Episode 25: Do You Still Not See?

What would it be like to be led by the hand to a place you cannot see, by someone you have only heard about?

In Mark 8:22-26, a blind man in Bethsaida takes that risk, and Jesus meets him with remarkable tenderness. He takes him by the hand, leads him out of the village, and heals him in the only two-stage miracle in the Gospels. First the man sees people "like trees walking," then a second touch makes everything clear. Pastor Steven walks through his sermon "Do You Still Not See?" and shows why Mark places this story between the disciples' confusion in the boat and Peter's confession, making the gradual healing a picture of how spiritual sight often comes by process rather than in an instant.

The conversation turns personal from there: slowly learning to believe you really are forgiven, extending the gospel to people who seem beyond it, and how gradual sanctification should shape our patience with one another in marriage, family, and church life. Whether your conversion was sudden or something you can't pinpoint, every step of coming to see clearly is a miracle.