Through Blind Eyes | Power Confronted

John 9:24-34

Lent 4

March 15, 2026

Rev. Teer Hardy

The healed man tells the truth, and he is cast out. Christ tells the truth, and he is nailed to a tree. But here is the strange and dangerous thing about the gospel. The powers never seem to realize what they have done. Because the cross reveals something the powers of the world will never understand, the grace of God does not stop when it is rejected, and Truth does not die when it is crucified.

God raises the Crucified One from the dead. Which means the powers are not nearly as powerful as they think they are. And it means the Word Made Flesh continues to walk through the world. In the lives he has changed. In the witness of those who now see clearly. In the church that refuses to pretend that blindness is sight.

Church, as Christ’s body, we cannot spend our lives protecting institutions while ignoring mercy. We cannot flatter the powers of this world while the vulnerable are crushed. We cannot pretend not to see. Healed people cannot pretend not to see.

The powers nailed Jesus to a tree to keep the world the way it was. God raised him from the dead to make the world the way it will be.

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