The Blind Man...Continued
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· 3 viewsBig Idea: True sight comes from a humble heart willing to seek and acknowledge Jesus, while the proud and self-righteous may find themselves in darkness despite their perceived knowledge. Summary: This passage recounts the account of Jesus healing a man born blind, revealing the profound contrast between physical sight and spiritual understanding. The Pharisees challenge the blind man's testimony, illustrating how their rigid adherence to the law leads to spiritual blindness. Application: The text encourages believers to examine their own spiritual understanding and openness to Christ. It challenges the audience to avoid the arrogance of the Pharisees who, despite their knowledge, failed to recognize the truth revealed in Jesus.
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The Blind Leading the Blind: A Call to Spiritual Clarity
The Blind Leading the Blind: A Call to Spiritual Clarity
Bible Passage: John 9:13–34, John 9:35–38, John 9:39–41
Bible Passage: John 9:13–34, John 9:35–38, John 9:39–41
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;
then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
1. Confrontation with the Pharisees
1. Confrontation with the Pharisees
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.
Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.
So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
2. Confusion and Fear
2. Confusion and Fear
The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”
(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”)
3. Clarity in Faith
3. Clarity in Faith
So for the 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.”
He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”
And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
4. Confession of the Christ
4. Confession of the Christ
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.”
He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
5. Christ’s Judgment on Blindness
5. Christ’s Judgment on Blindness
Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
