Clay Glasses
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1 As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.
2 And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
4 “We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.
5 “While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”
Who Sinned?
It was the common belief that if good things happened to you, you were blessed by God, but if bad things happened, you were being punished.
It’s not a stretch.....many of you think that way now.
Jesus said neither....
so that the works of God might be displayed.
NOW YOU SEE ME…Lionel Schriek card trick.
Jesus Healed him.
Jesus Healed him.
6 When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,
7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.
Shane would still be blind.
THE NEIGHBORS
THE NEIGHBORS
Isn’t this the beggar?
No just looks like him.
IT’s Me!
Said that a Guy named Jesus.
“anointed my eyes”
Where is he/don’t know.
THE PHARISEES
THE PHARISEES
It was on the Sabbath.......
This is one of 7 miracles that Jesus performed on the Sabbath.
IT WAS A HEART ISSUE
They ask the guy: He told them.
16 Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.
What do you say? (to the blind man)
He is a Prophet.
They call his parents.
Is this your son, how does he see?
They said ask him yourself.
22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
1. They believed Jesus was the Christ, but were afraid.
They wept and prayed for their son.
They felt constant judgement.
Their prayers were answered, but they didn’t want to mess things up.
Their entire life would have been uprooted.
The call in the man that was healed again.
24 So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.”
25 He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
Your testimony doesn’t have to be complicated.
Contentious conversation. (Dripping with sarcasm)
26 So they said to him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”
27 He answered them, “I told you already and you did not listen; why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples too, do you?”
28 They reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29 “We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He is from.”
30 The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.
31 “We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
32 “Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.
33 “If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.”
34 They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.
29 The Lord is far from the wicked,
But He hears the prayer of the righteous.
Jesus finds the man again
Jesus finds the man again
35 Jesus heard that they had put him out, and finding him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
13 “I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.
14 “And to Him was given dominion,
Glory and a kingdom,
That all the peoples, nations and men of every language
Might serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which will not pass away;
And His kingdom is one
Which will not be destroyed.
36 He answered, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and He is the one who is talking with you.”
38 And he said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped Him.
39 And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.”
Are you confused?
40 Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.
The Gospel according to John c. The Sight of the Blind and the Blindness of the Sighted (9:35–41)
in the sense that I have spoken of blindness as a lost condition that cries out for illumination
"The wise man learns from everything and everyone, the ordinary man learns from his experience, and the fool knows everything better."
John 3:19
19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.