“If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.” Therefore, your sin remains.”
According to Jesus, the sins of these people in John 9 remained unforgiven and alienated from God, because they said the wrong thing! They said they saw, but they didn’t. Their words condemned them.
I am basically a verse-by-verse teacher of the Bible. I’ve preached virtually through every book of the Bible like that. But I love to do doctrinal studies as I am going. That’s where I dive deep into one verse or topic in the book I’m teaching through and speak on a topic in a passage. It takes four or five skips through the water for the rock to finally sink into the pond. Doctrinal teaching is sinking down deep into the waters of Scripture. I once watched a hawk dive down into a lake trying to catch a fish. It took him seven tries before he came up with lunch. We are going to be like the hawk in our study of the power of the spoken word, our spoken words. We are going to dive and dive until we get something we can really chew on, some meat for the mature.
It took Donald Grey Barnhouse eleven years to preach through the book of Romans on the radio. Eleven years! He would take a verse and like putting the pyramid of the rest of Scripture on top of it, he would pour the rest of the Bible into that verse. I don’t think I’m going to take 11 years to teach through the book of John, but I’m well on my way to taking a very long time. This is my 45th chapter in it.
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