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Crosswalk - WOW The Big Picture: Healing Spiritual Blindness, September 22, 2003

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            W O W - T H E   B I G   P I C T U R E
                 by Thomas Nelson Publishers

Healing Spiritual Blindness
		
    -- John 9; Psalm 106:35-38; Proverbs 19:1
	
Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His
disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he was born blind?"

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the
works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him who
sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As
long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with
the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And
He said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated,
Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was
blind said, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

Some said, "This is he." Others said, "He is like him." He said, "I am
he." Therefore they said to him, "How were your eyes opened?"
 
He answered and said, "A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes
and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' So I went and
washed, and I received sight."

Then they said to him, "Where is He?"
He said, "I do not know."
 
They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees. Now it was a
Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Then the Pharisees
also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, "He
put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

 
Therefore some of the Pharisees said, "This Man is not from God,
because He does not keep the Sabbath."

 
Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there
was a division among them.

 
They said to the blind man again, "What do you say about Him because He
opened your eyes?"

He said, "He is a prophet."
 
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and
received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had
received his sight. And they asked them, saying, "Is this your son, who
you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

 
His parents answered them and said, "We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind; but by what means he now sees we do not know, or
who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak
for himself." His parents said these things because they feared the
Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He
was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents
said, "He is of age; ask him."

 
So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, "Give God
the glory! We know that this Man is a sinner."

 
He answered and said, "Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One
thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see."

 
Then they said to him again, "What did He do to you? How did He open
your eyes?"

 
He answered them, "I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do
you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?"

 
Then they reviled him and said, "You are His disciple, but we are Moses'
disciples. We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do
not know where He is from."

 
The man answered and said to them, "Why, this is a marvelous thing, that
you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes! Now we know
that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and
does His will, He hears him. Since the world began it has been unheard
of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind. If this Man
were not from God, He could do nothing."

 
They answered and said to him, "You were completely born in sins, and
are you teaching us?" And they cast him out.

 
Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He
said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

He answered and said, "Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?"
 
And Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him and it is He who is
talking with you."

Then he said, "Lord, I believe!" And he worshiped Him.
 
And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those
who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind."

 
Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said
to Him, "Are we blind also?"

 
Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now
you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains."

John 9

WORSHIP:
    But they mingled with the Gentiles
    And learned their works;
    They served their idols,
    Which became a snare to them.
    They even sacrificed their sons
    And their daughters to demons,
    And shed innocent blood,
    The blood of their sons and daughters,
    Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
    And the land was polluted with blood.
    Psalm 106:35-38

WISDOM:
 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
    Than one who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
    Proverbs 19:1

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