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10 09 2024 The Healing of the Blind Man, Part 2 · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, October nine,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series themes of the Gospel of John and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the healing of the blind man.
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  Speaker 2: The healing of the blind man. We'll get in to
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment. Really, that's part two. I
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  Speaker 2: forgot to say that. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: morning and for the privilege to consider your word again
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  Speaker 2: and to now bring resolution to our minds as we
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  Speaker 2: consider the power, the power that you have to transform
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  Speaker 2: our lives. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: The Healing of the Blind Man Part two. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: question who was blinder? Is that a word? Who was
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  Speaker 2: more blind? The man or the so called leader of
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  Speaker 2: God's leaders of God's people. Let me ask you a
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  Speaker 2: question again based on yesterday's study, we already have a
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  Speaker 2: context in John chapter nine. Who was blinder the man
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  Speaker 2: who was born blind or the leaders of God's people?
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  Speaker 2: And what is the cure? What is the cure for
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  Speaker 2: the blindness of the man who was born blind? What
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  Speaker 2: is the cure for the leaders who were Oh? I
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  Speaker 2: think Jesus said blind guides hypocrites. What is the cure? Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and begin reading from chapter nine, verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads they say, unto the blind man again,
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  Speaker 2: what sayest thou of him that had open dined eyes?
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  Speaker 2: Now the weird thing about this is uh, these these
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  Speaker 2: leaders were not looking for a way, uh, to to
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  Speaker 2: glorify God. They were not looking for a way for
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  Speaker 2: the man to get closer to God, as if you know,
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  Speaker 2: something happened and they want to make searchain that he
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  Speaker 2: is well connected to God. They were quizzing him and
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  Speaker 2: really drilling him. They had him on trial because he
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  Speaker 2: was he was delivered because they hated they hated the deliverer.
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  Speaker 2: Once once they had an inkling that there is only
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  Speaker 2: one person that could do something like this, and their
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  Speaker 2: idea is this is the one that is called uh Messiah.
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  Speaker 2: Like in their mindset, they're like, yeah, let let's keep
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  Speaker 2: drilling him and see what we can get as evidence
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  Speaker 2: against against God. Okay, And so the Bible continues. He
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  Speaker 2: said he is a prophet verse eighteen. But the people
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  Speaker 2: of God did not believe concerning him that he had
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  Speaker 2: been blind and received a sight until they called the
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  Speaker 2: parents of him that had received a sight. They asked him, saying,
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  Speaker 2: is this your son, who ye say was born blind?
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  Speaker 2: How then do he now see? His parents answered and said,
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  Speaker 2: unto them, we know that this is our son, and
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  Speaker 2: that he was born blind. But by what means he
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  Speaker 2: now seeth? We know not. Or who hath opened his eyes?
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  Speaker 2: We know not? He's of age? Ask him he shall
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  Speaker 2: speak for himself. These words spake the parents because they
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  Speaker 2: feared the people of God, for they had agreed already
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  Speaker 2: that if any man did confess that Jesus confessed he
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  Speaker 2: was Jesus, he should be put out of the synagogue.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore he said, he's therefore, said his parents, he is
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  Speaker 2: of age. Ask him. Then then again called they the
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  Speaker 2: man that was born blind, and said, unto him, give
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  Speaker 2: God the praise. We know that this man is a sinner.
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  Speaker 2: He answered, and said, whether a sinner or no, I
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  Speaker 2: know not one thing. I know whereas I was blind.
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  Speaker 2: That's past tense, and I now see. Then said they
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  Speaker 2: to him again, what did he do unto thee How
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  Speaker 2: opened he thine eyes? He answered again, he told them
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  Speaker 2: already I have told you already, and ye did not hear.
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  Speaker 2: Why not wherefore would you hear it again? Will ye
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  Speaker 2: also be his disciples? Then of course they reviled him,
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  Speaker 2: they said you're his disciple, and then they started to
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  Speaker 2: become more and more disrespectful. So listen, listen. There is
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  Speaker 2: so much going on here. But we don't need to
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  Speaker 2: just see the story back in storyland. We need to
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  Speaker 2: be asking ourselves when Jesus is present to heal, do
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  Speaker 2: we worship him? Do we worship him and give him
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  Speaker 2: honor and praise for what he's doing for people around us?
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  Speaker 2: Or do we look for evidence, some kind of evidence
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  Speaker 2: that is somehow negative, somehow unbelievable to people. Are we
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  Speaker 2: looking for a way to worship God? Notice the man
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  Speaker 2: asks the question, and it was critical. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was rhetorical. Really, it was a critical question. If I
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  Speaker 2: say one more thing about this man, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if he's a sinner, I don't know if he's a prophet.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about him except one thing. He
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  Speaker 2: transformed my life. And so if I tell you anything else,
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  Speaker 2: if I answer your questions again, if I say it
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  Speaker 2: in Dutch, if I say it in Greek, if I
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  Speaker 2: say it in Aramaic, like, if I say it again,
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  Speaker 2: will you also worship him? I need you to think
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  Speaker 2: about this when you are God forbid. But some of
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  Speaker 2: you do still have arguments concerning the Word of God.
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  Speaker 2: You still argue about what is and what will not
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  Speaker 2: happen in the last days. Some of you argue about
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of other things in the scriptures, with people
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  Speaker 2: who claim to be of either different faith communities or
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  Speaker 2: of no faith community at all, that are antagonistic against
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  Speaker 2: the Bible. And you have these arguments. But when the
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  Speaker 2: people have you on trial and they are giving you
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  Speaker 2: more and more discussion and things that seem to be controversial,
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  Speaker 2: this is the stance that you should take. If I
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  Speaker 2: answer one more thing, will you worship God? Will you
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  Speaker 2: give your life to God?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: If I answer one more thing, will you do what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about from the Word of God?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense to continue to have these arguments.
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  Speaker 2: The proof is in the pudding. This young man is transformed.
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  Speaker 2: He can now see. He was born without being able
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  Speaker 2: to see. And by the way his parents were so
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  Speaker 2: fearful to give glory to God and to say what
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  Speaker 2: they could obviously tell that there was a miracle from
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  Speaker 2: God given through Jesus Christ. They were so fearful of
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  Speaker 2: the people that they lost connection with God. Can I
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  Speaker 2: say it again? They thought that the people had the
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  Speaker 2: power to disconnect them from God. Therefore they withheld their
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  Speaker 2: confession and made it seem as if they didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: They shirked responsibility. They behaved like Pilate, except it's worse
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  Speaker 2: because these were supposed to be the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: where he tried to wash his hands of responsibility when
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  Speaker 2: he knew full well what he should do. You see.
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  Speaker 2: And so the man who was born blind now transformed
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  Speaker 2: by Jesus Christ himself. The question is what next? What next?
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  Speaker 2: When I am transformed? What do I say about the
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  Speaker 2: one who transformed me? When you have been transformed delivered
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  Speaker 2: from your financial woes? Like when I say that I'm
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  Speaker 2: the mindset that is fearful because sometimes there's more month
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  Speaker 2: than money. Huh. Sometimes you are having difficulties at work
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  Speaker 2: with people and you don't know yet what to do.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do when Jesus actually delivers you, what
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  Speaker 2: do you do? What do you do? Do you worship
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  Speaker 2: him or do you turn away from him? Okay? And
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  Speaker 2: so there is so much to say in the story.
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  Speaker 2: But as the lesson writer says, so scary here is
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  Speaker 2: the spiritual blindness of the leaders. One blind beggar can
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  Speaker 2: declare the truth, but then these people who are supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be teaching the truth can't get out of their
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  Speaker 2: own way. Come on, take it.
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  Speaker 1: Agree, Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember
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  Speaker 1: great day. Yeah,