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The important thing is that we are part of a large family that is learning more about the Word of God and the Sabbath school lesson. I want to bring you two thoughts today. The first of them is one that I should have talked about yesterday, but I didn't have time.
So I'm going to talk today. It is that moment when the Jews call the blind man's parents and they are now going to interrogate him. And there's something interesting.
Let me see here. Look, if I find for you this part that says so in the verse, verse 18. The Jews did not believe that he was blind, that he could now see, until his parents called him and questioned them.
Is this your son, of whom you say that Born blind? How do you see now? Then the parents replied: We know that this is our son and that he was born blind, but we don't know how he sees now or who opened his eyes.
Ask him how old he is, he will tell himself. I found this interrogation interesting, because the parents knew what had happened. But they didn't want to talk.
Why? Because if they declare and testify about Jesus, they are expelled and will no longer be able to enter the temple. So, to save face, to be accepted by the Jewish leaders, they simply exempt themselves from the person of Jesus.
Sometimes we do the same thing. Sometimes to be accepted into the college classroom, sometimes to be accepted into the family. Do the people in that mess know what it's like?
We hide the name of Jesus. We hide that. .
. Are you a believer? No, it's not that I'm a believer.
Every now and then, I go to church. You know how it is. .
. We hide who Jesus is . And what's the reason?
Oh, no, because it's to average with my teacher. It's so I don't look bad in front of my friends. Hey, let's wake up to life.
How can I be ashamed of who Jesus is? How can I be ashamed of having testified and intensifying Jesus at some point I might miss something? Perhaps.
But I have to be clear in my mind that if there is one thing I cannot do, it is deny Jesus and who He is for me. No way! Even if I lose something.
Losing cannot be the motivator to deny Jesus. I will say more from now on, we will increasingly have to take a stand and our position will eventually bring us consequences. And we have to be aware that we will have these consequences, but that we will remain firm at the Lord's side.
It is fine? That's one thought and the other is this. I don't know if there will be time today.
Opening here my comment by Hernandes Dias Lopes on page 270 about this episode with the blind man. He says it like this: In the beginning there was just one man, Jesus. It's verse 9:11.
Then the blind man considered Him a prophet, then admitted that Jesus was a miracle worker. Then he advanced to the understanding that he was a man of God. This in verse 9:33.
Then he believed in Him as the Son of man and finally worshiped Him as Lord, in verse 9:38. I find this very interesting, because he was blind. He heard the voice of someone who gave some instructions and he now started to listen, he started to see.
So then, who is this? No, it's Jesus. Who is Jesus?
Wow, it worked a miracle. Who is this name? He's a great master.
And he went deeper into his knowledge, until he came to the conclusion that Jesus was God himself. It's like that in our spiritual life too. The more I dig, the more I seek, the more I am interested, The more I study, the more I understand who Jesus is.
Not simply a historical figure, but someone who makes a difference in my life. So here I see the spiritual progression in a person's life, the understanding of who God was. And I would like to invite you to do this kind of thinking, this kind of searching, this kind of growth in understanding who God is.
May this happen every morning, every day of your life. Let's go deeper and learn more about God.
