Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles (Rosemead, CA)

Why Some Are Born with

Special Needs John 9:1-3

If you had a choice…

But what if you didn’t have a choice?

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

intellectually disabiled

EpilepticDelayed

DOWN’S CANCERautistic

Blinddeaf

CRIPPLED

Palsy

Two Questions Quickly Come to Mind

Why? How?

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)

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.”

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)

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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