What is it in Jesus?

Some of the miracles.

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Welcome to our Lent podcast.

Good morning.

My name is Justin Ireland on our Mandarin campus team. This Lent season, we are working through some of the miracles that Jesus shared with us across the gospel accounts.

We are looking at how each of these miracles points us to the greatest of all the miracles, which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

The miracle we're focused on today is found in Matthew 9, 27 through 31, which highlights

the faith of two blind men.

So, picking up in verse 27, and as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed

him, crying aloud, have mercy on us, son of David. When he entered the house,

the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, do you believe that I am able to do this?

They said to him, yes, Lord. Then he touched their eyes, saying, according to your faith, be it done to you.

And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned

them, see that no one knows about it, but they went away and spread his fame through all that district.

What miracle do we see from this encounter? We see blind men whose practiced and professed faith in Jesus as Messiah, as Savior,

stirs Jesus to restore sight, the ultimate miracle being the power of a solidified faith in Jesus

and proclamation of a God that engages his people in their need. We see Jesus moving from one place of performing

miracles onto the next, miracle after miracle. And in this moment, we find two men, blind, yet following

Jesus. We could ascertain that the commotion around Jesus had carried on from one miracle to the next,

and only by listening to the people, it was easier for these blind men to find Jesus.

They couldn't see Jesus, nor Jesus' miracles of others, so they believed based on the testimony of others,

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