【读圣经学英语】你信入神的儿子么？

那瞎子信入了耶稣是神的儿子。（约九35～38。）他因着一种含糊的相信而得着视力。他相信了，但不清楚。他很单纯天真。他相信了，却不真知道耶稣是谁。他很天真的信入了。虽然他不十分清楚耶稣是谁，他却相信耶稣是个特殊的人，并且为此和法利赛人争论。至终，法利赛人将他赶出去了。后来主耶稣遇见他，就说，『你信入神的儿子吗？』（约九35。）那瞎子回答说， 『主阿，谁是神的儿子，叫我信入祂？』（约九36。）他相信了，但他不认识主耶稣。于是主对他说，『你已经看见祂，这和你说话的就是祂。』（约九37。）那瞎子就宣告说，『主阿，我信。』就拜耶稣。（约九38。）他相信这人耶稣是神的儿子。因此，那瞎子不但得着了视力，他自己也被主耶稣接纳了。

这意思就是：主是牧人，进了羊圈，看到了一只瞎眼的小羊，就开了他的眼睛，然后带他从羊圈中出来。就一面说，这羊被赶出去了；就另一面说，是主将他带出来。法利赛人将他赶出来，但主耶稣将他带出来。主不是带他从地狱中出来，乃是带他从羊圈中出来。我们在下一篇信息中会看见更多，羊圈是犹太教，就是守律法的宗教。那个瞎子，就像五章廊下那些瞎眼和瘸腿的人一样，是在守律法的廊子里。然后主耶稣来了，祂不只是生命，而且是牧人，将他带出了羊圈。

主是主宰一切的。我们很多人从前都在宗教的羊圈中，或许你正是其中一个瘸腿的人。我们都在那廊子下。我们为主耶稣的主宰权柄感谢祂。主来作生命，医治我们的瞎眼；也来作牧人，带领我们出羊圈。

Enlightenment:

The blind man came to believe in Jesus as the Son of God (9:35-38). The blind man received his sight by a kind of obscure believing. He believed, but he was not clear. He was simply innocent. He believed without really knowing who Jesus was. He believed in an innocent way. Although he did not know adequately who Jesus was, he did believe that Jesus was someone special and he argued about this with the Pharisees. Eventually, the Pharisees cast him out. Then, the Lord Jesus found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” (9:35). The blind man replied, “And who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?” (9:36). He believed, yet he did not know the Lord Jesus. Then the Lord said to him, “You have both seen Him, and He is the One who is speaking with you” (9:37). Then the blind man declared, “Lord I believe. And he worshipped Him” (9:38). He believed that the man Jesus is the Son of God. Thus, the blind man not only received his sight, but he himself was received by the Lord Jesus.

This means that the Lord, as the shepherd, entered the sheepfold, saw a little, blind sheep, opened his eyes, and then led that sheep out of the sheepfold. In one sense, the sheep was cast out; in another sense, the Lord led him out. The Pharisees cast him out, but the Lord Jesus carried him out. The Lord did not carry him out of hell but out of the sheepfold. As we shall see more in the next message, the sheepfold was Judaism, the law-keeping religion. The blind man, like the blind and lame people on the porches in chapter five, was kept on the law-keeping porch. Then the Lord Jesus came, not only as life, but also as the shepherd, to lead him out of the fold.

The Lord is sovereign. Many of us were in the fold of religion. Perhaps you were there as one who was lame. We all were on that porch. Thank the Lord Jesus for His sovereignty. He came as life to heal our blind eyes and as the shepherd to lead us out of the fold.