Do You See What I See

Summary

Podcast Summary: Change Church Podcast

Episode: Do You See What I See
Host: Pastor Dharius Daniels
Date: September 15, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this engaging sermon, Pastor Dharius Daniels unpacks the spiritual principle of "Do You See What I See?" Drawing from Matthew 9:27–31, he challenges listeners to pursue a deeper, transformative relationship with God that goes beyond mere modification—urging them toward spiritual metamorphosis. Pastor Dharius illustrates the difference between knowing about God, getting answers from God, and actually experiencing God’s presence. The journey, he argues, requires worship as an ongoing discipline that shifts the believer’s perspective, leading to clarity, wholeness, and authentic worship.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. From Modification to Metamorphosis

• Theme Explanation:
  Pastor Dharius warns against settling for a mediocre faith—a life of spiritual modification when true metamorphosis is available through Christ.
• Illustration:
  The difference between being an improved caterpillar (modification) and becoming a butterfly (metamorphosis).
• Quote:

  "A modification is the equivalent of becoming a faster caterpillar. But a metamorphosis is the process of becoming a butterfly... One makes you better, the other makes you brand new." (02:00)

2. The Transformative Power of the Altar & Worship

• Altar as Metaphor:
  Not just a physical place, but a space of authentic encounter with God’s manifest presence—where true change happens.
• Types of Worship:
  Collective (Sunday gatherings) and personal (every day).
• Corporate Gathering:
  The necessity and value of worshiping together and how digital connection counts too.
• Quote:

  "You cannot find your wings until you find your altar. Because there are some things that are only altered by the altar." (03:52)
  "Scripture gives you information about Him. Prayer gives you answers from Him. Worship gives you Him." (09:16; repeated for emphasis at 11:44)

3. The Cost of Spiritual Dryness

• Fragility Without Presence:
  Life without God’s presence leads to spiritual dryness, which increases vulnerability to adversity.
• Analogy:
  Like a dry leaf that easily crumbles under pressure.
• Quote:

  "It doesn’t take much pressure for a dry leaf to crumble. And when you’re dry spiritually...you fall apart." (10:16)
  "But when you are connected to the soil of God's presence, you might be bit, but you will not break." (10:43)

4. Improving & Scaling Worship Life

• Growth Is Not Optional:
  Just as you try to improve your prayer and study life, you should also scale your worship life.
• Correct Vision Precedes True Worship:
  "You can’t worship God properly if you aren’t seeing God correctly." (15:10)
• Matthew 9 Insights:
  The story of Jairus, the woman with the issue of blood, and two blind men offers diverse models of faith and encounter.

5. Lessons of Faith: The Three Miracles

• Faith Shapes the Method:
  Jesus responded differently in each miracle—by touch, by a word, or through others’ faith—but all hinged on faith.
• Quote:

  "Faith doesn't just determine if God does it. Faith impacts how God does it." (22:37)

6. Blocking Out the Noise

• The Need to Remove Doubt:
  Sometimes Jesus removes people (and their noise) from a situation to create space for a miracle.
• Personal Reflection on Noise:
  Well-intentioned people and negative voices can reinforce what God wants to change.
• Quote:

  "Jesus telling them, 'Go away,' is Jesus saying, 'I’m going to remove the noise that’s confirming a condition I’m getting ready to change.'" (24:05) "Some breakthroughs are on the other side of you learning who to block out." (25:28)

7. Use What You Have

• The Blind Men’s Example:
  Despite lacking sight, they used their other faculties—feet, ears, voice—to pursue Jesus.
• Quote:

  "Don’t let what doesn’t work stop you from using what does work." (28:13) "If you use what does work, it’ll fix what doesn’t work." (28:16)

8. Expectancy through Testimony

• Learning from Others’ Blessings:
  The two blind men became expectant after hearing what Jesus did for someone else—moving from jealousy to anticipation.
• Quote:

  "They heard about what he did for somebody else and didn’t become jealous. They became expectant." (30:22)

9. Seeing Jesus Right: Personal Roadblocks

• Healing Required for Clear Vision:
  Evangelism is an act of worship, naturally stemming from truly “seeing” Jesus.
• Obstacles Identified:
  • Pain: Past experiences can blind us to God’s goodness.
  • Pride: Overestimating self and underestimating God’s grace.
  • Impatience: Frustration with God’s timing can breed offense and hinder worship.
• Quotes:

  "What blindness does Jesus need to heal so we can see him?" (34:02)
  "Don’t allow the bruises from the burden to blind you from the blessing in the middle of it." (35:10)
  "He just assists and will watch you take credit for what he did." (37:00)
  "Impatience breeds offense. And it's hard to worship when you're offended." (38:23)

10. The Principle of Pursuit

• Delay as Curriculum:
  God sometimes allows delays to cultivate persistence, rearranging priorities for deeper growth.
• Quote:

  "He could have healed them immediately, but he made them work more. This isn’t cruelty—it’s curriculum." (39:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "I want my wings." (03:33, Pastor Dharius) – Congregational refrain symbolizing the desire for spiritual transformation.
• "Scripture gives you information about Him. Prayer gives you answers from Him. Worship gives you Him." (09:16, 11:44, & 13:00)
• "You can't worship God properly if you aren't seeing God correctly." (15:10)
• "Some breakthroughs are on the other side of you learning who to block out." (25:28)
• "If you use what does work, it’ll fix what doesn’t work." (28:16)
• "Don’t allow the bruises from the burden to blind you from the blessing in the middle of it." (35:10)
• "Impatience breeds offense. And it’s hard to worship when you’re offended." (38:23)
• "He could have healed them immediately, but he made them work more. This isn’t cruelty—it’s curriculum." (39:22)

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Key Timestamps

• 00:03 – Introduction to sermon supplements and Matthew 9
• 02:00 – Modification vs. metamorphosis: the caterpillar/butterfly analogy
• 05:14 – The importance of communal and digital worship
• 09:16 – Distinction: Information, Answers, Presence
• 10:16 – Analogy of spiritual dryness as a dry leaf
• 15:10 – Seeing God correctly as the basis for worship
• 18:06 – Faith lessons from Jairus and the woman with the issue of blood
• 22:37 – Faith’s influence on the method of miracles
• 24:05 – Removing the noise to make room for the miraculous
• 28:13 – The blind men “work what they’ve got”
• 30:22 – From testimony to expectancy
• 34:02–38:23 – Roadblocks to seeing Jesus: pain, pride, impatience
• 39:22 – The role of pursuit and persistence in spiritual growth

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Conclusion

Pastor Dharius Daniels delivers a powerful message on the necessity of correct spiritual sight for authentic worship, illustrating how past experiences, pride, and impatience can block our vision of God’s goodness. He exhorts the congregation to expect transformation—metamorphosis, not mere modification—through disciplined, ongoing, and expectant worship. The call is clear: recognize and pursue God’s presence, use whatever faculties you have, learn from the testimony of others, block out discouraging “noise,” and let God heal your spiritual blindness for a worship that is both authentic and life-altering.

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Transcript

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And I also want to remind you, I sent out a text this week if you're on our text list about something we do here. I stopped doing it after sabbatical because I literally got no feedback about it, so. And it takes a lot of work to do it, so I just felt like, oh, they don't want it, they don't want it. I'm gonna do this. But something we do called sermon supplements, and it's notes from my sermon. So everything that's on the screen and you get those notes. Reflection questions for your own personal devotional time. Small group questions. We're only gonna leave the small group questions in there until we start our goaded groups, and then we want everybody else in our goated groups. But those small group questions are a way for you to connect with friends when we're not in group season. So there are all sorts of resources that's available every Sunday at 5pm that's because I be changing my stuff a lot in my sermon. I just changed something on the way over here. So if you're ready for the word, say yes. Matthew, chapter nine, beginning at verse 27, it says this. As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, have mercy on us, Son of David. And when he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, do you believe I'm able to do this? Yes, Lord, they replied. Then he touched their eyes and said, according to your faith, let it be done to you. And their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, see that? No one knows about this. But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region. A cause of concern is found in verse 30. Give that for me again, please. And their sight was restored. I'm talking and teaching from this topic today. Do you see what I see? Clap your hands at every location. Do you see what I see? I want to start this sermon with a statement that is significant and salient for everyone who is serious about scaling faith to faith, glory to glory, scaling their spiritual life. One of the greatest challenges in contemporary Christianity is not that believers will lose their faith. One of the greatest challenges in contemporary Christianity is that believers will settle for a mediocre version of it. In other words, many believers will resign to live a life where they don't fully possess all that Christ has purchased. Another way of saying this is that many individuals will settle for living a life of modification when a metamorphosis is available. A metamorphosis is the equivalent of becoming a fast. Excuse me. A modification is the equivalent of becoming a faster caterpillar. But a metamorphosis is a process of becoming a butterfly. And one is an improved version of your inferior self. The other is a completely different version of your intended self. One makes you better, the other makes you brand new. One makes you faster on the ground.

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The other gives you wings for the sky. And Jesus died to give you wings.

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And I want somebody at every location to shout, I want my wings. You see, a caterpillar is faster on the ground, but the caterpillar is still vulnerable to what a butterfly is no longer vulnerable to. The butterfly can now fly over things that were threats when it was a caterpillar. And there are many individuals that don't understand that arrested spiritual development makes you more vulnerable to predatory attacks from the adversary than individuals who get their wings. And I want someone at every location to say it with me, I want my wings. Well, since you want your wings, I want to share with you that you cannot find your wings until you find your altar. Because there are some things that that are only altered by the altar. The altar is a metaphor for authentic encounters with the manifest presence of God. And authentic encounters with the manifest presence of God produce alterations. They don't just produce modifications, they produce alterations. And the Bible has given us a pathway to experience the manifest presence of God. This pathway is a practice of called worship. And when I say worship, I don't mean a collective communal exercise like what we're doing here on Sunday.

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That is important and that is not incorrect.

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But if you stop there, it's incomplete. God does want collective worship. God wants a weekly family reunion with his children. The writer of Hebrews clearly claims this In Hebrews chapter 24, when people in that cultural context were dismissing the importance of coming together on a weekly basis.

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The writer of Hebrews says, let us.

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Consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing. Or one translation says, do not forsake the assembling of yourselves to together.

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Am I making sense here and now.

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Through the tool of technology? Even when we cannot assemble physically, we can assemble digitally. Now, with the grace gift of technology, you can be on vacation in Bora.

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Bora and still get you some Bible teaching. Come on.

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God wants a weekly family reunion with his people, not just because he desires it, but because we need it.

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There is a unique expression of the.

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Manifest presence of God when people practice.

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The principle of collective and corporate gathering.

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Jesus even said regarding prayer, if any.

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Two or three of you come on, gather in my name. There I will be.

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In the midst of unity exposes us.

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To different degrees of God's manifest presence. On the day of Pentecost, they were.

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All in one place, and they were.

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All on one accord.

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And there was a unique expression of.

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The manifest presence of God because of unity. The psalmist even says, oh, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to.

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Dwell together in unity. It is like the precious oil that ran down from Aaron's beard to the.

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Skirts of his garments. It is like the dew that falls from Mount Hermon. For there God commands the blessing.

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Okay, y' all not feeling that one? Let me give you this one. The writer says, one can chase a thousand where my church at?

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But two can put ten thousand to flight. Now, you would think if one can chase a thousand, then two could chase two thousand. But when there is unity, you go from human math, which is addition, to God's math with his multiplication.

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He says, when.

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Hallelujah. When my people start getting together.

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It'S multiplied. So, yes, God wants the collective communal gathering. But if we stop there, we're not incorrect. We are incomplete. Because worship should not only be a collective gathering happening on Sunday. It should be a personal spiritual discipline, like prayer.

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Like study of Scripture. It should be a personal spiritual discipline, come on.

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That we get on Monday. And if we are not practicing this discipline, if we're not practicing this principle, we're missing out on a promise.

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And if we're missing out on this.

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Promise, we're living in modification, not metamorphosis. Because the Scriptures give you information about Him.

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Prayer gives you answers from Him. Worship gives you Him. He said, when? Did you hear me? He said, when you worship, I give you me. I give you manifest presence. And it is the manifest presence of God that makes many believers are living without.

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It is a presenceless, dry spiritual existence.

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And spiritual dryness is personal fragility. Did not.

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I'm sorry, did not the psalmist say, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

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But his delight is in the law of the Lord.

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And in it does he meditate for.

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Both day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. Listen to this. His leaf will not wither.

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Have you ever crumbled a leaf in your hand?

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It doesn't take a lot of pressure.

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For a dry leaf to crumble.

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Did you hear what I said? I said, it doesn't take much pressure for a dry leaf to crumble.

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And when you're dry.

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Spiritually, whenever you deal with any sort of pressure, you fall apart. But when you are connected to the soil of God's presence, you might be bit, but you will not break. Do I have anybody in any location who can testify? The devil tried to break me, but he caught me at the wrong season. My roots were in the soil of God's presence. I was bit, but I did not break. Somebody praise him because it didn't break it. He tried to break it, but it didn't break it. He tried to give you a breakdown, but it didn't break it. He tried to break up the relationship, but it didn't break you.

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Scripture gives you information about me, Him. Prayer gives you answers from him. Worship gives you him.

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And so when I use the word.

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Altar, I'm not referring to a literal piece of furniture anymore. We don't build altars with wood.

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We build altars with worship. It's a metaphor for a meeting place with God. So it means I can have experiences with the manifest presence of God, not just in church. I can have it in the car. Hallelujah. It means I can take part of my lunch break. And part of my lunch break becomes a praise break. Lord, I gotta go back in here and deal with all of these complex people. I need some. I need some presence to help me navigate these dynamics. I feel like running in here. And when we take our personal worship.

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To another level, then we take our.

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Corporate worship to another level, because now we don't have to get people ready. They enter into his gate with Thanksgiving. Is there anybody that pull up on a podcast parking lot with a premeditated praise? You get on the shuttle, say, when I get off this show, I'mma praise him. Today the devil tried to take me out this week. I'mma give God. I'm still here. Praise. This praise is premeditated. When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me, myself, I gotta praise, I gotta praise, and I gotta get it out. I need him. Not just information about him, not just answers from him. I need him. I'm carrying some stuff on Monday. I need him. I'm fighting through some stuff on Tuesday. I need him. I'm wrestling with some things on Wednesday. I need him. Is there anybody at any location, your testimony. Testimony is. I need. I need him.

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All right, I got 17 minutes, y'.

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All.

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All right, all right, here it'. Listen. So Scripture, we almost. I'm almost done. Scripture gives me information about him. Prayer gives Me answers from him. Worship gets me him. Okay, so this means just like I try to improve and scale my prayer life, just like I try to improve and scale my study life, I also need to try to improve and scale my worship life. Does that make sense? And I saw something in our foundational text today that offers some insight on how to improve and scale our worship life. Here's what I saw in the text. I'm reading Matthew. Matthew, say D. What up? I say, what up, Matthew. I'm reading Matthew. I see you can't worship God properly if you aren't seeing God correctly. So in order for God to fix my worship, God has to fix my sight. Pastor, where'd you see that in the text? I saw it right here in Matthew. I saw it in the text. This text here in Matthew 9 is interesting. This part of the passage that we read is a part of a part of the passage. Part of passage here in Matthew 9 where there is successive miracles. So in Matthew 9, there's this religious leader named Jairus who has a daughter who's 12 years old and. And she's sick. So he goes to Jesus and says, my daughter's sick and I need your presence, right? I need your presence at my place to help fix my daughter's problem. Jesus said, okay, let's go. They start walking. People start following. A woman hears that Jesus is passing by. This woman has what the Bible calls an issue of blood. For 12 years now, the Bible doesn't tell us what it is. Many scholars speculate about what it is. It doesn't matter what it is, because.

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Here'S a principle that applies to everybody.

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In every season of life, no matter what gender you are, male or female, don't miss that. This.

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She goes through a season of perpetual loss. So you may not have been losing what she's losing, but all of us know what it feels like to go through seasons of loss. And she's going through seasons of loss.

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And she's not lazy. She's trying everything she can to address her issue.

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And the Bible says she spent all.

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That she had trying to invest in a remedy. She heard that Jesus was passing by. Now, I'm not going to stay with this too long because I'm teaching on worship and not faith. But it's so here in the text, and it may add value to somebody in this season of your life, I want you to see something. Jairus says, jesus, I need you to come and touch my daughter. The woman with the issue of blood says, I just need to touch what's touching you.

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She didn't say if I could touch him. She said, if I could touch the hem of his garment, I just need.

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To touch what's touching you. So Jarius says, I need you to come to my place and touch my daughter. This woman says, I just need to touch what's touching him. Jairus said it to Jesus. The woman said it to herself. Self taught, Eli is soul leadership.

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It is you refusing to allow your mind, will and emotions to be influenced by thoughts that the enemy is planting in your mind to pull you into a downward trajectory of despair, discouragement, and disillusion. This woman was not just talking to herself. She was leading her soul. She was saying, I tried everything, but if I could just touch the hem of his garment.

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I'll be made whole. Not talking to myself. I'm leading my soul. I'm saying, soul. We not going there. So we not being depressed today. So we not being in despair today. So we're not being stuck in sadness today.

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My God will supply all of my needs. She was leading her soul.

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Now, here's what this shows us. It shows us that faith does not just impact what God does. Faith also impacts the way God does it. Because what. When Jesus. When Jesus heals the moment with the issue of blood. He said, go in peace. Your faith has made you whole. Am I making sense? Okay, so here in Mark 9, we're about to see. In Matthew 9, we're about to see. He tells these blind men, according to your faith, be it unto you. Okay, I can take you to Mark and I can show you who the Bible calls a centurion century, meaning a hundred. It's a military Roman leader who oversaw 100 Roman soldiers. One of his servants gets sick. He come to Jesus and he say, my servant's sick. He say, where you live? You don't need to come. He say, I'm a man under authority, and I'm a man in authority, so I understand how authority work. When I say a word, my soldiers move. So since I understand authority the same way I got authority over soldiers, you got authority over sickness. You ain't even got to come to the crib.

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Just say the word. So in one instance, somebody touched Jesus. In another instance, Jesus touched somebody. In another instance, he touches nobody. And all three miracles are attributed to.

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To faith.

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Because faith doesn't just determine if God does it. Faith impacts how God does it. And the way some people's faith is set up, you ain't even got to.

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Come to the crib.

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Jesus just say, while I'm Praising you in this house. You can be fixing it in my house.

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I got eight minutes.

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Y' all all right?

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I said, y' all all right? Watch what happens. Jesus goes to Jairus house, and the Bible says when he entered the synagogue's leader's house, he saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes. And he said to them, go away. This girl's not dead, but sleeping. Text says, but they laughed at him. I want you to see something here. He told them, go away. I don't know if you're familiar with this cultural context, but professional mourners were often hired during these days. That's why people were playing pipes. So Jesus telling them to go away is removing the noise that is confirming a condition he wants to change. Did you hear me say that one more time?

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Jesus telling them, go away? Is Jesus saying, I'm gonna remove the.

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Noise that's confirming a condition I'm getting ready to change. As long as they are confirming death.

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I'm getting ready to bring life. They are reinforcing something. I'm getting ready to change. They are talking about how horrible it is and how hopeless it is, and I need to get that noise out of the house so I can bring my power in the house. And some people hadn't had miracles come in because you don't know what noise to put out. You got to know based on what season you in, rather the plus, press that green button or whether to press that red button when it says incoming call. Because when I'm in a faith fight and you are infected with cynicism and y' all aren't talking to me, I don't need anybody to tell me how bad it is. I know how bad it is. I need somebody to tell me, God getting ready to turn your morning into dancing. God's getting ready to give you the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I know it's bad. I need somebody to tell me he's good.

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And some breakthroughs are on the other side of you learning who to block out. I'm in a faith fight. I'm not telling you just what I. What I see exegetically. I'm telling you what I experienced personally. Oh, planting a church in New Jersey out of seminary. Oh, what all the pastors told me wouldn't happen. Noise. All these people in Trenton don't want nothing.

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These people don't want this, and these.

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People don't want that.

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If you I had allowed myself to be exposed to that noise, I wouldn't be here today.

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And these were well intended people that were trying to temper my expectations. They meant well, but they didn't understand something that we call here the principle of exception. What happens with them does not dictate and determine what happens with me.

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You might be right in any other circumstance, but for some reason, and God said, I'm getting ready to make an exception, I want to know, is there anybody at any location that believes he's still the God that makes exceptions?

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He blocked out the noise and the text says, we're almost done. After the crowd had been put outside, he took the girl by the hand. She got up.

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Hallelujah.

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News of this spread throughout that region. News of this spread throughout that region. Now give me verse 27. Verse 27. As Jesus went on from there, Jairus's.

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House, two blind men followed him.

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Here's my question. First of all.

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If they're blind, how they following Jesus? Here's the lesson. Don't let what doesn't work stop you from using what does work. Cause if you use what does work, it'll fix what doesn't work. Their eyes didn't work, but their feet did. Their eyes didn't work, but their ears ears did. Their eyes didn't work, but their mouth did. And if you will use what you got, God will use what you got to get you what you don't have. This is your season to work what you got.

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Two blind men follow Jesus calling out, have mercy us, Son of David. Give me verse 26. Give me verse 26. News of this spread throughout all that region. Now give me verse 27. Have mercy on us. So whether or not you get what they got in verse 27 is determined by how you handle your verse 26. Because they only ask for what they asked for in verse 27 because of what they heard in verse 26. Verse 26 is what he did for somebody else. Verse 27 is what they asked him.

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To do for them.

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So they heard about what he did for somebody else and didn't become jealous.

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They became expectant. They said, well, since you did it for them in verse 26, do it for us in verse 27.

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So the question is, how many? Verse 26 is, is God letting you see?

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Why is that news if that news.

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That they can't see so that news doesn't spread. They don't know that a healer is.

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Coming in their direction. They don't even know what's possible for them unless the news spreads to them. So God in his providence and by his sovereignty, made sure that the news got to them.

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So I want to make sure that you asking yourself, out of all the stuff I've seen in verse 26, is in other people's life, am I allowing God to use it or Satan? You hear, text says, these two blind men follow Jesus indoors. And Jesus asked them a question. Do you believe I'm notario. I'm able to do this? They say, yes, Lord. The Bible says, he touched their eyes and said, according to your faith, be it unto you. He touched their eyes and it said, according your faith, be it unto you. And the text says, and their sight was restored. We're almost done. Anzio. Let's make a loop here. Let's make a homiletical loop. Here it is. Watch this. If I'm blind and Jesus stands in front of me, touches my eyes, and now I can see, who's the first person I see? The first person I see is Jesus. Because there's a way that Jesus heals blindness to help you see him right. Now watch. Verse 30. It says, Jesus warned them sternly, see that? No one knows about this. Look at verse 31.

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But they went out and spread the news about him all over the region. Because when you work this way in my life, I can't help but tell somebody else. When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me, my soul.

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We'Re done. What does Jesus have to heal for you to see him right? Did you hear what I just said, Deshawn? I'm arguing that their evangelism was worship. They're like, let me tell you about this man. Did you.

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I mean, am I making sense? They're exalting Jesus through their evangelism.

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Don't miss it. But what does he have to heal for you to see him right? You don't have verse 31 enthusiasm if you aren't aware of your verse 30 experience. We. We all here today because we worship in the same God. But there are different degrees of enthusiasm. Some personality, some spiritual temperament. But others there are different degrees of enthusiasm because we all not seeing the same one. There's something God need to heal so you can see Jesus. What blindness does Jesus need to heal so we can see him? What issues are creating my inability to see him right? For some of us, it's the blindness caused by pain. Somebody say pain? Come on, say it like you mean it. Say pain. Pain from the past can cause us to contribute. Can contribute to us seeing God's goodness through the lens of our wounds and not his word. The bruises that we experience. Watch this the bruises that we experience blind us to the way that God blessed us while we were in the middle of what we were in. So, yes, you went in the lion's den. That's painful. And yes, we went in the fiery furnace. That's painful. And yes, Judas betrayed you and put you in a grave. That's painful. But don't allow the bruises from the burden to blind you from the blessing in the middle of it. So, yes, you went in the lion's.

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Den, but God closed the mouth of the lions. And yes, you went in the fiery furnace, but you came out and you.

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Don'T even smell like smoke.

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And yes, Judas's betrayal put your joy and your peace in a grave. But three days later, God raised you back up from the grave. And the. The pain is perverting your perspective of.

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The goodness of God. Unhealed pain as you're blind to Jesus's goodness. Number two, pride. This is an overestimation of your own contribution and a underestimate. This is an overestimation of your own contribution to your success and an underestimation of how much God grace you've been actually experiencing. Did you hear what I just said? It is. It is. Grace is not just unearned favor, it is unearned assistance. In Second Corinthians, chapter 12, when Paul, God. When God tells Paul, my grace is sufficient. He's not saying, you need unearned favor like forgiveness for this thorn. You need ability. You don't deserve to endure a thorn. I'm not altering. He's like, so here's what happens. Pride causes you to overestimate your own contribution to your success. You don't know how much grace you've been walking in, so you're keeping credit that belongs to the Father because he doesn't announce when he assists. He just assists and will watch you take credit for what he did. See, when my two boys, both of them, when they were young, they used to, like, try to help me carry stuff. And you couldn't tell them they weren't carrying stuff. They go. They might go in a room and say to their mom, me and dad carried this. And no, me and dad. But they had no idea how much weight I was carrying. So they were taking credit for weight they wouldn't actually carry. And some of us are walking around saying, I went back to school, I started this business, I came out of that.

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And God's like, you have no idea. I was the one that was helping you carry that weight. If you know how much grace I Gave you, you would be walking in here skipping every Sunday if you knew how much grace I gave you. People would have to pull you down when it came to giving me glory.

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All right. And number three, Patience. Impatience breeds offense. And it's hard to worship when you're offended. I got to go. I got to go. Because some of you too scared to admit you mad at God second way make you think he can't handle your honesty. And he's sitting here saying, I gave you the whole book of psalms to show you I can handle your honesty. And if you talk to me about what's really going on, we can fix it. But you sit here act acting like you're not upset and we need to talk about you mad Mary and Martha.

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That I didn't show up earlier.

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If you would have been here, my.

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Brother wouldn't have died. Come on here they honest.

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But if you read the text, this text we just read, the Bible says when Jesus, these men encounter Jesus. Jesus goes indoor. So they say, jesus, have mercy on us. Jesus doesn't respond. He goes indoors. They follow him indoors. Then Jesus asks the question, do you believe I'm able to do this? So he could have healed them immediately, but he made them work more. This isn't cruelty. It's curriculum. He's using the delay to develop in them the principle of pursuit. You gotta pursue me. I'm rearranging your priorities. I am using this circumstance to develop something in you that's going to bless you when this circumstance is over. So whenever God makes you wait, the waiting is because he's doing working.

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Let patience have its perfecting work.

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He said, I'm doing something in you while I'm making you wait for what I'm asking, asking you for. Because what I'm doing in you is going to be more valuable to you than what I'm asking you for. I'm developing something you need in you through this miracle that's going to bless you beyond this one. What is it? Is it pain? Is it pride? Is it patience? What does Jesus need to heal so you can see him? Right? Because you cannot worship properly until you see him correctly. God is good. He deserves my praise. If you're here today and you've never received Jesus as the leader of your life or the forgiver of your sin, if you're here today and you sense God calling you to connect with this church.