Go wash — and come back seeing.
Pastor Roy Jones preached Sunday morning from John 8:59–9:11 — his topic, in his own words: obey Jesus and see your blessing.
The service opened with a prophetic song — "it's gonna be real good, I can see it" — and Pastor Jones took the room back to Genesis: when God finished creating the heavens and the earth, He stepped back, looked at everything He had made, and said it was good. God didn't make a mess; what we're facing in this world isn't what God made, but what we introduced when we left His presence. The church has been walking through the book of John verse by verse, and John, he said, doesn't just show us the humanity of Jesus — he shows us His divinity: the Word made flesh, from heavenly descent, who came so we could have forgiveness of sin and be reconciled back to the Father. Picking up at the 59th verse of chapter 8 and reading through the 11th verse of chapter 9, he preached the man born blind — and the God who has requirements: faith and obedience.
59Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 8:59 (NKJV)
1Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
2And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
4I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.
5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
John 9:1–5 (NKJV)
6When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
7And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
8Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”
9Some said, “This is he.” Others said, “He is like him.” He said, “I am he.”
10Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11He answered and said, “A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.”
John 9:6–11 (NKJV)
1“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
2And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:
Deuteronomy 28:1–2 (NKJV) — read in the message
3“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
4“Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
5“Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7“The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
8“The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:3–8 (NKJV) — read in the message
9“The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
10Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.
11And the LORD will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
12The LORD will open to you His good treasure, His heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
13And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.
14So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy 28:9–14 (NKJV) — read in the message
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:31 (NKJV)
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:6 (NKJV)
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)
Pastor Roy Jones preached from John 8:59–9:11 — Jesus passing by, stopping for a man blind from birth, making clay, and sending him to wash in the pool of Siloam — with the topic: obey Jesus and see your blessing. The disciples asked who sinned; Jesus answered that no one did — the man's condition existed so the works of God could be revealed in him, a reminder that not every struggle is punishment, as Job's story proves. From Deuteronomy 28 the message is plain: God has requirements — hear His voice and obey it, and blessings will come upon you and overtake you; but our shortcut culture wants the harvest without the planting and the paycheck without the work. The blind man heard the command, followed it exactly, and came back seeing — and the promise stands: if you obey Jesus, you will see your blessing.
He opens with prophetic expectation — "it's gonna be real good" — then goes back to Genesis: everything God made was good, so whatever you're facing isn't what God made; it's what we introduced when we left His presence.
John's Gospel reveals Jesus' divinity — the Word made flesh, from heavenly descent, come to reconcile us to the Father; Jesus stops mid-journey for the blind man nobody else could change; Deuteronomy 28 lays out the if/then — diligently obey His voice and He sets you high, with blessings overtaking you; but we live in a shortcut culture that wants the blessing without the process.
Jesus gives the command — "Go, wash" — the man obeys without skipping steps and comes back seeing. Hear His voice, follow His instruction, stay with His plan, and you will see your blessing.
Sometimes your pain has kingdom purpose — not every struggle is punishment for sin.
"Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him." Look at Job: his friends were sure he'd done wrong, but his suffering was a setup for God's glory — and he kept praising through it (John 9:2–3).
Jesus always stops for the one in need — no matter what else is going on.
They'd just taken up stones to kill Him, and still, passing by, "He saw a man who was blind from birth." Whatever is happening in Jesus' life, He always stops to bless whoever stands in need of a blessing (John 8:59–9:1).
God didn't make a mess — what you're facing isn't what God made.
When God finished the heavens and the earth He stepped back and said everything was good. Whatever we're facing now is not what God made — it's what we introduced into the world when we left the presence of God (Genesis 1:31).
Obedience unlocks the blessing — and nobody's stopping it but you.
"If you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God... all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you." Nobody can stop your blessing but you — not the devil, not people, not the government. The holdup is the hearing and the doing (Deuteronomy 28:1–2).
The blessings will overtake you — city and country, basket and storehouse, head and not tail.
Blessed coming in and going out; enemies coming one way and fleeing seven; the LORD commanding the blessing on everything you set your hand to — but every line of it hangs on the if: "if you heed the commandments" (Deuteronomy 28:3–14).
Jesus gives the command; you follow it — the man went, washed, and came back seeing.
"Go, wash in the pool of Siloam." He didn't debate it, shortcut it, or skip steps — he went and washed, and came back seeing. Your obedience releases what your praying has been waiting for (John 9:6–7, 11).
Let God be first — hear His voice over every other voice.
"I am the way, the truth, and the life." When it's time to position yourself for the Lord, let the world be the world and let God be God — hear Him above your phone, your people, and your pastor (John 14:6).
It's gonna be real good. I can see it.
If you obey Jesus, you will see your blessing.
Nobody be stopping your blessing, but you.
It's about obedience.
You gotta let God be first.
The man born blind. He spent his whole life in darkness — begging, needing other people for everything. The church didn't change him. The religious leaders didn't change him. The handouts outside the synagogue didn't change him. Then one day Jesus stopped, made clay, anointed his eyes, and said, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam." He went, he washed, and he came back seeing. One encounter with Jesus did what a lifetime couldn't.
Job. He lost everything he had, and his friends showed up with the standard explanation: surely you've done wrong, surely you've sinned. But Job's suffering wasn't punishment — it was a setup. Satan said take everything and he'll curse you; God said do what you want, but you can't touch his soul — and Job kept praising. Sometimes what you're going through isn't about what you did; it's about what God is about to get glory for.
Study — Read John 9:1–7. In plain terms, what did Jesus do for the blind man, step by step?
Observe — The disciples assumed somebody had sinned. What do you tend to assume about people who are suffering — and what does Jesus' answer do to that assumption?
Interpret — Why did Jesus make clay and send the man to wash in Siloam instead of healing him on the spot?
Live — What is one instruction from God you've been shortcutting — and what would full obedience look like this week?
1. What would it cost someone in this room to fully obey this?
2. Where is the gap between what I believe and how I'm living?
3. Pastor Jones said nobody is stopping your blessing but you — where are you asking God to move while ignoring what He already told you to do?
Write down the one instruction from God you've been shortcutting, and obey it fully this week — no skipped steps — before you ask Him for anything new.
Father, we thank You for Jesus — the way, the truth, and the life — who stops for us in our need, no matter what's going on.
Give us ears to hear Your voice above every other voice, and the faith to obey what You say, even when the process is longer than we want. We put You first, we stay with Your plan, and we trust that as we obey, our blessings will overtake us.
Open our eyes like the blind man at Siloam — let us go, wash, and come back seeing. In Jesus' name, amen.