Monday's lesson and today's theme, today's title is: Washing in the tank. Open your Bible, please. In John chapter 9 from verse 1 it says: As Jesus walked, he saw a man blind from birth.
The first information here that is interesting is the only miracle that Jesus performs, which suggests that the person had this difficulty since childhood. Not Pastor and Bartimaeus, do you remember Bartimaeus’ healing? Well, there is a moment when Jesus says: Hey, what do you want?
He says: May I see again. In other words, at some point he saw, at some point he saw. I don't know if it was an accident, if it was an illness that happened, but he was blind now, But at some point he was seeing and at the time of Jesus there was a thought that went like this: The comrade he lived, at some point he becomes blind.
The question is what did he do? Why is he blind? Why did God curse that person?
So, every person who had a physical limitation had the difficulty of illness, plus social denial, plus even denial of religion itself. No, no, that one there is dangerous, that one is the target of anger, of hatred, of God's justice, because he used to see, now he is blind. Now in this case, he was born blind.
The question is: And here comes verse two And his disciples asked Master, who sinned this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Guys, let's face it, what a stupid question! Imagine you passing by Jesus.
. . Who was Jesus?
Jesus was the one who performed miracles. Who are the disciples? The disciples are those who witnessed Jesus performing great miracles.
Then I side with a person who has been blind since birth, instead of saying: Jesus, what can we do to cure her? What can we do to help her? What can we do to improve this person's life?
That was not the disciples' question. They come with silly questions, unnecessary questions. You know, sometimes we act the same way.
I'm going to put a situation here. I'm walking in the middle of the street. Suddenly I see a person who is there in need of help.
I do, and I have some options. One of them is to help. The other is to look and say no, but she is going through this difficulty, do you know why?
Because this person was disorderly in life. Because this person ended up drinking too much. This may, may be true.
But there is a time when my action is more important than the answers. So, the disciples here were asking the questions they wanted to understand regarding this issue of blindness, etc. But it was a question that could have been asked at another time.
They demonstrated here the coldness of their hearts of not noticing the sadness, misery and need of others. Now, when Jesus looks at this, then Jesus answered him: Neither he sinned nor his parents, but it was so that the works of God might be manifested in him. Ah, so I understand.
He is blind to this day, suffering only for Jesus to come by, perform a miracle and then it appears that He performed a miracle. It gives the impression, right? No, that's not the idea.
It's like this, in the midst of chaos, miracles appear and appear to be greater. And that's the point. So it's not that Jesus had predestined him to be blind and then He would pass by and heal.
No, that's not the point. It's just that in the midst of sadness, the misery that this brings is something that we have to understand. .
. Who brings the disease, who brings the misery, who brings the pain? It's not God, it's not Jesus, it's Satan, it's sin.
Jesus, what does He bring? He brings healing. Jesus brings what?
It brings transformation. So, in the midst of sin, in the midst of the pain of sin, Jesus, now He appears and He brings hope, life, healing and other things. So this is what Jesus wanted to show his disciples.
The result of this? That man, he began to see. He was blind from birth, he had never seen anything at all, but now he could see.
Tomorrow we continue.
