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“He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and anointed the eyes of the man with the clay. And He said to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool.’ So he went and washed, and came back seeing.” (John 9:7)
Families have their own ways of doing things. They are called family traditions. God has ways of doing things, but they do not usually become traditions because He is always changing the way He does things.
I. Unusual Methods.
God has always used unusual methods of doing things. He does not think they way we do or do things the way we would do them. We see this clearly in the healing of this man born blind. A few years after Pentecost at a church convention two men began to discuss how Jesus healed their blindness. One said, “Isn’t it wonderful how Jesus makes mud out of His spit and dirt, anoints us with the mud, they go and wash, and they are healed.” The other man replied, “Well, He does not heal blind people that way at all. He simply spoke and I was healed.” The discussion was so heated they made two denominations: the Mudites and the Anti-Mudites. You never know how God may heal or deliver you. He is God and He chooses the methods He uses to do it.
We see this all the way through the O.T. The most glaring example of this is Naaman. He had the fatal disease of leprosy and the prophet told him to go dip seven times in the dirty Jordan River. He reasoned and refused to do what the Lord had said. But His servants said to him, “`If he had told you to do something great, would you not have done it?” So he went and dipped seven times in the Jordan, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean.” (2Kings 5:9-15)
God always does these unusual things by speaking them. All God’s works are voice-activated, and He uses our voices. They are what we call prophetic words, “Thus says the Lord…” is a phrase used hundreds of times in the Old Testament. That’s how God did things, by speaking them through people.
Did you ever notice that Jesus healed a lot of people but never prayed for anyone to be healed? He just spoke a word to them and it was almost always something for them to do. “Go, show yourselves to the priests… And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.” (Lk.17:14) He told the man with the withered hand to stretch forth that hand (the very thing he couldn’t do) and when he did it was healed (Mt.12:13). He told the lame man, “Arise, take up your bed and go to your house. And he arose (the very thing he couldn’t do) and departed to his house.” (Mt.9:7) Jesus said to Peter, “Come,” and he walked on the water (Mt.14:29). “Jesus rebuked the devil and it came out of him, and the child was cured.” (Mt.17:18) Those are only a few from the one book of Matthew. Here we have an example of this in the book of John.
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