Mercy for Sinners

Q: What does the Bible say about the Passover and Jesus?

The Passover in the Bible is a foreshadowing of Christ as the ultimate Passover lamb, who was sacrificed for our sins. The Passover, as described in Exodus 12, signifies God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt and foreshadows the ultimate sacrifice of Christ. Jesus, referred to as our Passover lamb, fulfills the requirements of the law through His death, which aligns with the typology presented throughout Scripture. The Last Supper represents the culmination of this symbol, where Jesus breaks bread and speaks of His body being given, indicating that the Passover meal is now transformed into a remembrance of His redemptive work.

Q: How do we know Jesus is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies?

Jesus fulfills numerous Old Testament prophecies regarding the Messiah's suffering, death, and resurrection. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus Himself refers to the prophetic writings that forecast His suffering and role as the Messiah. Passages like Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 outline the nature of His sufferings and how He would be the one to bear the sins of many. The Gospels record His crucifixion and resurrection, affirming that all the prophecies written concerning Him were accomplished. The historical fulfillment of these prophecies serves as a testament to Christ's identity as the true Messiah, demonstrating God's sovereign plan throughout redemptive history.

Q: Why is the concept of substitutionary atonement important for Christians?

Substitutionary atonement is vital for Christians as it affirms that Christ died in our place to satisfy God's justice. The doctrine of substitutionary atonement holds that Jesus took upon Himself the sins of humanity, suffering the consequence that we deserved in order to reconcile us with God. This fulfillment of the law's requirements allows God to remain just while justifying the ungodly. Understanding this doctrine is essential for Christians, as it underscores the depth of God's mercy and the magnitude of Christ's sacrifice, demonstrating that salvation is solely by faith in Christ's completed work on the cross.

Q: How do we receive mercy from God?

We receive mercy from God through faith in Jesus Christ, who came to save sinners. Mercy is a core aspect of the Christian faith, rooted in the character of God who desires to forgive and restore the broken. According to Scripture, we are not deserving of mercy due to our sins, but it is through faith in Christ's redemptive work that we receive it. The blind man in Luke 18 exemplifies this, as he calls out to Jesus, acknowledging Him as the Son of David and pleading for mercy. In doing so, he demonstrates that sincere faith in Christ leads to God's mercy and salvation, manifesting in tangible experiences of grace and healing.

All right, let's look again at
chapter 18 of Luke's Gospel. It says in verse 31, Then he, the Lord Jesus, took
unto him the twelve. Now he's been speaking to this
crowd of people. giving the parable to the disciples
and the parable to those who trusted in themselves, and then
the rich young ruler, and now he takes his disciples aside,
just the twelve. If you want to mark a place in
your Bible which names the disciples, you turn to Acts 1, and you can
put a mark by this, in Acts chapter 1. They were gathered together. Of course, Judas was gone. He hanged himself. And in Acts
1, verse 13, it names all of the 11 disciples. In verse 13,
and when they would come in, they went up into an upper room. were abode both Peter and James
and John and Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew,
James the son of Alphaeus, there were two Jameses, and Simon the And Judas, the
brother of James, there were two Judases, one the brother
of James and the other who betrayed our Lord, but there's the twelve
disciples. And he took them aside, back
to our text, verse 31, Luke 18, and he said to them, Behold,
we go up to Jerusalem. Now this was not just a trip
to Jerusalem. as he made many trips to Jerusalem. This was the feast of the Passover.
This was the last Passover, the last official Passover to be
observed on this earth. The last Passover that our Lord
would partake of. You see, Christ ate the Passover. Christ, our Lord, Jesus Christ,
went to the temple every Sabbath day. He was circumcised, he paid
tithes, he attended all the feasts, he was a Jew. He was baptized
with John's baptism, the baptism of John, and all of this to fulfill
our righteousness. But now he's going to Jerusalem
to observe the Passover, and this is the last one, because
Christ himself will be offered on the cross as our Passover. and the disciples will never
eat the Passover again. And those Jews who observe the
Passover will put themselves under law and not under grace,
not under Christ. If you turn to Exodus chapter
12, and you know it's in 1 Corinthians that Paul said, even Christ our
Passover is sacrificed for us. But here's the origin of the
Passover feast. Israel was in Egypt. in bondage,
400 years, and God will deliver them. He had sent plague upon
plague upon plague upon Pharaoh and his people, and they would
not let Israel go. And God came to Moses and said,
Moses, verse 1, chapter 12, of Exodus, the Lord spake to Moses
in Avon, in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto
you the beginning of months. That's the beginning of months
on the Jewish calendar, April. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. Speaking unto all the congregation of Israel,
saying, In the tenth day of this month thou shalt take to them
every man a lamb. Christ is our lamb. God shall
provide himself a lamb, Abraham said to Isaac. Christ is our
lamb. We have all the way through the
word, the lamb prophesied. The Lamb typified when Abel offered
the Lamb. That's typical of Christ. The
Lamb personified when Isaiah said, He'll be a man. The Lamb
identified. John the Baptist said, Behold,
the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. The Lamb crucified and the Lamb
glorified in Revelation. John said, I saw a Lamb in the
midst of the throne as it had been slain. So God said, Take
a Lamb. Christ is our lamb. He is led
as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before a shearer's dog.
He opened not his mouth. Christ is our lamb. And then
down here in verse 5, he said, Your lamb shall be without blemish. You pick a lamb that is without
spot or blemish. Perfect as far as lambs go. Our
Lord was perfect. Our lamb is without sin, without
spot or blemish. He had no sin. He was born the
seed of woman. He had no human father. So he
did not take part in the sin of Adam. It wasn't passed on
to him. He's without spot or blemish. A male of the first
year was to be the lamb. Christ, a male, a young male. He died when he was 33 years
of age. You take it from among the sheep
or from the goats and keep it up until the 14th day of this
month. It had been four days. Observe
it. Observe this lamb, spotless, without blemish, a male of the
first year. Put it up for four days and make
sure that it has no marks and no disease and nothing to keep
it from being a sacrifice. And then after four days, our
Lord was tested and tried for thirty-three and a half years
by God, by men. By Satan, by all things, yet
he did no sin. And the whole congregation in
the evening of the 14th day shall kill it. The lamb will be slain. Our Lord went to the cross in
the morning and died in the evening that day. And they shall take
of the blood from the lamb and strike it on the two side posts
and on the upper door of the houses wherein they shall eat. And they shall eat the lamb that
night. roast it with fire, unleavened
bread, bitter herbs, and eat of it. Verse 12, now, I'll pass
through the land of Egypt this night, and I'll smite the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And against all the
princes of Egypt I'll execute judgment, I'm the Lord. And the
blood of the Lamb shall be for you a token upon the houses where
you are when I see the blood of Passover." Passover. Passover. That's the Passover. He told the Israelites, eat this
feast. Eat this feast every year at
this certain day. It's the beginning of months
in April. Take this feast. And when your children ask you,
what's this mean? Well, it's the Lord's Passover. He delivered
us from bondage and slavery in Egypt with the blood of the Lamb. And we eat this to commemorate
and to remember the Lord's Passover. Now Christ said to these men,
we're going to Jerusalem. It's the Passover. And he is
our Passover lamb who will die that very weekend and be our
Passover. And when he gathered these disciples
in that upper room to eat that Passover, the lamb, the unleavened
bread, he broke the bread. The unleavened bread, unleavened
because it represents the sinlessness of Christ. It's bread that has
no yeast, no leaven, and consequently it continues. But he broke the
bread as his body was broken, and he gave it to his disciples.
And he said, now you'll not eat the lamb anymore, you'll eat
this bread. This is my body which is shed
for you. Up to this time on the Passover, they ate the lamb and
and put the blood on the altar, mercy seat, wherever. But now
you eat, this is my body, broken for you. This do in remembrance
of me. When they ate the Passover, they
were remembering the Lord's Passover in Egypt. By his power he delivered
them, which represents Christ. But you eat this bread. And then
he took the cup, the wine, which is fermented, which has no no ingredients that causes it
to spoil. But it just lasts on and on and
on and on and on, two, three, four hundred years. And this
wine is my blood. His blood is pure, pure without
sin. Now you drink this, and as often
as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's
death till he comes. As Israel ate the Passover, you
show my death till I come. And that's what he's telling
them, we're going to Jerusalem. And verse 31, he said, And all
things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of
Man shall be accomplished. All of these things will be accomplished.
What are these things that the prophets wrote? They wrote concerning,
well, the Passover is a picture of Christ's death. The lifting
up of the brazen serpent is a picture of Christ being lifted up on
the cross. All of these Old Testament pictures
and types of prophecies of what Christ will suffer. Let me show
you just a few. I'll turn to Psalm chapter 2.
Psalm chapter 2, verse 1 and 2. Psalm chapter 2, verse 1 and
2. And it says here, David writes,
Why do the heathen rage? Why do the people imagine a vain
thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers
take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed,
his Christ, his Redeemer, his anointed Lamb, saying, Let's
break their bands asunder, let's cast their cords from us. Well,
that's fulfilled when, let me read it to you. The kings of
the earth, this is in Acts chapter 4, the kings of the earth stood
up, and the were gathered together against the Lord and against
his anointing. David wrote this long before
Christ came, that the kings of the earth, the Gentiles, the
Jews, Herod, Pontius Pilate, Caesars, all these kings and
rulers would gather together against God and against his Christ,
his anointing, saying, we'll not have this man reign over
us, let's cast their bands and cords and sunders, put them away.
So the kings of the earth stood up, the rulers were gathered
together against the Lord and against his Christ, for of a
truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed,
both Herod, Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, with the Jews,
were all gathered together. To do what? To do what God's
hand and God's counsel before it determined to be done. That's
what they gathered together. Now turn to Psalm 22. Christ
is saying to his disciples, all these things that are prophesied
in the Old Testament, the Son of Man is going to have to go
through them. All of these things written by the prophets concerning
me shall be accomplished. Psalm 22, look at verses 6 through
8. These are the words of Christ
from the cross. Listen to verse 1. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me from the words of my roaring?" This is the psalm of the cross.
Some people believe that he said all of these words from the cross,
but David's writing them hundreds of years before he came. These
are words of prophecy. And verse 6 says, I'm a worm,
no man, a reproach of men, despised and rejected of the people. All
that see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They
shake their head, saying, He trusted in the Lord. that he
would deliver him, let him deliver him, seeing he delights in him."
He said that at the cross. He trusted in the Lord to see
if God would deliver him. If you would be the son of God,
come down from the cross. And look at verse 16, Psalm 22. Dogs have compassed me. The assembly
of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierce my hands and my feet.
He drove nails in his hands and in his feet, crucified him. I
may tell all my bones, they look and stare upon me. As he hung
on that cross, stretched on that cross, his bones were clearly
seen as he hung there naked. I can see all my bones, my ribs,
the joints. They part my garments among them
and cast lots upon my vesture. What did the soldiers do at the
foot of the cross? cast lots for his robe, they said, let's
don't, this is too good a robe, let's don't cut it in pieces,
let's gamble to see who gets the robe. But I go all the way through
the Old Testament and show you everything that our Lord did,
everything that happened around that cross and on that cross
and led up to that cross is prophesied by the prophets and writers of
the Old Testament. But I want you to turn to Acts
13. Acts 13. And here Paul is preaching at
Antioch, and I want you to listen to what he says. He's talking to these Jews, the
sons and daughters of those who nailed Christ to the cross. And
even some of those still old men when Paul was preaching here,
probably 50, 60 A.D. Acts 13, 26. Men and brethren,
children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth
God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that
dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him
not. What did I read a while ago?
He was in the world, and the world knew him not. Came into his own,
and his own received him. They knew him not. Nor yet the
bosses of the prophets. which are read every Sabbath
day. These men, they themselves read these prophecies. They read
what I just read. They read Isaiah. They read Malachi. They read Zechariah. Your king cometh riding on a
donkey. And they have fulfilled those
scriptures in condemning him. Judas did what God said he would
do, 18 pieces of silver. He'd betray his Lord. That's
in the Old Testament. What he did with it, he came
in and cast it on the floor of the temple. They said he'd do
that. And he took the money and bought
the potter's field in which to bury folks that had no place
to be buried. And the Old Testament says everything
they said and did. They said and did because they
were cruel, wicked men. But they said it and did it fulfilling
God's prophecies. And that's what he's saying here.
The things that they read in the synagogue on the Sabbath
day, they fulfilled in condemning him. And listen to verse 28.
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired
they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all
that was written of him, took him down from the tree and laid
him in a grave, but God raised him from the dead. This is what
our Lord is saying to these disciples here in our text, Luke 18. Go back to it. He said, We're
going to Jerusalem. And all things that are written
by the prophets concerning me, the Son of Man, the Son of God,
shall be accomplished." You know, I love the shalls and the wills
of God's Word, don't you? They shall be accomplished. Not
one jot or one tittle shall pass from the Word till all of it
be fulfilled. Listen, he says in verse 32,
he shall be delivered to the Gentiles. He shall be mocked. mocked him as a king, put a crown
of thorns on his head, and a robe on his back, and a reed in his
hand, and bowed before him, and laughed at him. Hail, King of
the Jews! He spit in his face, mocked,
and spitefully entreated, and spit it upon. And they shall
scourge him thirty-nine stripes, save one. The scourging in those
days was a whip with glass and metal in it, in the strands.
And they beat a man bareback, scourged him. And there was a
rule, you couldn't scourge him over 40 stripes. So they gave
him 40, save one, 39. So they could be within the law.
Think about this. They will keep their law. Their
law means more to them than their God. They'll scourge him, put
him to death, and the third day he'll rise again. But I want
to stop right here and say this. Everything prophesied of our
Lord and his sufferings and his shedding of his blood and his
death shall be accomplished, shall be and was, and everything
concerning his people, his sheep, and their redemption shall be
accomplished. He shall be delivered unto the
Gentiles. He shall be mocked. He shall
be scourged. He shall be crucified, and he
shall rise again. Turn to John 6, and let's read
what he promises about us, those who believe on him, those who
come to him. The word of God is as sure and
certain as the throne of God, and it shall be done. It's sure.
It's sure. There isn't a maybe or perhaps
concerning his path. The steps of Christ are ordered
by God, and so are yours. John 6, verse 37. All that my
Father giveth me shall come to me. And him that cometh to me,
I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me, and
this is the will of him that sent me, that of all which he
hath given me I should lose nothing, but raise it up again at the
last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone
that seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life,
and I will raise him up at the last day." When our Lord said
to his disciples, they shall mock the Son of Man, they shall
spit upon him, they shall crucify him, and God will raise him,
he says the same thing to us. It shall be done. My sheep, hear
my voice, they follow me and I give them eternal life and
they shall never perish. All right, verse 34. Now this
is interesting. Verse 34, and they understood,
these are the twelve now, and he's talking to them about suffering,
death on the cross, and they understood none of these things. They understood none of these
things. This saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things
which were spoken. These men believed Christ. They believed Christ, they loved
Christ. Peter, he said to Peter one day, Whom do you say that
I, the Son of Man, am? He said, You're Christ, the Son
of the living God. We believe and are sure that
thou art the Christ. They believed him. They loved
him. He asked Peter, Do you love me? He said, Lord, you know everything.
You know I love you. They followed him. They said
one time, Lord, we've left everything and followed you. They left their
nets. They left their place of business. They left everything.
They left their homes and fathers and mothers. They loved him,
they believed him to be the Son of God. But concerning his suffering,
substitutionary death, atonement, dying, they couldn't understand
it. They didn't understand it. They
knew none of these things. His rejection by the Jews, his
suffering and death, they didn't understand it. This didn't fit
their notions of a Jewish kingdom. This didn't fit their idea. of
a Messiah who reigns over a people like David and Solomon of old.
He told them these things. This wasn't the first time. Let
me show you in Mark chapter 10. In Mark chapter 10 verse 32. Listen to this. Mark 10 verse
32. And they were in the way going
up to Jerusalem. This was another time. And Jesus
went before them, and they were amazed, and as they followed,
they were afraid. And he took the twelve, and began
to tell them what things should happen to him, saying, Behold,
we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered
unto the chief priests and the scribes, and they shall condemn
him to death, shall deliver him to the Gentiles, they shall mock
him, scourge him, spit upon him, and kill him, and the third day
he shall rise again." Now read the next verse. James and John,
the sons of Zebezee, came unto him and said, Master, we would
that you should do for us whatsoever we desire. He said, What would
you that I should do for you? Well, explain to us what you
mean by dying and scourging and crucifying. No, listen. They said, Grant unto us that
we may sit one on your right hand and the other on your left
hand when you make your kingdom. That's their minds. A dying Savior, they don't understand. A crucified Messiah, they cannot
understand. How he can be rejected of all
men and reign? How he can be denied and still
reign? They didn't understand it. Turn
to Luke 9, back here in the book of Luke, Luke chapter 9, verse
22. Let me read this to you, Luke
9, 22. Verse 20, let's go back just
a little bit, Luke 9, 20. And he said to them, But whom
say ye that I am? And Peter said, You are the Christ
of God. He knew that. And he straightly
charged them and commanded them to tell no man that thing, saying,
The Son of Man, don't you go out here and tell them I'm the
king now. Something else has to happen before you start broadcasting
this. He says, The Son of Man must
suffer. You can't have a crown without
a cross. You can't have a kingdom without
a Redeemer. You can't have subjects without
substitution. The Son of Man must suffer many
things and be rejected of the elders and the chief priests
and scribes and be slain and raised again the third day. That's
got to take place. He told them and told them and
told them, but they didn't understand. They didn't understand substitution
and satisfaction. But let me tell you something.
People today don't either. He said, I told you these things.
I told you these things. But tell us about the kingdom.
We won't sit around writing. I told you the Son of Man must
suffer. These things have got to take
place. Turn to 2 Corinthians. You understand because God's
given you understanding. But the world, the religious
world and all the other parts of this world do not understand
substitution. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 3. Our gospel be hid. What is our
gospel? It's the gospel of God. It's
the gospel concerning his Son. It's the gospel of substitution.
It's the gospel of crucified Lord. It's the gospel of Salvation
through the blood and righteousness of Christ. It's here to them
that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded their
minds. How did he blind their minds?
With other things. Taken up with other things. Lest
the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of
God, should shine unto them. We preach not ourselves, but
Christ Jesus the Lord, ourselves your servants, for Jesus' sake. For God who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Christ. Some do understand this by the
grace of God, by revelation of the Holy Spirit, but most of
the world doesn't understand the mystery of godliness. This
is what Paul deals with over in Romans 3. Christ came to save
sinners. Christ came to give us a righteousness
which God requires, and the only way he could do that was by full
perfect obedience. Christ came to give us an atonement,
to justify us before God, and that he could only do by his
death. God's law must be satisfied, and God's righteousness must
be fulfilled, and God Almighty's justice must be satisfied. And
the disciples didn't understand that. He wanted to get on over this
kingdom business. Now look at Romans 3, verse 19. Here's what we're missing. Now
we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them
that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of
the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for
by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by all the law
and the prophets. It's even the righteousness of
God which is by faith, by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.
And it's unto all and upon all them that believe. There's no
difference. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that's in Christ Jesus. Now watch. Whom God has set forth. He set him forth in promise,
he set him forth in prophecy, Old Testament. He set him forth
in picture, in type. He set him forth in person. He
set him forth in life and death. He set him forth in resurrection,
victory over the grave. He set him forth, exalted him
in his right hand. He set him forth to be a propitiation
through his faith in his blood. to declare God's righteousness
for the remission of sins that have passed through the forbearance
of God, to declare at this time, I say, his righteousness, that
God may be just and justify the ungodly." That's what he came
to do. You know, when an editor hires a newspaper person, that
young person has gone to school and learned something about writing.
And that editor will tell him, now I'm interested in four things.
What, when, and where? And don't you write an article
and tell me who, what, when, and where? And that's the gospel. Who? The Lord Jesus Christ, our
Lamb. God Almighty's anointed, God's
Savior. What? Came to this earth, in
the flesh, obeyed God's law, died on that cross, that we might
be Why? I'll take why instead of when.
It doesn't matter when. He just did it. He did it in
fullness of time. But we'll put a why in there
instead of a when. Why? In order that God may be
just and justify you and me. You see, Jesus Christ didn't
die to make you feel sorry for him. He didn't die to set an
example for you. He didn't die to appeal to your
kindness and pity and sympathy. He died primarily for the same
reason. that that high priest went into
the Holy of Holies and put the blood on the mercy seat before
God to appease, to satisfy, to honor, to glorify the holiness
of God. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission. When I see the blood, I'll pass
over you. Without death, there can be no salvation. Sin's got
to be paid for. The law's got to be honored.
Justice's got to be satisfied. God's got to be honored in his
character as a holy God. When Christ went to the cross,
he died before God. It didn't matter what these folks
thought. It didn't matter what they said. It didn't matter what
they did. They just did what they did, said what they said
to fulfill what God said they would. But Christ died as an
atonement, as a sin offering. God, now then, God can be God
and set you free, because in Christ you died. In Christ the
law was honored. In Christ His justice was satisfied. There is no condemnation, no
judgment, no justice on you, no child, because He took it
all. He bore our sins and His body on the tree and satisfied
God. Who? The only one who could do
that. An angel couldn't do it, a man
couldn't do it, no one but God, because he's God-man, perfect.
What'd he do? Satisfaction, substitution. Why'd
he do it? That God may be God. That God
may be God. Where is he now? You want to
visit his grave in Jerusalem? What's the use? He's not here,
he's risen. Where is he? Where? He's at the right hand
of God and he ever lives to make intercession for us. And that's what these men didn't
understand. They did after he suffered, after
he died. Peter got up and preached this
at Pentecost. He understood now. And you do because it's in the
past. But they kept wanting this kingdom. And right here is an
example. I'm just going to read it to
you and close. I believe it comes in right here,
read verse 34, and they understood none of these things. This saying
was hid from them, neither knew they the things that were spoken.
And the Lord gives them an example. I come not to set up a kingdom,
I come to show mercy. I come not to call the righteous,
I come to call sinners. And they kept walking, and they
came to Jerusalem, and there was a certain blind man who sat
by the wayside, begging. That's us. poor, dirty, by the wayside,
unwanted, cast out, begging, don't have any broke, bankrupt,
without a thing. And he hearing the multitude,
he asked, what's going on? All these people coming, what's
going on? And they told him, Jesus of Nazareth
passeth by. To them just, they didn't say
the Lord's here. God's with us. They didn't say
the Messiah, they said Jesus of Nazareth, a man. He's passing
by, he's passing through. And this man, given some understanding
by God, some background here, because he said, he called him
Jesus. He said, Jesus, thy son of David. The son of David's the Messiah.
Who taught this old, blind, poor beggar that he'd never seen,
that this man is the promised Messiah? Our Lord asked the Pharisees
one time, What think ye of the Christ? They said, He's son of
David. This man said, Jesus? Man. Son of David? God. Have mercy
upon me. That's what he came to do, show
mercy. This man knows it. And those that went before him,
these were the kingdom seekers and the organizers and the fellows
out in front of him there pushing the crowd aside, getting autographs
and that sort of thing. They said, Hush! We're on kingdom
business. We've got big things ahead of
us. We've got awesome things. We've got plans. You just keep
your mouth shut. You're too dirty and blind and
filthy and too much of a nothing and a nobody for the King to
have anything to do with you. He's not interested in you. You
just shut your mouth." Little they knew. He cried out to Moab,
Thy son of David, Thy son of David, probably the only one
in that whole crowd. It had any concept of who this was, our
son of David. Again, have mercy, mercy. Christ said one time to the disciples,
he said, I come not to call the righteous. I delight not in sacrifice,
but in mercy, mercy. I came to show mercy. Have mercy. Read on. And Jesus stood still. Think about it. Think about it. He stood still. When he got right up with that
man, he stopped and commanded him to be brought. That's so
much for your invitation. He's commanded him. He commanded him to be brought.
And when he was come near, he asked him, now listen, saying,
what wilt thou that I do to thee? You want an arm? Is that what
you're looking for? You're looking for a better job, you're looking
for better clothes, you're looking for something for me to give you.
You're looking for a place in the kingdom, too? Which hand
do you want to sit on, the right hand or the left hand? What are
you interested in?" He said, Lord, one thing that I might
see, that's what I want. But you show mercy on me and
give me sight. that I may receive my sight."
Is that what you want? Is that what I want? And Jesus
said unto him, Receive thy sight, thy faith has saved thee. I'll
tell you, that's what he came to do. That's what he came, that's
why he came. And let me show you the results
of this. Verse 43, And immediately he received his sight. He looked
to the one who could give him sight. He looked to Christ. He
saw Christ. Just imagine, the first thing,
when his eyes were opened, the things he saw that he'd never
seen. But I bet you one object was primarily directed his attention
primarily. He saw him. He'd given him sight,
he saw him. he that seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life." He saw him and he followed
him, followed Christ, no problem there. And he glorified God,
he gave God all the glory, and all the people that saw it, they
gave praise to God. All right, the Lord bless his
word, our prophet unto his glory.

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