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Introduction

Introduction

A friend inquired of me yesterday, “Will you preach on Sunday morning to saints or to sinners?”

I could not, at the moment, answer him, but afterwards I thought to myself—“If I preach concerning Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, I shall kill two birds with one stone and give both saints and sinners a profitable theme for thought.”

There is but one message of the gospel and it has a voice to all.

Saints know no sweeter music than the name of Jesus and sinners know no richer comfort than His person and His work.

We preach to all when we preach Him who is all in all.

Christ comes as life to the dead and He is equally life to the living.

- Spurgeon

A friend inquired of me yesterday, “Will you preach on Sunday morning to saints or to sinners?”

I could not, at the moment, answer him, but afterwards I thought to myself—“If I preach concerning Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, I shall kill two birds with one stone and give both saints and sinners a profitable theme for thought.”

There is but one message of the gospel and it has a voice to all.

Saints know no sweeter music than the name of Jesus and sinners know no richer comfort than His person and His work.

We preach to all when we preach Him who is all in all.

Christ comes as life to the dead and He is equally life to the living.

- Spurgeon

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Pray | Pastor & conference, for those crying for mercy that are being silenced

Pray | Pastor & conference, for those crying for mercy that are being silenced

Sermon Introduction

Sermon Introduction

as you turn to I would like for you to think about all the names of the people Jesus has healed / outside of Lazarus we just have this man.

why?quote from Tegan “Jesus did not just come to earth to heal people.. that is just what God does on the way to the cross”remind you that is where Jesus is headed retell the story w/ details | “You can almost hear the sounds of the street if you listen..”focus on the crowd, the cry, and the Christ

as you turn to I would like for you to think about all the names of the people Jesus has healed / outside of Lazarus we just have this man.

why?quote from Tegan “Jesus did not just come to earth to heal people.. that is just what God does on the way to the cross”remind you that is where Jesus is headed retell the story w/ details | “You can almost hear the sounds of the street if you listen..”focus on the crowd, the cry, and the Christ

I.

The Crowds Confusion

46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.47

And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.47

And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

v.48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal..

48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

They had convictions but no compassion

49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called.

And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.

49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called.

And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.

50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

They had convictions but no compassionTheological debate of And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?Jesus saw “a man” 9:1Disciples saw a theological debate.Jesus saw a person to minister to and they saw someone or something to talk about.

The religious can be brutal.

The people going inside the temple to worship were supposed to have a soft heart and so they would give to the beggars.Instead of being moved with compassion; we are moved to create memes, sign petitions, create brochures full of shocking stats.People were not helping get him to Jesus.

As the people of Bethsaida did in  And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.No hole cut in roof like we saw in Mark 2Same crowd that caused Zachaeus to climb up in a tree, for the Lord he wanted to see.

The crowd always wants conformityDesired to silence the blind man.

The pious probably thought they were doing the Lord a service.He would want to hear the cry of mercy over their shallow hallelujahs.

Jesus came to help those who were sick.

When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.They wanted him to fall in line.

The Country for the Blind / HG WellsBartimeuas saw by faith what they did not.

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)They saw Jesus of Nazereth, he say Son of David; the MessiahThe only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

- Helen KellerPeople would love to attend the parade that Jesus is the grand marshall, but few will see Him as the great physician and work to get ever beggar and blind man they can to Him!In a crowd but all alone.

Have you ever felt this?