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July 11 - John 9 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Top of the morning. Top of the afternoon.
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  Top of the evening. Hello.
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  Hello, friends. It's Sean here.
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  It is indeed a new day and you have chosen to invite me in.
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  It's Thursday. It is the 11th of the 7th, 2024
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  and what do you know, here we find ourselves taking a moment
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  of pause in your day, whether it is chock a block full of stuff
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  coming at you fast, or whether it's a spacious day or somewhere
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  in between. So great that you have found a
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  moment to tap on plate. Or maybe you are just bingeing
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  Bible chapters. You are getting them done.
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  You are working your way through John, wherever you are.
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  Whichever one of these applies to you, I am so glad to have
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  your company as we are going to head back in time to those dusty
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  streets, walking around, dust in our sandals, sunshine in our
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  shoulders, oppression of the Roman Empire bearing down on us,
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  wonder filling our heart as we see the Messiah doing what he is
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  doing before us, blowing our mind.
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  Today we're going to hear about Jesus healing.
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  We are going to hear Jesus teaching.
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  And it is just glorious to be in his company as we share this
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  together. So if you're ready, I'm ready.
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  I think we should do it. Let us read together John
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  Chapter 9. As Jesus was walking along, he
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  saw a man who had been blind from birth.
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  Rabbi His disciples asked him why was this man born blind?
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  Was it because of his own sins or his parents sins?
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  It was not because of his sins or his parents sins, Jesus
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  answered. This happens so the power of God
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  could be seen in Him. We must quickly carry out the
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  tasks assigned to us by the One who sent us.
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  The night is coming and then no one can work.
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  But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the
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  world. Then he spit on the ground, made
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  mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man's
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  eyes. He told him go wash yourself in
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  the pool of Siloam. Siloam means scent.
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  So the man went and washed and came back seeing his neighbours
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  and others are knew him as the blind beggar asked each other.
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  Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?
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  Some said he was and others said no he just looks like him.
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  But the beggar kept saying yes I am the same one.
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  They asked who healed you, what happened?
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  He told them the man they called Jesus made mud and spread it
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  over my eyes and told me go to the pool of Siloam and wash
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  yourself. So I went and washed and now I
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  can see. Where is he now?
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  They asked. I don't know, he replied.
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  Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees,
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  because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and
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  healed him. The Pharisees asked the man all
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  about it, so he told them. He put the mud over my eyes and
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  when I washed it away I could see some of the Pharisees said,
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  this man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the
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  Sabbath. Others said, But how could an
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  ordinary Sinner do such miraculous signs, said there was
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  a deep division of opinion among them.
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  Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been
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  blind and demanded, What's your opinion about this man who
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  healed you? The man replied.
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  I think he must be a prophet. The Jewish leaders still refused
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  to believe the man had been blind and could now see.
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  So they called in his parents. They asked them, it's this your
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  son? Was he born blind?
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  If so, how can he now see? His parents replied.
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  We know this is our son and that he was born blind, but we don't
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  know how he can see or who healed him.
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  Ask him. He is old enough to speak for
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  himself. His parents said this because
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  they were afraid of the Jewish leaders who had announced that
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  anyone saying Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from
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  the synagogue. That's why they said he is old
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  enough. Ask him.
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  So for the second time they called in the man who had been
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  blind and told him God should get the glory for this, because
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  we know this man Jesus is a Sinner.
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  I don't know whether he is a Sinner, the man replied.
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  But I do know this. I was blind and now I can see.
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  But what did he do? They asked.
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  How did he heal you? Look, The man exclaimed.
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  I told you once, didn't you listen?
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  Why do you want to hear it again?
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  Do you want to become his disciples too?
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  Then they cursed him and said, you are his disciples, but we
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  are disciples of Moses. We know God spoke to Moses, but
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  we don't even know where this man comes from.
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  Why, that's very strange, the man replied.
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  He healed my eyes, and yet you don't know where He comes from.
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  We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but He is ready to
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  hear those who worship Him and do His will.
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  Ever since the world began, no one has been able to open the
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  eyes of someone born blind. If this man were not from God,
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  he couldn't have done it. You were born a total Sinner,
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  they answered. Are you trying to teach us?
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  And they threw him out of the synagogue.
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  When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and
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  asked, Do you believe in the Son of Man?
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  The man answered. Who is he, Sir?
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  I want to believe in him. You have seen him, Jesus said.
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  And he is speaking to you. Yes, Lord, I believe the man
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  said. And he worshipped Jesus.
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  Then Jesus told him, I entered this world to render judgement,
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  to give sight to the blind, and to show those who think they see
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  that they are blind. Some Pharisees who were standing
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  nearby heard him and asked, Are you saying we're blind?
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  If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty, Jesus replied.
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  But you remain guilty because you claim you can.
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  See now, Jesus, we come before you today, humble servants of
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  you, the living God. And as the old song says, open
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  the eyes of my heart, Lord, open the eyes of my heart.
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  I want to see you. So take away our blindness and
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  let our eyes see clearly. You in your glory and Your love
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  so that we would be transformed and that we would know who You
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  are. Continue to transform us from
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  the inside out as Your light penetrates deep into us and we
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  see You and we know You more clearly and we are changed by
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  Your love to be Your servants in this world.
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  Open the eyes of our heart. Lord, we pray all of this in
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  your name, Jesus, Amen.