Saturday, June 12, 2021

Healing The Two Blind Men (Matt. 9:27-32)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/12/2021 9:38 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                  Focus: “Healing the two Blind Men

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matt. 9:27-32

 

            Message of the verses:  27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!" 28 When He entered the house, the blind men came up to Him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord." 29 Then He touched their eyes, saying, "It shall be done to you according to your faith." 30 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them: "See that no one knows about this!" 31 But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout all that land. 32 As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed man was brought to Him.”

 

            Let me begin by saying that the “focus” that we are looking at is the first main section of these verses and we will first look at the intro to these verses, and then look at the first subsection in our SD for today, and then after that we will be looking at other sub-sections from these verses.

 

Intro:  It was when Jesus had left the house of Jairus after raising his daughter from the dead that “Jesus passed on from there” and “two blind men followed Him.”  Now if these two blind men were in the crowd of people around the house of Jairus then they would have known what Jesus did, for all of the mourners and flute-players would have been gone, and I have to believe that the news of raising Jairus’ daughter from the dead would have gotten out.  So in this brief account we are shown a number of things that are truths about these two men.  MacArthur writes we will see “Their condition, their cry, their confrontation, their conversion, the command to them, their contrariness, and their commitment.”

 

The Condition of the Men:  In our study a few years ago from the gospel of John we studied about the man born blind in the 9th chapter of that gospel.  We mentioned at the time that it was possible that the reason that this man was born blind had to do with a disease that the mother had we named as gonorrhea.  This venereal disease had no cure at this time and so this could have caused the blindness of this man born blind and it could have also been what caused the blindness of these two men.  I am told that the healing of blindness was the most of all the healings that are mentioned in the gospels.  MacArthur writes “Many infants were born blind because of various diseases suffered by the mother during pregnancy, and many others became blind a few days after birth by being exposed to venereal disease, especially gonorrhea, as the passed through the birth canal.

            “It was not uncommon for blind people to associate with others who were blind, and it is possible that these ‘two blind men’ had been companions in darkness for many years.”

 

            Today when a baby is born there are drops put into the babies eyes to prevent anything like this from happening, but that surely was not the case during the time Jesus walked on the earth.

 

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