The people trying to silence you are not the ones with your answers. In this lesson, I explain how Jesus will ask us questions that He already knows the answer to, so He can help us focus on what is truly important. Watch the full Focus5 course in our free MessengerX app: https://go.MessengerX.com/F5FC
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the people telling you to be quiet are
not the ones that have your answer so
don’t give them your voice don’t give
them the arguments don’t get engaged
with that don’t waste your time or be
diverted from your
focus when my oldest son was young I
used to love to act out different
passages from the Bible with him and
this is the one that I’m going to talk
about when I talk about being blind but
focus it was the story of blind bardus
now this is what I love about blind
bardus he is sitting on the side of the
road he is a beggar he’s got like legal
grounds to be a beggar but he hears
something leaving Jericho he’s heard
some rumors that Jesus has been in this
the city and now he’s hearing a crowd
and there’s joy and there’s hope and
there’s sound of their voice there’s
something different about this crowd
it’s because Jesus is in the midst of
the crowd and so what does he do he
begins to cry out it says okay so I’m
going to read it from Mark chap 10 verse
46 we meet him it says that he was the
son of tamus sitting by the roadside so
we’ve got Jesus we’ve got disciples we
got Bart and then we got a big crowd
these are the different actors in this
story and it says in verse 47 and verse
48 that blind barus cried out when he
heard that Jesus was leaving the city he
cried out Jesus Son of David have mercy
on me and many rebuked him telling him
to be silent but he cried out all the
more more son of David have mercy on me
now I want to highlight a couple of
things that maybe you know maybe you
didn’t know but when blind Bemus said
Jesus Son of David he was actually
saying Jesus the Messiah he wasn’t
calling him good teacher he wasn’t
calling him healer he was saying Messiah
have mercy on me and he’s yelling on the
side of the road and it says that many
rebuked him telling him to be silent but
he cried out all the more see when you
have a
revelation of who your focus is you will
not be silenced by the people around you
and so I used to play out this with
Addison and he would be blind barus and
I would be the crowd saying sh quiet
don’t bother the master quiet quiet and
he would just yell even
louder I want you to know that there is
something
about understanding that you can be
relentless in your focus and you can say
Jesus you’re the one I’m not looking for
the crowd to approve I’m not looking for
the crowd to be my source I’m not even
looking for your disciples to notice me
Jesus you’re the one I’m going to cry
out to all the louder I love that see
the people telling you to be quiet are
not the people with your answer so you
don’t want to engage and argue with them
they are a distraction it doesn’t say
that blind bardus when they told him to
be quiet he didn’t say stop yelling at
me don’t you know I’m blind don’t you
know I want to get healed no he didn’t
even engage with them the people telling
you to be quiet are not the ones that
have your answer so don’t give them your
voice don’t give them the argument
don’t get engaged with that don’t waste
your time or be diverted from your focus
and it said Jesus stopped and he said
call him and they called the blind man
saying to him take heart get up he is
calling you imagine what that moment
felt like everything was about to change
all of the sudden this man who could not
see knew that everything was going to
shift and he was is going to be able to
see but then this kind of random thing
happens he comes up to Jesus and Jesus
says what do you want what do you want
now I’ve always thought it was a little
confusing that Jesus would say to a
blind person what do what do you want me
to do for you but I think he was
modeling something see Jesus will ask us
questions that he already knows the
answers to to help us to focus on what
is important and blind bardus said I
want to recover my sight see when you
and I get in the presence of Jesus when
we’ve Cried Out Jesus Son of David have
mercy on us when we say we’re not going
to be troubled with the crowd that’s
okay with me being a beggar I’m not
going to be troubled with the crowd
that’s okay with me being blind I’m
going to keep pressing into Jesus there
comes a point when Jesus says what is it
that you want want and you can say to
him I want wisdom I want recovering of
sight of blind I want my focus back and
he says okay be it unto you according to
your faith your faith has made you whole
when we place our faith in Jesus when we
actually understand that he is worthy of
our Focus then we recover our purpose we
recover our sight we recover our
Direction and we can can leave behind
the grave clothes and the beggar shroud
and we can step into those Robes of
righteousness I want you to know that
this is the time for you to cry out to
Jesus and make him your focus don’t be
denied until he asks you what it is that
you want him to do for you what area of
life that he needs to touch do not draw
back until you hear him speak Direct Le
to
you