I invite your attention back
to John chapter 9. The title of my message is Blind
and Blind. Blind and Blind. The Gospel according to John,
one of the four Gospels that were recorded some 100 years
after the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, mentions grace in a particular
capacity. as the first way. And it is the only four times,
except for one time in Luke, that grace is mentioned in all
the Gospels. Now we see grace expressed, grace done. Anytime
you see the word love or charity in Scripture, often the same
word, grace, charis, in the Old Testament means the same thing. John was John's Gospel was presenting
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Good News of Christ, as the Son of
God. Luke presented Him as the Son
of Man. Mark presented Him as the Servant
of God. Matthew presented Him as the King of Kings. The book of John Theological is one of the most
brilliantly written and beautifully written poetic books in all of
scripture. Begins as Genesis began, Genesis
began, in the beginning was God, or in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, the same that
was in the beginning with God. He made all things that were
made. He's the light of the world. He sent witnesses into the world
to declare that the light was on. You only have to tell blind
people that the light was on. Everybody else knows the light's
on, but blind people don't. He sent them to tell the world
that light had come into the world. The Word was said to be
made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory as the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Scripture says that the law came
by Moses, but grace and truth came by the Lord Jesus Christ. John chapter 2, we have that
same principle set forth all over as John the Baptist preached.
John chapter 3, Nicodemus comes to the Lord Jesus Christ and
that whole treatise is about the flesh and the spirit and
the difference between the two and the fact is that no man who
is in the flesh or by the flesh can ever see God. It's a work
of God's Holy Spirit, His Sovereign Spirit. John chapter 4, He goes
to the woman at the well and teaches her that true worship
is in spirit and in truth, not in some mountain or in some place,
but from the heart toward God. John chapter 5, Christ is set
forth by the Father as judge, as teacher, as the only hope
And if he's not honored, God will not honor you. In John chapter
6, he sets forth some difficult things. He feeds several thousand
people. They want to make him king. He
won't let them be. He won't be their king. Then
they want to figure out how to do that God thing where they
can make fishes into loaves and feed themselves. And he said,
this is the work of my Father, which has sent me that you believe
on Him whom God has sent. And then He sets forth to declare
that though men do not believe Him, all the Father that gives
Him shall come to Him, and to him that cometh to Him there
will be no wise cast out. Those who want to save you must eat
My flesh and drink My blood, or you don't have eternal life.
And then He says, I'm not going to be here for you to do that.
My words are Spirit and they are life. And in John chapter
7, He stands after the great feast of the tabernacles where
800 and some beasts were slain in one eight-day period. Almost
900, 889 I believe it was. Blood all over the place. People
are packing up their tents and getting ready to go home. He
stands up behind the altar. He said, anybody out there thirsty? Come to me and drink. Come to
me and drink. Then in John chapter 8, He sets
things in order with the Pharisees in a particular way. First of
all, he condemns them all with his words as they bring before
him a woman who is an adulterer and a whore and strip her down
to her waist and cast him down in front of her and said, what
the law says you have to stone this woman. Well, the law really
didn't say that. It says you have to stone the woman and the
man who's with her. But the men brought her in He
stooped down and circled on the ground. We don't know what he
wrote. Maybe he was just messing around in the sand. But he says,
He that is without sin, let him cast the first stone. He said,
He that was without this sin... And all those fine, upstanding
religious men began to walk out one by one because they were
all guilty of it. And he looked at the woman and said, Where's
your accusers? Who's accusing you? And she says,
no man condemned me, Lord. He said, I don't condemn you
either. Go out and sin no more. Then he confronts those same
men in the latter part of chapter 8 and says, you are of the devil.
These were the religious folks. These were the Pharisees, the
upright, the muckety-muck, the lofty ones of religion, the Sunday
school teachers and the preachers and the synagogue. He says, you're
your father of the devil. You're devil worshipers. Because
if you were God, you would love me. And you don't love me, you
want to kill me. And toward the end of that 8th
chapter, he says, you talk about Abraham being your father? Before
Abraham was, I am. When he said that, they took
up rocks and were going to kill him. But he disappeared before
their eyes out of the temple. And after that, we come to chapter
9. He's left that place where they want to kill him, but they
still want to kill him. And we run into this wonderful
miracle of grace that God sheds before our eyes. It concerns
blind men seeing, and seeing men that are blind. The purpose
of this miracle, as all miracles, is to give credentials concerning
who Jesus Christ was. This is part of that transition
period between the Old and the New Testaments. that time before
the Word of God was completed, where miracles attended those
who preached the Gospel, and especially their Master, the
Lord Jesus Christ. And it wasn't just so He could
show that He could do miracles. Those miracles gave credentials
to what He said. And the miracles never got Him
in trouble. It's what He said that got Him
in trouble, or what people said about Him that got Him in trouble.
If he hadn't opened his mouth, he would have never got in trouble
with men. And that's the way it is today.
You can go out and do good and do it in the name of Christ and
God bless you if you do. But if you tell men the truth,
don't expect them to be happy with you. And our Lord, as long
as he was doing good things to people, a miracle, healing people,
feeding people, everybody was on his side. And he opened his
mouth and they wanted to kill him. Now the same thing takes
place. But every miracle is to show
who Jesus Christ is. It's not about the miracle. The healing of this blind man
was done for the purpose of showing that these who claim to know
God, these Pharisees, who claim to worship God, who claim to
love God, were in truth in darkness concerning who God is. It is
in John that the Lord Jesus Christ sets Himself forth as God. In the beginning was the Word,
the divine Logos, Jesus Christ. And the Word was with God and
the Word was God. In John chapter 10, our Lord
says, for which miracles and works do you want to kill me? He said, we don't want to kill
you for what you do. We want to kill you because thou being
a man says you're God. And He was God and is God. This
man's blindness as well as his healing were ordained from the
foundation of the world. Our Lord said this fellow's blindness
is so God will be honored. So God will be honored. Just
to declare that Jesus Christ was who he was and to declare
that the knowledge of who he was cannot be learned or inherited
or ciphered but must be personally revealed. The Pharisees used
what they knew of the law and tradition to name Christ a sinner.
They said, this man's a sinner. He healed on the Sabbath day.
Now that seems like an oxymoron, doesn't it? It seems like a foolish
thought. He healed a man who was blind from his birth and
they were mad because he did it on the Sabbath day. Like the
man who had been unable to go down into the pool of Bethesda
and had to lay there and watch all those people that were sort
of sick and halfway sick make it down into the pool and get
healed. And he sat there and had to watch. That pool was a
mockery of his condition because he couldn't do anything. When
Christ came and said, take up thy bed and walk, that's what
he did. He picked up his bed and started walking home. The
first people he ran into was church people. They said, what
are you doing carrying your bed on a Sabbath day? They had seen
him laying beside that pool for years. They couldn't do anything
for him. And now they were mad at him. So they say, yes, Jesus
is a sinner. The man healed from blindness,
though his defense of Christ was true and bold and wonderful.
It also revealed that who Christ is cannot be known by experience.
I've never experienced what this man experienced. He experienced
something, but he did not know who Christ was. And if you don't
know who Christ is, you don't know God. He had a great experience. After he was given sight, when
the Lord said, Do you believe on the Son of God? He said, Well,
who is He? That I might believe on Him.
There's a whole lot here in this passage. This passage is gospel
full pressed down and running over. The first thing is this,
the fact of life is that believers are not done with self-righteous
thinking. Don't you wish we were? Don't
you wish we could get rid of that thing in us, that thing
that keeps welling up its head, but it don't go away, not until
we die. We still base so much of our
thinking on what we think about sin and what we've been raised
to think about sin and what we see. The disciples assumed that
this man's blindness was the consequence of somebody having
sinned. That's what they asked. Look
at verse 2. His disciples said, Master, who did sin? This man
or his parents that he was born blind? He didn't say, Did this
man sin? He said, they said, somebody
sinned. And this is what happened. This
is the consequence of it. They were not unlike the friends
of Job who were forgers of lies and physicians of no value. They
did not ask our Lord if this man's blindness was due to his
or his parents having sinned. They asked who sinned. They believed
that this man's blindness was because he or somebody sinned. You don't think that way, do
you? To them it was a given, that
if bad things happen to you, there's something wrong with
your life. That's what people think. That's what people think. If blame for sickness can be
assigned as the consequence of sinning, and if I'm not sick,
then I must not have sinned. That's also the flip side of
that story. This is the blindness of self-righteousness. And it's a chief contributor
to how we feel about ourselves and others. And you know the
narrative that spills out of our wicked heads when set upon
by some hard circumstance of life, our sad brain wonders what
we did wrong to deserve such calamity. We think that way. Conversely, and probably more
tragic, and yes, more tragic, when we experience some modicum
of success, some part of us thinks that we must have done something
right to have such a good thing happen to us. It ain't karma,
folks. Forget that. Forget that. And
what we learn if we ever learn that everything takes place according
to the purpose of God is that the world and what goes on in
it is not about us at all. It is about Jesus Christ and
who He is and what He has done and every aspect of human history
from the worst to the best is about Jesus Christ. It's all
about Him. There is a consummate freedom
in the knowledge that everything is about Christ and is designed
solely to reveal who He is. There's a freedom there. There's
a freedom there. Self-righteousness is simply
another form, a more despicable form of blindness. because it
causes us not to be able to see past or outside ourselves and
our own little experience and our own presumed self-worth or
value. I know the Lord says, love your
neighbor as yourself, but He's not saying love yourself. That
was a given in that equation. We love ourselves way too much.
Way too much. Secondly, this, one can experience
great things at the hand of God, even miracles. and yet remain
an unbeliever and blind to who He is. The rich man fared sumptuously
while he was on earth, but now he's suffering the torment of
hell. There were many with solid tarsus on that day that rode
to Damascus, but only one of them come to know Christ. Christ healed ten lepers, and
only one of them came back to thank Him. The other nine, I
expect, felt like they were entitled to it, entitled to the mercy
of God. A lot of people think that way. They think if you apply
for mercy, God has to show it. They think you'll obligate God
by asking, by saying you're sorry. You don't obligate God to do
nothing. God does. He pleases. When He pleases with
them, He pleases wherever He pleases. You can't obligate God. He's not into doing some bartering
things. You want mercy? You bow down at His feet, beg
for mercy, and don't stop begging until He shows mercy. That's
what you do. Well, what if He don't show it?
You keep begging. Don't give up. Be like that woman, that
importunate winner who would not leave that judge alone. Then
I finally said, let her have what she wants. She's driving
me crazy. Thirdly, experience is what it is. And if there's
one thing I deal with as a pastor more than anything else in dealing
with talking with folks about the scriptures, and I sit down
and have an honest talk with them, I find this to be true. Every one of them has an experience. an experience. And they like
to tell about their experience. And what that does in general
is make other people wish they had an experience. And if they
can't come up with one, they'll invent one. A good friend of
mine who's a pastor out in Kentucky now, he used to be a pastor in
Texas and moving back to Kentucky, told me he was a drummer for
Jimmy Swagger's organization for years. And he couldn't speak
in tongues. He wanted to speak in tongues.
But he couldn't speak in tongues, so he went to one of the elders
and said, how do you speak in tongues? Well, I'll show you.
He said, I'll show you just how they showed me. Somebody showed
him how to do this. It was taught, the principle. And you know the
story. Ta-ma-ta, ta-ma-bo-ta, say it
fast, say it three times, and you're speaking in tongues. Ta-ma-ta,
ta-ma-bo-ta, ta-ma-ta, ta-ma-bo-ta. And that's how he learned to
do it. And he would play his drums and say, ta-ma-ta, ta-ma-bo-ta. You know, everybody would say,
oh, he's speaking in tongues. He had an experience. He wanted
that experience. People want experience if they think your
experience is better than theirs. They like to do, oh, I remember
the day in the back of that old 59 Chevy when I bowed down. You
know, you've heard all that, John. I deal with that all the time.
So do you. What do you do about that? Don't ever question the
fact that it took place in their life. You're wasting your time. If they experienced something,
it cannot be challenged. They experienced it. You weren't
there. You can't know. Even though it does not equate
to salvation of the soul, they had an experience. that this
Scripture left off in verse 33, we might well have assumed that
that experience was the same thing as knowing Christ. We could
have stopped there. In fact, I've heard a lot of people stop there
and say, well, I don't know who He was, but I know this. I was
blind and now I see. And they say, well, that man's
saved. No, he's not. He don't know Christ. He's had
a great and wonderful experience. The disciples knew Christ, but
were blind to the purpose of the blind man's sightlessness. The blind man saw by the power
of Christ, but did not know Christ, did not see Him by faith. The
Pharisees saw Christ, but they were blinded. They were judicially
blinded and willfully blinded and would not believe who He
was. And they remained in their sin. These all had experiences, but
they were not salvation. The issue is not whether you've
experienced a thing. I've experienced a lot of things
in religion. I can say I don't count on any
of them. I don't even count on yesterday's blessings, I'll be
honest with you. I'm going to look to Christ today,
because I need Him today. I need Him today. Experience
cannot be discounted, and it is aptly proven by the defense
that this formerly blind man puts forth concerning his experience.
He had an experience. The Pharisees found this man
and they couldn't shake him from his testimony, couldn't shake
him about his experience. They did not question the fact
of his experience because first, experience cannot be questioned.
Secondly, they had an ulterior motive for the questioning of
this man. They wanted to discount Christ. They hated Jesus Christ
and wanted to discount him as being sent from God. And as often
as the case, those who believe in another Jesus or believe not
at all, really do not care what you know or what you believe.
Their agenda is to simply get you not to believe what they
don't believe. They want you to believe like they do or not
believe like they do. Can two walk together except they be
agreed? These would not have cared what this man said about
Christ as long as he didn't say that he was a prophet. But he
said, he's a prophet. He just come right out and said, he's
a prophet. He said, he was sent from God, this blind man said.
He must have been sent from God. A sinner couldn't do this. Only
man sent from God. Nicodemus, do you remember that?
We know that thou art a man sent from God, for no man can do these
gifts. I said, God sent him. This blind man knew that. And
he argued with the theologians of the day. sent forth his case. But the experience of this man
revealed that Jesus was sent from God, and he logically used
the Pharisees' own arguments against them. Not all the Pharisees
were in agreement. According to verse 16, there
were some that wondered, how can a man be a sinner? And there
was division among them. That phrase, there was a division
among them, is used more in the Gospel of John than in any other
of the Gospels. There was a division because
of him. There was a division because of him. Some of them
didn't agree. Maybe it was Nicodemus. Some
say it might have been Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, but
it doesn't matter. That's neither here nor there
because they did not make up a voting majority at all. They thought that they could
use their station and religion as a threat to this healed man.
Don't you realize what we can do to you? Don't you know who
we are? Don't you know who I am? But
that didn't work on him either. It did work on his parents. When
they asked his parents, they were afraid of the Jews. They
didn't want to be cast out of the synagogue. So they said, well, ask him.
Don't ask us. And religion can be scary business and often uses
threat of censure and disassociation or reprobation or excommunication
as a means to keep control of folks. You don't straighten up,
we're going to throw you out. They call it churching up here.
We're going to church you and toss you out on your ear. I don't
find that anywhere in Scripture. In all the epistles, I don't
find anybody cast out of the assembly. You don't find them. Well, what do you do? Well, sometimes
you have to leave them alone. Sometimes you refuse to have
fellowship with them. Sometimes you don't eat with
them when they eat. I don't see them getting thrown out. Why?
Because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. You just don't know what's going
to happen tomorrow. Folks get that idea of ruling
in the church, they're going to throw people out, don't line
up with their special way of thinking, and that's what this
Pharisee did to this blind man. We're going to throw you out.
And finally, they did. They churched him. The healed man knew that these
religionists were going against their own beliefs to get him
to deny what had happened to them. They knew that no man could
do these things except God sent him. They knew that. They just
couldn't have Christ to do it. The Pharisees were quick to account
most anyone as sent from God who were able to do miracles.
That's what Nicodemus said in chapter 3. The healed man used
this against them with the facts of his experience. He said this.
He said, he answered, whether he be a sinner or not, one thing
I do know, I was blind and now I see. And you know I was blind
from my birth and now I see. I know that. I know that. And he was much as saying, he
made me see, but you say he was a sinner because he did it on
the Sabbath. How stupid is that? And I don't know if that makes
him a sinner, but what I do know is what you know also, that I
was blind. And now I say, you saw what happened. Whether he did it on the Sabbath
or not, whether you call him a sinner or not, you saw what happened.
I was blind. And he spit on the ground and
made mud and put it on my eyes and told me to go to the pool
of Siloam and wash and come back. And when I got out of that water,
I was seeing. You know that's what happened. And you know only
certain people can do that. But they would not have it. They
would not have it. You see, the legal mind at work
here, one of the means that those who use the law unlawfully is
to ask the same question over and over again hoping to elicit
a different kind of answer. Here it didn't work. Verses 26
and 27, they said unto him, What did he do to thee? They've already
asked that three, this is the third time they've asked. What
did he do to thee? How opened thee the eyes? He said, I've
already told you. I've already told you how he did it. And you
wouldn't hear me. If I tell you again, you're going
to become one of his disciples. You're going to join up with
him and follow Jesus. Of course, that just made him
really, really mad. They got really vexed and called
up the big guns. Verse 28 and 29, they said, don't
you know who we are? We are disciples of Moses. Moses. Big word. The law that God gave
to the children of Jacob's, to the tribes of Israel at the bottom
of Sinai is called throughout the scripture, the law of Moses. That's how important this man
was. He wrote the first five books of the Bible. Moses was
the intercessor. Moses was the man who saw God's
glory. Moses was the man whom God killed
and wouldn't let go into the promised land. Moses was special. In another place, the Lord said,
yes, well, you know, Moses wrote of me. They said, well, we're
of Moses. We're not of you. They reviled
him and said, We are Moses' disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses,
as for this fellow, this fellow. We don't know where he come from. We don't know where he come from. We're not disciples of this Johnny
come lately out of Nazareth. We don't know nothing about him.
And I expect full well that I've been raised in religion like
I was. from the time before I was born in the Southern Baptist
Church, that if someone had come along and said, well, you know,
everything you believe is a lie, and I'm God, I probably wouldn't
believe them either. Why? How do I know that? Because you
can't believe apart from Revelation. You can't be. This man who spent
his life without sight has most assuredly not spent it without
thought. He uses their beliefs against them. Their final defense
was, who do you think you are and don't you know who we are?
How dare you speak to us this way? We are teachers. You're going to teach us? You're
going to teach us? You've been blind all your life
and this little thing happens to you. And now you're going
to teach us? You're going to teach us? They
were very upset with him. They couldn't shake him. Don't try to shake somebody from
their experience. You can't shake them. I've had some over the years
finally admit that their experience wasn't their salvation. It was
just a wonderful experience. But that's hard to get them to
admit that, too. So I don't even try. His experience could not
be denied. But more than that, he refused
to deny that Christ was sent from God. Completely flummoxed,
their egos bruised, their intellects incapacitated, the theology trounced
upon the power turned to pulp. They did what any self-respecting
religionist would do. They threw him out. Gotta get rid of this guy. He
became a pariah. And know well And it was not
until this man was an outcast that Christ came to reveal Himself
to him. Christ healed his sight. But
there's no indication that when he came back out of the pool
of Siloam, the man who gave him sight was there for him to see.
Because he didn't talk about seeing Christ, he talked about
what Christ had done. That's what we do when we preach
the Gospel, isn't it? We talk about what Christ has done. He
came out of that pool and he went in blind and came out to
see Him, but he didn't see Christ. Christ was already gone. He had
already left the place. Already left. But he had an experience. But when he was an outcast, when
he had nobody, when even his parents weren't really standing
up for him, when he was thrown out of the
church, thrown out of the synagogue, when he had nothing left, Christ found in. I've got a feeling
that's kind of the way it works. When you're stripped of everything,
when you have nothing and without hope in this world, I've got
a feeling you've been brought to that place so Christ will
find you. He'll find you. as great as this experience was.
And you may have had a great experience, a bolt of lightning
maybe, a river of tears born of a delusion of guilt, or even
the healing of some horrible malady. Our Lord will not have
you look at that for salvation. He won't have you look at it.
If you have something to count on. I know this about me, so
I know this about you. If you have something to count
on, something to look to in order to believe that you are a child
of God, you will do not do business with the Savior. You do business
with your experience, whatever it is. And when the hope of men
is removed, when the religion du jour casts you out, when you
are nothing and have nothing, when you are without hope and
without a place to stand, Christ will find you and make you know
what salvation is. Verse 35 says this, Jesus heard that they'd cast
him out, and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou
believe on the Son of God? And the answer said, Who is it,
Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said, Thou hast
both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said,
Lord, I believe. And the first thing that happened,
he worshipped him. fell down and worshiped the Lord
Jesus Christ. Christ will find you if you have
nothing. But if you have one little finger that you can lift
to merit something before God, forget about the Savior. Because
if you've got that much, you can save yourself. Pray God will
show you you ain't got that much. You ain't got nothing. Nothing
whatsoever. Our Lord said in Deuteronomy
32, For the Lord shall judge his people and repent himself
for his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and
there is none shut up or left. That's when he'll save you. Why? Look at verse 39. Jesus said,
For judgment I am coming to this world. See, it's not just He
coming to this world to save me. The sword, I don't bring
peace. There is division among them
because of Him. Everywhere there is division.
Judgment, I am coming to this world. What's the judgment? The
judgment is that there are those in this world who say they know
Christ, say they see, and they live in a manner that controls
people's lives, they live in a manner that is full of law
and regulations, they live in a manner that is wholly religious
without any interest truly in Christ. And they say, we are
God's children. We can prove it. We go to church,
we give, we sing, we pray, we can prove we are children of
God. They did all of that. Christ looked at him and said,
you know, fellas, you'd be better off if you was blind. You'd just
be better off. When I see a drunk laying in
a gutter, or a drug addict walking the
street, and I look at a religious man who has no interest in Christ,
I say that drug addict's got more hope than that religious
man does. At least he ain't got no, maybe
he'll hit rock bottom one of these days. Every religious man,
he just keeps on climbing up to that higher life and that
deeper life. An exalted place where he can
just run other people's lives. The Lord says, you know, fellas,
you'd be so much better off if you was drunk. Oh, B.B. Caldwell told the story
of a woman came up to him one day on the street, said he'd
been to a meeting, and she didn't much like what he said. She said,
I've been a Christian all my life. I've never had a drink. I've
never had a drink. Wine has never touched my lips. I've never smoked
a cigarette. I've been good all my life. He said, woman, you
need to get drunk and throw up on yourself. Find out what you
really are. You religious folk, he said.
You're blind. For judgment I am coming to this
world. For judgment. That they which
see not, those blind people who have nothing, I'm going to give
them sight. And also that they which see
or say they see might be made blind. You see, the gospel that
softens and bruises the heart also hardens the heart. And that's
just the case. And some of the Pharisees which
have heard these things said, are you saying we're blind? Look
at the synagogue we built that. Look at all those guys wearing
those robes, those fighters, look at those phylacters hanging
from their robes. Look at that blue ribbon around
the bottom, that shows they're close to heaven. Look at them
up there talking about God, talking about Scripture. They're talking
about God. Even these fellows said, just
say it's God did it, didn't they? Just say it, don't say it's Christ
who did it, say it's God who did it. People talk about the
Creator. He's got a name. His name is
Jesus Christ. By Him, all things that were
made were made by Jesus Christ. It means something to declare
who God is. You remember the man who was
healed of the temple? He was crippled all his life,
and Peter, James, and John said, Well, out of silver and gold
have I none, but what I have I give unto thee. In the name
of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. And he jumped up and started
leaping, and running, and laughing, and carrying on, and running
to Solomon's porch. He was laughing, and they were
all astonished. Here's that man that's been laying by the gate,
beautiful. I gave him a couple dollars this morning. And they asked a very important
question. By whom is this man who was crippled now walking?
And Peter, James, and John could have said this, God did it. And
every one of them would have patted him on the back. And if
this blind man had said just like the first, he said, God
did it. They'd have said, yeah, yeah, go brother. Come on in
church. We'll make a Sunday school teacher
out of you. You got a story to tell. You one of them ex-people. Something used to be something,
now you're something different. Peter, James, and John could
have said, God did it. And everything would have been alright. But
they said, you know, Jesus Christ whom you crucify, God has made
Him both Lord and Christ. And by His name, and in His name,
does this man walk before you. These fellas believed in God And folks who are religion, you
can talk about God all you want to. They love to talk about God.
But you start telling them who Jesus Christ is and what He's
done, they're going to turn blind all of a sudden. You say you
see. You say you see. If you were
blind, verse 41, if you were blind, you wouldn't have a problem,
you wouldn't have sin. If you were blind. But now you say, we see. Therefore,
your sin remains. If you say that you see, having
never believed Christ, you are blind and your sin remains. And
if you are blind and know that you are blind, know you cannot
see, even though you might have religious experience that profited
you of no eternal value. And Christ will give you true
sight. And what is the true sight and what is true blindness? True
sight is belief on the Son of God. True blindness is seeing that
you see, having never believed on Jesus Christ. Sight is belief
and blindness is unbelief. Believest thou on the Son of
God? Who is He that I might believe
on Him? Who is He? Do you know Him? Or you've just been all these
years just saying, you see, and you believe in God. And God is
great and God is good and let us thank Him for our food. Or do you know Jesus Christ? Who is He? Father, bless us to
understand and pray in Christ's name. Amen.