Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2013-02-18 ILC Chapel — Why? Jesus uses temporal conditions…

2013 Chapels -
Why? Jesus uses temporal conditions for spiritual good. He fixes the spiritual blindness.

 

Date : 2013-02-18
Speaker : David Ude

John 9:1–7 (Listen)

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9:1 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 was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

(ESV)

Hymn: WS 777, st. 1,4 :
Amazing Grace — How Sweet the Sound

Hymnary.org

1. Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now I see.

4. When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.