Luke Ch 18 v35 – v43 Jesus heals a blind beggar.
Jesus was indeed an excellent teacher, as not only was he the answer but his students/disciples were actually designed by him to know the lessons he taught them as being true.
This is unlike any other teacher or lesson, it is not subjective but objective and collectively according to design.
Jesus himself, the man and his mission are not subjective truth, he is truth and truth universal. The gospel mandate to tell the whole world the good news is due to this reality.
Good teacher!
Jesus saw that the rich ruler had become sad. Jesus see’s are response to his call, Jesus sees as he is a faithful teacher who knows what he has called us to be. That mans riches where preventing him learning the great lesson from the teacher, that he was called ‘to be’…as his teacher.
Dear Peter was receptive to Jesus as the great teacher and lesson to be learned for life, in every context. Peter, intuitively knew that the calling of Jesus to follow him was to be like him. But more than this, Peter intuitively believed that Jesus himself would bridge the impossibility of Peter being able to live as his teacher lived and taught.
If you ask why did God choose Peter to be the main influence to the early Church it is contained in that paragraph.
Peter didn’t understand it all, even after Pentecost, but intuitive knowledge is an instinct of faith. The understanding came through the apostle who was called to bring forth these mysteries, a man whoes eyes had been given sight so that he himself might open others eyes to see the universal truth of Amazing Grace and love divine, the apostle of grace Paul.
Peter had seen the biggest catch of his life when Jesus told him to put down his nets. And his response was to confess that he was a sinful man. That despite his knowledge of the law and his adherence to not eating that which the word had decreed he shouldn’t, that despite all these laws he had obeyed he had never trusted in God to provide for him, but like every other man he had seen his worth in what he himself could do.
Peters initial response to the call of God was deep, it was a confession from his own deeps, that like the fish caught in that net he needed someone else to give him legs to walk in life in holiness.
Jesus’s response was light, from henceforth you shall catch your fellow man.
Oh how the Church of Jesus Christ needs this refreshing liberty. From henceforth you shall catch your fellowman – honesty about sin but knowing who the Saviour is. Share the goods news with someone this week.
Jesus responded to Peters question concerning whether Jesus had seen that indeed they had done what the rich ruler would not do. Jesus affirms to Peter that he is no mans debtor and that he would indeed catch men, more than they could pull out of that lake in Galilee.
Then Jesus takes the twelve and says unto them, ‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished’.
‘For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon. And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise’.
This seeing of Jesus was not filled with sadness. It was not filled with sadness as he knew that it would open their eyes and understanding in the future to see that the riches of heaven are reserved for all who truly place their confidence in the provided sacrifice. That God himself had made the impossible possible: You are clean, you are sanctified, you are redeemed and set free. Having taken the penalty of sin upon himself.
Now Peter hadn’t seen this coming.
Peter did have an understanding of the prophesied Messiah. It made him respond to his brother Andrews report. But it was not one that foresaw the Cross. Most Jews today who read the scriptures do not understand that David was prophesying about the messiah in Psalm 22.
This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
The teacher, Jesus’s coworker the Holy Spirit, hid this saying from them as its application was more than they could cope with before they could see him ascended at the Fathers right hand side.
But when they could see him at the Fathers right hand side, then, and only then could the Holy Spirit reproduce the teachings of their Lord: Lord, do not hold this sin against them.
And if we wonder why God choose Paul to reveal the hidden mystery, it is contained within that sentence!
Jesus is enroute to Jerusalem with the single motive and inspiration and vision to fulfill everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets.
As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant.
They told him, ‘Jesus of Nazareth is passing by’.
And he cried out, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’
What was this blind beggar seeing as Jesus was passing by with the single intend of fulfilling prophesy?
This blind beggar, was no less than Peter and Paul, he was an appointed vessel, known and prepared by God. This blind beggar was critical, he was vital for Jesus. Jesus needed this blind beggar.
This blind beggar had intuition and instinct, it had not been extinguished by the dimming of his sight but it had been singularized and honed to hear the passing of the true King of Israel. This blind beggar had the same singularization as the teacher passing by, hence, he was the prepared demonstration for all the others to see, and they gave all the praise to God.
Could this blind beggar find a space next to Father Abraham and Lazarus. His cry was for mercy, his cry was for food from his journey unto Jerusalem, he wasn’t asking just for a crumb.
The blind man saw that Jesus of Nazareth was also a Son of David. This blind man was representative of a nation that needed its eyes opened to King Jesus’s route to coronation at the Cross: King of the Jews.
This blind man who couldn’t follow the crowd. A beggar who had others in front of him. He was vital to the whole message and narrative.
Verse 39: This blind man was seeing something. He increased the volume, the crowd were not going to stop his one opportunity.
This beggar was blind, but he could see that the messiah journey to Jerusalem was not a word that would return void.
The beggar had the richest man ever to walk this earth passing by. The question is would heaven pass his cry by & what kind of riches would this beggar actually ask for?
Would he ask for an amount that would keep him in poverty but not require him to beg again until he died? Would he ask for middle income? Or would he ask for excess wealth, to have servants and to build bigger barns?
The beggar asked for none of these things. The beggar asked for ‘recovery’ of sight. This man had gone blind over time. This man was willing to return to work, he wasn’t looking for the welfare state.
Lord, let me recover my sight – Gen Ch 1 v3.
The rich ruler had asked what he must do to inherit eternal life.
The inheritance is Sonship and Sonship honors parents. This rich ruler didn’t understand why he honored his parents. Recovery of sight is Sonship.
Jesus stopped and commanded. This is linked to the commandments the rich ruler had kept. Jesus commanded the beggar and asked him a question? Not what he must do but rather what he could do for him! This is the miracle of Gen Ch 19 and righteous Lot – Imparted righteousness.
The commandment of Jesus asked this man what he wanted and the man asked for a pre fallen state. He was asking for Gen Ch1 v3. He wasn’t wanting to ‘add’ or work his own righteousness. He wanted to see that God has provided himself a sacrifice. He wanted the wonder and worship of Seth, Enoch and Noah the true faith of his fathers. Honoring father and mother – goes right back to the original dominion and the received blessing from God by Adam and Eve.
He wanted the wonder and worship of all having been given by and from God. He wanted the ‘Cool’ breeze to walk with him. This man wanted freedom to love his maker and the one who had given him eyes.
This beggars begging had opened his eyes to the shallowness of riches. As the rich passed by some more generous than others, but this beggar knew the motives of their giving. They all gave to with a mind not to stop his future begging. This beggar didn’t want this kind of blessing, from an unregenerate heart. This beggar was asking for the TRUE KINGDOM & KINDNESS OF GOD – KING DAVID HAVE MERCY ON ME.
This beggars cry made Jesus ‘STOPP” & ‘COMMAND”.
And it was a question to the beggar that brings forth the original tree of life.
The commandment and question of Jesus to a blind beggar drew out the true heart behind/within Gods commandments. Not a negative do not (tree of separation good and evil). But the original liberty of the tree of life. Everlasting and abundant, communion with the everlasting Father.
Jesus needed this beggar.
The commandment of Jesus was a response to a blind beggars Cry.
The commandment of Jesus was a response to a cry, and the cry we learn was for teaching that opened his spiritual eyes.
The New Covenant is recovery of sight.
Jesus of Nazareth was passing by, to fulfill everything that is written about the Son of man by the prophets.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
(Judah the only one listed with his brothers: Psalm 22 v22).
Father of, Father of, Father of – repetition throughout Matthew Ch 1.
Matthew Ch 1 v1 – Father & Son – this is the seedline of God himself, the seedline that makes us righteous. The seedline of God himself. God shall provide himself a sacrifice.
King David purchase the holy ground for the house of God. The holy ground of obedient faith to the Word of God, the very ground Abraham was lead of the Spirit to take his Son to offer as a sacrifice.
Father and Son together: This is the generational blessing, this is the original Dominion, this is Immanuel: Son of man and Son of God. What was impossible with David is possible with God.
We see here how vitally important honoring father and mother is, with all of its connotations for relationships within the Church and the Churches leadership.
Jesus was headed to Jerusalem as King David had it in his heart to build a house of worship for the living God to abide within the praises of his people. A dwelling place for the Lord Most High.
And David had this in his heart as he had understood, the covenant promises to Abraham, that God wanted to bless every nation and family through the Promised Son.
David built upon the same ground as his Father Abraham. And Jesus was headed right there on his final journey upon earth as the Son of man.
Son of David – have mercy on me. The covenant promises given unto David.
2 Samuel Ch 7 v1-29
The king said to Nathan the prophet, ‘See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.
V13-16. A unique promise, not akin to the first king of Israel, but a covenant of steadfast and sure mercy. A promised Son who would build for God that which was in Davids heart.
Solomon was that Son, not born of adultery, but born of repentance that contains a covering love. David had not broken that commandment yet, but God knew the necessity of the prophetic ministry (Nathan) and the requirement for the Son of Man to fulfill all that is written. And only God knows why Jesus specifically reordered the commandment unto the man who ruled and had riches.
Verse 19 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!
David responded to his teacher: through Nathan but personally unto GOD HIMSELF.
And David reveals that all his seeing, had only come through an awareness of all that God himself Sees.
And David saw in the heart of God, the giggle from a tickle. David saw the revelation of the Father through being given a Son. David saw the generation of Jesus Christ, the Promised Seedline of redemption. David saw the original dominion and blessing from God unto his image bearers upon the earth.
David saw the tree of life that it was good to behold, Psalm 1.
David saw that seeing what Noah saw in the eyes of God was grace and that grace is good news for all the nations and every family to be taught.
David saw like Joseph knew that God had meant it all for Good.
David saw in seeing God, that this is instruction / teaching for mankind.
David saw that the love of God was broader than the measure of mens minds and that the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind.
David responds to the history of God unto his brethren, unto his fathers, by affirming Gods truth. David aligned his heart in humble response and worship, to the teachings of Gods very own instructions to mankind.
And if we want to know why God chose David to be the second King of Israel it is contained in that paragraph above!
And now, O Lord, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this ‘GOOD’ thing to your servant.
Jesus ‘STOPPED’ & ‘COMMANDED’. The rich ruler had gone away sad, despite having come to Jesus with a history of commendable behaviour.
King David knew he was a servant and he knew how to receive from the only one who is GOOD.
David affirms that what God says shall surely come to pass.
Who was this beggar, was he not a Spiritual Son of David?
Did not this beggar carry within his heart that which David saw in the eyes of GOD.
Would this beggar be silent when Jesus of Nazareth was passing the walls of Jericho enroute to Jerusalem, where the prophet and friend of God had spoken unto his Son that God himself would provide the sacrifice – paving the way for David generations later.
Jericho – The walls of commandments that block are hearts from loving God again.
The beggar was outside these walls and his cry to Jesus brought forth the commandment of loves liberality – the liberty of the loved – What would you that I do for you? That I might have uncorrupted life – not tainted with lesser loves (adultery).
Recovery of sight is seeing the lamb who was slain before the foundation of the world – access to the tree of life – eternal life the inheritance – despite Gods foreknowledge of the fall (Solomon).
He asked to see Jesus.
Your faith made you well – life in Gods words, faith that works by love.
JESUS STOPPED AND COMMANDED enroute to Calvary. This stopping is the full stop of the New Covenant @ Calvary. The commandments of ordinances written against us where nailed to his cross and I bear them no more – and all the people praise Him.
Jesus stopped the commandments against us due to the tree of good and evil. Jesus gave one commandment, that this man be brought to him and then the teacher asked his student what he would he have him do unto him: Let me recover the original word from the beginning, the word of life and not condemnation, let me receive and respond and be true unto this word of life that is light. Let me recover it as a multiplication, a double portion. Maybe a double portion speaks into a yoke on both shoulders, a mantle of the lamb for all those who would like Peter, cross the Jordan into the marketplace. Surely a double portion has echoes of that mantle from Elijah for ‘everyone’ – the reason revelation was given unto David.
Jesus Son of David have mercy on me.
This blind beggar received the recovery of his sight and all the people praised God, Amen.
This blind beggar is a patriarch unto fallen and sinful men. He honored the fathers of Israel and cried out for the recovery of sight: You alone Oh Lord choose Israel and took them from among the other nations. And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever.
Have mercy on me.
And Jesus stopped the accuser of the brethren (all the brothers of Judah), as forgiveness (as Jospeh demonstrated he had learned from the God who sees all things) is the mercy of God that deals with the condemnation of mens sins of rebellion to the ways of light and love and harmony.
Jesus commanded and Jesus asked him what good thing he could do for him.
Eternal life is an inheritance procured by Jesus at Calvary.
Psalm 22: Jesus enroute to Jerusalem Luke Ch 18 v31-34
My God, My God why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
This Psalm of David is messianic in respect of Jesus – the true King of Israel. And as such it encompasses the history of the people of Israel ‘crying’ out and being delivered by God.
The Cross is the centre and foundation of Israels hope and distinction (the seed of the women that crushes the serpents head – the promised Son offered upon mount Moriah – The foundation of the prophets: These things will be fulfilled).
David as King is writing prophetically of the people of Israel and of the deliverance that comes through the saviour to come. David is akin to Paul in the spirit in Romans Ch 5 defining that through one man grace has come, for all to be delivered from sin/fall. So don’t let these instructions for life to fall on deaf ears- don’t let Jesus pass you by as he hears every cry despite the crowd being against you. And that crowd might be the tide of this world, chasing riches and bound up together through fear of its hatchet men.
Psalm 22 is really concerning deliverance / freedom from sin.
Jesus knew why he had to go to the Cross & he never doubted that his Father answered him. Jesus’s faith in his father was perfect and if Jesus doubted at the Cross it would have made the reproof of sinking on water a mockery!
That does not male the direct quotes from this Psalm an act, while on the cross. But it gets to the heart of why Jesus went to the Cross.
JESUS “CRIED” OUT TO HIS FATHER AT THE CROSS.
Jesus went to the cross for sinful man in full identification of his separation from Father God – under the Judgement of death.
Yet the Cross while prophesied and allowed by God was carried out by the hands and feet of sinful man rejecting the reign of God and Gods Spirit and principles of life.
Death is the absence of God and the full awareness of the fall of man. Sin is part Adamic nature yet its father is Lucifer, as he was the first rebel.
Death is not a state of ceasing to exist it is life without God and the full manifestation of co existing with others who have rejected God. Hence the horror of the Cross is a manifestation of the pit of hell.
Hell is hell due to the people who inhabit it and the torment is the knowledge of why they were created – the worship of God. People who hit others with hammers (piercing his hands and feet) together with people who encouraged laws to drown babies in a river of death – hell will be a place no one wants to be.
Jesus worshipped his Father at the Cross and hence his obedience was perfect. Sin had no dominion over him despite experiencing its full weight and depths.
By faith in what Jesus did at the Cross we are promised life and that life is his life. His life turned the world upside down.
Psalm 22 had to end with verse 31: the coming generation: They shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.
IT IS FINISHED –
The sure mercies of David – a people yet unborn that God keeps his own Covenant. And thank God he has and does and will forevermore as with man it is impossible. Thank God your not God. Imparted righteousness.
That he has done it – to future generations.
The seedline of the generation of Jesus Christ, good news to move the needle that all nations and families might see that all the blessings are yeah and Amen in Jesus Christ Gods only begotten Son.
Blessed is he who does not take away or add to the Words of this book. Church of England do not add post modern philosophy and the tide of the world to the words of this book.
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the Churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright and morning Star.
Come Lord Jesus.
And if we want to know why John the apostle was chosen to pen the last words of the cannon of scripture it is contained in those three words: Come Lord Jesus.
Lord, that I may recover my sight. And we have ‘seen’ his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. For the law, of commandments, was given through Moses, but Jesus stopped and commanded grace and truth through HIMSELF the provided sacrifice.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
And if we want to know why John the apostle was chosen to pen the last words of the cannon of scripture it is contained in these three words: Come Lord Jesus. John akin to the instructions for life, akin to all the prophets who had gone before and the apostles creed and the patriarchs, the Fathers of the faith, the Puritans and Pilgrim Fathers. John responded akin to King David and asked that God himself would fulfill his own Word: JESUS who saves his people from their sins.
Let me recover my sight – And God said ‘Let there be light and there was light’.
Note:
This post has come from the Spirit of last Sunday morning and has greatly encouraged me to be in harmony. Pauls prayers where that the Lord would give his disciples sight of Spiritual things in heavenly places. God answered his Sons cry at Calvary: It is Finished. Conscious of prayers that have carried me through.
We have a cleaner from Bolivia who cleans for my mum. She is a extended relative of the President of Bolivia who opened up Bolivia unto the gospel, and in that I see the instructions for all mankind – the covenant blessings of God. Both her daughters having a love for the Lord.
She, without fail, every time she comes, she only listens to one CD every time. I stopped as I passed through the kitchen to listen to the words being sung at that very moment on Friday morning: A beggar in bondage and alone – his ‘mercy’ has made me his own.
Unworthy am I of the grace that he gave – unworthy to hold to his hand. Amazed that a King would reach down to a slave, this love I could not understand.
That’s not an apology. I’m to capable of a repeat. But Gods Grace pulls me through day by day, Amen.
eternalrays 