1. If you don’t walk as most people do, Some people walk away from you, But I won’t! I won’t!
If you don’t talk as most people do, Some people talk and laugh at you, But I won’t! I won’t!
I’ll walk with you. I’ll talk with you. That’s how I’ll show my love for you.
Jesus walked away from none. He gave his love to ev’ryone. So I will! I will!
Jesus blessed all he could see, Then turned and said, “Come, follow me.” And I will! I will!
I will! I will! I’ll walk with you. I’ll talk with you. That’s how I’ll show my love for you.
Words: Carol Lynn Pearson, b © 1987 IRI Music: Reid N. Nibley, b © 1987 IRI
I’ll Walk With You
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2. I need a volunteer! I need someone to draw one part of this picture.
Don’t draw all of it. Just one part...
Before you draw, you’ll need to put this blindfold on.
I need someone else to draw another part of the picture.

3. How did not being able to see make it hard to draw the picture?
How would you feel if you could never see again?

4. In our lesson today, we are going to talk about two kinds of blindness.
Listen for the different kinds of blindness while we read the scripture story.

5. Jesus Christ Heals a Man Born Blind
“Lesson 18: Jesus Christ Heals a Man Born Blind,” Primary 7: New Testament, 60

6. One day Jesus was walking with His disciples.
They saw a man who had been born blind.
The disciples asked if the man was blind because he had sinned or because his parents had sinned.

7. The Savior said that neither the parents nor the man had sinned.
The man was blind so that Jesus could heal him and show people God’s power.

8. Jesus made clay out of the dirt. He put it on the blind man’s eyes.
Jesus told the man to go wash his eyes.

9. As soon as the man washed the clay from his eyes, he could see!
When his neighbors saw him, they were not sure who he was.
He told them that Jesus had healed him.

10. The neighbors took the man to the Pharisees.
The man told the Pharisees that Jesus had healed him.
Some of the Pharisees thought Jesus must be a righteous man.

11. Others thought He was a sinner.
When the man said Jesus was a righteous person, some of the Pharisees were angry and threw the man out.

12. Jesus found the man. He asked the man if he believed in the Son of God.
The man asked who the Son of God was.
Jesus said that He was the Son of God, and the man worshipped Him.

13. Discussion Time!

14. What did the disciples ask Jesus about the man who had been born blind?
Let’s read John 9:2
Why might people sometimes think that sickness and adversity come because someone has sinned?

15. What did Jesus say was the reason for the man’s blindness?
Let’s read John 9:3

16. When the Pharisees first asked the man who was born blind what had happened, how did he refer to Jesus?
Let’s read John 9:11

17. The second time they asked the man, who did he say Jesus was?
Let’s read John 9:17
What was happening to the man’s spiritual as well as physical sight?

18. What did the man say when he was asked a third time about Jesus?
Let’s read John 9:30–33
What happened to the man because he testified of Jesus?
Let’s read John 9:22, 34

19. When Jesus heard that the man was cast out of the synagogue (a Jewish religious meetinghouse), what did he do?
Let’s read John 9:35
How do you think the man felt when Jesus came looking for him?

20. What was the man’s final testimony of Jesus?
Let’s read John 9:35–38
What had happened to his spiritual sight?

21. Why do you think Heavenly Father and Jesus allow us to have trials and problems in our lives?
How might these trials and problems help cure our spiritual blindness?
How might Heavenly Father and Jesus help us with our trials and problems?

22. President Spencer W. Kimball said:
“Should all prayers be immediately answered …
there would be little or no suffering, sorrow, disappointment, or even death, and if these were not, there would also be no joy, success, resurrection, nor eternal life and godhood” (Faith Precedes the Miracle, p. 97).
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23. How have you and your family been blessed in trials?

24. I’m going to divide the class into groups.
Each group will have a scripture to read.
Talk within your groups and then report to the class how the person or people in the scripture dealt with their trials.
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25. Do you know anyone with a disability?
What are ways we can be kind to those who have disabilities?
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26. We do not make fun of people with disabilities or tease them.
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27. We can help them if they need help.
We can invite them to play with us.
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28. We can be their friend.
We should include them and allow them to participate with us in our activities.
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29. I bear my testimony that the Lord will bless us and help us with our problems and trials if we obey His commandments, have faith in Jesus Christ, and try to be more like Him.

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