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Being a parent of young kids, a certain group of people are always giving me advice as to how to handle being a parent of young kids...
• And it really is great advice...
• It's a great reminder for anyone who has young kids...
• Anyone who has kids knows that when you have younger kids...
◦ Life can be challenging.
◦ Something you don't really understand until you actually have kids..
◦ is the - CHALLENGE that it brings...
Sleepless nights...
• sickness
• decisions you have to make as a parent
• stress
• schooling
• friends
• television
• food
• stress
• AND YET - all of it - WORTH IT
• And so the great advice that I always hear...and NEED to hear is this...
◦ Enjoy them while you can!
• And the ESSENCE of that advice is this:
◦ While they are with you...embrace the fact that they're with you
◦ DON'T FOCUS on the stress
◦ DON'T FOCUS on the tiredness
◦ DON'T FOCUS on the HARD TIMES...
◦ DON'T LET those things HINDER you from - JOY in your Kids
• They won't ALWAYS be with you - therefore enjoy them while you have them.
• We're going to hear this same ADVICE from Jesus Christ today - in our text
• so let's get to it...
• The first thing we're going to look at today is this:
SLIDE: From Blindness to Sight: All Within Reach of Salvation
From Blindness to Sight
• If we were to just look at the bookends of our passage today, it would read like this...
• This man was blind from birth...and now - sees
• once blind but now can see
• One of the most debilitating impairments a person can walk through is BLINDNESS.
• Think of HOW MUCH we rely on our vision
▪ Every second of every day is PROCESSED in our minds...through what we SEE
• A lot of us have had to deal with our vision, over the years, getting worse...
• And even in that case, even though we can still see...
• ....just a small deterioration in our eyesight can result in a MAJOR adjustment in our lives
• And so in THIS CASE - think of all the aspects of life that this man had NO COMPREHENSION of!
• He was blind from birth...
▪ He had no idea what the sky looked like...
▪ What he himself looked like...
▪ What humans looked like...
▪ trees
▪ animals
▪ no concept of color
• And so - in a REAL SENSE - this man's EYESIGHT - was DEAD
◦ He would have been the last person you would have went to and asked - "Hey, did you see the sunset last night?"
◦ His VISION was - DEAD - non-existent
◦ BUT THEN...!
◦ LIFE!
◦ v7 (read again)
• His eyesight was - literally HOPELESS...
• But as we know -
SLIDE:
That which is hopeless apart from Christ, is possible with Christ
• Which takes us back to our 1st point.
• NO ONE is OUT OF REACH from the SAVING ARM of CHRIST
• This guy was BORN BLIND and now - after Jesus - He can see!
• That person who seems hopeless...
• That co-worker...that family member you think would NEVER turn to Jesus...
▪ It's POSSIBLE with Christ...
*John Piper: Story about construction guys vs. Female Lawyer...
• The guys was BLIND and now he could SEE...
• This should EMBOLDEN us....
• embolden our witness...
• Our CONFIDENCE in our Proclamation SHOULD RISE...BECAUSE he was blind but now could see!!
• The most pitiful around us...
• The most hopeless around us...
• the most RESISTANT around us...
• Listen - the most EVIL around us...
◦ CAN BE SAVED
No ONE - is hopeless in God's economy...!
• And i think one of the reasons we fail to obey Christ in proclaiming His truth to those around us is...
• ...because we judge the level of confidence the person has in his/her position...
• ...and if they're very confident in their unbelief....we'll avoid confronting that!
• WE need to be CONFIDENT in OUR message!
• **Think of the apostle Paul (from persecutor of the church/truth - to - proclaiming it and defending it)
What else do we see in our text?
SLIDE: From Blindness to Sight: God's Glory Will Have the Last Word
From Blindness to Sight
• let's go back to v2...
• The disciples here - they look at this man's disability...
◦ ...his blindness from birth...
• And they look at his blindness as - the final answer
• They ask - who sinned? the man himself or his parents?
• SO on the one hand - they judged this situation rightly...
• They knew God was the one who ordained this man to be blind..
• Their logic was:
▪ SIN - either the man's sin...or his parents sin...
▪ RESULTED in God bringing judgment in the form of BLINDNESS
▪ AND THEREFORE - the blindness is the end of the story!
(final answer)
• THAT was their logic...
• JESUS - shows them a different reality!
• Jesus here shows us that His Glory, NOT sin, will have the final word.
• What do I mean...
• We have to think through this one...
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