Not surprising but the extra credit reading is a lot better than the commentary I actually wrote today. I mention it because I highly recommend the reading of it for any sound doctrinal theologians. I pray that we are not tinkling cymbals here but by His grace sound trumpets of His finished work and pending return. May God bless this and guide this.
Extra Credit: From the usual C.H. Spurgeon and is one I posted a couple of weeks ago on my other site. Sound Theologians this short read could possibly have been inserted as today’s commentary (and most likely been better of course than what I wrote) and would have matched perfect.
Jhn 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Jhn 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Jhn 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
Jhn 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
Jhn 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
Discussion forum : Why do you believe they cast him out?
We have a poor previously blind beggar. A man of a completely different class than these Pharisee. He did not have the years of studies or advantages that they had. Many of these Pharisees most likely read many scriptures, knew multiple languages, and thought themselves learned men. The Blind man, blind from birth, never had any opportunity to read, had to beg for meals, and was thought of as ignorant in their eyes. But how it pleases God to confound the wise and prudent and reveal then His grace unto babes (Mat 11:25). For this previously blind beggar was now endowed with wisdom by the grace and mercy of God to which these learned Pharisees were ignorant of. This beggar had a wonderful gift and knowledge. As a babe he first saw a man called Jesus (vs 11), as he grew in faith he came to believe Him as a prophet (vs 17), and now he knows and declares the Christ is a man of God (vs 32). These Pharisees on the other hand were as “straight as a gun barrel and just as empty”. They knew doctrine, law, and had head knowledge but were ignorant in the heart.
A.W. Pink in his commentary had this point: He asks us to use this example as a lesson to us all as babes together in Christ. That as we walk according to the light we are provided that God always gives us just what we need and always will provide a little more as we need it. That when we are babes we learn to hear and see, but as we grow in grace and faith we learn to walk, and usually after stumbling a few times we finally learn to have Christ lead us.
