That really brings me to my message
tonight. I want us to talk about how God
opens the eyes of sinners. How God opens the eyes of his
people. And I want us to open our Bibles
with me, if you will, to John chapter nine. John chapter nine. Now, all man by nature are blind. All men by nature are dead in
trespasses and sins. We read that in the study. You
who were dead in trespasses and sins. Speaking to those who have
been quickened. But all men by nature are blind
and are dead. Dead in trespasses and sins and
blind to the glory of God. Blind to who God is. They believe
there is a God, only the fool says no. But they believe there
is a God, but they don't know who God is. That doesn't mean
they don't fabricate their own God. All men have a God-making
factory in their brain, and they worship their ideas, their idolatry. But all men by nature are blind,
and the ones that are the blindest are the religious. The more religion
they have, the blinder they are. The Lord Jesus Christ said this.
He said, if the light that be in you is darkness, how great
is that darkness. If the light that be in you is
darkness, that is to say, you have the word of God and you
don't see Jesus Christ, you don't see God and Jesus Christ, you're
in darkness, great darkness. And I believe this is shown here
in John chapter eight. John chapter 8, I'll just briefly
go through this. These men, these religious leaders,
the Pharisees, they believed in God. They had the scriptures,
they believed in God, but they did not believe that Jesus of
Nazareth was God manifested in the flesh. They did not believe
that He is none other than the Eternal I Am. They did not believe
that he was Jehovah manifest in the flesh. In this same book,
it says that they picked up stones to stone the Lord. He said, for
what good work do you stone me? Many good works have I shown
you, my Father. For which of them do you stone me? They said,
not for doing good works. Man's religion is in the business
of doing good works. They think that by doing good
works, they're going to be saved. They said, but you, being a man,
make yourself to be God. They had it backwards. He, being
God, made himself man. But they did not believe that
He is God. They did not believe. They were
blind. They were blind to the Creator. There was the Creator, the God
of all creation. The one who gave the law in the
Old Testament. He came into the world, the world
was made by Him, the world knew Him not. He came into His own
and the one who owned received Him not. They were blind. And
the Lord said to these men, He said, If you don't believe that
I am. This is in John chapter 8, verse
25. He said, If you don't believe,
verse 24. He said, If you don't believe
that I am, You're going to die in your sins. What do you believe? What do
you think of Christ? Who is He? That's the issue,
isn't it? That's what the whole thing.
Who is Jesus Christ? He said, if you don't believe
that I am, you'll die in your sins. They said, well, you give testimony
of yourself. Your testimony is not true. But
I don't want to start preaching John 8. I want to be disciplined. I want
to get down to the bottom of John 8, or the last part of John
8. Verse 58, the Lord Jesus Christ
said, Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, before
Abraham was, I am. They knew exactly what he was
saying. They knew exactly who he was saying he was. And it
said, they took up stones to cast at him, but Jesus, notice
what it says here, hid himself. Jesus hid himself and went out
of the temple, going through the midst of them and so passed
by. That's my first point I want
us to consider. All men by nature are blind.
And Jesus passed by many who are blind. They were blind to
who he was and he passed them by. Here's the point. Jesus Christ is sovereign in
salvation. He said, I'll have mercy on whom
I'll have mercy. I'll have compassion on whom
I'll have compassion. He is a God of mercy. And he
will show mercy because he is a God of mercy. But his mercy
is bestowed sovereignly on whom he will. He doesn't owe salvation
to you. He doesn't owe salvation to me
or to any man. Salvation is by grace, not of
works. Salvation is by grace. And so
he passed them by. He passed by all the angels that
fell. He passed by Satan, Lucifer, and all the angels that fell.
He passed them by. There is no Savior for them.
Left them in chains of darkness. Passed them by. And He could
pass by men just as well, except that He's a God of mercy. And
He determined to have mercy on somebody. That's election. That's sovereign election. He
chose to save a people. In fact, the Lord Jesus Christ
is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. He's
the one that God has chosen in the beginning to be the Savior
of sinners. And He was sent, the Lord Jesus
Christ said, He's sent to give eyesight to the blind in Isaiah
35. To give open the eyes of the
blind. Well, whose eyes is He going
to open? Whose eyes? Is He going to open everybody's
eyes? Does He owe it to open everybody's eyes? No, He's going
to open the eyes of him whom He pleases to open. My question
is, how does He open their eyes? How does He open their eyes?
Well, it says here in verse 1 of John chapter 9, and as Jesus
passed by, oh my, as He passed by, He could have passed you
by. He could have passed me by. except
for his great love with where he loved us before the foundation
of the world here's the object of god's mercy and as he passed
by he saw a man as he passed by as he passes as he passes
by in this world because the lord jesus christ is still in
this world as the gospel is preached as the gospel goes forth As the
gospel goes forth from this pulpit, as the gospel goes forth on the
radio waves, as the gospel goes forth, the Lord Jesus Christ,
the light of the world is passing by. Who is going to see the light? They've got to have eyes to see.
They've got to have eyes to see. How does God give eyes to see?
As Jesus passed by, he saw man. The man didn't see him. You see
that? He's blind. He's not looking
for him and he's not calling out. and other passages where
we have a blind man being given sight. We have like, for instance,
Bartimaeus where he cries out, Jesus, thou son of David, have
mercy on me. And it's describing the desire,
the work of the Holy Spirit having worked in a man to giving faith. That's why he called out. He
called out in faith. He called that in faith because
he believed the word that he had heard. He believed the word
he had heard. God had already worked a work
in his heart. God had already given him life. The evidence
of that life is faith. But now, right here, it's talking
about a man who is blind from his birth, and that describes
all men by nature. Blind by birth. In our father
Adam, we all fell and we lost the knowledge of God. We lost
the way of God. We lost the truth, the way, and
the life. In Adam, we all died. By one
man, sin entered in the world, and death by sin, for that all
have sinned and come short of the glory of God. He saw this
blind man by birth. A blind man cannot see beauty. A blind man cannot see beauty,
cannot appreciate beauty. He could be told about it, but
he cannot see it. He could even repeat it, but
he can't see it. And this man was blind from birth,
and that is the same way about every lost son of God before
the Lord Jesus Christ gives him eyes to see. He can hear about
it, he can repeat it, but until God gives him eyes to see, he
won't see. Now, there's a parenthesis here,
and I want us to keep this in mind. It's a parenthesis from
verse 2 to 4, and I want us to don't
lose what we're talking about, but I want to talk about what
it says here in verse 2 to verse 4. Because his disciples asked
him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind? A question. Who sinned? This man or his parents that
he was born blind? The thought or the question reveals
the thought in the minds of, in the hearts of men. That if
you live right, God's going to bless you. If you don't live
right, God's going to punish you. That's worse. That's worse. Now, it is true that there are
some principles that if we violate, you know, if you go out and commit
a crime, it's going to go bad for you. The way of a transgressor
is hard. But the Lord, they said, they believed that if a person
is living right, then he's going to be blessed of God. And if
he's not living right, then he's going to have these what men
call calamities. That was the idea of Job's friends. Those Job's three friends, when
they came to visit him, they said, Job, you need to think
about this. They said, Job, who's ever suffered
like this if he hadn't sinned real great? I'm paraphrasing
a lot because I'm not speaking Spanish, but just excuse me on
that. But that's what their thought
was. And it's an evil thought in the
minds of men. Listen, the wages of sin is not
blindness physically. The wages of sin is death. God has not dealt with us according
to our sins. Anything in this earth It's not
really what we deserve. Wages of sin is separation from
God forever. But now, the question is, who
did sin, this man or the other? And the Lord corrected them by
saying, neither did this man sin, nor his parents. But listen
here, that the works of God should be made manifest in him. This is something very, very
deep to me. Deep to me. But the reason, the
reason God allowed Adam and Eve or Adam to fall in the garden was so that the works of God
would be made manifest in His people. You see, God is a God of mercy.
And He must show mercy. And he's going to bring honor
and glory to his name in the saving of a sinful people. So he allows man to fall and
sin and go into blindness that the works of the marvelous works
of the grace of God be manifest in his people. make manifest. The works of God may be made
manifest in him. The works of God are the salvation
of his soul. Giving him, making him like his
son. Making him like his, making us
heirs and joint heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ, partakers
of his divine nature. You see, Adam in his first state
was created holy. But he was created holy and with
ability to fall, and he did fall. And he did fall. But in Christ
Jesus, we have everlasting righteousness. Unable to fall. In Christ, much
more. The works of God are made manifest. His marvelous grace, His mercy
to sinners. God's greatest glory is the saving
of sinners. When Moses asked, if you will
turn with me to Exodus chapter 33, when Moses asked the Lord,
show me your glory, Moses had seen many of the wonderful, mighty
works of God in delivering the children of Israel out of bondage
and captivity in Egypt. He'd seen all those marvelous
works, but Moses is saying, Lord, show me your principal glory. Show me your principal glory. There's a glory, the heavens
declare his glory. Our own bodies, we look how wonderful,
fearfully we're made. That speaks of God's power and
God's wisdom. But that is nothing compared
to God's wisdom and power in saving sinners like you and I. That's where the power of God,
that's where the wisdom of God is revealed. How that God can
be merciful and save sinners and at the same time and not
be defiled. Continued to be God. How can
he be just and justify the ungodly? And the Lord said to Moses, I'll
show you my glory. I'll make all my goodness pass
before you. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
All my goodness is gonna pass before you. And then he says
in chapter 34, verse, chapter 34, and I'm in the wrong book. Verse, Six, and the Lord passed by before
him and proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious,
long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy
for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and
that by that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's
children under the third and fourth generation. You see, it
says here, he's a merciful God, abundant in goodness, gracious,
long-suffering, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
and transgression and sin. How is it going to forgive iniquity,
transgression, and sin? You and I who drink sin like
it was water. They're just filled with sin. You know that word filled with
sin? It's the idea of a sponge. When you put a sponge in water
and you bring it out of the water, there's not a place in that sponge
you can't touch. Then it's just soaked with water.
And that's you and I by nature. Well, how's God going to do that?
God is holy. God is just. He says by no means
clear the guilty. How's he going to do that? Through
the Lord Jesus Christ. By the Lord, the riddle, if you
will, is answered in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the person and work of his dear son. I must, what he said
here, neither has this man sinned or his father, or parents, but
that the works of God may be made manifest in him. And let
the heathen rage. He's God. The Apostle Paul, I like the
way he says it. What are you going to do about it? I'm paraphrasing
again. He said, if he made some vessels
of wrath and he made other vessels unto mercy, who are you to reply
against God? That's what he's saying. God
is God. He can do with his own what he
wants. He's not a little bitty God.
Are you going to let him do something? This is the God of all creation. He's the one that created all
things. All things are made by Him for Him. He is before all
things. All things by Him consist, have
their existence. Well, He said in verse 4, back
in my text in chapter 9, He said, I must work the works of Him
that sent me while it is day. The night cometh when no man
can work. How is He going to justify the ungodly? How is He going to Give life,
light, give eyesight to lost sinners. He said, I must work
the works of him that sent me while it is day. The night cometh
when no man can work. What is that work that God the
Father sent him to do? It says in Galatians 4 in verse
4, In the fullness of time God sent His Son, made unto the woman,
made unto the law, to redeem them that were under the law.
To redeem His people that were under the law. And look in Hebrews
chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. Here the
Lord Jesus Christ is saying, this is quoted from
Psalms, But it says in verse 5, Wherefore,
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering
thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. Sacrifice
and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared
me. Thou wouldest not. The sacrifices that a man can
make. Thou wouldest not. There's nothing
you can do. There's nothing I can do to save
ourselves. There's nothing. Even those sacrifices
in the Old Testament, there were figures and pictures of the fulfillment
in Jesus Christ, of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of time.
They were never given to put away one sin. They never could
put away one sin. It says right here in this text.
all the sacrifices, and all those people in the Old Testament that
did those things, simply following the rites, simply following the
form, without ever seeing the coming Christ, without ever believing
in the Lamb that was to come, they died, they perished in their
sins, they perished in unbelief. They were saved just like you're
saved, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. They believed on
the one that was to come. The one who was going to fulfill
all those types and ceremonies and pictures. The priesthood,
the tabernacle, the sacrifices. The prophet, the priest, the
king. All the promises of the Christ in the Old Testament.
They were saved looking to the one who was to come and fulfill
all that God sent him to do. We are saved by looking to the
one that came. and fulfilled all those things
in the Old Testament. We're saved by the same faith
that Abel was saved. There's no other faith. We're
saved by the same faith of David. Sacrifice and burnt offerings
thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. The eternal
Son of God came into this world and was made flesh, a body. He,
that Holy One that was born of Mary, is none other than the
Eternal Son of God, made flesh, a body. You see, in order for
you and I to stand before God in God's presence, the scriptures,
God is holy. God is holy. The scripture says
God is a consuming fire. You and I cannot come before
God's presence in our own self. We would be destroyed. We'd have
to be cast away into outer darkness. We cannot come in our own righteousness,
our own doings, our own self. God is a consuming fire. He is
holy, holy, holy. But yet God requires that if
you come before God, you have to be holy like God is holy.
You have to have the holiness, the righteousness of God. A body
was prepared, the eternal Son of God, that in the flesh, He
came to do the will of God the Father. He came to establish
God's holy law. He came to honor God's holy law. That law that you and I, yes,
the Ten Commandments, and all that is written in the Old Testament,
He not only fulfilled it in the in the outward but also in the
inward so that he as a man established everything that was written in
the law of God he honored God's holy law established it as a
man and as a man he's the only one that had the right to just
walk into heaven he just he's the only one that had the right
now i'm talking about right I'm talking about right. He has the
right because he honored God. The Father said, this is my beloved
son in whom I'm well pleased. Well, you and I have to have
a righteousness and the righteousness we need is the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. His name is the Lord our righteousness. He is Jehovah Tzidkenu. He is
Jehovah, so that God's people have a righteous, not of their
own, but the Lord Jesus Christ is their righteousness. Everything
he did, I did in my representative. He came and established righteousness.
Thou wouldest not in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast
had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come in the
volume of the book from the beginning. it is written of me to do thy
will oh god above when he said sacrifice and offering and burn
offerings and offerings for sin thou wouldest not neither has
pleasure therein which are offered by the law then said he lo i
come to do thy will oh god he taketh away the first that is
all that was written in the the ten commandments of tabernacle
the the priest, and all the things
that were written of him in the Old Testament, that he may establish
the second, that he may establish, he is the fulfillment. Christ is the end of the law
to them that believe. So it says, by the witch will,
notice it says here, we are sanctified. How are we sanctified? Through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. In the death
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have righteousness. We have a
perfect righteousness. It doesn't get any more perfect. We have perfect righteousness.
Perfect sanctification. Perfect redemption. Once and
for all. So, He came and established that
righteousness, but His people, dead in trespasses and sin, He
was one with his people. So it's not only established
righteousness, God requires a perfect righteousness of his people.
And when he came into the world and he went to the cross, the
scriptures say he was made sin for us who know no sin. God owned the cross, put the
sins of his people. I don't understand this, but
he was made sin for us. He was made the holy, innocent,
separate from sinners, was made sin for his people. And when
he was made sin for his people, the holy justice of God fell
on him. And he cried, my God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? So now God's justice is satisfied
also. God's justice that demands the
death of everyone whosoever sins, the soul that sinned shall surely
die. He took our sins in his own body and died on the cross.
So God's justice is satisfied and God's holiness is satisfied. And God is satisfied. And if
God is satisfied, I'm glad God is satisfied. That's what's important.
I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. Well, he said
back in our text, I must do the works of him that sent me while
it is day, the night cometh when no man can work. The night of
his departure, that is the night when he's no longer fixed physically
in this world. He said, I am the light of the
world. I am the light of the world." In other words, if you're
going to know God, you're going to know the Lord Jesus Christ,
or you're not going to know God. There is no other revelation
of God. He is the way, the truth, and
the light. And no man comes to the Father
but by Him. He said, the night cometh when
no man can work. In other words, that work that
He did, the saving of His people, had to be a finished work. A finished work. This is what
the Apostle Paul says we're always battling people, wolves in sheep's
clothing, coming around saying, you need to do this. It's okay
that you believe Christ, but now you need this. You're not
complete. You're not complete in Christ. You need to go be
circumcised and start obeying these and that and other laws.
And Paul said, Paul said, I tell you, if you be circumcised, Christ
profits you nothing. You've gone the way of works.
You've fallen from grace. It's all of grace. Or all of
works, but it's not a mixture. It's all of grace. By grace,
or you say. I must work the works of him
that sent me. The night cometh when no man can work. No man
can work. In other words, it had to be
finished. And, bless God, He finished it.
He said, it is finished. It's finished. You're complete
in Him. There's nothing lacking. Of God
are we in Christ Jesus, who of God has made and does wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. That, as it is
written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. It's finished. As long as I am
in the world, I am the light of the world. As long as the
gospel is being preached, as long as the gospel is going forth
in this world, light is going out. Light is going out. Every time you stand here and
preach, light is going out. People come in and they don't
know the Lord, and you're preaching the Lord Jesus Christ and Him
crucified, light is hitting them. But you know, you can get a blind
man and you can put him outside under the sunlight and he can't
see the sunlight. And he can't see the things around him. He
can't see the beauty, he can't tell you what the tones are,
he can't... Because he's blind. Two things
we need to be able to see. I understand. We need light and we need a sound
eye. Because you could be blind in
daylight in that city. Well, we need eyes. We need a
sound eye. As long as I'm in the world,
I'm the light of the world. But man by nature are blind.
Now, we're coming out of that parenthesis. I told you we went
into parenthesis, verses 2 through 4. Now we're coming out of that
parenthesis. Here's a man that's blind. How
is he going to see? I'm the light of the world. As
long as I'm in the world, I'm light of the world. How is this
man going to see the beauty of Christ? How is he going to know
God if he's blind? Having said that, he says, when
he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground. He spat on the ground
and made clay of the spittle and anointed the eyes of the
blind man with clay and put them on the man's eyes. That is to natural man foolishness. to natural man. I don't know
about you, but if I've got something in my eye and I say, I'm having
trouble, Brother Anthony, I have trouble with my eye. And you
say, well, wait a minute, let me get some mud. I'm going to put them on
your eye. I'd say, get away from me. You're crazy. Don't put mud
in my eye. I told you I can't see. Don't
put mud in my eye. That goes against all my reasoning,
my natural reasoning. This is exactly what the Lord
Jesus Christ does to open his people's eyes. He uses those
things which by nature that man thanks their foolishness it says
there in corinthians chapter one you know where i'm going
to check first corinthians chapter one it says the apostle paul said for the
preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness
person comes in and says why do you why do you keep going
hearing the gospel Why do you keep hearing the God over and
over again? You go and you hear the man and he says the same
thing. He goes a different passage, but I hear him preach the same
message. People say, oh, that's for the
simple. That's what they call you, simple. For the ignorant
masses, that's what they say. Don't they say that? But to you who see, but to you
who see, how did God open your eyes? through the preaching of
the gospel. It wasn't anything you did, but
sitting there hearing the gospel, the Lord put mud in your eyes.
That which was foolishness to you became the power of God and
the wisdom of God to you. Now I see. Now I see. Sitting under the preaching of
the gospel. Now it's not foolishness. Now
it's not foolishness. Wisdom is justified by our children.
He says, The preaching of the cross is of them that perish
foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of
God. For it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise. One thing God is determined to
do is overturn the wisdom of the wise. Now if God is determined
to do that, I think that's going to be done. It's written, I will
destroy the wisdom of the wise. It says, and will bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not made
foolishness the wisdom of this world? For after that in the
wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. That is to say,
okay, well, if preaching the gospel is good, well then surely
going to a seminary is better. If preaching the word of God,
God's going to give them eyesight, let's send our children to seminaries. Or let's send our children to
Christian schools. Surely that's going to be better.
Let's surround them with all these programs, Christian programs. That's going to give them eyesight.
Oh no. It blinded him. It blinded him. In the wisdom of God, the world
by wisdom knew not God. You cannot find out God by reading. God sovereignly places this mud
on the eyes of his people. There are other people there.
I can't do it. Your pastor can't do it. The
disciples didn't do it. The Lord did it. He put mud on
this man's eyes. After that, in the wisdom of
God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God. It pleased God by the foolishness,
that which men call foolishness, foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe, the means. the means God has ordained to
save his people, preaching the gospel. No man is going to get
the glory. Oh, I believe I'm saved because
I'm more intellectually capable. I have more of an inclination.
Men reason like this. Here's this person. Oh, he's
a bad person. He's a big bum. it hard hard
for God to save him and here's another person who's really nice
and everybody likes him but easy for God to save him that's how
men think it's neither or it takes the
power of God to save a man and they're both equally enemies
of God in their mind they both equally whether they have a good
disposition or the devil himself that they say as they say by
the foolish of the preaching to save them that believe by the foolishness of preaching
the Lord uses the means of preaching the gospel and You know, that's
what we do. The Apostle Paul said, I've determined
to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ, them crucified. The determining, I don't think
I'll say this, what determines if a man is faithful, what determines
if a man is faithful is preaching the gospel. God is going to use
that. God is going to use that. The
Lord is going to use that to open the eyes of his people.
He gives them a sound eye and I'm going to close here. He gives
them a sound eye and then he reveals them Jesus Christ. He
reveals himself to them. It wouldn't be no good to just
show light if you don't have good eye. So he preached the
gospel. In God's time, he'll give them
eyes to see. And it'd be just like this man.
But he told him, he said, notice what the Lord said there in our
text. He said, go and wash in the pool Siloam, which is by
interpretation, sin. Go wash in the sin one. Go wash
in the sin one. That's the command of the gospel.
Go wash in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Go wash. The Lord's going to give eyes
to see in the command. The first command you get is
go wash. It's not understand and then
believe, go wash. That man wants to understand
everything and then he believe. No, believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. He'll give you understanding.
He'll honor faith by giving you understanding. Grow in the faith
of grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. He said, go
wash in the scent, in the scent one. And notice he went, he obeyed,
he obeyed. You know, no one is going to
be saved apart from coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. No one
is going to be saved apart from believing the Lord Jesus Christ. No one is going to be in glory
and say, well, I don't know how I got here. They're all going
to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. They're all going to come and
be washed in the blood. They're going to know how it
is they are saved. The song of the redeemed in glory.
You have washed us. You've redeemed us by your blood.
You've redeemed us. You've made us kings and priests
unto our God. No one is surprised. In other
words, they're like, I didn't know I was going to be here.
I expect to be here because God said so. God said, believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. We're waiting
for the Lord Jesus Christ now. so that it doesn't take a man
by surprise. Oh, I didn't know I was going to be here. Or it
doesn't take the Lord Jesus Christ by surprise when a man or a woman
is in glory. He determined to have them there
from before the foundation of the world. How does God save
his people first? He opens their eyes by the preaching
of the gospel. I'm not going to go any further
than this, but you know, when this man, when the Lord did this,
Miracle opening his eyes. These religious leaders, the
blind ones, the blind ones were starting to tell this young man,
this man, I don't know if he was young or not, this man who
was born blind, now he could see, they were telling him, they
started telling him things about, you know, surely it's not you. He said, yeah, it's me. And then
the Pharisees got ahold of him and said, no, you need to, we
don't believe it, first of all. And then they said, they said,
well, you give glory to God and we'll all go home. You, you say
God healed you and we'll all agree with that. But don't say
that Jesus of Nazareth did this. Don't say that. He said, well,
he did. He said, we, they said, we know
he's a sinner. He said, well, there's a center.
No, I don't know. I know this one thing. No one has ever opened
the eyes of one that was blind. And they said, are you, are you
going to teach us? And they cast him out of the synagogue. You
know what the Lord Jesus Christ, they, he cast him out of their
religion. Now you're not going, you're
not going to be our, be with us anymore. You know what the
Lord Jesus Christ did? He came and revealed himself
to him. So not only gave him eyes to see, he showed him who
he is. He is, that's life eternal. That
they may see him. They know him, know God. This
is life eternal, that they may know thee in Jesus Christ and
God's name. What a blessing that the Lord
has come by and opened the eyes of you this night. You here who
see the Lord, how thankful we are he didn't pass us by. He
didn't pass us by, but came by in the preaching of the gospel,
put mud in our eyes that we may see. Lord bless this word.