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“Lessons from the Blind man”
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Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be blind?
When I was a teenager I had a friend that was legally blind, he lived 4 houses down from me.
He played the guitar, and had a band.
But we had to drive him everywhere he went.
As I a teenager I also worked on a building project at the Florida deaf and blind school in St. Augustine.
It was during those days that I became thankful for my eye sight!
Have you ever closed your eyes and tried to imagine what it would be like to be blind?
To not be able to see the faces of your loved ones, to never see a sunrise or a sunset, never see a mountain, or the ocean, or a beautiful flower.
There are 154 thousand people with visual disability in the state of Missouri; and worldwide there are180 million people who are blind or visually disabled.
Somewhere in the world, someone goes blind every five seconds; and 7 million people go blind every year.
To be blind and live in darkness is a bad thing, but there is something worse than physical blindness; it is spiritual blindness, the blindness of the soul!
In the verses Jesus encounters a blind man, and opens his eyes both physically and spiritually.
Every physical miracle that Jesus performed in the New Testament, teaches that Jesus Christ is the Messiah that was promised in the Old Testament.
The N.T. records more cases of Jesus healing the blind than any other disease.
In the O.T. there is not a single account of a blind person being healed, not one!
No disciple ever opened blind eyes, only the Lord Jesus restored sight to the blind!
Why is that?
Because one of the signs of the messiah was that he would open blind eyes.
Jesus giving sight to the blind was Proof-positive that he was the messiah,
-“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped”.
Jesus is the messiah, the savior of the world, He alone opened physically blinded eyes; and only he can open spiritually blinded eyes.
I want us to learn several spiritual lessons from the blind man, first we learn from:
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What the Blind Man Saw.
V:35-38, 41.
Were told that Jesus is making his way into the city of Jericho, and that a certain blind man is sitting by the road begging.
The book of Mark tells us this blind man’s name was Bartimaeus.
Jericho was a beautiful city, called the city of roses, because of the rose gardens all over the city.
There were also palm trees, balsam trees and fragrant bushes.
The name Jericho means “fragrant”.
It was a place of beauty, fragrances and wealth.
Jesus goes through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus went through Jericho not to see the sights, but to save souls!
Jesus saved Bartimaeus on the way into the city, and Zacchaeus on the way out of the city.
Bartimaeus was physically blind, and he was a beggar; he was on the very bottom rung of the social ladder.
But Bartimaeus sitting there by the roadside begging could see more than most of the people who were following Jesus on the road.
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He saw his need.
Since he was blind, living in physical darkness, he needed sight.
When Jesus asked him in, V:41-“What he wanted him to do for him, he answered, Lord let me receive my sight”
This man was a beggar; so he needed money.
But he did not ask Jesus for money; because he knew he had a need greater that money!
He saw his greatest need was to receive his sight.
The first step to receiving spiritual sight, is to admit that you are spiritually blind.
The blind man saw his need for physical sight, and his need for a savior.
In fact, he saw it much more clearly than did the rich ruler who came to Jesus just a few verses before ().
The rich man’s material wealth prevented him from seeing his spiritual poverty, and he went away unsaved.
He would have been much better off if he had been a blind man—even a beggar man—yet able to see his spiritual poverty.
This is what we all need to see: our need for Jesus!
Specifically, our need for him to save us from the blindness of our sin.
The various miracles in Luke show us the effects of sin:
· Leprosy shows sin’s corrupting power.
· The Lame show sin’s debilitating power.
· The demon-possessed show sin’s controlling power.
· The dead Show sins killing power.
For each miracle, there is an analogy between the physical needs of the body and the spiritual needs of the soul.
What the blind, beggar of Jericho shows us is the blinding effect of sin.
Without the work of the Holy Spirit, we fail to see how spiritually blind and sinful we are, and how much we need the grace of God.
Do you see your need for a Savior?
If not, the Bible says it is because:
-“The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ”
Ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes, and you will see how much you need Jesus.
Don’t just put on religious glasses to try to correct your blindness, don’t just join the church.
What you need today is the sight that Jesus alone is able to give.
When you come to the Lord Jesus Christ the Bible says that the wonderful miracle of sight is given to you.
-“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”.
Someone else said-“The saddest person in the world is not the man who is blind and can’t see, but the man who is blind but thinks he can see”
When people truly understand the darkness of their souls apart from God, they will turn to Jesus, who alone can bring salvation and spiritual sight.
What the Blind man saw.
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He saw his need.
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He saw who Jesus was.
The blind man asked the crowd of people that was passing by what was going on?
And they told him V:37-“Jesus of Nazareth’s is passing by”
The people in the crowd identified Jesus; as “Jesus of Nazareth”.
· He saw Jesus as Savior
But the blind man called him:
V:38-“Jesus son of David…
Though the blind man could not see Jesus with this physical eyes, he knows who Jesus is.
The title, son of David is a messianic title; in calling Jesus this, he is declaring that Jesus is the Messiah.
This title does not appear often in the Gospels, It meant that Jesus was the Savior who God had promised to send.
By calling Jesus the
“Son of David,” the blind man was acknowledging him as the Savior who God had promised to send.
When the blind man called out for the Son of David.
He was declaring Jesus as:
Israel’s royal king.
David’s rightful heir.
God’s righteous Messiah.
Other people saw Jesus as a preacher and miracle worker:
He saw Jesus as Savior!
He saw Jesus as Lord.
V:41-“Lord that I might receive my sight”.
When Jesus ask him what he wanted, he addressed Jesus as the Lord.
This was more than a sign of respect; he is acknowledging Jesus as the supreme authority.
The one who has authority over sin, sickness, blindness, death; because he is the Lord God!
There is no way to separate salvation in Christ from the lordship of Christ.
Jesus is both Savior and Lord; to receive him as one is to receive him as the other, for the only Savior is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, when the blind man called Jesus “Lord,” he was submitting himself to worship and obey the Savior.
The blind man could see better than most people, including many people in the crowds that followed Jesus around Jericho!
Someone once asked blind and deaf Helen Keller, “Isn’t it terrible to be blind?”
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