Summary
But this journey, this journey to Jerusalem, there was something different about this journey. There are so many problems, so many issues that could and should be dealt with and heard and prayed for that I don't want to bother Jesus. Jesus whom his disciples knew something was different about this journey, Jesus who couldn't stop stopped called this blind beggar to him and said, what do you want me to do for you? God has opened your eyes so that you would see the truth of your blindness, that you would know you are indeed a sinner blind in your sin stumbling in your sin and God has opened your eyes, that you would see the salvation that lies before you in him, the Savior. Bartimea saw, he could see, he could see the Savior before him, he could see the world, the creation around him and he rejoiced and he didn't brag that it was something that he had done, that his faith had made him well, his faith had done anything at all, but it is Christ. Christ who gave him the faith, God who had called him into faith that he would believe and through that he saw and the people around who witnessed this miracle rejoiced and praised the Lord because they knew it was Jesus of Nazareth's son of David who had done this for the unworthy Bartimea's.
Video citations
- "Now I See" 3-5-23 — If you would please open your Bibles to Luke the 18th chapter, Luke the 18th chapter. If you're using a Pue edition of the Bible, you can find this on page 71 in the New Testament. We are in Luke…