If you believe in your heart that he is the Christ, you are blessed above all people because God has allowed you to see his son.

Don't ever forget that.

If you ever are downcast, hear these words,

Blessed are you, for you have been able to see the most priceless

treasure there is in this world. Most of us are familiar with the Apostle Peter's great confession as to the identity of Jesus. You are the Christ.

And although this is a significant and divinely given truth from the lips of Peter, what Jesus

said next is a truth we must always remember

and can bring the believer so much comfort. Welcome to the Sunday edition of

renewing your mind as we hear select sermons from the preaching ministry of our of a way to draw our attention to verses that we could easily skim over and miss the implications

for the believer. Today is such an example. And as Dr Sprawl is in the Gospel of Mark, today only you can add his entire expositional commentary on Mark to your library

when you request the hardcover volume at renewing your mind.org.

Well, here's Dr Sprawl on the blind man and the confession of

Peter. After Jesus gave his warning to the disciples of the Levin of the Pharisees,

after he rebuked them for their lack of perception

where they had failed to understand Jesus, even as the rulers of the Jews

had failed to understand his identity.

Then we see that Jesus left and went to Beth Siaida.

And while he comes now into this town,

the people bring this blind man to him and they asked Jesus to touch him.

He came the best Saeeda and they brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.

And so he took the blind man by the hand and let him out of the town. Now that's something else that's unusual

in almost every case where Jesus heals somebody he heals them openly and

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