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Exhortation
John 10:2-5
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We are our names:
“making a name for ourselves” “clearing our names” “giving us a bad name”
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Exhortation John 10:2-5 1 We are our names: making a name for ourselves clearing our names giving us a bad name 2 When people know our names, we feel appreciated. 3 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd
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When people know our names, we feel appreciated.
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The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. John 10:2 - 3a
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He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes
- n ahead of them, and his sheep
follow him because they know his voice. John 10:3b - 4
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But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice. John 10:5
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He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes
- n ahead of them, and his sheep
follow him because they know his voice. John 10:3b - 4
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This “name” is not your personal name.
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Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them. John 10:6
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As he went along, [Jesus] saw a man blind from birth … “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” … So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. John 9:1-7
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- 1. The neighbors told the Pharisees:
His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?” John 9:9
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- 2. The man told the Pharisees:
Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.” John 9:15
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- 3. The parents told the Pharisees:
“ We know he is our son,” the parents
answered, “and we know he was born blind.” John 9:20
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The Pharisees are not trying to find out the truth. They ignore 3 sets of witnesses:
- 1. Neighbours
- 2. The man himself
- 3. The man’s parents
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Who is really blind? The Pharisees
- r the man?
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[The man said,] “If this [Jesus] were not from God, he could do nothing.” John 9:33
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[The Pharisees said,]
“You were steeped in sin at birth;
how dare you lecture us!" And they threw him out. John 9:34
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The ‘Moral’ of the Story Jesus: “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.” John 9:39
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Will you say with the blind man: “I can’t see! Jesus help me to see!”
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Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?” John 9:40
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It is because of the Pharisees’ wilful blindness that Jesus says: “He calls his own sheep by name … and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.” (John 10:3 – 4)
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The name that Jesus calls us is ‘blind’
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Do you accept the name ‘blind’, and run to your shepherd?
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When you accept the name ‘blind’ … … you will begin to see.
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When you accept the name ‘blind’ … … you will also see people with disabilities in the same way that Jesus sees them.
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Hence, we proudly call every person with disability ‘brother’ and ‘sister’
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It was not that this man sinned,
- r his parents, but that the works
- f God might be displayed in him.
John 9:3
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We include every person with disability so that God’s glory can shine in our churches.
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When we exclude people with disabilities, we become a disabled church.
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Disability is not sin.
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Disability is not sin. But God does use disability to remind us that we are fallen & limited.
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I was once lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.
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