{"id":2010,"date":"2013-08-04T00:08:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2013-07-31T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T10:41:57","slug":"sunday-brunch-would-you-follow-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/sunday-brunch-would-you-follow-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch – Would You Follow Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesus healed the sick, he made the blind see and he made the lame walk. Let’s pretend that you were born during Biblical times, if you were alive back then, and you witnessed Jesus doing his miracles, would you believe? Would you accept Him as your Savior?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll be honest, if\u00a0 I were living during Biblical times, I’m not sure if I would believe if people told me about Jesus. I could imagine myself being skeptical, thinking that people were exaggerating about Jesus’s healings. However, seeing is believing. If I actually saw somebody being healed, I would believe. I could also imagine myself believing if I encountered the blind man (or somebody like this) described in John 9 (quoted below). If I’d seen this man, blind since birth, before his healing, and then encountered him after he’d been healed…well, I’d be stunned, shocked, and then I’d fall on my knees, praising my Savior!<\/p>\n

So, if you were alive while Jesus walked on this earth as a man, would you have accepted Him as your Savior? Would you believe?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind<\/h3>\n

John 9:1-12 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2\u00a0<\/sup>His disciples asked him, \u201cRabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

3\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cNeither this man nor his parents sinned,\u201d said Jesus, \u201cbut this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4\u00a0<\/sup>As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5\u00a0<\/sup>While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

6\u00a0<\/sup>After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man\u2019s eyes. 7\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cGo,\u201d he told him, \u201cwash in the Pool of Siloam\u201d (this word means \u201cSent\u201d). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

8\u00a0<\/sup>His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, \u201cIsn\u2019t this the same man who used to sit and beg?\u201d 9\u00a0<\/sup>Some claimed that he was.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Others said, \u201cNo, he only looks like him.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

But he himself insisted, \u201cI am the man.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

10\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cHow then were your eyes opened?\u201d they asked.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

11\u00a0<\/sup>He replied, \u201cThe man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

12\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cWhere is this man?\u201d they asked him.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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