Seeing Jesus Clearly (23 of 48)
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 8:22-33
Blindness is one of those things, we just can't imagine, those of us who can see, it baffles us as to what that would be like. Americans were asked a number of years ago, which one of the five senses would they most not want to be without for the rest of their lives. And unequivocally, by far, a landslide, it was sight. People do not want to be blind. It's terrifying just the thought of it.
There's a guy by the name of Turley Richards, an old songwriter and musician, born blind, and he had his own music business that he ran out of his home, mostly over the phone. And Turley said he would have people call two, three, four, five, six times sometimes, and he would talk to them on a regular basis until they would find out, somehow, that he's blind. And they would almost always say, ''Funny, you don't sound blind.'' And Turley would always respond the same way, ''Funny, you don't sound stupid.''
Blindness baffles those of us who have sight. It's a frightening thought. And yet, in the bible, we find that there are seven people that we have that we know of, in the Gospels, healed of their blindness. What we're going to see here in a moment is that Jesus almost always deals with each one differently. This one that we have today has a twist in the testimony like no other. Every other miracle in the bible, when Jesus says the word or Jesus puts His hands on, whenever the miracle takes place, it happens immediately and perfectly. And so the positive results happen immediately and perfectly, except this one.
We're going to see where Jesus puts His hands on the guy and says, ''Hey, can you see anything?'' What a weird question. And the guy says, ''I see men like trees.'' Another weird response. This is the only place where Jesus then takes and puts His hands on him, and it takes two touches to get him healed. This is the only place. This has caused, as you can imagine, over the c ...
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 8:22-33
Blindness is one of those things, we just can't imagine, those of us who can see, it baffles us as to what that would be like. Americans were asked a number of years ago, which one of the five senses would they most not want to be without for the rest of their lives. And unequivocally, by far, a landslide, it was sight. People do not want to be blind. It's terrifying just the thought of it.
There's a guy by the name of Turley Richards, an old songwriter and musician, born blind, and he had his own music business that he ran out of his home, mostly over the phone. And Turley said he would have people call two, three, four, five, six times sometimes, and he would talk to them on a regular basis until they would find out, somehow, that he's blind. And they would almost always say, ''Funny, you don't sound blind.'' And Turley would always respond the same way, ''Funny, you don't sound stupid.''
Blindness baffles those of us who have sight. It's a frightening thought. And yet, in the bible, we find that there are seven people that we have that we know of, in the Gospels, healed of their blindness. What we're going to see here in a moment is that Jesus almost always deals with each one differently. This one that we have today has a twist in the testimony like no other. Every other miracle in the bible, when Jesus says the word or Jesus puts His hands on, whenever the miracle takes place, it happens immediately and perfectly. And so the positive results happen immediately and perfectly, except this one.
We're going to see where Jesus puts His hands on the guy and says, ''Hey, can you see anything?'' What a weird question. And the guy says, ''I see men like trees.'' Another weird response. This is the only place where Jesus then takes and puts His hands on him, and it takes two touches to get him healed. This is the only place. This has caused, as you can imagine, over the c ...
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