Matthew 9:27 says, And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.  Having raised the maid from the dead, Jesus did not stay around for the praise of the people, but continued on His way.  When Jesus saves us today, He does not expect us to simply stay where we are and praise Him, but He expects us to go out into the world and share the gospel.  Yes, we should praise Jesus continually as we go about life, but we cannot just withdraw from the world to do so.  Two blind men were following Jesus.  When anyone comes to Jesus by faith in His gift of salvation, they come to Him spiritually blind.  Verse twenty-eight says, And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.  We are not told what house Jesus came into, but there He spoke to the blind men who had followed Him.  Jesus asked them if they believed that He could restore their sight.  That is the question that we must ask ourselves today when we come to Jesus.  Can Jesus, and Jesus alone, restore our spiritual sight and give us everlasting life?  These two blind men said that they believed that Jesus could give them their physical sight.  Verse twenty-nine states, Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.  This does not say that Jesus touched their eyes and they immediately had their vision restored.  We are told Jesus touched their eyes and told them that according to their faith that it would be unto them.  It is not enough to just have Jesus touch us, but we must have faith in His ability to restore us to a right relationship with the heavenly Father.  Verse thirty states, And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.  When they could see, Jesus told them not to tell anyone how they had their vision restored.  Again, I believe that this was because Jesus did not want people following Him simply for His ability to heal people physically.  Jesus came to offer spiritual healing to all people for all time, if they only put their faith in Him.  Verse thirty-one says, But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.  The two who had their sight restored could not keep quiet, even though Jesus had told them to.  We today have the opposite command, and that is to spread God's word into all the world, yet we often remain silent.  Verse thirty-two says, As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.  This dumb man, which I know is no longer a politically correct way to describe a person, was brought to Jesus.  Not only could this man not speak, but it says he was possessed with the devil.  Sometimes people came to Jesus on their own, and sometimes they were led to Jesus by others, but either way they came to personal encounter with Jesus.  Even if we lead someone to Jesus today, they must accept Him by a personal acceptance of Who He is.  Verse thirty-three states, And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. When Jesus cast out the devil the man could speak.  When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord today, He casts out the devil from us and we can truly speak for Him for the first time.  We cannot really witness for Jesus until we have a personal relationship with Him and He has cleansed us of our sins.  Verse thirty-four declares, But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.  The people marvelled, but the Pharisees attempted to discredit Jesus.  The said Jesus was casting out devils by the power of the devil.  It is really sad that some of the most devout men around Jesus could not recognize Who He really is.  Jesus was the long awaited Messiah of the Jewish people, but those who claimed to be the best of the Jews religiously did not recognize Him.  Verse thirty-five says, And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.  Though His primary purpose wasn't to heal people physically, Jesus did so as He taught and preached about the kingdom of God in their synagogues and in the surrounding areas.  We must remember that Jesus came first to save the Jewish people, those who were identified as God's people, so He naturally would have gone to the synagogue to teach.  He also came to save the Gentiles, so He taught and preached outside the synagogue as well.  Likewise, we should teach and preach in the church building, but we should also teach and preach wherever we go. Verse thirty-six says, But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.  Jesus had compassion on the multitudes of people, because they fainted and were like sheep without a shepherd.  Anyone today who does not have Jesus as there Savior and Lord is like a sheep without a shepherd, having no one to guide and protect them.  Verse thirty-seven states, Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;  Jesus said that the harvest was plentiful, but the laborers were few.  This is even more true today, so as followers of Christ we must be at work to reach the lost, the harvest of souls in need of salvation.  Verse thirty-eight declares, Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.  Jesus tells us to pray to the Lord of the harvest that He will send forth workers.  I believe that as we pray for others to witness to the lost with a real compassion and concern that we need to be witnessing the same way while we pray.  The harvest, the lost in the world today, is plentiful, but the laborers to reach them are few.