Special Needs Focus John 9:1-3

1. Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles (Rosemead, CA)
Why Some Are Born with
Special Needs John 9:1-3

2. If you had a choice…

3. But what if you didn’t have a choice?

4. What if the child God gave you was born with
special needs?

6. intellectually
disabiled
EpilepticDelayed
DOWN’S CANCER
autistic
Blinddeaf
CRIPPLED
Palsy

7. Two Questions Quickly Come to Mind
Why? How?

8. Why? What’s the reason this happened?
John 9:1-2 Walking down the street,
Jesus saw a man blind from birth.
His disciples asked, “Rabbi, who
sinned: this man or his parents,
causing him to be born blind?”
3 Jesus said, “You’re asking the
wrong question. You’re looking for
someone to blame. There is no such
cause-effect here. Look instead for
what God can do.” (MSG)

9. Why Does Our Child Have Special Needs?
Who Sinned?
Adam and Eve.
JOHN 16:33 “I have told you all this
so that you may have peace in me.
Here on earth you will have many
trials and sorrows. But take heart,
because I have overcome the world.”

10. Not Cause-Effect but Reality-Response
John 9:1-2 Walking down the street,
Jesus saw a man blind from birth.
His disciples asked, “Rabbi, who
sinned: this man or his parents,
causing him to be born blind?”
3 Jesus said, “You’re asking the
wrong question. You’re looking for
someone to blame. There is no such
cause-effect here. Look instead for
what God can do.” (MSG)

11. We are never alone.
God is for us and with us.
2COR 4:16 Therefore we do not
lose heart. Though outwardly we
are wasting away, yet inwardly
we are being renewed day by day.
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