Jesus has healed a man blind from birth. However, this man’s physical blindness, though tragic, is not the most tragic blindness we see in the passage. His blindness is physical, but the pharisees are spiritually blind; as such, they cannot see the obvious reality of who Jesus is. Even more tragic, they are blind to their own blindness. In the words of one theologian, “The greatest misery of sin is not that we are blind, but being blind we think that we see.” They are blind, but they think they see clearly, which is the most dangerous blindness. Jesus, though, is the light of the world (John 8:12). Have you come to see your own blindness apart from Jesus? And, have you depended upon him for spiritual sight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jesus has healed a man blind from birth. However, this man’s physical blindness, though tragic, is not the most tragic blindness we see in the passage. His blindness is physical, but the pharisees are spiritually blind; as such, they cannot see the obvious reality of who Jesus is. Even more tragic, they are blind to their own blindness. In the words of one theologian, “The greatest misery of sin is not that we are blind, but being blind we think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[75],"ctc_sermon_series":[99],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[64],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3670","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-john","ctc_sermon_series-the-gospel-according-to-john","ctc_sermon_speaker-jeff-cottone","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3670\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeemerchurchpca.com\/NewTheme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}