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- 1As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind
from birth. 2“Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was
this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’
sins?”
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- 18‘The LORD is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love,
forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But he does not excuse the
guilty. He lays the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire
family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations.’
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- Sin leads to pain and destruction, but God offers forgiveness.
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- Sin leads to pain and destruction, but God offers forgiveness.
- If we keep on sinning we will cause pain and destruction for ourselves
and those around us.
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- Sin leads to pain and destruction, but God offers forgiveness.
- If we keep on sinning we will cause pain and destruction for ourselves
and those around us.
- There are generational effects of sin.
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- 1As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind
from birth. 2“Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was
this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’
sins?”
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- 3“It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins. This happened so the power of God
could be seen in him . . . 5While I am here in the
world, I am the light of the world.”
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- 6Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and
spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes. 7He told
him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means
“sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!
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- 8His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar
asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 9Some
said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”
- But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”
- 10They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”
- 11He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread
it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash
yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”
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- I don’t know whether he is a sinner, but I know this:
- I was blind, and now I can see!
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- Text the word "HAITI"
to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross.
- Text the word "YELE" to 501501 to donate $5 to the Yele Haiti
foundation.
- Donate online to CBF relief efforts at www.thefellowship.info/give.
- Donate online to World Vision relief efforts at www.worldvision.org.
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