“Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.”
Luke 7:22
There is often an order of His work in us: “the blind see” followed by the “lame walk” and the “lepers are cleansed.” Our new life is accompanied by Him giving us spiritual vision. The essential result of being “born again” is that we “see the Kingdom of God.”
The Work of Jesus – The Blind See
VISION
“Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:3
Through the regenerative work of God, we are afforded vision. In its early stages, it is an embryonic understanding like that of Jacob of old, who declared:
“Surely the LORD is in this place;
and I knew it not”
Genesis 28:16
In this place, our entire view of the world is shaken by the realization that He is near and has promises and purposes for us. Just as Jacob, we are introduced to a walk and a journey with Him.
Through the “born again” experience, we SEE the Kingdom of God and our walk and life in this world are radically changed. This experience does not come by reciting a phrase or formula; it is the reception of His Life into our own.
“Whoever has the Son has life;
whoever does not have the Son of God
does not have life.”
1 John 5:12
“Beware of resting in the word of the Kingdom, without the spirit and power of the Kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the Kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.”
– John Bunyan
“For the kingdom of God is not in word,
but in power.”
1 Corinthians 4:20
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Brian Troxel
