WEBVTT 00:00:00.330 --> 00:00:04.450 Every culture has its remedies. Some of them 00:00:04.450 --> 00:00:07.589 make sense. You know, those home remedies that 00:00:07.589 --> 00:00:10.070 you've always heard about. But there are some 00:00:10.070 --> 00:00:14.710 that make you stop and say, wait, what? Butter 00:00:14.710 --> 00:00:22.670 on a burn. Onion syrup for coughs. Potato slices 00:00:22.670 --> 00:00:27.170 for headaches. Cabbage leaves for swollen joints. 00:00:27.730 --> 00:00:31.410 Peanut butter for bug bites. Mustard plasters 00:00:31.410 --> 00:00:35.049 for chest colds. You know, there's times when 00:00:35.049 --> 00:00:38.049 you've seen an infomercial, where you were sick 00:00:38.049 --> 00:00:40.789 from work and you just had to know whether apple 00:00:40.789 --> 00:00:44.509 cider vinegar could fix everything. Whether charcoal 00:00:44.509 --> 00:00:47.810 could really detox your system better than your 00:00:47.810 --> 00:00:51.609 kidneys and liver. And whether shoe inserts could 00:00:51.609 --> 00:00:53.729 improve your circulation through the magic of 00:00:53.729 --> 00:00:57.469 magnetism. Maybe you've even tried some of these 00:00:57.469 --> 00:01:00.859 remedies before. For the record, ginger and the 00:01:00.859 --> 00:01:04.159 little ear patches, those do seem to help out 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:07.140 with motion sickness, I promise. You see, some 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:10.459 things they work, but maybe some of them did 00:01:10.459 --> 00:01:14.099 not. Somewhere along the way, someone has tried 00:01:14.099 --> 00:01:17.079 these things and maybe became part of the wisdom 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:22.079 that got passed down. And if we're honest, some 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.739 of us still remember a parent or grandparent 00:01:24.739 --> 00:01:27.680 insisting that one of these remedies would work. 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:33.140 The ancient world had its remedies too. Roman 00:01:33.140 --> 00:01:36.319 writers like Pliny the Elder described the healing 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.959 power of saliva, especially for eye diseases. 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:43.359 Doesn't that just sound gross, just from the 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.560 beginning? But in his work, Natural History, 00:01:47.180 --> 00:01:50.500 he records traditions that people believed saliva 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:54.019 could treat certain ailments. And he even mentions 00:01:54.019 --> 00:01:57.579 that the saliva of a firstborn son was thought 00:01:57.579 --> 00:02:01.799 to have special healing power. A concentrated 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.019 life force, if you will. The idea was that certain 00:02:05.019 --> 00:02:08.960 people, in particular circumstances, could imbue 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:13.300 their saliva with restorative properties. Jewish 00:02:13.300 --> 00:02:16.099 traditions preserved in the Babylonian Talmud 00:02:16.099 --> 00:02:19.919 also mention saliva as a possible remedy for 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:24.319 some conditions, including... eye problems. While 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.060 the Talmud itself was compiled centuries later, 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.500 it preserves discussions that circulated among 00:02:30.500 --> 00:02:33.219 Jewish teachers long before, even during the 00:02:33.219 --> 00:02:36.419 time of Christ, discussions about the ways life, 00:02:36.620 --> 00:02:41.259 breath, and bodily fluids could carry God's healing 00:02:41.259 --> 00:02:44.919 energy. There were also debates about using saliva 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.759 on the Sabbath, showing that the act was familiar, 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:52.759 but also morally and religiously delicate. So 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.500 when Jesus spits on the ground and makes mud 00:02:55.500 --> 00:02:58.340 to heal a blind man, the people watching would 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:00.800 not have thought using saliva was completely 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.960 strange. It was a known folk remedy, a practice 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.599 with precedent in both Jewish and Roman understanding 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.099 of healing. They had seen remedies like that 00:03:13.099 --> 00:03:16.580 before, sometimes practical and sometimes mysterious. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.219 What they were not prepared for was who was doing 00:03:21.219 --> 00:03:25.979 it. and what it meant. Because when Jesus bends 00:03:25.979 --> 00:03:28.400 down, spits on the ground, and He forms mud, 00:03:28.979 --> 00:03:32.819 something deeper begins to echo through the story. 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.699 This is not merely some traveling medicine man 00:03:37.699 --> 00:03:42.599 using common medicines or mind games to heal 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.500 simple infections, aches, pains. This was the 00:03:46.500 --> 00:03:49.680 Word of God. who had been there from the beginning, 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.120 restoring what had never been there in this man's 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.120 life. Think back to the creation story from the 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.539 book of Genesis. God forms humanity from the 00:04:00.539 --> 00:04:04.800 dust of the ground. Dust and breath. Earth and 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:09.139 life. And now Jesus is taking earth and moisture, 00:04:09.539 --> 00:04:12.659 human and divine elements combined, and placing 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:18.259 it on the eyes of a man who has never seen. It 00:04:18.259 --> 00:04:21.459 is not merely healing something that got broken. 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:26.699 It evokes creation itself. Think of a potter 00:04:26.699 --> 00:04:29.720 sitting on a wheel. A lump of clay sits there 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.879 shapeless. But the potter's hands begin to form 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:38.220 it. Slowly, the clay becomes something new. But 00:04:38.220 --> 00:04:41.620 when the potter sees something missing, he reshapes 00:04:41.620 --> 00:04:45.379 the clay. Jesus doesn't just repair what is broken. 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.740 He creates what was missing. See, this is not 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:51.939 just a remedy. This is creation itself echoing 00:04:51.939 --> 00:04:55.279 in a single act. Not merely repairing what was 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.259 broken, not simply giving back what had been 00:04:58.259 --> 00:05:01.600 lost, but bringing into being something that 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:05.040 had never existed before. That's something God 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.279 does. The strange part here was not actually 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.459 the mud. The strange part was what the mud meant. 00:05:12.819 --> 00:05:15.500 And that meaning sets the stage for the miracle 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:18.959 that we are about to see. It is here that Jesus 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:22.620 reveals a new kind of sight. A sight that does 00:05:22.620 --> 00:05:27.540 more than open eyes. It opens hearts. In John 00:05:27.540 --> 00:05:30.240 chapter 9, Jesus had encountered this man who 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.699 had been blind from birth. Not someone who lost 00:05:33.699 --> 00:05:37.459 his sight later. Not someone whose eyes might 00:05:37.459 --> 00:05:40.819 recover with some normal treatment. This man 00:05:40.819 --> 00:05:44.980 had never seen a sunrise. Never seen his parents' 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.360 faces. Never seen the streets he walked every 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.439 day while begging. And the disciples asked the 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:53.800 kind of question that people often asked in that 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:58.920 time, Rabbi, who sinned? This man or his parents 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:03.279 that he was born blind? They're trying to make 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:06.639 sense of suffering. If something's wrong, then 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.160 clearly someone must be responsible. They don't 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.339 want to imagine that bad things can happen to 00:06:13.339 --> 00:06:17.160 good people. But Jesus refuses that framework. 00:06:17.980 --> 00:06:21.720 This happens so that the works of God might be 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.060 displayed in Him. In other words, this moment 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:28.360 is not about blame. It's about the revelation 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.740 of God. It is about showing who Jesus is and 00:06:31.740 --> 00:06:35.170 what He has come to do. Then Jesus performs the 00:06:35.170 --> 00:06:38.149 miracle, spits on the ground, He makes the mud 00:06:38.149 --> 00:06:41.970 and He places it on the man's eyes. He tells 00:06:41.970 --> 00:06:46.829 him to go wash in the pool of Siloam. He sends 00:06:46.829 --> 00:06:51.750 him to the pool, that means, sent. In the pool 00:06:51.750 --> 00:06:54.350 that pointed them to the living water in the 00:06:54.350 --> 00:06:58.009 wilderness, the mission of Jesus to bring life 00:06:58.009 --> 00:07:01.509 becomes even clearer for this man. So the man 00:07:01.509 --> 00:07:05.910 goes. And the man washes, and the man comes back 00:07:05.910 --> 00:07:10.310 seen. For the first time in his life, light floods 00:07:10.310 --> 00:07:16.449 into his world. Faces, movement, colors. Everything 00:07:16.449 --> 00:07:20.290 that had once been darkness suddenly comes alive. 00:07:21.550 --> 00:07:25.569 But here is something fascinating. The miracle 00:07:25.569 --> 00:07:31.629 itself only takes a few verses. The rest of the 00:07:31.629 --> 00:07:34.610 chapter is not about the miracle itself. It's 00:07:34.610 --> 00:07:37.649 about how the people respond to it. Because when 00:07:37.649 --> 00:07:41.569 God begins doing something new, it rarely fits 00:07:41.569 --> 00:07:44.649 the categories that people already have prepared 00:07:44.649 --> 00:07:49.610 for it. That is exactly what happens here. The 00:07:49.610 --> 00:07:55.170 miracle happens on the Sabbath. To the religious 00:07:55.170 --> 00:08:00.019 leaders, that raises legal questions. spitting 00:08:00.019 --> 00:08:04.779 on the ground might disturb the soil, digging 00:08:04.779 --> 00:08:10.639 it up, which was seen as work. Mixing mud could 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:14.899 be interpreted as kneading a dough, which was 00:08:14.899 --> 00:08:19.240 treated as work. Applying a treatment might count 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:23.139 as performing medicine, which could be seen as 00:08:23.139 --> 00:08:26.639 work. So they just kept focusing on, did Jesus 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:31.040 work on the Sabbath? Suddenly, the conversation 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.899 shifts away from the miracle and gets to the 00:08:33.899 --> 00:08:36.919 rule book. Instead of asking the obvious question, 00:08:37.220 --> 00:08:40.059 if He opened the man's eyes, then could Jesus 00:08:40.059 --> 00:08:43.039 be the Messiah of God? Instead, they're saying, 00:08:43.220 --> 00:08:47.379 did Jesus break our laws? They're staring directly 00:08:47.379 --> 00:08:51.179 at a miracle, but they're asking the wrong question. 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.779 The Kingdom of God rarely fits the categories 00:08:54.779 --> 00:08:58.440 we're prepared for. Not everyone wants to see 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.419 what God is doing. In fact, what happens next 00:09:01.419 --> 00:09:04.320 is one of the strangest parts, because the miracle 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.799 is not celebrated. There are not people yelling 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:11.440 in the streets, Hooray, Jesus! It's investigated. 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:16.679 If you watch, the religious leaders begin investigating 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.200 the miracle like a courtroom trial. They question 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.299 the neighbors. They question the man. They question 00:09:23.299 --> 00:09:27.799 the man's parents. they bring back the man again 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:31.559 for more questioning. But something becomes clear 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.879 as the conversation unfolds. They're not actually 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.259 searching for the truth of what happened. They 00:09:39.259 --> 00:09:42.639 already decided the verdict. They know Jesus 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:46.220 cannot be from God because, in their minds, He 00:09:46.220 --> 00:09:49.940 has broken the Sabbath. And when you've already 00:09:49.940 --> 00:09:52.460 decided the verdict first, evidence just becomes 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:57.970 inconvenient. I'll give you an example. Some 00:09:57.970 --> 00:10:00.710 museums have discovered something interesting 00:10:00.710 --> 00:10:03.830 about their visitors. When people walk into a 00:10:03.830 --> 00:10:07.970 museum, they often move quickly through the first 00:10:07.970 --> 00:10:11.909 room. They just get past it. They assume that 00:10:11.909 --> 00:10:15.809 the most important works must be deeper inside 00:10:15.809 --> 00:10:19.110 the building. So they hurry past the entrance 00:10:19.110 --> 00:10:21.990 gallery without really looking. And in fact, 00:10:22.450 --> 00:10:25.129 some curators have even experimented with this. 00:10:25.580 --> 00:10:29.940 They made place extremely valuable pieces right 00:10:29.940 --> 00:10:33.700 near the entrance, sometimes even masterpieces, 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:39.259 and many visitors walk right past them. Not because 00:10:39.259 --> 00:10:41.960 the artwork isn't beautiful, not because it isn't 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:44.960 valuable, but because they already decided the 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:47.879 important things must be somewhere else. So they 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:52.059 never really looked. Something very similar is 00:10:52.059 --> 00:10:54.659 happening in John 9. The miracle is obvious. 00:10:55.210 --> 00:10:57.769 But the leaders cannot accept the conclusion. 00:10:58.909 --> 00:11:00.690 A miracle is standing right in front of them, 00:11:01.049 --> 00:11:03.470 a man who could not see in his life can see. 00:11:04.129 --> 00:11:06.470 But the religious leaders are so focused on where 00:11:06.470 --> 00:11:09.690 they expect God to act, that they walk right 00:11:09.690 --> 00:11:13.289 past what God is actually doing. And even when 00:11:13.289 --> 00:11:15.289 the healed man stands right in front of them, 00:11:15.929 --> 00:11:18.190 even when his parents confirm that he was born 00:11:18.190 --> 00:11:22.169 blind, even when the miracle itself is undeniable. 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:26.940 rather than question their assumptions, they 00:11:26.940 --> 00:11:30.600 push the evidence away. See, eventually, they 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.919 do something even more remarkable. Instead of 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.820 reconsidering their conclusions, they simply 00:11:35.820 --> 00:11:41.100 throw the man out. The problem is removed. Yay! 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:45.240 The uncomfortable evidence is gone. When truth 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.240 becomes uncomfortable, the easiest solution is 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.779 to remove the testimony. And I'm sure none of 00:11:51.779 --> 00:11:55.320 us have ever done anything like that before. 00:11:56.419 --> 00:11:59.399 To be uncomfortable with something and then just 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.580 to find a way to ignore it. Psychologists sometimes 00:12:02.580 --> 00:12:04.940 talk about confirmation bias where we naturally 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:07.320 notice the information that supports what we 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.860 already believe and we filter out the information 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:12.919 that challenges it. It's why two people can watch 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.559 the exact same news report and come away with 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.600 completely different conclusions. We see what 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.980 we're prepared to see. You know how it goes. 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.740 Something doesn't fit our expectations, so we 00:12:24.740 --> 00:12:26.799 dismiss it. Something challenges the way we've 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.039 always thought, so we look for a reason to ignore 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.860 it. Sometimes we label the other side as wrong 00:12:32.860 --> 00:12:34.440 just so we don't have to wrestle with what's 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.539 right in front of us. Sometimes we shout louder 00:12:37.539 --> 00:12:41.679 or repeat the same phrases again so we can stop 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.850 interacting with the conversation. People loudly 00:12:45.850 --> 00:12:48.289 yell about human rights, but then don't seem 00:12:48.289 --> 00:12:52.250 to care about the unborn. Others yell loudly 00:12:52.250 --> 00:12:55.029 about the unborn, but they don't seem to care 00:12:55.029 --> 00:12:58.870 about what happens after birth. People yell loudly 00:12:58.870 --> 00:13:01.129 about what's legal, but they don't seem to provide 00:13:01.129 --> 00:13:04.549 legal opportunities for others. But others yell 00:13:04.549 --> 00:13:06.649 loudly about the opportunities without caring 00:13:06.649 --> 00:13:09.750 about personal responsibility. And then there 00:13:09.750 --> 00:13:11.929 are some who yell about their own ministries 00:13:11.929 --> 00:13:15.840 and fight against anything new. even while others 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.299 yell about new opportunities and forget how to 00:13:19.299 --> 00:13:21.000 bless what was already happening when they got 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.659 there. It turns out that blindness is not only 00:13:24.659 --> 00:13:28.120 a problem of the eyes, it can be a problem of 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.559 the heart. But while the experts argued, the 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.179 man who had been blind kept things surprisingly 00:13:34.179 --> 00:13:37.649 simple. They asked him theological questions 00:13:37.649 --> 00:13:40.370 he could not answer. Is Jesus a sinner? Where 00:13:40.370 --> 00:13:42.590 does he come from? What authority does he have? 00:13:42.669 --> 00:13:45.509 And the man finally responds with the most honest 00:13:45.509 --> 00:13:49.389 testimony in the chapter, one thing I do know, 00:13:49.769 --> 00:13:55.309 though I was blind, now I see. He does not pretend 00:13:55.309 --> 00:13:58.870 to know everything. He simply speaks the truth 00:13:58.870 --> 00:14:01.799 of what Christ has done for him. And in doing 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.120 so, the man who had never seen becomes the one 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:07.879 person in the story who actually sees clearly. 00:14:09.580 --> 00:14:12.000 How often do we make our Christian testimony 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.580 so difficult to share because we want to get 00:14:15.580 --> 00:14:18.460 caught up in arguments and technicalities that 00:14:18.460 --> 00:14:21.200 keep us from seeing the people in front of us? 00:14:22.659 --> 00:14:24.340 But the story does not end with the man being 00:14:24.340 --> 00:14:27.740 thrown out. See, after the leaders cast him out, 00:14:28.220 --> 00:14:31.679 something remarkable happens, that Jesus comes 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:37.399 looking for him. Let that sink in. This man has 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:42.059 lost everything familiar. His place in the synagogue, 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:46.259 therefore his place among his religious community. 00:14:47.299 --> 00:14:50.080 His standing, that even if it was low on the 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.220 totem pole for being blind, he still had a place. 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.399 or even the protection of his parents who can't 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:00.779 seem to figure out how to deal with what happened 00:15:00.779 --> 00:15:03.919 with their son, so it would be easier just to 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:07.860 disown him. Yet the one who gave him sight seeks 00:15:07.860 --> 00:15:11.799 him out. And Jesus asks gently, Do you believe 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:15.179 in the Son of Man? The man's world had been dark 00:15:15.179 --> 00:15:17.580 his entire life. Now standing before the light 00:15:17.580 --> 00:15:20.080 of the world, he answers with nothing but the 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:26.720 truth of what he knows. I believe. And he worships 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.419 Him. The man lost his place in the world he knew, 00:15:30.460 --> 00:15:34.539 but he found the one who gives life itself. Think 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:38.559 about what had happened. He found the Son of 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.840 God. Sometimes the first step towards seeing 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.500 clearly is losing what once made us comfortable. 00:15:45.539 --> 00:15:48.340 Following Christ does not always make life easier. 00:15:48.590 --> 00:15:51.450 Sometimes it makes life uncomfortable. Sometimes 00:15:51.450 --> 00:15:53.929 it forces us to rethink assumptions we carried 00:15:53.929 --> 00:15:56.950 for years. Sometimes it means letting go of things 00:15:56.950 --> 00:15:59.809 we thought we understood about the world, about 00:15:59.809 --> 00:16:04.730 faith, even about God. But in exchange, Christ 00:16:04.730 --> 00:16:09.769 gives something greater. A new life. New sight. 00:16:10.870 --> 00:16:14.009 A new way of seeing the world. Because the same 00:16:14.009 --> 00:16:16.490 Christ who opened that man's eyes would soon 00:16:16.490 --> 00:16:20.529 open the way to life through his cross and resurrection. 00:16:22.009 --> 00:16:24.210 Christ does not come to make our old life work 00:16:24.210 --> 00:16:28.309 better. He comes to give us a new one. At the 00:16:28.309 --> 00:16:30.750 end of the story, Jesus says something striking. 00:16:31.110 --> 00:16:35.090 For judgment I came into this world that those 00:16:35.090 --> 00:16:38.549 who do not see may see and those who see may 00:16:38.549 --> 00:16:42.149 become blind. The ultimate tragedy of the story 00:16:42.149 --> 00:16:45.210 was not that the man was born blind. The real 00:16:45.210 --> 00:16:48.269 tragedy was that some people still chose to remain 00:16:48.269 --> 00:16:51.669 that way. The leaders were so certain of their 00:16:51.669 --> 00:16:54.610 understanding that they could not recognize the 00:16:54.610 --> 00:16:57.529 one standing right in front of them. The man 00:16:57.529 --> 00:17:00.230 who had been blind simply trusted the man who 00:17:00.230 --> 00:17:03.830 healed him. He did not have every answer. He 00:17:03.830 --> 00:17:06.609 did not understand everything. But he knew one 00:17:06.609 --> 00:17:12.559 thing. I was blind. Now I see. And that is the 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:16.799 invitation placed before us as well. Christ still 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:21.700 comes to open our eyes. He forgives the blindness 00:17:21.700 --> 00:17:24.559 of our hearts. He frees us from the need to cling 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.420 to our old assumptions and comfortable ways of 00:17:27.420 --> 00:17:32.880 seeing the world. But are you ready to let go 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.339 of those old assumptions and to look at what 00:17:36.339 --> 00:17:39.400 God is doing right in front of you? And not just 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:43.380 in this congregation, but in your own experiences, 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.220 knowing that it might not be something you've 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:49.640 always been comfortable with. Because Jesus is 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.900 calling you, even now, into a life fuller than 00:17:53.900 --> 00:17:57.839 anything you've ever known. But when He calls 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:00.619 us, the question is not whether everything fits 00:18:00.619 --> 00:18:05.619 as is expected. The question is simpler. Will 00:18:05.619 --> 00:18:11.200 we trust Him? Will we follow Him? Because the 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:13.559 same Christ who opened that man's eyes has already 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:17.660 done something even greater for us. Through His 00:18:17.660 --> 00:18:20.599 cross and resurrection, He has opened the way 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.880 from darkness into life. And those who follow 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:26.759 Him discovered the same truth that changed that 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:33.700 man forever. I was blind. But now I see. Thanks 00:18:33.700 --> 00:18:34.259 be to God.