John 9:1-12: New Eyes for Sinners Born Blind

Scripture Reading

Luke 18:35–43 As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” And he cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me recover my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God.

Intro

I want you to take a moment and imagine a life where you were born blind never seeing a thing.

Not talking about losing your sight later in life, but never having it in the first place.

All of your life has been nothing but darkness.

You’ve never seen the sky…

A smile…

The love in someone else’s face.

All the colors and beauty of the world.

Everything has always had to be described to you.

But even the best descriptions always fall short.

What’s red? What’s blue?

What do you mean the clouds are puffy and float high in the air?

For all of us we shudder to think at such a horrible fate.

None of us would ever want or choose to be born blind.

And yet we all are and we all have because of our sin.

The sad truth is we are all born into a more horrible fate than even a man born blind.

We are all born spiritually blind in our sin.

Born far from God.

Ignorant of God and His ways…

Unable to see Him with no hope of salvation and eternal life because we wouldn’t even be able to see it if it was there.

That is…unless God gave us new eyes to see God’s grace and glory in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6).

Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God who opens blind eyes and gives us eternal life.

That’s the Big Idea of the healing of the Man Born Blind in John 9:1-12.

The kindness and grace of God to give us new eyes when we were blind and dead in our sin…unable to see or save ourselves…by forgiving all of our sin in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and giving us eternal life.

Signs

Now, before we get into this passage, the first thing we need to do is understand John’s theology of signs.

That’s the word John uses for Jesus’ miracles.

He specifically calls them signs because, for John, Jesus’ miracles point to something greater than themselves.

In other words, when we read the healing of the man born blind, John doesn’t just want us to see an awesome work of Christ’s power…

He wants us to see something more.

The spiritual significance of what the sign is pointing to.

There are several signs throughout the Gospel of John:

Jesus turning water into wine…

The healing of the Nobleman’s son on the brink of death…

The healing of the lame man by the pool on the Sabbath…

The feeding of the great multitude…

Walking on water…

The healing of the man born blind…the sign we are looking at today.

And the raising of Lazarus…

And all these signs are specifically chosen specifically to serve a purpose.

It wasn’t that John was just writing his Gospel picked the ones that He thought might be most interesting as if he could have just chosen this one or that.

They were all specifically and meticulously chosen to serve John’s overall purpose for the book.

John 20:30–31 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

So Jesus did many other signs besides the ones John chose.

In fact, if you go to the very last verse of the Gospel of John, John says Jesus did so many signs that if every one of them were written down, the world itself would not be able to contain all the books (John 21:25).

So why did John choose these?

That you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John chose all these signs to reveal the glorious person and work of Jesus Christ…who He is and His power to save.

That’s why John calls them signs.

They aren’t just miracles…awesome displays of power…they are theology in action.

Living-breathing sermons proclaiming who Christ is and the eternal life that can only be found through faith in Him.

That’s why John said after Jesus’ first sign of turning water into wine This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory (John 2:11).

In all of Jesus’ signs we are to see the glory of Christ.

That means to rightly understand the signs they must be spiritually discerned.

We don’t just need to see a miracle…we need to see the theology behind the miracle…

What is the miracle saying about who Christ is and His power to save.

Yes…there is a real…historical…in time miracle.

There really was a man born blind who really did receive his sight through miraculous work of Jesus Christ.

But if we stop there we will miss the point of the sign.

We’ll be like the multitudes in John 6, who saw Jesus feeding the multitudes, and saw a free lunch instead of seeing the True Bread from Heaven who can satisfy our eternal souls and give us eternal life.

So to interpret the sign that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing have life in his name, we need to interpret the sign theologically.

How does this sign manifest His glory?

What does this sign tell us about the person and work of Christ and how does it call us to repentance and put all of our faith…all of our hope…all of our trust in Him so that we might have eternal life?

Summary

And thankfully the context of John tells us what that is.

Before Jesus healed the man, He said, “As long as I’m in the world, I am the light of the world” (John 9:5) harking back to John 8:12.

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

The healing of the man born blind is the living-breathing sermon of this verse.

This is what John wants us to see.

Method

And so to do that, we are going to work through the miracle.

We are just going to work through the story and make a few interesting notes and applications that are generally beneficial and important for the Christian life…

And then with the story fresh in our minds, we are going to come back we are going to come back and look at the spiritual significance of the sign as it relates to the person and work of Christ.

For Christ the main point He wants us to see from this story is I am the light of the world…

For us…the Big Idea we want to see in the healing of the Man Born Blind is this…

Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God who opens blind eyes and gives us eternal life.

So let’s get into it with John 9 verses 1-5 where it says…

Story

John 9:1–5 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.”

So the story begins with a man born blind sitting outside the Temple.

We know this from John 8:59. Right after Jesus said Before Abraham was, I AM…I am the Lord God incarnate in human flesh…

It says So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

And as He was leaving the Temple, Jesus saw this man.

That’s going to be important.

Jesus saw this man…took notice of this man…

And instead of walking on by to do other things, Jesus in His love, mercy, kindness and grace took initiative and drew near to this man to answer His need.

This is a wonderful picture of the glory and grace of Christ.

His love, mercy, kindness, grace, and compassion to down and out sinners like you and me.

And seeing this man the disciples asked Jesus why this man was blind from birth.

Who sinned this man or his parents?

And Jesus said neither. But that this man was born blind that the works of God might be displayed in Him.

That’s God’s glory and grace in Jesus Christ might be shown.

Verse 4…

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

When Jesus said we must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day, night is coming, He was talking about His crucifixion.

And what we want to see was that Jesus was keenly constantly aware of all the Father had given Him a job to do.

That He was sent for a purpose, and there was a limited time to do it.

Jesus knew His hour was coming…the hour of His crucifixion when no one could work (John 7:8).

The disciples would be scattered and Jesus would die for the sins of His people.

As the perfectly obedient Son, Jesus didn’t just obey God as in not breaking any of God’s commands…

He also lived a perfectly Godward life.

He lived all of His life…every moment, every breath…for the glory of God striving to not just not sin, but positively serve and magnify God in every thought, word, action, and deed.

John 4:34 Jesus said…“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

This is why we are saved and why Christ has the power to open blind eyes and give eternal life to everyone who is blind and dead in their sin.

He perfectly obeyed God on our behalf and in doing so was able to offer Himself as a pure and sinless sacrifice to atone for all our sins.

Verse 6…

John 9:6-7 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

Why the mud? Why the pool of Siloam? Why does John specifically tell us it means Sent?

We’ll come back to some of these finer details, but for now smeared mud on this man’s eyes and told him go wash it off.

And so, this man went, groping along the walls, mud on his face and he washed his eyes and came back seeing…

Seeing!

For the first time in his life…He could see.

Colors…faces…birds flying in the sky…

For the first time it wasn’t dark, but light!

And for the first time in his life no one had to lead him by the hand.

This was an amazing miracle.

In fact, a little later in John 9:32 we are told its an absolutely unique miracle because the man says Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

No one had ever been born blind and received their sight later.

And yet…Jesus comes and does the impossible…what has never even been heard of from the beginning of the world.

In fact, it was so amazing that people who knew the man…who had passed by him day after day…could not even believe it.

John 9:8–12 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”

It was so amazing, that people couldn’t even believe that it was the same man!

No this is impossible…it has to be someone else.

So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

I mean I was just blind 20 minutes ago. I don’t even know what He looks like!

But notice the man gives all glory to Jesus.

Jesus opened my eyes.

Because as we said earlier…this sign was given to manifest Jesus’ glory…

The glory of The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin (Exodus 34:5-7).

The question is how?

How does this sign spiritually reveal the glory and grace of Jesus Christ?

How does this sin reveal that In him was life, and the life was the light of men (John 1:4).

That’s our Big Idea…

Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God who opens blind eyes and gives us eternal life.

That’s what John wants us to see in both the big picture and also the minute details of the story.

That when we look at the healing of the Man Born Blind through this spiritual and theological lens as a sign that points to something greater than itself…

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life (John 8:12).

Then we will see the glory of Christ and all that His great grace is towards us who believe.

So we are going to have three points…

Three theological conclusions of how this sign point to Jesus.

Number 1: Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God.

Number 2: Jesus Saves Us from Sin and Gives Us Eternal Life.

And Number 3: Jesus Gives Eternal Life as a free Gift of His Love, Mercy, Condescension, and Grace.

Let’s start with point number 1…

I. Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God

This is obviously John’s main goal for his Gospel.

That’s is why we keep coming back to this truth again and again.

That you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God (John 20:31).

At every opportunity, John wants to highlight that truth.

The Christ is the Greek word for the Messiah, the Savior of the World.

And the Son of God is the eternal Son of God incarnate in human flesh.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1).

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

And in the healing of the Man Born Blind, both of these truths are unmistakably brought together and applied to Jesus Christ.

First He’s the Messiah.

1. Messiah

When God promised the Messiah, He promised a Savior who would one day come and open the eyes of the blind.

Isaiah 42:6–7 I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

Isaiah 29:18 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Isaiah 35:4–5 Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.” Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

By opening blind eyes, Jesus proved He was the Savior who was to come…

Not just to open the eyes of those who were blind physically, but to ultimately open the eyes of those who were blind spiritually…

Everyone who is lost, blind, and dead in their trespasses and sins.

In fact, when John the Baptist asked “Are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another?” (Luke 7:20).

Jesus said Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them (Luke 7:22).

By healing the Man Born Blind Jesus proved He was the Messiah and Savior of the world.

No one else could open the eyes of a Man Born Blind…something that has never been heard of from the beginning of the world other than the Anointed One…the Messiah God promised to send into the world.

He is the Christ…our Prophet, Priest, and King.

As our Prophet…He proclaims to us the light of His Truth.

As our Priest…He anoints our eyes like He anointed the eyes of the Man Born Blind to open our eyes to all our sin and the grace and forgiveness of sins that can only be found in the gospel of His shed blood.

And as our King…He delivers us from the darkness of sin and death…our spiritual blindness…to bring us out of darkness into His marvelous light.

He is the Messiah - the Savior of the world.

At the very beginning of His ministry Jesus took one of the prophecies of the Messiah from Isaiah 61 and directly applied it to Himself.

Luke 4:18–21 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor…Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.

And what Christ said there He manifested in power here, with the healing of the Man Born Blind.

But not only did opening the eyes of the Man Born Blind prove that Jesus was the Messiah, it also proved, theologically, that He was the Eternal Son of God and Great I Am.

2. Son of God

Exodus 4:11 specifically associates opening the eyes of the blind with the work and power of God Himself as His own divine prerogative.

God alone can do it.

Exodus 4:11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Only the Lord has the power to make see or make blind.

Psalm 146:8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down…

It is not a coincidence that the healing of the Man Born Blind immediately follows Jesus saying Before Abraham was I AM taking the divine Name…the Lord the Lord a God merciful and gracious…upon Himself.

They picked up stones to stone Him for blasphemy.

But by healing the eyes of the Man Born Blind, theologically Jesus proved it.

He is the Son of God incarnate in human flesh.

The opening the eyes of the Man Born Blind as a sign theologically reveals the glory of Christ as the Messiah and the Son of God…

His person…

But it also reveals the glory of His work in saving us from our sin and giving us eternal life.

And that’s point number 2…

II. Jesus Saves Us from Sin and Gives Us Eternal Life

Now…while keeping in mind that this was a real miracle that actually happened…theologically as a sign, this man represents us in our sin.

We Are the Man

Temple

Remember first, that he was outside the Temple.

The place where you would draw near to worship God.

Well that’s all of us…we’re outside.

We are far from God, lost in our sin.

We cannot draw near to Him because we are unclean.

And yet Jesus, the True Temple comes to us to make us clean and draw us near to God.

Blindness

But the most obvious similarity between us and the man is how the Bible says we are spiritually blind in our sin.

Lost…living in darkness.

Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

Psalm 82:5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness...

Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

I think you get the point.

We spiritually blind in our sin…lost…dead…doomed to suffer God’s wrath with no hope or ability to find our way out or save ourselves.

This is the doctrine of Total Depravity and Original Sin.

That just as the man was born blind, we are all born blind in our sin.

We inherit our guilt and sin nature from Adam.

And by this sin, the 1689 London Baptist Confession says we are by nature children of wrath, the servants of sin and partakers of death and all other miseries unless the Lord Jesus sets us free (6:3).

In other words, we are wholly inclined to evil unable and opposed to any spiritual good (1689 9:3).

In other words, just as physically blind cannot do anything to restore their own sight…

Remember, this man had been blind his whole life and not since the beginning of the world had anyone ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a man born blind…

So do we need a work of God’s sovereign grace and power.

Jesus said John 3:3 “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Born again…born from above…born of God.

We are outside the Temple…far from God…spiritually blind and dead in our sin…

And were it not for God’s sovereign…powerful…free grace in Christ…none of us would be saved.

We see that in how Christ saw the blind man…the blind man didn’t see Him…how could He.

SLIDE: Mud

And Christ is the One who stooped down…spit on the ground and made mud to anoint the man’s eyes.

Now why did He do that?

Why didn’t Jesus just heal Him?

John doesn’t exactly say.

Calvin thought it was to highlight the man’s blindness.

To make him more blind by the mud and so more profoundly exalt the grace that saved him (Phillips, John REC 1st ed., 588).

For my part, I think it symbolizes the man’s eyes being made a new creation.

This was the view of the early church fathers.

Just as Adam was made from the dust of the ground, Christ used the dust of the ground turned into mud to make the man’s eyes new just as God makes us a New Man…A New Creation in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

This speaks to the New Birth…being born again… born from above through faith in Jesus Christ.

But the question I had which goes a little further than just this idea of the mud representing new creation is why mud?

After all Adam was made from dust not spit…if that’s what Jesus wanted to say why didn’t he put dust in the man’s eyes?

And also why spit? Why is that there? Its not that Jesus just took some mud that was near by. He made it with His spit.

This, i think speaks to His incarnation. Spitting was an act of the word of God incarnate in human flesh to say not just that we are made new creations in Christ, but we are made new creations through Christ’s incarnation…His sinless life, sacrificial death, and bodily resurrection.

And how? The pool of Siloam.

SLIDE: Pool of Siloam

You have to ask yourself, why does John say the pool of Siloam which means Sent?

Is there something about the pool that is theologically significant or just an inconsequential detail of the historical story?

But if it is just an inconsequential detail of the story, why would John want us to know the pool’s name means Sent?

Why not just say the pool of Siloam.

So I’m inclined to think it means something, but I will say…everything I’m going to say is still obvious about the gospel without this obscure background of this part of the story.

And I say that because I want you to understand that the Bible is sufficiently clear, and you don’t need a Bible degree or 10 commentaries to figure out what it means.

You can think of these as just interesting nuggets that are helpful and really drive home the overall, obvious theological truth.

When you take it all together…all the information and historical background about the Pool of Siloam…you get three theologically significant truths about the gospel and the work of Christ in this sign.

Number 1…

1. Cleansing

This is obvious.

The man has mud on his face and he goes to wash in the pool just as we wash away our sins in the blood of Christ.

Number 2…

2. Deliverance

We get this when you take in the historical background of the Pool of Siloam.

Did John have this in mind? I don’t know.

But I do think its a legitimate connection to make because its connected to an important story of salvation and deliverance from Israel’s Old Testament history.

Before a seige by the Assyrians, Hezekiah King of Judah built a tunnel from the Gihon Spring, one of Jerusalem’s main sources of water outside the city that “sent” water from the Gihon Spring to the pool of Siloam (2 Chronicles 32:3-4, 30, 2 Kings 20:20; MacArthur, John 1-11, 394; Phillips, REC: John, 589).

This is probably why the pool itself was called Sent because water was sent to it from an outside source.

And from this pool, Jerusalem continually had water in the city to outlast the seige of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, until the Lord eventually delivered them (2 Chronicles 32:20-23).

So in a very real way, the pool of Siloam was also a pool of deliverance.

And number 3 the pool also represented life.

3. Life

This point comes from John’s own gospel.

Back in chapter 7, Jesus was at the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles which celebrated God’s provision for His people all throughout the wilderness.

At at this festival they would perform a water ceremony where the Jews would take golden jars filled with water from the pool of Siloam and pour them out on the Altar in the Temple to celebrate God sending water from the rock to satisfy the thirst of His people and save them in the wilderness.

Paul says this rock was Christ (1 Corinthians 10:4).

And that’s where Jesus said at the Feast of Booth If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink (John 7:37).

So in the theology of John, the Pool of Siloam also points to the Living Water…eternal life…that flows from the true Rock of God Jesus Christ to save us from the wilderness of sin and death.

Sent

So you have this Man Born Blind washing his eyes and recovering his sight in a pool that represents: Cleansing…Deliverance…and the Living Water of Eternal life.

All things given to us in Jesus Christ, the One sent by the Father.

That is a constant theme in the Gospel of John.

And that’s why I think John takes the time to specifically say the pool is called sent.

He’s wanting to draw an explicit connection from the Cleansing…Delivering…Living Water of Eternal life from the pool called Sent...

And the True Cleansing…True Deliverance…and true Life that only comes through the Sent One, Jesus Christ.

True Salvation…Eternal Life…the opening of blind eyes…only comes through faith in Him.

He is the True and Only Fountain that can cleans us…deliver us…and save us once and for all from all of our sin and uncleanness (Zechariah 13:1).

There is no other pool other than the sent Son of God that can wash all your sins away.

And that takes us to our third and final point..point number 3…

III. Jesus Gives Eternal Life as a Free Gift of His Love, Mercy, Condescension, and Grace

This is quick, but I don’t want you to miss this.

I don’t want to just look at all the theological facts of the gospel and the person and work of Christ and totally miss the heart of the Savior behind that theology and This incredible miracle of God’s grace.

Go all the way back to verse 1.

John 9:1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

We are told this man is a beggar…

Down an out…

A nobody…

The kind of person most people just ignore and walk on by.

But not Christ.

He took initiative to open the blind man’s eyes just as the Lord does with us in our spiritual blindness.

We are all just a bunch of blind beggars of God’s grace who can’t see God or find our way to Him.

But Christ in His love, mercy, condescension and grace came to us.

This man was Blind…Hopeless…Helpless…

That was all of us…

And Christ didn’t walk on by…

He stooped low…He made Himself lower than low…

He emptied Himself and took on the form of a slave to bear our guilt and our shame in His death on the cross.

The Lord of Glory…the Messiah and Son of God…the Light of the Nations was stripped naked, beaten, bleeding, suffocating, dying, nailed to the cross between two common criminals.

He descended so low to save the low.

He was despised to save the despised.

He was broken to save the broken…the lost…the blind…and the lame.

He was humiliated and made low, despised and rejected so that we would be accepted, beloved, and forgiven.

The Eternal Son of God became a man, and He laid down His life to open the fountain of His cleansing, delivering, life-giving blood.

He became a curse for us (Galatians 3:13).

He bore our sins in His body on the tree and He died that we might have eternal life (1 Peter 2:24).

He laid down His life and shed His blood to cleanse us from sin, deliver us from death, and give us eternal life.

And how?

By God’s free gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

We are saved by grace alone…through faith alone…in Christ alone.

He does not leave us blind…miserable…lowly beggars.

He has compassion on us.

He stoops low, opens our blind eyes, draws near us and laid down His life that we might be saved.

Application

The application for this passage comes a little bit later.

At the end of the story, after the man had been kicked out of the synagogue, Jesus found Him and asked, Do you believe in the Son of Man?

And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

And Jesus answered “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.”

I cannot imagine sweeter words for a Man Born Blind…who until Jesus showed up and touched His eyes had never seen anything.

You have seen Him and it is he who is speaking to you…

And so what did the man do?

He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him (John 9:35-38).

Simple…Humble…Faith.

Jesus gives eternal life as a Free Gift of His Love, Mercy, Condescension, and Grace.

Faith

The first application is believe.

Trust in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins…for the opening of your blind eyes.

Come to Christ and say “God be merciful to me a sinner…”

And If you wash your sins in the pool of His cleansing…delivering…life-giving blood…

You will be saved.

You will say with the Man Born Blind when we were all Born Blind in our trespasses and sins…

I was blind, but now I see (John 9:25).

Worship

And the application for the Christian is simple and straight forward.

The man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped Him.

Worship.

Gratitude…praise for the cleansing, delivering, life-giving blood of Christ.

A heart and life of worship for opening our blind eyes when we were utterly lost, hopeless, helpless.

We were born blind and we would still be blind to day if it weren’t for Christ.

Faith and worship.

That’s how we apply the healing of the Man Born Blind.

Conclusion

Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God who opens blind eyes and gives eternal life to all who believe.

The healing of the Man Born Blind is a beautiful Picture of Christ and His power to save.

That’s what John wants us to see.

As a sign, it reveals the Glory of Christ’s Person and Work…the Messiah and Son of God who alone can save us from all our sins.

It is the living-breathing sermon that proclaims to all who believe…

Jesus the light of the world. Whoever follows Him will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

Let’s Pray