WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:06.860 Every culture has its remedies. Home remedies, 00:00:08.779 --> 00:00:11.779 these ideas that somebody told you would work 00:00:11.779 --> 00:00:14.740 a long time ago, and some of them make sense, 00:00:15.140 --> 00:00:18.239 and some of them make you stop and wonder, wait, 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:24.760 what? Butter on a burn? Onions, syrup for coughs? 00:00:24.980 --> 00:00:29.019 Potato slices for headaches? Cabbage leaves for 00:00:29.019 --> 00:00:31.769 swollen joints? peanut butter for bug bites, 00:00:32.450 --> 00:00:36.450 mustard plasters for chest colds. You saw an 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:38.530 infomercial while you were sick from work, and 00:00:38.530 --> 00:00:41.329 you just had to know whether apple cider vinegar 00:00:41.329 --> 00:00:44.109 could fix everything, whether charcoal could 00:00:44.109 --> 00:00:47.070 detox your system better than your own kidneys 00:00:47.070 --> 00:00:50.289 and liver, and whether shoe inserts could improve 00:00:50.289 --> 00:00:52.770 your circulation through the magic of magnetism. 00:00:53.630 --> 00:00:55.750 Maybe you've even tried one of these remedies 00:00:55.750 --> 00:01:01.240 before. Maybe it worked. Maybe it didn't. Somewhere 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:04.079 along the way, someone tried these things and 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.180 they became part of the wisdom people passed 00:01:07.180 --> 00:01:11.000 down. And if we're honest, some of us still remember 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.620 a parent or grandparent insisting that one of 00:01:13.620 --> 00:01:17.500 them definitely worked. The ancient world had 00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:21.519 its remedies too. Roman writers like Pliny the 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:25.799 Elder described the healing power of saliva, 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:31.629 especially for eye diseases. In his work, Natural 00:01:31.629 --> 00:01:34.730 History, he records traditions that people believed 00:01:34.730 --> 00:01:38.489 saliva could treat certain ailments. And he even 00:01:38.489 --> 00:01:41.689 mentions that the saliva of a firstborn son was 00:01:41.689 --> 00:01:46.129 thought to have special healing powers. A concentrated 00:01:46.129 --> 00:01:50.129 life force, if you will. The idea was that certain 00:01:50.129 --> 00:01:53.629 people in particular circumstances could imbue 00:01:53.629 --> 00:01:58.799 their saliva with restorative properties. Jewish 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.900 traditions preserved in the Babylonian Talmud 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:06.099 also mention saliva as a possible remedy for 00:02:06.099 --> 00:02:09.560 some conditions. While the Talmud itself was 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.740 compiled centuries later, the discussions that 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:16.620 circulated among Jewish teachers long before 00:02:16.620 --> 00:02:20.639 discussions about the ways life, breath, and 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.520 bodily fluids could carry God's healing energy 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.199 were there during the time of Christ. There were 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.900 also debates about using saliva on the Sabbath, 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:33.340 showing that the act was familiar but also morally 00:02:33.340 --> 00:02:37.180 and religiously delicate. So when Jesus spits 00:02:37.180 --> 00:02:40.960 on the ground and makes mud to heal a blind man, 00:02:41.699 --> 00:02:43.840 the people watching would not have thought using 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.740 saliva was completely strange, unlike us today. 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:52.000 It was a known folk remedy for some. a practice 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.500 with precedent in both Jewish and Roman understanding 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:58.759 of healing. They had seen remedies like that 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:02.979 before, sometimes practical, sometimes mysterious. 00:03:03.740 --> 00:03:09.400 What they were prepared for was who was doing 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:15.020 it and what it meant. See, they were not prepared 00:03:15.020 --> 00:03:19.300 to see who Jesus was and what He was meaning 00:03:19.300 --> 00:03:23.509 by it. Because when Jesus bends down, he spits 00:03:23.509 --> 00:03:27.189 on the ground and forms mud, something deeper 00:03:27.189 --> 00:03:30.349 begins to echo through the story. This is not 00:03:30.349 --> 00:03:33.449 merely some traveling medicine man using common 00:03:33.449 --> 00:03:37.490 medicines or mind games to heal simple infections 00:03:37.490 --> 00:03:42.310 or aches and pains. This is the Word of God who 00:03:42.310 --> 00:03:44.349 had been there from the beginning, restoring 00:03:44.349 --> 00:03:47.330 what had never been there in this man's life. 00:03:47.789 --> 00:03:50.490 Think back to the creation story in the book 00:03:50.490 --> 00:03:54.189 of Genesis. God forms humanity from the dust 00:03:54.189 --> 00:03:58.729 of the ground. Dust and breath. Earth and life. 00:03:59.569 --> 00:04:03.050 And now Jesus is taking earth and moisture, human 00:04:03.050 --> 00:04:05.969 and divine elements combined, and placing it 00:04:05.969 --> 00:04:10.449 on the eyes of a man who has never seen. It is 00:04:10.449 --> 00:04:14.810 not merely healing. It evokes creation itself. 00:04:15.870 --> 00:04:19.050 Think of a potter. sitting at a wheel. A lump 00:04:19.050 --> 00:04:22.629 of clay sits there shapeless. But the potter's 00:04:22.629 --> 00:04:26.889 hands begin to form it. Slowly, the clay becomes 00:04:26.889 --> 00:04:29.569 something new. But when the potter sees something 00:04:29.569 --> 00:04:34.310 missing, he reshapes the clay. Jesus doesn't 00:04:34.310 --> 00:04:37.810 just repair what is broken. He creates what was 00:04:37.810 --> 00:04:42.050 missing. It's not just a remedy. This is creation 00:04:42.050 --> 00:04:47.060 itself echoing in a single act. Not merely repairing 00:04:47.060 --> 00:04:50.339 what was broken, not simply giving back what 00:04:50.339 --> 00:04:53.660 had been lost, but bringing into being something 00:04:53.660 --> 00:04:57.920 that had never existed before. The strange part, 00:04:58.060 --> 00:05:02.019 though, wasn't actually the mud. The strange 00:05:02.019 --> 00:05:05.480 part was what the mud meant. And that meaning 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.000 sets the stage for the miracle we're about to 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.519 see. It is here that Jesus reveals a new kind 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:14.379 of sight, a sight that does more than open eyes. 00:05:14.730 --> 00:05:19.990 it opens hearts. In John chapter 9, Jesus had 00:05:19.990 --> 00:05:22.370 encountered this man who had been blind from 00:05:22.370 --> 00:05:25.449 birth. Not someone who has lost his sight later 00:05:25.449 --> 00:05:28.029 in life. Not someone whose eyes might recover 00:05:28.029 --> 00:05:31.649 with treatment. This man has never seen a sunrise. 00:05:32.610 --> 00:05:35.629 He's never seen his parents' face. Never seen 00:05:35.629 --> 00:05:38.870 the streets that he walked every day while begging. 00:05:39.689 --> 00:05:42.470 And the disciples ask the kind of question that 00:05:42.470 --> 00:05:48.069 people ask often in that time. Rabbi, who sinned, 00:05:48.129 --> 00:05:51.529 this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 00:05:52.769 --> 00:05:56.430 They're trying to make sense of the suffering. 00:05:57.230 --> 00:06:00.790 If something is wrong, then someone must be responsible. 00:06:01.670 --> 00:06:03.889 They don't want to imagine that bad things could 00:06:03.889 --> 00:06:07.750 happen to good people. But Jesus refuses that 00:06:07.750 --> 00:06:11.160 framework. This happens so that the works of 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.420 God might be displayed in Him. In other words, 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:20.500 this moment is not about blame. It is about revelation. 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.139 It is about showing who Jesus is and what He 00:06:24.139 --> 00:06:28.019 has come to do. Then Jesus performs the miracle. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.600 He spits on the ground. He makes the mud. He 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.620 places it on the man's eyes. And He tells him 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:39.040 to wash in the pool of Siloam. He sends them 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.740 to the pool that means scent. In the pool that 00:06:43.740 --> 00:06:46.379 pointed them to the living water in the wilderness, 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.500 the mission of Jesus to bring life becomes even 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:54.879 clearer for this man. So the man goes, and the 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:59.360 man washes, and the man comes back seeing. For 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.740 the first time in his life, light floods into 00:07:02.740 --> 00:07:07.379 his world. Faces. Movement. Color. everything 00:07:07.379 --> 00:07:11.379 that had once been darkness suddenly comes alive. 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.660 But here's something fascinating. The miracle 00:07:15.660 --> 00:07:18.959 itself, it takes only a few verses. The rest 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.500 of the chapter is not about the miracle. It's 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:25.720 about how people respond to it. Because when 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.040 God begins doing something new, it rarely fits 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.220 the categories that people already have prepared 00:07:32.220 --> 00:07:36.720 for it. That is exactly What is happening here? 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:42.759 The miracle happens on the Sabbath. To the religious 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.420 leaders, that raises a series of legal questions. 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.920 See, we would love to get to see a miracle happening 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:54.000 on a Sunday, but for them, they were concerned 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.600 about blaspheming the Sabbath. Spitting on the 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.620 ground might disturb the soil, like digging, 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:04.519 which could be seen as work. Mixing mud could 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.800 be interpreted as kneading, like dough, which 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.720 could be seen as work. Applying a treatment might 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.259 count as performing medicinal work, which could 00:08:15.259 --> 00:08:19.439 be seen as work. Did Jesus work on the Sabbath? 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:23.519 Suddenly the conversation shifts away from the 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:27.600 miracle and onto the rule book. Instead of asking 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:30.920 the obvious question, If he opened this man's 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.820 eyes, then could Jesus be the Messiah of God? 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:40.600 They ask, did Jesus break our rules? They're 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.700 staring directly at a miracle, but they're asking 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:49.179 the wrong question. The kingdom of God rarely 00:08:49.179 --> 00:08:52.820 fits the categories we're looking for. Not everyone 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:58.110 wants to see what God is doing. In fact, What 00:08:58.110 --> 00:09:00.830 happens next is one of the strangest parts of 00:09:00.830 --> 00:09:04.509 the story. The miracle is not celebrated. It's 00:09:04.509 --> 00:09:07.889 investigated. Because if you watch carefully, 00:09:08.230 --> 00:09:10.750 the religious leaders, they begin investigating 00:09:10.750 --> 00:09:15.230 the miracle like a courtroom trial. They question 00:09:15.230 --> 00:09:18.590 the neighbors. They question the man. They even 00:09:18.590 --> 00:09:21.049 question the man's parents, who aren't even sure 00:09:21.049 --> 00:09:24.029 if they want to claim him. Then they bring the 00:09:24.029 --> 00:09:27.629 man back for more questioning. But something 00:09:27.629 --> 00:09:30.830 becomes clear as the conversation unfolds. They're 00:09:30.830 --> 00:09:33.710 not really searching for the truth of what happened. 00:09:34.049 --> 00:09:37.210 They've already decided the verdict. They've 00:09:37.210 --> 00:09:41.210 already decided Jesus guilt. They know Jesus 00:09:41.210 --> 00:09:44.529 cannot possibly be from God because in their 00:09:44.529 --> 00:09:48.950 minds he has broken the Sabbath. And when you 00:09:48.950 --> 00:09:52.509 decide the verdict first, evidence becomes an 00:09:52.509 --> 00:09:56.419 inconvenience. I'll give you an example. Some 00:09:56.419 --> 00:09:59.460 museums have discovered something interesting 00:09:59.460 --> 00:10:03.039 about visitors as they come in. When people walk 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.480 into a museum, they often move quickly through 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.799 the first room, whatever it is. They assume the 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.679 most important works must be deeper inside, so 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.740 they hurry past the entrance gallery without 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:20.460 really looking. And in fact, some curators have 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:23.899 experimented with this. They may place extremely 00:10:23.899 --> 00:10:27.759 valuable pieces right near the entrance, sometimes 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:32.899 even masterpieces, and many visitors just walk 00:10:32.899 --> 00:10:36.360 right past them. It's not because the artwork 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:38.799 isn't beautiful, and it's not because it isn't 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.759 valuable, but because they'd already decided 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.519 the important things must be somewhere else. 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:49.519 So they never really looked. Something very similar 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:53.309 is here in John 9. The miracle is obvious, but 00:10:53.309 --> 00:10:57.190 the leaders cannot accept the conclusion. A miracle 00:10:57.190 --> 00:10:59.289 is standing right in front of them a man who 00:10:59.289 --> 00:11:02.370 had never seen in his life can suddenly see. 00:11:03.490 --> 00:11:05.950 But the religious leaders are so focused on where 00:11:05.950 --> 00:11:09.330 they expect God to act that they walk right past 00:11:09.330 --> 00:11:13.429 what God is actually doing. Even when the healed 00:11:13.429 --> 00:11:15.870 man stands right in front of them, even when 00:11:15.870 --> 00:11:19.149 his parents confirm he was born blind, even when 00:11:19.149 --> 00:11:23.889 the miracle itself is undeniable. Rather than 00:11:23.889 --> 00:11:27.970 question their assumptions, they push the evidence 00:11:27.970 --> 00:11:32.409 away. Eventually, they do something remarkable 00:11:32.409 --> 00:11:36.629 instead of reconsidering their conclusions. They 00:11:36.629 --> 00:11:41.929 just throw the man out. The problem is removed. 00:11:42.629 --> 00:11:46.669 The uncomfortable evidence is gone. When truth 00:11:46.669 --> 00:11:49.889 becomes uncomfortable, The easiest solution is 00:11:49.889 --> 00:11:53.529 to remove the testimony. And I'm sure none of 00:11:53.529 --> 00:11:57.610 us have ever ignored something that made us uncomfortable. 00:11:58.629 --> 00:12:00.509 You know, psychologists sometimes talk about 00:12:00.509 --> 00:12:02.990 confirmation bias, where we naturally notice 00:12:02.990 --> 00:12:05.049 the information that supports what we already 00:12:05.049 --> 00:12:07.870 believe, and we filter out the information that 00:12:07.870 --> 00:12:10.850 challenges it. That's why two people can watch 00:12:10.850 --> 00:12:13.450 the exact same news report and come away with 00:12:13.450 --> 00:12:16.250 completely different conclusions. We see what 00:12:16.250 --> 00:12:20.000 we're prepared to see. You know how it goes. 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:22.279 Something doesn't fit our expectations so we 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.100 dismiss it. Something challenges the way that 00:12:25.100 --> 00:12:27.100 we've always thought so we look for a reason 00:12:27.100 --> 00:12:31.200 to ignore it. Sometimes we label the other side 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.399 as wrong just so we don't have to wrestle with 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.259 what's right in front of us. Sometimes we shout 00:12:36.259 --> 00:12:38.899 a little louder or repeat the same phrases again. 00:12:40.220 --> 00:12:42.820 People may yell loudly about human rights but 00:12:42.820 --> 00:12:46.070 they don't seem to think about the unborn. Others 00:12:46.070 --> 00:12:48.809 yell loudly about the unborn but don't seem to 00:12:48.809 --> 00:12:50.950 care as much about what happens after birth. 00:12:52.490 --> 00:12:54.870 People sometimes yell loudly about legalities 00:12:54.870 --> 00:12:57.210 but they don't seem to provide legal opportunities 00:12:57.210 --> 00:13:00.909 to others. But others yell loudly about opportunity 00:13:00.909 --> 00:13:03.990 yet they don't seem to care about personal responsibility. 00:13:05.389 --> 00:13:09.190 And some yell about their own ministries but 00:13:09.190 --> 00:13:12.639 they fight against new opportunities. while others 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.320 want only the new opportunities and forget to 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:19.059 bless what is already happening. It turns out 00:13:19.059 --> 00:13:21.580 that blindness is not only a problem of the eyes, 00:13:22.299 --> 00:13:25.679 it can also be a problem of the heart. But while 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:27.840 the experts argued, the man who had been blind 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.840 kept things surprisingly simple. They asked him 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.299 theological questions he couldn't answer. Is 00:13:34.299 --> 00:13:37.259 Jesus a sinner? Where does he come from? What 00:13:37.259 --> 00:13:40.480 authority does he have? And the man finally responds 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.960 with the most honest testimony in the chapter. 00:13:43.580 --> 00:13:48.620 One thing I do know, though I was blind, now 00:13:48.620 --> 00:13:53.159 I see. He does not pretend to know everything. 00:13:53.940 --> 00:13:56.899 He simply speaks the truth of what God has done 00:13:56.899 --> 00:14:00.159 for him. And in doing so, the man who had never 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.559 seen becomes the one person in the story who 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:08.289 actually sees clearly. How often do we make our 00:14:08.289 --> 00:14:12.110 Christian testimony so difficult to share because 00:14:12.110 --> 00:14:15.269 we want to get caught up in arguments and technicalities 00:14:15.269 --> 00:14:18.529 that keep us from seeing the people right in 00:14:18.529 --> 00:14:21.470 front of us. But the story does not end with 00:14:21.470 --> 00:14:25.409 the man being thrown out. After the leaders cast 00:14:25.409 --> 00:14:29.850 him out something remarkable happens. Jesus comes 00:14:29.850 --> 00:14:33.929 looking for him. Pause with that for a moment. 00:14:34.889 --> 00:14:38.629 The man has lost everything familiar. His place 00:14:38.629 --> 00:14:42.250 in the synagogue, his standing in the community, 00:14:43.490 --> 00:14:46.490 what little he may have had. Even the protection 00:14:46.490 --> 00:14:49.309 of his own parents who don't want to risk being 00:14:49.309 --> 00:14:53.070 associated with him. Yet the one who gave him 00:14:53.070 --> 00:14:56.870 sight seeks him out. And Jesus asks him gently, 00:14:56.970 --> 00:15:01.230 do you believe in the Son of Man? This man's 00:15:01.230 --> 00:15:05.220 world had been dark for his entire life. Now, 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:08.480 standing before the light of the world, he answers 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.700 with nothing but the truth of what he knows. 00:15:11.419 --> 00:15:16.679 Lord, I believe. And he worships. The man lost 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.100 his place in the world he knew, but he found 00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:22.179 the one who gives life itself. Think about this. 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:27.779 He has found the Son of God. Sometimes the first 00:15:27.779 --> 00:15:30.940 step towards seeing clearly is losing what once 00:15:30.940 --> 00:15:34.970 made us comfortable. Following Christ does not 00:15:34.970 --> 00:15:38.490 always make life easier. Sometimes it makes life 00:15:38.490 --> 00:15:41.730 uncomfortable. Sometimes it forces us to rethink 00:15:41.730 --> 00:15:44.330 assumptions that we carried for years about what 00:15:44.330 --> 00:15:47.710 we think and even about other people. And sometimes 00:15:47.710 --> 00:15:50.269 it means letting go of things we thought we understood 00:15:50.269 --> 00:15:54.490 about the world, about faith, or even about God. 00:15:55.470 --> 00:15:59.450 But in exchange, God gives something greater. 00:16:00.309 --> 00:16:05.059 A new life. New sight. A new way of seeing the 00:16:05.059 --> 00:16:08.220 world. Because the same Christ who opened that 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:12.080 man's eyes would soon open the way to life through 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:16.580 his cross and resurrection. Christ does not come 00:16:16.580 --> 00:16:20.639 to make our old life work better. He comes to 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.720 give us a new one. At the end of the story, Jesus 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:30.620 says something very striking. that those who 00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:34.179 do not see may see and those who see may become 00:16:34.179 --> 00:16:38.059 blind. The ultimate tragedy of this story was 00:16:38.059 --> 00:16:41.679 not that a man was born blind. The real tragedy 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.799 is that some people still chose to remain that 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:48.639 way. The leaders were so certain of their understanding 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.940 that they could not recognize the one standing 00:16:51.940 --> 00:16:55.960 right in front of them. The man who had been 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.019 blind simply trusted the one who healed him. 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:02.500 He did not have every answer. He did not understand 00:17:02.500 --> 00:17:05.819 everything. But he knew one thing. I was blind. 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:10.640 Now I see. And that is the invitation placed 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:16.079 before us as well. Christ still comes to open 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:20.240 our eyes. He forgives the blindness of our hearts. 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:24.200 He frees us from the need to cling to our old 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.819 assumptions and comfortable ways of seeing the 00:17:27.819 --> 00:17:33.630 world. So are you ready to let go of those old 00:17:33.630 --> 00:17:36.650 assumptions? Are you ready to look at what God 00:17:36.650 --> 00:17:40.190 is doing right in front of you? Not just in this 00:17:40.190 --> 00:17:43.549 congregation, but even in your own experiences? 00:17:44.230 --> 00:17:46.730 Knowing that it might not be something you have 00:17:46.730 --> 00:17:50.609 always been comfortable with? Are you even ready 00:17:50.609 --> 00:17:52.769 to accept things that you're not comfortable 00:17:52.769 --> 00:17:57.890 with at all? Because Jesus is calling us, even 00:17:57.890 --> 00:18:02.000 now. into a life fuller than anything that we've 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:06.140 ever known. But when He calls us, the question 00:18:06.140 --> 00:18:08.279 is not whether everything fits what we expected. 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:13.200 The question is much simpler. Will we trust Him? 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.079 Will we follow Him? Because the same Christ who 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:21.420 opened that man's eyes has already done something 00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:25.640 even greater for us. Through His cross, through 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:28.559 His resurrection. He has opened the way from 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:33.259 darkness into life. So for those who follow Him, 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:36.539 we discover the same truth that changed this 00:18:36.539 --> 00:18:44.099 man forever. We were blind, but now we see. Thanks 00:18:44.099 --> 00:18:44.660 be to God.