evening. We're going to read
from Genesis chapter 1 this evening, and I've prepared a message from
John chapter 9 on the sixth miracle that John records, and it is
the healing or the giving of sight to the man that was born
blind. And so tonight we're going to
be thinking about the Lord Jesus Christ being the light of the
world. And so as we read these verses
in Genesis chapter one, I want you to think with me about Christ
and the gospel and how this relates to him. In the beginning, verse
one, God created the heaven and the earth. The earth, and that's
us, was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face
of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters." Think about the water of God's Word and how we are
without form and born blind, and the Spirit of God moves the
Word of God to give light. And God said, let there be light. And there was light. And God
saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from
darkness, and God called the light day, and the darkness he
called night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day. Now, if you go down with me to
verse 14. And God said, let there be lights
in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and
years. And let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth.
And it was so. And God made two great lights.
The greater light to rule the day. And we know that's the sun. In Psalm 19, the Lord likens
the Lord Jesus Christ to the sun. that rises and sets. He made two great lights, the
greater light to rule the day, the lesser light, that's the
moon. The moon doesn't generate light, it only reflects light. And so as the Lord said, I am
the light of the world, he also said, you are the light of the
world. And so the lesser light was to
rule the night. We live in a dark world and the
light of the gospel. We're the witnesses of that light. And he made the stars also. We
know what they represent. Those are the gospel preachers
that carry the light of the gospel. And God sent them in the firmament
of heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the
day and over the night and to divide the light from darkness.
And God saw that it was good, and the evening and the morning
were the fourth day. Tom, it's good to have you back.
Glad you're recovering well. Robert is suffering with his
arthritis and not able to be here, so we assured him that
we would remember him in prayer tonight. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly Father, we pray
that the Lord Jesus Christ, as the
Son of righteousness, the light of truth would shine in our hearts. We pray that the Spirit of God
would move upon the waters Lord, we left ourselves are without
form and void and darkness on the surface of the deep. And
Lord, we have no means of generating light ourselves. We pray that
you would shine the light of truth in our hearts and show
us your glory. And Lord, we pray that as the
moon reflects the light that you would use us and be pleased
to reflect the light of your grace through us to our loved
ones and to those around. Lord, we thank you for the for
the gospel. We thank you for your truth and
for your word. And Lord, we were so needy that
you would bless us tonight as we So we've come here to this
place. You brought us here, Lord, and
we know that where two or three are gathered together in your
name that you promised to be in the midst of us. And so, Lord,
we have no place to go but to trust your promises and what
great hope we have in knowing that you are faithful to your
word. And so we look forward to you speaking to our hearts
tonight. We pray for our brother, Robert,
and ask, Lord, that your hand of strength and healing would
be upon him and bring him to be able to return here again
soon. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's sing again out of the hardbacked
hymnal here, number 186. The church's one foundation is
Jesus Christ, her Lord. She is his new creation by water
and the Word. From heaven he came and sought
her to be his holy bride. With his own blood he bought
her, And for her life he died. Elect from every nation, Yet
one o'er all the earth, Her charter of salvation, One Lord, one faith,
one birth, One holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses, with every grace endued. Mid toil and tribulation and
tumult of her war She waits the consummation of peace forevermore
Till with the vision glorious, her longing eyes are blessed,
And the great church victorious shall be the church at rest. Yet she on earth hath union with
God the free in one, And mystic sweet communion with those whose
rest is won. O happy ones and holy, Lord,
give us grace that we, like them, the meek and lowly, on high may
dwell with Thee. All right, let's open our Bibles
to John chapter 9. John chapter 9. I hope it's been profitable to
you these past Wednesday nights to look at the seven miracles
of the gospel of John. We are at the sixth of the seven. The seventh one we'll find in
chapter 11 at the raising of Lazarus. from the dead. But here in chapter 9 we have
the longest passage of Scripture, the most
given to a miracle. All 41 verses in this chapter
are dedicated by the Holy Spirit to this miracle. And so we're not going to deal
with all 41 verses. Don't worry about that. We're
just going to look at the first few verses, but the emphasis
that the Lord gives to this miracle, the importance of it, revealing
the Lord Jesus Christ as the light of the world. Look with
me in verse five. As long as I am in the world,
I am the light of the world. We'll begin reading in verse
one. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind
from his birth. And his disciples asked him,
saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that
he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath
this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should
be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him
that sent me while it is day. The night cometh when no man
can work. As long as I am in the world,
I am the light of the world. You can say I'm a light of the
world, I am the light of the world. In him is no darkness. When he had thus spoken, he spat
on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the
eyes of the blind man with clay. And 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 strikes
me with this miracle is the contrast between what the Lord does in
verse one and what he did in the last verse of the previous
chapter. In the last verse of the previous chapter, verse 59,
then took they up stones to cast at him. The Lord Jesus Christ
identifies himself as Jehovah. in verse 58, when he said, barely,
barely, I say unto you before Abraham was, I am Jehovah. And they took up stones to cast
at him, but Jesus hid himself. I don't mean he ducked away. He just disappeared from their
side. They didn't know what happened
to him. He hid himself and went out of
the temple. Now, when I say disappeared,
I don't mean that he literally disappeared, but he, in their
eyes, they didn't know where he went. He just walked out and
they couldn't see him. And that way he hid himself. And he went out of the temple,
going through the midst of them, and so passed by. I knew a man that his first language
was Spanish and he learned English as an adult by reading the King
James Bible. And he would often say to me,
I'll pass by your house tomorrow about such and such a time. And
my thinking was, well, why don't you just stop? Why are you passing
by? But to him, to pass by was what
he learned in the English language, which meant to come by, to stop
there. Because that's exactly what is
being said in the next verse. And Jesus passed by and saw a
man which was blind from birth. What a rare and precious thing
it is for the Lord Jesus Christ to pass by. Multiple billions of people have
had him hid from them. He has hid himself from the vast
majority of the people of this world. Nations, generations,
families, left them to themselves and never passed by. Amos chapter eight, the Lord
said, there is a famine in the land, not a famine of bread or
of thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of God. You and I live in a world that
is famine stricken, spiritually speaking. We have an abundance
of material things and certainly we have plenty of food, but the
bread of life has hit himself. He's passed by without stopping.
1 Samuel chapter three, The scripture
says the word of the Lord was precious in those days for there
was no open vision. The Lord had left Israel to themselves
and he had hid himself and passed by and not revealed himself.
What a, what a glorious thing it is, brethren. Because when
we gather together and The gospel is preached and God's
people are in prayer, wanting to hear from God. The Lord's
passing by. And it's just such a rare and
glorious thing. You remember in Acts chapter
16, the scripture says that Paul had a mind to go to Asia. but the spirit of God forbid
him and sent, gave him a vision of a man from Macedonia and Paul
ended up going the other way. You know, in a very, very large
sense, that was 2000 years ago. The gospel never went to Asia. Angus was telling me the other
day that the population of India is about to exceed the population
of China. And the Lord has passed them
by. Billions upon billions of people. The Lord said that where two
or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the
midst of them. We have the promise of God that
when we come together and open God's word and lift up the Lord
Jesus Christ, that he's here among us, that he has stopped
and he has not passed us by. The evidence of men's blindness
is that they have no interest in where the Lord is. The thousands of people that
live in this community, the Lord has promised to be here and yet
they have no interest in that. We, on the other hand, sing,
pass me not, O gentle Savior. Oh, hear my humble cry, while
on others thou art calling, do not pass me by. Or don't pass
me by, don't leave me to myself. If that's going to be, the Lord
will put in our hearts that prayer. And he will cause us to do, you
remember in Luke chapter 24, when those disciples on the road
to Emmaus were walking with the Lord and they didn't know it
was the Lord. And when they finally got to their home, the scripture
says the Lord made, he would have, how does it say? He would
have passed on is what the scripture says. He would have continued.
They said, oh, we're here at our house. And the Lord said,
okay, nice talking to you. And he would have continued. And the scripture says they cried
out. Said, oh no, no, come in. And in the breaking of bread,
he opened up their eyes and they saw him for who he was. But he required them and he provided
them the desire for him to stay. And so it is for every one of
God's people. Matter of fact, in Mark chapter
six, the story on the road to Emmaus,
the scripture says, they constrained him. They constrained him to
come into their home. And that's what we do. Oh Lord,
meet with us, meet with us. Make yourself known to us. Open
the eyes of our understanding. Don't leave us to ourselves.
Pass by and stop here. In Mark chapter six, when the
disciples, the scripture says they were rowing feverishly in
a storm and the Lord came walking on the water and he acted as
if he would have passed them by. And they cried out and they pleaded
with him to get in the boat, save them. Blind Bartimaeus heard, he couldn't
see, but he heard that the Lord was passing by. And what did
he do? He cried, Jesus, thou son of
David, have mercy upon me. This is always the case. He said, what hope do I have
that he's not gonna pass me by? He put in your heart a prayer
for him not to pass you by. You wouldn't have an interest
in him stopping at your house if he was gonna pass you by.
Just like the multiple billions of people of this world who have
no interest in Christ. The fact that you're here, the
fact that you have a desire for him to come to your home, for
him to come into your heart and to this place is the best evidence
that we have that he's not going to pass us by. Notice in verse one, as Jesus
passed by, he saw a man that was blind from birth. He sees
us long before we see him. He must see us if we are to ever
see him. And we will never find him. except
by him revealing himself to us. He saw a man that was blind from
birth. The Lord told those disciples, I
must needs go through Samaria. He saw that woman at the well
long before she saw him. He saw those men and women in
Sychar that were his before they saw him. And he went out of his
way to go to where they were. He hid himself from these people
in Jerusalem who were offended by who he was claiming to be. And then he passed by and saw
a man that was blind from birth. He saw that one demon-possessed
man in the gatherings that was cutting himself with stones and
chained and living in the graveyard, possessed with demons. He saw
him. He got in a boat, went across
the Sea of Galilee, delivered one individual, and then came
back. And what did the rest of them say? Leave our coast. Remember that's when he cast
the demons into the swine and they ran into the ocean and they
begged him to leave. Don't stay here. Don't stay here. We're not interested in you.
This is costing us too much. The one demoniac, the Lord saw
him before that demoniac ever saw the Lord. The Lord saw his
people suffering under the harsh hand of the Egyptian taskmasters. He saw them before they saw him. The Lord told Moses that he saw
the suffering of his people and he was going to send Moses to
set them free. The Lord Jesus Christ, on a couple
of occasions at least, saw the multitudes and had compassion
on them for he saw them as sheep without a shepherd. Aren't you
glad that he sees us before we see him? Matter of fact, we're not capable
of seeing him unless he sees us and opens the eyes of our
understanding. You remember in John chapter two, or John chapter
one, when Nathanael is, Philip comes to Nathanael and says to
him, we have found the Messiah. Well, they didn't find the Messiah,
the Messiah found them. But Nathanael said, what good,
Jesus of Nazareth, what good could come out of Nazareth? Come
and see. And when Nathanael came to the
Lord, remember what the Lord said? He said, oh, an Israelite
indeed in whom there is no guile, you're one of mine. Nathanael
said, how do you know me? The Lord said, I saw you before
Philip called you under the fig tree. And Nathanael was just
amazed. Nathanael said, oh, thou art
the son of God. He saw me before I ever saw him.
If he hadn't said his affections on me, I never would have come
to him. I'm interested in the Lord stomping
by my house. The tabernacle of this body,
my home, and my house, our house. I want the Lord to not hide himself. I want him to pass by and stop
and take notice of us. And here's the evidence that
he has, that we have a desire for that. That's the evidence
that he has. And that our admission is that
apart from his saving grace, apart from his mercy, we're blind. We were born blind. Notice the
condition of this man. He couldn't see. He never has
been able to see. And he was helpless to do anything
about his blindness. Never, he says in this chapter,
he says, never has it been recorded that a man born blind was given
his sight. Never. First time in the history
of the human race, a man born blind was given his sight. Physical blindness must be a
great trial, but spiritual blindness is much, much worse. Much worse. And yet that's how we come into
this world. You know, babies are very slow to
focus in on things, aren't they? When they're very young. I've
read that there's some medical procedures where a person who
was born blind with a physical defect could be corrected and
they would get their vision. But it takes a while for them
to understand what it is they're looking at. They have to build
a memory in order to register what they're actually looking
at with what's there. In other words, you don't just
all of a sudden get your sight and everything is clear. And
so it is with babies. They come into this world, they're
born blind, and they're having to build a memory and a focus
on things as they develop their sight. We come into this world
blind until the Lord gives us eyes to see. We have no point
of reference. We don't know we're blind. We
don't know what it is to see until we see. We don't know what
it is to be blind until we see. We didn't know we had an old
man until we were given a new man. We didn't know we were dead
in our trespasses and sins until God gave us life. We didn't know that we came from
the womb speaking lies and drank water or drank iniquity like
water. We didn't really understand anything
about the fall as it related to us. We didn't know that in
Adam, we all died until we were given life. Until we got our
sight, then we began to connect the dots and began to see what
it was that we were. We are blind, spiritually blind
from birth. That's the effect of the fall
of Adam. You know, Adam is often referred
to by particularly theologians who like to write books as our
federal head, as our federal head. And he is, but he's more
than that. The president of the United States
is our federal head right now, whether we like it or not. But
your father is your seminal head. You came from him. And that's what Adam is to us. We were in the loins of Adam
when Adam fell. And when Adam fell, we fell.
When Adam sinned, we sinned. And someone hears that and they
say, well, I don't like being held responsible for someone
else's fault. God's not holding us responsible
for someone else's fault. We were there. We were in the
garden. Second thing I would say is,
you think you would have done better? And the third thing I
would say would be, how you been doing since? And the fourth thing I would
say is that if we don't see ourselves in Adam being culpable and responsible
for his sin, then we cannot have any hope of being found in Christ,
the last Adam, and being given his righteousness, and the hope
of our salvation that's in him. So you see here, the Lord Jesus
Christ passed by, and he saw a man who could not see him.
And the man was blind from birth. From birth, he was blind. What does it mean to be blind?
Spiritually blind. It means that we can't see who
God is. We have no understanding of the holiness of God. And in
our blind state, we prove that we're blind to his holiness with
any thought of us having an acceptance with God based on something we
do. We prove that we're blind to the holiness of God. The natural
man thinks that there's something he can do to merit his salvation. There's something he can do to
persuade or to earn favor with God, to find a place to stand
in the presence. We only prove by that thinking
that we are blind to what holiness is. The natural man born blind is
blind to the love of God. He thinks that God loves everybody. Oh, a love that would send a
person to an eternal damnation. What kind of love is that? God loves them the same way he
loves a person who goes to heaven. You see, men by nature are blind
to the love of God. They are blind to the power of
God. Men by nature think that, you
know, God wants to save me and he just doesn't have the ability
to do it all by himself, so I've got to do my part. We're just,
this is the way of the natural man. This is the way we were.
This is how we were born. This is evidence of our blindness. We're blind to the absolute,
total, complete sovereignty of God. You know, I actually had
a professor in seminary tell me that what the Lord was saying
here, We've got eight-year-old children
in this congregation that have better spiritual sight than my
triple PhD seminary professor, who said when the disciples asked
him, Lord, is he blind because of his sin or because of the
sins of his parents? And you know how he interpreted
the Lord's response? He said, oh no, neither. But
since he is blind, let's use it for God's glory. That's blasphemy. That is an
absolute, total denial of the sovereignty of God. The Lord
Jesus Christ is not saying, since he's blind, let's use it for
God's glory. The Lord Jesus Christ is saying,
I caused him to be born blind so that this hour I could bring
glory through him to me. We're not just taking advantage of
a situation that I didn't have any control over. And yet men
are blind to the fact that our God is sovereign. I created darkness, light, evil,
goodness. I'm the Lord. I do all those
things. Our God's the first cause of
everything. And when he gives us sight, we
understand something of the electing, particular, eternal love of God. We understand something of his
omnipotence and of his sovereignty and of his holiness and how unable
we are to stand in his presence apart from the Lord Jesus Christ
being our righteousness and all of our acceptance before God. Men are blind to the justice
of God. Anything less than the perfect,
sinless sacrifice of the Son of God will not satisfy God's
justice. And yet men go through life thinking,
you know, this question that the disciples ask him, So self-righteous,
isn't it? Is he blind because of a sin
that his parents did? Is that why he's blind? It's
amazing the Lord didn't look at them and say, what do you
think that you've sinned? If that was the reason for his
blindness, you'd all be blind. You'd all be blind. Men by nature, we by nature,
born blind, have no way to see how our God is immutably holy,
immutably gracious, immutably loving. He's the same yesterday,
today, and forever, that I am the Lord and I change not, and
therefore you sons of Jacob are not. You see, When we're born
blind is that we can't see God. We have no understanding of who
he is. And so we fashion a God that
looks like us. What did the Lord say? You thought
that I was altogether such a one as yourself. And that's what
men do. They create a God that, well,
this is where I would be if I was God. The Lord doesn't open the eyes
of our understanding and reveal himself to us. We'll have no
way, no way of seeing him for who he is. And we're blind, not
only to the nature of God, we're blind to the nature of man. We're blind to our spiritual
deadness. We're not sick, we're dead. We're not drowning, we're dead. We're not weak, we're dead. A dead man can do nothing. But men by nature, all of us
by nature, come into this world blinded to that. We think, well,
there's something I can do. Something I can do. We're unable
to feel, we're unable to see, we're unable to believe. sinful, everything about us in
our blind, fallen state. We're unable to know anything about the sweet
comfort of the Holy Spirit who points us to Christ, reveals
to us his beauty, Oh, how lovely he is. His power, his grace,
his love, his mercy. We're blind to all those things. We're blind to the accomplishments
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're blind to the sufficiency
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our righteousness. He's
our wisdom. He's our sanctification. He's
our redemption. What do you need? What do you
need? You need peace with God? Christ is all. Christ is all
in that. You need forgiveness of sin?
Christ is all. Need happiness? Christ is all.
Joy? Comfort? Hope? Christ is all. He's all and he's in all. Everything
that man needs, Christ is the answer to it. And yet we're blind to that until
the Lord sees us. He passed by, he saw a man, a
particular man who was blind from birth. And he's now revealing himself
to him as the light of the world. John chapter one, in him, in
the Lord Jesus Christ was life. And the life was the light of
man. I am the light of the world.
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have
the light of life. He's that greater light. that
the Lord created. It rises in the East and sets
in the West. And he rose in righteousness,
and one day he's gonna darken it. The urgency that the Lord
gives us in this miracle, I started to call it, it's not a parable,
it's a miracle. The urgency is, we must work while it is day.
For the night is coming when no man can work. This is an urgent
thing, isn't it? We see a building on fire and
we know there's people in the building and we're urgent about
trying to get them out. And whereas a brand and a fire,
there's what the Lord's saying, that we must work the works of
God while it is day. The night's coming when no man
can work. The sun of righteousness is gonna set. Oh, what hope we
have. The Lord has passed us by. He's
seen us for what we are. Blind from birth. Unable to understand
anything about God. Unable to see ourselves for what
we are. Unable to see Christ. And he's
shining the light of the gospel in the face of the Lord Jesus
Christ in our hearts by his word. We have a light. We were, as we read in Genesis
chapter one, without form and void and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. Oh, we need, we need, we've got
to have Christ. Teachers. Roderick is a teacher. We have any other teachers here?
tonight. Teachers can shed light on things
like history and mathematics and science, but only God can
open the eyes of the blind. Only he can teach us the truth
of who he is and who we are and how he's pleased to save centers
A court of law might be able to shed some light on the truth
of what really happened in a situation between men, but they can't reveal
God. A good investigative journalist
might be able to shed some light on the truth of an event or some
situation or some person, but they can't. They can't shine
the light in our hearts and reveal to us who God is. He has to do
that. Luke chapter 11, verse 34 says,
the eye is the light of the body. And if the eye be single, whole
body shall be full of light. But if the eye be evil, and that
doesn't mean that the eye is looking at evil things, that
word evil there means to labor. It's the opposite of being single. If the eye be single, If like
Mary, we sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we choose
that one thing that is needful, and we see that the Lord Jesus
Christ is the light of the world, then the whole body should be
full of light. But if the eye be full of labors, if we're trying
to find answers somewhere outside of Christ, the whole body shall
be full of darkness. And if that darkness be light,
how great is the darkness thereof. In other words, if what a person
thinks they understand by the light that they've gotten from
anything other than the Lord Jesus Christ, if that's their
light, how great is the darkness thereof. They think they can see when
they can't. The blindest person in this world is the one who
thinks he can see when he can't. Verse three in our text, Jesus
answered, neither hath this man sin nor his parents, but that
the works of God should be made manifest in him. He's not saying that he hasn't
sinned. I don't know what these disciples were thinking. How
could he have sinned? And I've read some commentators
say that there was some theories of reincarnation that was circulating
among the Jews in this period of time, that some philosopher
had come about and was teaching karma. And You know, in a sense, we're kind
of like these disciples still, aren't we? We say, well, you
know, what goes around comes around. And we think, well, and
we have these thoughts when something difficult happens, we think,
well, you know, what's the Lord punishing me for? You know, we
get this idea that justice can be satisfied by suffering. Justice, that's what they thought.
Is this suffering come upon him in order to satisfy justice because
of sin? No amount of suffering is going
to satisfy justice. Eternal hell is not going to
satisfy divine justice. This is just such a wrong, this
is such a works view of justice. Is he suffering because of his
sin or because of the sin of his parents? But that's so natural
for men to think that way. We kind of have a reincarnation
view, you know, that we're suffering in this world
because of something bad we did in previous life. No, neither. And the Lord is
not saying they're not without sin. And he's not saying that
sins don't have within them their consequences. But the consequences
of sin are not the punishment of God for justice. Punishment of God for justice
was given to Christ And God was satisfied when he saw the travail
of his soul. And justice was met. And for
those whom he passes by and doesn't stop, eternal damnation won't satisfy
justice. What hope we have in knowing
that justice has been satisfied. that he has manifested the work
of God. Oh, we don't have to apologize
for our God. He does whatever he wants, with
whomever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants, and
he always does it right. And we rejoice in knowing that
our God is absolutely sovereign. Here's what the Lord is saying
to the disciples. I ordained, I purposed him to be born blind. And he's lived all of these years
with the suffering of blindness so that the work of God in salvation
might be made manifest right now. Some men hear that and they say,
well, that's cruel or capricious. That's, that's not fair. That's,
that's just not right. Well, it may not be for your
God, but for our God. Oh yes. Yes. We take great comfort and great
joy and great rest in knowing that what our God does is right. Notice in verse 6, and when he
had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle
and anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Now in the
Old Testament law, if an unclean man spit on a clean man, the
clean man became unclean. That was the transfer of uncleanness
through spittle. That was part of the Levitical
law. And here we have the clean man
spitting on the unclean man to make him whole and give him sight. What a contrast. And he takes
this spittle and he puts it on the ground and makes clay out
of the dirt and puts it on his eyes. Our Lord is fully man. He was born of a woman, born
under the law. And he's fully God. The fullness
of the Godhead bodily. Do we not see something of his
dual nature as the God-man? Putting that on the man's eyes
and telling him to go. Go to Siloam, which being interpreted
is sent, and wash. And he went and washed. He went
willingly, he went gladly. He said, well, what if he had
not gone to wash? Would he have ever seen? The Lord makes his people willing
in the day of his power. He makes them willing. And no,
he wouldn't have seen had he not done what the Lord told him
to do. But he went gladly. He was sent
and he went. He went his way. And he came
see. Oh, I hope. And I do believe. The Lord is passing. about here. And like my Spanish-speaking
friend, when he passed by my house, he always stopped. He
always stopped. I hope the Lord will stop at
each of our homes and each of our hearts and put some clay on our eyes and
enable us to see him. Let's pray. Our heavenly Father,
thank you for your word. Thank you for this miracle of
sight. Lord, thank you for causing us
to see. We pray, Lord, that when you call us and send us,
that we will be made willing by your spirit to come and to
go. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. 235. Let's stand together. 235.