"SHARING HOPE THROUGH SCRIPTURE ABOUT WHY JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD"
John 9:39 Then Jesus told him, “I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.” New Living Translation.
Some explanatory thoughts/application/questions and a prayer:
The Lord Jesus had just healed a blind man on the Sabbath. This was against the tradition of the Pharisees, but not against the law of God. Nonetheless, it caused a big stir among the Pharisees, who wound up questioning the blind man (now healed of blindness) parents, and the blind man himself. They wanted to know what had happened and who was this that had healed him and so on. So, this verse comes at the end of a back and forth between Jesus and the Pharisees. And, in this verse, Jesus explains why He came into the world, and He uses the issue of seeing to help explain Himself.
1. Jesus did come into this world.
John 9:39 Then Jesus told him, “I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.”
Before Jesus became a man, He dwelt eternally with the Father and with the Holy Spirit. But the Bible teaches that God who loves the world sent Jesus into the world, and He was born as a man, while remaining God.
God came to the world of men. How amazing that our creator would come into this world, but He did, and He did it because of His love for each and every human being including You and I.
Joh 3:16* “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
2. Jesus came into the world with a specific purpose.
John 9:39 Then Jesus told him, “I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.”
Jesus makes it clear why He came into the world. In fact, there are 3 things that He says about why He came into the world.
(1) Jesus came into the world to judge the world.
Jesus came to bring judgement. Not the judgement that is coming one day at the great white throne, but to bring judgement against sin in the world now. By coming into the world and going to the cross, Jesus was judging or revealing how God sees sin, and what sin does to man, and that through Christ sin would not only be judged but payed for.
John 16:11 “of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. By dying on the cross, Jesus also judged Satan as evil, and He destroyed the works of Satan by rising from the dead.
Jesus's coming into the world, and going to cross shows us how God regards sin. It's so eternally destructive, that it took sending His own Son to rescue man from sin's terrible and eternal effects. God does not want man to be separated from Him because of sin.
(2) Jesus came into the world to give sight to the blind.
2nd Cor 4:4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Sin has brought spiritual blindness to man, by the work of Satan. Satan does not want people to see the truth, he his afraid they may get saved if they do. By the way, one of the best things we can pray for, is that God would remove the blindness in the eyes of the unsaved, so they can at least see the truth of Jesus, and hopefully the will yield their lives to Jesus. But, until they can see Him, they are blind.
But, Christ has come to shed light, to remove blindness, so that man can see and be saved.
Like the hymn Amazing Grace says, " I once was blind but now I see" Thank You Lord Jesus.
(3) Jesus came into the world to show those who think they see that they are blind.
John 9:39 Then Jesus told him, “I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.”
This tells us about another class of people Jesus came to help. He came to show those who think they see and know the truth, that they really are blind, and don't know the truth. Jesus loves these people also. The very religious leaders who tried to and eventually have Jesus crucified were not only blind to the truth, but loved by Christ. He wanted them to see also.
Jesus is amazing. He loves all men, including those who are very clearly His enemies. We were all enemies of the Lord before Salvation, but these men were aggressively and passionately aggressive towards the only one who could save them. My what power sin has, in that it blinds a person from the one who alone can save them, and all the while they are thinking they see things clearly. These folks need our prayers. Just as we needed to be prayed for before we were saved also.
Some questions:
1. How often do you stop to realize how much God loves You, that He sent Jesus into this world to save you?.
2. Can you remember when you were spiritually blind, and can you remember when your blindness was removed and you could see the truth for the very first time?.
3. Would you take just a moment to bow your heart and mind before God and tell Him how much you appreciate what He has done for you, and to acknowledge the great price that God payed in sending Jesus.
4. Do you know people who think they see and know the truth, but are indeed spiritually blind?
5. Will you pray for them by name right now, and ask God Himself to remove the blindness from their eyes, so that they can at least see the wonderful truth of who Jesus is, and that they need a Savior, and that Jesus will save them if they will turn to Him and believe in Him?
A prayer:
Father, not only were we once blind, and now we see, but we were lost, and now we are found. All because of Your love and Your sending Christ into the world to die for our sins. Thank You Father for bringing conviction into our lives, and showing us our true condition. Where would we be today if it were not for what You have done for us. We shudder to think about it. But, we give You praise this day, and we thank You this day, for providing judgement against sin, and against Satan, and giving us the hope of eternal life. We love You Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.
Pastor Bob Grenier
Calvary Chapel Visalia.
