God said: I am the Lord, and there is no other,The One forming light and creating darkness,Causing well-being and creating calamity;I am the Lord who does all these. (Isaiah 45:6-7) John the Apostle wrote: God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him…

We’re still in John chapter 9 for more lessons on blindness from a man who was born blind at birth. Today we will discuss the creation and recreation story played out and illustrated in a dramatic way. In Genesis 1, we read that: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the…

The sense of sight is used throughout scripture as a metaphor for spiritual discernment. The Old Testament, the gospels, as well as the messages of Jesus and the apostles illustrate and give meaning to the concept of spiritual discernment and blindness. We’ve seen that there are two types of blindness: One is dark and deep…

We’ve been studying the subject of blindness, based on the fourth woe of the Pharisees which Jesus had pronounced on them in the 23rd chapter of the book of Matthew. He calls them blind guides, blind men, and blind fools. Last week we began looking at the story of blindness from the context of the…

As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in…

In the Gospels, Jesus is recorded as having healed four blind men. Two were healed individually and two were healed together. Here is the first story. In context, the healing takes place after Jesus miraculously fed a crowd of 4,000, after which he and the disciples sailed in a boat to the district of Dalmanutha,…