November 10

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/3157S1110.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1324 Download Link --> <p>John 9:1-10:21 We are in the Christ Stream reading from the Modern English Version. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <div>Lord Jesus, we pray as the disciples did, "increase our faith."  We want to know you more, trust you more, understand you more, be with you more.  Amen.</div> <p>9 - This is one of Jesus' most famous healings. He restores a blind man's sight.  When the issue of "who sinned?" arises. Jesus uses language that basically implies we should stop assessing and categorizing people in our ministries and just meet needs.  Jesus heals this man and heeeeere goes - let the squabbles begin.  The Pharisees are beside themselves.  Jesus set it up this way.  He wants the man healed and He also wants the people to know for certain that the Scribes, Pharisees, teachers of the Law and Sanhedrin do not care about peoples' welfare. They only want to control people.  Their healings, their joy, their stories, their needs are of no concern to the leaders.  The testy discussion that ensues is legal madness.  They don't even know what it is that they want to know.  Notice that every question and statement that the leaders ask of the healed man, his parents, and of Jesus is a fruitless and absurd inquiry.  Think of it: they want people to come to Temple.  But once they get all their circular questions answered about the healed man, they throw him OUT of the Temple!  His healing is of no joy to them. The men are spiritually demented ... and yet they are in charge.  It's not right. Jesus  has more dialogue in this venue wherein spiritual blindness is discussed and proven.  "It's a wrap" on another perfect teaching moment that merely authenticates [through healing] that Jesus is in t