There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word. Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today. I want to bring you to one more thing tonight.

If you'll open your Bible with me to the gospel records and find John chapter number nine in your Bible.

I'm going to do something I don't typically do i'm going to

read a rather lengthy portion of scripture but it's necessary and it's not just necessary it's

refreshing what a chapter this is most of the miracles of jesus encompass just a handful of verses

but this fella that is about to get healed, he gets a whole

chapter. How do you like that? And I think we ought to place the emphasis where God does. And there's

a reason, because there's a message in the miracle. There's a great truth in what Jesus did in John

chapter number nine. So follow along as I read, beginning in verse one. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind

from his birth. Could I just simply point out to you that the man couldn't see Jesus, but Jesus

had his eye on him. At times in life, when you can't see the Lord, you can't see what he's doing,

you have no idea, but I want to tell you something,

the Lord always has his eye on you. Isn't that glorious? Verse two, and his disciples ask him,

saying, master, who did sin? This man or his parents, that he was born blind? They must have

sounded pretty pious when they ask it.

Because surely somebody had to have sin for the fellow to be born blind.

We'll come back to that thought in just a moment.

Notice Jesus doesn't even really answer their question.

He doesn't say either.

He says neither.

Jesus answered, neither hath this man sinned nor his parents,

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