The Man Born Blind
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Introduction
Introduction
Today our our summer series, “Jesus the Miracle Worker”will continue in John chapter 9. as we read the story of Jesus healing the man BORN blind. Blindness from birth is different than becoming blind. No one believe that man born blind could one day see. Even today with all our technology is there much hope for seeing if you are born blind.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. -Helen Keller
The message of the miracle is not that Jesus can open the eyes of a blind man… BUT that we are all born spiritually blind and Jesus has the power to open our spiritual eyes.
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
In that day, Jews believed that birth defects came from sin of the parents or sin of the child in the womb.
john 9:1-
1. Spiritual Needs ()
1. Spiritual Needs ()
1. Spiritual Needs ()
1. Spiritual Needs ()
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
“How then were your eyes opened?” they demanded.
He replied, “The 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.”
“Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
“How then were your eyes opened?” they demanded.
He replied, “The 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.”
“Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
“How then were your eyes opened?” they demanded.
He replied, “The 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.”
“Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
as we read about the Miracle of feeding the 5000.
The real tragedy in life is being spiritual blind.
Hopelessness is a lie from Satan.
The blind man was hopeless.
The blind man parents were hopeless.
The neighbors were hopeless.
With Jesus there is always hope.
The
One theme that John uses in his Gospel is the Night/Day… Darkness/Light. Let’s look back to John chapter one:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
JOhn 3:19-
Jesus speaks of John the Baptist...
John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12
Look at verse 9:4-5:
As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
The “we” in the passage is a reference to the disciples in which he was speaking. Jesus is referring to “day” as the time before Jesus’ betrayal by Judas, and night begins with the betrayal and the cross!
As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.
John 13
When the Holy Spirit comes on the day of Pentecost it comes to believers’ hearts, not the world. This world is still in darkness, it is still NIGHT and believers are flashlights in this dark world.
The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death
a light has dawned.
We must shine the light of hope into the night for people to see and believe.
This story is more than a miracle, it is a sign of the work of Jesus and his disciples in the world.
The Message in the Miracle
The blind man did not ask Jesus to heal him. Jesus initiated everything for the blind man to be healed.
The blind man must act in obedience to Jesus’ command to receive the healing. This was not a faith action but an act of obedience.
The blind man does not know what is about to happen, but when he obeyed God, “he came home seeing”.
Spiritual Needs are met:
By Jesus, and Him alone. He has met all of your spiritual needs on the cross.
When we are obedient to Jesus. To my surprise the word, “obedience” is only used twice in the Gospels. In the Gospel of Luke is used for Jesus obeying his parents and once is reference to obeying the Law. But notice how it is used in these two verses:
Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
Notice that obedience is the first step in righteousness and love.
Spiritual answers come when we practice blind obedience like the blind man.
Spiritual Blindness ()
Spiritual Blindness ()
The real tragedy in life is being spiritual blind, and the real story is about the Pharisees who were spiritually blind. You become Spiritual blind when you refuse to believe.
Spiritual blindness is accompanied by three things:
Spiritual confusion about Jesus (9:16-17)
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Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?” So they were divided.
Finally they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
The New International Version (1984) The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?” So they were divided.
17 Finally they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
John 9:16-1
Spiritual rejection of Jesus (9:18-26)
The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
“We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
Spiritual anger about Jesus (9:27-34)
He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?”
Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
Spiritual Insight ()
Spiritual Insight ()
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”
Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
Spiritual Insight
Comes from hearing the Gospel. If we want to see spiritual eyes open we must tell people about Jesus.
Comes when we see ourselves as sinners.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
John 3:1
Comes when we accept Jesus as Lord.
The Pharisees rejected Jesus because that claimed they could see, so their guilt remained.
Religious opinions block the believer from receiving Spiritual insight. WSC
Your physical sight with lead you off a spiritual cliff called hell. Spiritual blindness is physically dangerous! WSC
You do not have to remain spiritually blind today. Today Jesus went to the cross to open your eyes. BUT you must be obedient to his word for your eyes to be open. Do not reject him today. Do not trust in your own opinion about God, TRUST IN JESUS!
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
-Helen Keller