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Jesus Hears the Cry of Faith and Opens Blind Eyes
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Good evening everyone, before you take your seats. High five
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Namandjan left right front back.
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Good evening.
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I'm Larry, one of the pastors here in Victory Green
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Hills is joyed to be invited once again.
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I'm already what do you call this?
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I'm stationed at our at our every nation building, by
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being the doing admin works there. But then I praise
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God for Pastor Francis, who once in a while who
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would call on me, especially now that he's in New Zealand,
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New Zealand and he's he celebrating their tenth Pam and
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And and Phastor Francis are celebrating the tenth year anniversity.
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Please do pray for our for your pastors, uh In
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people be pastor and thank you, thank you for praying
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for them.
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I'm sure.
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But stories and card causin a New Zealand Stories, okay,
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how many of you, I'll tell him that I can
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see your face? How many of you you've actually followed
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the whole the whole series.
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Okay, premier and see.
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Lord will be Okay. Yeah, this is a this this
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wonderful series. We actually started the series last year path
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if you if you notice it last year right after
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Prayer Fasting, we also had a series on the Gospel
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and know something about the Gospel also and and and
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it's good that we we saw different stories, uh, the
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different stories in the Book of Look they remember the
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first to the first two Sundays we talked about the widow,
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the widow, the crying widow who.
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Lost the mourning widow who lost a son.
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And then last week talked about the sinful woman was
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actually forgiven. And then they were gonna be talking about
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the blind beggary. And what I love about this series
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is that we would actually see people who.
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Encounter Jesus Christ. They not just encountered in the encounter Jesus.
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Christ led to transformation and they didn't stop there. Hey,
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right after being led to transformation, actually proclaimed the Gospel
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and the whole town or the whole community got actually saved.
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My prayer is that that's.
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That that's us la paramatto. This is not a classroom
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it's not a classroom. What we learn here should be
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applied out there. And maybe some of you you're thinking, boy,
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to miss more. The journey that I am in right
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now is not it's not that great. That's why we
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hang on again to the promise of the Gospel. That's
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why the title is Grace changes everything. You might not
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be perfect now, but again grace is sufficient for you,
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for each one of us. That's a promise I do believe.
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That's that's among the very very to go to, top
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five verses that I've ever memorized. That grace his grace,
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not our grace, not not our grace. If we rely
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only on our grace, guess what, you won't.
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Finish this straight.
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That the race strong, but you have to hang on
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to His grace, his grace that is sufficient for us.
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If it's been a sufficient never ending because it comes.
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Can we see in mosa good looks, Mulang think and
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good looks. My question, Guess what? It doesn't change anything.
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Only his grace is sufficient. And we said sufficient, it's
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never ending, never ending. We're gonna look at the life
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of this blind beggar. Okay, maybe some of you you've
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you've read through this the Bason Sarah it's it's a
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good story trivia trivia. This actually is probably as recorded
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in the Bible, the very last miracle of Jesus. The
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very first miracle is the wedding at Canaan, and this
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probably is the last recorded last recorded in reverence to
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God's word, can ask everybody to stand, Let's read the
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word of God, and let's let's pray.
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Let's open this service with the prayer.
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As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was
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sitting by the roadside roadside, begging and and hearing a
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crowd going.
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By, he inquired what this meant.
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They told him, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by, and
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he cried out, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
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And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him
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to be silent, but he cried.
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Out all the more, son of David, have mercy on me.
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And Jesus stopped and.
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Commanded him to be brought to him, And when he
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came near, he asked him, what do you want me
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to do for you?
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He said, Lord, let me recover my sight. And Jesus
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said to him, recover your side.
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Your faith has made you well, and immediately he recovered
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his side and followed him, glorifying God, and all the
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people when they saw it, gave praise to God.
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Let's pray, Father, may this be just more than a
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story for us. Father.
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I pray Lord that we will actually find our place
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in this story and be humble enough to admit, be
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humble enough if we need to repent. But Lord, I
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pray Lord that you are working, working something in our hearts. Father,
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transform us use this word. Is this preaching of your
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word Jesus name, We pray and everybody say amen, let
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me take your seats. I'm sorry due to some technical difficulties.
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There you go.
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Okay, context there was Hey, I don't know if you've
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seen the movie vantage Point, but it's one of the
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nice movie that I like. I love those politically thrilling
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plots to watch. Okay, this is this movie vantage Point.
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It was actually set in Europe and somebody somebody like
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assassinated or no, actually bummed bombed a square where a
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political leader was, and they they had witnesses everywhere, of course,
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and they took u I believe three or four dvantage
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points to show show us the viewers, actually what happened.
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The advantage point from the bomber, the vantage from from
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a tourist, advantage point from from from a police official,
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so advantage point. What I love about that we showed
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it actually showed that we sometimes when we see things,
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we have our own personal biases. It's it's it's just
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according to one vantage point. My prayer is that as
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we go through this, this movie, but we movie story
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story in the Bible, that we would look at the
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different advantage point from the from the different characters. Different characters,
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the three characters. First is a blind band, a blind
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mat who was just sitting by the road, blind beggar.
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Okay, just sitting by the road. It's hard.
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It's like Dobamy, he's not just blind, he's also a
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beggarin blind para, not a beggar. Maybe if somebody was
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taking care of him, he won't be a beggar. Okay,
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But this person blind beggar par dob and.
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It talks about it.
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It actually points to so many things. Maybe because even
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his family has turned his back on him. Why if
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he's just blind, pair of my family copin to be
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with him, right, But no, he's a beggar.
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He's left on the street all along like an outcast.
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And you know those times there are actually lots of
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blind people because of course what happened means and then
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and sickness is prevalent, so people become become blind, become blind.
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But then, uh, there's also a myth or some wrong
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misconceptions that if you are blind, maybe it's because you sinned,
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or if you're born blind, maybe it's because of your
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father's sin that caused you to be blind, or your
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mother's sin that caused.
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You to be blind.
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So you're like treated like an outcast dobbolami so to
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speak at a blind beggar, he's actually very helpless, helpless,
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left alone in in society to rap.
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And then there's advantage point of the crowd at.
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This time, Uh, whenever, wherever, wherever Jesus is, a big
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crowd follows him. Okay, he's already famous kilinasa, why kilnessa
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because of his.
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Miracles left and right.
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He's the mean is actually at this point he was
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he just had the ministry in Galilee and he was
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going to attend a past the passover in Jerusalem.
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That's why he passed by Jericho.
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So so when when when the blind man on the
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street beggar on this it can changeous.
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Imagine he's on the.
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Floor, arms of al happally, mos, there you go, Pally.
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He was hearing a crowd, hearing a crowd following, and
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that's not usual. It's actually quite unusual. So he asked
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that question.
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Who is who? Who?
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Who is there? Why is there a crowd? Then the
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crowd said, oh, it's Jesus of Nazareth who is passing by.
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Jesus of Nazareth. Hang on to that word Jesus of Nazareth.
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That time, when you actually refer to a person, it's example, uh,
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Larry of kestern City or.
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John of you would be referred by your name and
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then where you came from. Hey, but.
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The the blind beggar, I don't know if it was
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a mistake. He said no, he didn't call him Jesus
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of nazaidth he said, Jesus, son of David, this blind person,
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though he was actually blind. Have heard of Jesus as
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the son of David? Maybe some of us? Oh yeah, okay,
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pastor son of David Good. So what's what's unusual about
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the son of David, son of David. If you go
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back to all the way to your to your Old Testament.
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The Second Samuel h chapter seven. It would tell us
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about the lineage of the Messiah. Remember Romans, Roman Era.
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They were wait, they were already so anxious for a king.
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Why they was being persecuted left and right, hard labor,
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hardship in apa. Not only not only that, especially when
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you're a Christ. And they were looking and waiting for
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a Messiah who they heard, they read would come from
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the lineage of As the son of David. And they
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knew this blind person knew all along that it is
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Jesus Christ, early on, early on, he knew that, I'm
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reminding you, he's blind. He's on the floor, and he
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knew once he heard it's Jesus of Nazareth who is
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passing by.
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That's Jesus.
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He talks about already his faith, his faith that he's
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been waiting for. And he knew all along that this
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is the person who would actually take him out of
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his misery. And then the crowd you advantage point, No, no, no,
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blind beggar, no, Now now the advantage point of the crowd.
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What did the crowd do? The crowd who could see
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the crowd who was already.
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With Jesus told you Galishan, Galiley, Galli Shang, probably I.
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From Nazareth what he did from Canaan the miracles fend
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right and then Casamanila. But what did the crowd do?
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The crowd silence the beggar. You know this part. It's
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took me a while to get through this part.
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When I was preparing for this, because I had to search,
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I had to think and had to ask myself.
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Might like that.
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As a pastor now, as a Christian for twelve thirteen years,
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if I become a part of the crowd, that would
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silence somebody who needs help. Remember the Bible said Jesus
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came to seek the loss, the weak, the sick, the poor,
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the widow. Soame blind beggar, helpless, black beggar.
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Who should have who should have helped him? Probably the crowd.
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The crowd have heard of his teaching, have seen all
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the miracles. But what did they do?
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They silence him, They rebuke him, They said, stop, that
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does Jesus and do me bam we He's not going
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to give you money. But this beggar, you know what,
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this beggar, the blad beggar, he has nothing.
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To give it he's nothing to give.
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All he have is well or no no family, no money, beggar,
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remember begging, no, not even side probably hell. But he
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shouted all the more because of his faith, remember his
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faith that he knew this is Jesus, the Sign of David,
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this is Jesus the Messiah. So he shouted all the more,
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Son of David, have mercy on me. Son of David.
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Can you imagine.
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Put yourself there, a lot of people, there's a crowd.
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Jesus the only one walking. Those streets were not actually paved,
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they're coupled streets.
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And talk and a lot of people were walking ing
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eye crowd. But he still yelled at the very top
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of his voice, Son of David, have mercy on me. Mercy.
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Mercy is big here. He's not only asking Jesus Jesus begging,
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but ah, Jesus, Jesus pansing in moro. He's literally asking him.
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Asking if God would take his life, take his life,
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or God would prolong his life, prolong his life. You
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know why, during those times, it's already an act of
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rebellion when you say that you're a Christian. Another vantage
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point of the crowd is maybe they're silencing that blind beggar,
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so that in thepos.
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Saying why they're scared some of us, some of us
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who follow Jesus, at times we're actually.
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Scared to proclaim it or scared to demonstrate it, or
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sometimes you Christian nathing as a social media it can
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be I don't know different vantage points. I'm asking you
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to place yourselves where you are. We go through different seasons,
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we go through different stuff, and.
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Where you are right now. But for that blind beggar,
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it was a desperate call. It was desperate.
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I don't care whether I'll be thrown to jail because
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of rebellion.
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I'll be cut, my head be cut. But it's okay.
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It's okay because I know that only him, only that Jesus,
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Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the Son of David. Can you
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rescue me?
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Dvantage point up, place yourselves where you're nears or place
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yourself where you are.
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It's a desperate call. Milliam Webster Dictionary.
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Describes desperation as the feeling when you have lost almost
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all hope, at least my almost no feeling when you
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have lost almost all hope. In doing some research, these
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are the things that the top five that makes us
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desperate during this time in this time, relationships, whether you
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have a relationship, you're into a relationship, you don't have
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a relationship, or your relationship is complicated. It makes you desperate,
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makes people desperate. Money makes people makes people desperate. We
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have seen so many stuff on money. Glory makes people desperate.
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Work work makes you desperate, desperate to perform, desperate for
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a new bass, They're desperate.
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Discincution in promotion, status, status in life because you can
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match up or cool makes you desperate. I'm surprised that amount.
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The top five is social media. Social media, you're desperate
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because you see people there, but make it makes makes
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us desperate.
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And what do people do when? When? When? When? When
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people are desperate? She signed.
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And some people who are desperate for stuff sometimes turns
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to crime. Some people turns to drugs or even to
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sex or even lies.
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Let's go back to the blind beggar. Have you experienced
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being blind?
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If it's blindness, can say such as physical, it's also
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spiritual blindness. Sometimes we can actually see physically see, but
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then spiritually we're blind. I I I remember one time
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years back, I have a problem with my eyes and
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there were times that that that that because of I
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mean the up because of the I don't know, maybe
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the fluids in my eyes had problems. So there were
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times that I could hardly open my eyes. It would
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actually cost me me like momentary blindness. Okay, even sometimes
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I opened my eyes. It doesn't only hurt, but I can't.
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See anything, okay.
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And then one time I went to pick up my
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girlfriend who was my my my wife now from her school.
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And on the way home, I.
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Said, I could not drive. Okay, I could not drive.
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I want you, I want you to drive, right, I
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want I want, I want you to drive. Okay, take
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on who looks a stage, So I'm I'm gonna. So
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I was just closing my I said, yet you drive,
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take the keys, you drive. And then and and and
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she was she was driving. And you know sometimes when
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when when you're when you're locked looking. I don't know
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if you've experienced this. Maybe you're in the car and
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then you're taking a nap. You close your eyes sometimes
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but I'm blissed. But everything goes fast and you just
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hear stuff and everything's like zooming. It's like times to
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the speed times too or times three the speed and
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and I had my eyes closed and said, what's going on?
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I just I just hear blaring horns and.
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Every peep and then and then it really hurts.
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But when I opened my eyes a bit, okay, there
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I saw yet my girlfriend then who I married now
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were driving in the opposite side of the road. Ohay,
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so right then and there I I I accepted the
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Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord save me the RISTI
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and that that that's not true. But yeah, she was
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on the opposite side and said, pull over, pull over.
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I love you.
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You felt blindness, But sometimes in darkness is it's your life,
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the life that you live. And I came from a
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retreat recently, came from a retreat, uh to three days
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to night retreat where I'm blind. Well, I'm gadgets. Okay,
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it's just focusing on God. No gadgets, get it, God
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gadgets corneada corn corn. One of the lesson is teaching
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us how to breathe. Maybe you're not in the dark,
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or you're not blind now, but because of situation, you're desperate,
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desperate and the and suddenly I remember this. We were
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going through l a X coming from the World Con
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in public.
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This is in l A.
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Everyone's going through something. So everyone going through somethings. I go, okay,
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watch that, and then when I checked, it's actually a hotline.
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Where you could call. You could email if you need prayer.
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In some people who are out of desperation are on
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the last straw in their lives. Some people even thinking
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about committing committing suicide. They don't know where to call.
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I don't know what your dvantage point is.
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But then.
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There's hope in Christ in Lamentations three twenty one twenty
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three says this, I recall to mind, therefore.
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I have hope.
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The first part there is very important. You have to
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recall to mind. What does that mean? India? Kalang buboskalan
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Bibolmo came emergency inn in Bibolkadisha.
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Is that a break the.
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Glass in case of emergency that you use during emergencies?
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You call to mind what you have read. You call
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to mind because you have started a relationship with God.
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You call to mind what he promised you. So why
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now you call call it to mind? And then you
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put on hope on that. They said the Lord's loving
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kindness indeed never cease, for his compassions never fail. They
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are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. There is faithfulness.
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There's a covenant. There's a covenant that was given two
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thousand years ago. The mercy plea here is actually a
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covenant that was made to Abraham, Jacob and Isaac. You
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don't see, oh good story in the Old Testament Egypt,
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a promised land that was not God and Jesus. It
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is the same covenant that we have now. The mercy
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that the blind beggar was asking mercy, mercy, hallo blind beggar,
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Why not.
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He asked for mercy. He's saying, Lord, in all humility,
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I repent, I repent.
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Mercy is a powerful word. Why because only God can
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give us mercy? Blind beergar, but Bara and big guy.
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But he knew all along that only Jesus, the son
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of David, the Messiah, can give mercy.
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What's mercy? Mercy is.
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Unmerited thing. Mercy is you don't actually deserve it, but
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I give it to you. Example, cinemam to raise your
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hands Latin grade Latin greed, pola Latin greed. If and
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greed if lowest of the lowest usaid, okay, the noble
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allow once they are and we begin the noble allowance.
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You know, and you know we don't actually deserve it,
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but God gave it to us, and only Jesus, and
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only through Jesus, God gave us mercy. Mercy is actually
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one of the most powerful attributes of God. In here,
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the blind beggar is demonstrated demonstrating desperate faith almn.
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A to only struggle.
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He knows this, and he knew that he had to
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pursue God more, son of David, have mercy on me.
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In desperate moments.
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We have to put our trust in a faithful God,
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not on our bank account, not on our wisdom that
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is limited, not in our own the Bible said, in
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our own understanding, but in desperate moments trust and hope.
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Put our hope. Be in our hope and a faithful God.
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And we should been a faithful God. He will never
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leave you nor forsake you, the Bible says. And in
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faithful God, trust in me, he said, and I will
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make everything for you and any faithful God.
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I am your strong power. I am your strong power.
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I am your I'm the source of your everything. I
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am the alpha and the omega, the beginning in the end,
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that is a faithful God in Hebrews ten twenty three said,
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let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess. We
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don't just profess it in our social media. In the
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in in our victory group Pastor in Victory Group of
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Pastor Latina Services attend Gostor Edgar, Pastor Day, Pastor Day
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and his pastor Francis Mi name preaching Victory group Latinam
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Victory groups in the Rehagana Manday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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In the victory group.
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Breas not in our and serving, not hold on things
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that are unswerving, but put our hope in God.
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Put and hope on our abba Father, the one who
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gave us his son to be our hope, to be
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our living hope. It's continue.
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Jesus stop and went and asked the blind beggar to
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be brought to him. That's a three king question at all.
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What do you want me to do for you, parag lord,
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the research power lord, trick question. But when I'm in
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a blind chad, I'm a beggar chad.
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But why why did he ask this?
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I do believe it's Jesus by times advantage Moe it's
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it's two three different vantage points here. First, Jesus wants
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the blind beggar to profess what he actually needs, God
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needs Jesus. Faith is an inward conviction that brings about
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an outward action.
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Faith. You need to be humble in faith.
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You have to understand where you are, accept where you are,
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and be humble and repent, and then a manifestation would
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come out. MERI la labas you faith and my action, James,
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Faith without.
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Action is dead. Something has to be seen. So Jesus
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was actually listening. What do you want? My side?
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Different vantage point also is I do believe Jesus is
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also teaching the crowd.
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Remember the crowd was with him all the while. The
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crowd is there watching.
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It's a learning moment for the crowd and also a
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teaching moment for Jesus. He wants the crowd to learn
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that you have to put your faith in action. Remember
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it was the crowd who rebuked the blind beggar. Stopped there,
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don't meddle with Jesus. We're going somewhere. We're going to
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go pass over. We're just passing Jericho, so stay there.
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Jesus is actually teaching them. Now, look at this person
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who has nothing, yet he believes in me. Yet he
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knows I'm the Messiah, Yet he put his faith on me.
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Do believe Jesus is calling us, each and every one
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of us, in different seasons of our lives.
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He's calling us my son, my daughter? Where are you,
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my son? My daughter? Who do you put your faith in?
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My son? And daughter? Where are you? Now?
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Moving on, he said, Lord, let me recover my side.
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I believe that he has seen before. I believe that
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he he's saying now. He could have said, Lord, give
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me some change, some money, Lordico. He knew only Jesus
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could give him what nobody else could give his sight back.
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No doctor, no, no one can give what Jesus give.
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But heal him. But it did not stop there what
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was lost, and Jesus said, recover your sight. Your faith
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has made you well.
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Six times in this short passage it mentioned sight, sight,
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sight when you dig deeper. It's not only the physical
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sight that's being attributed here. Why because the crowd could
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actually see.
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The crowd experienced Jesus his miracles.
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They were following him, being part of the Howie Boys,
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being being part of the crowd. And yet there's something
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not right with the crowd. It's more than the physical side.
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It's the spiritual side. Where are you in your Where
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are you in your faith? I'm not asking how many
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victory gives you that atten Daniel on the Victory Weekend Ryo.
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By the way, we have a Victory weekend September seventh
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and eighth. Sign up if you need to sign up,
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finish your one to one, if you need to finish
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your one to one.
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It's not that it's not that you know. Faith actually
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precedes sight.
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Jesus could heal when we pray for somebody, now it
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alamna men when we're asking Jesus name mahiiliad.
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But faith precedes sight. You have to ask it for it,
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you have to loan for it.
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First.
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You need to know that he is the son of
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David the Messiah, just like that his side was give him.
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I don't know if there's any more desperate story that
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I heard about a person than this person that I'm
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going to call on stage. She's a very good friend
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of thirteen fourteen years. I've known her even before I
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was I was a Christian.
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Uh and I do believe that.
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In times of death, and I do believe union Pinaca
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ultimately sometimes gonna die at the very point of death.
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Lord Thea.
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There even stories now, okay, right before they gave they
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they they died, then they gave their life to Jesus.
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Sometimes it's that desperate.
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And I'm going to invite Lisa, one of our Victory
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Group leaders, to share her to testimony on stage.
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Isa.
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Yeah, I've known Pallari and Yet for quite some time.
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I'm now even before he became a pastor. I wasn't
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a Christian then yet, and Pastor Larry really reached out
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to me and my husband. We were separated then, and
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we were separated for three years and now we are restored. Anyway,
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that's not my story to tell. Actually, tonight, about two
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thousand and nine, we were childless for seventeen years, my
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husband and I and one a lady who was only
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seventeen years old then had two daughters, the other one
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she couldn't take care of her, so she asked me
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if I could take care of her.
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So I did so.
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About two days Palansha with me, I asked Pastor Larry
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to dedicate her. He was a new he was a
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new pastor then, Yan I missed here, Yeah, yeah, and
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that's SOPHIEA and that's her mother, okay. And then we
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noticed that there was something coming out of for years,
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so we meet brought her to the hospital. She had
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a titis media that was that hell properly, so it
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went to her brain. The sepsis men enjoy this. She
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was having seizures. The doctor said, you know, it's okay
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for as long as we contained to twelve minutes. More
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than twelve minutes, it's going to be a problem. She
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was having forty five minute seizures NonStop. Because of that,
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she had to go undergo lumbertop. She had to take
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all these very strong medicines to control the seizure. And
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the doctor told me, ma'am, she now has cerebral palsy.
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She will not be normal. She cannot walk, she cannot talk,
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she cannot hear because it has severely damaged her brain.
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When we had to move her to the ICU at
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that time, my husband and I we just got back together,
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and you were financially we had financial struggles at that time,
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and we took her in and we brought her to
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Cardinal Santos because that was the closest one to our place.
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I didn't know Nagar and Palakamahal. The doctor told us
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prepare one to two million. At that time, we were
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so desperate, I said, Bahalana. We sold everything we had
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just to and asked help from our friends here in
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church and from people to help her, to help us
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with the finances, to help her with all the medical bills.
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And I called Pasor Larry. I said, Passer Larry. The
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doctor told me, waal Aana her eyes, it doesn't her
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pupils weren't moving anymore, practically brain dead. The nun came
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from Cardinal and did the light the last rites and
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they said, call your pastor, this is it. We signed
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a waiver already. Pastor Larry came. I remember pass Larry shorts.
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The money.
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Yes yet, and Pastor Larry came. Santaola. They came and
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they were with us, and I said, Pastor Larry, this
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is it. You already designed the waiver. I think she's
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gonna be done anytime soon. And Pastor Larry came. He prayed,
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he prayed for Sophia. Then her mother was there, but
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she was so young, she was only seventeen, so she
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really didn't know what to do. Pastor Larry came and
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did that the prayer for her, and when he left,
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two minutes later, the doctor came.
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In bosmona very new as a pastor. Okay, last right,
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and I last right, because I last right. It's actually
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a simple prayer. Lord, we commit thank you, Lord, for
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the life of Sophia. We commit to you now this
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life and thank you for the fruitfulness of her. And
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then in Jesu's name, wakaya, I I knew what to say,
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I know what to say. It doesn't come it didn't
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come out. Knugging her brother Randall, a good friend of mine,
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was there. Uh man, you know what we did. We
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prayed hard, warfair, warfare prayer. It's not committed. Lord, we
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know our God that this is this is not a
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destiny you have for Sophia. We claim her life right now, Lord,
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nugging warfare and then play.
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And then when he left, the doctor came in. You
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know what happened. She opened her eyes and smiled. So
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that was a miracle. Then, so I called passe Larry.
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You will not believe what happened. So, because we couldn't
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anymore afford the medical bills, we moved her to a
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public hospital and there she stayed for three weeks, she
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became well, so the mother told me at I cannot
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take care of her, please take her in Muna. So
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we took her in. After a few days, she had fever,
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so I brought her back to the hospital. She had
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pneumonia sabadi. So she was there for the next eight
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days and at that time the mother had to go
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to work and I was the one taking care of Sophia.
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When she got well, I brought her home. Ky, come
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back after a week for your checkup. During her check up,
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they measured her head. She had hydrocephalus. You know, at
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that time, I didn't We really did not know anymore
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what to do.
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We were.
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Emotionally, physically and financially drained already. But God just told us,
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just go she has a purpose in your life. La
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la ba laame. After a few days, we brought her
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back to the hospital. The time that they were gonna
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drain her brain, the water wasn't there anymore. Supernaturally, she
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was healed from hydrocephalus. She was with us for the
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next few months. After five months, she was going to therapy.
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After five months, she had another episode of seizure and
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we found out that she had epilepsy. You know, church,
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Kaka and her husband going on. Financially, we were really struggling,
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but we had we had a family here in church.
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They were with us throughout our journey, some financial, some
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they were really just holding the ropes with us. They
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were praying with us, and I think that was I
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think that was really what really helped us really overcome
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and really just had peace this by of the situation
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that we were going through right now. After that, I
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now have a nine year old daughter and eleven years
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restored to my husband, and we have also have a
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foster daughter now, So that is indeed faithful.
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And there you can give God praise.
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What reminded me of that story is that because we
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knew all along that she couldn't, you could she couldn't.
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She couldn't walk, she couldn't walk.
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Couldn't hear sometimes in glassy and then you walk in
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see her feet a club, so she doesn't her foot
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is not straight side. And then but it's coming in
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is a airporty picture video. She showed me this video.
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Yeah, we still get her now she's back with her parents,
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with their mother, but we borrow her from time to time.
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The doctor said, she couldn't be here.
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She's walking and she could hear, and she studies in
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a regular school.
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She studies in a regular school.
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How desperate dimma gul aditomo almno means a desperate comil
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hood come, How desperate you can you be? But our
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Abba Father is always there for us. Thank thank you,
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Lisa's this is now their beautiful family. An Akoreian dela
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sometimes out of desperation. But do you still have to
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wait for that desperate moment to call on God to
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rely on her on him? I don't know what what's
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what you're going through, But then what you're part of
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the crowd, part of you, the blind beggar, But same
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vantage point that doesn't change.
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Jesus is the son of David, the Messiah.
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The Lord of Lord, the name above all name, our healer,
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our restorer, our hope, living hope.
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That is Jesus Christ. Let's let's close this and I'm
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gonna ask the worship him come up.
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And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God,
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and all the people when they saw it gave praise
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to God. The blind beggar has a name. His name
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is bartimeeos If you if you research it. Bartimeos in
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the Book of Mark. Upon the research, we figured out
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why okay, the Dealersha with Dealersha boy in Delsha armored
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Bartimeus because he became famous.
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Why did he become famous?
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Because if he's story, can you imagine I was the
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blind Now I see, oh, I remember you.
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You didn't give me any change when I ask the
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ha blind shad in person. I'm I'm that stinky guy
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on the road. Now I see who made me?
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Well? The one that you called Jesus of Nazareth is
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actually Jesus, son of God, son of David. He became famous,
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and he became famous proclaiming God. And my prayer is
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that now that we have transformed lives. Because of our
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transformed lives, now we preach Jesus, sometimes the more preaching.
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But when Jesus, when people see that hope in you,
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they would want that hope. They won't want that living hope.
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In next slide boom in closures one that say said
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God has chosen you to make don't among the gentiles
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the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you.
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What we have to profess is Christ in me. Can
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you say that christ in me? Christ in me.
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Christ in me means now I am bold and courageous.
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Christ in me means I am an overcomer. Christ in
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me means I have the name above all names. Christ
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in me means Abbah is my father. Christ in me
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means he never, He will never leave me nor forsake me.
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Christ in me means.
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I can do all things because he gives me strength,
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because his grace is sufficient.
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Because I am in Christ.
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Hope glory, we proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with
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all wisdom, so that we may present everyone.
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Perfect in Christ.
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Can I ask everybody to stand up, Lord, cans have
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worshiped him, to come on stage.
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Father.
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Wherever we are, Lord, meet us. Maybe some of us
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we have to repent and turn our ways. Maybe some
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of us we have to stop running because we're running away,
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we're not running to you.
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Maybe some of us we need to be full in
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the spirit. Maybe some of us, though we see, we
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are blind.
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But Lord, I pray, right now, Lord, search our hearts,
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Search our hearts, right now, Search our hearts. Jesus, Thank
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you Lord that your peace transcends all understanding. Thank you
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Lord that your love Lord, God is in hope your
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love Lord, cast out fear your love.
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Lord. God never seizes and does it end. S Worship God.
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