![]() So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them. So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.” They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. So he went and washed and came back seeing. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day night is coming, when no one can work. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. Amen.Īs he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ![]() May we be faithful to tell others that you are the one and only Savior of the world. Lord Jesus, as the Father sent you, you now send us to every nation with the Good News. The Father sent the Son, and the Son finished the work the Father sent him to do. Shall the one who laid the cornerstone of the universe be unable to provide salvation for his people? It is impossible. We are going to heaven because Christ our Apostle did not fail in his holy mission of redemption. He completed the work the Father sent him to do. We may have the means but not the power or the opposition may be too great.īut Jesus was the Great Finisher. Sometimes the project fails because of lack of knowledge. We all know of grand human projects that never came to fruition. He was sent with all the prerogatives of deity clothed in human flesh. He was sent to be the Savior of the world. See how perfectly Christ fits this description. ![]() You must be sent with sufficient power to accomplish the mission. ![]() You must be sent on a particular mission.ģ. ![]() When Charles Spear wrote on this title, he said that the word “apostle” implies three things:Ģ. ![]()
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