Who Knows?

Scripture

“We know God spoke to Moses, but we don’t even know where this man comes from.”

~John 9:29, NLT

Quote

“They that know God will be humble; they that know themselves cannot be proud.”

~John Flavel

We were just in John 9 a couple of weeks ago and I shared my testimony based on this chapter last Sunday night at DBC. “You don’t know, I don’t know, who knows”, it is all in John chapter 9. The Pharisees said, “We know Jesus is a sinner…We know God spoke to Moses yet we do not know where this man Jesus comes from. The man born blind said, “I don’t know if He is a sinner or not but this I do know, I was blind and now I can see.” The parents of the man born blind, said, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind but we don’t know how or who helped him to see.” Although he could not read or write, the man born blind ends up setting at the head of the table in this story. His parents were afraid to get involved; they buckled under the threat of being excommunicated. The PC police silenced them. Although the Jews kicked the man born blind out of the Temple, they were the losers and he could have exited with his fist in the air, because he gave them a good old fashioned beat down. They told him, in regards to Jesus, “We don’t even know where He is from.” “How strange,” was the man born blind reply. He opened my eyes and it is the one miracle without precident and you scholars don’t know where He is from!

Is it not amazing, or strange, that ignorant people want to remain ignorant? Its like these people who go to church every Sunday, sing in the choir and then vote for abortion on demand. Could we just do a little research. Do you know what an abortion is? Have you ever visited a Planned Parenthood clinic. Do you know the history of Planned Parenthood. Do you know what drives the abortion industry? Could you not at least check it out? I’ll help you…it is driven by greed, money, not helping expectant mothers. You are not helping a persepctive mother by lying to them and telling them that there are no consequences to abortion. How much trouble is it to find out the truth? All the Jews had to do was interview Mary and they never put forth the energy to do so. She could have told them exactly where Jesus was born. Yet in their pride, they crucified a despised Galilean [they thought]. They never did any investigation. Is this not amazing. We are talking about college graduates with degrees hanging on the walls and yet they are content to walk in the darkness of a lie. How is it that the man born blind could see so well and the Jews remain in total darkness? The LIGHT OF THE WORLD is Jesus. When we come to Jesus, we come to the light. When we reject Jesus, we walk in darkness. No darkness have we who in Jesus abide; We walk in the light when we follow our Guide, the light of the world is Jesus.

Extra

I had big plans but the LORD changed them in less than a second. I was about to finish one of my sheds. I was standing on the top of a 4ft ladder putting screws in lathes, I was about to go down for more screws when the ladder twisted and fell. I don’t know why I didn’t grab a rafter; it was all to quick I suppose but i fell on the ladder and bruised my right side. I have two broke ribs and one fracture on a lower vertebra, the one giving the sciatic nerve pain. The X-ray or cat scan reveals a gap in very bottom of my back so the sciatic pain seems to be gone, that part of my back was pinching before. But the two broke ribs are painful and it is difficult to find a sweet spot. Laying down is not a good idea. I think I will be able to go by Sunday but Big Mama thinks differently. I do feel much better today than yesterday. At first I thought if I kept going, I would not get as sore. I fell about 10:30 and did’nt stop working until 1:00, took a shower and got on ice but by 4:00 the pain was so bad, I gave in to go to ER. I was upset with myself but I never complained to the LORD. I knew I was not where I was supposed to be. The LORD is good, Jack is the problem. I have been in the study for 2 hours this morning and I am not in pain so I am thinking I can do my pastoral work and no question, I can’t do the outside stuff for awhile. I drove the tractor some yesterday without a lot of pain but the lawn mover liked to have killed me. Anyway, I have a ton to be thankful for. I had three beautiful nurses put me to bed last night and two of them spent the night to help me get up when needed. Everyone at the ER was super nice and when the scan showed no signs of internal bleeding, I gave a huge sigh of relief…God is good.