Our Lord Jesus opened the man's
eyes that was born blind. But John 8, chapter 8 and chapter
9 are connected. And it's why I read verse 59. Then took they up stones to cast
at him, in John 8, 59. But Jesus hid himself and went
out of the temple, and going through the midst of them, and
so passed by. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind
from his birth. So these two, they're connected. They're connected. And they took
up stones to cast at our Lord Jesus Christ. And as our Lord
was passing by, He come to this blind man who from
birth was unable to see the passing Savior. It wasn't like Barnabas
who heard about the Lord Jesus come and start crying out for
mercy. This man didn't see the Lord Jesus passing by. Didn't
have any idea that He was passing by, but the Lord Jesus saw, saw
this man born blind. And when you go, John chapter
8 and verse 12, our Lord Jesus said, I'm the light of the world.
Here in John chapter 9 and verse 5, he says, I am light of the
world. So in both of them, he says,
I'm the light of the world. And as you read the first few
verses here of John 9 and compare them with John 8, we'll see some
contrast. And that's why I didn't read
John 8, but yet you can see such contrast. You read it when you
get home. In John 8, Christ is the light and He exposes the
darkness of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. When they brought
the woman taken in the dog train, He exposed her darkness. And
when they took up stones to stone Him, He exposed her darkness.
When they said that they were the children of Abraham, He said,
no, you're your father's a devil. They said that He had a devil.
But our Lord Jesus Christ, in John 8, He's the light exposing
the darkness. In John chapter 9, He gives light
to one who's sitting in darkness. In John chapter 8, the light
is despised and rejected. Nothing to do with the Lord Jesus
Christ. Here in John chapter 9, this
blind man ends up receiving our Lord Jesus Christ and bowing
down and worshiping Him. In John 8, the Jews stoop down
to pick up stones. In John chapter 9, our Lord stoops
down here and takes his spit and makes some clay as he stoops
down to put clay on this man's eyes. In John chapter 8, he hides
himself from the Jews. In John chapter 9, he reveals
himself to a blind beggar, blind man. In John chapter 8 verse
37 it says, A people in whom the word had no place. And I
tell you that's a dangerous place to be when the Word of God has
no place in you. Ain't that what it says there
in John 8 in verse 37? I know that you're Abraham's
seed, but you seek to kill me because my Word, my Word has
no place. It don't have no place in your
understanding, no place in your thoughts, no place in your heart,
no place in your desires. You just don't want what I have
to say. That's what he said. And then,
but here he comes to one, those whom the word had no place, and
he comes to one who responds to the word immediately. What
Christ tells him to do, he immediately responds to the Lord Jesus Christ's
word. And Christ, when he was inside
the temple, in John chapter 8, he's called the devil. Say we
not well that thou art a Samaritan, and thou hast a devil. That's
what they said about our Lord Jesus Christ. But here in John
8, he shows the light there outside. In John 8, the light shows man's
human responsibility. They had the light and they rejected
it. They had the light and they despised
it. Their reaction to the light and
to the truth shows man's responsibility. If the light's ever turned on,
And you refuse that light, you'll wish you never had seen the light
or even heard of the light one of these days. That's what you'll
wish. But in John chapter 9, we see
our Lord Jesus Christ acting in sovereign grace. after it's
obvious that human responsibility fails. When man's left to his
own devices, Christ can walk up to him and talk to him, make
himself known as to who he is, where he's from, why he's here,
and men will just look back at him and say, that don't mean
nothing to me. But here in John chapter 9, we see His absolute
sovereignty and His grace in coming to a blind man and doing
something for him. Doing something for him. I'll
tell you, light, light, after the way our Savior was treated
in John 8, light reveals the awful, awful darkness of human
nature at its very best. When our Lord Jesus and John
8, you see human nature, no matter how good it is, at its depravity
and darkness at its best. You go through John 8 and see
how he was treated by the religious leaders of those days. But how
did our Lord Jesus Christ react to the way they treated him?
How did he respond? Did he turn around and turn his
back? on the human race because of the way he was treated? Did
he say, I'll just go back to heaven and leave all of you down
here alone and leave you to deal with your own selves? And just
leave you in your darkness, just leave you in your faith, leave
you in your depravity, just leave you in your hatred of the truth.
Just leave you in it. Was he disgusted with the treatment
he received? No, no, no. He manifested himself
here after the way is treated as the God of all grace. As Moses
said, he said, I'll have mercy on whom I'll have mercy and I'll
have compassion on whom I'll have compassion. And here how
his grace shines on the black backdrop of sin. Verse one, Verse
1, John 9, and as Jesus passed by, He saw a man. He saw a man. A man. Frail, fickle, fallen
flesh. Saw a man. Just a man. Just a man. Just sitting there,
frail, weak, unable to do anything for himself, didn't see the Savior,
didn't know anything about Him. Oh man, at his best estate is
altogether vanity. But it says he was a man which
was blind from his birth. Now you think about this man,
blind from the day he was born. What a pitiful object. everything
that was done for him, somebody else had to do it. For somebody
to lose an arm or lose a leg, that's awful. That's awful. To lose your sight after you've
seen, that would be awful. But to be born blind, to be born
blind, to have never seen your mother, your father, your brothers,
your sister, never seen the sun, never seen colors, Never seen
anything at all your whole life. Never seen anything. Don't know
what you look like. Don't know what the people around
you look like whatsoever. So his world was so small. His world was so little. And
this is natural man. I mean this is the condition
he's in. Paul said it like this. He says,
being alienated from the life of God Because of the darkness
that's in them through the ignorance. Ignorance and rejection of the
light and the truth. Being ignorant of God. And I'll
tell you something about a blind man. I'll tell you something
about the blind. The blind can't see his condition.
He can't see his condition. He don't know what. He don't
know nothing else. He didn't know anything else
but blindness. And that's the way people are
in the world. That's the way natural man is. He has no idea
of his condition. He can't see God. He can't see
Christ. He can't see the scriptures.
And his life is in the realm of darkness. And that's why Lord
Jesus Christ said, except a man be born again. He said he can't
even see the kingdom of God. Why can't he see it? He's blind.
And that's natural, man. He's blind. He's blind to Christ. He's blind to God. He's blind
to the scriptures. And let me ask you this, are
you in darkness or do you see anything at all, anything at
all spiritual? Do you see anything, do you understand
anything at all about the scriptures? Huh? This man needs more than
just light. Christ said, I'm the light of
the world. This man couldn't see the light. And those folks
in John 8, 12 when he said, I'm the light of the world, they
didn't see it either. But they refused to look at it because
they had natural sight. But this man don't even have
natural sight. And he said, if Christ said,
I'm the light of the world, he couldn't see it. No more than
anybody else can see that Christ is the light of the world unless
he gives them sight. This man needs more than light.
He needs more than glasses. People say, let's get him some
glasses. They got glasses now to help people see. Oh, glasses won't help him. I tell you, if one of these reformed
fellows had got a hold of him, you know what the first thing
they'd have told him to do? Accept Jesus and then go back to the
law. That's what they'd have told him to do. Go to the law.
I tell you, get sanctified. You get saved and then get sanctified.
Go and start living right. Do this and do that. He needed
more than having his vision corrected. He needed more than education.
He needed more than culture. And he certainly, the eye ointment
of religion couldn't do him any good. And that's all they've
got, just a little eye ointment. Oh my, we can fix you up with
Jesus. All you've got to do is just
let Him. If you'll follow my formula,
I tell you what, you follow my formula and Jesus and you can
have a relationship personally. Ain't that what people say? Get
a little eye salve on him. And that's why in the world people,
that's why they got to keep putting on the eye salve. Got the people
educating them. Got to keep on coaching. In Louisiana,
we got to meet the people in the culture that we live in.
That's why they call it contemporary worship. Modern worship. Call it every kind of worship
but the worship of God and the worship of Christ. And I'll tell
you this poor old fellow, if they'd have run across this guy,
they'd have told him, says, listen man, let me tell you what you
need. You need to join the church and
start praying real hard and we'll pray for you and next thing you
know, you'll be, you'll see just like that. You'll see like the
rest of us. Well, if everybody else is blind, what difference
does it make if you have sight or not? Everybody else is blind. That's what our Lord said, if
the blind lead the blind, They both gonna fall in the ditch.
Oh, listen. Glasses and light and reforming
and education and culture and Iowa. These won't give this man
sight. He needs a miracle. He needs
a miracle. An act of the sovereign power
of Christ has got to be manifested in him. And the gospel. This is what the gospel does.
The gospel makes a man understand to some
degree that God's pleased to bless him, that he needs sight,
that he needs sight. But the gospel records more cases
of blindness healed than any other thing in the scriptures.
I was looking at Friday, I was looking at this, five different
cases of men that were born blind, of men that were blind that our
Lord gave sight to. More cases of Christ giving sight
to the blind than three dead people were raised. Lazarus,
the 12 year old daughter, and the young man being carried out
of town in his casket. There was three, there's, deaf
and dumb were healed. One just sick of the palsy. Two
different instances of lepers being healed. But five blind. That's what our Lord said, the
blind. And every one of them had to
have a miracle done for them. But now look what His disciples,
the first thing, this is the first thing man wants to do.
He wants to put in his carnal reasoning. And this is what they
said in verse 2. They start human reasoning. They
want to enter into a philosophical argument and debate. And His
disciples ask Him, saying, Master, who did sin? this man or his
parents that he is born blind. That's the first thing they want
to know. Why? Who sinned here? It's obvious if somebody sinned
here, this man wouldn't be blind. Oh, listen, these fellas had
no pity, had no care for this poor blind man. They wanted to
argue about who in the world sinned. Did he say he's blind?
Is he blind because he sinned? Where is his sin at? He was in
his mother's womb. He was born blind. Where is his
sin at? Where is his mother and daddy's
sin at? Instead of waiting and trusting to see what the Savior
would do, they start, you know, start a philosophical subject
here. They were reasoning over the problem and suffering of
the inequalities of the lot of man. Here, man's not equal, and
it's obvious man's not equal. Some people are born blind. Some
people are born deaf. Some people live their whole
life and never have a physical problem their whole life. I know
a man in his 90s never had a headache. Never. I don't know what it'd
be like not to have a headache. But I know a man that's in his
90s never had one. But they're over and over, they're
talking about this suffering and inequalities and the lot
of men. But I'll tell you something,
apart from faith, apart from the Word, this is an unsolvable
problem. Apart from the Word, where sin
comes from and how it's going to be dealt with, apart from
the Word of God, nobody knows anything about it. And I tell
you, why is it that some are born blind? That's what they're
asking. Why is it that some are born blind? You've heard about
that little boy in England. They're trying to get him to
America. He's born blind and he's deaf.
Got a rare, rare disease. Living on a machine. Living on
a machine. But why is it that some are born
blind? It can't be an accident. And
it certainly can't be a punishment for sin. But who sinned? That's what they ask in our Lord
Jesus Christ. Who sinned? This man? Or his parents? Huh? Let me give you three theories
that people use to say why some people are born blind and others
aren't. Why there's inequalities in the human race. Why some are
born poor and some are born with a silver spoon. Some live for a while and die
for a while. Who knows? But as you know, there's three
theories. Let me give you what they are. First one's reincarnation. You know what reincarnation is?
That means if you were bad in this world, and when you're reincarnated,
you'll come back blind. You'll come back poor. you'll
come back with something wrong with you somewhere down there
because you didn't live good your first life. So you get a
second chance and another chance and another chance and another
chance and if you get better and better and better, one of
these days you'll come back perfectly healthy and everything will be
fine. And oh, there's theologians that believe that, philosophers,
they try to explain the inequalities of the human race. And how about
hereditary? People say it's hereditary. They
say sin, you know, this man, all sin is attributed to the
sins of the parents. Now, God's not going to judge
me. Now listen to me. God's not going to judge my two
children and my grandchildren over my sins. They're going to
be judged for their sins. And listen, I'm a sinner because
of my relation to Adam, but God's not going to punish me and judge
me over what Adam did. He's going to judge me over what
I've done. My sins. And wouldn't it be awful for
God to take my sins and charge them to my children and say,
listen, we'll let Him go, but we'll charge them with all your
sins. And that's what some people believe. Oh my, if that's so,
how do you explain Job's suffering? Here's a man, God said he's a
perfect and an upright man. Oh, there's nobody. Have you
ever considered my servant Job? There's nobody like him on the
whole earth. That's what God said about him. God said, there's nobody on this
earth like my servant Job. And the next thing you know,
he lost everything he had. Now you explain that. Huh? He can't. Other than God. And then people say, well, a
child can sin even in the mother's womb. But oh, let me tell you, there's
a warning for us right in this here, this idea that who's sinned,
this man or his parents. Who sinned? Here's a warning
for us. Reasoning things like this and
philosophizing over things like that and being occupied with
the problem and we fail to preach the gospel. You can deal with
the problem and deal with the sickness, but if there ain't
no remedy for the sickness, if there ain't no remedy for the
blindness, why in the world even talk about it? If you ain't got
a remedy. Alright, look what our Savior
said here in verse Verse 3, Our Lord answered, Neither hath this man sinned,
nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest
in him. Our Lord gives a double answer.
This man wasn't born blind because of sin, nor because of his parents'
sin. Now when our Lord says this,
He isn't saying these people aren't sinners. That's not what
He's saying. That's not what He's saying. But that's their
problem, why He was born blind. It's not because they did something
wrong. That's not why something happened to them. And that's
the thing about being where, you know, people passing judgment
on people because of some affliction that they have. You know, they'll
see somebody afflicted and they'll see somebody having trouble.
And this is, and you know in religions like this, you all
know this as well as I do, that people seem to think whenever
something goes wrong in some people's life, they must have
really done something bad for God to treat them like that.
Oh God, they must have really done
something bad for that to have happened. I tell you what, I remember hearing
preachers say, that if you don't pay your tithe, God will take
it out in your home, He'll take it out on your car, He'll take
it out on something if you don't pay your tithe. He's going to
get his tithe out of you one way or another. Now that's awful. That is absolutely awful. That's
the worst kind of bondage. Oh, listen, I better pay my...
Listen, I got a dollar, I better put a dime in the offering because
I certainly don't want God to be mad at me. That's awful! That's wicked. Oh my. But people see folks get
sick and they automatically start thinking that they've done something
wrong. And you know Job's three friends. You read through Job
and those men, they said an awful lot of good things about God.
A lot of good things about God. But every time they gave a speech,
when they got to the end of it, they said, Job, you know why
you're in the shape you're in? Why you lost everything you did?
Because you sinned, Job. I said that over and over and
over again. Every single time. They said,
Joe, you wouldn't be in this shape if you hadn't of sinned.
There's no way in the world God would treat you this way and
let this happen to you if it wasn't for some sin that you
committed. Somewhere down the line. And
they charged him over with that over and over. And that's why
he said, Oh, you're miserable comforters. All of you are. You're
positions of no value. And then there's people that
just talk about faith healing. Faith healing. Oh my. Maybe some of you have heard
about this, faith healing. They say if you're sick or you're
poor, I tell you what you do. If you come and let us pray for
you and if you can believe, if you can believe, then that will
be taken care of. And oh, if you've got some sin
in your life, let us pray for you. But then if something don't
happen, if you don't get relieved of your problem, don't get relieved
of what's going on in your life, you don't get relieved of this
sickness or this poverty or something that happened in your life, and
that don't happen, you automatically say, well, I ain't got no faith.
And you know what that does? And that's what the preachers
say. Boy, if you had the right faith. You know what that does?
That produces despair. Oh, I don't have enough faith.
I don't have faith like other people. Or else it'll turn around
and if you feel like you have, you're proud. Because I'm receiving
better than those folks without sin. But here's the second answer
our Lord gave. He says that the works of God
should be made manifest. That's what he told about Lazarus.
When Lazarus was laying dying, our Lord Jesus Christ said, this
sickness is not unto death, but for one reason, for the glory
of God. He's going to die, what for?
For the glory of God. for the glory of God and I tell
you what we know that all things work together for good and God's
grace is sufficient and all beloved God has his own reason for man's
condition and I'm not questioning him at all over that I'll not
question Him. I don't care if He comes and
takes anybody that I know of, anybody that I love. And I'll
tell you what, if He afflicts me with blindness before I get
to be much older, I'll tell you, I'm not going to fuss and fight
with God. God has His own reasons for man's
condition, His own reason for man's sickness, His own reason
for man's disease. And here is for Him to glorify
Him and His own Son. Huh? Oh, let me show you something
over in John 21. Let's look at John 21 together. You know, I've seen folks be
awful, awful angry at God over things that happened to them
in their life or happened to their children. I've seen them
be very angry with God. I remember I was talking to a
woman one time and she was a little older and I was talking to her
and I was talking to her about Christ and the gospel. And she
said, don't talk to me about God. No, don't talk to me about
God. God ain't done nothing for me. All he done is just cause me
trouble and heartache and sorrow. Taking this child and that child
and another child. Then Dookie was out at the graveyard
one day, and we was walking through the graveyard, and we went through
a whole, one row there, and one Mormon and one husband had three
children. One lasted a day, one lasted
three days, and one lasted another day. Three children, three children
in a row. three children in a row to the
same man, the same woman, their baby died just within 24 hours
after his birth. Three in a row! You reckon she said, well I don't
have a clue what she thought about God. But I do know this, the Lord
gives and the Lord takes away. And that's the way He does with
people in this world. He can do what He wants to with
us. And ain't you grateful that it's that way? Listen, when you
get to the end of the way, when you get to the end of the way,
if you're a believer, you're going to look back and say, everything
that happened in my life was by the wisdom of God. And if
you could have changed anything, you wouldn't do it at all because
God in His wisdom knew just exactly what was right for you. And God sometimes sends things
to old men to show them that, listen, you ain't got no power. You can't heal yourself. You
can't do anything for yourself. You can't keep somebody alive
when you love them. You can't cure a sickness. You
can't cure a disease. You can't cure it. You know a
man talks about his power, his free will and faith. Listen,
a man can't even cure his own, can't cure two things by his
free will and his own power. Christ, if he don't do it, I'll
tell you why. Listen, that's what we're shut
up to. We're shut up to what we preach. And our Lord Jesus
says, you know why this man was born blind? So that God could
get the glory out of giving him sight. You know why we was born
blind? spiritually blind, dead in trespasses
and sins, that God would get to glory in saving us by His
grace. God would get to glory in bringing
us from death to life, putting our sin away and giving us eyes
to see Him and faith to believe Him and faith to trust Him. And
that's why we give Him all the glory because He did all the
work. You know what we contributed
to our salvation? Sin. Why did this man contribute to
what Christ does to him? He said, no, blind. He's blind. And look what I saw over here
in John 21 verse 18. This is our Lord Jesus Christ
telling Simon Peter how he's going to die. He tells him how
he's going to die. And he said in verse 18, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, talking to Simon Peter, this is after
he asked him three times if he loved him. When thou wast young,
thou girdest thyself, and walked wherever ye would go. You put
on your own clothes, and you walked wherever you would. But
when you're old, you're going to stretch forth your hands,
and another is going to put your clothes on, and carry you someplace
you wouldn't want to go. This spake he, signifying by
what death, now listen to this, he should glorify God. And when
he had spoken this, he saith unto him, follow me. This is
how you're going to glorify, you know you're going to die,
and you're going to glorify me by that death. And then look
what he says in verse 4. He said, I must work the works
of him that sent me. I must work the works of him
that sent me. Christ, God sent, the Father
sent the Son into this world to do a work. Works. And he said, I finished the work
that you gave me to do. And he come here to do a work.
And he come here to do a work, either judgment or grace. Death or life? Sight or blindness? And all this, he said, I come
here to do the works of Him that sent me. And he came here and
done works of grace. How many works of grace did our
Lord Jesus Christ do? Works of mercy. Oh, except how
many of the lepers said, Lord have mercy on me. The woman with
the sorrowful Phoenician daughter said, Lord have mercy on me.
By the man said, Lord have mercy on me. That publican in the temple
said, Lord have mercy on me. And every time somebody said
the word mercy to Christ, he stopped dead in his tracks and
done just what they asked him to do. And all his works were
works of power. Power, such power, the very power
of God. And he done all this to meet
the needs of his people. And these works of Him, He says,
the works that I do, I do the works of Him that sent me. And
I tell you, all the works that God did, all the works that Christ
did, they were works that God sent Him to do. And He pleased
Him to God. And not only were they pleasing
to God, they were predestinated of God. Predestinated of Him. And God eternally decreed they
must. Ain't that what He says? He said,
I must work the works of him that sent me. He must need go
through Samaria. I have other sheep which are
not of this foal, them also I must bring. I must bring. And then
he says, while it is yet day, while it is yet day. And while
it's, and what he means by while it's yet day is that I'm as long
as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world. You know
what he says, the night cometh. And you know when it gets night,
it gets dark. People can't see, they can't
get around. The night cometh. It's going to get so dark. And
the night on this world's coming. The night when this whole world
will be left in darkness. The time's coming when the world,
there'll be so few of God's people left. And the night cometh when
no man can work. No work. And what our Lord's
doing says, while it's day, while I'm the light of the world, while
I'm in this world, and while it's day, and every day, listen,
He said, make the most of the opportunities that I give you,
redeeming the time. And I tell you what, we every
one of us have a day. A day. And this is our day. Our day. We always talk about, boy, back
in my granddaddy's day, or my grandmother's day, or my daddy's
day. Well, this is our day. This is
our day. This is our day for the gospel.
This is our day for salvation. This is our day for grace. This
is our day to preach the gospel. This is our day to tell men and
women the truth. And I'll tell you what. And I
tell you, look how they treated him up there. And also, while
he's dead. Also, how you treat someone when
you are presented with the opportunity. This is how his disciples treated
him. Master, who sinned, this man or his parents that he is
born blind? Instead of using that opportunity
to show some pity, to show some grace, to show some mercy, to
show some kindness, to do something for him, they criticized, they
judged, and they didn't help. God help us not to be that way.
And then look what happens in verse six and seven. And when he had thus spoken,
And thus spoken, told him why nobody had sinned, God's works
must be manifest. And he's going to continue doing
them works while he's on this earth. And he talks about, I'm
the light of the world as long as I'm in this world. And beloved,
ain't you grateful he's in our world? He's in our world. In our world, in my world. When
he had thus spoken, He got down and it says here, he spat on
the ground. Spit on the ground. Spit on the ground. What in the
world is he gonna do spitting on the ground? Huh? Well, he took that spit and he
started stirring with his finger. Started stirring with his finger.
And then the scripture says, look this, and he made clay of
that spit. And then he took that clay and
he put it over this eye and he put it over that eye. You know this fella's got eye
problems already. Why you putting mud in his eye?
Oh, Bruce Pratchett wrote an article, are you a mudite or
not? And here he says this, he says,
he took that mud, that clay of the spittle, got spit in it now,
he got mud and spit put together. And he goes like this, puts it
on that eye, puts it on that eye. And that man's wondering,
what in the world is going on here? You know that. and he took
that clay and in order the eyes spread the clay on the eyes of
the blind man and then said unto him you know after he put the clay
on his eyes he still was just as blind as ever but look what
our Savior said over here he spoke to him in John 8 and he
said oh listen you got a devil but look what happens here And
he said unto him, go wash in the pool of Siloam. That Siloam
means scent. Go wash your face. Go wash over
there in that pool. There's a pool over there. I
don't know if it's in Siloam, a place that means to be scent. And the man went his way therefore,
so somebody had to take him there. He couldn't find his way there
by himself. And he went his way and he washed. What does it say
next? And he came to see. He did what Christ told him to
do. And you know how many of that,
you know, that's salvation. Christ says believe. We'll believe. Take him at his word. Christ
says, come to me. We'll come to him. Christ says,
worship me. Worship him. Christ came to save
sinners. Is that one of them in the house?
Huh? And I tell you, he said that
he went. He did and he came see. He didn't
reason. He didn't ask any questions.
He wasn't like them. And I'm not going to go down
that river and jump in there seven times. I'm not going to
do that. Let me tell you a story in closing. I heard this yesterday. A woman called the preacher. It's
a true story. A woman called the preacher.
You know, she wasn't real faithful to the services anyway. But she
called the preacher and she said, preacher, said my husband got
hurt. Got hurt pretty bad. And he never
would attend the services. Said he's over there in the hospital
and told him what hospital he's in. Said, would you care to go
over there? And said, he's asked to see you. And he said he'd
like to see you. And he wants you to come pray
for him. Preacher went over there, took
his Bible, left his study, went over and took his Bible. Went
in, shook hands with the fellow, and he was laying there in bed.
He's in pretty bad shape. And he opened his Bible, and
he's going to start reading some scripture to him. And the first
thing he asked him, he said, are you a sinner? He said, well, no. No, I'm not. He said, I've done
some pretty bad things. I've made some, I've got some
faults. I've made a few mistakes in my
life. Then he looked at his wife and said, I'm pretty good, I'm
a pretty good feller ain't I honey? And you know what the preacher
done? Just posed his Bible and said,
I don't have a thing in the world for you. And walked out of the
room. If a man is not a sinner, we ain't got nothing for him.
But if God makes you a sinner, Christ's got something for you.
Christ's got something for you. Amen? Our Father, thank you for the
gospel. Thank you for the truth as it is in Christ our Lord.
Oh God, there's blind people. Lord, give them sight. Thank
you for letting us have sight. Letting us see our Lord Jesus
Christ. Letting us see ourselves and
our inability. Letting us see His ability, His
power, His love, His grace, His mercy, His blood that cleanses
us from our sin. Thank you for allowing us to
see these things. And oh God, open eyes, open hearts,
open understandings. and do it for Christ's sake,
and for your glory, as you let Lazarus die for your glory, to
come raise him from the dead. May you bring glory to yourself
today, giving eyes to the blind, sight to the blind, and life
to the dead. We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, there's
just something about that name. Master, Savior, Jesus, land of
praise, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, let all
heaven and earth Amen. Well, I'll see you tonight. Jean-Claude Souliot will be here
Wednesday night. See you tonight. God bless you.