Thanks for joining Dr. Michael Youssef and listeners all around the world for leading the way.

In this episode, experience the healing of a blind man, and the answer Jesus gives to an age-old

misconception that all physical illness and disease is because of someone's sin.

John Chapter 9 is the source for Dr. Youssef's teaching, so listen with me as he begins

this episode of Leading the Way audio.

Turn to John Chapter 9 with me, please.

As we see Jesus encounter this man born blind from birth. He was

born blind. Don't miss that one. Because this is a very, and I promised just few messages ago,

I promised that I will deal with that very confusing and thorny issue about the relationship between sin and suffering.

And I said, I will deal with that when I come to John chapter 9.

That suffering and disease are always associated with sin.

And there are some people who live under huge guilt that doesn't belong to them because of

that thought, because of that teaching. And this is precisely the question the disciples asked

when they saw this man born blind. And they looked at Jesus and said, Rabbi, who sinned? The baby? In his mother's womb? Or his parents? So he's born blind.

Now, before I get to the miracle itself and to the son and the evidence and why John would choose this particular one among the seven evidence that he chose in his gospels. You need to know

a couple of things. First of all, in the Gospels, all the four Gospels, there are more

healing of blindness than any other category of miracles. In fact, we can count seven in the Gospels, all the four Gospels. And that's very

significant. It's very, very important. It wasn't arbitrary that our Lord just did more opening

of eyes than anything else. For one thing, the Old Testament, there is no recorded evidence. There's no recorded incidents of somebody

opened the eyes of the blind. Come the Old Testament as thoroughly as you can. You will not

find one. Why? Because in the Old Testament, giving sight to the blind was clearly and definitively only could be done by God

himself, by Yahweh. Not a prophet, not a priest, not a seer, not a miracle worker. None.

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