Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! Here is the word for your meditation and prayer! I am delighted to continue sharing the word of life at such a time as this. (Esther 4:14-17). The title of my message is:" LEGALISM COMPLICATES EVERYTHING"
While still on the same scripture where Jesus healed a blind man, I want to mention that the legalistic Pharisees focused on the broken rules instead of the joy of the blind man's deliverance: The Bible says, " They asked them, Is this your son, whom you reported as having been born blind? How then does he see now? His parents answered? We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. But as to how he can now see, we do not know. He is of age. Ask him; let him speak for himself and give his own account of it. ( John 9:19-21)
The man who had been healed of a lifelong blindness had to be feeling really happy. Their question must have seemed to him like a bad joke. This whole cross examination routine by the Pharisees must have been stealing his joy. It is possible to make law out of anything, and the Pharisees had bound themselves to unrealistic laws of their own making, which blinded them to the fact that Jesus was the son of God. In a desperate attempt to prove otherwise, the Pharisees continued to question the man Jesus had healed.
As stated in Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible, " One would have expected that such a miracle as Christ wrought upon the blind man would have settled his ( Jesus') reputation, and silenced and shamed all opposition, but it had a contrary effect; instead of being embraced as a prophet for it, he is prosecuted as a criminal."
A legalistic, reasoning attitude complicates everything. It fills people with pride and blinds them to truth even when it is staring them right in the face, as this story illustrates: The scripture says, " His parents said this because they feared ( the leaders of) the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed if anyone should acknowledge Jesus to be the Christ, he should be expelled and excluded from the synagogue.
On that account his parents said, He is of age; ask him. So the second time they summoned the man who had been born blind, and said to him, Now give God the glory ( praise). The Fellow we know is only a sinner ( a wicked person). Then he answered, I do not know whether He is a sinner and wicked or not. But one thing I do know, that whereas I was blind before, now I see. ( John 9:22-25)
I cannot explain doctrinally everything the Lord has done in my life, any more than the blind man in this passage could explain his healing. I do not have enough words or the correct terminology in describing what has happened to me also.
But one thing I do know: Once I was a mess, and now I have been changed. The same Jesus can change your life for the better, and make people who knew you as an outcast marvel and wonder on your success and breakthrough.
Don't allow legalism to complicate your life and faith in Jesus. Believe and worship Him as the spirit leads and you will experience the fullness and miraculous power of God.
May God richly bless you all!
Evangelist Fanuel Masikati
Email:divinerevelations7@gmail.com
Contact cell:+263778495363
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