Summary

This sermon is based on Matthew 9:27-30, where Jesus heals two blind men. The speaker uses this story to highlight the power of agreement, shared determination, and faith in achieving goals.

The speaker draws parallels between physical and spiritual blindness, emphasizing that many people can see the world but are blind to the Gospel. He discusses various causes of spiritual blindness, such as lust, pride, fear, hatred, religious confusion, and unhealthy family ties.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of teamwork and unity in accomplishing God’s vision, citing Psalm 133:1 and Philippians 2:2. They note that the blind men in the story worked together to reach Jesus, demonstrating the power of shared determination and faith.

The speaker concludes by highlighting Jesus’ instruction for the healed men to keep quiet about their miracle. This is interpreted as Jesus’ desire to avoid interruptions on his journey to the cross, as his primary mission was to save souls, not just perform miracles. The speaker encourages the congregation to spread the news of what Jesus has done for them, drawing parallels with Jeremiah’s persistent proclamation of God’s message despite facing hatred and persecution. The sermon ends with a call to action for the congregation to share their testimonies and not keep the good news of Jesus to themselves.

Transcript (may contain transcription errors)

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going all the way with the Lord.

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Boy, I m I made my decision.

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All away. All away. I’m going all away. All away.

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I’m going all away. I’m going all away with the

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Lord.

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All away. All away. I’m going all away with the

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Lord. All away. All away with the law. Amen. Amen.

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that’s good news. And God like when you say you

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‘re going all the way. There’s no point in

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starting and stopping. For if you start and stop,

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some say that you may not have been saved in the

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first place. Because what God commits into his

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hands, he is able to keep it until the day of

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Christ Jesus’ return. I thank God for another

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to share his word with his people. I pray that,

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Lord, you speak what you want your people to hear

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. We thank our pastor for giving us another

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opportunity, you know, to sharpen our tunes and

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to sharpen our presentation and to speak true.

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Our word today is coming from Matthew chapter

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nine, verses

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seven to

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thirty four.

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Well then twenty seven to thirty. Let’s go there.

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Matthew twenty seven to thirty.

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And when you have it say, amen. Matthew chapter

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nine, verses twenty seven to thirty.

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Do you have it? Amen. And when Jesus departed

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thence, two blind men followed him, crying and

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saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us.

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And when he was coming to the house, the blind

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man came to him. And Jesus said unto them,

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believe ye that I’m able to do this. They said

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unto him, yes Lord. And then he touched their

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eyes saying, according to your faith be it unto

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you. And their eyes were open and Jesus straight

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ly charged

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them saying, see that no man know of it.

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See that no man know of it.

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The title of my message this morning is I couldn

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‘t keep it to myself.

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The points that I would like to share with you is

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point number one, the power of agreement.

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A shared determination and a faith that gets

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results.

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Well, I I think about people being blind and can

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‘t see.

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But I think about people who see that’s blind.

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I th I think about the fact that we have so many

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people here talking about they could discern the

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weather They. can tell you when the weather is

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gonna be ninety degrees or fifty gre degrees in

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your your country. They could discern when

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hurricanes come. They can s discern when the

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stock market goes up and when the stock market is

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about to crash.

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They they can discern a whole discern a whole l

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otta things.

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but they can’t see the glorious gospel that’s in

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Christ Jesus. It says Matthew,

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what’s the big idea with this chapter or the book

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of Matthew? Matthew wrote his account of Jesus’

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ministry to show that Jesus was and is and is

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indeed the king of Israel, the long awaited

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Messiah.

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His name means gift of God. His occupation was a

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tax collector. He was a disciple and apostle of

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Christ. He he was also mentioned as as Levi and

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Jesus went to Levi house for a banquet and

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history history says that Matthew was beheaded in

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Ethiopia.

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There’s different types of blindness. There’s you

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can be born blind.

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You could be blind by uh injury. Something pops

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off a machine and hits you in the eye. You could

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you could you could be blind because of a disease

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Or you could be blind because of disobedience.

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But I don’t wanna talk about the m the metaphor

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of blindness in the physical sense. I wanna talk

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about the blindness in a spiritual sense.

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There’s several causes for spiritual blinding.

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There’s the lust,

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the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and

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the pride of life.

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There’s other reason says there’s causes for

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spiritual blindness when you follow people that

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can’t even leave theyself.

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There’s another reason for blindness. There’s a

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fear of what men think about you,

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what they may say about you,

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what they even may do to you. Them their

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spiritual blindness based on hatred and prejudice

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there’s religious confusion, people are mixing

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doctrines, Christian doctrines with unchristian

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doctrine.

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There’s spiritual blindness and family ties

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that doesn’t lead to a p relationship with God.

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But I heard my friend quote in the office

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yesterday, Marcus Winfrey, I told him I was gonna

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give him a quote. I wasn’t gonna steal his his

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thunder.

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He said that Jesus will make a way out of

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darkness when you can’t feel your way. Is that

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good news? Jesus will make a way out of darkness

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when you can’t feel your way.

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The description says unbelievers love darkness,

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John three nineteen. It says this is the

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condemnation that light is coming to the world

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and men love darkness rather than light. Because

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their deeds were evil for everyone that do of

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evil hate the light, neither come into the light,

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lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that do

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of truth come into the light, that his deeds may

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be manifested

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that they are performed or worked by God. It says

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Saint Corinthians four and four said in the case

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that that that Satan, the God of this world, the

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God of this age, has a major influence on society

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with his ideals, opinion, goals, hopes, and views

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.

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He influences the world philosophy, and education

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, and commerce systems. But there’s an anecdote

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against darkness. The word of God says in Psalm

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one nineteen says the word is a lamp unto my feet

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, a light unto my path. God’s word can’t be put

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out. He guides us through every

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of life through this sin-cursed world. It says

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when Jesus departed, there’s two blind men

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following him, crying saying, thou son of David,

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how mercy on me. Have you ever looked at the text

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, analyzed the text?

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I said Lord, two blind men.

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I said, now Lord how, can two blind men get

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together You? know what I’m saying? How can two

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blind men come in communication with one another

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How. did they even know that they were b blind My

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? first point is the power of agreement Matthew,

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eighteen and nineteen Again. I say unto you that

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if two of you shall agree on earth as touching

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anything that shall ask, it shall be done for

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of my father which is in heaven. Two blind men

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working together, yet they are both blind and

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they know each other. These guys put in action to

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the dream or the vision of seeing. What they were

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doing, they were saying that I know I’m blind, we

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know we blind, but we gonna come together so that

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we can get to Jesus and get a healing. It is only

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possible to effectively

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work together when people are united by a certain

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goal for which they all have a singleness in mind

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. This concept works in every area of society, it

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works in our homes, it works on our job, it works

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on our in our churches. It says that united by a

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certain goal, so you have to have goals young

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people, you just can’t be out here with people

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that don’t have any goals, don’t have any

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don’t, have any vision for their life. You have

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to be around people to have meet the same goal

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that you wanna meet up with, the same um

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perspective that you might have. It says they

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acted together as a team, is a powerful force in

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accomplishing a vision. Teamwork involves putting

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aside differences for a greater goal which is

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accomplishing the same vision.

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Here it is. The object of the group counts more

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than our personal interests. Sometimes we get so

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caught up in ourselves that we forget about the

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team concept. We we we wanna go and do our own

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thing.

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But our own thing doesn’t ex uh help bring forth

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the vision of God. Amen? When we wanna do our own

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thing we need to be part of the team. Psalm one

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thirty three it said w one said how good and

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pleasant it is when God’s people live together in

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unity. Philippians two and two there’s no greater

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joy is by being of the same mind, the same love

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being full of one accord.

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Yet the two blind men had a shared determination.

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We can’t just get to Jesus by ourselves sometimes

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. Sometimes we need help. All of us didn’t get to

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Jesus by ourselves. Somebody w walked with us.

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Somebody told us about Jesus. Somebody invited us

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to church.

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And that’s how we got to Jesus.

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And they kept following Jesus. Two blind men

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following Jesus. And it was a crowd. I’m like

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Lord how how can these blind men get to you? Some

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people said some friends guided them along the

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way. Some people said that um Jesus wasn’t that

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far away from them.

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But you know what? I believe that it was the the

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love of God. It was the the power of the spoken

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word that that draw Jesus, that draw the men to

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Jesus. It’s the power of the word of God that

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draws us to God, that wants us to be closer to

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God. Amen? It says it says this is the kind that

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uh who says that?

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The two men says that they had a shared

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determination. And they had a shared interest.

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And they kept following him. You don’t get no

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point for starting and stopping.

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It say they recognize Jesus Jesus’ position of

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power and authority as the Messianic king. So

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many people today they they don’t understand who

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Jesus is. Even in Jesus’ day the Jews fought

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against Jesus being a king. You remember don’t,

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you? When they tried to kill Jesus when he was a

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baby. ‘Cause here was escape was afraid that

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Jesus was gonna take over his kingdom.

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But the kingdom never belonged to d to hear it

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anyway.

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everything that’s hidden the earth belongs to God

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. So so so they cried out have mercy on us. Blind

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ness and sickness was widely thought of in the

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ancient times as a consequence for sin. They were

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seeking forgiveness and mercy for their sins and

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to claim their healing. But just like us we all

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have sinned and came short of the

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glory of God. We all need God’s mercy. Mercy is

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God doesn’t give us what we justly deserve. They

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have faith enough to believe that if Jesus had

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mercy on them, he will restore their son. Verse

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twenty eight said, “And when he was coming to the

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house, the blind men,” ladies and gentlemen,

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followed Jesus to a house. It’s amazing.

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I dunno if you can see it, but I can’t see blind

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people in that age because when you dealing with

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blind people, everything have to be in a certain

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order for them to move around. It says that the

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blind man came to him, said unto him, believe ye

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that I’m able to do this.

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Do you believe what you pray for? Do you believe

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what what what God says says that Jesus asked

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them, do you believe that I’m able? How many of

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you know that God is able? They said unto him

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emphatically yes, Lord. They didn’t just say yes,

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Lord. But they said yes, Lord. Do anybody have a

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yes in their spirit? Do anybody gotta say thank

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you Lord, in their hearts?

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emphatically they said yes lord, and then he

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touched their eyes saying, according to your

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faith be it unto you. My third point says that

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faith that gets results Has. anyone ever been

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touched by the power of Jesus? It was by simple

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faith Jesus changed all of us. Am I right about

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it? It was nothing we did to cause the change in

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that

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we can all agree that God doesn’t have to answer

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none of our prayers and we thank God that he does

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. But Hebrews eleven and one says now faith is the

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substance of things hoped for and the evidence of

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things not seen. One thing for sure and two

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things are certain that God is able to int do

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anything but

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it says that faith come by hearing when when the

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blind men didn’t have a sight, they had their

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ears. And just like us, when we were spiritually

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in darkness, we we couldn’t see our way, but we

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heard our way. Amen. You heard what God said in

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his word. He said that it faith come by hearing

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and hearing by the word of God. Or in other words

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, faith is

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key substance to salvation. And their eyes were

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open and Jesus greatly charged them saying, see

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that no man know. And I struggle with this. I

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struggle with the text because I I was like, Lord

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why you don’t want them to praise you? Why you

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don’t want them to share yo what wha what you

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done for wha what you done for ’em Lord? I don’t

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understand

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that that you let ’em see, but then you don’t

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wanna let ’em praise you and tell somebody, which

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results in to my title. I just couldn’t keep it

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to myself. And the reason why he he didn’t want

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them to t to tell anybody, because he didn’t want

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them to interrupt his journey to the cross. It

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says that when they open their eyes, hallelujah,

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I was just sitting at the desk and I said, Lord,

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I could I could see like the blind man when when

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they opened their eyes, they never seen before.

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They never seen colours. They never seen people.

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Only thing they heard is the birds. They they n

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only thing they heard was the crowd. But when God

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touched their eyes, the first person they saw was

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Jesus. Isn’t that good news that blind people

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spiritually blind is that the only thing you see

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is Jesus. It says

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they got to look in the face of God, one that

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they heard about. They heard others talk about ‘

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em. They heard the screaming. They heard the

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shouting. They heard the praises about the God

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thought about others. But now they see God for

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themselves. Anybody happy that you you kn you

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heard other people jump and shout. But now you

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you you can testify

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that I know what the power of God can do. Even

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though they d disobeyed our excitement about

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telling others what Jesus did, the reason was

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because he had to go to Calvary and die for our

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sins. Because he came today for our sins, not

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just for miracles. We are getting so far away

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from the gospel truth that

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We we put so much concentration on miracles and

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signs and wonders, but what Jesus came for was a

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sin-sick soul. He came to s s save save us from

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our sins. He was more than a miracle work. He was

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more than a prophet. He was more than a king. He

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was God.

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And as they told him to shut up, we as the New

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Testament church, we are told to spread the news,

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don’t shut up. Anybody got I don’t wanna shut up

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for Jesus. I w I wanna tell somebody about Jesus.

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For we are commissioned we are com commissioned

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to tell others what he has done for us. Can I get

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a witness?

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What has God done for you? I know he woke you up

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this morning. I know he started you on your way.

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I kn I know he bought you a new car. I know that

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he gave you a place to stay. I know that he

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healed your body. I know that he kept you from CO

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VID. I know he helped you s from seeing an unseen

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danger. But I got just to tell him I d I just can

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‘t keep it to myself. Jeremiah said it’s like fire

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Shut. up in my bones. I got to tell somebody.

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Just like Jeremiah, he rebelled against God. But

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God was persistent to come to him. Jeremiah said

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I can’t I don’t wanna tell I don’t wanna do your

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mission no more Lord, because every time I do

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your mission, I become hated.

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I don’t wanna do it no more. But you know what?

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It was a fire inside of him that he couldn’t stop

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telling the people what God said. So we just

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thank God that we’re gonna continue to tell

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somebody what the Lord done for us. Amen. God

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bless you.