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John 9:8-23 How God Works to Produce Praise

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The moment suffering hits, the human heart reaches for a courtroom: Who did this, and who’s to blame? I start in John 9 with that exact question, then show why Scripture so often refuses to play along. The disciples see a man born blind and assume there must be a moral cause. Jesus answers with a category-shifting sentence: the blindness isn’t punishment, it’s a canvas for “the works of God” to be displayed.

To make sense of that, we connect three powerful passages that speak directly to the problem of suffering and God’s sovereignty. Leviticus 14 says God can “put”…

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