Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.
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So our 23rd president, 23rd president of the United States is a man named Warren G. Harding. He was president, sorry, 29th president of the United States. It was Warren G. Harding, president from 1921 to 1923. And apparently Warren G. Harding was a decent human being. but at the same time in the years since he's since he was president he has been consistently on the list of worst presidents that we've ever had and and apparently Warren G. Harding even thought this about himself there's a quote that he he said about himself he said I am not fit for this office and never should have been here so how did Warren G. Harding get elected if he wasn't fit for the office. He wasn't competent for the office. And even he said, I'm not competent for the office. How did he get elected? So Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book about the, well, he wrote a book a number of years ago called Blink. And in it, he tells the story. And this is his perspective. …
encounter that Jesus has with the man born blind and with the authorities because of His healing of the man, we see the radically different responses between them. The man who had been healed first came to the conclusion that Jesus was the prophet. Now he recognizes that he's more than the prophet, that he's the Son of God, and he bows in worship before Jesus. And it's significant for our understanding of the person of Christ that Jesus accepts worship from Him, which no one who would be merely a prophet and an apostle would dare do in the economy of the kingdom of God. Remember when those people sought to worship Paul and Barnabas thinking that they were divine, they were rebuked. Those angels who were worshiped by human beings rebuked the people because worship belongs only to God. And now when this man who sees Christ, who before had only heard His voice, now falls down and worships Him, Jesus accepts that worship and compliments the man. …
3. Thing, viz. the principal outward means, which the Spirit of God makes use of in this work of convincing men of their desert of hell. And that is the law. The Spirit of God in all his work upon the souls of men, works by his word. And in this whole work of conviction of sin, that part of the word is principally made use of; viz. the Law. It is the law which makes men sensible of their sin; and it is the law, attended with its awful threatenings and curses, which gives a sense of the awful greatness, the authority, the power, the jealousy of God. Wicked men are made sensible of the tremendous greatness of God, as it were, in the same manner in which the children of Israel were; viz. by the thunders, and earthquake, and devouring fire, and sound of the trumpet, and terrible voice at mount Sinai. All the people who were in the camp trembled, and they said, Let not God speak with us, lest we die. So that it is the law, which God makes use of in assisting the natural conscience to do its work. Gal. iii. 24. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.” It is the law which God makes use of, to make men sensible of their guilt, and to stop their mouths. Rom. iii. 19. “Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it saith to them that are tinder the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” It is the law, which kills men as to trusting in their own righteousness. Romans 7:9.“For I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.” Gal. ii. 19. “For I through the law am dead to the law.” Conviction, which precedes conversion, is of sin and misery. But men are not thoroughly sensible of their sin or guilt, till they are sensible they deserve hell; nor thoroughly sensible of their misery, till they are sensible they are helpless. …