Healing
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INTRO
In a world of the blind the one eyed man is king!
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The Case
The Case
1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
This case was difficult.
Levels of disability
Length of disability
Leading to despair
This case was debated.
Caused by sin
direct result of sin
Consequence of sin
indirect result of sin yours or someone else
Condition of sin
not caused by anyone or anything but this is the world we live in
This case was deliberate.
Reveal Gods touch
Reveal gods timing
Reveal Gods truth
7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Your case is not hopeless.
God has a purpose for your suffering.
The Cure
The Cure
6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
Jesus acts.
Jesus is always doing something…
who would have guessed mud?
Jesus commands.
Go and wash…!
you mean I have to do something… ??
Who would do this ??
The man obeys.
We can’t have Jesus on our own terms
We must do what He says to experience His blessing
The man receives.
The promise the man never heard…
mud / pool / spit - Jesus
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The aliment we all suffer from is sin.
spiritual blindness
spiritual paralysis
spiritual deafness
spiritual cancer
The cure we all need is the cross…
The Clash
The Clash
John 9.13-34.
They demand his answer.
question his family
question his faith
They deride His actions.
does not keep sabbath
They declare His guilt.
he is a sinner
They dismiss his news.
this man must be from God
the blind now sees
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
14 The natural person 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.
Those of the world cannot accept it.
Those of the world will reject you.
The Conclusion
The Conclusion
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.”
38 He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
Jesus came to cure the most difficult of cases… yours!
If you recognize your blindness, Jesus will give you sight.
His cure is only effective when applied.
If you think you can see on your own, you can’t.
Once it is applied you are His and He is yours.
John 9.25 “One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
1 Corinthians 2:9 “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.”
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Group Questions
Do these kinds of healings still happen today? Why or why not?
Define legalism. Why is it contrary to the message of the gospel?
How might you fall into legalism during suffering? What can you do to fight against it?
Why does Jesus send the blind man to the pool of Siloam?
What do you think the man thought when his sight was restored?
Read the rest of John 9:1-41.
Why do the Pharisees instruct the man to give glory to God? What are they actually telling him to do?
What does the man mean when he says, “We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners”?
What happens to the man when he refuses to do anything other than testify for Jesus?
What condition were you in when Jesus found you? In what ways has he healed you?
Are you daily aware of your need for Jesus? What are some things in your life that might hinder this awareness?