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Introduction
We ended last week talking about the concept of Jesus’ lordship.
We don’t make Jesus Lord.
He is Lord.
He is the holy, sovereign God and creator of all.
Trust me when I say, He is Lord, regardless of our opinion of things.
We recognize and submit to His Lordship.
As we talk through the stories of Jesus in this series, we are looking for a central theme of Jesus presentation of the Gospel.
When we started this series, we looked at what Jesus means when He says He is Lord (Kurios)
That means we are “doulos” slaves
The Gospel doesn’t call for us to accept a teaching.
The Gospel calls us to surrender to Him.
We saw that he told Nicodemus, “You must be born again”
Jesus would not build on Nicodemus’ life.
He had to give it up and start over as something new.
Jesus pointed Nicodemus’ sin and identified Himself as the only path to salvation
We looked at Jesus’ interaction with the woman at the well
She was the opposite of Nicodemus.
He was high and mighty.
She was lowly, sinful and weak.
Jesus crossed all lines of culture and decorum and spoke with her.
He presented His Gospel to her, a sinner and outcast.
But before she recognized Him as Lord, she had to come face to face with her sin and His holiness.
It changed her life and the lives of many in her village.
Last week, we looked at the Rich Young Ruler
Jesus showed us that His Gospel is not a Gospel of gaining eternal life as the primary outcome
It is about Him.
He thought he was righteous.
He thought he followed all of the rules.
He didn’t need a savior.
He thought he only needed eternal life.
He walked away sad, because He did not embrace the Gospel Jesus presented.
As we present the Gospel in this series, I hope you are finding that it is much different than is often presented in the world today.
The Gospel is often boiled down to a few historical facts and theological truths that we nod our heads to and agree about.
Do you believe Jesus died on the cross?
Do you believe that He died for your sins?
Good to go!
These are true!
I am not saying they are not.
But this sounds like nothing Jesus said to anyone.
He asked everyone to acknowledge their sin.
Recognize Him as Savior
Submit to Him as Lord
Follow Him in humility and obedience.
This requires faith.
This requires an understanding of who He is and who we are
In this posture of submission and humility, we experience something given to us.
Not demanded by us.
But gently placed into our lives.
Grace.
Today is the last sermon about the Gospels as Jesus presented it to the people who came to Him.
Next week, we will look at how Jesus presented the Gospel through His parables.
We will look at the man who was born blind.
This is a really long passage and I want to read it so we can understand the whole story.
There are all sorts of sermons that can be found in this passage.
But we are here for one purpose.
The Gospel.
That is what we are going to mine out of our text today.
Pray
We are going to break this story down into a few manageable chunks.
First, we look at the miracle.
Now before we dive into this, I want to highlight something.
This seems like the Pharisees were being a bit overly contentious.
It’s like they had set in their minds to hate Jesus.
I want to set the stage for this story by reading the last verse or two from the previous chapter.
The Pharisees had heated up the questioning of Jesus.
Jesus called them on it.
To say that Jesus and the Pharisees had a strained relationship was mild.
The Pharisees had already determined that Jesus needed to be killed.
So with this brewing in the background, we see the story of the blind man pick up.
This is the only recorded miracle that explicitly says that a person Jesus healed had a congenital issue.
He was born blind.
There would be no question about this man’s blindness.
Everyone knew him.
He was the blind guy.
They had a belief that physical ailments like this came about because of sin.
If you were sick, it had to do with sin.
In some way, it was God’s curse for sin upon you.
It happened like this with Job
It happens in some peoples thoughts today.
Either he had sinned in the womb.
Or, his parents had sinned and they were cursed with a blind child.
Jesus said, “It wasn’t because of sin.
It was so God’s glory would be seen.”
There is a lot here.
If you have questions, please let me know.
But we are here to see the Gospel, not dive headfirst into a discussion about why God allows pain.
Know that God had a purpose and a plan.
The blind man didn’t see it, but Jesus did.
Jesus is going to circle back around to these words later in this story.
But He is saying, “I am here in the flesh to do the will of God.
What I do aligns perfectly with God’s will and nature.”
The time is coming when the work I am here to complete will no longer be able to be completed.
He is speaking of His death and resurrection.
While He is in the world, He is the light of the world.
Like I said, we’ll get back to that.
Jesus spits on the ground and heals the guy.
Again, in the interpretation of this passage, we need to ask the question, “Is this prescriptive or descriptive”
If it is prescriptive, then we have a mandate to spit in the dirt and wipe it on all of the blind people we see.
This would be a bit odd.
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