His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!” But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?” He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!” “Where is he now?” they asked. “I don’t know,” he replied.
Faith is actually a kind of seeing. And it is this man’s famous testimony as we will see later in this chapter. “Once I was blind, but now I see,” has a double meaning. “Jesus performed a miracle in which I came to see” and “Jesus performed a miracle in which I came to believe.”
“As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, He spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then He anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”. So, he went and washed and came back seeing.”
The question is what will you and I do when a moment like this appears in our lives? When we come face to face with those who God chose. He chose to give us newness of life, he chose to love us even though there was no reason to. Even though according to his standard there is no way that we can be saved, unless he gave his son, unless he pays the price that we should have paid. That is grace and to survive and flourish in marriage is grace.
Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved childrenand walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
The question is what will you and I do when a moment like this appear in our lives? When we come face to face with those who have wronged us and walked away hoping that we would die? What will we do? Will we allow the good in us to rise and get to work? Or will be allow the bad of us to take over?
“Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping. And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.”
Monday 04 October 2021 Sermon by Jacques Wolmarans
Worship is at the very heart of the Bible, one of the reasons why God gave us the Bible is so that we may see His wondrous works and worship Him!
“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
There are many good things in life, many big pearls, and God has given you some. But still there is a restlessness and you are searching to find more. You are selling and buying, and you not done trading yet. What is outstanding?
A profound question that arises in every generation – Where does evil come from? Why does it persist? If Jesus triumphed over evil on the cross, then why is it flourish today? And a lot of conversations – is the world getting better or worse?
You love the Lord Jesus Christ and with great expectation you want to plant the Word of God into the lives of other people. But what happens when the Word of God is sown? Jesus tells us in the Parable of the Sower what to expect.