SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/28/2022 10:08 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Unbelief Blocks The Supernatural”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
13:58
Message of the
verse: “58
And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.”
I mentioned we would discuss the man who was born
blind from John chapter nine as we begin this SD. What I want to focus in on is the disciple’s
question “Rabbi, who sinned this man or his parents, that he should be born
blind?’” Jesus then answered “It was
neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was in order that the
works of God might be displayed in Him” (John. 9:23). Jesus explained that the man was born blind
so that his healing could glorify God.
I think that this miracle of the
healing of the blind man is familiar so I am only going to hit the high
points. First of all after he went and
washed in the Pool of Siloam, which actually means sent, his friends did not
realize that he was the former blind man and so he was sent to the Pharisees
and was integrated by them. His parents
had to come in to verify that he was their son and he was born blind. The Pharisees had a problem of Jesus working
on the Sabbath and so they thought that He was a phony, not from God. Others argued that a person who was not from
God could never do such things.
As you probably already know we are
talking about how these people can see the supernatural right in front of them
and chose not to believe that the miracle was done by their Messiah and not
believe in Him. Doing these miracles was
something that was prophesied that the Messiah would do, but now we can see
from this story that some of the leaders did not even believe the man had ever
been blind when the evidence was right in front of them, but their hatred for
Jesus was all they saw. His parents
stated that they knew this was their son and that he was born blind, but how he
sees now we don’t know. The Pharisees
said “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner,” referring to
Jesus. MacArthur writes “The man
responded that, although he could not be certain about Jesus’ sin, he was certain
that it was Jesus who had healed him.
And he did not believe a sinful man could do such marvelous things as
Jesus had undeniably done for Him. ‘If
this man were not from God,’ he insisted, ‘He could do nothing.’
“But as the man’s testimony became
more and more favorable to Jesus, the Pharisees’ unbelief only became more and
more hardened. They finally said to the
man, ‘You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?’ And they put him out.’” This means the put him out of the synagogue
for good.
Jesus found the man, knowing he had
been thrown out of the synagogue and asked him “Do you believe in the Son of
Man?” When he discovered that Jesus was
Himself the Son of Man, the former blind man confessed, “Lord, I believe.’ After that He worshiped Him. Jesus then said “For judgment I came into
this world, that those who do not see may see; and that those who see may
become blind.” The Pharisees wanted to
know if they too were blind and then Jesus said to them, “If you were blind,
you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains’ (John
9:6-41).
“As those Pharisees perfectly
illustrate, when unbelief investigates the supernatural work of God, it comes
up empty. It meets a dead end when it
tries to probe divine things. It cannot
recognize the works of God because it will not recognize the truth of God” This
is how MacArthur ends this section and how he ends his commentary on the 13th
chapter of Matthew.
5/28/2022 10:49
AM
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