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Episode 186 - Believe And See · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Greatness the Lord, our God, and he is greatly to
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  Speaker 1: be praised. From the rising of the sun to the
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  Speaker 1: going down of the same. The name of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is to be praised. We welcome you once again to
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  Speaker 1: this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries US a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and today we
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  Speaker 1: are giving thanks to the Lord during this season of Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: this final Friday of the month of November, in the
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  Speaker 1: year of our Lord twenty twenty five. A man, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we all prayerfully hopefully have been a people
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  Speaker 1: of thanksgiving, not just on yesterday a man, but throughout
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  Speaker 1: the year and throughout Amen, our Amen, pilgrimage, our days
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  Speaker 1: of salvation, that the Lord has opened our eyes to see,
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  Speaker 1: because the word of the Lord Amen commands us in
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  Speaker 1: everything to give thanks for this is the will of
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  Speaker 1: God in Christ Jesus concerning us. So we, the people
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  Speaker 1: of God, the Redeemed of the Lord, a man. We
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  Speaker 1: know that God has a purpose and plan by Amen
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  Speaker 1: for our lives. A man. He knows the thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: He thinks toward us, thoughts of good and out of evil,
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  Speaker 1: to bring us to an expected end. And therefore we
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  Speaker 1: walk by faith and not by sight. We live in
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  Speaker 1: confidence and blessed assurance and a blessed hope. Amen, of
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  Speaker 1: what God a man has already prepared for us. So amen,
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  Speaker 1: we welcome you again, Amen, and we pray that each
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  Speaker 1: and every one of you will have a blessed and
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  Speaker 1: wonderful holiday season, and that the Lord will bring you
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  Speaker 1: through amen another year, and keep you amen, in perfect peace,
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  Speaker 1: as only he can do by the power of His
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit and his promises that He has spoken concerning you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We again, as always thank God for each
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  Speaker 1: of you who pray for and support the work of
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  Speaker 1: this ministry. We thank God for you a man sharing
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  Speaker 1: with someone else, Amen, and also those of you who
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  Speaker 1: have become subscribers, we thank you, and please, by all means,
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  Speaker 1: as always, Amen, share it with someone else. Amen. Let
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  Speaker 1: someone know a man that we are here to preach
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord in truth and boldness and
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  Speaker 1: clarity in such a time as this. And we believe
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  Speaker 1: the report of the Lord, the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the promises of God, and that he is the soon
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  Speaker 1: coming King. And we want to be ready when Jesus returns.
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  Speaker 1: That is what it is all about. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day a man. When Jesus returned, Will we
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  Speaker 1: be ready, watch, he would say, and he did say,
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  Speaker 1: and pray, Amen, that you be found worthy, Amen, to
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  Speaker 1: escape things that are coming to pass. Stand before the
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man. Hear him say, well done, good and
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  Speaker 1: faithful servant. Amen. All right. Today we're in the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John Amen, chapter number nine. We continue there from
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  Speaker 1: our previous session. Amenday, want to focus on this thought.
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  Speaker 1: Believe and see. Amen, Believe and see. Amen. And before
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  Speaker 1: we begin, we're going to take just a quick moment
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  Speaker 1: to Amen. Invoke the presence of the Lord on our Amen, lives,
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  Speaker 1: on our thoughts, on our words, on our deeds. Amen, again,
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  Speaker 1: because we want to be found pleasing in His sight.
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  Speaker 1: And we certainly pray even now that God will open
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  Speaker 1: someone's eyes heart Amen to believe, Amen, and see that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the Savior, the Redeemer, and again the soon
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  Speaker 1: coming king Father. We stretch hands to thee. There is
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  Speaker 1: no other help, no other source, nor the God, nor
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  Speaker 1: the mediator between God and man. You are the Savior,
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  Speaker 1: the one who came down from glory, gave of yourself
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  Speaker 1: so that we would have life and have it more abundantly. So, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray even now somewhere someone will come to hear
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  Speaker 1: and to see and to know that You are the
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  Speaker 1: truly living God. And there is none like you, none
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  Speaker 1: beside thee none other than you, Oh God, our Savior.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be your name, both now and forever. We pray,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. Believe and see the Gospel of John
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  Speaker 1: chapter number nine. We're going to be reading from the
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  Speaker 1: King James version. And as Jesus passed by, he saw
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  Speaker 1: a man which was blind from his birth, and his
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  Speaker 1: disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin this man
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  Speaker 1: or his parents that he was born blind? Jesus answered,
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  Speaker 1: neither hath this man said, nor his parents, but that
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  Speaker 1: the works of God should be made manifest in him.
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  Speaker 1: I must work the works of Him that sent me,
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  Speaker 1: while it is day, for the night cometh, when no
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  Speaker 1: man can work. As long as I am in the world,
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  Speaker 1: I am the light of the world. When he had
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  Speaker 1: thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay
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  Speaker 1: of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the
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  Speaker 1: blind man with the clay, and said, unto him, go
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  Speaker 1: wash in the pool of silom, which is by interpretation
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  Speaker 1: sent he went his way therefore, and washed, and came
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  Speaker 1: seeing the neighbors. Therefore, and they which before had seen
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  Speaker 1: him that he was blind, said, is not this he
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  Speaker 1: that sat and begged? Some said this is he? Others
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  Speaker 1: said he is like him, But he said I am he.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore said they unto him, how were thine eyes open?
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  Speaker 1: He answered, and said, a man that is called Jesus
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  Speaker 1: made clay and anointed mine eyes, and said, unto me,
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  Speaker 1: go to the pool of Silom and washed. And I
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  Speaker 1: went and washed, and I received sight. They said, unto him,
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  Speaker 1: where is he? He said, I know not. They brought
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  Speaker 1: to the Pharisees him that afore time was blind, and
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  Speaker 1: it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay
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  Speaker 1: and opened his eyes. Then again the pharisees also asked
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  Speaker 1: him how he had received his sight. He said, unto them,
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  Speaker 1: he put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed and
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  Speaker 1: do see. Therefore, said some of the Pharisees, this man
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  Speaker 1: is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day.
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  Speaker 1: Others said, how can a man that is a sinner
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  Speaker 1: do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
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  Speaker 1: They say, unto the blind man again, what sayest thou
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  Speaker 1: of him, that he hath opened thine eyes. He said,
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  Speaker 1: he is a prophet. But the Jews didn't I believe
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  Speaker 1: in concerning him that he had been blind and received
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  Speaker 1: his sight. Until they called the parents of him that
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  Speaker 1: had received his sight, and they asked them, saying, is
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  Speaker 1: this your son, whom ye say was born blind? How
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  Speaker 1: then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said,
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  Speaker 1: we know that this is our son, and that he
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  Speaker 1: was born blind. But by what means he now seeth?
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  Speaker 1: We know not, Or who hath opened his eyes? We
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  Speaker 1: know not. He is of age? Ask him he shall
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  Speaker 1: speak for himself. These words spake his parents, because they
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  Speaker 1: feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that
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  Speaker 1: any man Dick confessed that he was Christ, he should
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  Speaker 1: be put out of the synagogue. Therefore, said his parents,
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  Speaker 1: he is of age. Ask him. Then again called they
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  Speaker 1: the man that was blind, and said, unto him, give
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  Speaker 1: God the praise. We know that this man is a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: He answered, and said, whether he be a sinner or no,
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  Speaker 1: I know not one thing. I know that whereas I
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  Speaker 1: was blind, now I see. They said to him again,
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  Speaker 1: what did he to thee how opened he thine eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The answerdent said, Oh brother. He answered and said, I
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  Speaker 1: have told you already, and ye did not hear. Wherefore
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  Speaker 1: would you hear it again? Will you also be his disciples?
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  Speaker 1: Then they reviled him and said, thou art his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: But we are Moses's disciples. We know that God spake
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  Speaker 1: unto Moses. As for this fellow, we know not from
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  Speaker 1: whence he is. The man answered and said, unto them,
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  Speaker 1: why here it is a marvelous thing that you know
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  Speaker 1: not from whence he is? And yet he hath opened
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  Speaker 1: mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners.
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  Speaker 1: But if any man be a worshiper of God and
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  Speaker 1: doeth his will, him he heareth. Since the world begin,
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  Speaker 1: was it not heard that any man opened the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of one that was born blind? If this man were
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  Speaker 1: not of God, he could do nothing. They answered and said,
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  Speaker 1: unto him, thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost
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  Speaker 1: thou teach us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty five that they had cast him out. When
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  Speaker 1: he had found him, he said, unto him, dost thou
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  Speaker 1: believe on the son of God? He answered and said,
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  Speaker 1: who is he Lord, that I might believe on him?
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus said, unto him, thou hast both seen him,
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  Speaker 1: and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, and he worshiped him. Wow. Wow, dost thou
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  Speaker 1: believe on the Son of God? He answered, who is he? Lord?
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  Speaker 1: That I might believe? Jesus responds to this man who
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  Speaker 1: was blind, who had now received his natural sight. You
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  Speaker 1: have both seen him, and it is he who is
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  Speaker 1: speaking to you right now. Noticed the response of this
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  Speaker 1: man who had his eyes opened, Lord, I believe, and
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  Speaker 1: he worshiped Jesus, believe and see, believe and see now
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  Speaker 1: this encounter that Jesus and I'm gonna finish reading the
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  Speaker 1: final three verses here in John's Gospel in just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: chapter nine. But this encounter that Jesus had with the
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  Speaker 1: blind man, this was an intentional, multifaceted engagement that had
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  Speaker 1: purpose more than one purpose, if you will, with Jesus
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  Speaker 1: encountering this man who was born black, because Jesus could
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  Speaker 1: have simply just healed the band and went on about
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  Speaker 1: his way and let that be that. But he intentionally
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  Speaker 1: did it on that day. He did it on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day, and he knew what would take place afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: And there's much to learn from this. But but, but,
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  Speaker 1: but this encounter was not just about this blind man
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  Speaker 1: having his natural eyes healed for him to see. This encounter,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus stated, was also about the glory of God
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  Speaker 1: and also about us being able to see that. First
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  Speaker 1: and foremost, we too are blind, and we will remain
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  Speaker 1: so if we fail to see Jesus for who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Now where do we get that from. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty nine. Jesus said these words, Listen very carefully
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  Speaker 1: for judgment. I am coming to the world, into this world,
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  Speaker 1: that they which see not might see, and that they
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  Speaker 1: which sea might be made blind. Upon hearing these words,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us verse forty and some of the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees which were with him heard these words and said,
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  Speaker 1: unto him, are we blind? Also? Now listen very carefully,
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  Speaker 1: final verse verse forty one, Listen very carefully to what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. Jesus said, unto them, if you were blind,
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  Speaker 1: you should have no sin. But now ye say we see,
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  Speaker 1: Therefore your sin remaineth. Wow. Wow, This man was born
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  Speaker 1: blind from the natural perspective, and he was born in sin. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it was not about whether or not this man had
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  Speaker 1: sin or his parents. Jesus answered that he made it
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  Speaker 1: straight a man. It wasn't because of this man's sin.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't because his parents have sin that he was
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  Speaker 1: born blind. Yet all men are, in essence born blind
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  Speaker 1: and born in sin. The Bible teaches that we are
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  Speaker 1: born in sin and shaping in iniquity. Amen. We are
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  Speaker 1: by nature children of wrath. Amen. We come into this
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  Speaker 1: world Amen, haters of God, sinners by nature. Amen. But again,
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  Speaker 1: this man was not born blind because he had sin.
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  Speaker 1: He having the knowledge of good and evil at that
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  Speaker 1: time a man when he was born, when he's conceived, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: when he came forth out of his mother's room, he
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  Speaker 1: had not done any good or evil. Amen. The man
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  Speaker 1: was born again so that the glory of God might
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  Speaker 1: be revealed in him. Amen. All of us are again
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  Speaker 1: born in sin. Amen. And we have a blindness. We're
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  Speaker 1: in darkness. Amen. And in the same manner that this
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  Speaker 1: man received his sight, So it is for us that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has come for us to receive our sight. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The glory of God, Amen, the glory of the light
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven is to shine in our hearts, Amen, so
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  Speaker 1: that we can see Jesus for who he is. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The blindness of all men is spiritual sight and not
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  Speaker 1: natural sights. You see, the Pharisees thought that they had sight.
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  Speaker 1: They said, we see, But Jesus said, because you say,
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  Speaker 1: we see, therefore your sin remains. You remain in sin,
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  Speaker 1: You remain in darkness. If you don't see Jesus for
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  Speaker 1: who he is and see yourself for who you are.
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  Speaker 1: You are a sinner by nature. And there is nothing
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  Speaker 1: that you can do, nothing that I can do to
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  Speaker 1: earn our way, Amen, to appease God in any way.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't believe Jesus says that I am He,
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  Speaker 1: you will die in your sins. In other words, your
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  Speaker 1: sins will remain. Amen. I believe amen, that the most
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  Speaker 1: important takeaway from this narrative is that though the blind
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  Speaker 1: man had his natural eyes opened by Jesus in order
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  Speaker 1: to receive his natural sight, Amen, his physical sight, he
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  Speaker 1: still had to believe in Jesus as the son of God,
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  Speaker 1: or not to believe in Jesus as the son of God.
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  Speaker 1: You see, when Jesus found the man. Remember, go back,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back. Very quickly to the text. Jesus heard
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  Speaker 1: that the man had been put out of the synagogues.
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  Speaker 1: The man had this encounter with the Pharisees, a man
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  Speaker 1: who were attempting to you know, I don't know. They
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  Speaker 1: were just goading the man, trying to get him to
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  Speaker 1: change his story or denounce Jesus in some kind of way.
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  Speaker 1: But the man stuck by his story. I told you
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  Speaker 1: what he did, and you don't believe, amen, And so
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  Speaker 1: he reviled them, at least from their perspective. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: found the man after they had put him out, And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says Jesus put forth this question. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, this is one of those questions that is
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  Speaker 1: for all men. Here's the question. Do you believe on
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  Speaker 1: the Son of God? Do you believe on the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God? That's the question, ladies and gentlemen. And that
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  Speaker 1: question has not nor will not go away. It has
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  Speaker 1: not gone away, It will not go away. Do you
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  Speaker 1: believe on the Son of God? Do you believe? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing also has changed about the decision that has to
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  Speaker 1: be made. The decision is an either or, but never both.
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  Speaker 1: It's in either I believe believe or I do not believe.
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  Speaker 1: But it can never be both. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: There is no patronizing, There is no you know. Oh
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  Speaker 1: he Jesus was a good prophet, He was a good man,
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  Speaker 1: He was a good teacher. He was Jesus. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 1: no no. Is he the Savior? Not one of many?
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  Speaker 1: Not a door? Is he? The door? Is he? The way?
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  Speaker 1: Is he the Savior? Do you believe on the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God. It's an either or, but it cannot be both.
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  Speaker 1: It is a yes, I believe, or it is a no,
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe. Now, if you believe on Jesus
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  Speaker 1: for who he is, your sins will be remitted and
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  Speaker 1: will not remain charged to your account. But if you fail,
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  Speaker 1: if you do not believe on Jesus for who he is,
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  Speaker 1: both your blindness and your sins will remain. Believe and see.
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  Speaker 1: Believe and your eyes will be open. Believed, and you believe,
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  Speaker 1: believe in you will see the goodness of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in the land of the limit. Believe and see the
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  Speaker 1: salvation of the Lord this day. Believe, believe, believe and
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  Speaker 1: see the scales fall from your eyes. Believe, and God
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  Speaker 1: work wonders on your behalf. Believe and see the mercy
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  Speaker 1: of God, the favor of God, the love of God,
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of God. See see, see that God is
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  Speaker 1: great and he is greatly to be praised. Believe and
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  Speaker 1: see that your soul has been delivered from the power
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  Speaker 1: of seeing, the power of saving, the power of the grave,
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  Speaker 1: the power of death. Believe and see a man the
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  Speaker 1: heavens open to you. Believe and see the promises of
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  Speaker 1: God made manifest in your life. Believe and see. There
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  Speaker 1: is no other alternative. You must believe that Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: or you must reject him as the Savior, the Redeemer,
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  Speaker 1: the Hope of glory. But I pray today that you
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  Speaker 1: will believe and see and your eyes will be open
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus. Father, Again, thank you for your word. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for amen your promises. Thank you for being the
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  Speaker 1: one who opens our eyes, commanding the light to shine
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  Speaker 1: on us, to shine in our hearts. Amen, so that
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  Speaker 1: we can see and come to know that You are
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  Speaker 1: the true and the Living God, the Way, the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: the Light, the Door. Amen. Lord, You are God and
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  Speaker 1: God alone. So be thou glorified in your people everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We give you honor and praise. This do only to
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  Speaker 1: you this day. Amen and Amen.