Expository Thoughts (continued)
result is one of the worst states of soul into which man can fall. There is far more hope about him who says, "I am a poor blind sinner and want God to teach me," than about him who is ever saying, "I know it, I know it, I am not ignorant," and yet cleaves to his sins. The sin of that man "remains."
Let us use diligently whatever religious knowledge we possess, and ask continually that God would give us more. Let us never forget that the devil himself is a creature of vast head-knowledge, and yet none the better for it, because it is not rightly used. Let our constant prayer be that which David so often sent up in the hundred and nineteenth Psalm. "Lord, teach me your statutes give me understanding—unite my heart to fear Your name."
Technical Notes:
26. Then they said to him again, What did he do to you?
How did he open your eyes? 27. He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not listen. Why would ye hear it again? Will ye also be his disciples? 28. Then they reviled him and said, You are his disciple, but we are Moses' disciples. 29. We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where he is from. 30. The man answered and said to them, Why here is a marvelous thing, that ye do not know where he is from; and yet he has opened my eyes! 31. Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if any man is a worshiper of God and does his will, him he hears. 32. Since the world began it was not