<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-775-150 Now, those who believed the Word, they knowed that the very things that Jesus was doing and the things was of His life, they knew Who He was. So they couldn't put nothing blight on Him, because they couldn't see it. And you know, love is blind anyhow to them things; love covers up a multitude of sin, you know. Perfect love casts out fear, and sin, all discord; love does.
Now, this blind man was setting there, and Jesus and His disciples come by, and I think Jesus gave them a little lesson here. When they seen this poor, blind man, they thought, "Well, now surely, there's a sin behind that somewhere." When we see something happen to a man, we always say, "Well, he sinned; he got out of the will of the Lord somewhere." When Brother Crase hit the post, he got out of the will of the Lord somewhere in somebody's idea. When the gun blowed up on me, "Well, he was out of the will of the Lord." Brother Neville hit the car, "He was out of the will of the Lord." That's not exactly right. No, sir, it isn't. God permits those things.

L-776-152 Jesus turned around and taught them a lesson. They said, "His father must've sinned, or--or did his mother sin, or did he sin?"
Jesus said, "Neither of them sinned, but that the works of God might be made manifest." Amen. See? God lets things happen just to, for the works of God to be made manifest.
Now, and so He said, told the man and give him his sight, and He went His way. And here come the Pharisees up when that was rumored around. Here was a man was blind, setting out there begging, and here he could see. And then the rumor around among them, and oh, my, that stirred up something. And here they come up there, and they seen that the blind man could see. And first, they went, wanted to find some way to put a fear upon all the people, 'cause they had already said, "If anybody goes after this new doctrine and this new prophet called Jesus of Nazareth, immediately they'll be handed their paper and fellowship from the church. They cannot go to the synagogue no longer. If you associate with him, attend one of his meetings or anything, you can't go no more."

L-776-154 So they wanted to make a big display out of it, because they hated Him. They wasn't thinking of that poor blind man, but they wanted to make a big display to make the people keep away from Him.
They said they wanted to ask his father and mother, so they went and got the father and mother. They said, "Is this your son?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
"Was he born blind?"
"Yes, sir."
"And what means does he see?"
And the father and mother was afraid, the Bible said, 'cause they knowed they'd be put out of the synagogue if they admitted that it was... You see, there He was taken down. They said, "Now, we know this is our son."


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