DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS

The call to follow Jesus is a call to action.

• When you look at Jesus’ ministry, you’ll notice that He was very hands-on.
• Let’s focus on a moment when Jesus stopped what He was doing to help a man who was in pain.
• This event takes place late in Jesus’ ministry, roughly six months before his crucifixion.
• It was clear there was a lot of tension and hostility toward Jesus at that time.
• John 9:1-9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2“Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?” 3 “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. 4 We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work. 5 But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”

  6 Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes. 7 He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!

  8 His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”