Sermon Tone Analysis

The wrong question

Humans are preoccupied with a few things.

We want things to be fair and by fair we want there to be consequences, we want things to make sense.

When the disciples ask this question they wanted things to make sense.

To them the fact that the guy was blind had to have a reason.

He had to be blind because his parents had sinned or he had sinned.

Now stop for a moment and think about what they are asking.

Who sinned that he was born blind.

They had a very interesting understanding of humanity.

IT had to be someones fault and if his parents hadn't screwed up it must have been him that did so, still in the womb.

This comes from a belief that all suffering no matter what or where it happens is a direct result of sin.

They had a hard time understanding then how someone could be born blind.

In their theology someone had to have sinned, and while it was inconceivable that an unborn child could possibly do so they had to account for that possibility because what if the parents hadn’t sinned, then it had to be the kid.

The got this idea from Ezekiel

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Here’s the problem.

Humans need a reason and sometimes in fact most of the time when it comes to things that God is involved in that reason is not so simple as we want it to be.

The only answer.

John 9:3-5

In that simple answer Jesus tells his disciples it’s time to throw out what you think you know for the truth that I am trying to teach you.

Does sin have consequences.

Yes it does, of course it does.

We only need to look at the lives of David, or Saul, or Eli the priest, Moses disobedience, Judas betrayal, Simon the Sorcerer.

Paul tells us in Romans that there are consequenses to sin.

Yes there are consequences to our sin but Jesus wants people to understand that bad things in life don’t always equal sin in our lives.

The only answer is for us to do what God has for us to do while we can, not for us to pass judgment on people who don’t know who Jesus is.

Looking back at verse 4 we see Jesus do something very interesting.

Jesus is inviting the disciples into something so much more than just a 3.5 year walk around the middle east.

Look what he says.

“We must do the works of Him who sent me.”

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Jesus is telling the disciples this whole thing isn’t going to end with me.

You are going to have to carry it on when I go.

RIgh tnow Jesus is the light of the world, but there is going to come a time when Jesus light is put out.

The disciples are going to then have to carry that light to be the light in the world.

Matthew 5:14

Burned out bulbs

Fast forward

The man is healed mud on the eyes.

long walk to the pool to wash it off, his life changed people excited and dry religious leaders really hacked off.

John 9:24-28

The truth is the truth no matter who it comes from.

Losing to gain.

Being thrown out of the synagogue was the best thing in the world for this man.

The cool thing is Jesus didn’t leave him floundering.

John 9:35-38

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Picking up the pieces

The only way to be whole is by admitting you are not.

That’s the problem with religious people as opposed to followers of Christ.

John 9:39-41

John 9:

This Week’s Challenge

Read John chapters 10 - 15.

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