I'm so excited I've been praying, you know, preaching during this time is so much different than preaching in other seasons

because everything is shifting and changing in the world so quickly and so suddenly and so

always constantly asking God to leave our hearts open that we may feed you the finest food from the kingdom that you may be nourished and edified and sent out into do God's work

and I believe that that's exactly what's going to happen as I share this word

I'm going to be speaking from John 9

I'm going to start at verse 35

I really love this text as I was reading it this time

I saw something a little bit different that really blessed me and inspired me and hopefully will do the same for you

I'm going to start in verse 35. It says Jesus heard that they had cast him out

and when he had found him just a little bit of context so Jesus this is when Jesus has healed a blind man

and he took the clay and he told the man after putting clay on his eyes to go over to the pool and watch the clay out

and then he would be able to see well after Jesus has performed this miracle the Pharisees those are the group of people who were anti Jesus at that time

because they did not believe that he was the son of God

well the Pharisees they get really upset and they're upset because they want to know how this man got healed

they're trying to find some crime to punish on Jesus and they have this almost like a courtroom setting

with the man who's been healed where they're asking him who saved you who performed this miracle

and he says I don't know I was blind when it happened to me and he was gone after I was healed

and so it picks up in verse 35 it says 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 was talking with you

then he said Lord I believe and he worshipped 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

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