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Default Re: The Function of the Poor in a Christian World - 11-23-2019, 11:58 AM

Sometimes wretches suffer indignity not because they sinned in a previous life

John 9:1-3 As Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

but for a lesson to be made clear. This is not a boy born blind or a youth but an adult. Allowing for an age around that of Jesus we'd have 3 or 4 decades of indignity, a little charity, perhaps some teasing, a dog bite or two; who knows? He was made blind to suffer for a reason, so that others would see the works of God. One such group was the Pharisees. They interrogated this wretched (but now sighted) man and decided — GET THIS — that Jesus was a sinner. Wow!

Their conclusion was that Jesus should be murdered. The man himself didn't mince words and didn't proclaim Christ. The message was not for him: it was for others. The man did express surprise that the Pharisees would have questions at all under the circumstances but they doubled down, contradicting Jesus outright

John 9:34 [The Pharisees] answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sinsv.s. and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

This man was not rich. Yet his life thitherto was not without function. He was poor, blind, wretched and forlorn. All alone in darkness so that others (except the Pharisees) would see how fantastic Christ Jesus really was. And still is. Today.
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