John 9:1-38
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. 8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some claimed that he was. Others said, “No, he only looks like him.” But he himself insisted, “I am the man.” 10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked. 11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.” 12 “Where is this man?” they asked him. “I don’t know,” he said.
The Man
Christ’s question to the blind man, who had his sight restored: “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
when they came across this blind man, they decide to make him part of their lesson for the day. “Rabbi (that is, Teacher), who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
They assume that the man’s blindness was a punishment for a specific sin
The Glory of God
Jesus points out how suffering can be turned into a reason for glorifying God.
God allowed this man to suffer with blindness, so that he would be a living, walking “advertisement” for his Son.
Spiritual blindness
The very question, “Why me?” exposes our spiritual blindness that assumes that we DESERVE better. Spiritual blindness claims that we have RIGHTS
In a world of sin, where we have no aptitude to recognize our Lord and Savior, we are just like that blind man. We couldn’t see Jesus, but he could see us.
Isaiah 42:19-22a “Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one committed to me, blind like the servant of the LORD? You have seen many things, but have paid no attention; your ears are open, but you hear nothing." It pleased the LORD for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious. But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons”
Ephesians 5:14 “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you”
Jesus Gives Sight to the Blind – the Blind from Birth and even those who have Blinded Themselves
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