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Today's Message: Spiritual Blindness | Brandon Naramore We are in a message series called BUILDING THE WELL WITHIN. Stay caught up on this series by following the message series playlist on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrEv__Oj59QcgDYeg6EzENIlX1E8kCL97 Proverbs 5:15 (NRSV) Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. John 7:37-38 (NRSV) On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” Spiritual Blindness John 9:1-2 (NRSV) As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” "The question of the disciples is typical of the outlook of the ancient world (Job’s friends and their addresses to him)." - G.R. O’day "The notion that a parent’s sins are visited on the children was common in Jewish reflections on the causes of suffering. Because he was blind from birth, however, any sin the man himself might have committed would need to have been committed before he was born." - G.R. O’day Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me. "Jesus firmly resists any such analysis of how the world is ordered… But to understand it all, we have to be prepared to dismantle some of our cherished assumptions .” N.T. Wright Romans 12:2 (NRSV) Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. John 9:3 (NRSV) Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him." “The chaos and misery of this present world is, it seems, the raw material out of which the loving, wise and just God is making his new creation” - NT. Wright "The metaphorical use of sight and blindness to refer to spiritual openness was well known in OT literature, particularly in Isaiah." - G.R. O’day
Ephesians 1:17-18 (NRSV) I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints. John 9:4-5 (NRSV) "We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:6 (NRSV) When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes... "Kneading was one of the thirty-nine categories of work explicitly forbidden on the sabbath." - G.R. O’day “Such procedures were not uncommon among ancient healers, for saliva (especially when one had been fasting) was believed to have healing properties. Precisely the healing of one’s eyes with saliva on the Sabbath was forbidden in the Talmud by some rabbis." - J.R. Michaels Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature "The making of 'clay' from the earth was frequently compared by early Church Fathers with the creation of man from the earth in Gen 2:7.” - G. R. Beasley-Murray John 9:7 Saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. "The Mishnah identifies Siloam… as the source of the water for the water of the Tabernacles feast” - G.R. O’day John 7:37-38 (NRSV) On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” "If a man is blind from birth, then the restoring of his sight is… a new birth. Jesus had told Nicodemus: “No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” “No one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit” - J.R. Michaels John 3:5 (NRSV) Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. John 9:8 (NRSV) "The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” John 9:9 (NRSV) Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” “Sometimes when people receive the good news of Jesus it so transforms their lives that people ask the same question: is this really the same person?” - N.T. Wright John 9:10-12 (NRSV) But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.” 
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