I’ve Seen This Before // Have You Checked Your Vision? // Fun Month // Robert Madu

what's up transformation church come on all over the world right now in this room can you give jesus the best handcuff of praise that you got come on this is the day that the lord has made don't rejoice and get mad come on rejoice and be glad anybody excited about fun months i tell you what i am uh let me let me use a big word i am super califragilistic h.b alodociously excited uh to not only be a transformation church but to be back at transformation church and uh you need to know today that i am not a guest here i am a part of the family i've already adopted myself into the family and uh it's just amazing it's amazing to be here and to see how god keeps taking this church from glory to glory from strength to strength how many are thankful all over the world that you're a part of the transformation nation there is no place better and i'm telling if i was not in the great country of texas if i was here in tulsa this is where i would be and i mean that i am thankful not only for the global gift that your pastor is um but i'm thankful for the friends that they are to my wife and i i'm so thankful for pastor mike and natalie todd who have been faithful friends i'm talking about behind closed doors those type of friends that you can call and say hey i need to cut somebody would you pull up to dallas those are the type of friends that they are and every time i come to tc i don't want to ever not give you an opportunity to show honor to where honor is due one of the worst things you can do is to have a gift and to not take it for granted so what is all i want to do in this room and across the world even in the chat would you let pastor mike and natalie todd know how much you love them how much you appreciate them come on how thankful you are for the gift i'm telling you preaching faithfully we pray that you refresh that you're restored shout out to the newest member baby gia we love you so much and my wife taylor sends her love and i'm excited to kick off fun month and preach if y'all feel like you're in this world like i feel like preaching it's gonna be good good good but let me let me do some life updates first of all since i'm with family can i show family let me let me put the medu crew on the screen come on that's my fam right there that is my beautiful wife taylor those are our three little humans that is eevee girl she's our oldest she is six years old and then right there in the middle my man child robert madue the third my namesake and then right next to him who help us remington elaine i call her remy ma and uh she needs she needs serious prayer i'm for real i need all the saints who are paper bible saved to pray for her uh the youngest and uh that that's my family and and the baby that's not pictured the baby that's not pictured is there has been an update there has been an update uh we have launched a church in the city of dallas called social dallas and i'm so thankful for our church family for sending me out today i'm in good hands with the tc nation but i'm so thankful uh that we were obedient to the call of god we planted a church in the city of dallas god is doing phenomenal things and here's what's incredible is that even before we launched guess who was one of the first churches that made a deposit and sold into social this church right here you will not find a more generous church or more generous leaders than pastor mike and natalie ties i'm so thankful for them and uh i'm ready to preach y'all ready to hear the word come on let me get into this today i know uh this word is gonna bless you i want you to go with me to mark chapter eight today mark chapter and i want to look at verses 22 through 26 the gospel according to mark chapter 8. we'll start at verse 22 and we'll land at verse number 26. when you're ready to read it can you say yeah yeah if you're not ready say hold up all right i heard a hole up back there i'm gonna let you find mark chapter eight and we'll start at verse number 22 and it says they came to bethsaida and some people brought a blind man and begged jesus to touch him and he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village and when he had spit on the man's eyes so this is unsanitary jesus and put his hands on him jesus asked do you see anything he looked up and said i see people they look like trees walking around once more jesus put his hands on the man's eyes then his eyes were opened his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly jesus sent him home saying don't even go into the village talk about a scripture to read for fun month this spit and laying on of hands all kinds of interesting things and i want to preach today not long probably about six and a half hours i'm playing i'm playing using this as a title i want to use a title of something i would say if we were watching any single denzel washington movie before the movie started i would tell you my title for today and that is i've seen this before i've seen this before wherever you're watching this in this room would you just look at the person next to you whichever one you like the best and just say neighbor come on don't be afraid to talk to your neighbor say neighbor i've seen this before let's pray father thank you for your word speak to us today in jesus name amen transformation nation i am undoubtedly unashamedly authentically african american african-american i say that because my father whom after i'm named and my only son his name was born in o'wary nigeria in 1957. uh he pulled in eddie murphy and came to america in 1979 and he met my mom on the collegiate campus of texas a m and from what i'm told that first encounter went like this he pulled up to her in the library and said excuse me are you nigerian to which my mom replied and said no i'm american but if at first you don't succeed try try again he kept shooting this shot and later came love then came marriage then came me in the baby carriage and so when your father is african and your mother is american oh you know which box you got to check i am african african-american specifically nigerian american and growing up in the house with a nigerian father who tc life is different life is very different when your daddy is nigerian specifically because you are inundated periodically with these these statements these proverbs these pithy sayings of wisdom they're not in the bible but they must be dropped on you at any moment in your life for instance you're you're just a child playing playstation in your room and your dad will burst into the room and say have you done your homework yet you should like dad this is not due till tomorrow tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for you today that's the type of statements my dad will just drop on you and just leave you in suspense even as an adult as an adult he'll hit you with some he'll be looking at your financial portfolio and and see what's in your savings account and go is this all that is in your savings account so if you take care of your pennies your dollars will take care of themselves these are the type of statements that i was here with but today since this fun month i thought i would actually use one of my dad's african proverbs to really use as a launching pad for leverage into this message today and that is the african proverb that says until the lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter until the lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter i love that proverb because encapsulated within that proverb is the reality that we have the tendency to edit our stories in such a way that we always highlight our strengths but we hide our weaknesses have you noticed this about people people are real loud about their victories but they tend to be quiet about their vulnerability like everybody is so busy flexing that nobody ever shows you where their weakness is come on fellas we're the worst at this fellas do not want to let you know their weakness have you ever heard a dude tell a story but actually been in the moment where that story happened you're like bro that is not how that went down because everybody is busy trying to exude this strength trying to pretend like you got it all together and we love to be loud about our strengths ah but we are quiet about our weaknesses until the lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter the imagery behind the proverb is of a man who is carrying the carcass of the dead lion on his shoulder and he throws the lion in the middle of the village and everybody stands around with wide-eyed wonder as he tells his story of bravery and valor how he ripped the lion apart with his bare hands oh the only problem is since the man was the only one in the jungle with the lion and the lion is dead the only way to know whether he's telling the truth or if he's lying be to ask the lion how do we know how do we know how do we know you didn't just find a dead lion out there and all you did was pick it up and bring it in the village and if you did would you just tell us this is what people want people want somebody that will be honest and say this is who i really am i'm tired of pretending that i'm always strong when actuality i have some vulnerabilities because there is a principle that we see even in the reality of our savior that your victory is not just in your ability to show your strength it's in your ability to show your vulnerabilities your victory is in your vulnerability your ability to say this is where i bleed this is where i heard this is what i love about jesus is that your god was powerful but he was also vulnerable oh don't get it twisted he was fully god and he was fully mad and he was powerful but he was also vulnerable who else but god could create feed but also take the place of a servant put on a towel and still wash feet because he was powerful but he was still vulnerable who else but god could be asleep in the middle of a storm get up in the middle of the storm go to the edge of the boat and just say peace be still and all of a sudden the hurricane is calm just from the words that came out of the mouth of jesus he was so strong that he could sleep in a hurricane they had to wake him up but that same savior in the garden of gethsemane when he's facing a cross is now running to the same disciples that he had to wake up and say please can you pray with me for one hour he was powerful but he was also vulnerable he could call lazarus out of the grave but he could also weep with the family before he did it because he was powerful and he was vulnerable i'm telling you your victory is in your vulnerability and i come to my text today in mark chapter eight as soon as i read that there was a blind man i immediately read that there was a vulnerable man you understand that to be blind is to be vulnerable it is to be completely vulnerable to really be blind you can either choose to stay stationary and not go anywhere or if you are gonna go somewhere you have to be vulnerable to somebody else to help you this is the byproduct of being blind is when you have no vision you are left vulnerable to the voices of the people around you when you cannot see at all and you have no vision you have to rely on the voices around you who tell you take a step here don't go here when you have no vision you have to believe whatever somebody tells you oh you have to be vulnerable you don't believe me everybody in here watch online close your eyes just close your eyes for a minute yeah close them close them yeah imagine walking back to your car like that many steps would you make or take before you started to fall some of you watch online right now you got y'all still closed keep them closed i'll see you yeah walk to your kitchen like that and see how far you would get this is the challenge of the blind you can open your eyes now is that every step has to be led by somebody it almost reminds me of how we are in our mother's womb when we are in a room of darkness but yet our ears can hear voices outside of the womb and you have to hear the voices around you when you have no vision sometimes they speak things over you that are not true you can tell a blind person anything you can tell them their hair is blonde when it's black you can tell them their needs are actually they have to believe you because they can't see it they have to trust your word and some of you right now you are still fighting the battle of the voices and the words that were spoken over you when you were young people telling you that you'll never be anything people telling you that you're stupid and here you are today got more degrees than a thermometer but yet you still hear the voices of people in your past that told you you were stupid and you're trying to see what do i do with the voices that led me when i was blind and i couldn't see this man was completely vulnerable he was blind until one day some people roll up on them i don't know their name but i wish their names were in the text because some people roll up on this blind man and said come on come on follow me come on guess who's in town he says who jesus is in town i checked it on google maps come on you gotta come you gotta come i'm telling you i heard that this man can heal the sick he can raise the dead i heard he's got supernatural power come on i'll show you where he is follow me can you see this blind man being led by these some people to where jesus is see some people think the miracle started when he hit jesus i don't think so i think the miracle started when he said i'm gonna be led by these people because they told me that this miracle-working savior was somewhere close so i'm gonna choose to be led by them to follow this is where the miracle started the miracle didn't start when he found jesus the miracle started when he chose to be led by jesus he didn't find jesus he had to be led by jesus because blind people can't find anything he didn't find jesus he had to be led to jesus because blind people can't find anything that's why some of you watching need to change your testimony because you've been telling people yeah i was lost i was messed up but then i found jesus you didn't find jesus jesus wasn't lost you didn't even know to know that you needed jesus but his grace was already working in your life before you knew to know that you needed him even when you were in the club and you weren't thinking about him how do you know his grace was drawing you and you were thinking there's got to be more to life than this because grace was working even before the moment don't you reduce that moment to when you walk down the altar yeah yeah grace was already working on you before you could even see and they led him to jesus and i love it because they dropped him off to jesus and look at what the some people did i like these some people i like these some people because these some people knew it's not my responsibility to heal this man it's just my responsibility to bring him the healing is on jesus but the bringing is on me i don't know who i'm talking to but somebody right now even in this message you need to text your friends say you got to log on you got to watch this it's not your job to deliver that friend it's not your job to fix that friend but it is your job to just get them into the presence of the savior that can do it because if you'll do the bringing he'll do the healing [Applause] and they dropped him off and i love what they say they say touch him jesus read it when you get home they said touch them they didn't even say heal them they just said touch them that is clear brand identity because they knew that just one touch from jesus one touch from jesus had changed your life they didn't even say heal him they just said touch him all you got to do is touch him and he'll be good and i love what jesus does because they drop him off and the man had to be standing there in tiptoe anticipation going here he goes he's going to touch me and jesus doesn't touch his eyes jesus takes his hand what i'm blind i can't see and the first thing you're gonna take is my hand why wouldn't you touch my eyes why are you touching my hand have you ever come to jesus maybe it's just me and said jesus this is the issue it's obvious i can't see but you can't it seems to me if you're going to touch anything touch my eyes but have you ever had jesus touch another area of your life and you didn't know that that area was connected to the other area and you're crying out for god to touch this but god said we'll get to the eyes later let me first take your hand this is what a lot of people in the church don't realize because you keep coming to jesus with your problem and jesus is looking at you like you don't know what your problem is and that's your problem you think the addiction is the problem but that's not actually the problem the deeper problem is the unforgiveness it is the bitterness that you keep harboring towards the person that hurt you and because you won't give it up to jesus to find peace you're looking for it in that bottle to find peace and sometimes when you come to jesus with an issue that seems obvious and apparent for him to touch he'll touch something else that was actually connected to that and i love that he doesn't touch a blind man's eyes first he takes him by the hand he takes him by the hand because this is actually how faith starts this is the embryonic stage of faith faith always begins with you leaving the familiar voices that led you for so long to now taking the hand of your father and saying i'm gonna trust you for every step that you lead me this is what faith looks like faith goes i am forsaking that which is familiar i'm forsaking the voices that have told me things that weren't even in alignment with who i really am and it is following the voice of your father everywhere he leads and he says come this way and you follow him and he says take another step and you follow him see the bible says that the steps of the righteous are ordered by the lord but he didn't tell you you were going to see the steps it just means you got to keep holding his hand and trust him for each step of the way and he follows jesus and jesus takes him and the man has to be thinking where are we going and jesus is going we got to get out of this village right now jesus what about my eyes i'll fix your eyes later but come on follow me we got to get out of here come on come on he had to be going where are we going we got to get out of this village come on the first thing he does is he takes him out of the village jesus why we got to get out of this village because your village affects your vision oh your village will affect your vision he said i gotta get you out of this village because your village will always affect your vision he says look he says you're worried about your eyes but i'm worried about your environment you're worried about your sight but i'm worried about your surroundings because what good is it for me to give you new eyes and for you to be in a negative environment because new eyes in a negative environment are useless i gotta get you out of this village first things first before we get to your eyes let's get out of this come on get out of this village because your village will always affect your vision i don't know who this is for but somebody right now i want to interrupt this regularly scheduled sermon so that i can give you some exercises to do i want you right now to analyze your village who are the people around you because your village will affect your vision who are the people that you spend the majority of your time with because i promise you your village is affecting your vision some of you right now you listen to transformation every week and sunday you're full of such hope pastor mike brings you the word you're full of such hope whoever's preaching gives you so much hope and you're feeling good but by monday you go back to your village your cubicle and the people around you are so negative they're so doubting they're so unbelieving that they squander what god spoke in you on sunday check your village you know those negative people that always got something negative to say you know those people you know those people who that light up a room when they walk out they always got something negative to say i mean think about it like stuff is reopening and stuff is good now it's something to celebrate but it's still some people talking about uh yeah but it's still a pandemic girl always find something to complain about and they wonder why they don't seize god's presence they wonder why they're anxious because god does not inhabit the complaints of his people he actually inhabits the praises of his people that's why you ought to always get you in the atmosphere of people that know how to praise god or people that know how to bless his name that's the village you want to be in that people that know how to give them glory not just when they're in a good season but even in the bad they got a reason to give them glory and honor and pray when i think of the goodness of jesus and all he's done for me my soul will still cry out hallelujah the first thing jesus did was to get that man out of the village because if i don't change your environment that environment will affect your eyes he goes you're about to see your first sunset your first sunset and i don't need anybody as you're looking at the beauty of the sunset and the myriad of colors you don't need to be standing next to somebody talking about yeah i've seen that befo no i got to get you out of this village because your village will always affect your vision some of you right now you think that the village that you grew up in is the world and that's why you're always putting your opinion that's not fact on social media the way i see it that's the way you see it boo-boo because that was your village but that's just where your village saw it that's not the way the world is get out of that village what's up you need some new friends if all your friends look like you think like you walk like you vote like you you need some new friends to show you oh the world's bigger than that that was just the way my village saw it yeah yeah yeah so he takes him out of the village and he leads him and once he gets him gets him out of the village now he's alone with jesus and i can see the man going oh here it goes this is the moment i've been waiting for he got me out of the village i am alone with the savior of the world oh this is gonna be good i can even hear worship music playing in the background and this man goes here it goes i'm about to say and all of a sudden he hears this noise that sounds strange he hears like is somebody about to spit and your king and my savior proceeds to oh get ready to spit i'm assuming twice two eyes twice into this man's face i mean come on i felt it when i read it can we just be honest that's just nasty why is jesus spitting on people this is the stuff that i find just to be a christological conundrum y'all have to read it we have to preach it what am i supposed to do with this what am i supposed to do with a savior that spits on people can you imagine this fun month let's just have some fun can you imagine coming in the surface and pastor mike is like you need a breakthrough okay i'm gonna give you a breakthrough i'm gonna pray for you and then he proceeds to uh get ready to spit on you oh that'd be your last time when the transformation nation if he spit what is jesus doing and those of you who've been proud sunday school alumnus you know this is not jesus first time to spit on people no turns out he's a serial spitter yes he has spit several times read your bible mark chapter 7 there's a dude he does the same thing he leads him out of the village he's deaf he can't hear and jesus spits on his finger puts it in the man's ear and starts rubbing it around why is he spitting on people oh this makes no sense you remember john chapter 9 he takes it to a whole nother level another blind man not this blind man but he spits in mud in mud and starts rubbing the mud in his eye breaking all kinds of co-fit 19 rules just rubbing it all in his eyes and then does the most gangster movie ever he says go watch that off and call me tim what does and just leave why is jesus spitting on people is it gross is it nasty or could it be the most compassionate thing we've ever seen jesus do who is the spit an act of your savior being mean or is he actually being compassionate you understand that you have to read your bible in the context of the culture that your bible was written in and in that time period in their culture they believed that spit held medicinal value they believed that there was healing power in spit they believed that spit could heal so the fact that jesus would spit in this man's eyes do you know what that spirit is saying that spit is saying i'm willing to meet you where you are i'm willing to meet you at your starting point of truth see you think the healing is in the spit it's not it's in me but i'm willing to meet you where you start because you trusted me to get out of the village and i know it was scary and you're wondering where in the world are we going because you took a step and you drew close to me i'm gonna draw close to you and i'm gonna meet you at your starting place the healing is not in the spirit it's in me but i'll meet you where you start and somebody watching right now you just need to start just trust god and he will meet you where you start this is what stops so many people from stepping out in faith or being who god has called them to be because you think that the moment you put your faith in jesus you got to have the whole bible memorized you got to start speaking christians and somebody says how are you and you're like hallelujah i'm blessed and highly no you ain't got to do all that don't you want to have leviticus memorized just read one scripture you ain't gonna pray six hours just pray six minutes just get up one day and say god i need you today god i don't know what to do today god would you guide me to just start he'll meet you where you start he spit because he said i'm willing to meet you at your starting place of truth and he spit in the man's eyes and then he touches the man's eyes and this is where this miracle gets crazy because you would think that after jesus spit in your eyes and then after he touches your eyes come on we know how this miracle is supposed to play out this is the praise break it's supposed to go spit i touch i can see don't do don't do it that's that's what it's supposed to be i mean have you seen his track record that's why they said touch him because one touch from jesus was enough oh please read your bible your savior has never needed to touch anybody twice to heal him please peruse the gospels this afternoon and you know that in every instance one touch from the hand of jesus was enough if he touches your eyes get you a netflix account you about to see if he touches your ears get you some headphones you about to hear if he touches your legs you need to know what dance you gonna do before he touches your leg because when he touches him you're going to dance for the very first time if you go to a funeral you better make sure that you don't want the person to come back from the dead you better put a note on the casket and say please do not touch jesus because he will touch that casket and the person will come back to life where my bible people at do you remember a widow of name they were having a funeral and they were coming out and they were going to the graveside service and jesus rolled up and just touched the casket and that boy got up from the dead there is power in his touch he doesn't even have to touch you if you just touch his clothes there was one woman that pressed away through a crowd and touch the hem of his garment and just to him touch [Applause] her body what about the centurion he said you don't even have to come to my house do it wi-fi just speaks word so one touch was enough but why is jesus touching and then asking follow-up questions to the touch do you see what he asked he says can you see anything you understand whenever jesus asks a question the question is never for him he know everything if he asks a question you need to ask yourself a question why you asking that question because you know everything the question is never for him it's always for you he says can can you see anything what is jesus doing he's trying to see if the man will be honest about his condition because jesus knew that he was not going to heal him fully with the first touch he wanted to see will you be honest and let me know that yeah you can see but you can't see the full picture he wanted to see if he would be honest about his blurry condition leave it to mark the dude that skips christmas and go straight to full grown jesus leave it to him to be the only one to record the two-touch miracle of jesus the two-touch miracle of jesus that jesus purposely did not fully heal him because he wanted to know will you be honest with me about your blurry condition will you be honest to tell me that yeah you can see but the picture is not clear i get to heaven of all the people that jesus healed guess who i want to be this dude this dude do you know how bodacious and radical you have to be to look at jesus and tell him hey bro all due respect but i mean i don't know if your power's running out but it's i mean i love you but it's blurry do you know how hard it is for believers to admit that it's blurry because to admit that it is blurry requires a level of humility to say god yeah you touch me but i still have some uncertainty in my life blurry is for believers blurry is for the people who have received the touch from jesus but you're honest enough to say there's still some things in life jesus that oh blur people don't want to be out because to lose your pride everybody's acting like no i'm good i'm good i'm good can you imagine if he would have been like no i'm good i'm good i'm good he would have been running into stuff all day but thank god for somebody who had the humility of heart just say yes i can see but jesus is is blurry and i came to tell somebody who's in a blurry season right now that blurry is a blessing there's something about not having the full picture that makes you seek god for the full picture there's something about uncertainty that makes you seek him more to get clarity there's something about not knowing that causes him to move in closer to you come on you ever been there you've been downloading something and as you're downloading it it's taking forever to download and the little blue stick is just taking forever it's like six hours and also you start looking at that computer it's like you get all up in the computer screen is it even moving what does it do you know why you lean in close because you're trying to see is anything moving that's what jesus wants he wants your lean in he will purposely take you through blurry seasons so he can get you to lean in more cause nothing makes you pray like blurry nothing makes you see god like blur i want to just stay right here i want to talk to some people who are in a blurry season i want to talk to some people who are dating somebody right now and you're like jesus he fine he the one but oh i saw his credit score and some things are blurry right now y'all don't want to be real god i mean she's got it going oh she's good but there's some oh there's some character issue and it's just it's blurry god should i stay on this job or were you actually using the pandemic for me to get out on faith and start my own business is that why i'm frustrated because i gotta start the business cause you created me to actually be the owner not an employee but do i take a step i don't know because it's it's blurry and if you got pride you'll never admit that it's blurry you know who the hardest people to convince that they need glasses are the people that need glasses you'll be driving with them like can you see yeah well you almost hit that stop sign what oh there's an apple tree my bad no i'm good i'm good i'm good be honest enough to admit that it's blurry that's what frustrated me about last year in 2020 is that people couldn't just admit just tell me you don't know wasn't it frustrating to watch the experts uh mask on no never mind come back and bask off yeah uh-huh no no no it's airborne nope never mind it's on the surface just tell me you don't know it's blurry right now because blurry draws you closer to him blurry is not a burden blurry is a blessing and i know that the church always celebrates the people that go straight from blind to sight because that's what we sing right grace how sweet does it save the rest like me i once was lost but now i'm found was blind but now but not blurry nobody sings that song but god will take you from blind to blurry to see if you'll seek him for the next touch [Music] to see if you'll trust him enough to realize that yes there's some miracles he does instantaneous but there's also miracles he does progressively over time sometimes he will heal you in a moment and sometimes he'll heal you through this thing that we don't like called process we like amazon prime we don't like process and look at what he says he says i see people and they look like trees walking ah thank you jesus i see but i see people and they look like trees walking that's an odd thing for a blind person to say isn't it i see people and they look like trees walking that's an odd thing for a blind person to say i see people and they look like the like is what messed me up because how are you talking about like [Applause] and you just got your site it's what people have seen before so what are you talking about i see people and they look like what you're talking about like you just got your sight how do you know the people look like trees if i say you look like denzel washington which i've been told shut up i better have seen denzel washington before so what you talking about they look like ladies and gentlemen this healing in mark chapter 8 is not a man receiving his sight this is a man whose sight was restored this man saw before his sight was not received his sight was restored i don't know when he lost his sight maybe after he saw a tree but in some season of his life he had sight and his sight was taken away but thanks be unto god who does restoration to things that you've lost i'm talking to somebody who the devil thought he took everything from you last year but you better remind the devil that he is a god of restoration that he will restore your marriage he'll restore your family and restore your finances he'll restore the years that the cankerworm and the locust ain't off because he restored i need somebody to take 10 seconds and give god the best praise that your god if you know he's a god [Applause] of restoration this man's sight was not received wow it was restored this man did not go from blind to blurry to sight this man went from sight to blind to blurry to back to sight from sight to blind to blurry to back to sight because god was restoring if i had time i would tell you that's really just the story of humanity because we were never born blind i was born perfect my god created the world perfect adam and eve could see but once sin came in [Music] they went blind and we were waiting year after year we saw it it was blurry salvation was blurry we saw previews of it through david defeating a giant we see previews of it through moses setting people three free we see previews of it through abraham being called it was all blurry but it wasn't until one day in bethlehem that which was blurry became full sight and we beheld the wonder of his glory the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth and the god that restores came to earth to walk among us to tell us that no matter what you've lost no matter what the enemy has stolen your god is a god of restoration thank god for the times he healed people who were born blind but i love the story of this man who once could see and then lost his sight and walked around in the darkness wondering would there ever be hope because i remember what trees looked like and jesus touches him once to not give him the full picture to say will you trust me for another touch and because you were honest about your lack of clarity now i'll give you clarity this is the paradox of coming to jesus is when you come to him saying i don't know he'll let you know but when you come to him saying i know you're going no you don't know and you'll never know because you think you know when you say i don't know and it's blurry he'll restore and after he restores his sight look at what he tells them he says uh go home and don't go back in that village don't go back in the village why can i not go back in that village it's in matthew chapter 11. can i tell you about this village real quick and i'm done damn that scripture in matthew chapter 11 verses 20 and 21 i want to show you why jesus is adamant about this man not going back in the village it says then he began to rebuke the cities this is jesus talking rebuking the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done because they did not repent jesus says woe to you when jesus starts saying whoa you better pay attention vote to you corzine and woe to you bethsaida for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in tyre and sidon they would have repented long ago in seth cloth and ashes he rebuked the city of bethsaida which was the village he led him out of he says whatever you do don't go back to that village because that is the village of unbelief that is the village where i manifested my glory and they refused to believe don't go you don't even live there go home and don't go back into the place of unbelief because if you take your fresh eyes into that place of unbelief their unbelief will affect your eyes that you just had restored i don't know who this is for today but god told me to tell somebody your village is affecting your vision he told me to tell somebody to trust him even when it's blurry trust him for another touch if you walk away because it's blurry you won't get the second touch trust him when it's blurry and don't go back into the village go home because he has a place for you i'm going to ask wherever you're watching this from would you just bow your head and close your eyes father thank you for your word god i thank you that this is not an accident whoever's watching this is watching this right now there's a reason they couldn't log off because you're speaking you're there with them in the room your presence knows no limits it knows no bounds god thank you that i've seen this before time after time you bring restoration this is what you do so god i pray for the person who thinks that they've lost too much for you to restore god i thank you that you can not only restore but you will restore it better than it was before bring restoration bring healing bring fresh vision back to the person that lost it [Music] and they're wandering in the dark listening to the voices of other people god let your voice that is speaking to them right now be the voice that they lean into and trust you for every single step just right where you are and your head's about and your eyes are closed just in that moment i don't care if you buy yourself in your living room if you're watching this you've never surrendered your life to jesus i want to give you that opportunity there's a reason you're watching this today there is a home there's a place for you your savior paid the price on a cross for you and hear me you don't have to get yourself together to come to him you don't get yourself to come together to come to jesus you come to him just as you are and admit god i'm blind i can't see and if that's you there's a number coming on the screen right now and you don't want you to text that number but i also want to lead you in this prayer i'm going to give you the words but you say it from your heart would you just say this say dear jesus i need you i know that my sin has blinded me i cannot do life without you today forgive me of my sin come into my life make me brand new thank you jesus that you can bring restoration to any area of my life and i trust you for it from this moment forward i'm walking with you in jesus name amen amen amen come on if you met what you prayed come on let's give jesus some praise hey what an incredible time was preaching the word right here at transformation for fun month hey make sure you tune in next week it's gonna be a great month god bless utc

Channel: Transformation Church

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Length: 48min 48sec (2928 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 11 2021