Mat 9:27-31; Believing Is Seeing.

Wednesday November 13, 2024

Main idea: Faith in an invitation by Christ into a relationship with Him. 

Mat 9:27-31. 

Themes in the text: faith, following, freedom. 

Why end the 10 miracles with these two? One reason is that they show Jesus as the Messiah (Isa 35:5-6; Mat 11:4-6). 

Messiah means anointed one. It is the name given to the King, Savior, Deliverer of Israel (1Sa 2:10). 

Satan has sought to counterfeit Messiah in many ways. He even tempted the true Messiah to counterfeit Himself. 

“Son of David” - a popular name for Messiah based upon the Davidic Covenant. 

2Sa 7:12-13. A King would come from the loins of David who would rule an eternal kingdom. (Dan 7:13-14; Mat 1:1, 20). 

First time someone calls Him this. They are blind. Joh 9:39.

“Do you believe that I can do this?” 

He could have healed them without asking the question of faith, but Jesus is looking for faith. To the Lord Jesus, faith is the key to the personal relation that He wants with them. 

You have to believe that He can and wants to heal you and deliver you and accept you into His everlasting arms.

Jesus invites this faith, eggs it on. He desires it to grow at the beginning. 

The Son of David is not aloof from the common man. 

The blind men are invited by faith to fellowship with Christ. He is the Son of David, Son of Man, Son of God, yet He invites them into His proximity, into His presence and He touches their infirmity. 

Your life can be lived with Him by faith (John 14:23).

You will see everything with Him which makes the meaning of things clear and Him more clear. (2Co 5:7, 9; Gal 2:20) 

"The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." [John Milton, Of Education]

The Son of David invites us and we invite others. 

One theme that has occurred with the others, and now approaches in the end of chapter 9, the bridge to chapter 10, is that as Christ has done so must we. 

You must walk with Him by faith and see everything through healed eyes.

You and I must reach out and invite the blind by faith.