SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/13/2021 11:07 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The
Cry of the Men”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
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.”
We
have been beginning to look at “Healing the Two Blind Men” which is the
main-section of the verses above. Today
we begin to look at the second sub-section under this main section, “The Cry of
the Men,” and we will be looking at their cry for a few days as this is one of
the main sub-sections from these verses.
I just want to say that I have been wracking my brain to remember this
section of Scripture, but it seems like a blank to me, and so I have to say
that I am happy to go over it and to study about it.
In
verse 27 we can see that these men continued to follow Jesus and they were continually
“crying out” to the Lord, in hopes that somehow to gain His attention amidst
the noise and confusion that usually happens when you are in the midst of a
large crowd of people. Now remember these
are two blind men so they cannot see where Jesus really is, and so they kept
crying out in hopes that He will talk to them.
John MacArthur writes “Krazo
(from which comes ‘crying out’) basically carries the idea of shouting or
screaming with great intensity, and the word had a broad range of application
in the New Testament times. It is used
of the unintelligible babbling of a deranged person such as the demoniac of
Gadara (Mark 5:5) as well of the shouts of the children in the temple who were
praising Jesus (Matt. 21:15). It is used
of the Lord Himself on the cross, as He ‘uttered a loud cry, and breathed His
last’ (Mark 15:37). It is used in
Revelation 12:2 of a woman screaming in the pains of childbirth.”
Why
were theses two blind men so desperately crying out to Jesus? Well I mentioned in our last SD that perhaps
they had heard of Him raising Jairus’ daughter from the dead, although those
who were with Jesus when this happened were not suppose to have spread the word
about what happened. Another reason
could have been that because they were in the crowd of people, and this
happened wherever Jesus went that they knew or at least had a good idea that He
was the promised Messiah. Mostly I
believe that these two blind men wanted Jesus to heal them, and no one can
blame them for that. Perhaps they wanted
to become believers in Jesus like the others we have been looking at. Now we have been looking at different people
being healed in one way or another in the last few weeks as we have been
studying the 8th and 9th chapters of Matthew. However when one looks at the ending chapter
in the gospel of John we are told that if all the things that Jesus did while
on earth that all the books in the world could not have enough room in them to
tell about what He did. Some of the
things He did was heal many, many people and some of those that He healed did
not have faith to be healed, but some of them did and the ones that did have
faith to be healed were for the most part wanting to be healed spiritually too
as MacArthur has explained in one of his sermons that those who had faith we
see a different Greek word that mostly spoke of spiritual healing, which I
believe these men wanted it along with the physical healing.
6/13/2021 11:27 PM
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