SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/24/2023 9:09 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Their
Supernatural Privilege”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 20:32-34
Message of the verses: “32 And Jesus
stopped and called them, and said, "What do you want Me to do for
you?" 33 They said to Him, "Lord, we want our eyes to be
opened." 34 And moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and
immediately they regained their sight and followed Him.”
The first thing that I want to write about this
morning is that these two blind beggars had to call Jesus two times, and I
wonder why Jesus let them call Him those two times when I know that Jesus heard
them the first time. I can’t answer this
question, but I can only guess at why He had them call Him those two
times. Perhaps Jesus wanted to test
their faith. Perhaps it had something to
do with the crowd. Those are only
guesses on my part.
Once
they cried out a second time we read that “Jesus stopped and called them, and said,
"What do you want Me to do for you?"
In the gospel of Mark’s account we read that Jesus had first sent
someone else to tell them, saying, “Take courage, arise! He is calling you.” In verse fifty we see that Bartimaeus was so
elated at hearing those words that “Throwing aside his cloak, he jumped up and
came to Jesus.” Perhaps he was so sure
that he was going to receive his sight that he then would be able to come back
and get his coat.
Next
we see in verse 32 that the men answered Jesus’ question of "What do you
want Me to do for you?" They said “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.” I have to believe that because of how long
they had been blind that they desired to be able to see again. We then see that “34 And moved with compassion,
Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight.’” John MacArthur writes “As the creator of the
universe reached out to those men, He suspended the natural laws which He Himself
had made. Moved with infinite divine compassion,
the Son of Man, who was also the Son of God, bestowed the mercy on the physical
needs for which they pleaded.”
Now
I have mentioned that these men were able to see at one point in their lives,
and the reason is of what Matthew says in verse 34 “and immediately they
regained their sight.” This is using the
same verb Bartimaeus had used in his request as seen in Mark 10:51b “And the
blind man said to Him, "Rabboni, I want to regain my sight!’” Now if these men were able to see before, but
then lost their sight, they knew exactly what they were missing, rather than if
they had never been able to see before.
As
one goes through the gospels and sees the different times that Jesus healed
people from different ailments it can be seen that Jesus used many different
ways to perform His healing miracles.
Like in the case of these two blind beggars Jesus just spoke a word and
they were healed and were instantly able to see. There were other times when the person that
Jesus was healing was asked by Jesus to do something. I can think of the man born blind in John
chapter nine who was told by Jesus to go and wash off his eyes of the “mud”
that Jesus had put on his eyes and he did and was then healed. We can also see that Jesus sometimes put his
fingers into a person’s deaf ears in order to heal them. In this case that we are looking at today
Jesus came and touched their eyes and they were then instantly they were able
to see again. As already mentioned this
defied natural laws and natural explanation.
I
have talked about healings before in some of my SD’s. I have said that while Jesus was on earth
that there were many, many healings that He performed, as John says at the end
of His gospel “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if
they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not
contain the books that would be
written.” Now after Jesus was raised from the dead and
after He then went into heaven we see that there were healings done by the
Apostles, but as we go through the early church age when the Apostles were on
earth we can see that the healings began to get less and less of them. Paul writes about the gift of healing, but I
believe that this was a gift that went away after the church was established,
and after the whole New Testament was completed. We call them “sing gifts” and healings was
only one of them. I don’t believe that
anyone has that gift of healing today, and that people today are mistaken to
think that this gift is still around. I
think a lot of times that these so-called healers do their so-called healings
it is for money. Think about that if
they were legitimate why would they not go into hospitals and do healings, and
have you ever heard of a healing done to a person who is blind? I am not saying that God does not heal people
today, but not through healers. I have
mentioned that a friend of mine, the man who taught me things right after I was
saved told me that God heals you every time but the last time and then you, if
you are a believer go to be with the Lord in heaven. I think that is the ultimate healing, and I
look forward to being with the Lord in heaven, hoping that it will be the
rapture that will transport me into His presence. Like my older pastor said “I’m looking for
the Uppertaker and not the undertaker.
5/24/2023 9:56 AM
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