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John chapter 9 · Scripture Unscripted

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John Chapter 9 let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you.
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God, we thank you for who you are.
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We thank you that you are our everything.
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We thank you that you are high lifted up above all of our
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circumstances over the universe. God, you are the only uncreated
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God. You are all powerful and all
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knowing. God, you are ever present and
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all around us. Lord, I thank you for the cross.
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Lord, I thank you for the shed blood of our Lord, I thank you
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for the cleansing of our sins. God, I thank you that we can be
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made whole and that we can be holy because you are holy.
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And God, I pray that you will continue to fill us and help us
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to love you, to love you fully, God, and to be known by you.
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Father, I pray that you will help us to be your hands and
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feet, Lord, and help us to put our hand to the plow and go out
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into the harvest. Lord, help us not to sit on our
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blessed assurance. God, I pray that you'll fuel us
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for the journey, Lord, that we will be found as laid down
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lovers of you God, worshiping you in spirit and truth.
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Lord, we are sold out to you or we're not hiding, Lord,
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anything. We do not hold on to anything,
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Father, but all that we have we hold loosely, Lord, ready in a
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moment's notice to sell everything, to give to the poor,
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and to come and follow you. God, we just want to be found
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with you. Wherever you are is where we
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want to be. God, we love you so much and we
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thank you for salvation and we thank you for your Holy
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scriptures. We thank you for the indwelling
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of the Holy Spirit, Lord, to help us, Lord, and to be our
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advocate God and to fill us and give us the mind of Christ.
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Lord, we thank you for the down payment, God of eternity.
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We thank you that we know that we know that we're going to be
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there with you God and Lord, you are preparing a place for us.
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We thank you for all the many truths that we find in this
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book. We thank you for all of the
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promises that you have given us in your scriptures.
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And Lord, we just get out of the way and we give you center
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stage. God, we get out of the way and
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we give you the whole room. God, we get out of the way and
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we give you the driver's seat. God, we get out of the way.
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God, we give you the keys to all of our files, Lord, all of our
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passcodes. God, you are our everything and
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you see everything and you know everything.
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And so, God, we are not hidden and we just open up and we
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reveal all of our inner motives and all of our inner thoughts.
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God to you and we know that you're going to work everything
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out for our good. We love you, King Jesus, we
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thank you. God, heal us, heal our broken
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bodies. God, give us a sound mind in the
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name of Jesus. I pray that you'll restore
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marriages and restore relationships and help us not to
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live in the fear of man. Help us not to live in our
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infirmities. God, help us not to be
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identified with all of our past trauma.
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God, I pray that we can rise God high and above all of our
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circumstances and emotions and feelings, God, and we can walk
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in the truth God and walk in the light God, as you are in the
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light and you are truth. King Jesus, we grab a hold of
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the hem of your garment today and we receive our healing God
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and we love you. We love you so much, King Jesus,
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and it's in your holy and precious name that I pray.
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Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his
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birth. So we know here that Jesus is
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not afraid of all of the synagogue rulers.
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He's not afraid of all of the Pharisees and the religious
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leaders. Jesus was threatened to be
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stoned in the last chapter. And then here he is.
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He goes right back out to his Father's business.
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Let's see how this most wonderful story from the Word of
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God plays out. Verse 2.
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His disciples asked him saying, Master, who did sin, this man or
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his parents, that he was born blind?
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Think about it friends, this man was born blind.
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He did not become blind. So how is it that his disciples
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would ask if he had sinned? Even though he was born blind,
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how could he have sinned before he was born?
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And so they erred by trying to place this man's infirmity, this
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man's disability upon sinful behavior.
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And the only sin that we can trace any of this back to is
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Adam and Eve in the garden in the fall of mankind, when sin
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entered into the world through the disobedience of the first
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Adam. But praise God, Hallelujah for
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the second Adam who comes and who makes every wrong thing
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right and restores the sight to the blind.
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And haven't, hasn't your blindness been restored?
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And that is the whole theme of the whole matter here friends,
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that we need to attach ourselves as we move in this chapter.
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We need to know that we were once born blind and we needed
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the scales to fall off. We needed Jesus touch.
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We needed him to open our eyes up so we can see the
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spirituality all around us in the reality.
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Friends of the truth that there is a whole entire world all
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around us, and that if they do not receive the Lord Jesus
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Christ as their Savior, they will die in their blindness and
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they will be eternally separated from Him.
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We desperately need to get the word out, friends.
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We desperately need to help people to lose the blindness and
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to gain their sight. And we can see here that Jesus's
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heart is to restore our sight. Friends, we desperately need it.
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Verse 3 Jesus answered neither has this man sin nor his
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parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in
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him. So Jesus here is saying that
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he's going to use this moment to glorify God.
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And we would do well to model after our Lord Jesus Christ in
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the sense that every single time you see something wrong in the
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world, it is an opportunity for us to step in as the conduit, as
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the go between the spiritual realm and the reality of the
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situation. We as being attached to the Lord
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Jesus Christ, we have all power and all authority available to
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us. Friends, you know, there is no
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cessation of the miracles there. The miracles are still being
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performed today. God is still doing miracles.
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And so we need to know that we can call upon the name of the
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Lord Jesus Christ, which is the only power in the whole world
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that has any power. And it is the name that is above
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all names, friends. And it is the name of Jesus
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Christ that brings about the healing.
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And we should always assume that God wants to heal and hear Jesus
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is modeling that for us. He's showing us what it is that
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the Father desires. He says he wants to bring glory
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unto God Almighty. Verse 4 I must work the works of
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him that sent me while it is day.
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The night comes when no man can work.
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So here's the reality, friends, the Holy Spirit is working
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mightily on the earth right now, in this day, in this hour, at
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this time, friends, in our time, such a time as this.
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The Holy Spirit is here. The Holy Spirit is moving
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mightily, but there is coming a time and there's coming a day
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when the church will be taken up and will be taken out and it
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will be night time. There will be 7 years of hell on
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earth unlike anything that this earth has ever experienced since
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the beginning of creation. Friends.
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It will be unlike anything that this world has ever known, the
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destruction that is going to come upon it.
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And if God had not cut those days short, no one would
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survive. And we must know that this night
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time that is going to fall, it is going to be where no one can
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work because there will be a beast system that is in place
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that will be monitoring all the activity of all the inhabitants
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of the entire earth. And God forbid, if you speak the
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name of Jesus Christ and set people free, you will be
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beheaded and you will be martyred and you will be
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persecuted in the highest degree.
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Jesus here references it. We must work while it still is
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daytime. Look up and see that the harvest
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is plentiful. Look up and see the harvest is
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ripe. Look up and see the harvest is
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ready. But the workers are few friends.
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You can see it. And we cannot leave the low
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hanging fruit on the vine or it will rot. 5:00 As long as I am
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in the world, I am the light of the world.
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So we can see here that Jesus calls us to be his light, and we
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cannot hide our lamp stand, We cannot hide our light, friends.
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We must set it up on the hill. We must set it up high, where
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all people who desire to be healed and to be made whole, and
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for the forgiveness and the remission of their sins to come
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into the light. Friends, in the light it reveals
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all of the darkness, and we must deal with it. 6 When he had thus
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spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle,
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and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
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So look here, friends, they're walking along.
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They see a blind man begging. The disciples ask a simple
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question that has an enigmatic connotation to it, where they
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were trying to just be theological.
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And look at how practical Jesus is.
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He just spits on the dust of the earth.
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And we were made out of this dust of the earth.
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And we will, we will return to the dust of the earth and look
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at how Jesus's spit as it enters into it and it is rubbed on his
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eyes. Look at how he asks him to be
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obedient, and that is the call. Friends, when Jesus speaks a
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word, no matter how enigmatic it is, if he speaks it, we must
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obey it, no matter how hard it is or no matter how it seems as
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nonsense, Friends, we must obey. And look at what this man does
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here. 7 And he said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam,
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which is interpreted, sent. So here we can see that this
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pool was Hezekiah's pool, and it was a conduit that flowed, and
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it would have been the same water that was poured out on the
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altar for the Feast of the Tabernacles.
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And here he's telling this man to go and to wash this clay that
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he has made, wash it off of his eyes.
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And this man who is blind must find his way to this pool as a
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blind man. He must go and find it, but he
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has to be obedient to receive this healing.
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And you can see that Jesus used a myriad of ways to heal.
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And we know that it was prophesied that when the Messiah
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came that He would restore the sight to the blind.
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And He does it not only in the spiritual sense, but here you
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can see Him performing it in the natural.
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He went his way therefore, and washed, and came sing.
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You know this is what happens when Jesus gets involved in the
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situation. You cannot stay blind, you
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cannot stay deaf, friends, you cannot stay dead.
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When Jesus enters the room, it's life and it's sight. 8 The
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neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him, that
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he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
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They all marveled because they knew that this man had been born
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blind, he had never seen before, and here he is walking about.
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What a sight, what a thought. Friends.
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Can you even imagine how all of this in the reality?
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This is real people, friends in the reality of someone who had
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been born blind and now you see them walking about looking about
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how miraculous this whole entire scene would have been to the
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neighbors into the neighborhood. 9 Some said this is he others
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said he is like him, but he said I am he imagine that they were
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divided. Some were trying to play it safe
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and not admit to what they're looking at.
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Others were bold and they said it is definitely him.
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And then here he comes and he confirms what they had thought,
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that he is in actuality the man who was born blind.
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Tan therefore said they unto him, How were your eyes opened?
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11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay,
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and anointed my eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of
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Siloam and wash. And I went and washed, and I
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received sight. So we must go to the pool of
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scent, and Jesus was sent for us.
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We must go to this wellspring of life that has no bottom friends,
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and it is only life. It is a fountain of life that is
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flowing both deep and wide. And we go, and we wash in it,
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and we receive our sight. 12 Then said they unto him, Where
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is he? He said, I know not.
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Look at how Jesus, He didn't do this so that everyone would
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focus upon him. He did it for this man, He did
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it for the compassion and he did it for the honoring of his
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Father and the glorification of his Father.
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And he knew that it all would play out the way that it did.
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But look how he's not self seeking in the sense that he
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wanted to make a big public spectacle.
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He did it and the man received a sight, and now we're going to
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see how it all plays out. 13 They brought to the Pharisees
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him that before was blind. 14 And it was the Sabbath day when
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Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
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Imagine that He could have did it the day before, and he could
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have did it the day after. But Jesus knew that by healing
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on the Sabbath that he was going to destroy all of their
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traditions and presuppositions of all of their laws on top of
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laws that they had orchestrated, and that they were making others
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twice the sons of hell that they were.
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And you can see here that Jesus, Jesus's desire is to break down
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all of these man made ideas and man made laws and to get them
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back to the basics, get them back to the truth that Jesus
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Christ came to set them free from the bondage of it all.
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That is the fact of the matter. Whom the sun sets free is free
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indeed, friends. And we are not bound by the law,
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but we are in grace, friends. And Jesus did not come to
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abolish it, but to fulfill it. And when we attach ourselves to
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him, we can have the righteousness of Christ, we can
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have the forgiveness of sins, and we do not have to work our
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way into heaven that we can know that we know that the blood of
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Jesus Christ is enough. 15 Then again, the Pharisees
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also asked him now how he had received his sight.
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He said unto them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I wash, and I
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do see. So this is simple.
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This is like a child being questioned by his parents.
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It's very childlike here. This is very elementary here,
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and they're going to go through a whole long line of discourse
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that is very childish. 16 Therefore, said some of the
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Pharisees, this man is not of God, because he keeps not the
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Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that
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is a Sinner do such miracles and such?
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And there was a division among the them.
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So you can see here that Jesus draws the line in the sand and
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he does the same today. There are many who believe on
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him and who are sold out bond servants of the Lord Jesus
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Christ. And there are many who refuse to
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love the truth. And they are deceived and
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delusional. And that is what you're going to
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see as the rest of this chapter plays out.
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You're going to see a group of men that are delusional.
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They're delusional in their approach.
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It's very simple. It is the simple gospel, and all
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they needed to do was turn from all of their hard heartedness
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and turn to the Saviour and receive their forgiveness.
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But they refused to love the truth, and they were so steeped
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in all of their greed and all of their power struggle that they
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refused to come honestly to the Saviour. 17 They say unto the
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blind man again, What do you say of him, that he has opened your
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eyes? And he said he's a prophet.
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So this is ridiculous that these religious learned folk would
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come to this commoner and ask, what do you say of him?
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And they had already made-up their minds.
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You're going to see as this chapter plays out, they had
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already made-up their minds that whoever called him the Christ
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would be excommunicated from the privileges of the temple and
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being taken care of. And you're going to see how this
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religious system was interplayed into the political system and
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the welfare system of that day. And they were afraid to lose
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their status and afraid to lose the privileges and afraid to
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lose the help that they would get from the religious leaders.
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So here they're coming to this man and they say, what do you
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say of them? And they were already hard
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hearted, they were already delusional, and they didn't care
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what he actually had to say. They just wanted to trap him.
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And he says he is a prophet. And if they would even admit
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that Jesus was a prophet, then it would excuse him from working
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on the Sabbath. But they would not even give
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into that notion. 18 But the Jews did not believe concerning
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him that he had been blind and received a sight until they
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called the parents of him that had received a sight.
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They did not want to believe that this miracle actually
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happened. They were delusional.
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And so they call the parents and they want to know what the
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parents have to say for themselves that this blind man
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is now seeing. How ridiculous is this whole
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scene? 19 And they asked them saying,
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is this your son who you say was born blind?
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How then does he now see? So they're saying, are Are you
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sure that this is him? He says that he's born blind.
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And what do you have to say for yourselves?
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How ridiculous is this whole scene?
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20 His parents answered them and said, we know that this is our
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son, that he was born blind. 21 and by, but by what means he now
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sees we know not, or who has opened his eyes we know not.
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He is of age. Ask him, he shall speak for
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himself. So you can see here that the
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parents were afraid of being excommunicated from the Temple.
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You can see here that they are relegating all responsibility to
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their son who is of age. And they did not want to be
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twisted in to this whole mess, because they were going to lose
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their status and privilege. 22 of these words spoke his parents
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because they feared the Jews, Jews.
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For the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that
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he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
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So there's that fear of man again.
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Friends, we've got to let go of the fear of man.
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We've got to trust that God's going to take care of us.
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And what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but he
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loses his soul? And what can man do to us?
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If God is forced, then who can be against us, friends?
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And do not fear the one that can kill the body, but the one that
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can kill the body and cast your soul into hell.
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Friends, that's who we fear. Fear God and watch everything
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else bow. But these parents here, they
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were afraid of the Jews. 23 Therefore said his parents, he
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is of age, ask him. 24 Then again called they the man that
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was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise.
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We know that this man is a Sinner, so they're just saying
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give Yahweh all of the praise for this miracle.
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Don't give any of it to Jesus. Let's see what this man has to
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say. 25 He answered and said, Whether he be a Sinner or not, I
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know not. But one thing I know is that
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whereas I was blind, now I see. Can you say that today friend?
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I pray that once you have received your sight that God
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makes you a minister and that God makes you a minister of
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reconciliation. I pray that once you receive
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your sight, you get your marching orders and you see that
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you are a missionary, boots on ground, you are a Co laborer
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with Christ, that you are his hands and feet.
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I pray that you have received your sight.
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I pray that you can see into the spiritual realm all around you,
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that there's a war that is waging all around us and we must
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put on the full armor of God and go out and do war against the
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enemy. We must not be found being
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sidelined. We must not be found being
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asleep. We need to wake up.
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O Sleeper, look up and see that your redemption is drawing near.
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Can you say that you were once blind, but now you can see?
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Can you see your brokenness? Can you see the sinfulness that
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you need desperately to get rid of?
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Has the Holy Spirit indwelled you and are you living on fire
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today? Not just halfway, but
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overflowing? I pray that that is your story.
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I pray that you can see 26 Then said they to him again.
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What did he to you? How did he open your eyes?
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Look at how it is ridiculous. It's like children, this back
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and forth discourse. They've already got all the
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answers that they need, but they refuse to accept them. 27 He
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answered them. I have told you already, you did
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not hear. Why would you want to hear it
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again? Will you also be his disciples
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year? This man gets to the crux of the
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whole situation. He's saying, I've already told
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you what it is that you have asked me.
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I've already made it as plain as possible.
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You've already talked to my parents.
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I've already told you multiple times who it was and what he
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did. And why are you asking again?
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Are you going to become his disciple too?
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And I believe that there was a part of them who desperately
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wanted to, but they could not, because they feared this fear of
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man must go. 28 Then they reviled him and said, You are
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his disciple, but we are Moses's disciples.
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And if they would have paid attention to the words of Moses,
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Moses spoke of Jesus Christ, Moses pointed them to Jesus
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Christ, and they were so steeped in their own legal traditions
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that they refused to love the truth.
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He is the truth. 29 We know that God spoke unto Moses, but As for
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this fellow, we know not from where he is from.
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So you can see here that this is a lie.
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They knew that Jesus was of Galilee, that Jesus was from
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Nazareth. They knew that his parents were
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Joseph and Mary. They were trying to deceive
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themselves at the base of the whole situation.
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They were being deceived. 30 The man answered and said unto them,
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Why herein is a marvelous thing, that you know not from where he
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is from, yet he has opened my eyes.
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So here this man is prodding and goading them.
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Here this man has already asked them, Are you going to be his
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disciples? And now he goes on to say, This
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is marvelous, that you are all so learned, and you miss it.
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You miss that God Almighty Incarnate is in your midst.
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You're missing the whole thing and here we need to know that it
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is a great privilege and we have a grave responsibility that we
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have churches that we can go and worship in.
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We have the Holy Scriptures that we have access to.
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We have the ability to worship Him and when we, when we choose
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not to and when we turn towards this world and the things of
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this world and we are so enamoured by beauty, we're so
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enamoured by money and greed, we miss the mark.
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And it is all around us. And all of creation tells us
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that God is real and that we need to be found worshipping
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Him. And it is marvelous whenever we
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have access to all of it and we choose not to spend time with
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him. 31 Now we know that God hears not sinners, but if any
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man be a worshipper of God and does his will, him he hears.
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So this is confirmation that Jesus Christ is not a sinful
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man. We know that Jesus Christ is
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God, and we know that God honored his prayers. 32 Since
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the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the
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eyes of one that was born blind? So here he's showing that Jesus
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was the 1st person in the history of mankind from the
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beginning of creation all the way up to this point.
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You do not find another story from Genesis to John where
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person was born blind that received their sight.
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What a miracle. And he's showing them that they
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are erring grievously, and that they are deceived, and that if
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they do not repent, and if they do not confess, and if they do
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not receive Jesus as their Lord, they will not be in communion
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with God Almighty for all of eternity.
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They will be banished to damnation. 33 If this man were
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not of God, he could do no thing. 34 They answered and said
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unto him, You were all together born in sins, and you try to
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teach us. And they cast him out.
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So this blind man became boldened in his faith, and he
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did not care. And he went ahead and told them
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what everyone else was thinking. He went ahead, and he was the
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voice unto them, telling them that they were hard hearted, and
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telling them that they were deceived, and telling them that
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they were delusional. 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him
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out, and when he had found him, he said unto him, Do you believe
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on the Son of God? 36 He answered and said, Who is
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he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
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So here Jesus is going to give him the opportunity to believe
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on Him, and that is the same opportunity that you were given
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today. His mercies are new every single
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day, friends, and you have another opportunity to come and
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believe on Him and receive your salvation.
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If you woke up this morning, God's not done with you and you
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can believe on Him today and you can be saved.
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And you notice here in verse 36 that this blind man calls him
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Lord. That is how we must come to him.
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We must come to him like the woman caught in the act of
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adultery. We must come to him like the
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thief on the cross. And we must acknowledge that he
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is salvation. His name is salvation. 37 And
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Jesus said unto him, You have both seen him, and it is he that
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talks with you. Have you seen him as he talked
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with you? Receive your salvation today,
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friends, do not give it another day.
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Do not wait. You might not get another
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chance. Receive salvation today. 38 And
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he said, Lord, I believe he worshipped him.
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That is our proper response when the Lord is in our midst, when
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the Lord is in the room, when the Lord comes walking in the
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train of his robe fills the temple, and he is high and
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lifted up. Our only response is worship in
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spirit and truth, and to believe on him, and to acknowledge his
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lordship over your life. 39 And Jesus said for judgment, I am
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coming to this world, that they which see might not see, and
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they which see might be made blind.
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So here he's saying that those who are puffed up and those who
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think of themselves as wise and those who are usurping their
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authority over the masses, and those who think of themselves as
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learned, the little bit that they have will be taken from
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them. But those who come to God,
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honestly, those that come to him broken with a contrite heart, he
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will not refuse and he will invite you in Friends, in the
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little bit that you think that you have, He's going to grow.
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He's going to give you even more friends.
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When you come to him honestly, when you come to him in the
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right posture, he will grow your faith.
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And it is an exponential growth and it is compounding friends.
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And the little bit that we start with as time goes on becomes a
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marvelous treasure chest of all the gems and jewels that God
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gives to us along our journey. And we know that He is our
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everything. And we don't press for the
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rewards. All we press for is the heart of
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God. All we press for is the honor of
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our Lord Jesus Christ. We just want Him to have
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preeminence over the whole globe, to be the rightful
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leader, because He is good and he is kind and He is lovely and
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he is of grace, and he is truth, friends, and he is life and life
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abundant, and this whole world desperately needs Him.
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But they're so enveloped in their sins that they refuse to
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let go of them because they find their identity in them.
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And it is a sad thing when we go to the grave in that state. 40
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And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words,
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and said unto him, Are we blind also?
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So here they are self condemned, They have condemned themselves
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to hell. 41 will end here. Jesus said unto them, If you
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were blind, you should have no sin.
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But now you say we see and therefore your sin remains.
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What an amazing way to end this chapter.
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Jesus Christ himself tells us the heart of God.
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You must. This calls for understanding.
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You must truly lock in. The whole gospel is going to go
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out to the entire globe. Man is will, man will be without
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excuse. And there are many who have come
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before the gospel and before the propagation of the good news.
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All over the world through planes, trains, automobiles,
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missionaries being sent out, there are many who have died
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without ever receiving the good news.
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And what does he say? He says if you were blind, then
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there would be sin there because there was not a responsibility.
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But the Jews here, they have the law, they have the prophets,
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they have Jesus Christ, God Almighty Incarnate standing in
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their midst, friends. And they try to say that they
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see, and he's saying your sin remains.
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And if they die in that state, they will be eternally separated
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from him. It is a very dangerous thing.
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Whenever we have the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ and we
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refuse it. This apostate church and this
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falling away is the most dangerous thing that a human
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could ever be responsible for. When you know the truth, when
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you've tasted in the goodness of God and you fall away, there is
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no more salvation for you. You're nailing Jesus Christ back
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up to public spectacle and shame.
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But the good news is, if you woke up this morning, you have
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another chance and you can turn it all around.
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And Jesus here is giving them opportunity after opportunity
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after opportunity to acknowledge his deity, to acknowledge that
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he is God Incarnate. And they refuse him because he
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did not come in the way that they thought that he would.
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And we cannot be offended at Jesus when He doesn't come in
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the way that we think He should. We just need to get out of our
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own way. We need to be yoked with Him.
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We need to walk this lifeout with Him, knowing that He is
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sanctifying us and getting us ready for all of eternity.
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Friends, do not be offended by Him and fall away, but truly
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trust in Him through it all, no matter what.
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Hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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I know I sure have. Praying for you.
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I love you, so does God. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.