1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,960 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:22,400 Mission work is about being available to go to other people wherever they are. 3 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:27,560 That can be your neighborhood, that can be in Tangier, that could be across in another 4 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,480 state, somewhere it could be in another country, it could be in another continent. 5 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:36,880 But it's about listening to what God speaks in your spirit and going where He sends you. 6 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,760 And I know this, one of the reasons I love to have these teams come up is because you 7 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,560 hear the testimony, right? 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,520 And some of you, God's going to move and speak to you. 9 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:46,520 There's going to be other opportunities. 10 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,560 There's going to be more opportunities to go to Tangier, there's going to be more opportunities 11 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,600 to go out locally and globally. 12 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,960 And I know God speaks to hearts and lives. 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,560 That's what the Holy Spirit does. 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,360 And I know some of you are getting prompted right now. 15 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,360 You ever get God just kind of knocking on your heart a little bit, right? 16 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,240 The Holy Spirit, I talk about the Holy Spirit giving you a nudge. 17 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,480 Some of you are getting nudged right now and you're thinking, well, I don't know, maybe, 18 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:08,480 right? 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,280 And God's saying, oh yeah, it's you. 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,800 And so don't ignore that. 21 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,140 You can step out of here today. 22 00:01:13,140 --> 00:01:16,960 You can leave this morning and you can say, well, that was just because I saw a nice video 23 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:18,640 and I heard some great testimonies. 24 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,200 Or maybe it's just the Holy Spirit saying it's time, right? 25 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:26,280 I encourage everybody, somewhere in your lifetime, you need to go on at least one mission 26 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,560 trip somewhere and experience God in a different way. 27 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:30,840 I'm telling you, it's different. 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:31,840 Amen? 29 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:32,840 How many know that? 30 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,440 Raise your hand if you've gone on a trip and you know how different it can be. 31 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,400 So just be in prayer about that. 32 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,520 I'm encouraging what God's doing in Tangier and in hearts and lives and what God's doing 33 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,560 through people here at LifeHouse. 34 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:44,560 Amen? 35 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:45,560 Amen. 36 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,800 I won't make you raise your hand if you get nudged this morning. 37 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,040 I'll just let that between you and God. 38 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,800 If you've got your Bibles this morning, I want you to turn to John chapter 9. 39 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,600 As you get there, I'm going to pray and then I'm going to give you just a little background 40 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:00,880 in the scripture. 41 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:01,880 I'm going to preach. 42 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,240 They told me I only got 20 minutes, but how many of you got some extra time today? 43 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:06,240 Yeah, amen. 44 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:07,240 All right. 45 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:08,240 I got one. 46 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:09,240 Amen. 47 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:10,240 That's all I need. 48 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:11,240 Lord, we thank you for this day, for your blessing. 49 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,240 I thank you, Lord, for the trip. 50 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,040 I thank you for the lives that were changed. 51 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,840 I thank you, Lord, for God, what you're going to do in the future. 52 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,000 God, should you not return, Lord, we're going to get opportunity, Lord, to go out and to 53 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,840 reach others with the gospel. 54 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,240 I ask that your hand would be upon this word today and we give you glory and honor in Jesus' 55 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:28,240 name. 56 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,040 Amen and amen. 57 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,160 By the way, there are people listening online. 58 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,600 The Holy Spirit can nudge you just where you are as well. 59 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:35,600 Amen. 60 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,600 That's true. 61 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,600 It's true. 62 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,080 Well, Jesus is about to perform a genuine miracle. 63 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,200 He heals a man who was blind from birth. 64 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,920 He healed somebody that wasn't blind, that became blind somewhere along the way. 65 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:54,320 Maybe they saw and had an accident and they lost their vision and Jesus returns their 66 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:55,320 sight. 67 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:00,120 He heals a man who was blind from birth, somebody who has never seen the sunlight, somebody 68 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,240 who's never seen a tree, somebody who's never saw an island or a beach, someone who's never 69 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,880 saw the face of his family or his friends. 70 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,060 He doesn't have that imagery in his mind. 71 00:03:09,060 --> 00:03:10,960 He maybe never saw colors, right? 72 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,680 Green, red, yellow, blue. 73 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,680 He doesn't know any of this. 74 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,440 And Jesus comes along and in this passage, he'll heal this man. 75 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:23,080 And this is sixth of the seventh miracles that you'll see in the book of John. 76 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:28,320 And it's really one more proof that Jesus really is the Messiah. 77 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,940 But as we go into this scripture, something's going to grab you as you begin to read with 78 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:37,080 me in this scripture, because you're going to see how the disciples see this man who 79 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,140 is blind and how Jesus sees this man. 80 00:03:40,140 --> 00:03:45,320 Two very different perspectives on how they see this man who has been blind from birth. 81 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,880 I mean, you're John chapter nine, raise your hand right now. 82 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:50,680 John chapter nine says this. 83 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,960 Now as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth and his disciples asked him 84 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,520 saying, Rabbi, who sinned? 85 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,320 This man or his parents that he was born blind. 86 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:06,160 And Jesus answered, neither this man nor his parents sin, but that the works of God should 87 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,680 be revealed in him. 88 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:16,200 Now in our culture, we would never make the assumption that this man who is blind from 89 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,760 birth would be a result of sin in his life. 90 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,440 We want thinking our minds are in our hearts. 91 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,480 You know, I bet you something's going on in this guy's life. 92 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:29,400 That's why he was born blind or more importantly, I bet you something his parents did right 93 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:30,960 cause this man to be born blind. 94 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,320 We don't think that way. 95 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,560 But in that culture, in that time, if you were blind, if you were lame, if you had some 96 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,800 kind of physical abnormality of some kind, a lot of times they believe that there was 97 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,160 sin in your past. 98 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,240 They thought you were either sinning somewhere in your past, you sinned somewhere in the 99 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,240 present. 100 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,600 And some of them even believe that was just prejudgment on some sin that you were going 101 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,240 to take place that was going to take place in the future. 102 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,920 And that's kind of where the disciples were coming from, right? 103 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,680 They're seeing a man, they're looking at a man thinking, man, right? 104 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,840 What kind of sin was this guy messed up in? 105 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:07,800 And Jesus is looking for an opportunity to do the father's work to completely different 106 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:08,840 perspective. 107 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:14,080 And Jesus quickly straightens up the theological misnomer of the disciples. 108 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:19,440 This theological inaccuracy of this, this lie that they believe Jesus starts to straighten 109 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:24,200 up pretty quickly because he says, neither this man nor his parents sin, but that the 110 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,720 works of God should be revealed in him. 111 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,880 And verse four says this, I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. 112 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:36,960 The night is coming when no one can work or no one can work as long as I'm in the world. 113 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,680 I am the light of the world. 114 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,880 The disciples are thinking who's sinned? 115 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,040 And Jesus said, let's get some spiritual work done. 116 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:44,040 Amen. 117 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,920 They're looking at the same guy. 118 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:51,000 Verse six says this, when they had said these things, he spat on the ground, made clay with 119 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,920 saliva and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. 120 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,600 And he said to him, go wash in the pool of Shalom, which is translated sent. 121 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,400 So he went and washed and came back seeing. 122 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:07,020 Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, is that this 123 00:06:07,020 --> 00:06:09,580 not he who sat and begged? 124 00:06:09,580 --> 00:06:11,280 Some said, this is he. 125 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,160 Others said he is like him. 126 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,640 He said, I am he. 127 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,800 Therefore they said to him, how were your eyes opened? 128 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:24,560 And he answered said, a man called Jesus made clay, anointed my eyes and said to me, go 129 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,700 to the pool of Shalom and wash. 130 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:29,320 So I went and washed and I received sight. 131 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,320 And they said to him, where is he? 132 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,020 He said, I don't know. 133 00:06:33,020 --> 00:06:36,780 They brought him who formerly was blind then to the Pharisees. 134 00:06:36,780 --> 00:06:41,020 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. 135 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:44,800 The Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. 136 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:50,840 He said to them, he put clay on my eyes and I washed and I see. 137 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:54,720 Therefore some of the Pharisees said, this man is not from God, but he does not keep 138 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,080 because he does not keep the Sabbath. 139 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,120 Others said, how can a man who is a sinner do such signs? 140 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,160 And there was a division among them. 141 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,040 Jesus heals a man who was blind from birth. 142 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,040 Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath. 143 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:16,080 And some people were in complete awe, just like happened all the time with Jesus. 144 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,440 Some people were amazed at the miracle. 145 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,380 The religious leaders are all been out of shape because Jesus did it on the Sabbath. 146 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:26,780 And they believe that if you healed somebody, that was work on the Sabbath. 147 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:29,940 That was just kind of in their own minds, their own making. 148 00:07:29,940 --> 00:07:33,240 Some people were just kind of talking about the whole thing that was going down. 149 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:34,960 How many people just talk sometime. 150 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,160 When things happen, somebody's talking. 151 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:44,560 And to add to all this that's going on with this man, Jesus heals this man in a super 152 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,180 unique manner. 153 00:07:46,180 --> 00:07:54,480 He spits on the ground, makes clay with his saliva and then smears it into this blind 154 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,280 man's eyes. 155 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,760 Now I thought about this for a minute or two. 156 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,640 And I thought about this from the blind man's perspective. 157 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,800 I want you to think about this for a moment. 158 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,600 You've got an individual who's never seen anything. 159 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,920 He lives in this world of darkness and I'm sure he's hearing. 160 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,080 They say a lot of times when you lose one sense, your other senses are much greater. 161 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:19,720 He's standing there, he's blind and he hears about this man, Jesus, who is at least a healer, 162 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,920 a prophet, some holy man that's coming. 163 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:27,040 And he's hoping that this man comes to him and brings healing. 164 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:31,480 And all of a sudden this man, Jesus walks up to him, doesn't really get into much of 165 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,760 a discussion with him at all. 166 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,920 And all this blind man can, I want you just to close your eyes for a moment. 167 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:38,600 Go ahead and close your eyes like you're blind. 168 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:39,600 All right. 169 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:40,960 Be the blind man for just a moment. 170 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:41,960 All we hear is. 171 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:42,960 All right. 172 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,720 Now you can open your eyes. 173 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,040 Jesus spits on the ground. 174 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,040 Right. 175 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,880 And then he hears something going on in the dirt and something mixing around in the dirt 176 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:55,880 and awesome. 177 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:56,880 Right. 178 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:57,880 Come on. 179 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:58,880 This is real. 180 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,160 Splat right in his eyes. 181 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,160 Right. 182 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,400 Jesus smearing mud in his already dysfunctional eyes. 183 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,640 I read this story. 184 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,960 Jesus smears spit clay in his guy's eyes. 185 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,200 This is strange. 186 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,380 This is unusual. 187 00:09:17,380 --> 00:09:20,160 This is almost a little bit weird. 188 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,160 Right. 189 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:22,160 Come on. 190 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,720 But this man listens to Jesus. 191 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:26,560 He doesn't get all wound up. 192 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:28,480 He's got mud in his eyes. 193 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:29,840 These eyes that he can't see. 194 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:34,120 And he listens to what Jesus says and he goes to the Pool Shalom. 195 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,120 Now we're going to put a picture up there just so you get a little idea. 196 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,120 Sometimes we talk about these things. 197 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:39,840 You don't know what that might look like. 198 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,200 And there's a picture of what it looks like today. 199 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,040 The Pool Shalom and what it might have looked like. 200 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,800 Right. an artist rendition of what it was. 201 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,440 But the Pool Shalom was a it was in the city of David in Jerusalem. 202 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,120 And and this was a pool. 203 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,880 It was a public area where they would go and they would wash. 204 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,320 It was cleansing that would take place there. 205 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,840 And this man listens to what Jesus says. 206 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,160 Someone led him to that pool. 207 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:04,160 Right. 208 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:05,500 Mud smeared all over his eyes. 209 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:11,800 And he goes to this vast public pool and washes off the mud that Jesus placed on his eyes. 210 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:20,200 And when he washes that mud off for the first time, he sees what he's been feeling all along 211 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:21,720 for the first time. 212 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:28,160 He looks into a pool of water and sees a reflection of himself for the very first time for the 213 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,160 first time. 214 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:33,660 He looks into the clouds and he sees blue in the sky and clouds of white. 215 00:10:33,660 --> 00:10:36,900 And he looks at a tree that he heard was green. 216 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:38,720 But now he knows what green is. 217 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,720 Right. 218 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,160 I mean, think about this for the moment. 219 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,680 He's never seen any of this for the first time. 220 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,920 He sees the face, a human face for the first time. 221 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,440 He looks down and sees the ground for the first time. 222 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,460 Everything is new. 223 00:10:52,460 --> 00:10:53,460 Everything changed. 224 00:10:53,460 --> 00:10:59,720 Jesus completely changes this man's life in one moment in time. 225 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,220 Everything's brand new. 226 00:11:01,220 --> 00:11:05,920 No longer will he beg sitting along a road or sitting beside a building. 227 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,660 No longer will he be led by somebody right by the hand to get him to wherever he's going. 228 00:11:10,660 --> 00:11:14,880 No longer does he have to ask what's happening, what's going on around me. 229 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,960 All of a sudden, this freedom comes into his life. 230 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:19,960 It's incredible. 231 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:20,960 It's incredible. 232 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:28,840 But there's some lessons in this incredible story in this story where Jesus, you know, 233 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,080 heals this man. 234 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:35,760 There are some very practical lessons in this unique, unusual way that Jesus heals this 235 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:36,760 man. 236 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,640 I think there's some things that think about there's some things that consider some things 237 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:44,640 that we that help us get straight so that we don't get derailed in the middle of a God 238 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,680 thing right in the middle of a God miracle. 239 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:55,240 And one of those things is is that our healing may not look like we think right. 240 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:00,940 Our healing might not our miracle may not look like we think our healing might look 241 00:12:00,940 --> 00:12:02,240 very different. 242 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:07,860 It may come in a very unappealing package right when God's moving in your life. 243 00:12:07,860 --> 00:12:11,200 It might look instead of a pretty ribbon and some bow. 244 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,640 It might look like spit mud in your life. 245 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,200 Spit clay right smeared in your eyes. 246 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,400 And it sounds a little gross and it sounds like you know this guy could have felt embarrassed 247 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,360 or humiliated. 248 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,560 You know, no no one's walking around praying and saying God I need a miracle. 249 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:30,080 I need a healing. 250 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,440 Jesus please send somebody to buy to spit in the mud and make into a clay and splattered 251 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,320 on my face. 252 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,160 Nobody's thinking that right. 253 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:44,080 No one's praying that but the miracle came in an unusual manner. 254 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,080 It came in something that was strange. 255 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:52,840 It came in an opportunity that nobody would think about and sometimes that's how God works 256 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:59,280 our healing or our miracle may not look like we think it may not come wrapped in a pretty 257 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:00,520 little package. 258 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,200 It might not have a bow. 259 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,960 Birds might not be singing in fluffy clouds going by. 260 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:10,280 Right when the miracle takes place when God gets you sometimes it's in the mess. 261 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,080 Sometimes it's in the mud. 262 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:14,720 Sometimes it's not real pleasant to your senses. 263 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,280 I think a little bit about Jonah in scripture. 264 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,280 Right. 265 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,880 God how many oh God Jonah needed an attitude healing. 266 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:22,520 I don't know if you ever needed an attitude healing. 267 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,240 I have a few times right. 268 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:29,280 He needed his attitude you and God sent a big old fish by swallowed him up and he lived 269 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,600 three days in the belly of a well. 270 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:32,600 All right. 271 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:33,600 Now that sounds cool. 272 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,640 When we showed in BBS the Jones just stand there and the lights are on right. 273 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:38,640 It's really nice. 274 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:39,640 Oh he's inside. 275 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,320 No man he was in the dark. 276 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:42,760 He's laying in sludge. 277 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:43,760 He doesn't even know what's going on. 278 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:44,760 He just got swallowed. 279 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,040 You know if he's going to get digested he doesn't know he's just laying in the dark for three 280 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:54,760 days in disgust right in the mess and the whale spits him back out and he goes and he 281 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:55,760 gets it. 282 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,000 How many how many know that change your attitude. 283 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 All right. 284 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 That changed my attitude. 285 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,120 Anyway he's his attitude. 286 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,320 God healed. 287 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:07,760 Our healing may not look like we think it might not come in the package that we're we're 288 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:12,640 thinking about and sometimes we can miss it because it doesn't look like our preconceived 289 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,920 idea of what this should all look like. 290 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:15,920 Right. 291 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,760 My miracle should look like it doesn't fit our optics. 292 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,520 It doesn't fit our lens of what we have in our mind. 293 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,000 How many of you ever said this. 294 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,240 God's in the middle of something. 295 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,520 It's messy as all get out. 296 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:28,600 You're like it just doesn't feel right. 297 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,520 Anybody ever say that. 298 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:36,880 Sometimes we need to put our feelings over on the shelf and we need to ask the Holy Spirit 299 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:42,880 what's going on because your feelings are not always a clear indicator of what's going 300 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:43,880 on. 301 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,040 Sometimes we miss what God's doing. 302 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,040 We missed America. 303 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,200 We missed the healing because we're going off of our feelings. 304 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,480 Our feelings are not an accurate indicator of always maybe what's taking place in the 305 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,240 spiritual or what God's doing. 306 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:02,160 Our feelings are actually simply a reaction to our perception right of what's happening 307 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:03,160 around us. 308 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:04,160 That's what you're feeling. 309 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,800 And I can give you a little example of what I'm talking about. 310 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,960 We put up that picture of a mouse right. 311 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,880 I brought a killer mouse with me today. 312 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,740 How many of you get a feeling when you see a mouse running around your house. 313 00:15:17,740 --> 00:15:18,740 Come on be honest. 314 00:15:18,740 --> 00:15:20,960 Some of you are up on a stool. 315 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,880 You're freaking out. 316 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,260 That thing's this big. 317 00:15:25,260 --> 00:15:31,280 How many of you have ever heard of a newspaper article that says the person injured by mouse. 318 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,720 Anybody ever read anything death by mouse. 319 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,720 No. 320 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:35,720 Right. 321 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:36,720 It's irrational. 322 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:42,040 You're feeling it's based on something that's conjured up in your mind that this thing is 323 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,040 a killer. 324 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:44,040 All right. 325 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:45,680 It's squeaking and running away from you. 326 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:46,720 It's this big. 327 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,200 Its teeth are even tinier. 328 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,440 It can't do anything. 329 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:52,640 It really can't. 330 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,080 And the blind man he could have felt really negative. 331 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,480 He could have thought you know his feelings could have got really hurt. 332 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,080 I'm already blind. 333 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,640 My eyes are already dysfunctional. 334 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,520 Somebody spits on the ground makes clay and slaps it on my eyes. 335 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,080 How humiliating. 336 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,280 But I think somehow the Holy Spirit left this man know that whoever was smearing mud in 337 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,820 his eyes was no ordinary man. 338 00:16:14,820 --> 00:16:16,960 That this was Jesus. 339 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,360 Don't base your actions and your inactions on your feelings. 340 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,280 Find out what the Holy Spirit is doing in the middle of the mud. 341 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:25,860 In the middle of the spit clay. 342 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:27,220 In the middle of the mess. 343 00:16:27,220 --> 00:16:29,880 In the middle of the unusual. 344 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,480 Find out what the Holy Spirit is speaking to you. 345 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,600 Find out what Jesus is trying to reveal to you because your miracle might be right on 346 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:37,600 the other side of it. 347 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:38,600 Amen. 348 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:39,600 It's true. 349 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:40,600 Can I give you one more thing. 350 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,600 You got time for one more thing. 351 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:42,600 All right. 352 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:43,600 I got two. 353 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:44,600 That's good enough. 354 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:45,600 All right. 355 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,480 Sometimes the miracle will all follows your obedience in the mud. 356 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,320 Sometimes I have a question for you. 357 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,160 What do you think would have happened? 358 00:16:54,160 --> 00:17:00,720 If this man who was blind from birth would not have went to the Pool of Shalom. 359 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,360 I don't think it would have been. 360 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,640 I don't think it had been healed. 361 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:09,320 If he would have just stood there and Jesus smeared the mud on his eyes and he got thinking 362 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,880 his mind, you know, I really don't want to go to the Pool of Shalom. 363 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,440 I'm going to have to get somebody to leave me there. 364 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:14,640 This was embarrassing enough. 365 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,780 I think I'm just going to go home, you know, lick my wounds. 366 00:17:17,780 --> 00:17:18,780 You know, I'm going to. 367 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:20,660 This has been a weird day. 368 00:17:20,660 --> 00:17:22,480 It's been a strange thing happening here. 369 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,080 I don't even know what's going on. 370 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,320 I was going to go home and have a latte, sit down, put my feet up. 371 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:28,320 Right. 372 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,680 He could have said that he could have done that, but he did it. 373 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,060 He went and it was this act of obedience. 374 00:17:35,060 --> 00:17:37,880 And that sometimes you got to look at the timing in God's work. 375 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,720 You got to notice what happened in what order because in verse 11 says, then he answered 376 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,200 and said, a man called Jesus made clay, anointing my eyes and said to me, go to the Pool of 377 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:47,480 Shalom and wash. 378 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:52,880 So I went, I washed and I received my sight. 379 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:58,380 He received his sight after he listened to what Jesus had to say. 380 00:17:58,380 --> 00:18:01,060 It wasn't when he got the mud smeared on his eyes. 381 00:18:01,060 --> 00:18:04,040 It wasn't while he was standing there conversing with Christ. 382 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:05,700 It wasn't any of that. 383 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:10,240 It's when he went in obedience to what Jesus said that the miracle followed. 384 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,240 Right. 385 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,420 The miracle was in the mud when he listened in obedience. 386 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:18,320 The miracle followed the obedience to Christ's command. 387 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,560 The healing came once he was obedient to Christ's command. 388 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,160 The freedom came following the obedience to Christ's command. 389 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,880 The new life came following the obedience to Christ. 390 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:28,880 What? 391 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:29,920 His command. 392 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,720 The new opportunity came after obedience to following Christ. 393 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,640 What command? 394 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,240 It all came after what was said. 395 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:45,000 Jesus will provide the healing mud, but it might be that you have to provide the obedience 396 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,760 to what he's saying. 397 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,760 There's a miracle in the mud. 398 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,480 There's a miracle in the mud. 399 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,880 Obedience to his written word. 400 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:55,880 Right. 401 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,560 The word of God, the Bible logos, whatever you have. 402 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:01,560 We all have opportunity. 403 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:06,300 The United States of America to the written word of God, obedience to that word. 404 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:09,400 And then also to the rainbow word. 405 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,760 God gave him, Jesus gave him a rainbow word. 406 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,240 Go wash in the pool of Shalom. 407 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,120 He gave him, he gave him a word. 408 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:20,100 Right now word is what a rain word is. 409 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:21,600 Move on what I said. 410 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:22,600 Right. 411 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,720 Go to the pool of Shalom. 412 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:32,400 Our healing, our miracle, it might not look like we think it might not come in the package 413 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,980 that you're looking for. 414 00:19:33,980 --> 00:19:37,760 But if you're in the middle of the mud, hear me in this, if you're in the middle of the 415 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,780 mud, God might have healing. 416 00:19:39,780 --> 00:19:42,520 He might have the miracle on the other side. 417 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,000 You just got to stop and ask the Holy Spirit, is this you? 418 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Is this mud you? 419 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,120 Amen. 420 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:53,680 And then walk in obedience to what I say. 421 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,840 Walk in obedience to what I say. 422 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:57,840 So let me ask you this. 423 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,920 How do we respond to this message today? 424 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,080 Well, two things. 425 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:07,120 One, if you don't know Jesus, you can know the man who makes the mud. 426 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:08,800 They can bring the miracle. 427 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:09,800 You really can. 428 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,800 So I'm asking you to do this right now as a pretty seat comes on. 429 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,400 I want you just to just where you're sitting, just close your eyes right now for the moment. 430 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,440 The praise team is going to make their way up here. 431 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:18,860 You might be in the house this morning. 432 00:20:18,860 --> 00:20:23,400 You might be listening online this morning and you want to know about the one who has 433 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,760 the has the miracle in the mud. 434 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:30,440 You might want to know about the one who will walk you through out of the mess. 435 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:31,500 And his name is Jesus. 436 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:32,500 He came. 437 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:33,500 He died on a cross. 438 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:34,500 He rose from the grave. 439 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:36,080 He's now at the right hand of the father. 440 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:41,320 And he did all that for you and I so that we could come to a place of salvation because 441 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:47,520 the sin that's in our lives, we can't do anything about the sin that we've committed. 442 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,920 We have no power over that. 443 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,540 And that sin will eternally separate us from God. 444 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:55,920 And Jesus said, I'm going to come and fix that problem. 445 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,680 I'm going to allow you to come back into relationship and I'm going to pay the price for you because 446 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,800 the price for sin was death. 447 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,340 And Jesus took that death. 448 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:05,340 He took the burial. 449 00:21:05,340 --> 00:21:07,840 He rose from the grave so that you could be free. 450 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:12,760 So if you're listening online, if you're in the house this morning and you want to know 451 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:18,040 this miracle man, this one who will walk you, the one who will never leave you, who will 452 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:25,280 never forsake you, the one who can walk with you from now to eternity and forever, the 453 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,440 one that will bring you into his kingdom. 454 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,060 He'll step you through now and forever. 455 00:21:30,060 --> 00:21:34,380 If that's you in the house this morning or if you're listening online, you can know him. 456 00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:36,000 The word of God says this. 457 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,640 You just have to believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the grave and that he 458 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,840 is actually the son of the living God. 459 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,400 That he has all power. 460 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:45,940 He is the Messiah. 461 00:21:45,940 --> 00:21:48,960 He will rule and reign. 462 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,540 And he wants to come into relationship with you. 463 00:21:51,540 --> 00:21:54,020 He wants to provide the healing and the miracle in the mind. 464 00:21:54,020 --> 00:21:56,620 If you believe that in your heart, that's what the word of God says. 465 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:57,880 It's a heart thing. 466 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,320 And you confess that with your mouth to him in prayer. 467 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,160 The word of God says you'll be saved. 468 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,200 That's all that's required. 469 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,200 So I'm going to pray that prayer. 470 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,520 Lord, I thank you for this day. 471 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,880 I thank you for those who are here. 472 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,000 I thank you for those who are listening online. 473 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,320 But today there might be one. 474 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,480 God, there might be two. 475 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,480 There might be a dozen. 476 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,480 There might be a hundred. 477 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:21,360 God, they want to know the man who has the miracle in the mind and that's you, Jesus. 478 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,240 All they have to do is say, Lord, come into my life. 479 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:25,800 I believe that you are the son of God. 480 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:31,040 I believe that you paid the price that my sins might be cleansed, that I might come 481 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,920 into relationship with you. 482 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,920 Lord, I accept you today in my life. 483 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,960 I'm going to search after you in my life. 484 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,360 I'm going to seek you out. 485 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:42,200 I'm going to follow you today. 486 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,680 I'm going to make that commitment. 487 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,360 In Jesus' name, amen. 488 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:50,720 That's all it takes. 489 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,720 For those of you who do know Jesus as Lord and Savior, you can look up this morning. 490 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:01,080 Communion represents Jesus' Calvary. 491 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:07,000 It represents His death, His burial, His resurrection, His ascension to the Father in power. 492 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,000 But Jesus provided a miracle in the mud at Calvary. 493 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,960 There was not a person in the Jewish community of Jesus' day who thought that the Messiah 494 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,120 would come the way He did. 495 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:18,800 It seemed way too messy. 496 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,600 He was born of a virgin. 497 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,340 For many of them, they thought it was questionable circumstances. 498 00:23:24,340 --> 00:23:26,320 He was born to a carpenter. 499 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,800 He was a commoner's son in a small village. 500 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,240 That didn't fit their perception of Messiah. 501 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,360 It seemed all too messy. 502 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:34,360 He was uneducated. 503 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,520 He didn't fall in with the religious norm. 504 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,260 It was, again, way too messy. 505 00:23:41,260 --> 00:23:45,640 Everything about Jesus seemed way too messy for the religious community. 506 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:51,160 He died on a Roman cross, which seemed completely a powerless position. 507 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,120 They were looking for a Messiah to come in and to take over to rule and reign. 508 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,080 That's what the Jewish people were waiting for. 509 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:02,480 Jesus comes in and dies on a Roman cross, seemingly powerless. 510 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:08,420 But it was in the mud, it was in the mess, that Jesus rises from the grave and comes 511 00:24:08,420 --> 00:24:09,420 into full power. 512 00:24:09,420 --> 00:24:12,400 Is He sitting at the right hand of the Father now? 513 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,520 One day, we'll set up His kingdom on the earth. 514 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,920 It was a miracle in the mud. 515 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,080 It was a miracle in the mess. 516 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,080 Some of you sitting here today, there was mud in your life. 517 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,200 There was mess in your life. 518 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:30,220 And the miracle was that Jesus came into your life, and you got saved. 519 00:24:30,220 --> 00:24:31,220 And you're on the other side of that. 520 00:24:31,220 --> 00:24:32,220 How many remember that? 521 00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:33,220 Right? 522 00:24:33,220 --> 00:24:34,220 I do. 523 00:24:34,220 --> 00:24:35,220 I'm going to ask you to stand. 524 00:24:35,220 --> 00:24:42,220 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 525 00:24:42,220 --> 00:24:50,240 We 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