It is not complicated

John 9:25-27 He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.” 26 Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?” 27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”

The entire ninth chapter of the gospel of John is about the simplicity found in pointing people to Jesus; the Bible has the simplicity of God’s redemptive story for a broken creation found throughout it, from the Old Testament to the New, in pointing people to Jesus. We can get so led astray in doctrinal woes, so led astray in religions laws, so led astray in trying to accomplish a false salvation by any means of our own works; we complicate the simplicity found in Jesus alone. In this chapter of John’s gospel, the Pharisees ask the one healed, and his parents at least five times who and how he was healed. They begin to point out the breaking of the Sabbath Law and begin to accuse the One who laid the law on Moses’ heart to begin with. All the laws that they failed in following, pointed to the need in their failure for a Savior; and now He walked among them while they accused him of being even an angel of Satan. Their pride condemned them; they viewed themselves righteous to perfection, and their pride condemned them eternally, if they did not recognize their sin of it, and repent and believe in Jesus alone.

You life is simple: You live in sin before Christ, you repent of sin to Christ, you live as disciple for Christ. Your testimony of the power of God through that transformation is the life you lead as his disciple until you die. All through the New Testament is how people are drawn to Jesus; they are drawn because God draws them first, and they respond to that tug. Somewhere deep in your heart, you recognize your need for Jesus; you either spend your life denying it, or you respond to in and let him become your Savior and Lord. John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” I promise you there is a freedom in Jesus Christ; you will know when you are truly saved, and you will not be able to contain what you now possess in him. You will have no problem in changing your life to live sacrificially for him as his disciple. All throughout John’s gospel is the word abide; a state of being in Christ, and those that are truly in Christ produce heavenly fruit because they seek to be in God’s will each and every day.

Preachers and teachers just really point you to the need for Jesus, point to your need to become a disciple if they are teaching truth. Becoming a disciple is through a work of the sanctification of God for the rest of your life. It begins by spending daily time with him in prayer and his Word. If you are not doing that, are you really a Christian in his eyes? If you abide in him, you are living your life for him, and you do that daily. If you are not, in your heart you likely still question your salvation. You know the answer just as the blind man; “I don’t know the how, but I know the Who!” The simplicity of Jesus is living your life for the one who died to give you life. The simplicity is found in the heart that truly seeks him each and every, single, day. Everything you need in life, every question answered, lies in a humble heart seeking to abide in Jesus through prayer and his Word every day. It is not complicated…..