John chapter 9. John chapter 9. The title of my message, if I were
to have a title, is Our Condition, Our Cure, and Our Confession.
This here is a sinner, every sinner's condition when we come
into this world. This is every sinner's cure if
there's to be a cure. If the great physician is pleased
to come to someone and cure them of the condition they were born
with in Adam. This is how he does it. And the
confession that's made. There's a confession made to
our friends. There's a confession made to
our neighbors. There's a confession made to
mommy and daddy. A lot of times that don't go
over well. And the Lord's children don't
back down from it. It's not pleasant, but you don't
back down from it. And there's a confession made
to all that false religion we grew up in, whether that was
in an organized church and there was a man that stood up with
a Bible and talked to folks, or that's just that organized
thing that we worshiped inside of ourselves, because that's
what we were worshiping. inside of us. It's an internal battle.
This happens to every believer. I want to look at the end of
chapter 9 first, and then I want to come back to the beginning.
I wasn't going to tell you, but I want to get through all 41
verses, and I'll go as quick as I can. The Lord's dedicated
in His Scriptures, He had Apostle John write this whole 9th chapter,
41 verses, speaking of the experience of one blind from birth beggar. Now do you think it's important
for us to see all 41 verses? I think the Lord might just teach
us something. He says here in verse 39, And Jesus said, For
judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not
might see, and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which
were with Him heard these words, and they said unto Him, Are we
blind also? Well, they'd be in good shape
if they was. A great physician standing right in front of them.
And Jesus said unto them, if ye were blind, ye should have
no sin. But now you say, we see. Oh, we got a good handle on all
this. I understand everything. Therefore, your sin remaineth. If that doesn't set the context
to it, We're not talking about a guy that don't have 20-20.
You get that? That's the most common example
of all the healings that take place in the New Testament. The
one in the highest number is a blind person being healed.
And the Lord could have just spoke it and said, see, and he's
the one that gave the eyes in the first place. He can make
the eye work. He could have just spoke it.
Something happens different here. And the Lord gives us this example.
What a beautiful example it is of someone that is physically
blind having their sight given to them as a picture, as a token,
as a type of someone that's spiritually blind. The way we're born and
the Lord giving us spiritual eyes. What a picture. Now at
the end of verse 59 there at the end of chapter 8, these religious
folks, they took up stones to cast at our Lord. Chapter 8 starts
with, they're wanting to stone the lady caught in adultery.
Chapter 8 ends with, now they're wanting to stone the Lord. They
went from being mad at her to being mad at Him. They said,
we like Abraham. He said, Abraham was rejoiced
when he saw my day, I am. And Abraham was, I am. And they said, let's stone him.
And it says there at the end of verse 59, that Jesus hid himself
and went out of the temple. What judgment! what judgment. Those blind didn't
even have him physically to look at anymore. Just as he was leaving
that temple, casting judgment on those Pharisees there in the
temple. He sees a blind beggar, one that
was blind from birth. He was born this way. There's
a great argument over if the man physically had eyes. I don't
know, but I know he couldn't see from birth. That's what we're
told, isn't it? Verse 1 there, chapter 9, verse
1. And Jesus passed by, and he saw a man which was blind from
his birth. That's every one of us. That's
the sweetest grandmother to the most vile criminal. That's a
baby that just goos and gahs and cries when it's hungry to
a convicted felon. We're all born blind. We're born blind. That's our
condition. We're conceived in sin. We were shapen in iniquity
from conception. We're blind. And the Lord sees
his child. That blind man didn't see Christ,
did he? He didn't see Christ. He was just sitting there begging,
trying to get some food. Because he was of age, and mom
and daddy put him out of the house. Said, you go down there
and beg for bread today. Maybe somebody will feed you.
We can't take care of you. He was just there looking for
a handout, looking for a meal. And Christ passed by him and
saw him. He saw him. There's always criticism around
the child of God. Not the false child of God. That's a good thing. They started
living right. They started giving. Helping
their neighbor. What good Christians. Ain't no
shame in that. That's popular. Now you can go
buy a bunch of bumper stickers. You can be like everybody else.
Around the true child of God there's criticism. His vessel
of honor. That is so. They don't appear
often like vessels of honor, do they? Not many rich, not many
wise, not many mobile. It says there in verse 2, and
His disciples ask Him. This ain't some Joe Schmoe these
people have been walking with. His disciples, they ought to
learn better. They ought to know better than this, right? I won't
want to believe or do. His disciples ask Him, saying,
Master, who did sin? This man or his parents, that
he was born blind. That always reminded me of Job's
miserable comforters, isn't it? Man only thinks that every time
someone isn't healthy, that they're not wealthy, that they're not
fit, that it's a reaction of God to their disobedience. Sin is the root cause of pain.
Sin is the root cause of illness. Sin is the root cause of death.
Yes, that's true. That's why death entered into
this world, because of sin. But the reason it was allowed
was for the glory and honor of God Almighty. This man was blind. Why would a happy, loving God
let a man be blind? Oh, this is for good. We see
things as evil, don't we? The Lord meant it for righteousness,
for good, for His glory, for His namesake, and for the benefit
of His loving child. Amos told us, "...shall there
be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it." This man's blindness from birth
was not a reaction of the Lord, an immediate response to him
sinning, or his parents sinning, or something like that. It was
purposed before time. For this world was, the Lord
purposed it. Paul wrote in Romans chapter
9, what if God willing to show his wrath and make his power
known endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to
destruction? The Lord could have went in and
killed everyone in the self-righteous Pharisees right then, couldn't he? He's
able to show wrath. He's going to show his wrath.
That day is coming. But what if he held off that
he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of
mercy? Oh, that's why this world is
still standing. which he had afford prepared unto glory."
They didn't know him, but boy, that's been prepared since the
first man walked this earth. That was in his loins. Even us,
even us whom he hath called, some poor sinner like me, some
poor sinner like you, whosoever. Poor people think, oh, I'm so
bad, I'll wait until I get better and go to services. I'll go hear
about God then. You're putting your sin above
the one that saved his people from sin. You're saying, my sin
is so bad, God couldn't even save me. Whosoever, even us,
as Paul said. Here in verse 3, Jesus answered,
neither hath this man sinned nor his parents, but that the
works of God should be made manifest in him. What a testament of salvation.
People say, I got saved. You know what getting saved is?
You know what being saved by Almighty God is? The glory of
the Almighty God manifest in a sinner. Kind of takes the flippancy
out of that, doesn't it? Christ told us that. Verse 4,
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'm in the
world, I am the light of the world. This does not mean that
Christ could only heal during the daytime. Men and women, they
take the Scriptures without any discernment, without any understanding,
and they think because those words make sentences and sentences
make paragraphs, you can kind of understand it, they can make
it twist any way they want to. Where it says there in verse
3, neither hath this man sinned nor his parents. Somebody says,
well this man never was a sinner. His parents never were sinners.
Not so. That's out of context, isn't
it? As Solomon said, they need to
come in quietly and be taught something. That's not what this means. But
while it is day, today is the day of salvation, isn't it? The
sun's in the sky. The gospel is going forth. The
Lord just might save somebody. Today. If we look to yesterday,
we're not looking to Christ. Today might be the day we look
to Him. His mercies are new this morning. While His sheep still
need to be drawn to Him, that effectual call is what He'll
give. But the day is coming that that
last child is going to be brought to know Christ. Our Lord has
sent it on high, but His gospel is still preached. He's still
the light of this world. He still abides in His people.
He's still calling out sinners to Himself. His sheep to Himself. But when that last sheep is called,
this world's done. Night has come. Darkness has
come. And it's all over. That's it. People cry out, Oh, Lord, Lord,
look at all these good things we did for you. I never knew
you. I said, judgment's coming. Let the rocks and the mountains
fall on us. We need something between us and that God we offended.
Ain't going to work now. Today is that day. Who must do
the work of salvation? Am I firing brimstone? You better
do this and you better do that. No, of course not. Look at verse
4. I must work the works of Him that sent me while it is day.
Christ must do the work. There in verse 5, as long as
I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Christ is seated
on the right hand of the majesty on high that the Lord abides
in His people. He is always with us. And as
long as His light, His people, His gospel is on this earth,
the earth is going to stand. And when He removes it, that's
when the darkness will come. The Lord begins to work the Father's
work in this certain man, in this particular blind man, here
in verse 6. And when he had thus spoken,
he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed
the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him,
Go, wash in the pool of Shiloam, which is by interpretation, Scent. That's Shiloam, that's the pool's
name, Scent. He went His way, therefore, and
washed, and came seeing." Much is written about the symbolism
here, and the spit, and the clay, and the dirt, and the height
above sea level these particular pools were, which pool they was
talking about. But what is the blaring statement
in all this? Let me read this. What just pops out at us? The
Lord saves men and women, giving them spiritual sight by the means
that natural man is offended by. We want it done our way. I'm
different. No, you ain't. Now, if you're
his, you ain't. This man could hear real good,
couldn't he? Never seen. It wasn't that he lost his sight
as he got older as a teenager. From birth. Never seen. So his
other senses increased, didn't he? He heard some people walking. He heard these men talking to
our master. And he heard... And then... What are you doing? He didn't speak, did he? How
offended would I be if a stranger spit and put it on me? That's
degrading almost any culture in this world. What if Kimberly
sneezed? Some spittle landed on my arm?
I ain't offended by that, am I? What if it was one of my children?
What if it was my family, a loved one? Now it's different. God
in human flesh, the living water Himself, He spit on the ground,
and he mixed it with some dust, and he put it in the man's eyes.
We would think that this would make it harder to see, wouldn't
it? You ever got mud in your eye? You can't see nothing. You got to rinse it out, don't
you? He said, this man's never seen his life and I'm going to
put mud in his eye. Now go down to the pool called Scent and
wash. They come back to see him. Told
him, you go wash in that pool. John tells us here that the pool's
named Scent. Many of the old riders that ain't
alive no more, they got it wrong. I hate to say it. They said it
was just, this is just John's add-on. This isn't important,
and that's why the other versions, like the Syriac version, the
Persiac version, all this, that deemed it unnecessary to include,
this doesn't matter. And I ask the question, where
did this man go? He went where he was sent. The Lord did a work in him. The Lord said, go, and he went,
because he was sent. He didn't choose to go. He didn't
go tomorrow. He was sent. He was on a mission,
wasn't he? When the Lord works in a sinner, that sinner is not
idle. A servant that does not serve is not a servant. That's
the definition of it, isn't it? And who makes a good servant?
If I have somebody working for me in a company, who makes that
employee good? Who teaches them? Who trains
them? Who shows them how to serve in the right way? The Master
does. The Master shows them. He sends
them. He trains them. He corrects them. He teaches
them. This sheep here was sent. And he was sent to a healing
fountain. The fountain God sent. Now in this fountain, there was
nothing physical about this water that had healing properties.
There wasn't something special about this. Fountain that healed
this man. The Lord commanded him to go
and he went. And what happened? In verse 7,
He went his way therefore and washed and came seeing. Our Lord performed a work. He
gave a command and He gave the ability and the faith to obey
that command. And there was sight. The lights
come on in power. What's our condition? Every man,
woman and child born of Adam. That's got a mommy and a daddy.
That's how they were conceived into this world. We're all born
blind. But spiritually, we're much worse
than something that's just physical blindness. This is the most recorded
infirmity in scripture that was healed. But all around us, everyone
in our vicinity is spiritually blind. We don't think anything's
out of place. We don't have somebody trying
to explain things to us. Like, oh no, here's what a tree looks
like. Let me tell you. Come feel it. I'll explain. Here's
what the color green looks like. Everyone's spiritually blind
that comes into this world. What's the cure? What's the cure
for the spiritual blindness? Christ must see us. He must look
upon us. He must come to us. He must do
a work in us. He must give the command with
the power and faith to believe Him and follow Him. And His children
do. He commands it. We were going
through Genesis. When He commanded the light to
shine, what happened? That light shone. He commanded that earth
to come up out of the seas. What happened? Dry land come
up out of the seas. When He looks to His children
and says, follow me, what do they do? They straightway leave
the boat. They throw the nets down. They don't sell them on
eBay. They leave them. And they follow
Him, don't they? With His command comes the power
and the faith to obey it. And then there's a confession
that comes with that. There's a confession. Look here in verse
8. The neighbors therefore, and
they which before had seen him, that he was blind, said, Is this
not he that sat and begged?" Everyone knew that this was that
blind man. Isn't this the blind man? That man that has never
seen his whole life and once he was grown he came to this
same spot outside the temple to beg? Is that that beggar? Is that him? Don't hardly look
like him, does it? Look at verse 9. And some said,
this is he. This is he. And others said, he is like him. It looks like him. Something's
different. You think if somebody was blind
their whole life and all of a sudden they could see, you think we
could tell the difference? There'd be something a little bit different,
wouldn't there? Wouldn't they be bumping into chairs? Wouldn't
they have a cane out in front of them on seeing sticks? Something's
different. It looks like Him on the outside,
but something ain't the same. I ask you and me, am I that blind
person that never saw Christ the light before? I was 100%
dependent on another and He gave me sight? Did I hear His voice
and I followed Him? Is that me? Is that me? Look
here in verse 9. And some said this is He, others
said He is like Him, but He said, I am He. I am He. That used to be me. Oh, things are different now.
Moving on up. I am He. I'm a beggar. That's me. I was that blind man. I'm still fully dependent 100%
on another, on my Savior, my Lord for all things. Now I can
walk around now. I can go get a job now. I'm dependent
on Him for every bit of it. Verse 10 here asks the most common
question of fallen man in religion. How? How? Look here in verse 10. Therefore
they said unto him, How were thine eyes open? How? If you got your eyesight, I bet
I can get something. I ain't as bad off as you. I
only got a bum leg. I only got a bad back. I might
be able to get some health. I might be able to get some money.
Maybe I can get a position. Maybe I can have some influence
over somebody else. I can start teaching folks something.
Somebody's going to pay me just to be me. How did you get that? What else did this man confess?
He said, nothing's changed. I'm still a sinner. I'm a sinner
saved by grace. What else did he confess? Only
what he knew. Only what he experienced. That's
what a witness is. You tell what you saw. You tell what you've
experienced. You don't add on. You don't fluff
it up. Here's what happened. How'd you get your sight? It
says in verse 11, And he answered and said, A man that is called
Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said unto me, Go
to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went, and washed, and I
received sight. This work had begun, but Christ
had not been yet seen by this man. There was something drastically
different about Him though, huh? Something drastically different.
They said in verse 12, they said unto Him, where is He? Where is this Jesus you're talking
about? And He said, I know not. I know not. I don't know where
He... I haven't learned that part yet. I know what He told me,
I know what He did, and I know what happened. That's all I know. So you know what happened? Those
neighbors, they asked him some things and he told them the truth
of what happened. And they said, how? How did this
happen? And that answer probably wasn't
good enough. So they said, you know what he needs to do? You're confused. You're ill spiritually. You need
to go to church. We've got to get this guy to
church. We need to find some priest or something to help this
fella. Somebody's got to talk to him. Look here in verse 13.
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. They got him there, but these
religious folks had a bone to pick. Look at verse 14. And it
was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his
eyes. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. He did the work on the Sabbath.
This man was healed on the Sabbath. He was given sight. He spit on
the ground and made some clay. Told him to go walking, just
like he told that man that pulled the fez to take your bed up and
go. They got a bone to pick. They said in verse 15, then again
the Pharisees also asked him, how? How? He had received his
sight and he said unto them, more simply this time, he put
clay upon my eyes and I washed and do see. Starting to get a
little frustrated, isn't he? Y'all dragging me all over town.
I just saw today for the first time. He put clay upon my eyes,
and I washed, and now I see. That's a question of man, isn't
it? Of natural man. How? How? What must I do to be
saved? What's the function? How does
all this work? What's all the moving parts?
I need to see it. And he told them more plainly.
He put clay in my eyes, I washed, I see. That's the structure of
salvation declared. People want to know the inner
workings. I've got to get a good handle on all this stuff. Christ
does a work, a sinner's plunged into the fountain of living waters,
into Christ himself, and now they see what they've never done
before. Now see him. That's it. Pretty simple, isn't
it? And you know that cause of division? That made a bunch of
folks mad. They divide. They bite and devour
and divide, don't they? Look here, verse 16. Therefore
said some of the Pharisees, this man is not of God because he
keepeth not the Sabbath day. He broke the Sabbath. This couldn't
be God's man that cured this blind fellow. Others said, how
can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was
a division among them. This is all technicality now,
isn't it? Who's who? Not once has anyone said, oh
Bill, this is outstanding. You can see. Have you ever seen
a hummingbird? I want to show you. You ever
seen one of those birds of paradise in flowers that's up here in
the back? They're beautiful. Come here, I want you to see
it. Look what the Lord made. Not once did they. It's all legal
transaction. Who's broke the law? Who's just?
There's no praising, no rejoicing. What a picture of a person that's
first given that glimpse of light, of Christ the light, of the gospel,
and the world, and that very first day they see something,
they want to put you through the wringer. Question you. Divide. Now you're seeing things
how they truly are, ain't they? I thought those were good religious
folks down there. Eh, maybe not. Being mean. They asked this man
his opinion because they were so divided. He's going to have
to land on one side or the other. Either your half or my half is
going to get another vote, ain't it? Look here in verse 17, And
they said unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him,
he that hath opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.
He's a prophet. What little I know, I can tell
you this, this man was the son of God. This is God's chosen
man. Boy, he got that right, didn't
he? Who healed his eyes? God's elect. his firstborn, his
chosen, our prophet, priest, and king. That didn't sit well
with them, so they began to discredit this man. Now, you've got to
tackle his personal life. You've got to dig up some dirt
from the past. This is sounding a lot like politics, isn't it? Ain't
much different. He never was blind in the first place. He
only got part blind once he got a little older. Here in verse
18, but the Jews did not believe him concerning concerning him
that he had been blind and received his sight until they had called
his parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them
saying, is this your son? Who ye say? You say? He was born
blind? How then doth he see? How? Now
they're asking the parents. How is he seeing? How? What a
shame. That's a natural man's defenses,
isn't it? We didn't die an atom. We were just poked in one eye.
We weren't blind from birth. Every man's got a little bit
of good in him. You're a line. That's every one of us. So he
brought his parents in and asked them, it says in verse 20, and
his parents answered them and said, we know that this is our
son, this is him, and we know that he was born blind. But by
what means he now seeth, we know not. Or who hath opened his eyes,
we know not. We ain't got a dog in this spot.
He is of age, ask him. He shall speak for himself. Now
these words spake his parents because they feared the Jews.
For the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that
he was the Christ, this is the Messiah that did this, he should
be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents, said his
parents, he is of age, ask him. They turn on their own son. I
might get kicked out of church for this. I might get on church
punishment for this. He's grown. He was blind. They already put him out, right?
You're of age. Get out of the house. Go start
begging. We ain't taking care of you.
Well, now he can see. It sure ain't going to have nothing to
do with him. This affects our personal life, doesn't it? Our
standing in the community. Those Pharisees figured that
this wasn't going to be profitable. We keep asking everybody how
and nobody's answering us. We've got the parents in here and they're
double-talking. Even a crook knows a crook, don't
they? And they said, let's just wrap this thing up. Let's save
some face and get it over with. They said in verse 24, Then again
called they the man that was blind and said unto him, Give
God the praise, you can see now, we know that this man is a sinner. They call it an assumptive close.
They're going to declare, cross the sinner, for breaking the
Sabbath day, and you can see, we know this, and you just say
that God did it and let's get this day over with. But you know,
when the Lord does a work in somebody, they can't deny Him. They have to be a true witness.
They have to tell exactly what happened. They can't back down.
They can't sleep with the enemy and make buddies with them and
compromise on the gospel. This can't happen. I'll compromise
on anything else. You want me to drive a certain
brand of car, I'll do it. You want me to not wear red ties,
I'll quit wearing red ties. But you just say that this man
was a sinner and God did this and let's get this over with.
And he said, not so. Look here in verse 25. And he answered
and said, whether he be a sinner or no, I know not. One thing
I know that, whereas I was blind, now I see. These big-headed religious men
wanted to argue over if Christ was a sinner or not. And you
know what the saved man says? I don't know. All I know is I
didn't see and I see now. He saved me. What wisdom out
of the mouth of a baby in Christ. Then they said unto him again,
verse 26, What did he do to thee? How opened he thine eyes? If
you're going to keep talking, we're going to keep asking how?
How? How? This is the fourth time in 15
verses somebody ask him how. We just have to know. We can't
stand it unless we understand how this works. He gets frustrated. Look here at verse 27. And he
answered them, I have told you already and you did not hear. Told you over and over again.
Wherefore would you hear it again? Why do you want me to tell you
one more time? Will you also be his disciples? I follow this
man. I've told you over and over and
the simplicity of Christ ain't satisfying you. Because you're
not His. The Lord hasn't given you ears
to hear. And just like He asked that man at Bethesda, you want
to be His disciples? You want to be made whole? Look
how you're all picking at me. You're biting into the vowel
of me and tearing me to shreds. You want to stand up here and
get picked at? You want to confess that you ain't nothing but a
sinner and that's all you ever have been? You walked in darkness your whole
life? All these religious high minds,
you're going to get demoted. You gonna give all that up? You
gonna be His disciples?" And that riled them up. He had them
right where they lived, didn't He? Look at verse 28. Then they
reviled Him and said, Thou art His disciple, but we are Moses'
disciple. Boy, they told the truth. We're
the law's disciple. I'm a doctrine's disciple. I'm
a creed's disciple. I'm something other than Christ's
disciple. I will not have this man reign
over me. I've got to do something. I've got to possess something.
It says in verse 29, We know that God spake unto Moses. We
know that for a fact. But for this fellow, this Jesus
you speak of, we know not from whence he is. And the man answered
and said unto them, What I hear in is a marvelous thing. He had
boldness. He had boldness. Boy, this is
marvelous. This is a marvelous thing. That ye know not from
whence he is. You don't know where this man
come from. And he hath opened mine eyes. How come he didn't
open everybody's eyes? That's miraculous. He did open
my eyes. He's not picking on them like,
oh, look at me. I'm the Lord's elect. And you're not. Oh, how
could he have hated Esau? That's not the question. What
a marvelous thing. Hit him right then. Look what the Lord has done.
He has opened mine eyes. Verse 31. Now we know that God heareth
not sinners. We know that. But if any man
be a worshipper of God and doeth his will, he heareth Him. If you believe God and do the
will of God, The Lord hears him. And I ain't talking about this
blind man. That's Christ. That's who he's speaking of. Christ
worships God. Christ does the will of God,
and God hears Christ. The Father hears him. He said,
Father, I know you hear me always, but I'm going to say this out
loud so everybody around me can hear it. Since the world began was not heard
that any man open the eyes of one that was born blind. This
has never happened in the history of this earth. This has never
been recorded. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. God sent this man to me. God
sent Christ to me. And if God didn't do it, it ain't
possible. Saying salvation to the Lord. They got made a matter
in verse 34. They answered and said unto him,
Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? You're a sinner. What can you
tell me? We can tell you how sinners are saved. That's pretty
important, isn't it? God's going to use sinners to
tell people how he saved sinners. And they cast him out. He didn't
have to worry about purging that temple, did he? They cast him
out. They run him off. Story doesn't
end there. I'll try to be quick. That was
the verdict. That was the verdict. This poor man, Lord gave him
sight for the first time in his whole life. He's up in his 30s,
all the estimates are. He was grown, big enough to leave the
house. He didn't live with Mom and Daddy no more. He could shave.
And he was out, and he gets sight for the first time. And now he
can see for the first time in his whole life. And people are
just hen-pecking him all day long. They ain't gonna let him
go. And they want to make this a religious debate. And he said,
Lord gave me physical eyes and through this he's showing me
out spiritual eyes too. I don't know exactly what happened,
but I know something. I didn't see it, I do now. And it's saying
Jesus is the one that did it. He's of God. He is God. And whenever
he got kicked out of church, verse 35, Jesus heard that they
had cast him out. And when he had found him, who
found who? Everybody thinks they found Jesus.
They didn't know he was lost. He comes to his people. He finds
lost sinners. That's who he comes after. And he said unto him,
Dost thou believe the Son of God? You believe on the Son of
God? That's a question. And what think ye of Christ?
And he answered and said, here's the best, this is the question. He answered with a question.
Here's the question. Everybody else is asking, how? How? How? How? Here's a question. Who is he,
Lord? Who? Who is He, Lord, that I
might believe on Him?" And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both
seen Him, and it is He that talketh with thee. Salvation is standing
right in front of you. The resurrection is standing
right in front of you. Redemption is standing right in front of
you. The Almighty God is standing right in front of you. And he
said, Lord, I believe, and he worshipped Him. What more could be said of a
sinner saved? Our condition of every man, woman,
and child born on this earth, they're blind. They don't know
they're blind. They think they see everything. We're blind spiritually. The only cure is for Christ to
do a work in His people. And we will confess Him. We'll
confess Him. We confess Him to our neighbors.
We confess Him to Mommy and Daddy, our families. We confess Him
to the religious people on this earth. But we confess Him to
God. We declare Christ. That's the
only name we come in. We declare who, not how, who. That's who we declare. And Jesus
said, for judgment I came into this world, that they which see
not might see. I'm going to shed some light
in the sinner's hearts. Let's put him before the foundation
of the world. And that they which see might be made blind. And
some of the Pharisees which were with Him heard these words and
said to Him, Are we blind also? You're saying I'm blind? You're
saying I don't know these Scriptures? Jesus said unto him, If you were
blind, you should have no sin. But now ye say, We see. Oh, we've got a good handle on
everything. Therefore, your sin remaineth.
The Lord has to make a blind man. I pray He'll do that tonight.