sheep, of course, but by the door into the sheepfold. They were spiritually dead in need of life. It is not only that there is life and salvation in Christ, but there is liberty, in contrast with the law. And he said, He is a prophet ( John 9:17 ). Such, in brief, was the interior of Bethany. Jehovahs Witnesses and Mormons claim to believe in Jesus as Savior and Lord. In fact, you could not wear shoes on the Sabbath day were the soles were fastened with nails, because that constituted bearing a burden if the soles were fastened with nails, that's a little bit too heavy. It is simply two ways of looking at the same thing. Some peculiar words are required by the circumstance; and the general cast and character of the passage, so far from being alien to the evangelist's manner, seems to me, on the contrary, in his spirit, rather than in any other inspired writer's, no matter in which of the manuscripts we read it. Hence it is, too, that later on He lets them know that the time is coining when they should know who He was, but too late. Yet, if He did, His judgment was true; for He was not alone, but His Father was with Him. If it were difficult, it would seem easy to them; but, being easy, it appears difficult. John 9:1-7 - Scene 1 - Healing the Blind Man The core miracle story is found in these opening verses of the chapter. And on the day of the boring through the stonecutters struck, each to meet his fellow, pick to pick; and there flowed the waters to the pool for a thousand and two hundred cubits, and a hundred cubits was the height of the rock above the heads of the stone-cutters.". Was not this precisely what He had brought home to the conscience at the beginning of the chapter? He was not to be acted upon by any feeling, except the will of God. But this is not all; for grace with Christ freely gives, not salvation alone, but all things. Antoninus disagreed and convinced Judah by his arguments, for Judah admitted that, if the evil impulse began with the formation of the embryo, then the child would kick in the womb and break his way out. But if a man walk in the night he stumbleth, because there is no light in him." They had heard it in vain in the law; for this is always misused by man, as we have seen in the gospel of John. and when he had found him: not by chance, meeting him at an unawares, but seeking him; and knowing where he was, went to the very place, and found him in this piteous condition, abandoned by all mankind: this is an emblem of Christ's seeking after his chosen ones, both in redemption, and in the effectual calling, who are like sheep going astray, and never come to, and lay hold on Christ, till he comes first, seeks after, and apprehends them: he sends his ministers and his Gospel after them, where they are, and his Spirit into their hearts; yea, he comes himself, and enters there, and dwells in them by faith: he knows where they are, as he did Matthew the publican, Zacchaeus, and the woman of Samaria; and even though they are at the ends of the earth; and he goes and looks them up, and finds them; and he finds them in a deplorable condition, in a desert, in a waste howling wilderness, hopeless and helpless, poor and miserable, and blind and naked; in a pit wherein is no water; in the mire and clay of sin; in the paw of Satan, and under the power of darkness. How did you get saved? But the chapter does not end before He announces His eternal Godhead. He simply saw himself as God's humble loving servant and a servant of humanity, and wanted us to trust him as he reached out to introduce us to the Supreme Being and ask us to love Him: What Jesus Really Said: The Meaning of Jesus' Teachings in John. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. It may be a step towards salvation, and it may lead up to it; but the faith that is absolutely necessary is that belief in him as the Son of God; and he who does not believe in the Deity of Christ has not a Saviour who can save him. They are not divided as we have them in our Bibles. He is always, and in every particular, what He speaks. And He said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). He had borne witness before the hostile Sanhedrin to the point that they kicked him out of the temple. "A man may not fill a dish with oil and put it beside a lamp and put the end of the wick in it." The Lord, in the next scene, enters Jerusalem as the Son of David. Shall I consider that bank note to be as good as the money it represents, and yet, when I hold in my hand God's Word, signed, and sealed, and ratified by the sprinkling of the very blood of his dear Son, shall I dare to say, "I find it hard to believe in that word"? This verse in and of itself cannot be used as a basis for a Biblical doctrine that God doesn't hear the sinner's prayers. He pronounces upon it claims once more to be the light. John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him,Dost thou believe on the Son of God? So we see this interesting case of a man who was put out by organized religion. It does not depend upon any future time and circumstance, but was immediately consequent on the cross. The trouble with human relationships is that often the better we know a person the more we know his weaknesses and his failings; but the more we know Jesus, the greater the wonder becomes; and that will be true, not only in time, but also in eternity. Jesus touched his eyes again, and when he opened them he could see clearly.Now Jesus, rather than just speaking, or rather than laying His hands on his eyes, does something quite interesting. Thou needest not go far to find out the Son of God, Behold the Word is nigh thee. Frank Laubach has the great thought that when Christ, who is the Way, enters into us "we become part of the Way. If we do so read it with care and attention, we will see the loveliest progression in the blind man's idea of Jesus. The Cross And The Flesh (Gal. And, lastly, when you are worshipping, worship Christ himself: "He worshipped HIM," and no one else. Hence, when the Lord hears the call, "Behold, he whom thou lovest is sick" the strongest possible appeal to the heart for acting at once on it He does not go. (Verse 34), How beautiful to mark the Spirit's love, dwelling fully and minutely on a blind beggar taught of God, thus gradually and evermore beating their in credulous objections smaller than when they cast him out as dirt in the streets! Jesus probably chose this title for Himself because it expressed the fact that He was the Man who had come from God (Daniel 7:13-14; cf. Here I may just observe, that Romans 1:4 does not restrict the meaning to the fact that He was determined to be the Son of God with power by His own resurrection. He was the true Light from heaven. Outside them, but with Jesus, he learns more deeply than ever, so as to fill his soul with profound joy and gladness, that the wondrous healer of his blindness was not merely a prophet, but the Son of God just object of faith and worship. Jesus heard that they had cast him out,. this being perhaps the first instance, of putting in execution the act they had made, John 9:22, and was a stretching of that act; which only threatened with an ejection, in case any should confess Jesus to be the Messiah; which this man had not done as yet, only had said he was a prophet, and that he was of God; it made a very great noise in the city, and the report of it was soon spread over it; and it became the talk of everyone, and so Jesus, as man, came to hear of it; though he, as God, knew it the very instant it was done, and needed not any to make report of it to him: and when he had found him: not by chance, meeting him at an unawares, but seeking him; and knowing where he was, went to the very place, and found him in this piteous condition, abandoned by all mankind: this is an emblem of Christ's seeking after his chosen ones, both in redemption, and in the effectual calling, who are like sheep going astray, and never come to, and lay hold on Christ, till he comes first, seeks after, and apprehends them: he sends his ministers and his Gospel after them, where they are, and his Spirit into their hearts; yea, he comes himself, and enters there, and dwells in them by faith: he knows where they are, as he did Matthew the publican, Zacchaeus, and the woman of Samaria; and even though they are at the ends of the earth; and he goes and looks them up, and finds them; and he finds them in a deplorable condition, in a desert, in a waste howling wilderness, hopeless and helpless, poor and miserable, and blind and naked; in a pit wherein is no water; in the mire and clay of sin; in the paw of Satan, and under the power of darkness. Their hope was to ensnare Christ, and to leave Him only a choice of difficulties: either a useless repetition of the law of Moses, or open opposition to the law. "The Lord is far from the wicked; but he hears the prayer of the righteous" ( Proverbs 15:29). The form of the question indicates the confident expectation of an affirmative answer. Well, you might come, by a process of reasoning, to some sort of conclusion as to whether it was or was not a likely thing; but the mere sensible plan would be to enquire what foundation there was for the report; and if, on going to the War Office, you were informed, by someone in authority, "Yes, there has been a very great disaster," well, then, knowing the facts of the case, you could believe. Slaves! A staircase of thirty-three rock-cut steps led down to it; and there, from a stone basin, people drew the water. What does it mean that the flesh profits nothing (John 6:63)? It may happen that there are some persons here who are in a similar position, some who have been ridiculed for being Christians even before they are Christians, who have been mocked at merely because they go to a place of worship, though as yet they have not yielded themselves to Christ; well, if that is the case; with any, seeing that the cross is laid upon their shoulders, I do trust that they will not throw it off, but that they will bravely bear it for Christ, and freely suffer what, up till now, has seemed to them to be a piece of injustice, for they have been treated as if they were believers in Christ, when really they are not yet on the Lord's side. Grace therefore is in no way inconsistent with, but maintains obligations at their true height. We cannot cover our feet with our wings, as the angels do; but we do take his blood and his righteousness both as a covering for our feet, and as wings with which we fly up to him; and though as yet we have no crowns to cast at his dear feet, yet, if we have any honor, any good repute, any grace, anything that is comely, anything that is honest, we lay it all at his feet, and cry, "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake." When Job is speaking of the hypocrite, he says: "Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?" And she said, "I know that when the Messiah comes He's gonna teach us all things." Vespasian was very unwilling to do so but was finally persuaded to do as the men asked. The life was the light of men, the perfect display and guide of the life He was to His followers. In every one of the gospels, indeed, we have Him finally presented as the Son of David; and therefore, although it be the proper province of Matthew, yet inasmuch as all the synoptic gospels dwell on our Lord at the close as Son of David, all the gospels give the story of the blind man at Jericho. (VersesJohn 10:29-30; John 10:29-30). #1 "Then Jesus declared,". As we well know, an obedient child catches her mother's desire. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. You know, if a man can open up the eyes of a blind man, this is something quite unique. Son of God Psalms 66:18. Our Lord does not say a word about it at the moment, but calmly leaves the truth to correct the error in due time. This is the turning-point and secret "where I am." Salvation is the first need of a sinner, and certainly the Gentile needs it as much as the Jew. Therefore, when the charge was brought thus heartlessly against outward evil, He simply stoops down, and with His finger writes on the ground. When Jesus met a blind man, his disciples asked him which was the most likely cause of the mans blindness (John 9:1-2). Rather, God chose you in Him before the foundation of the world (Eph. "Ah!" "But who is he, sir," he answered him, "that I might believe in him?" However, if I, as a child of God, am regarding inequity in my heart when I pray, then the Lord doesn't hear me, that's what David said.Isaiah said, chapter 59 that, "God's hand is not short that He cannot save, neither is His ear heavy that He cannot not hear, but your sins have separated you from God." He says that this man's affliction came to him to give an opportunity of showing what God can do. First, it is the Son present, and the Father known in Him, and He in the Father. Here the Lord answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents." You must first hear and know what it is you are to believe before you can believe it; otherwise, your faith is vain, like that of the man of whom I have sometimes spoken, who said, "I believe what the Church believes." Nevertheless, its air, scope, and character can be proved, I think, to suit John, and no other; and this particular context in John, and no other. He must have been a well-known character, for the disciples knew all about him. (2.) I think that is the wrong interpretation and that interpretation comes by the colon instead of a period. Why/why not? The man with the diseased eyes wished Vespasian "to moisten his eye-balls with spittle"; the man with the diseased hand wished Vespasian "to trample on his hand with the sole of his foot." We shall see that there is stress on His manhood, more especially as the necessary mould or form which divine grace took to effect the blessing of man, to work the works of God in grace on the earth. 36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? That was Simon, the Cyrenian, who was compelled to bear Christ's cross. Go to him with that gracious message, and it shall be fulfilled to you whoever you are. Let us give him the praise, who opened our eyes. The question is, "Who did sin, the man or the parents that he was born blind?" He not only is the truth in His own person, but He speaks it. do you want to be one of his disciples? The subsequent notice we have is the remarkable desire expressed by the Greeks, through Philip, to see Jesus. his disciples said to him, "who was it who sinned that he was born blind--this man or his parents?" There was to be one flock (not fold), one Shepherd. Jesus is the truth. It is precisely thus, only still more gloriously, with our Lord's conduct on this occasion; for He weakens not in the least either the law or its sanctions, but contrariwise sheds around divine light in His own words and ways, and even applies the law with convincing power, not merely to the convicted criminal, but to the more hidden guilt of her accusers. There is nothing which clears, establishes, and vindicates the law, and every other principle of God, so truly as His grace. Now, if Christ was not God, that man was all idolater, a man-worshipper; and you and instead of being regarded as very excellent people, by those who call themselves "Unitarian Brethren," should be condemned as idolaters. In Matthew 13, the disciples ask Jesus why He spoke to the people in parables. Before concluding tonight, this I can notice but briefly, in order to bring my subject within the space allotted for it. was soon to befall Himself when God entered into judgment with Him for our sins? In a word, there is here, as there, an indissoluble link of connected truth between the facts related and the communication our Lord makes afterwards in each instance respectively. God is punishing me for something that I have done, or something that I did. They had no answer to his simple step by step reasoning, so attacked him with abusive language and then threw him out of the synagogue (John 9:28-34). They were in the unrelieved darkness of the world, they judged after the flesh. (Verses 1-11). It was so kind, yet just like him, not to say, "through my word," though it is his word that we are to proclaim; but we get it into our hearts, and so appropriate it that, when we utter it, we speak out of our own heart, and soul, and then it becomes our word, too, and so sinners believe on Christ through our word. And accordingly, in John 11:1-57; John 12:1-50 is given a strikingly rich presentation of the Lord Jesus, in many respects entirely differing from all the others; for while it embraces what is found in the synoptists (that is, the accomplishment of prophecy in His offer of Himself to Zion as the Son of David), John brings in a fulness of personal glory that is peculiar to his gospel. Rather, he is referring to a role rather than exclusively himself. He says, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I." The Messiah is here called the Son of God, and so the Jews had learned to call him from the prophecies, Psalms 2:7; Psalms 89:27. [1] [2] libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's encroachment on and violations of individual liberties; emphasizing the rule of law, pluralism, cosmopolitanism, cooperation, civil and political rights, bodily autonomy, free association, free trade, freedom of expression, freedom of choice, freedom of or is it somebody else in whom you are believing? You see, if God brought that kind of a direct cause/effect judgment upon people, then God would have to be fair in His justice system. And thus, every person who did the same kind of a deed would have to receive the same kind of a judgment for it. Earthly princes neither do, nor can, take cognizance of all that vindicate them and their government and administration; but our Lord Jesus knows and observes all the faithful testimonies we bear to him at any time, and a book of remembrance is written, and it shall redound not only to our credit hereafter, but our comfort now. "And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd." The feelings that arose in Jesus as He saw the people were strong. This connects, as I apprehend, the tenth chapter with the foregoing, and is in contrast with the eighth. for Luke 21:1-38) seems much in its favour. Jesus said, "and the man who was a sinner went into the temple and bowed his head and would not even so much as lift his head towards God, but just smote on his breast and said, 'Oh, God, be merciful to me, a sinner.'" The ark must go first into Jordan, but we may follow then, as Peter did triumphantly afterwards. ministers and his Gospel after them, where they are, and his None whatever. The commonest form of a promise is a bank note; and it is worth while to observe how much a bank note is made after the model of God's promises. They need personal attention, and it is your business, as an army surgeon, to go and put on the lint, and bind up the wounds. May our God and Father grant that what has been said may help His children to read His word with ever deepening intelligence and enjoyment of it, and of Him with whose grace and glory it is filled! But theres a third question that you need to answer to move from spiritual blindness to sight: This blind man had obeyed Jesus implicitly by going to the pool and washing. Matthew, however, gives blind men over and over again, crying to Him, "Son of David." The Church of Rome seems to inculcate some kind of implicit faith (or credulity) which can exist apart from knowledge; but how can I believe that which I do not know Paul puts it thus, "Faith cometh by hearing." Conversely they believed that the prayer of a good man was always heard. Of the wicked man the psalmist says: "May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out" ( Psalms 109:14). He must lead them, for no man can see Christ until his eyes are divinely opened. This man went a step further on the right road, for he desired to believe. In the Old Testament a prophet was often tested by the signs he could produce. C. K. Barrett summarizes the chapter this way: Thischapter expresses perhaps more vividly and completely than any other John's conception of the work of Christ. Now listen. "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day." He did not know it was Jesus, yet he had gone to the very fountain-head. D. A. Carson (The Gospel According to John [Eerdmans/Apollos], p. 376) argues that in light of Johns usage of the term, Jesus is inviting the man to put his trust in the one who is the revelation of God to man. An estimated 61% of this age group between 18 to 25 chose a Democratic candidate versus the 36% that voted for a Republican during the midterm election. He said: "I don't know.". Hence, says the Lord, Jesus, "He abideth with you" the same word so often used for abiding throughout the chapter; and next, as we saw, "He shall be in you:" a needful word to add; for otherwise it was not implied in His abiding with them. God. D is the copy which makes the chief inroads; this is a common thing with that venerable, but most faulty document. Why should any one wonder at its power? If it was a little before His own public and final rejection, it was, after all, the same principle at the bottom. (John 1:35-36) John points his disciples to Jesus, saying, "Look, there is the Lamb of God!" This shows that John recognized Jesus to be the Messiah. Out-of-the-way sinners are the sort he came to save; therefore, look out for them, you who would follow the example of the great Soul-Winner. I put it to you very simply, just now, with regard to making enquiries concerning a certain piece of news. ( John 9:6-7) The man is healed. But right now God is seeking to draw men to Himself. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? So they asked Jesus their question. Only the man who realizes his own blindness can learn to see. And his neighbors, and those which before had seen him begging, said, Is not this the blind man who sat there and begged all these years? Little remained for Him to talk with them. But he stoutly maintained the miracle which Jesus had wrought. The first part is the Son known on earth in personal dignity as declaring the Father imperfectly, no doubt, but still known. 4:4-7), 4. everyone, and so Jesus, as man, came to hear of it; though he, as Ezekiel says of the disobedient people: "Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them" ( Ezekiel 8:18). To such the Lord's will is solely a question of command. in the court of conscience, as well of God, and be everlastingly it had, as appears by what follows. The point, therefore, was (not here exactly suffering for sins, but) the service of love for saints, to fit them for having communion with Him, before they have their portion with Him in that heavenly scene to which He was going at once. He is of age. They said to him: "Where is this man you are talking about?" But at that very moment, Jesus went looking for him and brought him to solid faith by asking, Do you believe in the Son of Man? The former blind man asked (9:36), Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him? (The same Greek word may be translated either sir or Lord, depending on the context. Will any man have the impudence to say, "I have faith in a note signed by the chief cashier of the Bank of England, but cannot trust a promise that is certified by the Lord Jesus Christ himself?" Do you openly confess Jesus as your Lord? "And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.". He was come a light into the world, that those that believed on Him should not abide in darkness. So, "when he heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. Yea, "I and the Father are one." As the old hymn, Rock of Ages, put it: Not the labors of my hands can fulfill Thy laws demands; Could my zeal no respite know, could my tears forever flow. He said unto him, dost thou believe on the Son of God? Well, if he was born blind and if he sinned, it meant that he had to sin some time before he was born.At this time in the history of the Jews, the rabbis had also adopted from Plato the idea that people preexisted as spirits and were waiting for bodies. Otherwise, he would have said: But he doesn't. Put away every kind of confidence that is short of faith in the Son of God, and abhor it, for it is a damnable delusion; and may the Lord bring you fully into this blessed state of salvation through believing on the Son of God! Law could not meet the case; nothing, and none short of the Son. Christ's Address to the Man that Had Been Blind. his eyes had seen Gods salvation. (iii) It was quite definitely laid down: "As to fasting spittle, it is not lawful to put it so much as upon the eyelids.". 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.' His answer is this: "Absolutely that which I also am speaking to you." II. And this effect it had, as appears by what follows. If they would but read it, their cavils might soon come to an end, and be followed by a blessed faith in Christ; but, instead of doing so, they read what some objection-manufacturer has said about the Bible, instead of going to the Book itself, and seeing what it really teaches, if I were very thirsty, I do not think that I should abstain from going to a well because somebody told me that it contained bad water; but I should go, and see, and taste for myself; and when a soul gets very thirsty, if it is wise, it goes to the Word for itself. "Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus." Man, the Jew especially, settles down in resolute unbelief and deadly hostility; but, on the other hand, the indefeasible security of the sheep, the objects of grace, only comes out with so much the greater clearness and decision. Note, (1.) (ii) There were the man's parents. We cannot speak of Christ as he should be spoken of; but, when he reveals himself, then the sinners see him. Tell them all you know; and if you cannot tell them all they want to know, try to bring them to somebody more advanced in spiritual things than you yourself are, so that, with prayer, and patience, and wise instruction, he may lead them to Christ. God had wrought by His grace in Israel, and there were godly hearts prepared for Him there. But to just say God doesn't hear sinners when they pray, is not true. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. No doubt His own resurrection was the most astonishing instance of it; but His raising of dead persons in His ministry was a witness also, as the resurrection of His saints by-and-by will be the display of it. 3. Even when a man cannot understand with his intellect, he can still feel with his heart. A second point about saving faith is that it rests upon a knowledge of him. 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