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. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 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.” 6 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 7 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.