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Spiritual Maturity
Intro: This is the only time that is recorded in the gospel where Jesus heals someone gradually.
There was the time where He put mud of a blinds mans eye and told to go to the pool of Siloam.
But he was healed immediately when he obeyed Jesus.
But here we have something different, something we only see this one time.
The man at first has his sight partially restored.
Then when Jesus puts His hands on him the second time, his sight is fully resorted.
Why? Everything Jesus did was for a reason.
He didn’t something just to do it.
As I studied this there were some different opinions of why.
Some believe it was because Jesus had been to Bethsaida before and rebuked them for their unbelief, and refusal to repent.
H.W
Matthew 11:
Some believe it was this man lack of faith.
He didn’t come his own, he didn’t call out to Jesus.
We need to see what has been going on.
Jesus had healed the deaf man.
He had fed 4000+ people when 7 loaves and a few fishes.
He was temped by the Pharisees and Sadducee, demanding a sign from heaven.
He told them there would be no sign.
He called them a wicked and adulterous generation.
Then we find out that the disciples are concerned because they forgot tot bring bread, and Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and spoke of leaven (ELAB) all they can think about is not having any bread.
Jesus rebukes them because they are not thinking about spiritual matters, only material matters.
He says “How is it that you don’t understand”
All that they had witnessed.
Elab.
All the teaching they had heard.
Their private time with Jesus.
They still had a lack of spiritual understanding .
How could that be?
They were still spiritually immature.
They were still growing in there faith.
Spiritual maturity doesn’t come automatically.
It takes longer for some then others.
For some it seems never grow spiritually.
Charles Jr Matthews born 1916 tell about Jr.
Because of the damage to his brain he was always like a child.
He was always immature.
There to many Christians that are like that.
They are Christians, but are still child like in their faith.
The disciples still had a ways in their faith.
Still spiritually immature.
So, when I see Jesus gradually healing this man, I see an illustration of spiritual growth.
It doesn’t come imminently, and it is up to you to do what you need to do to grow in your faith.
Without a relationship with Jesus, we are totally blind to spiritual things.
But when you become a Christian, you can see things spiritually, but it can be unclear.
The more we trust God, the more we obey His word,(which means you have to read it, pray it) the clearer our spiritual vision become.
We become more mature spiritually.
No matter how long you have been a Christian, you still have room for spiritual growth.
Let look at some ways we can do this.
I. Trust God.
Follow his lead.
VS 22-23a
Mark
I believe that this man lost his sight sometime during his life, not born blind.
VS 24 He saw men a tress walking, So he knew what trees looked like.
a. “They brought him” Someone cared enough about him to bring him to Jesus.
Someone who had seen Jesus and knew of His compassion, or they had heard about Jesus.
b.
When you are spiritually mature, you will tell people about Jesus.
2. Jesus took this man by the hand and led him out of town.
The deaf man in Ch 7 Jesus took him aside from the crowd of people.
Here Jesus takes this man out of town.
This was a town where there had been unbelief, so there were negative unbelieving people there.
One of worse things for Christian who wants to grow in their faith to do is hang around a Christian who doesn't care about growing in their faith.
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If you want to grow in your walk with Jesus, if you want to be spiritually mature, you have to be willing to follow Jesus even when you don’t understand.
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One thing the disciples seemed to have was a lack of understanding spiritual matters.
They just didn’t get it.
But their lack of understanding didn’t keep them from following Him.
c. Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James and John.
He said “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men” Follow me there, means keep following me”
d.
Then He Matthew the tax collector.
“Follow me”
e.
They didn’t understand what all that meant, but they obeyed Him, and kept following them.
There were a lot of people that wanted to follow Jesus, but turned back when things got hard, and when Jesus shared what it meant.
(Rich young ruler)
Trust
3. Are you willing to follow Jesus?
What does this mean?
Whatever it is that He is calling you to do.
Inviting someone to church.
Getting involved in ministry of some kind.
Singing in the choir.
Come to Wed night prayer meeting.
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Your willingness to follow Jesus’ lead will show your growth in your spiritual life.
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Trust God: Respond to God VS 23b-25a
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Jesus’ way of healing this man was unusual.
He spat on the mans eyes.
Ch 7:33
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He spat on his eyes and touched him.
Whoever brought to Jesus asked Jesus to touch him.
2. The methods that God’s chooses may seem odd to us.
a. Jericho: March around the city once.
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