those who do the will of God,
those who believe God. And it is a pleasure to come
here and see my brothers and sisters. I want you to turn to John chapter
9. John chapter 9. What a story
we have here in this chapter. especially if you read chapter
8 when the Lord was in the temple speaking to the Pharisees, revealing
himself so strongly. I'm the light of the world. He
that follows me shall not walk in darkness, he said. He said,
I came from God. I came from the Father. He said
in John 8, I proceeded forth and came from God. Not only did
he proceed and come forth from God, he is God. This man, and
here's where we, we can't miss this. This man is God, and he's
our God, isn't he? God Almighty has become my Savior. God is my Savior. Now, that being
so, how can I not be saved? How can I not be saved if God
himself is my Savior? And the Pharisees who were supposed
to see, these were the religious leaders. I mean, they were the
religious leaders of that day. Everyone looked up to them. They
were the teachers. And there's a word of warning.
Be careful who you follow. It's a blind lead to blind. Where
do they end up? In the ditch. If your teacher's
wrong, you're gonna be wrong. And the Pharisees were wrong.
You know what our Lord said to them in John chapter 8? He said
to them, in verse 42, you are of your father, the devil. The devil's your father. And
they were the one teaching everyone and everyone looked up to them.
They think if the devil's somebody's father, they're gonna be some
freaky looking person, Tattooed from head to toe and you know,
I mean looking just weird. No, they got a suit on Standing
in a pulpit That's the scary part They come in they look so
so neat and clean and just But that's the scary part. He said
the devil's your father and the works of your dad of your father
you will do Now in this chapter Several titles
suggested themselves to me. One was Christ and the Blind
Man. Another was, which is this is so evident, Salvations of
the Lord. This man's sitting there, blind,
begging, not having an interest in any way, shape, or form in
the Lord Jesus Christ. He has no interest in Him. Doesn't
call out to Him like blind Bartimaeus did. Blind Bartimaeus cried out,
have mercy on me, son of David, thou son of David, have mercy
on me. This man just sitting there, begging. That's all he's
doing. And another title suggested to
me was, do you believe, this is the most serious question
you'll ever face, do you believe on the son of God? That's more than believing some
facts given to you. that is completely trusting your
life from beginning to end, alpha to omega, and everything in between
to that man, Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God. You see, he
asked that man at the end of the chapter, do you believe on
the Son of God? I read three different translations And every
one of them said, do you believe on the Son of Man? Well, a man
is standing in front of him. He can see him now. Here's what
the Pharisees couldn't see. They saw the same man he saw.
The thing they couldn't see is this, God. That man was given
what I call double vision. He was able to see physically
for the first time. I can't imagine living my life
in the dark. And then he was given eyes to
see beyond that veil of flesh. This is God. And the Lord said,
he said there that it is he that speaketh with thee. Same thing
he said to the woman at the well. Thou hast both seen him and it's
he that's talking to you. And he said, Lord, I believe.
And the evidence of it, he worshiped him. Is that what we're here
for this morning? You know that, If you really
can grasp this, the Lord Jesus Christ is here this morning. Now that put a whole different
attitude in worship. When you realize and you understand
that the Son of God, God himself in spirit is here. Where two
or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the
midst of them. To me, that knowledge and that
understanding makes me listen up. Instead of singing about
the Lord, it makes me sing unto the Lord. We don't sing about
Him. We sing, if you read through
the Psalms, we sing, and David always says this, unto the Lord. Our worship this morning, we're
not worshiping about Christ, we're worshiping Christ. We're not worshiping in doctrines. We're worshiping the God of all
doctrine, true doctrine. We're worshiping God in Christ,
in spirit and in truth. Now, before I get started into
this, I want us to realize that salvation
is spoken of in the scriptures in three tenses. Past, present,
future. I have been saved. I am being saved as present.
I have been saved as past. I shall be saved as future. I have been saved before God
created the heavens and the earth. There's a real sense. I have
been saved. In that covenant of grace, when
God Almighty, God the Father, gave me to His Son, and His Son
became surety for me, you know what that means? He became responsible
to bring me home. There's nothing that gives me
more comfort than to know that Jesus Christ is responsible for
me. He's responsible to bring me
home spotless and without blame. I'm on his shoulders. I'm his
responsibility. You reckon he can do it? As that
king cried to Daniel, O Daniel, is thy God able to deliver thee?
Absolutely. If he's God, he is. In that covenant of grace, and
listen now, that covenant is very real. That's a very real
covenant. And it's made between the father
and the son. And everything in that covenant between the Father
and the Son concerning me and all whom God saves, it all belongs to me. Whatever
belongs to Christ belongs to me. And right now, at 68 years of
age, I am being saved. God is saving me. God is conforming
me to the image of His Son Jesus Christ. That's what's going on
right now. I'm being conformed to the image of Christ. It's
a school you never graduate from. We never graduate from it in
this life. I am continually being taught of God. You know, in this
life, we graduate from school. We went to Jeremy's graduation
yesterday, and a bunch of younger people, some of them younger,
graduated. We don't. We don't. We are ever being taught of God. We are ever learning. We are
ever listening. And I say this to the congregation
I preach to every week, and I realize the great responsibility laid
on my shoulders, because the greatest part of this, I believe,
lays on my shoulders, that we grow in grace and in knowledge
of Christ. That's continual. And I realize
as a pastor, I have a lot of responsibility that's in that
growth in grace and in knowledge of Christ, standing and preaching
every week. And then I shall be saved. One
day, not too far down the road, for every one of us, even the
youngest here, life at its longest is short. Boy, if there's anything
I've learned, it's how short life is. Even if you live to
be 90 or 100, it's short. But when that day comes, when
that day comes, and it's gonna come here shortly, I've been completely saved. I
have been saved. I'm being saved right now. And
I shall be saved. I shall be saved completely.
Now, in Christ, I am completely saved. I'm completely saved in
Jesus Christ right now. I'm as holy as I'll ever be,
as perfect as I'll ever be in Christ, righteous as I'll ever
be, accepted as I'll ever be. You know, I can't grow in acceptance.
There's some things I can't grow in. I can't grow in justification. I'm justified in Christ. I can't
grow in these things. I can grow in grace and in knowledge
of Him. I can grow in love. I ought to. We ought to love
one another more and more and more until we live. We ought
to love God more and more and more. But there are some things
I don't grow in. I can't grow in justification,
election. I don't grow in those things.
They are what they are. But someday we shall be saved.
The Lord has saved us, saving us, and we shall be saved. You know, Calvary, Calvary is
not, and never has been, never will be, a rescue attempt on
the human race. That's not God's rescue attempt.
That's God's salvation of his people, which are made up of
sinners. It's hard to find a real sinner.
It takes God to make one. Couldn't make one out of those
Pharisees. No, we're not sinners. They said that one. We be not
sinners? Well, Christ didn't die for you. Christ died for
sinners. He died for the ungodly. That
fits me. That suit fits me. It was tailor-made
for me. I know by God's grace, I know
by God's grace, and I can say by God's grace, and I say this
truthfully, O wretched man that I am. an old wretched woman that
I am. We know that, don't we? God saved
a wretch when he saved me and when he saved you. God saved
a wretch. He didn't save a good person. He saved a wretch. And
I thank God he made me to know that. I thank God that he removed
my blindness and some of your blindness, you who believe, he
removed your blindness without asking you if he could. God's
not going to ask sinners if he can save them. If he's going
to save them, then they're going to ask him to save them. That's
how it goes. He saves us and we say, Lord,
save us. God has to give a man life before he knows he's dead.
You've got to give him sight before he knows he was blind,
spiritually speaking. The Pharisees didn't know they
were blind. He said, if you were blind, you wouldn't have no sin.
But you say you see. Now your sin remains. And one of the questions asked
to this blind man is how? We'll see this here in a minute.
But how? How did he save you? How? Isn't that what... Isn't
that today's religion mostly? How to get saved? The Roman's
road? It's not how to get saved. It's
who saves. He said a man called Jesus. And this is what he did. A man called Jesus Christ, God
incarnate, worked out a righteousness for us, went to the cross and
died under the penalty of law for us, that was against us,
rose again for our justification, ascended on high, and now he
intercedes for us. And all of that is of God. It struck me so strongly here
a few weeks ago, so strongly, it just struck me that when I
die, and I was thinking about things above. Set your heart
on things above, not on things of this earth. I was thinking
about things above. And I was thinking, when I die, And by
God's grace, I stand in glory. I stand in paradise, like he
said to that thief, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
When I die and I stand there, I will know beyond a shadow of
a doubt, I had nothing to do with it. I had nothing to do with it.
There are people in hell that have done less things than I've
done, outwardly, by action. We're all equally depraved. We're
all equally spiritually dead. There are nuns in hell who declared
celibacy and they lived in monasteries and perished. And perished. And you got a woman named Mary
Magdalene, whom the Lord cast out seven days, walking with
Mary, the mother of our Lord, as she's called. Only grace can
make two people like that walk together. Hmm now says here As Jesus passed by and connects
it with what went before look at verse 59 chapter 8 This is
after the Lord revealed himself He revealed himself as God because
he said before Abraham was I am I am that I am I'm God and they
took up stones to cast at him to kill him murder and But Jesus
hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst
of them, and so passed by. And as Jesus passed by, now we
pick the story up. He saw, he saw a man. That doesn't mean he glanced
over. That doesn't mean that he, you know, I see you. I saw you come in the room. HE SAW HIM. HE KNEW THIS MAN
THROUGH AND THROUGH. HE KNEW THIS MAN WAS BORN BLIND.
BECAUSE IT WAS HIS WILL AND HIS PURPOSE. WE'LL SEE HERE IN VERSE
2. IT WAS HIS WILL AND HIS PURPOSE THIS MAN BE BORN BLIND. HIS CHILD
BE BORN BLIND. BUT THE LORD PASSED BY AND HE
SAW A MAN WHICH WAS BLIND FROM HIS BIRTH. Isn't that a great
picture of us? You know, listen, our Lord, when
He healed the blind, He gave hearing to the deaf, He gave
strength to the lame, told a withered man to reach out his hand, raised
the dead. All of these are done for two
reasons. Number one, to show that He's
the Messiah. But it also shows us what He does for us spiritually. He raises us from the dead spiritually.
He gives us spiritual ears to hear. Look in verse 43 of chapter
8. He says to the Pharisees, why
do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear
my word. They heard what he's saying,
they made him mad. They took up stones to stone
him. They heard what he was saying, but they did not hear what he
was saying. You know, everyone of you in here can hear, you
can hear me talk, but can you hear God? Can you hear the Master's
voice? Is it really penetrating your
heart? Are you really feasting? Are you really learning? Does
it really convict you? It'll either bless you or convict
you, you know what I mean? It doesn't want the other. He
says, the reason you can't hear my word and look down is because
you can't hear my word. You're not of God. That's what
he's saying. But look at verse 47 of chapter eight. He that
is of God, heareth God's words. It's amazing. One person, they
can be sitting beside of each other. One of them hears and
the other one hears nothing. They hear, but they don't hear.
They see, but they don't see. And our Lord sees this blind,
this man blind from birth. His disciples, they ask him,
say, Master, Master, who did sin? Who can we blame? Who's
to blame for this? Who's to blame for this man's
blindness? This man, before he was even
born. They literally believed that,
some of them believed that a child could sin in the womb. Jacob
and Esau wrestled in the womb. They believed they could sin
in the womb. Some believed in reincarnation. They took that
from the Babylonian captivity. They believed in reincarnation.
Or his parents, his parents, that he was born blind. Which
one is to blame for this? You reckon those parents beat
themselves up? over this, that their child was
born blind. And it was not their fault. But
they didn't know that. They didn't know that. There's
two things here. Number one, he's born blind because
of original sin. Original sin. All trouble, all
trouble, all the heartaches and everything in this world that
we have comes from the root of it is original sin. David said,
I was born in sin and shaped in iniquity. In my mother's womb,
I was conceived and born in sin and shaped in iniquity. And he
was not saying it was a sinful act. It was a sinful seed. It
was a sinful seed by which I was begotten. And that's why we have
all this trouble. We have all this trouble. And
they said, but they were like Job's friends. Job, all this
trouble has come upon you because of something you've done. There's
some particular sin you've done, you've hid it. Or you're just
a hypocrite. You're just a hypocrite. But
we know that's not so, don't we? We know that's not so. Jesus answered, Neither hath
this man sin, nor his parents, that he's born blind. That's
not the problem. They didn't do anything wrong
that caused his blindness. This man's blindness, this particular
man, this particular child of God, that's amazing. He sat there all those years.
And this is God's child. Lazarus laid at the rich man's
gate. Dogs licked in his sores. That's
God's child. That's God's child. And God's
purpose is accomplished and God's glory manifested in Lazarus laying
at that rich man's gate. The woman with the issue of blood.
That's God's will and purpose. It brought her to Christ, didn't
it? It brought her to Christ. Our need brings us to Him. The
Lord uses that. But listen here. He did not sin,
His parents did not sin, but that the works of God should
be made manifest, not just to Him, in Him. In Him. You know that when God saves
a sinner, And when that sinner demonstrates
the love of God, the work of God is being manifested. When you show kindness and love,
long-suffering, patience, the work of God is being manifest
in you. Salvation is not just a work
for us. It is. Because salvation is by works. Salvation is by works. His. Jesus Christ worked out my salvation. By the sweat of His brow and
the blood that He's shed, He worked out my salvation. It is
by works. His. On our part, it's by grace. It's all of grace. All of it. But the work of salvation is
not just a work for us, but it's also a work in us. The gospel
makes, I'm telling you the truth here. The gospel will make a
husband a better husband. It'll make a wife a better wife.
It'll make children better children. Employers better employers. Employees
better employees. If it doesn't make us better
at those things, either we missed it or we got another gospel.
Because it works in us effectually. Paul spoke of the Word of God
working in us effectually. It's always working in us. It's
not dormant, it's working in us. It's conforming us to the
image of Christ. He said, come to me and I'll
give you rest for I'm meek and lowly. I'm meek and lowly and
you'll find rest for your soul. That's the way he makes his people.
They're kind, they're generous, Thankful and thoughtful and loving. This is what it is to be conformed
to the image of Christ. I'm not just physically starting
to look like him. That's not what we're talking
about. It's spiritually we are becoming like him. Spiritually. But he said, this man's blindness
is that the works of God may be manifest in him where God
has put you. And the trials that he's put
you through. Like he did Job, very hard, very difficult trial.
Some go through very difficult times. But God has done that
on purpose for His glory and your good and His works are being
manifested in you. They're being manifested in you
daily. Daily. And our Lord said, I must work
the works of Him that sent me. Our Lord had a work to do. He
said, while it's day, it was His day. It's his day to work, the work
of redemption, to work out a righteousness as
a man. You see, a man broke God's law
and God's law is going to be satisfied by a man. No animal
is going to die satisfied with God's law in the place of a sinful
man or woman. No, man broke God's law and a
man is going to satisfy God's law, but it's going to be the
God man. He's the only one that can do
it. No other man can do it. No other man can do it. He said,
I have a work to do. I have a work of redemption.
I have a work of righteousness. And I'm going to do it. And it's
my day. It's my day. You see, at daytime
is when we work. At nighttime is when we stop.
He said, the night cometh. In just a little while, he's
going to be put to death. It's done. It's finished. It's
finished. And this is our day. This is
a gospel day. And right now we were preaching
the gospel. That's what I'm doing right now.
Preaching the gospel. You support the gospel. Sending
the word of God out. Witnessing. But you know there's
going to come a time when this is over. Go over and read 2 Peter
chapter 3. He says when the heavens shall
be on fire and this earth is going to be dissolved. I wouldn't
put too much investment in this. Don't invest too much in this.
God's gonna burn it up. And He's gonna burn the house
up you're living in sooner or later. If somebody don't tear it down.
But He's gonna burn up everything on this earth. Everything. That's
why we're told to set our minds, our hearts on things above. Where
Christ sits is God's right hand. That doesn't mean you just go
fold up your hands and quit. You work. You do what the Lord's
given you to do. He's given us all things to enjoy.
Enjoy what the Lord's given you. When He gives you the opportunity
to be a blessing, to help and give, do it. But don't get too
caught up in this. It's gonna burn up. Our Lord said, as long as I'm
in the world, I'm the light of the world. He came and He gave light. He
gave light. I believe you had this in the
bulletin. This was a good article by Scott. A short article, but
very good. I think most times the short
ones are the best. Listen to this, what Scott says
here. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. He was the full
disclosure to man of what God is. So man was left without excuse. Christ came and showed God to
man, and man hated God with a perfect hatred. The fullest exhibition
of divine love was answered by the fullest exhibition of human
hatred. We would have never known the fullness of God, who God
really is, until Jesus Christ came. He's a full revelation of God.
Do you want to know God studied Jesus Christ? I love to read
the Gospels, because when I read them, I don't just read them,
I watch. I watch the Lord move through
the pages. I watch Him move from one person
to another. I watch how He handles the Pharisees.
I watch how He handles a sinner. I watch, I watch. 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. He spat on the ground. You see,
our Lord, our God, uses means. Our God uses means. You know,
He can say to one, receive your sight. But another, he spits. He spits and he makes some mud,
some clay, and takes it and he puts it on the man's eyes, not
his eyelids. He didn't have an eyelid problem.
He put it on his eyes. And he told him, he said, now
go to the pool of Siloam and wash. And what we see here is
faith in the body. This man didn't know much. How
much do you have to know to be saved? You don't have to know how, you
just have to know who. A man named Jesus. A man named
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, saved me. He saved me. But he made clay of the spittle. That's the fence of it. Wouldn't
you say somebody spitting and put, would you? What if someone
came up and did that to you? One of the most offensive things
you could do to any person. And they did this to our Lord.
They spit in His face. The Gospel's offensive. The Pharisees,
the Greeks said, that's foolishness. He spit and made... He's telling
the Pharisees how He did it. And they asked the parents and,
you know, they said, well, let's call the parents because they didn't
believe Him. They called the parents and the parents... And
here's a divine... Here's divine sovereignty. God
reaches into this home and saves this child. And we don't read
anything about the parents. They said he's of age. Ask him.
They're afraid of being kicked out. They didn't know who the Lord
was. You see, God demonstrates His
sovereignty even in families. He may save a whole family, but
He may save one in a family. He may save one. and move on. It says up there, and Jesus passed
by. He's always passing by. It doesn't
mean he's gonna be here next week. By God's grace, he will. But I tell you what, sooner or
later he won't. You just look at history. You look where all
those churches that were so strong thousands of years ago, hundreds
of years ago, and they're gone. They're gone. Let us never take
this for granted. Let us never take the freedom
we have to come here together and worship the Lord Jesus Christ. And let us never take for granted
we have the gospel, because God can remove it. He told the church
at Ephesus, you left your first love. He told them about all
the works they did. They did such great works. And
then he said, you left your first love. Your heart's not in it.
You're just going through the motions. And he said, either
straighten up or I'm going to remove the canister. I'm going
to remove the gospel. I'm going to remove the pastor. I'm going to remove the candlestick
and you're not going to have it. But he always gives warning
first. God's sovereign in all things.
All things. And that man, listen, here's
faith in the bud and And he said to this man, go wash in the pool
of Siloam, which is by interpretation sin. He went his way, therefore,
and washed and came to see. Let's not get caught up in the
spit, the clay, and the water, and the means. Let's get caught
up in him. I want to know him. I want to
know him. Paul said, oh, that I might know
him and the power of his resurrection. That is the power of His resurrected
life in me as I live out my life. That's what I want to know. And
the fellowship of His suffering. I want to be found in Jesus Christ. When I die, I want to be found
in Him. Not having my own righteousness, but the righteousness which is
of Him, which is of God. That's what I want. I want to
die in faith. Boy, when I read the book of
Hebrews, it means more to me now that chapter 11, these all
died in faith. You know, there's a lot of things
in this life I don't have to do. There's a lot of things you don't have
to do. But you have to die and meet
God. You know what Solomon says at
the end of Ecclesiastes? Let me see if I'm thinking of
the right scripture. At the end of Ecclesiastes, let
me read something to you. In Ecclesiastes 12, verse 13,
let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, keep
his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God
shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, every
secret thought, whether it be good or whether it be evil. Fear God. A right fear of God,
a right respect the right respect and love for God. That's the
conclusion of the whole matter. Well, this man went and he came
to see and it says, he came to see. He did what he, you see,
faith, even in its bud, the first sign of it is what? Obedience. Not question marks, not, what
was Naomi? Naomi got mad. He was told to
go dip seven times in the River Jordan. And he's like, really? I came all this way with my army
and with all my prestige and all my credentials, and all he's
got to say to me is, go dip seven times. He said, I could have
done that at home. No, you couldn't. You're going
to do what he said, and you're going to do it where he said.
And Nehemiah finally did it. healed of his leprosy. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Is it that
simple? Do it and you'll see. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. God has
never broken a promise. He's never broken a promise.
And let me close this. And this man, after he had done
this, the neighbors said, isn't this the one that was blind?
And some said, well, it looks like him. It looks like him. He said, well, it's him. God's never said to anyone that
it didn't make a real difference. It'll make a real difference
when God, you can't be born of God and there not be a difference. You can't be the same. Oh, you're
gonna sin, but it's gonna break your heart. There was a time
sin didn't break my heart. You know what broke my heart?
I couldn't fulfill the lust of my flesh. But now it breaks my heart when
I do. It breaks your heart when you
sin. And we do it so often, far more than we know. Well, his
neighbors noticed a big difference. Then they called the Pharisees,
and the Pharisees interrogated him. They interrogated him. And
you know what? This man, no more than he knew,
there's one thing he said, I don't know much. I'm not a theologian
like you guys. I mean, I can't quote the scriptures
like you guys, and I don't know all these theological terms like
you guys, but I do know this. I was blind. Now I see. Do you know that? Do you know
that? One day I was blind and I had
no interest in God, no interest in Christ, no taste for the gospel.
And then one day, I did. Through no fault of my own. One
day I did. One day I got interested in Christ. I got interested in my soul being
saved. I got interested in it. I was really interested in it.
God did a work in me before I knew he was doing a work in me. The
Lord is working this man's salvation and he doesn't even realize it
yet. But when he was interrogated, he never backed down to those
theologians. Those learned men that everybody
revered, they all revered him. But when they started slamming
Christ, he stood for it. He stood for it. Because I know
this, the gospel will separate the sheep from the goats. It
will separate you from this world. You'll have friends that you
won't have friends no more. I did. I had a friend say to me, he
said to me, John, I wish you hadn't, this is the way he phrased
it, he said, I wish you hadn't got saved. Well, I had nothing to do with
that. God just saved me. And he didn't even ask me. Didn't
even ask me. Well, they interrogate this man,
and he stood before the Lord. He said, well, here's a marvelous
thing. A man that opened my eyes, and you don't even know who he
is. And they called him a sinner. And he said, well, if he was
a sinner, God wouldn't hear him. And what they mean by he's a
sinner, he's a wicked man. That's what they were saying.
Here's a marvelous thing. He's a wicked man. If he's a wicked man, God wouldn't
be with him. God wouldn't do these things
through him. This man knew there was something different. Then
last of all, they excommunicated him there in verse 34. They cast
him out. But he stood his ground though. No more knowledge than
what he had. He did know this. I'm blind, I see. And that man
named Jesus did it. He did it. And Jesus heard they
cast him out. He knew that. He knew he was
going to get cast out. And when he had found him, boy, I was
found, you know, in the first part of the verse,
the Lord comes to him and saves him, you know, gives him, tells
him, gives him, put that clay on his eyes, tells him to go.
And I thought that scripture, I was found of them that sought
me not. You know, I found the Lord when
I wasn't looking for him. I wasn't even looking for him,
I found him. I was made known to them who
asked not after me. I wasn't even asking for him.
I wasn't seeking him. But he sought me. He sought me. And here the Lord
found him and said to him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? And he answered and said, Who
is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? He believed what the Lord Jesus
Christ was saying to him. He said, Who is he? Tell me who
he is. that I might believe on him. Thou hast both seen him,
here's revelation. Salvation comes by revelation,
not education. Now we're taught of God, his
children are taught of God, but I'm telling you, salvation happens
when the Lord reveals himself to you, and you say, Lord. Paul was very educated, but he
has lost his ability until the Lord revealed himself to him. He answered, 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. And
he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. Do you
believe? Do you believe on the Son of
God? You'll never be the same. If
God grants you faith, if He makes Himself known to you, you can't
help but believe. You know that? I believe because
I can't help it. What color is that paper? Yellow? You believe it's yellow. Why
do you believe it's yellow? Because you can see. You cannot
help but believe on Christ when He makes Himself known to you.
I'd have to call myself a liar if I said to you, I don't believe
you. Because I do. I do. And he worshipped him. Oh, that's what we're doing this
morning. Worshipping him.