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Bro. Bill Nichols
No, we usually we usually have people coming in to about ten after.
What about Ron.
Is he coming Ron?
Romaine the hubris are here, so
we're beginning we're beginning to.
Yes, they should get here.
They should get here on on time then shouldn't
they.
Good morning?
You ready to roll?
All right.
That's quite a challenge.
No, I'm saying I've got a challenge.
That's all you you're easy
easily taught.
Well I guess we'll go ahead and get started and we'll let people catch up as they as they come along.
We Are scheduled.
37 of Genesis?
Most gracious Heavenly Father.
Thank you for this day, and thank you for all of our many blessings.
Thank you for giving us this place to come together and study your word.
Thank you for protecting us.
Thank you for all of the things that you have provided for us.
Bless us and keep us go with us through this Lesson and through a brother David's
sermon teach us the things that you want us to know in Jesus name.
We pray amen.
And there's always things that you're taught that you didn't expect to be taught.
If we begin with chapter 37 of Genesis not tell you this I have.
I had my English teaching buddy look at my paper today,
and he said I needed a better transition and I told him that I'm a physicist
and we believe in quantum junks.
We just go from where we are to where we need to be and we don't worry about transition.
But I did try to clean it up a little bit so that it fits in.
You understand why we were doing what we're doing.
And Jacob dwelt in the land where in his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan.
That's verse 1.
Jacob's father Isaac as Well as his sons though in the land
had not yet entered into possession of it.
Into possession of their inheritance, that's a perfect model of today's Christian.
Just like them were in the land.
But not in possession of it.
They were still alien residents of the land of Canaan more precisely of the
city of Hebron.
We are alien residents of the u .s.
More precisely I think for all of us now, Texas.
They took possession of their inheritance when after the death of Moses Joshua led them
across the Jordan River and they entered the promised land.
That's when they actually took possession Of the first of their land and they haven't taken they have not taken
total possession of it even yet.
And they will there'll be time when they take total possession of all the land that they're promised.
As for us we have only one leader that the the
Israelites had two that we just that we dealt with then.
Moses who led them to the river and Joshua who led them across.
We only have one leader Jesus.
After the death and resurrection of Jesus we will take.
We will take possession of our inheritance when he returns to take us to the new heavens and the new earth.
So we'll we'll take our possession when we are taught taken into the new heavens and the new
earth.
Until then we're just resident aliens in the place where we're living.
I Went to 2nd Peter now and said 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 10.
We're concerned with the inheritance and What it is we're inheriting before we inherit this new heaven and
new earth.
We had I had it and that's what 2nd Peter talks about.
But in the day but in the day of the Lord.
But the day of the Lord Will come as a thief in the night.
In which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.
The earth also in the works that are therein Shall be burned up seeing then all these things shall
be Dissolved.
What manner of persons all you be in all holy?
Conversation and godliness now that conversation is not what we think of as conversation.
That's holy life not that's the whole living not just the talking
and that's a good question.
If all the things that you see and all the things, you know are going to be disappear.
What should you be working toward?
Looking for and hastening to the coming of the day of God.
We're in the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat.
Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth.
We're in dwelleth righteousness.
So that's what's out there.
John tells us in John 14.
Let starting at verse 1 let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God.
Believe also in me.
In my father's house are many mansions.
If it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where
I am there you may be also
okay,.
I Thought when I started this lesson that I was going to go from here to
Verse 2 that comes after verse 1 and I just did verse 1.
But I Was curious that's an odd wording.
I would have told you Can you remember any other time that God said or Jesus said to us?
I would have told you something
Jesus Told them about the Jesus told them about his second coming.
But he understood he understood that they would not be able to
Totally relate to what he was telling them.
He didn't he didn't talk about that.
Well as I was curious, I just decided, you know, we've got all kinds of technology now.
I would do a phrase search on blue letter Bible and I did and I got this hit the one
I copied pasted in and I got one near match.
The near match was in John chapter 9 you can go ahead and go go there.
We'll be there in just a second.
Chapter 9 was such a timely and compelling Passage that I decided to explore it more
thoroughly and as a result, we will not get to verse 2.
That's just so you know up front.
We'll not come back to Genesis today.
We'll do it maybe next Sunday.
But I thought after all the Holy Spirit never takes you someplace by accident.
If he took me to this verse he took me here for a purpose.
I'm not certain what the purpose is, but I know he is certain of what the purpose is either I or Some
of you need to know what is here.
I think in any case John chapter 9 presents what might be the
most revealing account of a man receiving his inheritance.
I Think it is even more revealing than the passage.
I've always Referred to of Paul on the road to Damascus walking toward
Damascus every step going to kill Christians and then bang out of the sky a bright
light and a message and He responds by saying who are you?
And that was always a compelling story about the way God
comes to man.
But this is even more revealing or it was more revealing to me and we'll kind of see as we go along.
I Have read this account of the blind man
many times.
But my focus has always been on the minor miracle.
This time I would like to focus on the major miracle.
So we want to strike off but as before we go or as we go I'd like you to consider these things about this story.
What is the minor miracle.
What is the major miracle in this story who's blind
and then the five players?
The blind man the disciple the disciples the Pharisees
the parents and Jesus those are the five players in this scene
to what purpose are they here?
Now I'm gonna do a little bit differently, I'm just gonna go through and read This passage first and then as we
go back through it Hit the wrong button.
We will As we go back through it.
We will Do our comments so
I want to back up about Three verses into chapter 8 so you get a feel
for what we are for where we are chapter 8 back up chapter 8 verse.
You can start at verse 57 for my purposes Jesus has been discussing
with the Pharisees certain things and so then the Jews say unto him
thou art not 50 years old and Hast thou seen Abraham and Jesus said
unto them verily verily I say unto you Before Abraham was I
am Then took they stones to cast at him.
But Jesus hit himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so
passed by.
Now there's no chapters in this original scripture.
So let's just keep reading and as Jesus passed by so
Keep in mind where Jesus is what he has just been doing who he's been dealing with and now we
read.
They took up stones to cast at him but Jesus hit himself went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so
passed by and as Jesus passed by he saw a man which was blind from birth and
He's his disciples asked him saying Master who did sin this man or
his parents that he was born blind and Jesus answered Neither has this man sinned
nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
I Must work the works of him that sent me.
While it is day the night cometh when no man can work as long as I am in the world I am the
light of the world.
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 clay and he said unto him go Wash in the pool of song
which is by interpretation Scent and he went on his way therefore and washed and came
seeing the neighbors therefore and they that which Before had seen him that he was
blind said is this not he that sat and begged.
Some said this is he other says He is like him, but he said I
am he.
Therefore said they unto him how were their eyes opened and he answered a
man that is called Jesus made clay and anointing mine eyes and said to me go to the pool of
song and wash and I went and washed and I received sight.
Then said they unto him.
Where is he?
And he said I know not and They brought him to the Pharisees.
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind and It was the Sabbath day when
Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
Then again, the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight and he said unto them He put
clay on mine eyes and I washed and do see.
Therefore said some of the disciples Pharisees.
This man is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day.
Others said how can a man that is a sinner do such miracles and there was a division
among them.
They said unto the blind man again.
What saith thou of him?
That opened thine eyes.
And he said he's a prophet but the Jews did not believe him concerning that he had been blind and received
his sight until they called the parents of him that had received sight and They asked them
saying is this your son whom you say was born blind?
How then does he now see?
The parents answered them and said we know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
By what means he now seeth?
We know not or who hath opened his eyes.
We know not he is of age.
Ask him.
These words spake the parents.
Because they feared the Jews.
For the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the synagogue.
Therefore said his parents.
He is of age ask him.
Then again, they called the man that was blind and said unto him give God the praise.
We know that this man is a sinner.
He answered and said whether he be a sinner or no, I know not one thing.
I know That whereas whereas I was blind now I see.
Then said they to him again What did he do to thee how open he van eyes
and he answered them.
I have told you already and You did not hear wherefore would you hear it again?
Do you want to be his disciples?
Then they reviled him and said that are his disciple we are Moses's disciple.
We know that God spake unto Moses as for this fellow.
We know not from whence he is.
The man answered and said unto him Why herein is a marvelous thing that
you know not from whence he is and yet he opened mine eyes.
Now we know that God hearth not sinners, but if any man be a worshiper of God and doeth his will
Him he heareth since the world began.
Was it not heard that any man Opened the eyes of one that is born blind.
If this man were not of God he could do nothing.
Then they answered and said unto him that was altogether born in sin.
Dost thou teach us and they cast him out and Jesus heard that they had
cast him out and when he had found him he said unto him thus now believe on the Son of God.
And he answered and said who is he Lord that I might believe on him and Jesus said to him
thou hast both seen him and it is he that talketh with thee and he said Lord I
believe and worshiped him and Jesus said for judgment I came into the world that
they which see not might see and they would see might be made blind and
Some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words and said unto him are we blind also and
Jesus said unto them if you were blind you should have no sin, but now you See
therefore your sin remaineth and that's the end of verse of chapter 9
now.
Anybody care to Tell me what is the minor miracle in this story?
The blind man gaining his sight.
What's the major miracle
seeing?
Comprehending that Jesus was Lord.
That's one way to answer it.
Salvation that's another way to answer it.
How I answered it was the major Miracle was the dead man
being made alive.
That's part of the story this is a wondrous example of
Salvation.
Let's just look at verse 1 as Jesus passed by now remember where is Jesus passing by from
he's passing by from chapter 8 where the Pharisees are trying to stone him and
As he's passing by he passes by he sees a blind man, which was blind.
From his birth John.
What was the blind man doing?
He was sitting, but I said he was sitting by the wayside begging that's what he's doing.
He was not looking for Jesus.
He was not in the church.
He was not allowed in the synagogue he was not allowed in the synagogue because
the Jews thought that he had sinned and Had had a major gross
sin because he had a major gross malady.
So they wouldn't associate with him they would not allow him in the synagogue later on.
We're going to see that the Pharisees response is to kick him out of the synagogue.
That's interesting.
He's never been in the synagogue.
Anyhow Jesus.
Only Jesus could do that only Jesus could hide himself just by going right through the middle of them.
You know, it's a mob trying to it's a mob trying to kill you.
What would you do.
I'd cover my head and run with you or do something.
Maybe I try to stone him back or something, but It is amazing that he just wandered out
through the midst of them.
Heading toward the place where he was designed to be and where was he designed to be at the blind
man?
No and.
Yeah, that's that's interesting.
Paul.
Paul thought that this Christian sect
Jesus was trying to take glory away from God when they failed to realize that the man
That they were worshiping was God and the man that Paul was worshiping.
He didn't know who's worshiping.
No,
I'm going to I'm going to skip ahead to the very end and tell you what I intended to tell you at the very End
go ahead.
That's.
They were with him the whole time.
Yeah.
But but well, I'll wait and hope we get there.
I I I think you're right.
Mr. Dan.
Okay, let's go back.
The man was just sitting there by the wayside begging.
He was unable to look he was blind and yet he was there for a purpose a
purpose a reason planned.
From before time began this was not a secret to God.
Jesus went through the mob to this man.
Lit on this man for a purpose and what was that purpose?
Yeah, but but the real purpose is I think John was one that said it to glorify God.
It's going to tell us that it's going to tell us that in two verses and the disciple asked him saying master
who did sin.
This man or his parents that he was born blind now.
Not to be too critical of the disciples in the Jewish mindset if a man had a malady.
It was because of a sin.
Well, we know that why does why do we have all the bad things that we have?
Who's in?
Adam sin, and we all come into the world with Adam sin.
They Thought that a serious malady such as blindness demanded a serious sin.
So that we all we just do little sins this guy's do it done a big sin.
So we guys who have only done little sins.
We're not going to associate with got that guy that son a big sin.
So they wouldn't associate with him.
He was an outcast.
He was not allowed in the synagogue.
Yes.
Some of them did that and someone blamed the man.
Yes
the.
You're right so There is a dilemma here, isn't there?
Since he was blind from birth who could have sinned was it the parents?
Therefore they should be kicked out of the synagogue or is it him?
He was only kicked out of synagogue.
So the so the predominance of the Pharisees Thought it was the
man.
This is to teach his disciples.
I ask you a question what?
Keep in mind these things.
What were these players here for?
What were the disciples here for they're here to learn a lesson, too.
For them that was a reasonable question, but not an important one.
The man and the disciples were not there to have that question answered although
in Passing Jesus did answer it.
So as we go by Jesus answered the question and then it's done with next verse.
Jesus answered neither hath this man sinned nor his parents.
Now did he say that neither this man nor this.
The parents had ever done a sin.
He didn't say that did he he just said.
This blindness is not here because of the sin that the parents did or the sin that he did.
It's not for either one of them.
What is it here for?
That the works of God should be manifest in him.
Then he goes on.
At that precise time the works of God will be Opened up so that we
can see that what manifest means and manifest means it's opened up.
So we can see it at this time in him.
We can get a lesson from this blind man.
They can't see it why.
Because they're blind.
That's it.
That's a hint to my answer it to summary.
I must I Must work the works of him that sent me while
it is day the night cometh when no man can work as Long as I am in the world.
I am the light of the world.
This is like a mild rebuke of the disciples.
Got to understand the disciples like the blind man and everyone else in this story are there for a
predetermined purpose a purpose established before the beginning of time a
Purpose that a purpose that only Jesus saw when Jesus looked
he saw a man with a problem.
Jesus saw work to be done and he did it.
The disciples saw a theological question to debate.
They saw a theological question to debate and they wanted to debate it and
Jesus said to them basically do the work you're here to do focus on the big
things.
Don't worry about the little things focus on the big things.
When he had thus spoken he sped on the ground and made clay of the spittle and he anointed the eyes of the blind man
with clay.
That's the story so far.
Who has done anything?
Has the blind man done anything?
Not yet, he's done nothing sir.
No, he doesn't even know.
I don't even know it that I Don't even know at this point that he knows Jesus is there.
Maybe he does because he hears the conversation.
I Guess he does.
But he hasn't done anything.
He hasn't been asked to do anything.
He hasn't asked anyone to do anything.
He's just sitting there.
What about the disciples have they done anything?
They just tried to engage Jesus in a theological discussion.
Yeah, it reminds me.
It reminds me of the prayer right where the where the fair where the where the Pharisee is in the temple praying and he
looks over at the at the Publican praying and he says thank you Lord that I'm not like him.
Yeah, it was a it was a question asked to puff them about.
I like that.
The only one that's done anything so far is Jesus.
That's always the case and I shouldn't even say thus far should I?
Part of his he answered that's one thing he did part of his answer.
The blind man was chosen for a purpose.
What was the blind man chosen for to glorify God?
That the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Jesus made the clay.
Jesus anointed the eyes of the blind man only then.
Was the blind man asked to do anything?
He was asked to go to the pool of Salaam.
Which by interpretation means sent he went his way therefore and was washed and
came seeing.
So the blind man was obedient.
He went he washed and he came away seeing but not understanding
as We shall see later the understanding
Comes later.
But another has happened that the neighbors know that there's a difference the neighbors
therefore and they which were which before had seen him that was blind said is this not he that sat
and begged and Some said this is he and others said he is like him, but
he said I am he.
Clearly he's a different man.
There's something about him.
That's different.
It's different in ways that are discernible by the neighbors.
They know that he is different than he was before.
That's all I know.
Oh, you wish I thought you wouldn't say something.
Therefore they said unto him.
How were thine eyes opened?
That's a reasonable question the now seeing man Received the ants
had an answer.
He summarized the events leading to his receiving sight to the extent that he understood them.
Here's what he says a man that is called Jesus made clay.
And anointed mine eyes and said unto me go to the pool of Salon and wash and I went
and I washed and I received sight.
To this point that's all he knows.
So they asked him another question.
Then they said unto him where is he and he said I know not.
Okay, we're ready to shift people, but you got a question a
comment.
No good.
He got he got some he got he got some relief from his blindness said he hadn't accepted him yet.
He doesn't even
know
who
to
accept
yet.
That's
right.
Isn't that isn't
that enlightening?
Up until now we've been dealing with a man who knew he was blind.
There was no question the man sitting by the wayside begging knew he was blind
and who subsequently received his sight.
We're now going to encounter some men who think they can see but in reality
are even more blind than the blind beggar.
Now my Little automatic correcting thing says underline that in green.
You can't have more blind.
I Know that you're the blind or you can see.
But they but but They're blinder.
In any case the blind beggar receives sight, but these don't.
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
And it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened the eyes.
John.
Do you see a problem coming
then again the Pharisees also asked him how?
He had received his sight and he said unto him.
He put clay on my eyes and I washed and I see that's a quick summary of what he just told the
Pharisees just before and the neighbors.
Well, what will he.
Well he by now he is doing he is responding to God doing what God told him to do.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
And see he did too.
He he made the clay.
He made the clay and put it on his eyes.
So they don't they're not really concerned about about the blind man.
They're concerned about Jesus.
Therefore said some of the Pharisees this man is not a god.
Because he keepeth not the Sabbath day.
That that's wonderful.
How did they respond?
Wonderful a blind man can now see is that what they did?
No, you get two different responses.
Some said he cannot be of God because he did not.
What?
Okay, there is a there is a broader answer than that.
That is exactly the precise thing.
He did but he didn't follow our rules.
We got rules, baby, and he didn't follow our rules.
So he's out.
Others said how can a man that is a sinner do such miracles and there was a
division amongst them.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
It's always a good thing that there was a division amongst the Pharisees tells us that
some believers can be even found amongst the Pharisees and We need to keep that in mind too when we
look at and we're too critical of Churches that we see have lots and lots of
problems in those churches with lots and lots of problems.
There are some believers maybe.
There it can be it can be to the extent that there's not.
But some believers can be found even amongst the Pharisees and they say unto the blind man
again.
What's Sayest thou of him that opened thine eyes and he said he is a prophet.
Well, he they the blind man knew that Jesus was special.
He knew because he had to be special.
He he gave him sight something that no one had ever done before.
No one in the history of the world had ever up at that point ever Taken a person that was blind from
birth and made him to see he's got to be a prophet.
I don't hear that.
Did they so
a good man?
He was a good man.
But the Jews did not believe concerning him that had been blind and received his sight.
Until they call the parents of him that had received his sight.
So they said wait, this can't be right.
This can't be that this prophet has Given sight to a blind man.
He must not have been blind.
So the refused to believe until they called his parents.
You got to love his parents
they'd rather they'd rather kick out their son.
Then be kicked out of the church.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
He's busy.
You know, he's just a he's just a burden for us to bear.
Yeah, yeah, clearly if he's blind because he sinned
as a from birth.
But it to be blind at birth.
He had to have sinned before birth.
No, they didn't
and they asked him.
Is this your son whom?
You say was born blind.
His parents answered them and said we know that this is our son and That
he was born blind.
So they answer one question.
Is this your born blind son?
And they say he's our son and he was born blind.
They dodged the next one.
But by what means he now seeth we know not or who hath opened his eyes.
We know not he is of age ask him.
He shall speak for himself.
These words spake the parents because they feared the Jews.
For the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of
the synagogue.
Therefore said his parents he is of age ask him.
So as Diane said the parents were being Fear or fearful of being put out of the church out
of the synagogue.
This was not the real concern of the now seeing man.
It had been assumed that his blindness Was the result of this of his sin thus he was not
in the synagogue.
Therefore unlike his parents who were under pressure to conform.
He was free to be just as frank as he wanted to be and You are going to be.
I was startled at how frank he was but before 24.
Then again, they call the man that was blind and said unto him give God the
praise.
What manner are they talking about?
And how did they know he's the sinner?
He didn't follow the rules.
There was nothing in the scripture that forbade healing on the Sabbath day.
The problem was not in the scripture.
The problem was in their paraphrases of the scripture
the blind eyes in the blind eyes of the Pharisees.
Jesus was a sinner because he didn't follow their rules
to the Word of God.
They were blind.
They could only see their rules
and he answered and said whether he'd be a sinner or no.
You know, it's interesting, isn't it that the Pharisees that the
theologians are asking the blind man if
Jesus is a sinner.
Sir, the blind man who they didn't allow in the church.
They're now they have now gone to for spiritual
Enlightenment, they don't accept it.
I guess I guess on second thought you're right.
If they if they if they'd been searching for spiritual enlightenment.
They probably would have found it by now
I know not one thing.
I know that whereas I was blind now I see the former
blind man.
Could see what the Pharisees could not.
He says I don't know what I don't know.
But this I do know I was blind and now I see.
He didn't see everything, but he saw more than the Pharisees did
and then they said to him again.
What did he to thee how opened he thine eyes and then we come to verse 27.
Which is the hit that I got on the blue letter Bible.
I got here in the first place.
He answered them.
Will you be his disciples?
I told you and you didn't believe why do you want to hear it again a bit of
sarcasm, right?
So what did they do?
Then they reviled him and said that are his disciple, but we are Moses's disciple.
We know that God spake to Moses as for this fellow.
We not know not from whence he is.
Thou art his disciple.
I Commented and you can you can address my comment
if you wish.
I don't think he's Jesus's disciple yet.
But he soon will be.
He is right now a man who has been who has had his eyes open and is able
to see and is Able to hear and is able to understand but right now He
doesn't understand and he won't understand until God gives him further enlightenment.
So he's not really his disciple yet, but he soon will be.
When they said when they said we know that thou art his
His disciple but we are Moses's disciple.
Well, he did kind of look at the next verse verse 30 the man answers
and said unto him Herein is a marvelous thing.
You got to be kidding me.
You don't understand where this man came from.
See, I think he got a little bit of extra enlightenment from them.
You don't know where he came from.
The man answered and said unto them why herein is a marvelous thing that you know not from whence he is
and yet He hath opened mine eyes.
If we now if We now know that God hearth not sinners, but if any man be a
worshiper of God and doeth his will Him he hearth since the world began.
Was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind?
I had trouble reading that and I'm gonna read it with the with the verbs and the pronoun
switched.
Since the world began.
It was not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that is blind.
That's what the question is.
Since the world began no one has ever heard of anyone Opening the eyes of men that's born blind.
That's the the what he's trying to convey.
If this man were not of God He could do nothing.
So amazing you don't know.
Who ever heard of sight being restored to one born blind.
If this man was not of God he could do nothing.
That's my paraphrase but remember paraphrase is what got the Pharisees in trouble.
Well, how did they take that?
They answered and said unto him thou was born altogether in sins.
How did they know that?
Because he was blind.
He was born blind.
You were born in altogether in sins.
You had like great sins at the beginning you couldn't see and
Dost thou teach us and They cast him out.
There is none so blind as those that will not see.
What they're telling the blind man is or the formerly blind man.
What makes you Obviously a great sinner presumed to try to teach us.
What did they forget?
Well, they brought him there, but they also forgot something else.
They didn't bring a blind man there.
He's no longer blind.
They're the ones that are blind.
I think the answer to that question is you are no longer accountable for your sin.
Who's accountable for your sin?
I misunderstood.
I misunderstood the gist of your question.
They've got a problem, don't they?
I mean they got they got a guy who used to be used to be sinful and now you can see therefore He's not
that is a that is a great problem for them.
Hold on to that question.
The question is now turned 180 degrees.
What began as the question who sinned that this man be born blind? morphed into this
question.
How did this man gain his sight and finally crystallized
into the question?
Who is it that is truly blind.
The blind man finally understood That he had not been a blind
man among seeing men.
When he was on the when he was on the wayside begging John.
He thought that he was a blind man in a world of seeing people.
He finally understood that he was not a blind man among seeing people.
But was truly a blind man a blunt among blind men.
And the real question was how does that any man gain sight?
What do you do when the only answer is a totally sovereign God who does what he wants
to do?
The Pharisees had the solution reject
that.
Consult your set of rules and Cast the seeing man out of the synagogue.
That was not much of a penalty.
As he had never been in the synagogue in the first place and would have been the only seeing man there
35.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out and When he had found him
who is looking for whom?
Christ is looking for the now seeing former blind man.
Even this slate the now seeing but not fully understanding man is not seeking the Lord.
The Lord is seeking him.
I'm sorry.
Well, he could have he didn't know he was.
I was that is that what you were?
He he was blind when Jesus created him.
He still can't recognize him.
And we get to that just in like two.
It really it really is.
It is just an amazing amazing thing.
Oh, there's lots different about him.
Even this late.
It's the Lord that's seeking the man and When he had found him He said unto him
Dost thou believe on Jesus?
Now there's your critical question the answer to this same question
put to us Determines our eternal destiny as well.
Another way to phrase and I've heard people say this.
What did you do with my son?
What did you do with Jesus?
That's the question.
You'll be asked.
Yes, ma 'am 36.
Let me finish.
Let me finish 30.
Let me finish 35 and I'll go straight to 36.
I may have already done that
together and When they had found him he said unto him dost thou believe on the Son of God
and he answered and said 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.
Until then he didn't know he didn't know until now Who this man was and when he knew what did
he do?
He did what everybody that is called of him does.
He said I believe and he worshipped him
and and he now has a belief.
That's a different kind of belief.
It says I believe but this is a special belief.
I'm gonna go back a.
So the question what did you do with Jesus if you can say I believed you are eternally secure in the hands of the
Father mark 923 if you want to go there, we're we're gonna.
I'm gonna finish this and then we'll we'll clean up.
Mark 923 Jesus said unto him if thou canest believe he's talking to the man that brought his
Child to be healed.
He says if thou canest believe all things are possible to him that believeth and straight away the father of the
child cried out and said with tears I believe.
Help thou mine unbelief.
So this belief that you have to have this belief that the formerly blind man
believed is more than Just a belief of a
human being and what I am going to do is I'm going to pick this up next week.
We can't answer the question until the question is asked when
Jesus said Do you believe in the Son of God?
He says who is he that I might believe and Jesus says it's me and he said
I believe.
That is right.
I'm assuming they were.
I don't know that I don't know that it says they were but I'm assuming they were.
They had this had to be a lesson for them to didn't it?
Where did the disciples keep the lesson?
I don't think they were at the level they needed to be and would not be at that level until after the death and
resurrection and until the The filling of them with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
I think that's when they became.
That's that's that's when Peter really would lay down his life for his master.
Thank you for this day.
Thank you for all the many gifts that you have given us.
Thank you for The lessons that you have to teach us Blessings and keep us go through this
service as well as the next in Jesus name.
We pray.
Amen.