The Undeniable Rather Than the Unexplainable
Dear Champions,
The following is part of a sermon by Andy Stanley, and the Scripture is John 9:6-7 After saying this, Jesus spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man s eyes. Go, he told him, wash in the Pool of Siloam (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
You do not have to understand everything or have all your questions answered to believe in something or to put your faith in someone. The lie that some of you struggle with is that you have lots of questions and you have bought into a mentality that says until I understand everything I cannot believe in anything as it comes to God and His son Jesus Christ. Even though there are some things that are unexplainable there are also some things that are undeniable. We focus on the unexplainable and avoid focusing on the undeniable, so we will never have faith. But as you begin to embrace the undeniable then the unexplainable will not shipwreck your faith.
Everybody has misunderstandings about God, and one reason Jesus came was to clear up this misunderstanding. What they believed back then was that a person born blind was paying for his sins or for someone else s sin. When the blind man was healed his neighbors keep asking how he got healed, and the blind man was probably thinking, Who Cares? I have been a blind beggar all my life, and now I can see. All you want is an explanation, but how about let s have a party and a celebration. I do not know how I got healed because it certainly does not make sense to me. All I know is that I can see, and will someone just celebrate with me and get me a cake and hire a band and get a parade going?
Jesus should have known better than to heal someone on the Sabbath-who does He think that He is? The Pharisees basically said, this man is not from God because we know what God is like. We have God here in a box. We know what God does and does not do, we know how He acts, and we have God completely under control because we are smart and know God like no one else knows God. Since we know that God would not heal on the Sabbath, then God did not heal this man-end of case. What happened does not make since with how we view God, therefore we know that it was not God.
What a bunch of narrow minded, arrogant, ego centric people to think that they know so much about God that they would know everything that He could or could not do. They could not explain it, so they refused to believe it.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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