1 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,240 Turn over to Mark chapter 10. Amen. 2 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,720 Mark chapter 10. Praise God, Mark chapter 10. 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,400 We'll start in verse 46 to 52. I'll read the whole account and 4 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,840 then we're going to come back and break down this particular 5 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,000 account in Mark chapter 10, starting in verse 46. 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,200 And it says, and they came to Jericho and as he and as he with 7 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,480 his disciples, a large crowd went out of Jericho blind barn. 8 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:44,120 Emmaus, the son of Timaeus was sitting by the road by the side 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,440 of the highway begging. And when he had heard that it 10 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:53,280 was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, son 11 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,880 of David, have mercy on me. And many warned him that he 12 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,600 should be quiet, but he cried a great deal more. 13 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:10,240 Son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stood still and 14 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,040 commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, 15 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:18,760 saying to him, Be of good comfort, rise up, he is calling 16 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,680 you. And casting away his garment, he 17 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,920 rose up and came to Jesus. And answering, Jesus said to 18 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,800 him, What do you desire that I should do to you? 19 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,960 And the blind man said to him, My Lord, that I may see again. 20 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,840 And Jesus said, Go, your faith has healed you. 21 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:47,000 And instantly he saw again. And he followed Jesus in the 22 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,440 way. Hallelujah, I said. 23 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:55,040 Instantly he saw again, and he followed Jesus in the way. 24 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:01,760 Instantly he saw and he followed Jesus. 25 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:07,800 Glory to God. Now, in this passage of 26 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,960 Scripture, they're leaving Jericho. 27 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:18,000 OK, And as they're leaving Jericho, there's a custom of 28 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,880 someone by the name of Barn Emmaus. 29 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,160 And it could be that he's seen so often that he was known by 30 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,040 his condition. We call him Blind Man 31 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,960 Bartimaeus. Now, it could just be that the 32 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,840 scripture says Bartimaeus is a blind man. 33 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,960 However, it also can mean that he was known as Blind Man 34 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,680 Bartimaeus, because a lot of times when people have things in 35 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,520 their life, they begin to identify with that which they 36 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,120 have. We do this all the time, 37 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,240 especially when it comes to disease or sickness. 38 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:03,520 We say I have, you know, cancer, I have, you know, leukemia. 39 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:13,560 We say I am ADHD, I have PSPTSDI have it. 40 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,240 Say it again, I have it. Now, I'm not belittling any of 41 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,760 those things. Those things are real, no doubt 42 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,080 about it. But they can become our 43 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,240 identity. They can become our identity. 44 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:35,200 And what it means is then we begin to wear something that we 45 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,800 become identified that even the world sees it on us. 46 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,760 Now, you have to understand this. 47 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,800 These scriptures here are not in in today. 48 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,080 There is set back in time and there were customs and there 49 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,400 were things that people did. And I'm wearing this as a 50 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,320 representation of a cloak. This is definitely not what the 51 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,400 cloak look like. I just pulled this off my couch 52 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,480 in the office. OK. 53 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,880 So please do not act like this is what he was wearing. 54 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,880 This is just symbolism. All right? 55 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:14,200 And so this garment that Bartimaeus had actually 56 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:21,360 represented something, OK, he by his garment, by just the garment 57 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:29,480 he wore, identified him as a professional medicant, which is 58 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,160 just a beggar. That's a bigger word for beggar, 59 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,760 a professional medicant. He was a professional beggar. 60 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,560 You know, when my father, who was in painting, he was a 61 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,040 professional painter. He went to work in all whites, 62 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,480 white pants, white shirt in white. 63 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,200 He's a painter, but he wears white now, you know, like, why 64 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,280 do you pick white? Why is white? 65 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:56,920 I mean, you have all these colors to pick from, yet the 66 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,920 painter profession is in white. So they're, you know, just 67 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,800 white. And then every time he had a 68 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,760 different color, it'd show up on his pants and and his jeans. 69 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,880 And then all of a sudden, you know, there's colors all over 70 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,160 him. You know, when you go to the 71 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,880 doctor, why are nurses and they're different types that are 72 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,520 wearing different colors when you go into a hospital. 73 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:22,000 Now the medical professions, they know what those colors 74 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,320 represent. Are you hearing me? 75 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,960 They know it. They so when they walk in, they 76 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,080 see a person in a different color scrub. 77 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,600 They know what they're specialized in. 78 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,240 Correct. Even in the automotive industry, 79 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:44,000 you know, they're just uniforms. When I go fly on a plane ride, I 80 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,440 the, the, the stewardess, they're, they're all in uniform. 81 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,640 You know who is serving you and who's part of the plane. 82 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,800 I've never had someone in plain clothes come and say, what would 83 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,040 you like to drink? That's never had they're 84 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,520 identifiable. They are in a professional 85 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,960 uniform. Same thing with our pilots. 86 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,720 I know the difference between the stewardess and the pilot 87 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,680 because they're not wearing the same outfit. 88 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,640 So you understand this gentleman is a professional beggar and his 89 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:21,120 outer garment identifies who he is, which means from a distance 90 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:26,080 people will say, oh, that's a beggar, that's a beggar. 91 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,120 And so that outer garment was really significant because, 92 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,840 number one, it would give them warmth at night because again, 93 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:39,880 if you're begging, you may not have the means to have a place. 94 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,240 In fact, a lot of people who are begging had already lost their 95 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,560 property and all kinds of things have taken place. 96 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,240 And so this outer garment was really significant because it 97 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,480 was really kind of like their whole livelihood. 98 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:59,960 It's how they kept warm at night, So much so that there was 99 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:02,320 a law that protected this outer garment. 100 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,960 Look over in Exodus chapter 22, verses 25 to 26. 101 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,320 It says it this way. It says if you lend money to my 102 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,480 people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor 103 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,320 to him. You shall not charge him 104 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,320 interest. If you ever take your neighbor's 105 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,360 cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the 106 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,560 sunsets. Why? 107 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,480 For that is his only covering. It is his cloak for his body. 108 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,040 What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that 109 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,880 when he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious. 110 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,960 Meaning if you've taken it as a pledge before nightfall, if you 111 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,920 kept it and they cried out, the Lord would heal, hear them and 112 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:53,800 it would not bode where for well for the one who is still holding 113 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,240 on to the outer garment. Are you hearing me? 114 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,440 So these things are not like, you know, our coats that we 115 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,480 throw on and off and don't think nothing about it was 116 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,000 identification. Another thing that the cloak did 117 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,720 is it allowed them to be able to hold it out in order to collect. 118 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,680 So not only was it a sign of protection for them, a place of 119 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,480 protection for them, a place of security, a place of war, but it 120 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:28,240 also was the means by which they could capture anyone's 121 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:35,240 generosity when they went by. So it was very significant 122 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,360 garment in the days that he lived. 123 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,120 It was this identification that people knew. 124 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:49,920 This person was struggling, this person needed help, this person 125 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,720 was poor, this person didn't have much. 126 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:58,920 And because of that, they were treated not always extremely 127 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,360 kind. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 128 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:09,560 So because Bartimaeus was blind, he obviously could not develop a 129 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,080 trade. He had to. 130 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,480 His whole life was centered around begging. 131 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,360 He could not see a thing and so he would make his way. 132 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,920 However, there's no indication that he had someone who took him 133 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,200 there. Not like a lame person who had 134 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,520 someone sit them somewhere he could get around. 135 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,160 So apparently he learned how to get around, to get to this place 136 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:37,280 where he could by all rights be able to hold out his cloak and 137 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,520 look for the benevolence of someone else. 138 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,440 There may be many days that Bartimaeus went by with nothing 139 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,760 in his coat. There could be other days that 140 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,120 maybe there was more. But this is all that he can do. 141 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,360 And as much as he would love to do something else, he cannot. 142 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:05,120 And so this cloak, which is extremely powerful in the sense 143 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:12,680 of identification, it was his very, how can we say it, social 144 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:26,360 identity. What he was on the outside was 145 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,400 identifiable to everyone and to himself. 146 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,440 Are you hearing me? But the scripture tells us that 147 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:44,440 as he's on this highway, Blonde cannot see people starting to go 148 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,920 by, which is a custom. But apparently enough went by 149 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,320 that he recognized something's going different today. 150 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:55,760 This road's being traveled by more people. 151 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,000 There's enough commotion going on that had him asking 152 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,360 questions. The Luke account, he says what's 153 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:07,200 going on, what's happening? And in the Luke's Gospel, it 154 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,960 says that they say, oh, Jesus of Nazareth has passed, has passed 155 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:16,600 by now. He, Jesus, has already passed by 156 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:24,040 him, which tells us that Jesus did not hear by the Holy Ghost 157 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,320 beforehand to stop and heal this guy. 158 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,320 So Bartimaeus represents something a little bit different 159 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,280 in Scripture. And so here Jesus is passing by 160 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,120 someone who is not even aware that he has gone by. 161 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:47,560 But once he heard, I said, once he heard that it was Jesus, 162 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,920 there became there came something that rose up in 163 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,400 Bartimaeus. He did not have to see 164 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,960 something, but he sure did have to hear something. 165 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,480 Now we can conclude in Scripture that he this is not the first 166 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:10,040 time he's heard the name. Are you hearing me? 167 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,120 It's not the first time he's heard the name because when they 168 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:18,280 tell him who it is, there was an association with that name. 169 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,080 Are you hearing me? There was an association with 170 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,200 that name. So he could not see, he was 171 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:32,680 blind, he didn't had no reality based upon seeing something that 172 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,880 Jesus had passed by. Which tells us a lot of times 173 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,200 you'll never notice God just by your seeing. 174 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,320 Which also tells us if you keep going through life trying to see 175 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:55,160 God, you can miss God because seeing is not required, but 176 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,800 hearing has more power. Are you hearing me? 177 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,560 Was it not Jesus who said to Timothy, he said you believe 178 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:08,520 'cause you see more? Blessed are those who believe 179 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:14,360 not because they see, but it's obviously because they've heard 180 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:19,840 Hallelujah. And so we live in a world where 181 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,080 there are many that are blinded to Jesus. 182 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,960 They do not recognize him. This is why every time you as a 183 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:32,520 believer shows up at a restaurant, every time you show 184 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:36,240 up at a place of work, every time you show up in a store, you 185 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,280 can be walking past people and they do not recognize God in 186 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,800 you. They are not even aware that God 187 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,640 has passed them by. Now I'm not calling you God, I'm 188 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:49,960 just saying you are the temple of the Holy Ghost. 189 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,680 God lives in you. You have the glory of God on you 190 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,920 and that can be seen by those who have perception. 191 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,280 Typically it's seen more by those that are born of God. 192 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,840 Because I remember when my wife and I, we went to Israel and we 193 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,000 were blessed with a trip to go there. 194 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,760 And so I looked at my wife. I said, we are only Earl and 195 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:18,720 Marci here, OK? We don't want nobody to know. 196 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,040 We come from the ministry. What we're going to do is we've 197 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,920 we've come to learn, we've come to grow, we've come to see the 198 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:31,240 sights and walk the same places that the Apostle Paul did, the 199 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,040 Apostle Peter, Jesus Christ himself. 200 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,920 We have come to learn. And you know what, I was like 201 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,720 some good my old roots. You know where I sit in the back 202 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:44,400 of the bus like some sit, you know, as far away from, you 203 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,840 know, the one speaking as possible. 204 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,760 OK, now I'm not talking about anybody in the crowd. 205 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,680 I'm just saying in general. OK, so I was intentional. 206 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:59,120 Let me get away from the source of the communication. 207 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,240 And so we sat in the back of the bus and, and we were going, I 208 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,080 don't remember how many days it was, but we were coming up on 209 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:12,160 the day that we were going to be going to the Jordan River and 210 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:16,800 the day of the Jordan River. They said, now tomorrow we're 211 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,640 going to be for anyone who wants to be baptized in the Jordan, 212 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,520 it's really significant. A lot of people want to be 213 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,960 baptized in Jordan to follow what Jesus did. 214 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,360 Same place. Now we technically weren't in 215 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,200 the exact same spot that Jesus was in, but we are definitely in 216 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,120 the same body of water. And, and they said, but now I 217 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:38,920 would say this, that if you are a minister, it would really mean 218 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:47,400 a whole lot to the bus, you know, and I, you know, wanted to 219 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:53,240 sit on my hands, you know, I just wanted to put my head down 220 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,400 and, you know, like in your classroom, don't pick me, 221 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,760 teacher, don't pick me type stuff. 222 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:03,360 But on the inside, I said on the inside I heard the Lord say, 223 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,000 because then they asked this question, is there any ministers 224 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:12,680 with us? So on the inside I heard the 225 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:19,000 Lord say, Raise your hand, son. So I raised my hand and when I 226 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,640 did, our God looked and he goes, I'm not surprised. 227 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,480 I thought, well, there's something about the way we 228 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,240 carried ourselves, because again, those that are in the 229 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,200 light can see the light, but those that are in darkness 230 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,680 cannot. They may not be able to see the 231 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:48,160 light, but they sure can hear. Are you hearing me? 232 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:55,320 And so when he heard that it was Jesus, he began to cry out. 233 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,200 Now it could be that Bartimaeus knew of this Psalm that was 234 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:05,240 written, it says in Psalm 7212. For he will deliver the needy 235 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:10,560 when he cries for help, the afflicted also, and him who has 236 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:15,480 no helper, because this guy had no indication that he had anyone 237 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,359 helping. He could have been coming out 238 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:22,280 day after day on his own, using some kind of walking stick to be 239 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,119 able to navigate himself to some place developed by the sense of 240 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,200 hearing that he had developed, or through conversation. 241 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,400 Am I at this spot? Am I here? 242 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,720 Am I there? And once again, so everyone 243 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:41,480 knows who I am, My identity is I am blonde, I cannot see and I am 244 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,440 poor, broke, cut off from society. 245 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,600 This is who I am. Can you see it? 246 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,160 But when he heard Jesus came, he knew of this one that would come 247 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:59,760 that has been prophesied about and he begins to raise his voice 248 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:04,920 and says these statement, this statement, Jesus son of David, 249 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,800 have mercy on me now son of David's extremely significant 250 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:15,560 because son of David is title. He is recognizing that Jesus, 251 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:21,600 this is the one that is the Messiah, the Christ, the King of 252 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,360 the Kingdom, the one that's been prophesied about. 253 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,840 I've heard about this guy that's been going around healing 254 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,240 people. He has been causing the blind 255 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,080 eyes to see, the hearing, the deaf ears to hear. 256 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,440 He's been causing the lame to walk. 257 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,160 He's been causing demons to be cast out. 258 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,840 He has been raising the dead. This is Jesus. 259 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:50,680 This must be the anointing. So he addresses him as the 260 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:58,520 anointed one, son of David, cause David's name was famous in 261 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,840 the land that Bartimaeus grew in. 262 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,680 There was a king that would come from the line of David that 263 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,040 would set up his Kingdom and have no end. 264 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,840 So he is acknowledging the king has come in front of me. 265 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,000 How can I not address the king? Did I miss the king? 266 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:23,960 I must acknowledge that the king has passed me by and if there's 267 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,560 anyone who can help me, it's the king. 268 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:36,920 So he says, Jesus, son of David, our King, have mercy on me, have 269 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,040 mercy on me, have mercy on me, have mercy on me. 270 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,640 And man, when he called out, guess what? 271 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:52,040 He received backlash. He received backlash because he 272 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:57,360 has been in the society that he lives in day in and day out as 273 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:00,160 the beggar. We know who you are. 274 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,920 You're put, shut up. Who do you think you are calling 275 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,000 on the affluence? Who do you think you are crying 276 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,800 out? Shut your mouth, don't say 277 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,120 anything. It says that as he cried out, 278 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:15,680 son of David, have mercy on me. One trip, one of the gospel says 279 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,760 they rebuked him. It wasn't like. 280 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,680 It was the crowd turned on him and said shut up, man. 281 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,640 Shut your mouth. Don't be disrespectful. 282 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,200 Hush, Don't talk. What are you doing? 283 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,960 Quit talking. We're not here to give you any 284 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,520 money. Just sit there and beg. 285 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,560 Shut up. We got somewhere to go. 286 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:44,360 You're out of your place. You're not worthy to even talk 287 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:47,680 right now. Don't even open your mouth. 288 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:52,440 Shut up, say nothing. But the Bible says he raised his 289 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:58,000 mouth all the more. Jesus, come on, when you start 290 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,200 crying out for Jesus, don't you find that people try to get you 291 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,440 to shut your mouth? They don't want you to talk 292 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,840 about you, Jesus proclaim you Jesus want to keep you quiet. 293 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,840 And let me tell you, there's a whole world out there that are 294 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,720 blind without God and all the sudden is he comes through and 295 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,840 the message of Jesus. And they say, you tell me a 296 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,400 little bit more about that, but their peers say, who do you 297 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,280 think you are? Are you're just like us? 298 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:23,200 You run with us, you party with us. 299 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,480 You talk like us. I mean, seriously, do you think 300 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,200 God's going to forgive you? Of all the things you've done, 301 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,040 what you've been? You need to quit. 302 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,040 Don't even hang around those church people. 303 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:34,600 Quit listening to them. Quit listening to their 304 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,120 preaching. Don't be asking these questions. 305 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:43,640 Just sit there and beg. And the world will always try to 306 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,640 quiet those that know there's an answer somewhere else and just 307 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,560 hadn't found it yet. Something about this blind man 308 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,000 Bartimaeus, he knew some things. In John chapter 8 verse 12, 309 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,600 Jesus spoke and said to them, I'm the light of the world. 310 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,920 He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have 311 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,960 light. In Second Corinthians 4/4. 312 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,360 Has he not done this? Well, the devil, in whose case 313 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:11,600 the God of this world, that is the devil, has blinded the minds 314 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:16,200 of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the 315 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,640 gospel, the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 316 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,560 We need to know this church, is that if we are born of God, we 317 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,440 are the light of the world. We are to set our light on a 318 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,120 heel so that it can be shown, because those that are in 319 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:37,000 darkness need to come to the light and us walking along is 320 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,840 not enough for them to notice God. 321 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,160 We must be saying something because it's by faith, through 322 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,640 hearing that believing comes into play. 323 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,800 So it's not enough for us to just be seen. 324 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,960 We must be heard. Yeah, that's good. 325 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:00,800 And when you get around someone that, you know, based upon their 326 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,400 life is pretty identifiable. But if they begin to cry out and 327 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,240 say, tell me more, we do not shut them down. 328 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,480 We do not. In fact, we say, come on, we'll 329 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:18,760 take you to Jesus because Jesus heard the cry of Bartimaeus as 330 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,480 he cried out. He said, Son of David, have 331 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,880 mercy on me. And he kept shouting all the 332 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:28,080 more and all the more and all the more till Jesus stopped and 333 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,280 said, bring him to me. Bring him to me. 334 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,040 Now what's interesting is when he gets to Jesus, Jesus asked 335 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:40,400 this question, What do you want? Well, that should have been 336 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,080 obvious. But you know what? 337 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:48,480 It's really not obvious. It's really not obvious. 338 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:52,160 People need to know why you would bring them to church. 339 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,040 It's not obvious. Well, if they just come to 340 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,400 church, it's obvious they'll want to get sick. 341 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,520 No, no, no, no, no, no. I remember one time we had a 342 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,760 line where we were laying hands on the sick and a girl came down 343 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,240 that could not see. She was blonde. 344 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,640 She had the stick and everything. 345 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,200 And so as I went down, you know, and obviously you know how 346 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,080 believers are. You know, we want the miraculous 347 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,720 and we should, we should desire the supernatural. 348 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,920 There's no doubt about that. But we cannot desire something 349 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:32,200 beyond what's actually happening because God himself will not 350 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,920 override the will of man. Now He can engage in a place 351 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,240 that man's will is not through his gifts, like the man at the 352 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,000 pool of Bethesda. That man had no faith in Jesus, 353 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,600 didn't know who Jesus was, but he did want to be healed. 354 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,800 And the only way he knew to be healed was to go into this pool 355 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,400 when the Angel stirred it. But he had no one to help him. 356 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,200 So it's, it's not that he didn't want to be healed. 357 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,600 He just had no faith that Jesus Christ, who Jesus Christ was, 358 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,000 that he was the healer and that he could heal him. 359 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,800 But God by his mercy and through the gifts sent Jesus to the 360 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,160 place where a lot of people were sick that day. 361 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:15,640 But Jesus healed one man by the name, this man at the pool of 362 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:21,360 Bethesda, and said to him who had been there for 38 years, do 363 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:26,200 you want to be healed? He said, man, I don't have 364 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,960 anybody. Now his answer is, I don't want 365 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,920 to be healed. His answer was, I don't have 366 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,880 anyone to put me down in the water. 367 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,760 So he's answering I want to be healed. 368 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,640 He just thinks the only way this occurs is if you're the first 369 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,880 one in the water and I have no one in essence the guy saying 370 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,240 this, are you going to be the one that'll help me get down 371 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,880 first? But Jesus lets him know I am 372 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,640 that water. I am that water, right? 373 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,280 He said get up and walk and the man got up and walked, didn't 374 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,880 even know who he was. That healed him. 375 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,880 All he knows as this was the guy to help him and it didn't 376 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,800 require him to be picked up and waiting, waiting for stirring of 377 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,600 the water. He was water. 378 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,160 He was the water. He was the well that was a 379 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,000 spring of life that never runs dry, that is always producing. 380 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,040 Yet when I went down to that heal of nine, I said, what do 381 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,680 you want? And they said, well, I've had a 382 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,760 cold. I want to be healed of my, you 383 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,480 know, symptoms. Said nothing about their 384 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,320 eyesight. So I laid hands on them and I 385 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,720 believe and I know they were healed of their cold symptoms, 386 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,760 but they went back without their eyes being restored. 387 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,960 Now if you're just sitting out there like, Oh well, the Lord 388 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,680 didn't heal them. The Lord healed them exactly 389 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:02,280 what they wanted, exactly what they wanted. 390 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,560 And when this man comes to Jesus, Jesus does not assume. 391 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,880 Jesus asks, what do you want me to do for you Now? 392 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,600 Why does he ask that question? Because he says, you have 393 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:22,120 acknowledged me in my authority. Jesus, son of David, the king of 394 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:26,360 God's Kingdom, have mercy on me. What word do you want from me? 395 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,320 Because you know at my word it shall be. 396 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,520 He says, I want to see again. And he said according to your 397 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,760 faith, the faith that you believe in my word and my 398 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,240 ability to do what you're asking, it's done according to 399 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,240 that belief. And he instantly he began to 400 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,360 see. And that's a powerful healing 401 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:49,080 testimony that we love to preach when we go to lay hands on the 402 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,840 sick to let people know that God heals the sick. 403 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,840 But the thing I'm keying in on today is what happened just 404 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:04,440 before he was healed. That moment between his crying 405 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:10,600 out and God's call. He said, Son of David, have 406 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,800 mercy on me. And he cried out all the more. 407 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,360 Why? Because he had a desire, a 408 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,920 desire, a desire that was so real to him that he could see 409 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,560 it. And if he could just get a word 410 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,800 from the King, he knows he'll get it. 411 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,360 And Jesus stops and command and said, tell him to come. 412 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,240 And the Scripture tells us when this takes place. 413 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,440 Look at this in verse 50. Let's read it again. 414 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:41,000 Look at verse 50. It says in casting away his 415 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,640 garment. That may be the most powerful 416 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:54,320 display of faith in this context, is that here is someone 417 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,920 that he's always been identified with, that he is needed night 418 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,600 after night, day after day, the whole way he existed. 419 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,440 It keeps him warm. It keeps him protected. 420 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,160 It keeps it gives him income so that it sustains his life. 421 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,920 It's his very survival. It's the only way he knows how 422 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:21,320 to live in his condition. Yet at a word that Jesus says 423 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:31,680 come, he cast that life away. I am not going he he's blood. 424 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,200 He has casted. He don't even know where he 425 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:42,360 threw it. He didn't lay it down to say I'm 426 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:50,040 not 12345 that way when I'm done I can. 427 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,000 Are you here in case it don't work? 428 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,960 I'll come back to it. Let me get over here just in 429 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:02,720 case it doesn't work. Then I'm 32 steps away from my 430 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,760 identity. Oh y'all don't want to hear 431 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,560 this? See man, when Jesus calls you, 432 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,200 when you want to get right with God, you got to make a decision 433 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,920 before it happens That I never going back. 434 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:22,320 I never going back to that life, to that identity, that who I 435 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:28,000 was, that is never going to be associated with me ever again. 436 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:35,680 I'm never going back. I am never going to be known as 437 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,040 that. He cast that garment and he 438 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,800 stands before Jesus. He says, what do you want? 439 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,280 He says, I want to see. And it says immediately he could 440 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,800 see. And he does not run back and go, 441 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,640 I'm coming, Jesus, I'm coming. I'm going to follow you now. 442 00:30:53,880 --> 00:31:01,600 OK, let's go. How many times have people come 443 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,360 to the altar because their insecurity, their prostitution, 444 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,840 their fornication, their drugs, everything they were ever 445 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,800 identified with, all that everyone knew you were that 446 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,560 they'll cry out to God and say, Lord save me. 447 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:29,640 And then after they say Amen. This is God never intended you 448 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,680 to take an old identity into a new life. 449 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:43,760 True lordship is casting off the old life. 450 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,000 Come on, can we see it here? Look what it says here in 451 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,600 Colossians chapter 3. Colossians chapter 3 starting in 452 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,000 verse form and give you the easy read version so you can get it 453 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,200 down. He said yes Christ is now your 454 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,560 life and when he comes again you will share in his glory. 455 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:08,720 So put everything evil out of your life, sexual sin, doing 456 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,440 anything immoral, letting sinful thoughts control you and wanting 457 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,760 things that are wrong and don't keep wanting more and more for 458 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,000 yourself. That is the same as worshipping 459 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,080 a false God. God will show you his anger 460 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,480 against those who don't obey him because they do these evil 461 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,800 things. You also did these things in the 462 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,360 past when you live like them, but now? 463 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,680 But now put these things out of your life. 464 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,920 Anger, losing your temple temper, a doing or saying things 465 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,440 to hurt others and saying shameful things. 466 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,440 Are you seeing this? We are to get these out of our 467 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,320 life. In essence, when we came to God, 468 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:55,080 we're like, I'm done with that. I'm getting rid of that. 469 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,800 That's not me. That's not who I am. 470 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,320 And I'm going to tell you the world would recognize Jesus more 471 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,200 in what they hear from you when you demonstrate what you're 472 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,560 saying. Because this man had heard about 473 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,000 Jesus, that Jesus only did what he said. 474 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,120 He always did what he said, which gave him the boldness. 475 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,760 I want to see again. Because anyone you've ever 476 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,760 touched that had blind eyes, they saw. 477 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,560 I want mine. God's not a respecter of person. 478 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:31,800 Jew, Gentile, slave, free male, free female. 479 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,120 I don't care what nationality you are, what race you are. 480 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,600 God's not a respecter of person. What he's done for one, he'll do 481 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,400 for all. He just requires one thing. 482 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:47,280 You get rid of the old self and come on into the new. 483 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,080 You don't bring your sorry sinners saved by grace existeth 484 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,680 in a walk with God. You cast that thing to the side, 485 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,920 you leave it out the order. You never go back to it. 486 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,320 You don't find that cloak. You ain't going to be 487 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,280 identified. You are not going to be 488 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,840 identified with that cloak. What you are going to be is 489 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:10,480 you're going to be a child of God and anytime something rises 490 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,920 up to that old life, you say, Nope, I don't wear you. 491 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:19,440 I don't wear you. See what it says in Ephesians 492 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,239 chapter 4? Ephesians chapter 4, starting in 493 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:27,440 verse 22, he says regarding your former way of life, you were 494 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,440 taught to strip off your old nature which is being ruined by 495 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,639 its deceptive desires, to be renewed in your mental attitude, 496 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:39,040 and to clothe yourself with a new nature which is created 497 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,920 according to God's image and righteousness and true holiness. 498 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:47,280 Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, this morning 499 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:53,000 the Lord wants you to take off your garment, cast it aside. 500 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,679 If you're here today and you've never made Jesus the Lord of 501 00:34:56,679 --> 00:35:02,000 your life. Jesus is in the room, the 502 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,960 Savior. He has passed by already, He 503 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:07,800 said. When did he come? 504 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,040 I didn't see him. He was in our praise because God 505 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,880 inhabits the praises of his people. 506 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,240 He's already been in the room moving through by his Spirit. 507 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,520 Now he's passed by in that moment. 508 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,800 But if you'll call out to him, he'll stop. 509 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,200 I said he'll stop dead in his tracks because no man comes to 510 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,680 the Father, no, not one. But as Jesus calls them, the 511 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,280 Spirit draw them. Jesus is calling this morning. 512 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,240 He's calling to say, Will you let go of who you are to become 513 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:47,000 who I've made you to be? Will you cast off this existence 514 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,560 that you're familiar with? Because here's the problem. 515 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:57,760 You've been seeing without seeing the great deception the 516 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:03,360 enemy has done, making you think because you can physically see, 517 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:10,240 you can see, yet He's kept you in utter darkness where you've 518 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:13,760 chased after jobs, chased after promotion, chased after 519 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:20,880 popularity, chased after, you know, natural stimulants to feed 520 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:25,120 your lust, to fulfill your flesh, to make you feel good. 521 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,080 It's always just giving you an alternative type lifestyle. 522 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,800 In fact, He will give you the world at the cost of your own 523 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,040 soul. And all the while you're doing 524 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,240 it with eyes wide open, not recognizing that even though you 525 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:40,400 see like this, you don't see anything. 526 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:46,600 But Jesus being rich in his mercy because of his love for 527 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:51,920 you, died for you, rose for you, paid the price for you, and has 528 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,920 passed by. And all you have to do is call 529 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:59,040 out and say Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. 530 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:09,760 And salvation is casting your garment off your way of living. 531 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:14,240 It's not being saved, but live the same way. 532 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:24,920 It's being saved from the way you live and got to put a new 533 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,280 nature in you to where you'll have spiritual sight. 534 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:35,760 You'll begin to see the light and see revelation before I call 535 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,640 you up. If you've never made Jesus Lord, 536 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:45,720 I want to deal with a believer because although this 537 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:49,160 demonstrates a person leaving the domain of darkness and 538 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,560 coming into the Kingdom of his beloved Son, we all have to 539 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:58,840 admit as believers we have blind spots, blind spots in our growth 540 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:05,280 and development areas that maybe you could say today I did ask 541 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:11,320 Jesus, but I brought my cloak with me and there's areas I keep 542 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:17,960 covered because the world wants to keep you covered up. 543 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,880 When I look across this room, there are a lot of different 544 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,480 people in this room from the outside, and I can speak 545 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:33,320 narratives to the color of your skin, which are outer garments 546 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,880 the world's trying to keep you identified in. 547 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,640 And until you cast all of that off, you'll never walk as a true 548 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:49,560 son and daughter of God because a child of God can always 549 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:53,760 receive and have what the King says they can have. 550 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,840 And he does not care where they came from. 551 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,120 They are not limited by another race. 552 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,880 They are not limited by an upbringing. 553 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,800 They are not limited by a lack of parenting. 554 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,960 They are not limited because once you come into the Kingdom, 555 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,760 you have a Father that cares for you, that will never leave you 556 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,880 nor forsake you, that will always take care of you. 557 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,960 And it's about you concerning you. 558 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,440 And He will perform His word about you. 559 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,640 He's not like a human being because he's not a man. 560 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,120 He's God, and he doesn't care whether you came from the best 561 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,880 side of town or the worst side of town, whether you had a full 562 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,640 family or whether you didn't have any. 563 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,000 You don't even know your mom and dad and was raised by your 564 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,360 grandma. Doesn't matter to him because 565 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,800 he's taking you out of that system anyway and bringing you 566 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,920 into the system of the Kingdom of God. 567 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,160 But if you don't watch out, you'll want to heaven, life 568 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:59,080 without heaven on earth, and you'll keep a garment in the 569 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:09,080 world and keep identifying yourself as slow, inferior, 570 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:15,960 insecure, traumatized, victimized. 571 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,840 So much so that the blessings of God can never fully overtake 572 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,600 you. You have to abandon that 573 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,800 identity. You have to abandon it. 574 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:37,560 So I need you to be an example to the lost today because you 575 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:43,760 know, you've seen a glimpse of God's goodness, but you know, if 576 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:48,680 you're still wearing something of your past, today's the day to 577 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,840 cast that garment off. And that you refuse to see 578 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:59,200 yourself as CNN tells you, Fox News tells you, MSNBC tells you, 579 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:06,360 your coworkers tell you, your neighborhood friends tell you. 580 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,800 You're only going to see yourself as God sees you, 581 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,600 because you're a child of God.