Good evening. Let's open tonight's
service with hymn 39 in your spiral gospel hymns, hymnal number
39. Let's all stand together. Number
39. Wretched, lost, condemned, and
lying. Guilty, I deserve God's wrath. Long I fought against my master. Valiant, I was courting death. But the blood of Christ had bought
me, He refused to let me die. This poor sinner, loved by Jesus,
Must be conquered by and by. At the time which was predestined
In the covenant of God's grace God in mercy sent His Spirit
Blessed time of love and grace To reveal His Son's great majesty As the sinner's substitute I saw Jesus bleeding, dying Suffering
as my substitute ? Precious blood for sin's atonement
? Justice could not ask for more ? I heard Christ cry, it is finished
? And I could resist no more ? Thanks to God for intervening Grace that broke my stubborn
will. Grace that would not let me perish. Grace that rescued me from hell. Sovereign grace, I will proclaim
it. Irresistible and free. Grace that chose me and redeemed
me. God, by grace alone, saved me. Sinner, now you've heard my story. Now I bid you trust my God. ? Christ, my all-sufficient Savior
? ? Saved more sinners by His blood ? Please be seated. Evening. For our call to worship, we're
going to be reading from Psalm 119, Psalm 119. Sovereign grace, I love that
hymn. The only kind of grace there is is
sovereign grace. What a wonderful reminder. Our Lord's mercy. I'm going to
begin reading in verse 33. Thank you for your prayers for
us this weekend. Felt like if we had a good meeting,
you never know what the Lord's doing, so I had liberty to preach. That's how God uses it. Seemed
like folks were encouraged, and I was thankful to be there. It
was good to see some brethren I hadn't seen in a long time.
And I was thankful for the messages that you all got to hear here
on Sunday. Psalm 119, beginning of verse
33. And I chose this passage of scripture
because in the verses we're going to look at in John chapter 9, looking at our Lord as He taught
and what He has to teach us, and how God's children are always
in need of being taught, and how the Lord said, when the Comforter
comes, He will teach you and lead you into all truth and bring
to your remembrance the things that I have taught you. How oftentimes
we hear these words, Lord, teach us, teach us to pray. Teach us
your word. And how faithful and gentle our
Lord is to teach us. And often he uses affliction
to do that. But the affliction, not by itself,
the affliction is always married with God's Word and he uses the
two things together to lead us into all truth and to teach us
who he is and what he's done. Here's our prayer, here's our
prayer. Teach me, oh Lord, the way of
thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end." Lord, if you'll
teach me, you ought to keep teaching me. Teach me again, again. You know, History really does
repeat itself, doesn't it? Not just in the grand scheme
of things but in our own lives, history keeps repeating itself.
We don't learn too well and we have to learn the same lesson
over and over again and how faithful he is to teach us. All the way to the end. Give
me understanding and I shall keep thy law, yea, I shall observe
it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the paths of
thy commandments, for therein do I delight. We do, faith delights
in God's word. We rejoice in his law, we're
thankful for it. And it's our life. Incline my heart
unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness. Turn away my
eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way. Establish thy word unto thy servant
who is devoted to thy fear. Turn away my reproach, which
I fear. for thy judgments are good. Behold, I have longed after thy
precepts, quicken me in thy righteousness." All the different words that
are used to describe how the Lord teaches His commandment,
His law, His testimony, His precepts, His word, all those things in
these few verses. Let's pray together. Our gracious Heavenly Father, we are in need of being taught. Lord, we're so dull and slow
of heart to believe We pray that you would teach us again. Thy
testimonies, thy precepts, thy commandments, thy way, reveal
to us thy son. And we know, Lord, that with
him will come everything that we need. Lord, forgive us for
We're being obstinate, rebellious, unteachable. Make our hearts teachable this
hour. Speak in truth and empower. Reveal
to us your your sovereign grace and your glory in the person
of thy dear son. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's stand together again, hymn
number 239, 239. Art thou weary, art thou languid,
art thou sore distressed? Come to me, saith one at coming,
thee at rest. He marks to lead me to Him, if
He be my guide. In His feet and hands are wound
prints and His sigh. Is there diadem as monarch that
his brow adorns? Yea, a crown in merry surety,
but a If I still hold closely to him,
what hath he at last? Sorrow vanquished, labor ended,
Jordan passed. If I ask Him to receive me, will
He say b'nai? Not till earth and not till heaven
pass away. Finding, following, keeping,
struggling, is he sure to bless? Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs,
answer yes. Please be seated. Let's open our Bibles to John
chapter nine. John chapter nine. The last two
Wednesday nights we've looked at this miracle and maybe we'll
just stay here for a while. There's so much in this chapter.
Our Lord often taught and continues to teach his children by the
use of parables. The disciples asked the Lord,
Lord, why do you speak to them in parables? And he said, because
it's not for them to know the mystery of the kingdom of God.
A parable is a story about something that's very natural or very common
in the world, but it has a It has a spiritual application,
a spiritual meaning. It's an allegory. And men will
hear the story, but for the grace of God and but for the spirit
of God, they'll not be able to make the connection. Even the
disciples in Matthew chapter 13, when our Lord gave the parable
of the soils, and that's the passage where they asked the
Lord, Lord, why do you speak to them in parables? And the
disciples didn't know what it meant, but the Lord interpreted
the parable for them. And I think that it's in that
same chapter where the scripture says that without a parable,
spake he not unto them. So the Lord's common use of teaching
was to use parables, the kingdom of God is like. And I've titled
this message, A Parable in Action. A Parable in Action, because
the Lord's going to do some things to this man that was born blind
that are, they are parabolic, they have meaning to them. They are significant. They're
pictures of a spiritual truth, but unless the Lord enables us
to compare scripture to scripture and to understand what it is
he's saying, we will not learn anything from this parable. This
is a parable in actions. Some very unusual things the
Lord's going to do here. He's going to take some dirt
from the ground and put it in the palm of his hand and spit
into it and make some clay. And then take that clay and put
it on the eyes of this man that was born blind and then tell
him to go to the pool of Siloam and wash. And there's significance
in those actions, in those commands. There's a message in there. And
I so hope that the Lord will enable us to understand the meaning
of this parable being acted out. Verse six of John chapter nine,
Well, let's just begin in verse five. As long as I am in the
world, I am the light of the world. Now that's the doctrine.
That's the teaching. The word doctrine means teaching.
And the doctrine that our Lord's teaching is who he is in reference
to our need for a light. We come into this world spiritually
blind to the things of God. We see physically and we may
understand some things on other levels of life in common ways,
but as far as understanding spiritual truth about who God is and who
we are What the Lord Jesus accomplished and how it is that God's pleased
to save sinners. We are completely blind to that.
What happened in the garden without him thrusts the entire world
into utter, utter darkness. And we come into this world with
a darkened heart. And the Lord said, I am the light
of the world. We are by nature alienated from
God. We are by nature dead. A dead
man can't see anything. We're dead in our trespasses
and sins. We are groping like a blind man
in darkness trying to understand the things of God. And all the
different flavors of religion that there are in the world are
just that. Blind men leading blind men and
they ultimately all fall into the ditch. Lord, I need for you
to shine the light of truth in my heart. And if he does, it'll
be in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, he will
reveal the person and the work and the glory of the Lord Jesus
Christ because he is the revelation of truth. He is the truth. We are by nature without hope
and without God in this world. And yet, Ephesians 1, verse 14
says that in Christ, we're no longer without hope and without
God. No, we are without blame before
him in love. Oh, how can we go from without
hope and without God to being in the presence of a holy God
and without blame? 2 Peter 3, verse 13 says that
we are without spot, without spot, blameless before a holy
God. You see, this is where, this
is where this parable is leading us. to show us how the Lord takes
us, how it is the Lord takes us from being blind and dead
and without God and alienated and with no hope of ever understanding
God to the Lord taking us and giving us sight, making us. Well,
Revelation chapter 14 verse 5 says that that the saints of God stand
before the throne of God without fault, without fault. No charge can be made against
them. Hebrews 9, verse 28 says that we are in Christ without
sin. How can we go from being without
hope and without God to being without sin? Philippians chapter
2 verse 15 says that we are in Christ without rebuke. Without rebuke. No rebuke can be made, justified
by faith without the deeds of the law. No condemnation to them
that are in Christ Jesus. The law has nothing more to say
to us. Philippians chapter 1 verse 14 says that when the Lord gives
us eyes to see, we are without fear. Without fear, without the
fear of wrath, without the fear of judgment. Oh, when the Lord
enables us to set our affections on things above or Christ is
seated at the right hand, we have nothing to fear. I am the light of the world.
That's the doctrine, that's the teaching. And now here's the
parable. Verse six, when he had thus spoken,
when he had thus declared this glorious truth, how he was going
to take those who were without form and without void, those
who had nothing but confusion, and darkness and speak light
and life? He spat on the ground, made clay
of the spittle. He anointed the eyes of the blind
man with the clay. He said unto him, go wash in
the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation sent. He went his way therefore and
washed. and came seeing. The first thing that stands out
to me in this act of parable that the Lord's doing is that
our God uses means He used, this is a very important part of this
miracle because the Lord's going to use the means of his word,
the means of preaching, the means of prayer, he's going, our God
uses means. He doesn't, he could have, He
could have elected a people and ordained his son to be the lamb
slain before the foundation of the world and accomplished all
of that, but he didn't. He used means to accomplish it. Now, man-made religion is full
of hocus-pocus, ceremony and rituals and superstition. from the smoke and mirrors of
the Catholic Church to the laying on of hands that a lot of our
more conservative friends might attempt to do. And they take
stories like this and they come up with all sorts of physical
things that can be looked at. The Lord has ordained two physical ordinances in his church, baptism
and the Lord's Supper. Beyond that, we don't try to
create something in order to give the flesh something to look
at. And that having been said, the
Lord uses means. We get sick, we use his means.
He uses the means of doctors and medication. You know, when
James was speaking about calling the elders together when those
that are sick and he said pray over them and anoint them with
oil, the anointing of oil was not James' way of saying perform
this ritual over them where, you know, that somehow That's
going to, oil was used medicinally in the early years of the church. And so I just believe that that
was the Lord saying to me and you, yes, pray. And if you need
to go see the doctor and get some medicine because those are
instruments of healing in my hand and I will use those means
to accomplish. my healing. I'll get all the
glory. I provided the means and I use
the means. He's going to use spittle and
mud and a pool by the name of Siloam. The Lord uses the means
of prayer to conform your heart and my heart to his image. He
uses the means of preaching the gospel to enlighten the eyes
of our understanding, to teach us and to save. His lost sheep,
save all of his sheep. He uses preaching. He uses his
word to instruct us in the things of God. He uses the means of
affliction to cause us to come before him humbly and seek his
mercy and his help in our time of need. He uses the fellowship
of the saints. We've enjoyed that already tonight.
to encourage one another, to spur one another on in the faith,
to teach one another from whatever our experience has been as the
Lord has brought us through circumstances and taught us things and what
a blessing it is to share those experiences with each other.
These are all the means that the Lord uses He used the means of the incarnation. God was made flesh and dwelt
among us. He used the means of the cross
to satisfy divine justice. He used the means of resurrection
to prove our justification before God. As evidence, I should say,
as evidence. that the father was satisfied
with what the Lord did. He used the means of the ascension
to show us that he had gone to prepare a place for us and that
all that was required for us to enter into glory, he would
provide when he took his rightful place at the right hand of the
majesty on high. All of these things, and we looked at this recently,
You know, some people have gotten the idea that God using means
diminishes his sovereignty, but, you know, there are people who
say, well, you know, we don't need to, we don't need to evangelize.
God's elected a people, he's going to save them one way or
the other, we don't need to. I've even heard people say that
if God elected you to salvation, that you could You could live
and die a Muslim, you're still going to go to heaven because
God's sovereign in his election. No, he uses means to bring us
out of those false religions and bring us to Christ. And it
doesn't diminish his sovereignty. You see, they think that that
sort of thinking exalts the sovereignty of God. No. No, the fact that our God
uses means every day in our lives only exalts his sovereignty. It enlarges
his sovereignty that God would use the free, uncoerced choices
and decisions that men make innumerable times a day and use
those things to accomplish his preordained purpose and will. That's what David was talking
about in Psalm 139 when he was contemplating these things and
he finally came to the conclusion, these things are too wonderful
for me. I cannot attain unto them. If I start thinking about
these things, it just, I short circuit real soon. God is, oh,
he's so glorious. And here our Lord is teaching
you and me. that in his glory and in his
grace, he's gonna use prayer and preaching and affliction
and fellowship of the saints and all the many things. Gonna use his word to establish our righteousness
and to accomplish our salvation all the way to the end. The second thing I see in this
parable is the significance of the water and the earth being
mixed together to make clay. And how we are reminded that
this water clearly We don't think normally of spittle
as being water, but that's what it is. Where did it come from? It came from the mouth of our
Savior. And what does the Bible teach
us about water? The water of his word, which
washes us and cleanses us? Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
55. Isaiah 55. Look with me at verse 10. Isaiah
55 verse 10. For as the rain cometh down and the snow from
heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh
it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower
and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it. So here's another parable. Every
day we see the rain coming and it waters the earth and the plants
of the earth bud and grow and then produce seed. and then we
take the seed and we increase the amount of vegetation that
we have with the seed and God's calling the seed his word. So this word that came out of
my mouth comes down to the earth and the sower, right now I'm
fulfilling that responsibility, that role as a sower. trying
to sow the seed and that it might give bread to the eater. Oh,
I so hope that the Lord will feed our souls with the bread
of life, comfort us in Christ, grow us in his grace. That's
why we're here. And so the Lord says, so shall
my word that comes out of my mouth. Every word that he spoke
is the water of life. And here we are, here we are
pictured as the dust of the earth. How did God make Adam? Yeah, he fashioned him from the
earth, didn't he? What does the Bible say about
you and I? We are earthen vessels. That's our flesh. And we have
this treasure, the treasure of the gospel, the treasure of Christ,
the treasure of God's grace in an earthen vessel that the glory
and the power might be of God and not of us. So no attention
can go to the earthen vessel. They're clay pots. The Bible describes us as having
feet of clay. Is there anything more fragile
than a clay pot that was made from the earth? And yet the potter,
the potter takes from one lump of clay and he makes some vessels
of honor and some of dishonor. And the clay can't say to the
potter, why hast thou made me such? He does whatsoever he wills.
and how glorious that is and how it brings us to his feet
once again. Oh, Lord. Lord, I'm just a clay. I'm just clay. That's all I am. If you don't take the water of
your word and mix it with this clay, if you don't put the treasure
of the gospel in the vessel of this clay, Lord, I'll not see. I'll not see, I'll be blind.
And I'll be content with all the things of the world that
I see and never know. I'll never know that I was blind
to the things of God. This is the picture here. Turn
with me to Jeremiah chapter 18. Jeremiah 18. We just saw in Isaiah 55 that
this water is the word that comes out of his mouth and it'll not
return unto him void, it'll accomplish. It'll accomplish the purpose
for which he sent it. Sometimes God sends his word
to give life. The Lord talks about it as being
a saver of life and a saver of death. So sometimes the word
of God is purposed of God to harden, just like the Lord hardened
Pharaoh's heart. God will use his word and he'll
use his gospel to harden men's hearts. And they'll hear it and
they'll not believe it and they'll reject it. And it will serve
as a hardening of the heart. Lord, don't let that happen to
me. Lord, soften my heart. We talk about clay and the Word
of God. Yes, it's like rain, but it's
also like the sun. And the sun has an effect on clay,
doesn't it? It'll harden clay. But that same
sun that hardens clay will soften wax. Lord, make my heart tender. Make it soft. Cause me to receive
your Word. It won't return to God, Boyd. It'll accomplish the purpose
for which he sent it. And we know the Lord Jesus, as
the living word, did not return home, Boyd. He ascended back
into glory with all the names of those for whom he lived and
died. And he didn't go back, Boyd. He went back a successful,
Sovereign Savior. He went back as our surety. He
went back as our advocate before the Father. We have him seated
at the right hand of God. Look at Jeremiah chapter 18,
verse 1. The word which came to Jeremiah
from the Lord saying, Arise and go down to the potter's house.
And there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down
to the potter's house, and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of
clay was marred in the hand of the potter. So he made it again,
another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then
the word of the Lord came to me saying, O house of Israel,
cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? Behold,
as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand,
O house of Israel. No better place to be. No better
place to be than in the Lord's hand. How many times He has to
take that lump of clay and fashion it again, fashion it again. It gets marred with our sin,
doesn't it? I mean, I know he's talking about
Israel and creating and taking the gospel to the Gentiles here. Prophetically, that's what's
being said, but individually, we're We're clay in the hands
of the potter and as he fashions us, we end up being marred and
he has to fashion us again. So here's the parable. Here's the parable. We're blind. God's gonna use means to bring
us to himself. And he's going to take dirt from
the ground and mix with that dirt, water. He's gonna make
clay. Not only do we see that in our
own salvation, but we also see that in the incarnation. We see that in the incarnation,
how glorious the incarnation is. We, I don't think about that
as often as I ought. How the God of glory, the eternal
God of glory worshiped by the angels and in his high and exalted
place of infinite and eternal glory. Holy, holy, holy. Condescended. And we know, we can't even comprehend
how far of a condescension that was. For him to be born of a
woman? A woman that he had created?
A woman that he had sustained? He entered by the Holy Spirit
into her womb and was born and made of a woman, made under the
law, came into this sinful world. Is this not a picture of the
clay in the water, of the dirt in the water? He came, the scripture
says, in the likeness of sinful flesh and all the limitations
of our flesh, he knew. So that we have a priest who
can sympathize with our weaknesses, having been tempted in all ways
that we are. He tired, he hungered, he died. All of that had to be done as
a result of the incarnation. Listen to Psalm 119 verse 130. And the word entrance in this
verse, I looked it up, it's the only place in the entire Bible
where it's used. And it's a word that describes
the opening of a door. The opening of a door and the
coming in. And here's what God says in Psalm 119 verse 130. The entrance of thy words giveth
life. The entrance of thy words giveth
life. Lord, you're gonna have to open
the door. He did open the door of heaven. And he came into this
world, born in a stable, placed in a
feeding trough, no room for him in the inn, suffered the contradiction
of sinners all his life. What a contrast. between where he came from and
he did this to save his people. He opened the door of heaven. The scripture says that in doing
so, he giveth understanding to the simple. You and I are simpletons. We are simple-minded. We can't
know the things of God. Oh, let us impress one another
all we want with our worldly knowledge and experiences, but
when it comes to standing before the presence of God, except you
become as a little child, you should know the kingdom of heaven.
You see, the Lord teaches his children. We come as a child. Lord, you're gonna have to show
me, you're gonna have to teach me. And he gives understanding
to the simple by opening the door of our hearts. He was made after the seed of
Abraham in the likeness of sinful flesh. And men did not see him for who
he was. I preached in Missouri from that
verse in John chapter four where the woman at the well, after the Lord said unto her,
if you knew the gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee,
give me to drink and I will give you living water, you would ask
of him and he would give you living water. And the very next
word out of her mouth was, sir, Sir, you don't have anything
to draw with. And the well is deep. How are
you gonna give me water? She had no idea who she was talking
to. And she had no idea how deep
that well really was. And she had no idea that he was
the only one that could get water from that well for her. But she
was just, she saw him as another man. Oh no, he's the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. It pleased the Father that in
him should all fullness dwell. He said to the disciples, when
they asked, show us the Father and it suffice that thus, he
said to them, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. Oh,
the fullness of God. Men looked at Christ, Just like
they look at him today, they can't see his glory. They can't see his humility either. Or they're offended by his humility. They were offended by his humility
when he came. He can't be the Christ. We know
his father. He's the son of Joseph. We know
his mother. The scripture says that the Jews
judged him according to the flesh. And I know over the years men
have tried to portray pictures of Christ and we see it being
done today. We see it on TV, we see it on,
you know, and always somebody tall and attractive and, you
know, and oh. There wasn't anything in his
outward appearance that was appealing. Why do you seek to stone me?
For the good works that I've done. Not for the good works
that you've done, but because you, being a common man, have
made yourself out to be God. They were offended by his humility.
When Philip went to get Nathanael and tell him, we found the Christ,
the one that Moses spoke of, Jesus of Nazareth, even Nathanael,
one of the disciples, his first response was, What good thing
can come out of Nazareth? The humility of the Lord Jesus,
born as he was in obscurity and living in obscurity and living
in this little village that was despised. They're Galileans,
listen to them talk. He's a Galilean just like that
Jesus was. And they were offended by his
humility. Why? Why are men offended by the humility
of Christ? Because his humility demands
our humility. Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus, who though, who, who, who, thought
it not robbery to be equal with God yet he made of himself of
no reputation and he became a servant. I am meek and lowly learn of
me. Learn of me. And in John chapter 13 at the
Last Supper, the Lord washed the disciples' feet. Now in that culture and in that
day, the lowest servant in the house, the least esteemed servant in
the house would be the one kneeling at the door with the water basin
and towel, washing the feet of everyone that came in. And the
Lord Jesus took that place and he washed the feet of his disciples.
And he said to them, your master has washed your feet. You also
wash one another's feet. Why are men offended by the humility
of the Lord Jesus? Because it demands their humility.
It demands their humility before God, it demands their humility
before men. Men are impressed with power
and the humility of Christ. That's what the Incarnation and
the And the greatest, as with everything about our Lord, the
greatest demonstration of His humility was His suffering on
Calvary's cross. When He bore the sins of His
people and suffered the wrath of His Father, obedient unto
death, yea, even the death of the cross, let this mine be in
you. Oh, what a humble Savior. Men are offended by that. But
here's the incarnation. The incarnation, the earth representing
his nature as a man and the water representing his deity, his nature
as God, fully God, fully man and the humility of everything
that he did. and men were offended by it. In closing, let me just give
you a couple of verses relating to Siloam. Siloam was a pool of water inside
the city walls of Jerusalem. And back in the 7th century BC,
King Hezekiah went to the well, there was a spring outside the
city walls called Gilboa. And Gilboa was a spring that
went down into the aquifer. And it means to gush forth, it
was a constant source of water, but it was outside the city.
And Hezekiah, in order to provide water in the city, had his engineers
dig a tunnel through solid rock from the spring of Gilboa to
the inside the city wall and there was a pool called Siloam.
And you can look at it on maps, it's quite amazing. It's not
a straight shot. They started at both ends, and
they dug through solid rock a third of a mile. And this tunnel exists
today. And it drops 12 inches from Gilboa
to the Siloam, the pool that's inside the city. And they met
together. They started from both ends.
And they're underground in solid rock, and they met together. What's the picture here? The
Lord sent him to the pool of Siloam. Well, that well of water
outside the city, that's Christ. He was crucified outside the
city. And what are we doing? We're
tunneling through solid rock, aren't we? I mean, the more we
are, We're trying to bring that water inside the city. And there's
a pool in the city. This is the gospel. This is what
we're doing. And God, the one who was sent
of God sent this blind man after illustrating in this parable,
the two natures of Christ and the word of God anointing the
flesh of this blind man. He now sends him to the pool
where the water is. Hezekiah was trying to provide
water in the city so when the Assyrians, when they besieged the city,
they would have a source of water, which they did. Oh, how Satan has besieged our cities,
has he not? There's no source of water out
there. That water has to be brought in, into Jerusalem, the city
of peace. And when the Lord heals a blind
man, he sends him to the pool of Siloam, interpreted scent. Reminding us of the one that
was sent from heaven with the word of God and reminding us
that it's God that sends us to his church to hear his word. That we might have life. Turn back just a couple pages.
I'll read one passage and we'll close. John chapter three. John
chapter three. Look at verse 30. John the Baptist
says, he must increase, but I decrease. He that cometh from above is
above all. He that is of the earth is earthy
and speaketh of the earth. He that cometh from above is
above all. We're earthy, he's from heaven. And what he hath seen and heard,
that he testifieth. And no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony
hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath
sent speaketh the words of God, for God giveth not the Spirit
to him by measure. For the Father loveth the Son
and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not, the
Son shall not see life, shall not see life. You see that? They're
blind, why can't they see? Because they're blind. shall
not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. There is one from above, one
that came down from heaven, one that opened the door of heaven
and entered into this world. He's the word of God, he had
made flesh and he dwelt among us. The water that comes out
of his mouth and the clay that we're made from, must be brought
together to anoint our eyes and then he sends us, he sends us
to the pool of Siloam inside the city to wash and this blind
man came back seeing. A parable, a parable, it's an
allegory, it's our experience in action. Brother Tom. 326, let's stand together. More of His grace to others show
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