We can't be like the pharisees

Joh 9:26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
Joh 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
Joh 9:28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
Joh 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
Joh 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Joh 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Joh 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
Joh 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
Joh 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.


Over a thousand and then some years removed from Moses and the Pharisees uttered these words- 'We know that God spake unto Moses' How did they know except by believing in history, believing in things taught to them? They didn't witness first hand God speaking to Moses, they believed because they were taught to believe. They believed their forefathers and accepted Moses law as a law from God and why not, history related the many miracles wrought by God though Moses. Miracles. Those in Moses day didn't readily believe He was from God either, did they? At first they did, when they thought He was going to miraculously set them free, but then Moses, following God's orders went to Pharoah and Pharoah was angry making the people's work harder than ever at which point this was said--


Exo 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Exo 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exo 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
Exo 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.


They hearkened NOT.

Exo 10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
Exo 10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.


Moses came with many signs, many miracles were wrought and the people of Israel believed finally but at first they did what... they hearkened NOT unto Moses. The Pharisees in Jesus' day were confronted with miracles unexplainable miracles, miracles that surely had to be from God because like the blind man said-- Joh 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. Joh 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.


This wasn't a sign that a magician could work in any way at all under any pretense. Healing flesh, making eyes for a man born blind to see from. This was of God! Yet the Pharisees just as Pharaoh hardened their hearts to God. This time the Pharisees held fast to the fact they were believers of Moses and therefore would not change their ways to believe any other. Even though the books (scrolls) they took their history from revealed a 'Messiah' to come. They wanted the Messiah to be their IDEA of a Messiah, another Moses that would work signs and wonders to free them from Roman bondage, they didn't want a Messiah who was going to free them from their sin bondage.


Today many don't believe in Jesus Christ as a personal, real Savior. He's a fable of old, he's explained away with natural phenomena, as people have done to Moses. Jesus Christ isn't here on earth today but in heaven on our behalf preparing for us. He wants to live in us, the Holy Spirit was sent by Him to us to live in us. We can't be like the Pharisees who held fast to a past. We have to be like the blind man who believed. Our spiritual sight can be returned to us by the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Lord of all, Creator of all now and forever! By His Will.


Amen.