John 1:4-5: Darkness and the Misery of Our Sin

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Intro

The Doctrines of Grace.
Calvinism. Reformed Theology.
Really no matter how you say it, what we are talking about is how great God’s grace is in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And for us to truly understand how great that grace is, we need to understand just how far the depths of our sin truly go.
What exactly was the miserable state we were in?
What does it mean that we were blind?
Slave? Dead in our trespasses and sins?
I think its easy for us to forget just how impossible it was for God to save us, and in doing so we forget how amazing God’s grace actually is.
And that’s the one main goal I have for us today. I want us to see the darkness and misery God saved us from in our sin and hopefully leave here to day praising God for the miracle of His grace.
Our text is John 1:4-5 and here’s the Big idea...

The light of Christ saves us out of darkness into eternal life.

I want to go a different direction than Jesus saves us from our sins. Trust me that’s going to be there.
But I want to focus on how bad our sin actually is, or rather was, before Christ.
How deep our misery was and how we would have never been saved. we would have never actually come to faith, were it not for God’s grace in Jesus Christ.
Let’s start with point number 1...

I. Sinful Man is Dead in their Sins and Lost in Darkness

John 1:4-5 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
What we are talking about in this verse is the salvation of Christ.
He is the light that shines in the darkness and gives life to men.
Like we said...

The light of Christ saves us out of darkness into eternal life.

That is the good news of the gospel. But to get to the good news, we have to go through the bad news.
The bad news of just how sinful and lost we are in our sin.
How we are so blind through the darkness of our own hearts, that were it not for God’s grace, none of us would be saved.
In the Bible, Light and Life are opposed and in direct conflict with Death and Darkness.
Two common ways of talking about our sin and the fallen condition of this world.
God made all things good. Everything was in harmony. And then sin broke the world.
And most of all sin broke us.
We were made to know God.
Not just in an intellectual way just knowing that God exists somewhere out there.
But an intimate knowledge of God, in an intimate relationship of love and fellowship.
Communion with God where God blesses us and shares His love for us and we return that love to Him in glory and praise.
That’s what we were made for; to know and share in God’s love.
That’s why eternal life is John 17:3 knowing you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
But because of sin all that was lost. We became enemies of God.
God in His righteousness and holiness burned with wrath against us because of our sin.
And we because we loved our sin, absolutely despised any idea of worshiping and serving the Creator. Of living for Him.
We hated Him, and wanted to be our own God’s and live by our own rules.
And that brought death.
Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death.
And death spread to all men because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 5:12, 3:23).
The Bible calls this state of sin and death, hatred of God, darkness.
God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5).
Darkness, then, is everything that is opposed to God, our sin, rebellion, the world, Satan, the curse, EVERYTHING leading to spiritual death and everlasting condemnation for our sins.
And before we can talk about the good news of light of Christ shining in this darkness to save us from our sins, we need to understand just how pitch black and oppressive this darkness actually is.
What does this darkness actually mean for us and say about us?
The greater the darkness the brighter the light.
And if we want to see the full light of Christ in His grace, we need to see our sin for what it actually is, and just what it means when the Bible says we are dead in our sins.
Blind, deaf utterly lost in darkness.

Total Depravity

What we are talking about is the Doctrine of Total Depravity.
Total Depravity basically says that there is no part of us that has not been touched or corrupted by our sin.
It doesn’t mean that people are as sinful as they possibly can be or that people cannot do any good whatsoever relatively speaking.
If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children…(Matthew 7:11).
What we mean is that everything about us is hostile to God.
Our minds, hearts, wills, loves, affections, and emotions - our conscience, goals, motives, desires - every thought, word, action, and deed - everything about us - has been corrupted by our sin.
Total Depravity means we are sinful from head to foot. Inside-out. Top to bottom.
The very core, root, nature of our being is so twisted and gnarled by our sin that every part of us, all that we are and all that we do is under the control of sin.
Sin is a leaven that leavens the whole lump (1 Cor 5:6).
Sin fills every nook and cranny of our souls and we are overflowing with evil.
There is no good within us but instead, Romans 1:29, we are filled with all manner of unrighteousness.
John Calvin said, “We are so entirely controlled by the power of sin, that the whole mind, the whole heart, and all our actions are under its influence” (MacArthur, Biblical Doctrine, 467–468).
Even the quote unquote good things we do are still tainted with sin because they are not done out of love for God.
Without Christ, everything we are and everything we do is sinful all the time.
And this was not how God created us, He created us and said it was good.
But it is how our sin corrupted us.
Where we were created to love God with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind, all of our strength, we’ve turned our backs on Him gone astray because of our hardness of heart.
Nothing in us loves God. Just the opposite, we hate Him.
As Jonathan Edwards said “The heart is a viper, hissing and spitting poison at God” (Curt Daniel, The History and Theology of Calvinism, 292).
Calvin: That if God broke the arms of sinners we would still kick against Him with our legs (Curt Daniel, The History and Theology of Calvinism, 307).
If you want a picture of Total Depravity, you need to look no further than the days of Noah.
We look at the men of Noah’s day and think to ourselves how wicked. How grotesque. How fallen, how lost can you actually be that the only way to cleanse the earth was to wash it with a flood, not realizing that by condemning them we condemn ourselves.
Genesis 6:5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
What God said about them He says about us and every sinner that has ever lived.
And just like them, we deserve the flood of God’s wrath and judgment.
Or listen to how one of my favorite Puritan’s Thomas Watson says it: Men sin so greedily as if they were afraid hell’s gates would be shut up before they got there (Daniel, The History and Theology of Calvinism, 311).
That is who we are in our sin.
Dead. Sinful to the core. Utterly lost in Darkness.
But for you to feel the full weight of Total Depravity, we need to push it just a little bit further.
My goal here is not to crush you.
Its for us to see just how sinful and just how lost we actually were before Christ, so that in seeing the light of Christ we might see how amazing and overflowing and abounding God’s grace is for us in Jesus Christ.
I want us to feel the weight of our sin so that when we get to Christ you can feel that weight being taken off and laid on Christ, and hopefully, hopefully, we will leave here today rejoicing in His grace just a little bit more.
So what does it mean to be in darkness? What is the state of unconverted man without Christ? Who are we in our sin?

1. Fallen Man is Blind in their Sin

First, we are blind in our sin.
John 3:3 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Notice Jesus says you cannot see the kingdom of God.
The word “cannot” speaks to our ability.
Unless we are born again we are not able to see the Kingdom of God.
We are blind in our sin. Groping in the dark.
We aren’t blind like everything’s just blurry. Its pitch black. We can’t even see light even when its staring us in the face.

2. Fallen Man is a Slave to Sin

Next, we are slaves to our sin.
John 8:34 Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
A slave is bound to his master. They are compelled to carry out their every will.
That means sinful man is not free to do anything but sin.
Everything they do is sin. Nothing is untouched.
Job 15:16 Man drinks sin like water.
I think this one gets sanitized for us because we forget what our slavery to sin actually felt like.
Take my son.
It breaks my heart just thinking about it.
When he sins and we try to talk to him about how his sin leads to death and how he needs to fight his temptations, he will say some of the most heartbreaking words that as a dad I think I could ever hear.
“I can’t fight my temptation.”
Why not buddy?
“There’s a brick in my heart and I can’t move it.”
He’s a slave to sin.
Forced to serve a cruel master.
Forced to drink sin and death like water, until Lord willing, Jesus finally saves him.
But that was all of us outside of Christ. Slaves to sin.
Bricks in our heart none of us could move.
Forced by our own love for sin and corrupt nature to serve the very thing that brings us death.

3. Fallen Man is Dead in Sin

Finally we are spiritually dead.
How dead? Dead-dead.
Calvin says “We are by nature rotting in our sins” (Daniel, The History and Theology of Calvinism, 301).
There is no good in us and we are absolutely unable and unwilling to come to Christ.
There is no power within us to save ourselves.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.
Paul says None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good not even one (Romans 3:10-11).
This is one of the most unpopular doctrines of our faith.
We are so dead and blind in sin. We are such slaves, that unless God saves us, unless He draws us to Himself, we will never be saved and we will die in our sins.
Man is spiritually dead in every facet of his being. In mind, heart, and will.

Mind

The mind is dead.
It cannot understand or see the truth like we talked about earlier.
And as RC Sproul once said, We cannot believe with our heart what we do not understand.

Heart

The heart is dead.
The affections of the heart and passions of the heart are spiritually dead and enslaved to sin so there cannot be a love for God or any desire for the things of God.

Will

And the will is dead.
Now this is probably the most controversial.
What about free will? Can’t I choose God? Doesn’t salvation happen when I choose to put my faith in Christ?
No. Because you are a slave to sin.
The unregenerate man has a free will, but his will is only free to sin.
But what about all those offers of the gospel? Whosoever believes?
Everyone has permission to come to Christ.
Indeed they are commanded to come to Christ.
If they would come to Christ He would save them, but the problem is, they never will because their will is dead and enslaved to sin.
Remember Total Depravity. Fallen man is corrupt in their nature from head to toe, top to bottom.
No one does good, not even one. No one seeks for God.
We have free will, but that free will is determined by our nature.
We are free to choose any sin that we want, but we are not free to choose anything but sin.
Martin Luther called this the Bondage of the Will.
In our sin, we are absolutely unable to choose any spiritual good, including salvation and life through faith in Jesus Christ.

3 Options

Steven Lawson has a great illustration for this.
Here’s the ultimate question. What is man outside of Christ?
Are they spiritually well? Are they good and healthy?
Well then they have no need for a Savior.
But that’s not it because the Bible is clear: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).
Is man sick? Is he just a little bad off in his sin and only needs to take the right medicine, the right antidote to get better?
Or is man dead? Where even if you put the antidote on the table they would just lie there.
Why because dead men don’t move. They don’t think. They don’t hear. And they have no ability to believe.
That’s what being dead means.
And that was all of us outside of Christ.
Here’s where the doctrine of Total Depravity, the darkness that we are all born into, starts to magnify the light of the gospel of Christ.
We had no ability to save ourselves.
We were all doomed in our sin. Destined to perish.
The 1689 London Baptist Confession says it like this:
Humanity, by falling into a state of sin, has completely lost all ability to choose any spiritual good that accompanies salvation. Thus people in their natural state are absolutely opposed to spiritual good and dead in sin, so that they cannot convert themselves by their own strength or prepare themselves for conversion (1689 9:3).
This is the misery of our sin. Total inability. Wholly corrupted and unable to will ourselves or do anything to move one inch toward God because we were so enslaved to our sin.
Do you see how utterly hopeless and lost we were?
We were dead in sin.
Blind men and women groping in the dark with no hope, if left to ourselves, of ever being saved.
The Doctrine of Total Depravity, Radical Corruption, Total Inability, whatever you want to call it...
It all ultimately magnifies the grace of God because Total Depravity leaves no question that all our salvation, even the first stirrings of faith, is 100% completely by the Grace of God.
We could do nothing to save ourselves. We were hopeless. And yet God was kind to us.
He sent Christ, John 12:46, into the world as a light so that whoever believes in Him would not remain in darkness but have eternal life.
And that’s point number 2...

II. Jesus is the Light of Our Salvation

John 1:4-5 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Now that we’ve defined this darkness, this fallenness and corruption of our sin, the rest of the verse starts to fit into place.
Life, for John, isn’t just physical life. That’s the Greek word bios.
John here uses Zōē, which refers throughout his gospel to spiritual life or eternal life.
And then John says the life, the eternal life, was the light of men.
In other words, eternal life was salvation for mankind. And that salvation and that life is only found in Jesus Christ.
That’s the idea.
You can see John’s movement in the first 5 verses of His gospel.
Verses 1 and 2, Jesus, the Word, is eternal God.
Verse 3: He is the Creator of all things - everything was made through Him.
And Verses 4-5, He is the Savior of the world.
The whole good news of the gospel that you may believe and have eternal life in His name, all right there in the first five verses of the book.
John says the light, the salvation of Christ, shines in the darkness.
Notice its shines. Present active tense of the verb. Christ shines and continues to shine. He’s shining now through the preaching of the gospel.
And the darkness - the sin, fallenness, death, Total Depravity and corruption of this world, has not overcome it.
Now this is interesting.
There are two ways you can translate that word overcome, and there is some debate about it.
But if you read the Gospel of John, its not abnormal for Him to use what we might call “ambiguous” words with more than one meaning to intentionally communicate two at once.
For example, you must be born again, can also be translated as you must be born from above; from heaven.
Well which is it? Both! You must be born again, and being born again means you must be born of God.
The same thing is happening here.

Overcome

Literally, the word overcome means to grasp or take hold of.
And some translate this word as understand. As in The darkness has not understood it.
The idea here being our total inability in ourselves to see the light of Christ.
Like John says just a few verses later He came to the world, and the world did not know him and the world did not receive him (John 1:10-11).
Sinful man, in their darkness, did not grasp, or see Christ for who He truly was. Eternal life and the Savior of the world.
That’s why they crucified Him.
The other way to translate it is Overcome. Take hold of/wrestle to the ground.
The Darkness - sin, Satan, Death - tried to overcome Christ. Tried to defeat Him.
The Darkness did its worst when it crucified the Lord of glory and sealed him in the pitch black darkness of the grave.
But even in that pitch black, the darkness did not overcome the light.
Christ rose from the dead. He was raised in glory, declared to be the Son of God, and defeated the darkness and all of our sin once and for all.
And now the light of Christ is going out into all the world to save those enslaved in darkness and dead in their sins.
Remember the prophecy of Isaiah.
Isaiah 42:6-7 I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
This is the LORD speaking to Christ the Messiah.
And God promises that Jesus would be a light to the nations.
And look what that means.
Open the eyes that are blind.
Bring out the prisoners from their prison or enslavement to the darkness.
And Matthew when getting at this same idea quotes Isaiah 9 and says...
Matthew 4:16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.
Christ as the light:
Opens our blind eyes.
Frees us from our slavery to sin.
And brings us out of the shadow of death.
All the things we looked at in the doctrine of Total Depravity.
Christ is the full and only answer for all of our salvation.
There is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).
He is the only light that can save us from the darkness of our sin.
And heres the good news. The light of Christ overcomes all our sin.
Our sin is removed from us as far as east is from the west (Psalm 103:12).
God casts it behind His back (Isaiah 38:17).
It is tied up in a sack and tossed into the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19).
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow (Isaiah 1:18).
When we were lost, blind, dead, hopeless in our sin, the darkness did not overcome Christ, He overcame the darkness.
In Him we receive the fullness of salvation and grace upon grace.
Look at what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:3-6.
2 Corinthians 4:3-6 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. [THAT’S THAT BLINDNESS IDEA. THIS INABILITY TO SEE THE LIGHT]. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Paul, just like in John, takes it all the way back to Genesis.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Genesis 1:1, 3).
When we dwelled in darkness, in the shadow of death, hopeless and enslaved to our sin, God in His grace said let there be light, and there was light.
Christ, the Sun of Righteousness (Micah 4:2), and Light of the World (John 8:12), shone in our hearts and made us alive again.
Colossians 2:13-14 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
Do you see the power of the grace of God to overcome all of our sin?
Just as He created the world and said let there be light, He makes us new creations in Christ.
New Hearts with new desires. New loves for God and His Law.
He redeems us from the Total Depravity of our sin and darkness, and now instead of drinking sin like water, we hunger and thirst for righteousness…(Matthew 5:6).
And find all of our satisfaction, all of our life in God alone.
Christ is the light of the world who overcame the darkness to give us eternal life.
And that’s point number 3...

III. Jesus Alone Gives Eternal Life

John 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Notice John says in Him was life.
Christ alone has eternal life because it is only through Him that our blindness, slavery, and deadness of our sin is replaced with sight, freedom, and life.
But how? How do we have life in Christ?
How does His light shine on us, open our blind eyes and bring us out of the shadow of death?
By grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
John 6:47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
John 3:36 says it this way...
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
You must believe in Jesus Christ.
You must believe that He is the Son of God.
That He lived the perfect and sinless life we failed to live
And died the death we deserved to die on the cross. He died in our place for our sins.
The wrath of God was poured out on Him, and the debt of all our sin was forgiven.
He died…He was buried…and He rose again three days later to give us eternal life.
In Him was life.
If you have the Son, you have life.
If you reject, the Son, you reject life, and will suffer eternal punishment for your sins.
And what does that faith look like? Jesus tells us in Mark 1:15 Repent and believe in the Gospel.
Turn from away from your sin and put all of your faith, all of your hope, all of your trust in Jesus Christ.
And just like he did so many times in ministry, He will open your blind eyes and set you free.
And John 8:36 If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Non-Christian

But wait you might say. How does that work with Total Depravity? I thought I can’t believe in Jesus. That I’m a slave to sin.
How do I repent and believe if you say I don’t have the ability to do so?
And here’s where I want to speak specifically to the non-Christians here today.
Maybe your visiting.
Maybe your a child and your parents are members of this church.
Or maybe your spouse is a believer and you came to church today with them.
Maybe you think your saved because you prayed a prayer, walked the aisle, but you are still a slave to your sin.
Blind, dead. With no love for Christ from the heart but only the semblance of religion.
How can the doctrine of Total Depravity provide any comfort to you? It seems like its all bad news.
So I will go to Hell if I don’t believe in Christ, but I can’t believe in Christ because I’m dead and a slave to my sin.
Then what hope do I have?
And I will tell you great hope. Because your hope is not found in yourself…your hope is found in Jesus Christ.
Remember what Jesus said What is impossible with man is possible with God (Luke 18:27).
In John 9 there is even a story of a man Jesus heals who was born blind and it says that never since the creation of the world had anyone could open the eyes of a man born blind (John 9:32).
And yet that is what Christ does every time He saves a sinner.
You might be in darkness, but the light overcame the darkness, and the light of Christ is shining out to you today.
If you are hearing these things and thinking, I want to be saved. I want to be free of all my sin. I want to be forgiven.
That is God drawing you.
The natural man, the man blind and dead in their sin, does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).
You cannot see the gospel unless God is working in you.
So if you are sitting here saying Oh I wish Jesus would save me. I want to be one the Father draws.
Then come to Him. Come to the living water and buy water without price. No works of your own.
No good you bring.
Only Christ and His blood.
Do you remember earlier where we talked about how Jesus said No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him? (John 6:44).
Well before Jesus said that He said this.
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
If you come to Christ, the Father is drawing you. The Father has given you to Jesus. Rescued you from darkness and sin.
And whoever comes to Jesus, He will never cast out.
He will save you today and give you eternal life.

Christian

But for the rest of us.
Those saved by the grace of Christ. There are three applications we can make from the doctrine of Total Depravity.

Repent of Sin

Romans 6:6-7, 11-14 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin...So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Why would we hold on to our pet sins?
The Christians life should be a race to repentance.
Of rooting out every sin no matter how small because Christ has set us free from sin.
The Christian life should be one marked by holiness. Not slavery to sin.

Power of the Word In Evangelism

Unbelievers have no power to come to Christ. The only thing that will save them is the power of the Word.
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ (Romans 10:17).
So we need to be preaching the gospel. The good news of Christ.
Remembering what God says about His Word in Isaiah 55. It always accomplishes the purpose which he sends it out.
It waters the earth and brings life out of the wilderness.
Life out of death.
Light of Darkness
The gospel is the World’s only hope. All those dwelling in darkness will only see the light if we take it to them as a city on a hill in faith that God always accomplishes the power of His Word.
Finally, number 3...

Thankfulness For God’s Grace

It is so easy to forget just what God saved us from.
Were it not for the grace of Christ, we would still be dead in our trespasses and sins, blind, lost, enslaved to the cruel master of our own wicked hearts drinking sin like water.
Its amazing isn’t it, how you can tell a group of Christians how bad they were in their sin.
How they were lost, blind, dead.
How there was nothing good in them.
No fear of God before their eyes but only sin.
And they can walk away filled with joy singing the praises of God.
Why is that?
Because how great is God’s grace to overcome all our darkness and save us from our sin.
How kind and merciful is God to do what was impossible for us.
To overcome all of our hatred and resistance against Him and draw us to Himself.
Adopt us as His sons and daughters, and set His love on us in Christ.

Conclusion

The light of Christ saves us out of darkness into eternal life.

The Doctrine of Total Depravity that shows us the darkness and true misery of our sin means that none of us should be saved.
There’s no reason for it. Nothing in us.
Left to ourselves we would have been lost forever.
We were blind as blind could be. We didn’t just see blurry pictures, and hint of God’s grace and the glory of Jesus Christ that made us go maybe there’s something there.
We saw nothing. Pitch black. Darkness.
We didn’t seek after God, but by the grace of God he sought after us.
The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10).
We were saved 100% by Grace alone.
None is righteous, no, not one…No one seeks God. All have turned aside. together they have become worthless. No one does good, not even one (Rom 3:10-12).
We were dead. Hopeless. Enslaved to our sin.
And God who said “let light shine out of darkness” has shone on us the light of Jesus Christ.
Doesn’t that make God’s grace all that much more amazing in the first place.
How much more gratitude would we have if we truly saw the Doctrine of Total Depravity for what it really was? If we really saw ourselves for what we really were?
How much more love would we have for Christ?
How much more zeal would we have for worship and the glory of His Name?
How much dependence would we have on the Holy Spirit to save the lost around us? Our friends…our family…our children.
The Doctrine of Total Depravity is the black velvet backdrop that makes the diamond of God’s grace shine most fully with all its radiant brilliance.
What grace…What power…what strength God worked in our salvation for Christ to overcome all of our darkness and sin and give us eternal life.
That’s a God worthy of all of our worship. Worthy of all of our praise.
Worthy of all of our very life.
Because of the good news that the light of Jesus Christ shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it (John 1:5).

Let’s Pray

Scripture Reading

Matthew 20:29-34 And as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him. And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” And stopping, Jesus called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?” They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.” And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.
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