Altered- Week 3- 03/16/2025
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2025.03.16
Week 3: Blind Man
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7“Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam”. So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”
37Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
38Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
39Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
40Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
God’s purpose in our suffering is more important than understanding the cause of our suffering.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
39Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
41“If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied. “But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.”
‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’
Matthew 7:23
Spiritual blindness isn’t like physical blindness. When you’re physically blind, you know you’re blind, so you compensate for this significant physical deficit.
But spiritually blind people are not only blind, they are also blind to their blindness.
They think they see well, so the spiritually blind person walks around with the delusion that no one has a more accurate view of themselves than they do.
Spiritual sight leads to radical obedience.
2. Spiritual sight leads to boldness.
Look!” the man exclaimed. “I told you once. Didn’t you listen? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?” John 9:27
Why, that’s very strange!” the man replied. “He healed my eyes, and yet you don’t know where he comes from?
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.
Ever since the world began, no one has been able to open the eyes of someone born blind.
If this man were not from God, he couldn’t have done it.”
3. Spiritual sight leads to total surrender
“Yes, Lord, I believe!” the man said. And he worshiped Jesus. John 9:38