♪ (I've Got the Victory) ♪ ♪ I've got the victory
living inside of me ♪ ♪ I've got the Greater One
I can overcome ♪ ♪ This ain't no time to
turn back ♪ ♪ No place to grow slack ♪ ♪ I got to keep pressin' on
'til every battle is won ♪ Good morning, class. Class: Good morning, Brother
Keith. Hi. I'm Keith Moore and we welcome
you to Faith School. Faith School is the place where
my spirit is fed, where my faith grows stronger, and I learn how
to be an overcomer. The Word of God builds you up
and makes you able to lay hold of your inheritance in Him. Never tear you down. Even when it corrects you, it's
showing you how to be better. How to do better, how to
overcome. Things that come from the Lord
never beat you down and leave you there. Never. That's the enemy. And so, let's join faith again
today to hear Words, Words that save us from deception and
confusion and from being robbed of things we should be enjoying
in Christ Jesus. "Father, we thank You again. We ask for the utterance and for
You speaking to the hearts and minds of every man, woman,
every young person. Revealing Yourself to us, Your
goodness, Your graciousness, and the great victory that You
have given us in our Master, Jesus. We thank You for it in Jesus'
Name, amen." Look with me, please again, in
John nine continuing in our study of this fourteenth account
of healing, the healing of the man born blind. We've seen a lot of things
already this week, but notice another emphasis. John 9:1 "Jesus passed by,
He saw a man which was blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him,
saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents,
that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither has this
man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should
be made manifest in him. I must work the works of Him
that sent Me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can
work. As long as I am in the world,
I am the Light of the world." So, this passage begins in
talking about sin. And it's actually mentioned
repeatedly throughout the chapter-if you skip down to
verse sixteen, some of the Pharisees they said, "This man
is not of God, because He didn't keep the sabbath day. Other people said, How can a Man
that is a sinner do such miracles?" And then down in verse
twenty-four and twenty-five, "Then again called they the man
that was blind, and said, Give God the praise: we know
that this Man is a sinner." So, the religious leaders, the
Pharisees, they are calling Jesus a sinner. That's when the man answered and
said, "Whether He's a sinner no, I don't know: One thing I know,
I was blind and now I see. Down in verse thirty-one he
said, "Now we know that God hears not sinners:" So they're
still talking about this. And in verse thirty-four, "The
answered him and said, "You were altogether born in sins, and do
you teach us? And they," excommunicated him. They kicked him out. "They cast him out." So, there's a repeated reference
to sin. And then you see something at
the end of this that gives a lot of revelation about sin. Just saying the Word, a lot of
times people don't like to hear it. They're like, "Let's talk about
something else." But sin is what Jesus had to
come take care of. Right? It's not something that's a
nothing thing or to be brushed aside. Jesus paid a big price to pay
for our sins. And so, we need to understand
what sin is because it's a terrible thing. "The wages of sin is death." And not just physical death,
spiritual death, eternal death. And so, in verse thirty-nine
Jesus made this statement. He said, "For judgment I am come
into this world, that they which see not might see;" so here was
a man who had never seen with his eyes who now can see. This happened physically,
literally. But now Jesus is talking about
something else beyond that. He's talking about spiritual
blindness and spiritual sight. And there are direct parallels
between the natural and the spiritual. Everything that's in the natural
came out of that dimension and realm and functions after the
same laws as the things that you can't see. And so, there is-just like
there's natural, physical seeing and hearing, there is spiritual
seeing and hearing. It is just as real as the
natural. He said, "For judgment I am come
into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they
which see might be made blind." Well, what does that mean? Some of the Pharisees that had
been calling Him sinner, they were listening to what He
said and they said-and this was sarcastically, "Are we blind
also? Are you saying we are blind,
too?" And Jesus said to them-and here
you see this other thing that Jesus talked about, "Out of your
own mouth you will be judged," He said, "If you were blind, you
would have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin
remains." So, sin has to do with what you
see. Go with me to the Book of James,
let's be reminded of this. James 4:17 the scripture said,
"Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him
it is sin." Now why would you say "to him?" Isn't sin, sin? Why would you say "to him?" The Book of Romans goes into a
lot of detail about this. In fact, let's just take a
moment and look at it. Go back to Romans the third
chapter. Romans chapter three. The Bible talks about how that
sin was in the world-I'm just going to paraphrase through some
of this-even before there was a Law. But it says, "Where there is no
Law, there is no transgression." If there is no commandment to
break, then it's not held against you. And Paul goes into some detail
in this seventh chapter of Romans, I'll just summarize some
of it for time's sake, he said, "I was alive without the Law,"
at one point. But then when he learned about
the Law and he learned what was wrong, right and wrong, sin
revived, and I died. And just like we were talking
about from John eleven a couple of classes ago, he said sin was
the occasion, excuse me, the Law, and breaking it was the
occasion for sin and death. But, the Law was not bad, it's a
good thing. But it was an occasion. And so, it's when you see
something and violate it, that's when sin
becomes sin to you. That's when you are held
accountable for it. This answers the question how
could it be that this man who was a grown man, an adult, Jesus
said, "It's not because of his sin that he's blind." And his parents-we know these
two adults haven't lived their whole life and never sin, and
yet Jesus said, "No, it's not because of their sin that he was
born blind." Why? They weren't violating any light
that caused that to happen. Even if it was ignorance,
doors opened from previous generations- and it is sad that
children are affected by the mistakes of their parents and
grandparents and great-grandparents. This is a fact. I mean, if somebody is driving a
car drunk and has a wreck and their child is hurt, well,
it wasn't the child's fault. Right? But they now are hurting because
of the mistakes of their parents. And that's a simple thing,
but that has happened. And you have today whole
generations of somebody alive that their parents forsook God
eight hundred years ago. Can you see that? And now it's not that God is mad
at them, or God is trying to hurt them, and they are
violating things that's causing all kinds of problems in their
life, but it's not per se them sinning against God, they don't
even have the light to know what they're doing. But when you do get light and
you do see some things, then you are responsible for it. And if you violate that light
and you have sinned, and that's when you want to come to the
Lord, not run from Him, come to Him and confess it and
acknowledge it and say, "I did that. I messed up." Somebody said, "Yeah, but if
Jesus has already paid for, why do you need to do anything?" He has a ready paid for it. That doesn't mean you have
received it. Are y'all with me, class? If all it had to do is Him
paying for it, then nobody would have to do anything and
everybody would be saved. But that's not what the Bible
teaches. You have to receive what He has
so freely and graciously given. And no matter how badly you mess
up, and even if you violate-you knew better, you knew that you
knew better, everybody around you knew that you knew better,
still, you can be cleansed and washed. All you have to do is
acknowledge it and receive. Oh, somebody say: "Receive." Receive your forgiveness and
your cleansing. And so, like He said, not that
this man sinned or that his parents sinned. And there have been many times
that we have transgressed things and violated things and caused
ourselves problems, but a lot of it was because of our ignorance. We didn't see it. We didn't know it. And don't let the enemy beat you
up and say, "Yeah, but because you have sinned then you have to
live with this. Because you have made so many
mistakes, then you have forfeited your right to ever
have a good life." Lies. I said, that's lies. This is why Jesus came. Come on, you remember our text
that we saw in 1 John three? He came to undo the works of the
devil. And the devil has been able to
do far too much because he is getting way too much
cooperation out of people. But at the moment you come to
light and you come to realize, "I shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't be living like this. No wonder this has been causing
me some problems," you can repent. Oh, somebody say: "Thank You,
Father, for repentance." You can repent, and at that
moment whatever darkness had been working in your life loses
its grip, the moment you repent, it loses its place. It loses its room to function or
to operate. And that's why the Scripture
said in James, "Submit yourselves to God," you do that
first, then, "resist the devil and he will flee from you." Give God His place over you,
take your place under Him. Then you are in a place to put
the devil in his place under your feet. Out of your life. Command him to stop, command him
to cease in his operations. I wants us to act on that right
now. Close your eyes and focus on the
Father. All of us have missed it and
made mistakes, and you may have made some terrible mistakes and
grievous mistakes, but the Lord does not want you to live in
shame or guilt or condemnation. It's why Jesus came to undo all
of that. So, everybody say it out loud:
"Father God, I acknowledge my mistakes. I call wrong, wrong. I call sin, sin. And I thank You for paying the
price for all of that and I receive forgiveness. I receive cleansing and washing. I receive the righteousness of
God in Christ. Thank You for saving me. Thank You for washing me. Thank You for making me right in
Your sight, making me clean by the Blood of the Lamb." Oh, just lift your hands and
thank the Lord. Thank the Lord. You're either forgiven or you're
not. You're either clean or you're
not. And He said you are. Oh, somebody say: "I'm clean. I'm clean. I'm clean. I'm clean. I'm free. I'm clean." All of us made mistakes,
sometimes the same mistakes over and over again and none of us
would want to be put up here in a spotlight on you and talk
about every mistake that you ever made. But like I said, all of us
have-I've made mistakes, but I have repented and I have
received what He has done for me, so I refuse to be condemned
over it. Can you hear what I'm saying? I refuse to be ashamed. I refuse to cower and pull away
and be ashamed, why? I'm either washed or I'm not. Right? I'm either clean or I'm not. And I believe the Bible. I believe -He said, "Your sins
and iniquities I won't remember anymore." So why should I bring them up to
Him? Come on, say it out loud: "I am
clean. I am washed by the Blood of the
Lamb. I am forgiven and made
righteous." Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. And that means the enemy has no
rights to you, no access to you. No place in you. Thank God. Thank God. And the righteousness of Christ
qualifies you for everything that Christ should have,
everything that belongs to Him. We don't deserve it, not even
close. But we still get it. I said, we still get it. We don't deserve healing,
but it's given to us. We don't deserve abundance,
but it's given to us. We don't deserve protection,
but it's ours. I said, it's ours. For believers, it's
experiential. Somebody say, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord." Look back at the concluding
verses of that in John nine. Jesus said, "I am come into this
world, for judgment," what kind of judgment? "That they which see not," this
is John 9:39, they which see not, "might see; and they which
see might be made blind." "Some of the Pharisees which
were with Him heard Him these words, and said to them, are we
blind also?" They didn't realize it but that
was coming out of their spirit. "Are we blind also?" They should have been asking for
help. Shouldn't they? But, they thought they were so
smart, they had it all figured out, they had all their rules. "Jesus said, If you were blind,
you should have no sin:" Does this give you revelation
concerning what sin is? What we read in James? "To him that knows to do good
and does it not, to him it's sin." Why is it sin to him? Because of what he knew. Or what he saw. To see, to know, it's talking
about the same thing, you see it, you know it, you understand
it. So why would it just be sin to
him? Because he knew it. If he didn't know it, then it
wouldn't be sin to him until he knows. Can you see this right here? If you were blind, what did
Jesus say? You would have no sin, which is
why the man that before he was born certainly, he didn't see
any of that, so it couldn't have been his sin. And his parents, they didn't
know, right? They were blind, even though
they could see physically, they were blind spiritually. And so, they didn't know how
that could have been prevented or what to do about it or how to
fix it. They didn't have a clue. So no, even though they made
plenty of mistakes and since the man had been born and become an
adult, he has made plenty of mistakes, and their forefathers
made plenty of mistakes, that was not being held against
them as sin. And so Jesus says-"No, neither
one. Neither one had sinned," was a
cause of him being born blind. "But, while I am here, I am the
Light of the world." Hallelujah. Is He in us? Didn't He say now we are
supposed to be the light of the world? Didn't He say that? Why? Because He's in us. His light is in us. He said, "I'm the Light of the
world, and as long as I'm here, we have to do the works of
light, and the works of God need to be manifested. And so, no matter how it got
that way or why it got that way or how long it's been that way,
God wants it fixed. Does He or not? Somebody says, "Yeah, but... Yeah, but... Yeah, but... The wrong doctrine... Yeah, but really sinning... Yeah, but really messing up..." You don't know if they sinned or
not because you don't know what they knew or what they saw. And besides the point, the Lord
wants it fixed. He wants it fixed. I don't care if them and their
folks were the meanest, worse outlaws in the country
since the seventeen hundreds. God wants it fixed. He wants their babies healed. He wants their bills paid. Does He or not? He wants them free, why? "Because for this purpose was a
Son of God manifested that He might destroy and undo the works
of the devil." And now He has called you into
His helps ministry. Is that right? Jesus and sons and daughters. He wants you going about doing
good, healing and ministering to those that are oppressed of the
devil, because He has anointed you with the same Spirit that
was on Him when He walked the Earth. And every time that you see a
bad situation, don't get into this theological barbed wire of
who sinned, what's wrong, is there doctrine right or
wrong, you should look at and go, "It needs to be fixed. It needs to be fixed." How do we get this fixed, Lord? You start looking to Him because
you know whatever the enemy has done that's evil and wrong and
destructive and robbing and killing, the Lord wants it
undone. Undone. Undone. Hallelujah. Lift your hands and say: "Oh
Lord, use us to undo the works of the evil one. We present ourselves. Thank You for it in Jesus'
Name." Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Just lay your hands on your
body, let's act on this right now. Start at home, start right here
with our own body. Say it out loud: "Every evil
work against my life, against my body, working against my body,
I command you to stop, cease and stop and leave my body, leave my
life, in Jesus' Name." Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Put your hands on your head and
say it out loud: "Every oppressive thing,
every depressing thing, every confusing thing that's of
the enemy, I resist you, I command you, stop and leave
me, leave my life in Jesus' Name." Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now lift up your hands and say:
"I receive the oil of the Spirit, the healing balm of the
Holy Spirit. I receive the peace of God. I receive the joy of the Lord to
recover me, restore me, make me whole and sound and strong in
Jesus' Name." Oh, thank You, Father. Just thank Him for another few
moments. Just lift up Your hands. Good things are happening all
over the place. Good things are happening all
over the place in many, many places. As you continue to thank Him,
it continues to work. Somebody say, "Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Father. Thank You, thank You, thank You. I am delivered, I am loosed,
I am healed, I am free in Jesus." Oh, hallelujah. Glory to God. I'm glad I came to class today. Hallelujah. Well that's it, our time is up
again, but there's a lot more to see. We're just on number fourteen
here. There are others to see. Come back with us again soon,
here in Faith School. I've enjoyed being with you
again this week here in Faith School. Many of you, I know, are
partners with us and we so appreciate it. That gives us a right to believe
with you on your finances. If you're not a partner and you
want to be, there's information on the screen. But this verse that we saw in
1 John 3:8 that Jesus was manifested to destroy the works,
or to undo the works of the devil, even if you have made a
mess of your finances, the Lord can help you undo. He will help undo what you
messed up. Pray this prayer with me:
"Father God, forgive me for not listening and making mistakes
and causing problems. I ask You, work in my finances. Work in the material realm of my
life so that these problems are undone. They are unraveled. And help fix my finances. I claim extra coming in in
Jesus' Name." Praise God. The anointing manifests to break
the yolks, to remove the burdens, to undo-even the things
that you and I messed up ourselves, isn't God good? He is so kind. We're believing with you, you're
coming up, you're not staying where you are, you're not going
down, you're coming up, you're coming out, you're going
over big in Jesus' Name, to His glory. We'll see you again soon, back
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