Came Back Seeing

John 9:5-7

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes 7 and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

Jesus promises to touch the thing that hurts the most

One of the most sensitive areas of your body is your eyes…we know other sensitive areas, but I’m keeping this above board! Our body naturally protects our eyesight.

Jesus realized that this was the problem, and He went right to the issue, He never beats around the bush – this keeps many from coming to church, and even those who come to church, this keeps you from the altar, because we don’t want Jesus touching stuff…

John 4:15-18 

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” 16 He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 17 The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

Healing in Action

James 2:17 

17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

Now, in our main text, the man was blind – in fact he was born blind…it is interesting that Jesus covered what was already not functioning!

The man is already blind, so why would God cover his eyes? Have you ever been to Jesus, asked for something, only to end up worse than where you started?

Matthew 15:21-26 

21 After going out from there, Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!” 23 But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, “Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.” 24 So he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she came and bowed down before him and said, “Lord, help me!” 26 “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” he said.

She believed that Jesus could do anything, heal anything, but she also believed that Jesus would work with anyone, only to find His initial resistance and rejection!

It’s a test beloved – how desperate are you to find what you’re looking for from the only One who can give it to you?

-        How long are you willing to pray?

-        How long are you willing to fast?

-        How long are you willing to attend church consistently?

Just how desperate are you? This blind man allowed Jesus to put spittle in his eyes! Even though that wasn’t the healing…he wasn’t healed, until he was told to GO…and he obeyed and WENT!

Mark 2:10-11 

10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—he said to the paralytic— 11 “I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

Mark 5:18-19 

18 As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him. 19 But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, “Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you.”

This directive from God is found in the Great Commission!! ‘…GO ye therefore…’

Many times, healing, deliverance, salvation, only happens when you get up and GO!!

Pool of Siloam

Jesus told this young man to go and wash in the pool of ‘Sent.’ This is where Jesus sends every last one of us…He always sends us to a place and / or in the direction of someone GREATER than ourselves! He sent him to a pool – why are you steady trying to dive into a bowl, when the Lord has provided a pool?

-        Why would Jesus send a blind man to another blind man?

-        Why would Jesus send a poor man to a place of poverty?

-        Why would Jesus send the backslidden to someone spiritually weak?

-        Why would Jesus leave you to your own devices?

He will always send you higher, greater, farther – but this requires MORE…

Matthew 17:18-20 

18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment. 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?” 20 He told them, “It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you.”

Lastly, the man came back…seeing!

Faith took him there…he received no help from anyone, not even the Lord…and God brought him back seeing!!

Faith makes the journey, so that God can provide the miracle!

2 Corinthians 5:5-7 

5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.