Act I, The Miracle!

Jonathan Bradley

The Gospel of John • Sermon • Submitted 5 years ago • Presented 5 years ago

John 9:1–12

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A Man Born Blind – A Miracle In 3 Acts (November 10, 17, 24).

– The Miracle

Hopewell Baptist Church

November 10, 2019

Opening Illustration…As you all know (or should know by now), I’m a sucker for those feel-good videos that you see online, or the movies where the underdog triumphs in the end. If you go online, and you search YouTube for videos of people getting “Enchroma” glasses, you’ll get to see a variety of amazing stories. Students, family members, friends, and co-workers have shared videos of them gifting this amazing glasses to those they care about who are colorblind, allowing them to see and differentiate between colors for the very first time! So many of the people are so overwhelmed by what they are seeing for the very first time, they can’t help but cry tears of joy.

In our text today, from , we see this happen in the life of a man who was completely blind since birth.

Big Idea – And Just like the blind man here in , we, too, are born blind… spiritually blind.

Pray

I. Scene 1 – The Miracle – –

a. V.1 gives us the setting. Jesus was walking, presumable through Jerusalem, when he saw this man blind from birth. (WHERE?)

i. We see further evidence of being in Jerusalem when He told the man to go to the pool of Siloam, which provided uninterrupted water to the city during times of siege in ages past.

b. V.2 – Who sinned? (WHO?)

i. The question, who sinned, the man or his parents, is a common question at that time, as Jews often connected things like ailments from birth to sins of the parents.

1. , , – Sin of Achan

2. The man sinned in his mother’s womb

3. The mother, while pregnant, did some sin that could connect to the baby, such as worship in a pagan temple/ritual.

ii. For the disciples, this is the most rational of explanations as to why the man was born blind.

c. V.3 – that the works of God might be displayed in him –(WHY?)

i. Jesus dismisses sin as the cause of the blindness (He does not mean that the man or his parents have never sinned, for all have sinned ()).

ii. The man’s blindness is a matter that falls within God’s control, and thus within God’s purpose to reveal His glory through this man’s life

3. Funeral of Sawyer Gordon, 5 years old, people came to know Christ

d. V.4-5 – Work the works…day versus night

i. The night versus day reference is an allusion to Jesus’ death on the cross.

1. Jesus is the light – - (; )

2. When He is crucified, there was a darkness that covered the land () from the 6th hour to the 9th hour (noon to 3pm).

ii. There’s a lot of allusion to His death throughout the rest of John, throughout all of John, but in this time, we must remember we’re at the beginning of the last six months of His earthly life.

e. V.6-7 – Jesus spits, makes mud, and anoints the man with it – (WHAT?)

i. This is where we see the fruition of Jesus’ statement about, “but that the works of God might be displayed in him.” (v.3)

ii. Jesus’ saliva is, of course, going to be usable in such a way, as it is God’s saliva!

iii. He anointed the man’s eyes – meaning he smeared this mud-like substance on this man’s eyes, then tells him to go to the pool of Siloam

1. The pool of Siloam is where the water for the Feast of Booths came from

a. Important pool dug by Hezekiah to provide life sustaining water for Jerusalem when it fell under siege.

iv. The major theme here is Obedience. After this guy, whom the blind man may have heard of, but didn’t necessarily know it was him, rubs mud on his eyes, he obeyed and washed in the Pool of Siloam.

II. Scene 2 – The Reaction –

a. V.8-9 – The neighbors and others begin to question – First Reaction: Disbelief

i. Neighbor -> someone who lives there, i.e. next-door neighbor => Jerusalemites! ()

ii. This was difficult, baffling even, for them to believe, that a man born blind could now suddenly see.

b. V.10 – So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

i. Second Reaction: Question it!

ii. They asked questions just as we all would given similar circumstances.

III. Scene 3 – The Talk –

a. v.11 – The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes….

i. The blind man answers these questions by recounting what happened for those around him, his neighbors and other concerned people that saw what was going on.

b. V.12 – Where is he? I don’t know…

i. This non-descript crowd wants to know where Jesus was/is.

ii. Some of these people are possibly the same crowd from , Jerusalemites.

IV. Application – So what? – While we were born spiritually blind, God purchased us through His Son on the cross and gave us sight through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Because of this…

a. We must be the hands and feet of Jesus.

i. – God has chosen us, His people, His church, to share the gospel and make disciples. ALL OF US!

b. We must live our lives in such a way to reveal the glory of God in all we do.

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V. Invitation – And when our eyes are opened and we are able to understand the seriousness of sin and how it affects our relationship with God, we must repent of our sins and call out to God.

a. If you’ve never responded to this godly grief from the God the Spirit, I urge you to repent, and call out to God for salvation (; ).

b. If you profess faith in Jesus Christ, but you’ve never taken that first step of obedience in Believer’s Baptism, I urge you to come forward and we can set up a time for you to be baptized.

c. If you’re here and you feel the call of the Gospel in your life to go into ministry somehow, I urge you to surrender your life to the call of ministry

However you feel led to respond to the Gospel, whether it be calling out to God in repentance for salvation, or to serve here at Hopewell Baptist Church, or however it may be, I will be in front and would love to pray for you, to pray with you, to encourage you.