In the book of John there are seven miracles of Jesus that John calls “signs”. These are miracles that point to Jesus’ identity as the Messiah and reveal His glory as the Son of God. We are going to spend the next seven weeks going through these “signs” one by one to see Jesus more clearly. Too often when we read Scripture we read it for ourselves. We search it to see how we fit, to find the answers to our questions and the road to our destiny, but Scripture was not written so we could see ourselves more clearly it was written to reveal Jesus, to show Him in all of His glory and power and so that we could decrease by increasing in our vision of Him.
Our sixth message in the series comes from John 9:1-12 and is the sign of Jesus healing a man born blind. In this message we focus much of our attention on the disciples question, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” and Jesus’ response, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.” I believe that this sign reveals much to us about the sovereignty of God through which we see His knowledge, His glory and His love. In our discussion we don’t attempt to define sovereignty nearly as much as we long to recognize it, it is one of the infinite truths of God that may be beyond our full comprehension but not beyond our faith. I pray that this message will allow each of us to look beyond demanding to the know the cause of each of our difficulties and to willingly let God show us the purpose for which He will use the difficulties. I pray that we will learn to trust His sovereignty even in the midst of our suffering.