John 9:30-34, The Man Answers

30 The man answered, "Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." 34 They answered him, "You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?" And they cast him out.

You do have to love the honesty of this man. The Pharisees are not going to intimidate him as they did his parents into denying Jesus. He has experienced the hands-on healing of Jesus. His healing is real and can only be explained by being an act of God.

Instead of embracing a true healing that happened on the Sabbath, the Pharisees keep attempting to deny it because it happened on the Sabbath. The one who was blind has seen God face to face and believes while the ones who have always seen are blind to God when he appears to them in the flesh. They do not recognize his face as the face of God because Jesus does not fit their preconceived notions of God. Frustrated and infuriated by the man’s unflappable faith, they excommunicate him from the synagogue, accusing him of being steeped in sin from birth.

Have you ever thought about how some Christian churches forget they are a hospital for sinners and instead pretend to be a holy gathering place of the seemingly perfect? Consider your church and how you act toward others, and then take your thoughts to the Lord in prayer.