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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The year was nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I was driving a nineteen seventy nine Silver Anniversary trans
am te top with an infrared dash.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I was cool back then, having driven back and forth
to the embryotic church that I was starting up in
the hills of West Virginia, Montgomery Specifically, I was coming
back down the road from my hour or so trek
up there to minister and was just coming up over
(00:38):
the hill when I came up over the crest and
there was a horrific.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Car wreck, a terrible car wreck.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
One was coming eastbound, the other car was coming westbound.
Somehow they had gotten and one had gotten and the
other was lane. I don't know what happened exactly, but
it was a terrible car wreck just on the other
side of the hill. My brakes to avoid being included
in the car rack. Pulled over to the side of
the road and ran over to a victim who was
(01:07):
slumped over in the seat.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I was a young man.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'd never seen such a horrific car accident, and I
ran over to the window. The glass was shattered, glass
was everywhere. The man was bleeding. His head was against
the steirring wheel, and I asked him a question. I said,
do you want me to call the police? And he
turned his head, blood running down his face. He said, no,
(01:35):
call an ambulance. I ran away and I thought, yes,
I'll call an ambulance, and I did exactly what he
told me to do. I never forgot that moment. I
knew when I asked him, do you want me to
call the police? I knew i'd said something foolish, but
I didn't exactly know. Why have you ever said something?
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And as the words were coming out of your mouth,
you thought, catch them, they're getting away. They're getting away,
they're getting away. Send your horses out and bring them
in so nobody will know that you are stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I did not realize, in my youthful exuberance and the
lack of experience, I'll blame that I did not realize
that to a person who is bleeding on the side
of the road, it doesn't matter who was at fault.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Why call the police?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He wasn't concerned about who would get a ticket or
who was responsible for the accident. But the level of
accidents that I had experienced had afforded me the luxury
of being preoccupied with who was at fault. But when
the injury is severe enough, when the damage is overwhelming,
when it is intense and life threatening, no one cares
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really about who is to blame. They want somebody who
is solution oriented, who can solve the problem. And I
didn't understand, but I came to reflect on that statement.
I can still see him looking at me, say no,
call an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The curse to me? Are we.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Calling the police to hand out citations when we should
be calling an ambiance? He is the poves Greetings in
the name of the Lord. We have been talking about
blind faith, and we're going to continue that conversation today,
(03:40):
but we're going to take it on from another perspective.
Whenever things get derailed and they go crazy. The first
human propensity the question that we ask more often than not,
His Lord, why. I want you to understand that some
things are unexplainable. So you cannot waste time blaming this
(04:00):
one or that one, or whose fault it is. You
just got to deal with it and go forward. I'm
gonna be talking about the blame game. Watch those toes.
I'm gonna step on some today. Take a look. There
are some things that just.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Happen beyond reasoning.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
As much as you worship your intellect and your ability
to understand, and how smart you think you are and
how much you think you need to understand, there are
some things that just happen that are beyond intellectual resolution.
You will not get closer trying to understand it. There
are some calamities, disaster, destructions, hurricanes, tornadoes, calamities.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That just happen.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The Bible says indiscriminately. It falls on the just and
the unjust. It doesn't matter how holy you live, It
doesn't matter how wild you are. Some stuff just happens
to you. Stop trying to rationalize everything.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
They looked at this man more than blind, and they
says to Jesus, Who's said, this is the human attempt
to rationalize?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
How did I end up like this? If my father
would erased me, I wouldn't have been like this. If
my mother wouldn't have given me to my grandmother, I
wouldn't have You would be surprised at the questions lurking
over the heads of the people in this room about
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how did I end up right here? And you'd be
surprised how many people get to blame for the disappointments
you face every day and for your lack of vision.
(05:58):
That's one of the great things about getting older. You
get to go to the adult level of having children
and watch them blame you like you blamed It did
funny when the shoe is on the other foot. Yeah,
(06:22):
you can't say anything. Just that's gonna have to soak
in on you, see, La. They're having this discussion about
a blind man who has said nothing at all. This
blind man is not to be confused with other blind
men in the scriptures for other blind men quite out
(06:44):
jeeus thou shut of David, have my sell me that
might receive my sight.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But this blind man said nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I told doctor, didn't even ask to be healed. The
many says Jesus just came upon him.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's almost why he stumbled upon him. The blind man
is standing there in his blindness, and they are having
a discussion about him that does not even include him.
Have you ever had people have a discussion about you
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that that doesn't even include you, Like you're not even there,
and they're having this pigure making. They're standing there. Not
a man is blind, but he's not not death, and
they are having a discussion about him as if he
could not.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Hear what they're saying. Oh Sin, they're heaven, They're heaven.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
They're having a discussion, a learning moment about a.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Personal crisis in his life.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Isn't it funny how people will banter easily about things
that cost you great pain, and they'll discuss with frivilty
things that put you in a crisis mode, and they'll
do it so cheaply, as if you had nothing invested
in your whole life. What gives them the right to
have this conjecture as to how I got there? Have
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you ever been blind? What did your mama do? What
gives you the right to make assumption about my mother
and father? You have not even met my mother and father?
And how value being authority as to how I got
in it?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You're not even blind? How do you know what the
problem with the world today is?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Everybody is an expert on everybody else's life except their own.
And Jesus rebuilt him. He told them, you don't know
what you're talking about. Look at you, Nahoula, say you
don't know what you're talking about. You think you got
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my situation on, figured it out. You don't know what
you're talking about. I don't even know what I'm talking about.
I can't figure it out, and I'm the one living
in it. Ain't no way you could know me two
or three years then figure out something that I'm still scratching.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
My head at.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Fifty five trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The truth of the matter.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
He is the answer to the mystery of how you
came to be where you are is not in your head,
nor in the heads of the people who speak into
your life, but in the mind of God. There is
an answer to every situation that you're face in your life.
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That's why you don't have time to worship me or
him or her, because they don't know what they're talking about. Ohly,
God knows how you ended.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Up where you are.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And there's nothing like being the victim of somebody else's
rage misallocated toward you because they want to blame you
for their dilemma. You be surprised at the people in
this room who are living with somebody else's blame. Subtle,
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subtle blame, subtle blame, nothing kind of blame that causes
a fight. It's just a kind of blame that makes
you know not to stay over there too long on
Thanksgiving because y'all can y'all can enjoy a meal. But
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if we stay over there too long, somebody's gonna say
something that sets said off in here. Oh nobody knows
what I'm talking about. That's all right, God bless you
see you? And they said, no, I'm the only person
who understands these careful little relationships where you got to
tip on the eggs shell. Have you ever been in
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a room and you wanted to say something that you
went because if you really said what you really thought,
it would turn the entire evening out. These little relationships
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are laced with the strict nine of secret blame. You
can't taste it, you just feel the effects. The loss
of intimacy, the lack of connectivity, the loss of genuine.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Love and admiration. Swallow it off.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Because you blame me for something that I should not
be blamed for.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Who's sin? Who sin his mother or his father that
he should be born black?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
If sin would make babies go blind, every kid in
here would black out. Now see, people don't like me
because I tell the truth. Every kid in here would
be walking around telling old Mama. Yet people can become
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so self righteous that how can you say that my
parents saying made me blinder, your kids.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Blind still to come on the Potter's touch.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
If you got too much going for you, I can't
show off. But when all hell is breaking loose and
you're down for the couch and there's no way in
the world you can get up, God said, that's what
I can show up and show them that I have
been with you all your life. Oh my God, I
wish I had some help this man. The emptiness of
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an open heart creates a cavity for God to feel,
but a closed mind never receives anything from God. The
only difference between you and the person you admire it's
the perspective they have on life.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
When the one who gave you site says, follow me,
let me lead the way. It's time for blind faith.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
around your neck can leave you limited so that they
can have fellowship and you can have failure. If you
are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
your outcome.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
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Speaker 2 (14:53):
It is arrogant for a finite mind to think that
you understan than an infinite God. You must go back
for the second touch and sometimes the third touch. If
you think about Jesus going back into the garden against
Emine over and over again so that he could walk
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away saying to his disciples, sleep on, I've got it.
We can't go in and pray one time and walk
away and think that we've got orders from headquarters. You
have to really go before God every day to get
new information and new insights and more clarity. Because sometimes
you walk away and you heard what he said, that
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you didn't get what he meant. And I encourage people
to be humble enough to admit you don't know everything.
The emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for
God to feel, but a closed mind never receives anything
from God. Going back a second time and a third
and a fourth is what separates champions and conquerors from
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failures and defeatists. And by the way, you ought to
be blind to because I knew your mama.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'm sorry, I'm by you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Who come back back, got away? Who I have to
catch up words? I'm telling you they will run away
from it, Jesus says. Jesus rebukes the accuser that there
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are always accusers in your life. Now you must understand
the spirit of accusation does not start with men. It
starts with Satan, because Satan is an accuser of the brethren.
And you must understand the spirit of accusation hovers over
the head of every human being in this room, accusing
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you of something, blaming you of something, creating, suggesting, suing
seeds in your mind for what you have to deal with,
guilt over things you had no real control over. Who
are you anyway? Are you God that your actions can
control somebody else's outcome?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But when the.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Spirit of accusation comes, people will accuse you as if
you had more influence than you actually did. Maybe you
contributed to the problem, but there are other people who
contributed in lack of manner, and they didn't turn out
like that. There are other people who walked away. There
are other people who were irresponsible. There are other people
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who didn't finish much time with their kids, and their
kids turned out right. Y'all don't want to talk to me.
Y'all don't want to talk to me. It's so easy
to say I'm like this because and as long as
you assigned blame to other people, you can never regain control.
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The moment you say that it's something his mother or
father did, then he cannot do anything to fix it.
Now the miracle must move from the blind man to
a discussion with his parents, because if what they did
cost him to be blind, they're going to have to
do something to undo it. I hope you brought your
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brain with me this morning, because I just said something
to have it. If you ended up where you ended
up because of somebody else, then you can't fix where
you are.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They have to fix it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Isn't that a lot of power to give to somebody else.
Jesus rebuilt them recognizing the spirit of accusation come from
the spirit of Satan, who is an accuser of the brethren,
And there is an accuser in your life right now
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accusing you every time you get up, accusing you every
time you have a happy moment that you don't deserve it,
that you have no right to it, that you should
be ashamed of. Where you are. There is an accuser
that rings on every good day, threatening you of a
bad day, holding you hostage in your own mind, bringing
up things for what you cannot change and have no
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control over in your life, to torment you. And every
time you go down, there is an accuser saying you
brought that on yourself. There's always a voice that you
wrestle aware. See, I don't have time to fight with you.
I gotta fight off all them voices that are talking
in my head telling me to give up and die.
But I'm so glad that the blind man didn't have
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to rebuke the accuser. Jesus rebuked the accuser and said,
your wrong. I have an attorney that will plead my
case when you make some assumptions about me. I don't
have to fight for myself. Jesus rebuke to the own disciple,
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said neither sin.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Watch this, but.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It was done for the glory.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Of God.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
How can God get glory out of blindness? I made
him like this so I could be glorified in this.
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My strength is made perfect. That's what God said. My
strength is made perfect in your weakness. If you're too strong,
I can't show off. If you got too much going
for you, I can't show off. But when all hell
is breaking loose and you're down for the count and
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there's no way in the wild, you can get up.
God said, that's what I can show up and show
them that I have been with you all your life.
Oh my God, I wish I had some help.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Just ma I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
When God got ready to show his glory, he would
show it through perfection, perfect stuff. I remember when he
called me to preach. I said, Lord, you should get
one of the good people. Don't be calling me because
you know you. You know me, And come on, man,
you know me. You know I'm about to mess this
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thing up, real good fashion up in the here. Get
one of those good people, one of them little goody
two shoes, any people who you know, one of them
That was back when I still believed that they existed.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I did not know that God could be glorified through
something that was not beautiful, to something that was not perfect.
He said, this man is like this, not because of
what his mother did, not because of what his father did.
But I planned his blindness from my glory. That's why
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you're single, so I could be glorified in your singleness.
That's why you're married, so I could be glorified in
your marriage. That's why your home isn't perfect, so I
could be glorified in the imperfect. I made it what
it is so you could see glory in a way
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you couldn't see it. Don't fix it, be glorified in it. Oh, y'all,
don't y'all don't want to talk to me. I wish
I had some help this morning. I wish I had
some help. I wish I had some help. The only
reason we have a need to blame is because we're
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disappointed in the outcome. And the disappointment in the outcome
suggests there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
With where you are.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So the way you cope with the disappointment with you
is by blaming me. So you make me your escapegoat.
But Christ already is that's too theological. I'm not gonna
bother that. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna drop over
into that. Christ says, don't blame his mother, don't blame
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his father, whatever was wrong with them, I could have
made that work.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He said.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
If you're gonna blame anybody, blame me, because I'm going
to use his blindness for my glory. Who I'm gonna
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use her brokenness for my glory. I'm going to use
his emptiness for my glory. I'm gonna use her thirstiness
for my glory. Don't make them over. Leave them alone.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Stop trying to fix him. That's my child. Leave her alone.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I made her this way because I have an appointment
with her. And when the time, I'm just right, and
the stage just said, I'm gonna heal her where I
can get the most glory. Somebody help me pray the
just ten seconds to five people say, you have an appointment,
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you have an appointment, you have an appointment, You have
an appointment, you have an appointment, you have an appointment,
you have an appointment, you have an appointment. Yeah, you
have an appointment. You have an appointment. You don't even
know it. You don't even know it. You don't even
know it. You don't even know it. You're just sitting
on the side of the road, mind in your own business,
not even realizing that you have an appointment. With destiny.
You don't have to fast forward, you don't have to
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pray for it, you don't have to beg for it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
All you gotta do is do you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And while you do you, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Meet you in the middle of the road. Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I don't know who this is for, but this is fuss. Somebody,
sit down, Sit down. We're just talking about it. We're
just talking about it. I don't know why y'all keep
jumping up, but I feel theirnyy of the Holy Ghost,
I feel the spirit of the living God.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I feel the glory of the Lord. The blind man
said nothing, and.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
The miracle came to him, and we'll be right back
after this. The emptiness of an open heart creates a
cavity for God to feel, but a closed mind never
receives anything from God. The only difference between you and
the person you admire is the perspective they.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Have on life.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
let me lead the way, it's time for blind fate.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
around your and that can leave you limited so that
they can have fellowship and you can have failure. If
you are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
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I'm out of time. I have to stop there. But
it's been delightful to share the Word of the Lord
with you. I'm excited about where God is taking you.
I believe believe God, It's going to do great things
in your life. And I don't want you to deter
your steps by getting caught up in excuses and issues
and problems of the blame game. You've got to get
beyond it and start walking out your destiny even when
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you can't see your way clear. This blind faith thing,
it's for you. Take care now, she says.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
The bar
The year was nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I was driving a nineteen seventy nine Silver Anniversary trans
am te top with an infrared dash.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I was cool back then, having driven back and forth
to the embryotic church that I was starting up in
the hills of West Virginia, Montgomery Specifically, I was coming
back down the road from my hour or so trek
up there to minister and was just coming up over
(00:38):
the hill when I came up over the crest and
there was a horrific.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Car wreck, a terrible car wreck.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
One was coming eastbound, the other car was coming westbound.
Somehow they had gotten and one had gotten and the
other was lane. I don't know what happened exactly, but
it was a terrible car wreck just on the other
side of the hill. My brakes to avoid being included
in the car rack. Pulled over to the side of
the road and ran over to a victim who was
(01:07):
slumped over in the seat.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I was a young man.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'd never seen such a horrific car accident, and I
ran over to the window. The glass was shattered, glass
was everywhere. The man was bleeding. His head was against
the steirring wheel, and I asked him a question. I said,
do you want me to call the police? And he
turned his head, blood running down his face. He said, no,
(01:35):
call an ambulance. I ran away and I thought, yes,
I'll call an ambulance, and I did exactly what he
told me to do. I never forgot that moment. I
knew when I asked him, do you want me to
call the police? I knew i'd said something foolish, but
I didn't exactly know. Why have you ever said something?
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And as the words were coming out of your mouth,
you thought, catch them, they're getting away. They're getting away,
they're getting away. Send your horses out and bring them
in so nobody will know that you are stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I did not realize, in my youthful exuberance and the
lack of experience, I'll blame that I did not realize
that to a person who is bleeding on the side
of the road, it doesn't matter who was at fault.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Why call the police?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
He wasn't concerned about who would get a ticket or
who was responsible for the accident. But the level of
accidents that I had experienced had afforded me the luxury
of being preoccupied with who was at fault. But when
the injury is severe enough, when the damage is overwhelming,
when it is intense and life threatening, no one cares
(02:56):
really about who is to blame. They want somebody who
is solution oriented, who can solve the problem. And I
didn't understand, but I came to reflect on that statement.
I can still see him looking at me, say no,
call an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The curse to me? Are we.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Calling the police to hand out citations when we should
be calling an ambiance? He is the poves Greetings in
the name of the Lord. We have been talking about
blind faith, and we're going to continue that conversation today,
(03:40):
but we're going to take it on from another perspective.
Whenever things get derailed and they go crazy. The first
human propensity the question that we ask more often than not,
His Lord, why. I want you to understand that some
things are unexplainable. So you cannot waste time blaming this
(04:00):
one or that one, or whose fault it is. You
just got to deal with it and go forward. I'm
gonna be talking about the blame game. Watch those toes.
I'm gonna step on some today. Take a look. There
are some things that just.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Happen beyond reasoning.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
As much as you worship your intellect and your ability
to understand, and how smart you think you are and
how much you think you need to understand, there are
some things that just happen that are beyond intellectual resolution.
You will not get closer trying to understand it. There
are some calamities, disaster, destructions, hurricanes, tornadoes, calamities.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That just happen.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The Bible says indiscriminately. It falls on the just and
the unjust. It doesn't matter how holy you live, It
doesn't matter how wild you are. Some stuff just happens
to you. Stop trying to rationalize everything.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
They looked at this man more than blind, and they
says to Jesus, Who's said, this is the human attempt
to rationalize?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
How did I end up like this? If my father
would erased me, I wouldn't have been like this. If
my mother wouldn't have given me to my grandmother, I
wouldn't have You would be surprised at the questions lurking
over the heads of the people in this room about
(05:38):
how did I end up right here? And you'd be
surprised how many people get to blame for the disappointments
you face every day and for your lack of vision.
(05:58):
That's one of the great things about getting older. You
get to go to the adult level of having children
and watch them blame you like you blamed It did
funny when the shoe is on the other foot. Yeah,
(06:22):
you can't say anything. Just that's gonna have to soak
in on you, see, La. They're having this discussion about
a blind man who has said nothing at all. This
blind man is not to be confused with other blind
men in the scriptures for other blind men quite out
(06:44):
jeeus thou shut of David, have my sell me that
might receive my sight.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But this blind man said nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I told doctor, didn't even ask to be healed. The
many says Jesus just came upon him.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's almost why he stumbled upon him. The blind man
is standing there in his blindness, and they are having
a discussion about him that does not even include him.
Have you ever had people have a discussion about you
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that that doesn't even include you, Like you're not even there,
and they're having this pigure making. They're standing there. Not
a man is blind, but he's not not death, and
they are having a discussion about him as if he
could not.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Hear what they're saying. Oh Sin, they're heaven, They're heaven.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
They're having a discussion, a learning moment about a.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Personal crisis in his life.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Isn't it funny how people will banter easily about things
that cost you great pain, and they'll discuss with frivilty
things that put you in a crisis mode, and they'll
do it so cheaply, as if you had nothing invested
in your whole life. What gives them the right to
have this conjecture as to how I got there? Have
(08:26):
you ever been blind? What did your mama do? What
gives you the right to make assumption about my mother
and father? You have not even met my mother and father?
And how value being authority as to how I got
in it?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You're not even blind? How do you know what the
problem with the world today is?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Everybody is an expert on everybody else's life except their own.
And Jesus rebuilt him. He told them, you don't know
what you're talking about. Look at you, Nahoula, say you
don't know what you're talking about. You think you got
(09:14):
my situation on, figured it out. You don't know what
you're talking about. I don't even know what I'm talking about.
I can't figure it out, and I'm the one living
in it. Ain't no way you could know me two
or three years then figure out something that I'm still scratching.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
My head at.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Fifty five trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The truth of the matter.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
He is the answer to the mystery of how you
came to be where you are is not in your head,
nor in the heads of the people who speak into
your life, but in the mind of God. There is
an answer to every situation that you're face in your life.
(10:03):
That's why you don't have time to worship me or
him or her, because they don't know what they're talking about. Ohly,
God knows how you ended.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Up where you are.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And there's nothing like being the victim of somebody else's
rage misallocated toward you because they want to blame you
for their dilemma. You be surprised at the people in
this room who are living with somebody else's blame. Subtle,
(10:52):
subtle blame, subtle blame, nothing kind of blame that causes
a fight. It's just a kind of blame that makes
you know not to stay over there too long on
Thanksgiving because y'all can y'all can enjoy a meal. But
(11:13):
if we stay over there too long, somebody's gonna say
something that sets said off in here. Oh nobody knows
what I'm talking about. That's all right, God bless you
see you? And they said, no, I'm the only person
who understands these careful little relationships where you got to
tip on the eggs shell. Have you ever been in
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a room and you wanted to say something that you
went because if you really said what you really thought,
it would turn the entire evening out. These little relationships
(11:57):
are laced with the strict nine of secret blame. You
can't taste it, you just feel the effects. The loss
of intimacy, the lack of connectivity, the loss of genuine.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Love and admiration. Swallow it off.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Because you blame me for something that I should not
be blamed for.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Who's sin? Who sin his mother or his father that
he should be born black?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
If sin would make babies go blind, every kid in
here would black out. Now see, people don't like me
because I tell the truth. Every kid in here would
be walking around telling old Mama. Yet people can become
(13:12):
so self righteous that how can you say that my
parents saying made me blinder, your kids.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Blind still to come on the Potter's touch.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
If you got too much going for you, I can't
show off. But when all hell is breaking loose and
you're down for the couch and there's no way in
the world you can get up, God said, that's what
I can show up and show them that I have
been with you all your life. Oh my God, I
wish I had some help this man. The emptiness of
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an open heart creates a cavity for God to feel,
but a closed mind never receives anything from God. The
only difference between you and the person you admire it's
the perspective they have on life.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
When the one who gave you site says, follow me,
let me lead the way. It's time for blind faith.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
around your neck can leave you limited so that they
can have fellowship and you can have failure. If you
are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
your outcome.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
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Speaker 2 (14:53):
It is arrogant for a finite mind to think that
you understan than an infinite God. You must go back
for the second touch and sometimes the third touch. If
you think about Jesus going back into the garden against
Emine over and over again so that he could walk
(15:13):
away saying to his disciples, sleep on, I've got it.
We can't go in and pray one time and walk
away and think that we've got orders from headquarters. You
have to really go before God every day to get
new information and new insights and more clarity. Because sometimes
you walk away and you heard what he said, that
(15:34):
you didn't get what he meant. And I encourage people
to be humble enough to admit you don't know everything.
The emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for
God to feel, but a closed mind never receives anything
from God. Going back a second time and a third
and a fourth is what separates champions and conquerors from
(15:58):
failures and defeatists. And by the way, you ought to
be blind to because I knew your mama.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'm sorry, I'm by you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Who come back back, got away? Who I have to
catch up words? I'm telling you they will run away
from it, Jesus says. Jesus rebukes the accuser that there
(16:35):
are always accusers in your life. Now you must understand
the spirit of accusation does not start with men. It
starts with Satan, because Satan is an accuser of the brethren.
And you must understand the spirit of accusation hovers over
the head of every human being in this room, accusing
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you of something, blaming you of something, creating, suggesting, suing
seeds in your mind for what you have to deal with,
guilt over things you had no real control over. Who
are you anyway? Are you God that your actions can
control somebody else's outcome?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But when the.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Spirit of accusation comes, people will accuse you as if
you had more influence than you actually did. Maybe you
contributed to the problem, but there are other people who
contributed in lack of manner, and they didn't turn out
like that. There are other people who walked away. There
are other people who were irresponsible. There are other people
(17:39):
who didn't finish much time with their kids, and their
kids turned out right. Y'all don't want to talk to me.
Y'all don't want to talk to me. It's so easy
to say I'm like this because and as long as
you assigned blame to other people, you can never regain control.
(18:03):
The moment you say that it's something his mother or
father did, then he cannot do anything to fix it.
Now the miracle must move from the blind man to
a discussion with his parents, because if what they did
cost him to be blind, they're going to have to
do something to undo it. I hope you brought your
(18:27):
brain with me this morning, because I just said something
to have it. If you ended up where you ended
up because of somebody else, then you can't fix where
you are.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They have to fix it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Isn't that a lot of power to give to somebody else.
Jesus rebuilt them recognizing the spirit of accusation come from
the spirit of Satan, who is an accuser of the brethren,
And there is an accuser in your life right now
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accusing you every time you get up, accusing you every
time you have a happy moment that you don't deserve it,
that you have no right to it, that you should
be ashamed of. Where you are. There is an accuser
that rings on every good day, threatening you of a
bad day, holding you hostage in your own mind, bringing
up things for what you cannot change and have no
(19:19):
control over in your life, to torment you. And every
time you go down, there is an accuser saying you
brought that on yourself. There's always a voice that you
wrestle aware. See, I don't have time to fight with you.
I gotta fight off all them voices that are talking
in my head telling me to give up and die.
But I'm so glad that the blind man didn't have
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to rebuke the accuser. Jesus rebuked the accuser and said,
your wrong. I have an attorney that will plead my
case when you make some assumptions about me. I don't
have to fight for myself. Jesus rebuke to the own disciple,
(20:04):
said neither sin.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Watch this, but.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It was done for the glory.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Of God.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
How can God get glory out of blindness? I made
him like this so I could be glorified in this.
(20:46):
My strength is made perfect. That's what God said. My
strength is made perfect in your weakness. If you're too strong,
I can't show off. If you got too much going
for you, I can't show off. But when all hell
is breaking loose and you're down for the count and
(21:08):
there's no way in the wild, you can get up.
God said, that's what I can show up and show
them that I have been with you all your life.
Oh my God, I wish I had some help.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Just ma I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
When God got ready to show his glory, he would
show it through perfection, perfect stuff. I remember when he
called me to preach. I said, Lord, you should get
one of the good people. Don't be calling me because
you know you. You know me, And come on, man,
you know me. You know I'm about to mess this
(21:53):
thing up, real good fashion up in the here. Get
one of those good people, one of them little goody
two shoes, any people who you know, one of them
That was back when I still believed that they existed.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I did not know that God could be glorified through
something that was not beautiful, to something that was not perfect.
He said, this man is like this, not because of
what his mother did, not because of what his father did.
But I planned his blindness from my glory. That's why
(22:44):
you're single, so I could be glorified in your singleness.
That's why you're married, so I could be glorified in
your marriage. That's why your home isn't perfect, so I
could be glorified in the imperfect. I made it what
it is so you could see glory in a way
(23:05):
you couldn't see it. Don't fix it, be glorified in it. Oh, y'all,
don't y'all don't want to talk to me. I wish
I had some help this morning. I wish I had
some help. I wish I had some help. The only
reason we have a need to blame is because we're
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disappointed in the outcome. And the disappointment in the outcome
suggests there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
With where you are.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So the way you cope with the disappointment with you
is by blaming me. So you make me your escapegoat.
But Christ already is that's too theological. I'm not gonna
bother that. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna drop over
into that. Christ says, don't blame his mother, don't blame
(24:05):
his father, whatever was wrong with them, I could have
made that work.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He said.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
If you're gonna blame anybody, blame me, because I'm going
to use his blindness for my glory. Who I'm gonna
(24:32):
use her brokenness for my glory. I'm going to use
his emptiness for my glory. I'm gonna use her thirstiness
for my glory. Don't make them over. Leave them alone.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Stop trying to fix him. That's my child. Leave her alone.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I made her this way because I have an appointment
with her. And when the time, I'm just right, and
the stage just said, I'm gonna heal her where I
can get the most glory. Somebody help me pray the
just ten seconds to five people say, you have an appointment,
(25:20):
you have an appointment, you have an appointment, You have
an appointment, you have an appointment, you have an appointment,
you have an appointment, you have an appointment. Yeah, you
have an appointment. You have an appointment. You don't even
know it. You don't even know it. You don't even
know it. You don't even know it. You're just sitting
on the side of the road, mind in your own business,
not even realizing that you have an appointment. With destiny.
You don't have to fast forward, you don't have to
(25:42):
pray for it, you don't have to beg for it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
All you gotta do is do you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And while you do you, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Meet you in the middle of the road. Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I don't know who this is for, but this is fuss. Somebody,
sit down, Sit down. We're just talking about it. We're
just talking about it. I don't know why y'all keep
jumping up, but I feel theirnyy of the Holy Ghost,
I feel the spirit of the living God.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I feel the glory of the Lord. The blind man
said nothing, and.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
The miracle came to him, and we'll be right back
after this. The emptiness of an open heart creates a
cavity for God to feel, but a closed mind never
receives anything from God. The only difference between you and
the person you admire is the perspective they.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Have on life.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
let me lead the way, it's time for blind fate.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
around your and that can leave you limited so that
they can have fellowship and you can have failure. If
you are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
In your outcome as each other's. With your best gift,
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Speaker 6 (27:28):
Is in chaos, Our churches are under fire.
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Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm out of time. I have to stop there. But
it's been delightful to share the Word of the Lord
with you. I'm excited about where God is taking you.
I believe believe God, It's going to do great things
in your life. And I don't want you to deter
your steps by getting caught up in excuses and issues
and problems of the blame game. You've got to get
beyond it and start walking out your destiny even when
(28:14):
you can't see your way clear. This blind faith thing,
it's for you. Take care now, she says.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
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