Join us for our summer series, FUN MONTH! This week we have a special guest, Robert Madu! He has traveled the globe for 20 years sharing the gospel of Jesus! Pastor Robert is from Dallas, Texas, and is the lead pastor of Social Dallas with his wife, Taylor. Their family has found a place in the heart of Dallas to be a hub of hope, joy, and life! Check out this message as Pastor Robert goes through how your vision affects your village and how to restore blurred vision by using biblical principles.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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