Friday | 26 April 2024
In the course of His ministry, Jesus healed a man who was born blind. He did this by spitting on the ground, making clay with the saliva, and then crafting two physical eyes from the clay. He then directed the man to wash in the pool of Siloam, which means ‘sent’. These were the waters of faith obedience. Joh 9:6-7. The man was put out of the synagogue, by the Pharisees, for simply testifying of the sight that he had received from Christ as he had obeyed His word. Joh 9:33-34.
Upon hearing of his expulsion, Jesus found that man, asking him, ‘Do you believe in the Son of God?’ Joh 9:35. The man was illuminated to see that Christ was the Son of God, confessing, ‘Lord I believe!’ And he worshipped Him. Joh 9:38. Jesus then said to the man, ‘For judgement I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.’ Joh 9:39. By this, Jesus highlighted that, through the ministry of His word, a hearer was compelled to make a judgement. They would either respond with illumination, leading to obedience, or would choose the darkness of their own understanding, and be unworthy of the gospel.
As the Lord is ministering His word to us in this season, we must take heed to how we are hearing and responding to the word. Luk 8:18. This requires us to recognise how the word is being ministered, and to respond accordingly. The fruit of hearing in this way is that we are joined to the same expression of the word. That is, we are able to be the bread to others through testimony, and we are able to wash one another’s feet. We are overcomers who keep Christ’s works to the end, receiving power over the nations as He rules them with a rod of iron. Rev 2:26-27.
Further Study:
JOHN 9
References:
Joh 9:6-7
When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
Joh 9:33-35
‘If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.’ They answered and said to him, ‘You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?’ And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, ‘Do you believe in the Son of God?’
Joh 9:38-39
Then he said, ‘Lord, I believe!’ And he worshipped Him. And Jesus said, ‘For judgement I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.’
Luk 8:18
Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.
Rev 2:26-27
And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations — ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’— as I also have received from My Father.