Faith In The Valley

The world is a dark place. Just today, as I was preparing this lesson, a man drove a van up Las Ramblas in Barcelona and killed 13 people and injured another 100. On any given day, terrible things done to others. Child abuse, rapes, murders. The world is a dark place. But it is also dark in your local community, where good citizens go about their business doing no harm to others. It is dark because they are blind, spiritually blind, and they move through life lost and hopeless. Today we will look at the healing of the man born blind. His blindness is both physical and spiritual. Turn to John 9 and let us look at the sixth sign performed by Jesus. So what do we need to learn today? Our takeaway is this. Jesus is the only light that can drive away the darkness that surrounds us.  Let’s read John 9:1-7 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor h