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WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH US ABOUT JESUS?
HIS EARS ARE OPEN TO OUR CRY.
HE IS EAGER TO RESPOND TO OUR CRY.
The Messiah on the final leg of His journey to die for the sins of the world and yet He takes time to stop for a blind beggar!
Does this not make you love Jesus all the more - while the multitudes were not interested in a beggar, Jesus was, and He still is for "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
This is a wonderful, simple question God has not stopped asking.
Sometimes we go without when God would want to give us something simply because we will not answer this question, and we do not have because we do not ask (James 4:2)
Jesus asked this question with full knowledge that this man was blind.
He knew what he needed and what he wanted, but God still wants us to tell Him our needs as a constant expression of our trust and reliance on Him.
Notice that Jesus ask the blind beggar the same question He asked His disciples back in Mark 10:37 “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus answered both of their requests according to God’s will.
It was God’s will James and John to drink the cup and baptized with the baptism of Jesus.
It was not His will for them to sit at His right and left hand
Jesus granted the blind beggar’s request “Rabbi (Lord), let me recover my sight” and Jesus said “Go your way; your faith has made you well”.
Faith healers take such passages and build up their theology of “faith healing”.
The word for well does not refer to physical restoration it is the Greek word sozo which means salvation.
Your faith in the Son of David has saved you.
WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH US ABOUT OURSELVES?
WE SEE OUR CONDITION BEFORE CHRIST.
WE ARE BLIND.
Blindness in Scripture is a physical malady which points to a spiritual reality.
Physical blindness is a result of sin in general not sin specifically.
In Jesus day blindness was attributed to specific sin.
When Jesus healed those who were blind he was proclaiming His power to forgive sin.
He was claiming to be God in the flesh.
Scripture teaches our condition before meeting Christ is blindness.
WE ARE BEGGARS.
Mark wants us to see that we all are blind beggars before God.
Before God we are “wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” (Rev.
3:17).
This is perhaps the major stumbling block that keeps people from coming to Christ: they want to commend themselves and their good deeds.
God has to open our eyes to our true condition before Him.
We have nothing in ourselves to merit His salvation.
We are spiritually blind sinners, and the only way we can come to Him is to ask for mercy, not for merit.
WE CAN STOP THE SAVIOR WITH OUR CRY.
Jesus is not deaf to our cry.
He hears us when we call.
I like the NKJ rendering which vividly says "So Jesus stood still."
The one who gave Joshua the ability to make the sun stand still; stands still at the cry of a beggar.
Notice what he did not cry out.
In Mark 10:46 we learn the blind beggars name - Bartimaeus.
Bar meaning son and timaeus meaning honorable.
He cry was not based on merit but on mercy.
His cry was a . . .
A MERCIFUL CRY.
Justice is God giving us what we deserve.
Grace is God giving us what we don’t deserve.
Mercy is God not giving us what we deserve.
Never plead with God based on merit always plead mercy.
We all have merited hell and hell alone.
Yet daily God bestows grace and mercy to those who shun Him.
However, one day God’s justice is going to roll down like a river on those who have shunned His grace and mercy.
A MESSIANIC CRY.
“Jesus” - that’s savior.
“Son of David” - that’s king, Messiah, the promised prophet, priest and king.
HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND TO THIS PASSAGE?
SOME NEED TO RECEIVE OUR SIGHT.
It was a good thing that Bartimaeus sought the Lord that day because the Savior never passed that way again!
If you have yet to see yourself at a sinner bound for Hell, then you need to repent and believe the Good News that Jesus will deliver you from having to go to Hell and you will spend eternity with Him in Heaven.
So today Jesus is passing by your heart.
Cry out for His mercy.
Beg Him for spiritual sight.
And by all means DO NOT put off today what you may not be able to do tomorrow, because Jesus may never pass by your heart again.
Helen Keller was asked if it was terrible to be blind she responded, “Better to be blind & see w/your heart, than to have 2 good eyes & see nothing!”
Are you reluctant to call out to Jesus because you can’t see him?
Take heart, neither could Bartimeaus.
You must call out to Him by faith to experience His reality.
SOME NEED TO RELIEVE OTHERS OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS.
“Followed Him on the same road” Blind beggars start looking for other blind beggars.
Evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to get food.
The verb tense is in the continuous state.
Once he started he never stopped.
This command is still true today.
This should be every Christian’s cry to those who are recognizing their darkness & helplessness…Cheer up!
On your feet!
He's calling you.
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