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! Introduction:
*We are told that every 20 minutes, a person in this nation loses his or her eyesight, going blind completely.
Every year 50,000 Americans go blind.
Some 20 million people have lost the sight.
For most people the thought of going blind is a terrifying thought.
A recent pole had been taken saying that most people would rather lose any other sense or ability physically than to lose their ability to see.
This is the only time in the Bible where a man who was born blind receives his sight.
Many times in the gospels we see Jesus healing men who were blind (Mark 7:33; 8:23), but those were people who had sight & lost it, but this man in John 9 never had sight.
Healing the blind is both a work of God and a work of the Messiah:
*The Lord said to Moses *"Who has made man’s mouth?
Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind?
Have not I, the Lord?  (Exodus 4:11) 
*Psalm 146** declares *"The Lord opens the eyes of the blind" (Psalm 146:8, NKJV)
So the healing of the man born blind is another testimony of the Deity of Christ and of the fact that Christ is the Jews' Messiah.
!! A.                 Jesus Passed By (v.1-3).
!!! 1.                  “*/Jesus passed by/*, He saw a man who was born blind from birth…”  (v.1).
!!!! a)                  The grace of God.
!!!!! (1)                 The blind man did not and could not see Jesus, but Jesus saw him and graciously had compassion upon him, came to him, and healed him without being asked to do so.
!!!!! (2)                 It’s the grace of God that brings the Gospel to the sinner even though the sinner was not seeking the Gospel:
*Paul said in Romans 3:11 that *"There is none who seeks after God" (Romans 3:11) *that is the condition of mans heart.*
*But grace says, *"The Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
!!!!! (3)                 If it were not for the grace of God, which causes Jesus to *"pass by" *where we are and save us, none would be saved.
!!!!! (4)                 This also reminds me of how many other blessings we receive from God even though we did not seek them or pray for them.
/All of us owe much to God for the blessings He bestows upon us daily for which we have not even sought or prayed for even though they were vital to our lives/.
!!!!! (5)                 *Important Note:* the transition between the end of chapter 8 and the beginning of chapter 9:
!!!!!! (a)                 When we put these two verses together, we learn that Jesus performed this miracle for the blind man when He was in flight from danger.
He didn’t let persecution keep Him from doing God’s work.
!!!!!! (b)                You will not do much for God if you only serve when you are appreciated and applauded.
!!!! b)                  The heart of God.
!!!!! (1)                 /Jesus “Saw” Him, Which Indicated Interest, Care, Concern, & Compassion.
/Even though Jesus had his own problems people wanting to stone Him, He always had time for others, especially those who were in need.
*When Jesus saw the multitude in Marks gospel, He *“was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd.
So He began to teach them many things."
(Mark 6:34)
!!!!! (2)                 We Can Be Tempted To Get Rid Of The People God Wants Us To Help (Matt.15:21-28).

 
 
 
 
\\ !!! 2.                  “A man who was blind from birth… who sat and begged…”  (v.1, 8).
!!!! a)                  Examining the problem of being blind.
!!!!! (1)                 */The disability of the blindness:/*/ /Blindness is a very serious disability.
Even though many blind people have done great things in spite of their blindness, it does not take away the fact that blindness is a great disability.
!!!!! (2)                 The disability of blindness is a good picture of the disability caused by sin:
!!!!!! (a)                 Without Christ the sinner walks in the darkness of sin unable to see and discern spiritual truths from the Word of God:
*Paul said that the gospel *"is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them"  (2 Cor.4:4).
!!!!!! (b)                But with Christ, the sinner is removed from that darkness into the light of glory.
Christ's power removes the disability of sin:
*The fact is…  *"He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love," (Colossians 1:13, NKJV)
 
!!!!! (3)                 */The duration of the blindness:/ *The man was "blind from his birth.”
In some cases of healing blindness, Jesus simply restored what the person once had in the area of sight.
Here, the man never had sight at all.
He had never seen anything with his eyes.
!!!!! (4)                 Being blind from birth describes the condition of the sinner:
!!!!!! (a)                 Before birth we had a sinful nature:
*David said *"I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me" (Psalm 51:5)
*Solomon put it right when he said *"For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin" (Ecclesiastes 7:20, NKJV)
*We were spiritually dead *"And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins," (Ephesians 2:1, NKJV)
 
!!!!! (5)                 */The destitution from the blindness:/* The blind man "sat and begged" (v.
8).
He was unable to work any normal jobs, so he was simply a beggar.
!!!!! (6)                 The sinner without Christ as his Savior is likewise destitute:
!!!!!! (a)                 But Jesus Christ is the remedy to our spiritual destitution:
*Christ has made us rich in Him *"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich" (2 Corinthians 8:9, NKJV)
 
!!! 3.                  “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind…”  (v.2)?
!!!! a)                  They Assumed Blindness Was Much More Than Just A Physical Disability.
Why?
!!!!! (1)                 You Could Sin In The Womb, Jacob & Esau Struggling in the Womb (Genesis 25:21-23)
*The writer of Provervbs says that *The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.”
(Psalm 58:3, NKJV)
!!!!! (2)                 He Was Being Punished For The Sin Of His Parents.
*In Exodus we read that *For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me," (Exodus 20:5)
!!!!! (3)                 The Pharisees Did What A Lot Of Christian Are Doing Today—It’s My Parents Fault!
*The Scriptures speak exactly opposite of that sentiment,* "All souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die.”
(Ezekiel 18:4, NKJV)
*The people will no longer quote this proverb:* ‘The parents eat sour grapes, but their children’s mouths pucker at the taste.’
All people will die for their own sins—those who eat the sour grapes will be the ones whose mouths will pucker.”
(Jeremiah 31:29-30, NLT)
\\ !!!!! (4)                 He Was Being Punished For The Sin Of His Parents, Premarital Sex! 
*Many would use 2 Samuel 12:13–14* where the sin of David and Bathsheba is forgiven, but results in the death of their adulterously conceived child.
!!!!! (5)                 True, All Suffering, Sadness and Sorrow Is Indirectly A Result Of Sin—
*God told Adam, the day that you eat of the tree of* *the* *knowledge* of good and evil you shall surely die "When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race.
Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.”
(Romans 5:12, NLT)
 
!!!! b)                  Not All Physical Ailments or Disabilities Are A Direct Result of Sin.
!!!!! (1)                 /Sinful Lifestyle Choices May Lead To Disease/ (e.g., AIDS contracted through immoral behavior), but that certainly not all disease may be traced to sinful behavior (e.g., AIDS contracted through blood transfusion).
!!!!! (2)                 /We All Suffer Because Of Our Own Sins/, but this does not mean that “degree of disability or illness is a measure of a person’s moral failure”.
Jesus refuses to accept this theology (Luke 13:2-5)
*The Lord said to Moses,* “Who gave man his mouth?
Who makes him deaf or mute?
Who gives him sight or makes him blind?
Is it not I, the Lord?" (Exodus 4:11, NIV)
 
!!! 4.                  “Neither this man nor his parents… but that the works of God should be revealed…”  (v.3).
!!!! a)                  His blindness was an opportunity for God to be glorified.
!!!!! (1)                 Therefore, we are told that sometimes men suffer in order that God may be glorified.
You may think that is injustice to man! 
!!!!!! (a)                 Didn’t Christ suffer greatly greatly on Calvary so that sinners might be saved and be glorified in heaven?
!!!!!! (b)                If God suffered so we could obtain such great eternal glory, should we complain if we must suffer that God may be glorified?
!!!!! (2)                 Many notable men in Scripture suffered that Christ might be glorified.
!!!!!! (a)                 Lazarus was sick and died so that Christ might be glorified (John 11:4).
!!!!!! (b)                Peter suffered martyrdom that God might be glorified (John 21:19)
!!!!!! (c)                 Paul said his "infirmities" were to show the "power of Christ" (2 Cor.12:9;
Acts 3:1-10).
!!!! b)                  Jesus’ explanation was limited to this one case.
!!!!! (1)                 He was not giving an answer for all cases of sicknesses.
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