Salvation is when we go from Sightlessness to Seeing Christ
John 9:35-41
One element of Johnās writing style in Revelation is his usage of sevens. There are seven stars, seven lampstands, seven churches, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls, and seven angels. Beyond these seven named groups of sevens are many other sevens. There are seven beatitudes, seven spirits, seven mountains, seven lamps, seven horns, seven eyes, seven heads, seven crowns, seven thunders, seven kings, and seven last plagues.
Fifty-four sevens are noted by John in the book of Revelation. John observes and records for us that God is into sevens, or heptads. But it isnāt only in Revelation that God uses sevens, this morning, we find that the way to eternal life has seven intentional markers along the way. As we open to John 20, let me show you this amazing chain of truths about salvation.
The Gospel by John has seven titles of Christ in chapter one, and seven very precious and powerful I am declarations of Christ. But God especially draws our attention to one string of seven elements in this Gospel with a closing statement about how God designed this fourth and final Gospel.
In John 20:31 we read that of the many things that Jesus did, the chosen events were signs. The signs are labeled in the preceding chapters, there are seven of them leading up to the Crucifixion.
These seven signs are all about salvation and having life in Christ. Our passage we will study today contains one of the signs, and introduces us to this amazing
In the story surrounding Christās birth we find lost and helpless sinners described as sitting in the dark, and blind in Luke 1.
In Isaiah one of the most beautiful promises of salvation is that our eyes will see our King in His beauty.
Brand & Yancey describe the power of our human eyesight. A single candleās photons on a hill ten miles away, can strike our retina and spark a brain wave of recognitions. Sight is amazing and very powerful among our senses.