Why Jesus Says Your Situation is Not a Dead End, But a Display of Glory

The disciples stopped and they asked the Lord Jesus and said whose sin was it for this man to be born blind? Was it his sin or his parents for him to be born in this way? The Lord said it is neither his nor his parents but this man has been placed here today for the glory of God. This man has been placed here today for the glory of God. If it was to do with sin then the disciples question was made wrongly because there is no need as far as humanity is concerned to ask whose sin was it his or his parents because all humanities have fallen into sin.

Therefore this blind man is the representation of the entire human race. This is the nature, this is the fallen nature of the human race. All of us are this blind man.

All of us are born blind and sin is talking about blindness which is to do with the eye. Biblically speaking the eye represents knowledge. Wherever you see in the Holy Bible the word eye being mentioned replaced that word with the word of knowledge.

So what was the Lord trying to convey here? What profound message is he trying to send across to all of us? The Lord says or is saying this very moment there is one kind of knowledge that leads you to blindness but there is another kind of knowledge that leads you to enlightenment. There is one kind of knowledge that leads you to absolute death and there is another kind of knowledge that will lead you to eternal life. Since the fall of humanity, since we walked away from the true divine God, every knowledge we've gained led us to being spiritually blind.

With all the knowledge of the world put together it can only take you to the ultimate achievement and that is the tangible realm. With all the knowledge of the world put together it can only lead you to the ultimate achievement which is the tangible realm which we live in. And what is the knowledge of the tangible realm? To find out what is good and what is evil.

And the ultimate level of this tangible realms knowledge is to do with the intellect. You may have heard us say this before. You know we say so many words during the day in our normal daily dialect with people we meet, with people we know, yet we don't pay attention sometimes to the words we say.

A good example of this, the word understand. How often do we use this word? I believe a lot, especially when we want to be stubborn about something. I understand, okay? You don't need to tell me nothing.

If I get off my case, I understand. You don't teach me. I was just born naturally taught.

The word understand is a compounded word. Two words in one. Under the stand.

That's what it means. Literally it's under the stand. When we say I understand, I'm really saying to myself I can only get, I can only comprehend, I can only fathom what is under the stand of my intellectual level.

Anything above the stand, I'll say oh, I don't know, doesn't make sense. All of a sudden the greatest scientist of all, the greatest physicist and biologist and all those experts in the scientific field, they will come up with this genius word. It's a phenomena.

Supernatural. There is no explanation for it. Well there is no explanation for it as far as your head is concerned, but there is explanation for it when you go above the stand, my dear friend, because all your intellect can fathom is under the stand which is this realm.

You cannot surpass that because God put that limit. Not you, not the Big Bang, and not your uncle the gorilla in Toronga Zoo, but when we come to the divine God, God will always operate above the stand. God will never operate under the stand because everything that is under the stand is within the human grasp, and as long as you and I can do it, God will never interfere.

The only time God will interfere is when it is impossible for humanity to do, then God will come in, and that is above the stand. Supernatural. A phenomena.

Now in chapter 9 of John the Beloved, the Lord Jesus meets this blind man born blind, and this is the spiritual blindness because the eye is the lamp of the body, the Lord Jesus says, and the eye represents the light, and that light is knowledge because we get enlightened when we receive knowledge, and through knowledge we begin to understand. Did you get that one? Understand. When you read in the book of Proverbs, which teaches you wisdom, earthly wisdom, one of the books of King Solomon, there is Proverbs, there is Ecclesiastes, and there is Song of Solomon.

These are referred to you to King Solomon. When you read in the book of Proverbs, you will find three words always mentioned together. Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom.

Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom. They're cousins. They walk together.

What is knowledge? Information. What is understanding? Comprehension. What is wisdom? Application.

Knowledge? Information. Understanding? Comprehension. Wisdom? Application.

The very first thing you receive is information. When somebody says something, when you read something, when you listen to something, what you're gaining, information. The information is the very first level.

What you need to do in order to understand the information, you need to start searching, researching, studying, following through, going deeper and deeper, to come to this level where you begin to comprehend what you heard. Because hearing only and stopping at that level will do you no good. In the simple English language, it goes through this ear, out the other.

That is information. Oh, I came to church and it was a nice sermon, but it wasn't for me. The guy was doing great, that good old-looking bishop.

That is information. Through this ear, out the other. What have you achieved? Nothing.

What have you gained? Nothing. What changed in you? Nothing. How many years have you been going to church? How come you haven't changed? Is it God who has changed? Never.

I have, not God. I chose to stop at the level of information, knowledge. But if you want to go a step further, then work hard to begin to comprehend the information you received.

When you begin to comprehend what you've received as information, then there is only one last step to make it happen. You need to apply what you comprehended. So if I receive information, knowledge, and then I understand, comprehend this knowledge and stop at that, it will do me no good.

But I need, once I understood what I heard, I need to apply it in order for the change to happen in my life. Application is wisdom. I'll tell you someone who has information, who has comprehension, but no application.

With all love and respect, I don't mean it just, always doctors pop up when I talk. A smoking doctor. You see the doctor studied for years.

I love you doctors. I love you man. I've got my sweetheart doctor here.

The doctor studied for years and I know it's very hard. It's a lot of hard work. So I've studied for years.

I came to know how the body functions, what is beneficial, what is not. And then I fathomed all that information. I began to understand and comprehend it all.

And then I knew through understanding the information, smoking is not good for my body. But knowing that I still smoke, I didn't apply what I learned, what I fathomed, what I comprehended. No good.

Starts coughing after a little while. Cough it out baby. This world gives you information.

Now please, I need your attention. This world gives you information and if there has been ever a time where information exploded, it has been nothing but the 21st century. Knowledge has exploded.

Technology advancement in every field, unheard of, hasn't been seen in the history of mankind, what humanity is achieving today. They're modifying viruses. Gain of function.

In the Wuhan laboratory, Mr. Cheng Hai. They are able to manipulate this virus and modify it to make it a weapon of war against humanity and call it pandemic to bring lockdowns and venomous jabs into people's arms. Knowledge.

Understanding the knowledge. But that knowledge is godless. The knowledge is godless.

Wisdom is missing. Wisdom is missing. With knowledge you gain love but with wisdom is the only way to protect that love.

Otherwise you lose it. The human race of the 21st century's problem is wisdom application. What leads a human to be spiritually blind? Sin.

And what is sin? Doing something that God is not pleased with. That God disapproves of. That is against his will, against his wish, against his being.

When we do things that are against God, we are gaining knowledge that will lead us to spiritual blindness. And when we are living in absolute blindness, we can never tell our right hand from our left. We'll begin to call light darkness and darkness light and this is what's happening exactly in our time and age.

So all the knowledge, all the comprehension of that knowledge led humanity to be geniuses, talking, enforcing, embedding the word human rights. It's all about human rights and the Western world is doing a great job with that. But look at this knowledge that humanity has gained.

I heard this story, I'm not sure, I think there's some people say it's true. So all this knowledge and all this understanding that it's all about human rights, human rights, not God's rights. Look where this knowledge led.

Someone in Japan decided to be a dog. Finally his wish was fulfilled. Congratulations.

I don't mind having that dog for a moment. So is this the geniuses of the human race? Is this the human rights that you've been seeking? Is this the knowledge that you've been boastful of? Look at us, what we are capable of doing, what we are capable of achieving. Look at us in the medical field, in the scientific field, in every field, in the military field.

Look at us, look at our achievements, geniuses, geniuses. From a human you turned into an animal. Why? Because any knowledge that is outside of God's is blindness, but not a physical, no, it's a spiritual blindness.