Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro:

We worship the God we know.

We come to know him from what he has done in our life.

God is the initiator in this relationship.

He first created us.

He first loved us.

He first forgave us and redeemed us.

He saved us.

He blesses us.

He provides for us.

He is God our Father who loves us when we are at our best and when we are at our worst.

What a good, good Father he is.

We worship the Lord who loves us and takes care of us.

Our relationship is totally dependent on what God has done for us.

Worship the Lord, your God for he is good.

He is good to you.

Lead into text: Jesus is under scrutiny for His good works.

This chapter is no different.

Read Text:

A man born blind is the focus of the religious leaders in this chapter, but he is not the focus of this chapter.

What is the focus of this chapter is who do you seek to worship.

The symbolism of sight or lack of sight is in relations to who you see and worship as God.

The ones who worship God are the ones who has sight and the ones who do not worship the Son God are the ones who are truly blind.

Jesus is pointing out to see God is to know God.

Knowing God is to worship God and obey his commands.

It is hard to worship what you do not see and definitely what you do not believe.

In this text the blind man is a character of irony.

We had a blind man who could see clearly the work of the Lord not having physical sight but spiritual sight.

We have the pharisees who claim to see God but do not know who the Son of God is and they refuse to worship the Son of God.

To give God true worship you have to worship Jesus, the Son of God.

The irony in this text is that on one hand there is a man who is born blind at the beginning of this text.

He gains sight and sees Jesus and comes to know Jesus and worships him.

The other hand we have those who do have sight at the beginning of the text but do not see Jesus and are truly blind as declared by Jesus at the end of this text.

Let us look at our text:

“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 would be born blind?”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.“We

must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.“While

I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”When

He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,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.Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?”Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying, “No, but he is like him.”

He kept saying, “I am the one.”So

they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes opened?”He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash’; so I went away and washed, and I received sight.”They said to him, “Where is He?”

He *said, “I do not know.”

They *brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerly blind.Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.Then the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight.

And he said to them, “He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”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.So they *said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”

And he said, “He is a prophet.””

( NAS95)

Doubt of the power of God

Doubt of the power of God

When looking at this text you see the “blind" religious leaders along with the community who witness this boy they now now having gained his sight teaming up on a young man.

The community of witnesses are amazed that the boy they new who was blind now has sight.

They want to see the man called Jesus who gives sight to the blind on the Sabbath.

They are also responding to the religious leaders ban on Jesus.

“Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews” ( NAS95).

So they bring him to the religious leaders.

Worship God for what he has done for you!

They did not believe this boy was the one who was healed.

They knew him but could not believe he was born blind and gain sight.

Then as he tells them they still do not believe and take him to go see the leaders because God gave him sight.

There may be people mad at you because God is good to you.

You need to worship God any way because they do not know like you know how good God is being to you.

They are mad at your glory because they do not know your story.

Some would not believe it if they saw it for themselves, but You now God has been good to you and you will worship him because of his goodness.

The boy gives God the glory, because he now sees clearly what they can not see because they are blinded that he was healed and Jesus was working on the Sabbath day.

The were distracted by the small insignificant thing.

Their blindness and leads them to kicking the young man out of the synagogue.

The should have joined in with the young man for what God has done in his life, but their stubbornness lead them to reject him.

They should have instead joining in worshiping and praising God for what just has happen.

They even went to ask the child’s parents to prove they were right.

The parents were afraid to speak because of the strict judgement by the Jews.

“For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask him” ( NAS95).

Tell others What God has Done For you.

“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.”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.”So they said to him, “What did He do to you?

How did He open your eyes?”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?”They

reviled him and said, “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 is from.”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.“We

know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.“Since

the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.“If

this man were not from God, He could do nothing.”They

answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?”

So they put him out” ( NAS95).

This young man would rather be put out and leave bad company to join good company.

He preaches to the religious leaders.

He knows they do not believe him.

He then ask them a question, “You do not want to become His disciples too, do you?”

They became furious and said they are disciples of Moses.

The boy points out that Jesus has done is a wonderful work of God.

Says, “We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, he hears him” ().

The blind man knows what God desires and worships the Lord that hears him.

We too must seek the loving Lord our God and now he rewards those who seek him and love him.

He spoke of God’s goodness and God’s movement in their life.

They kick him out of the synagogue because he chose to worship God and acknowledge the Lord for his good works in his life.

God Hears the Devout worshippers.

We see in the text that Jesus heard they threw him out and Jesus found him.

What like the story telling me that after they kicked him out Jesus heard.

We can worship God because he knows all about our life pains, struggles and he will be there for them all who seek to worship him.