Seeing My Sin

JOHN 1-4 WILL YOU BELIEVE JESUS IS GOD, MESSIAH, AND SAVIOR? JOHN 5 (HEALING ON THE SABBATH) REJECTING THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS CHRIST RESULTS IN YOUR ETERNAL CONDEMNATION. JOHN 6 (BREAD OF LIFE) EACH OF US MUST CHOOSE WHETHER TO ACCEPT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF JESUS FOR OUR SALVATION. JOHN 7 (LIVING WATER) EVALUATE YOUR RESPONSE TO JESUS BEING FROM THE FATHER— IS IT BELIEF? JOHN 8 (LIGHT OF THE WORLD) DO NOT REJECT THE DEITY OF CHRIST—BELIEVE THAT YOU MAY BE FREE FROM SIN. Seeing My Sin JOHN 9 SEEING MY SIN 1. God gives limitations to us that His glory may be revealed. 9:1-5 2. Jesus’ healing the blindman creates questions, debate, and the revelation of Jesus’ deity. 6-34 SEEING MY SIN 3. The work of God reveals the deity of God. 35-38 4. Jesus reveals true blindness is spiritual blindness. 39-41 The man was born blind so that the deity of Christ would be revealed and the sinfulness of the Pharisees would be exposed— all revealing the realities of God. TWO PRIMARY PRINCIPLES God is better seen through my limitations. Don’t be spiritually blind to your sin and need of a Savior. APPLICATION 1. The reality of my sin should lead me to humility before God—Jesus is the one who deals with my sin—I am unable to deal with my own sin. APPLICATION 2. I must recognize the difference in my life between what is truly the consequences of sin and the false perceptions that my life circumstances are God’s judgment, anger, or dislike of me for even in God’s correction it is for my benefit. APPLICATION 3. What are some of the limitations in your life or those close to you? What is your heart attitude towards limitations that God has given you or those close to you? Take time to reflect on how the character and essence of God may be seen in the limitation. APPLICATION 4. Take time to praise God for the limitation he has placed in your life. ALLOW GOD TO BE SEEN THROUGH YOUR LIMITATIONS OF LIFE.