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Jesus therefore said to them (Pharisees) again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.”
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Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees who had just witnessed a man who had been born blind as he was healed miraculously and received his sight. Those same religious leaders, so very proud of their high positions, proclaimed that Jesus was a sinner {Jn.9:24} because He had healed him on the Sabbath. {Jn.9:14} to which the now sighted man responded, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.” {Jn.9:25}

Just before while he was not able to see, he had heard what Jesus had told him to do and then he indeed did what Jesus had told him to do. He heard and obeyed and was totally and completely set free of that blindness that had restricted his entire life up until that day! Faith comes by hearing, not by seeing, {Rom.10:17} the results come from obeying. The prophets have brought the proclamation of the Word which brings faith, but it is the application of the Word, living the Word, that brings God’s desire for us.

The issue and controversy now arose because those ‘religious leaders’ had surely come to think that they controlled access to God and to the things of God. Their pride and the very idea that somebody could be touched by God without them would be at the core of their hatred, rejection, and ultimately their persecution of the Lord. But not before harassing and threatening the man who had been born blind!

They literally put him on trial. Here is a little bit of the transcript from that trial starting with the accusation of the Pharisees charging that Jesus was a sinner eliciting testimony from the accused, the man now healed: “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see. If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.” {Jn.9:25,33}

They answered and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they put him out! It is probably worthy of note that just prior to this Jesus had left the temple because of His rejection by the Jews who wanted to stone Him for what He was teaching. So, He sent them a man to teach them who till then had been a blind beggar who was not even allowed in the temple and had never even seen a Scripture verse!

Jesus heard that they had put the man He had healed out; and finding him, He said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man? He answered and said, and who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him? Jesus said to him, You have both seen Him, and He is the one who is talking with you. And he said, ‘Lord, I believe.’ And he worshiped Him {Jn.9:33-38} and entered into the Kingdom of God through ‘The Door!’ {Jn.10:9}

“But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.” (James 1:22-25)

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