One of the loveliest Stories (though an actual historical account) in all the Gospels, full to the brim with faith, saving faith!

John 9:1-38 recounts the healing of a man born blind, a poor beggar in fact. Gradually through the Chapter his apprehension of Jesus grows! First, He’s a man. Then a man named Jesus (meaning Saviour)! Next the ex-blind man decides Jesus is a Prophet! Then He is “of God,” coming from God Himself! And finally Jesus is the “Son of God!”

Someone wrote of this new believer … “Before the Pharisees he was bold as a lion! But before Jesus he was meek as a lamb!”

I (in class today) did not have time to tell you this …

Jesus Self-Discloses Himself as “God the Son” four times in John’s Gospel!

In John 5:25 … “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.”

John 9:35-37 … “Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? 37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.”

John 10:36 … “Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?”

John 11:4 … “When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.”

Wow!

The trajectory of this once blind man’s life is amazing, his “spiritual history.” It is an apt illustration of Philippians 1:6 … “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath BEGUN a good work in you will PERFORM it until the day of Jesus Christ.”(Until Jesus comes again!)

Amen!

Now, why not watch the entire class?

Glory to God!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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