Experiencing God Through the Holy Spirit
God gave us authority and power to fulfill the great commission. He gave us the Holy Spirit and His gifts to represent God.
John 9 - The blind beggar did not ask Jesus to heal him. Jesus found him. Jesus spit on the ground and wiped the mud on his eyes. The blind man let Jesus wipe the mud on his eyes. Something in him allowed Jesus to help him. Was he desperate? Was it humility?
Jesus said that people get sick so that God can be glorified in the healing.
Jesus tells the blind beggar to go wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam. This pool was used to supply the city’s water in the event of war or natural disaster. The man did as he was told and came back able to see. He had an experience with God and was healed.
His neighbors did not recognize him. The beggar told his neighbors who he was and that the man called Jesus did this to him. He had a revelation of Jesus as a man. They asked him where Jesus was, but he did not know. His friends took him to see the Pharisees. Jesus had healed the blind beggar on the Sabbath. Once again, the Pharisees could not see God’s power through their own religious knowledge. They decided that this could not be the work of God, because it was done on the Sabbath.
The Pharisees were locked into the knowledge of God, but their brains could not comprehend the true spirit of God. Their knowledge got in the way of the truth. Believing that God is real is not the same as believing in the power of the name of God. The devil knows that God exists. Knowledge alone cannot save you.
The blind beggar replied to the Pharisees that he thought Jesus was a prophet. The blind beggar had progressed in his revelation of Jesus from a man to a prophet.
His friends and the Pharisees did not believe the beggar’s story at face value. Now, his parents get questioned. They chose not to take the difficult side and stand in the truth, but to say that they were not sure who healed their son. They were scared of being rejected, so they sold out their son.
Don’t let what you believe or what you think get in the way of your experience with God.
This is happening all over the world. Tradition and theology have been combined to the point that having an experience with God is suppressed for the sake of comfort. People are using “religion” to hide from God’s true calling on their lives.
God tells us that He loves us, but also provides a way to show us that He loves us. He gives us the Holy Spirit so that we can connect with God on a physical level.
The blind beggar had been abandoned by his friends, church, and family….but…Jesus found the blind beggar again and asked him to believe in the Son of God. The man got the revelation of Jesus the Son of God and bowed to Jesus. The blind beggar’s revelation of Jesus had progressed from Jesus the man, to Jesus the prophet, to Jesus the Son of God. The blind beggar allowed his experience with God to develop in his heart despite what his own head, friends, church, and family had told him.
