WEBVTT 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:05.589 I'm going to preach for a few moments today about 00:00:05.589 --> 00:00:14.630 having faith for a miracle. We're going to read 00:00:14.630 --> 00:00:24.269 in the book of Mark, chapter 10. And verse 46. 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:35.619 What a beautiful worship we were a part of today. 00:00:36.859 --> 00:00:42.159 I love our praise team, our musicians, amen. 00:00:42.259 --> 00:00:54.039 Let's thank God for them. Mark chapter 10, verse 00:00:54.039 --> 00:01:04.049 46 through 52. We're going to read in Spanish, 00:01:04.069 --> 00:01:06.750 but you can follow on the screen in English if 00:01:06.750 --> 00:01:33.090 you would like. Y oyendo que era Jesús Nazareno, 00:01:33.209 --> 00:01:38.409 comenzó a dar voces y a decir, Jesús, hijo de 00:01:38.409 --> 00:01:44.489 David, ten misericordia de mí. Y muchos le reprendían 00:01:44.489 --> 00:01:47.989 para que callase, pero él clamaba mucho más, 00:01:48.310 --> 00:01:53.909 hijo de David, ten misericordia de mí. Entonces 00:01:53.909 --> 00:01:58.730 Jesús, deteniéndose, mandó llamarle y llamaron 00:01:58.730 --> 00:02:03.719 al ciego. diciéndole, ten confianza, levántate, 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:09.120 te llama. Él entonces, arrojando su capa, se 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:14.400 levantó y vino a Jesús. Respondiendo, Jesús le 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:18.919 dijo, ¿qué quieres que te haga? Y el ciego le 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.740 dijo, maestro, que recobre la vista. Y Jesús 00:02:23.740 --> 00:02:28.830 le dijo, vete, tu fe te ha salvado. Y enseguida 00:02:28.830 --> 00:02:32.550 recobró la vista y seguía Jesús en el camino. 00:02:32.949 --> 00:02:40.530 Amén. Someone say amen. Alguien diga amen. Let's 00:02:40.530 --> 00:02:47.129 pray. Vamos a orar. Father, we love you today. 00:02:47.270 --> 00:02:50.610 We thank you for your spirit that we feel here. 00:02:53.830 --> 00:02:58.500 We're believing God. That someone is going to 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:05.240 receive their miracle. I pray Lord. That you 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:10.419 will anoint my lips. Put your word in my heart. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:18.699 That I declare boldly. With faith. Your word 00:03:18.699 --> 00:03:24.680 today. And we will not hold back our praise. 00:03:27.469 --> 00:03:31.810 We're going to worship you. We're going to thank 00:03:31.810 --> 00:03:38.590 you for all that you do today. Father, in the 00:03:38.590 --> 00:03:45.789 name of Jesus, we pray, amen. Clap your hands. 00:03:46.830 --> 00:03:53.210 Thank the Lord. You may be seated. In this story, 00:03:55.610 --> 00:04:02.150 Jesus is passing through Jericho. And the streets 00:04:02.150 --> 00:04:09.909 are filled with many people. There are many voices 00:04:09.909 --> 00:04:21.509 shouting. Everyone wants to see Jesus. Many people 00:04:21.509 --> 00:04:28.959 are there. But there was one cry that rose or 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:36.319 rises above the crowd. This cry was different 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:42.860 from all the other noise that was being made. 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:52.910 It was the cry of... A man named Bartimaeus. 00:04:55.269 --> 00:05:01.230 Bartimaeus was blind. He cannot see with his 00:05:01.230 --> 00:05:09.290 natural eyes. However, Bartimaeus could see with 00:05:09.290 --> 00:05:19.209 his spiritual eyes. In his faith. he could see 00:05:19.209 --> 00:05:26.870 his miracle. On that day, he could see his life 00:05:26.870 --> 00:05:34.370 changing. On that day, he could see his life 00:05:34.370 --> 00:05:39.470 changing. Being healed. And he could see the 00:05:39.470 --> 00:05:45.829 one who had the power to heal him. And his name 00:05:45.829 --> 00:05:50.189 is Jesus. How many of you know his name today? 00:05:50.990 --> 00:05:53.050 I said, how many of you know his name today? 00:05:55.709 --> 00:06:01.970 This story shows us something powerful. Sometimes 00:06:01.970 --> 00:06:05.370 the difference between staying Where you are. 00:06:09.470 --> 00:06:18.829 And receiving a miracle is one cry. Amen. One 00:06:18.829 --> 00:06:26.769 act of faith. One moment of desperation. That's 00:06:26.769 --> 00:06:32.889 all it takes. It's very simple. Very simple. 00:06:33.699 --> 00:06:39.600 Your life can change in a moment. You don't have 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:45.420 to wait until tomorrow, next week, next year, 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:51.060 but here right now, if you would cry out to God 00:06:51.060 --> 00:06:57.139 and believe for your miracle, everything in your 00:06:57.139 --> 00:07:02.139 life can change. I wonder if there is a witness 00:07:02.139 --> 00:07:07.040 here today. that knows that it only takes one 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:13.379 cry to see the power of God. Come on and clap 00:07:13.379 --> 00:07:19.800 your hands. Hallelujah. I am a witness today. 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:24.420 There have been many times where I would just 00:07:24.420 --> 00:07:29.759 cry out to God and say, God, I need you. And 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:35.339 I need you right now. I can't wait till tomorrow. 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:41.100 God, I'm not going to let you go. Hallelujah. 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:48.240 I won't let you go until you bless me. Is there 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:52.379 somebody like that here today? Oh, I'm not convinced. 00:07:52.819 --> 00:08:00.680 Is there somebody like that here today? Jesus 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:07.439 was going out of Jericho. That means that Bartimaeus 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:15.420 almost missed him. This was his last chance. 00:08:18.860 --> 00:08:26.959 This might be your last chance. And he could 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:33.009 have stayed quiet. He could have let the moment 00:08:33.009 --> 00:08:39.929 pass him by. But instead he lifted up his voice. 00:08:43.289 --> 00:08:46.090 I'm not going to let this moment pass me by. 00:08:46.269 --> 00:08:51.129 I'm not going to watch my miracle pass me by. 00:08:53.029 --> 00:08:59.370 My healing pass me by. And so he began to lift 00:08:59.370 --> 00:09:04.389 up his voice. There will be moments in our life 00:09:04.389 --> 00:09:09.809 church. Friend there's going to be moments in 00:09:09.809 --> 00:09:19.490 our life. When Jesus is passing by. His glory. 00:09:19.690 --> 00:09:27.529 His power. His grace. His mercy. Is passing by. 00:09:28.169 --> 00:09:35.230 Amen. When he moves. When he calls. And when 00:09:35.230 --> 00:09:41.070 God does that. We must take the time to respond. 00:09:43.429 --> 00:09:50.419 We must respond. Someone else cannot cry for 00:09:50.419 --> 00:09:58.519 you. Amen. Don't look at your neighbor. Your 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:03.139 neighbor is not going to cry for you today. It's 00:10:03.139 --> 00:10:08.240 got to come from you. My God. God's looking at 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:18.620 you. I can't cry for you. I can pray with you. 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:26.600 But the desire, the faith, has to come from you. 00:10:28.019 --> 00:10:32.039 It says, I believe. Hallelujah. Somebody say, 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:36.299 I believe. Let's look at three simple but powerful 00:10:36.299 --> 00:10:44.289 lessons today. Amen. Number one. We must see 00:10:44.289 --> 00:10:50.889 with the eyes of faith. Bartimaeus was blind. 00:10:52.190 --> 00:11:02.610 But his faith gave him vision. Hallelujah. He 00:11:02.610 --> 00:11:07.850 wasn't looking at everybody else. He couldn't 00:11:07.850 --> 00:11:12.389 see anybody. He couldn't even see Jesus with 00:11:12.389 --> 00:11:18.750 his natural eyes. But he could see Jesus in faith. 00:11:20.190 --> 00:11:23.970 And he believed that Jesus could change his life. 00:11:26.909 --> 00:11:32.429 That's what faith will do. Faith sees with the 00:11:32.429 --> 00:11:39.159 eyes cannot. Somebody say amen. I said somebody 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:42.559 say amen. Hallelujah. That's why the Bible says 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:50.659 to walk by faith and not by sight. Don't trust 00:11:50.659 --> 00:11:56.100 what your eyes tell you. Don't go by your eyes. 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:03.740 Don't look around. Don't look over there. Put 00:12:03.740 --> 00:12:07.720 your faith in Christ today. Believe with the 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:12.440 eyes of faith. And that faith will show you your 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:17.500 miracle today. Oh, hallelujah. Faith looks past 00:12:17.500 --> 00:12:22.379 our problems. And it sees the promises of God. 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:28.620 I'm getting excited now. It looks past all of 00:12:28.620 --> 00:12:34.460 your issues. It looks past your present. And 00:12:34.460 --> 00:12:38.340 it sees your future. I'm talking to somebody 00:12:38.340 --> 00:12:42.159 right now. You got to put your faith in God. 00:12:43.740 --> 00:12:47.679 Don't put your faith in man. Don't put it in 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:52.480 me. Don't put it in your friend. Not in your 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:58.039 family. Not in your job. Oh, but put it in Jesus. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:03.460 Put it in. Come on, can somebody love him today? 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:09.980 Why don't you give God a praise right now? Somebody 00:13:09.980 --> 00:13:16.960 shout hallelujah. Gotta put it in God. You know 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:26.419 why? Because man will fail you. Man will fail 00:13:26.419 --> 00:13:35.889 you. But God never fails. Love never fails. Hallelujah. 00:13:36.750 --> 00:13:39.509 Turn to somebody and tell them, God never fails. 00:13:41.370 --> 00:13:44.789 Hallelujah. In fact, God doesn't even know how 00:13:44.789 --> 00:13:52.169 to fail. He's never failed ever. He doesn't know 00:13:52.169 --> 00:13:57.450 how to do it. Because everything he does he will 00:13:57.450 --> 00:14:03.330 accomplish it. Everything he says will come to 00:14:03.330 --> 00:14:13.590 pass. Hallelujah somebody. God cannot lie. But 00:14:13.590 --> 00:14:19.220 his word will stand forever. Maybe you cannot 00:14:19.220 --> 00:14:23.460 see your answer right now. But can you see it 00:14:23.460 --> 00:14:30.500 in faith? Can you? Let me ask you. Can you see 00:14:30.500 --> 00:14:37.620 your family being saved right now? Not with your 00:14:37.620 --> 00:14:41.289 eyes. Because maybe they're not serving God. 00:14:42.690 --> 00:14:47.590 Maybe they're resisting the Lord right now. Maybe 00:14:47.590 --> 00:14:49.350 they're saying, I don't want to hear about God. 00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:56.669 But what does your faith tell you? My faith tells 00:14:56.669 --> 00:15:02.309 me that God's going to save my family. God's 00:15:02.309 --> 00:15:06.429 going to restore my family. Can you see your 00:15:06.429 --> 00:15:13.929 body being healed today? Don't listen to the 00:15:13.929 --> 00:15:18.529 pain you're feeling right now. I thank God for 00:15:18.529 --> 00:15:22.960 the doctors. And they give us their reports. 00:15:24.379 --> 00:15:27.019 And they show us those x -rays. They show us 00:15:27.019 --> 00:15:30.460 those pictures. They say, you have a problem 00:15:30.460 --> 00:15:34.720 right here. When they show you those things, 00:15:34.899 --> 00:15:42.200 you can just say, thank you, doctor. But my faith 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:46.840 tells me something different. Oh, I wish I had 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.600 a witness here today. I'm going to ask you whose 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:55.460 report will you believe today? The doctor's report? 00:15:55.779 --> 00:16:01.000 The lawyer's report? Or will you believe the 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.779 report of the Lord today? Because his report 00:16:04.779 --> 00:16:12.720 says I am free. I wish I had a witness. His report 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:22.399 says I am healed. It says I am delivered. That's 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.740 the report of the Lord. Bartimaeus could not 00:16:25.740 --> 00:16:33.279 see with his physical eyes. But he saw his miracle 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:41.279 in the Spirit. So he started to cry out. But 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:46.799 then something happened. People tried to tell 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:51.850 him to be quiet. So number two, I want to tell 00:16:51.850 --> 00:17:01.169 you, don't let fear silence you. He cried out, 00:17:01.269 --> 00:17:10.910 Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. And those 00:17:10.910 --> 00:17:19.210 around him tried to shut him up. He said, shh, 00:17:19.210 --> 00:17:26.079 stop it. Keep it down Lower your voice Jesus 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.559 doesn't have time for you Nobody wants to hear 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:35.200 you right now So they tried to tell him to stop 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:43.539 To control his worship But do you know what Bartimaeus 00:17:43.539 --> 00:17:49.380 did? He said Just for that. I'm going to be louder 00:17:49.380 --> 00:17:55.519 now. Hallelujah. Because you told me to be quiet. 00:17:56.779 --> 00:18:01.799 I'm going to lift my voice all the more. And 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:10.059 say Jesus. Son of David. Have mercy on me. Fear 00:18:10.059 --> 00:18:13.960 will try to shut you up. It will try to silence 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.380 your voice. and tell you to stay where you are 00:18:17.380 --> 00:18:21.759 but I've come to tell you you can open up your 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:25.519 mouth today and say I'm going to trust in God 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:33.960 clap your hands and give God some praise when 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:42.519 you're desperate for a miracle You can't stay 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:47.859 silent. You know the Bible says that if we don't 00:18:47.859 --> 00:18:57.019 praise him that the rocks will cry out. You know 00:18:57.019 --> 00:19:01.000 the difference between me and a rock? How many 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.420 of you want to know the difference? Is that I 00:19:04.420 --> 00:19:10.609 need a miracle and the rock doesn't. I'm not 00:19:10.609 --> 00:19:14.769 going to let the rock cry out for me. Come on, 00:19:14.869 --> 00:19:19.089 somebody. Come on, somebody. Are you going to 00:19:19.089 --> 00:19:24.250 let a rock? cry out for you that rock don't need 00:19:24.250 --> 00:19:29.130 a miracle that rock don't need healing but if 00:19:29.130 --> 00:19:32.890 you stay silent that rock is going to take your 00:19:32.890 --> 00:19:38.250 place but I got news for that rock today I'm 00:19:38.250 --> 00:19:42.490 sorry rock but I'm going to cry out to Jesus 00:19:42.490 --> 00:19:47.829 I'm going to cry out to the Lord I wonder if 00:19:47.829 --> 00:19:51.390 there's somebody right now stand up on your feet 00:19:51.390 --> 00:19:56.809 and cry out unto God and say bless me now my 00:19:56.809 --> 00:20:03.069 Savior come on and lift up your voice unto God 00:20:19.589 --> 00:20:22.049 Es lo que tenemos que hacer. We've got to cry 00:20:22.049 --> 00:20:27.529 out unto him. Tenemos que clamar a él. Bartimaeus 00:20:27.529 --> 00:20:39.369 is a witness of what God can do. De lo que Dios 00:20:39.369 --> 00:20:45.380 puede hacer. When you simply trust in him. And 00:20:45.380 --> 00:20:50.920 forget what everyone else is saying. My God. 00:20:52.460 --> 00:20:59.359 Bartimaeus. Maybe he told his friends. If you 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:07.529 don't want it. I'll take it. If you want to act 00:21:07.529 --> 00:21:12.470 like you don't need it. If you just came to church 00:21:12.470 --> 00:21:19.130 to look cute. And say hi to your friends. If 00:21:19.130 --> 00:21:24.289 that's all you want. You can have that. But if 00:21:24.289 --> 00:21:32.450 you don't want that miracle. I'll take it I come 00:21:32.450 --> 00:21:35.849 to tell somebody today if you don't want God's 00:21:35.849 --> 00:21:40.710 blessing on your life that's your choice you 00:21:40.710 --> 00:21:44.829 can leave this place the same way you came in 00:21:44.829 --> 00:21:50.269 but I'll take your blessing hallelujah but don't 00:21:50.269 --> 00:21:57.230 let fear stop you because your miracle is just 00:21:57.230 --> 00:22:08.049 one Shout away. Somebody say amen today. Let's 00:22:08.049 --> 00:22:10.390 just thank God in this place. Hallelujah, Jesus. 00:22:12.269 --> 00:22:15.710 Oh, thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Let's thank 00:22:15.710 --> 00:22:18.769 God in this place. God wants to work right now. 00:22:18.789 --> 00:22:26.890 How many of you believe that? I don't have a 00:22:26.890 --> 00:22:31.190 long message today. because it doesn't take very 00:22:31.190 --> 00:22:35.289 much but there's one more thing I need to tell 00:22:35.289 --> 00:22:43.230 you if you want your miracle whatever it is you 00:22:43.230 --> 00:22:49.519 see a miracle is something that you need that 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:54.500 only God can do. If someone else could do it, 00:22:54.500 --> 00:23:01.279 then it's not a miracle. If it's impossible, 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:11.880 that's when God steps in. Amen. But before Bartimaeus 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:18.839 could receive it, The Bible says he did one more 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:31.720 thing. He did something bold. Before he was healed. 00:23:34.299 --> 00:23:40.940 Before he received his sight. The Bible says 00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:49.680 that he threw aside. His garment. He was wearing 00:23:49.680 --> 00:24:03.259 a garment. And that garment, that garment marked 00:24:03.259 --> 00:24:09.359 him as a blind man. Because those who were sick, 00:24:13.869 --> 00:24:19.710 had to wear certain garments which identified 00:24:19.710 --> 00:24:34.069 them as having a disease. It pushed them away 00:24:34.069 --> 00:24:41.930 from other people. And they wore that garment 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:49.099 Everywhere they went, they couldn't take it off. 00:24:51.859 --> 00:24:57.700 It became a part of who they are. It became their 00:24:57.700 --> 00:25:05.680 identity. If you saw somebody with a sick garment, 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:11.359 you wouldn't have to ask them if anything was 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:20.130 wrong. You just knew that they were sick. Because 00:25:20.130 --> 00:25:30.430 you saw their garment. That person is sick. That 00:25:30.430 --> 00:25:36.789 person is a beggar. And Bartimaeus wore this 00:25:36.789 --> 00:25:44.759 every day. He woke up in the morning. And when 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:49.140 he put on that garment. He was telling the world. 00:25:51.740 --> 00:26:00.700 I've got an impossible problem. I'm sick and 00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:07.960 I can't get well. And he would walk around everywhere 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:15.049 with that garment. He could not be seen without 00:26:15.049 --> 00:26:22.230 wearing that garment. He was attached to that 00:26:22.230 --> 00:26:32.569 garment. But when Jesus came by, even though 00:26:32.569 --> 00:26:39.619 he was blind, he could see his miracle. and he 00:26:39.619 --> 00:26:44.880 said to himself I'm not going to need this garment 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:49.779 anymore and so the Bible says he threw it off 00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:55.680 and I've come to tell somebody right now when 00:26:55.680 --> 00:27:01.099 Jesus walks your way and you want your miracle 00:27:01.099 --> 00:27:07.829 you've got to throw off your old you gotta put 00:27:07.829 --> 00:27:43.680 away your old self put away you need to throw 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:50.460 off that garment that garment of depression that 00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:57.779 garment of fear of hopelessness of addiction 00:28:08.659 --> 00:28:19.579 The shame. Hallelujah, Jesus. Throw it off. Because 00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:25.440 you're not going to need it anymore. I'm going 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:30.259 to invite you to close your eyes right now. Because 00:28:30.259 --> 00:28:44.019 the Holy Spirit. It's passing by. So I want you 00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:53.660 to close your eyes. With your eyes closed. Yes, 00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:57.779 with your eyes closed. Now you know what it's 00:28:57.779 --> 00:29:06.920 like to be Bartimaeus. This is how Bartimaeus 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:19.099 felt. He couldn't see anything. He couldn't look 00:29:19.099 --> 00:29:27.279 at what other people were doing. He didn't get 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:37.950 distracted. But he saw his miracle. So right 00:29:37.950 --> 00:29:44.289 now with your eyes closed. You're going to be 00:29:44.289 --> 00:29:48.190 like Bartimaeus. Because now you're going to 00:29:48.190 --> 00:29:54.710 see. Not with your eyes. But with your faith. 00:29:55.849 --> 00:30:09.619 So I want you to see. See your body healed. See 00:30:09.619 --> 00:30:23.660 your family healed. See yourself stronger. See 00:30:23.660 --> 00:30:40.440 yourself better. See your deliverance. Your deliverance. 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:46.619 Being delivered. Set free. Set free from sin. 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:55.299 Set free from that addiction. Set free from that 00:30:55.299 --> 00:31:01.680 depression. Come on. See it in your faith right 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:05.829 now. Hallelujah.