I Can't See It

Summary

Podcast Summary: “I Can’t See It”

Change Church Podcast | Pastor Dharius Daniels
Episode Date: June 7, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Pastor Dharius Daniels explores the theme of spiritual blindness and the challenge of trusting God in seasons when answers are withheld. Using John 9—the story of the man born blind—as his guide, he unpacks why God sometimes allows us to experience unanswered questions, disappointment, and delays, and how these moments can serve as opportunities for spiritual transformation. The message challenges listeners to fill the gaps of uncertainty with trust rather than suspicion or doubt.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Necessity of Being Discipled for God’s Silence

• Main idea: Every serious believer must learn to steward challenges when God does not provide explanations.
• Quote [01:09]: “Every human that is serious about their spiritual formation must be discipled, trained, mentored, taught, equipped on how to handle challenging situations where God refuses to give an explanation.” — Pastor Dharius Daniels
• Often, we are prepared to respond when God speaks but not when God is silent, leading to deeper frustration.

2. Disappointment as a Doorway to Doubt

• Disappointment is defined as the gap between what you expect God to do and what He actually does.
• Quote [03:36]: “The enemy uses the absence of answers as an opportunity to open the door to something called disappointment… and disappointment never comes by itself; it brings its cousins, like doubt.”
• Pastor Daniels outlines how spiritual disappointment can erode faith, not through debates but through lingering doubts about God’s character and intentions.

3. Spiritual Blindness as a Metaphor

• John 9’s literal blindness also points to spiritual blindness—our inability to see life as God does.
• Quote [07:10]: “Spiritual sight is the ability to see a thing the way God sees it.”
• Losing sight isn’t merely losing vision; it’s also losing the benefits of sight—speed, sanity, and safety.
  • Speed: When spiritual visibility is limited, so is our momentum ([14:36]).
  • Sanity: Lack of clarity can produce anxiety and paranoia ([16:55]).
  • Safety: Without spiritual sight, we can’t discern threats or opportunities well.

4. How We Interpret Suffering

• The disciples’ question (“Who sinned, this man or his parents?”) reflects a common theological error—that suffering always stems from personal sin ([18:54]).
  • They operate from a “theology of retribution”—the belief that the righteous prosper and the wicked suffer.
  • Pastor Daniels explains the scriptural misunderstanding surrounding inherited iniquity ([24:26]) and how it’s more about “leaning” or propensity than action.

5. God’s Purpose in Our Problems

• Jesus doesn’t provide the “cause” for the man’s blindness but instead focuses on its “usage”—how God will use the situation to display His works ([26:12]).
  • Quote [26:16]: “He’s not talking about causation here. He’s talking about usage.”
  • God often uses our story, not just our skills. Sometimes our public crucifixion sets the stage for a public resurrection ([27:37]).

6. The Gap Between God’s Actions and Our Understanding

• Life will bring seasons like John 9, where what God is doing does not seem to make sense to us ([31:24]).
• We must decide how to fill the gap: with suspicion or with trust.
  • Quote [34:09]: “Since you won’t give me an answer, I have to choose what I fill that blank with. I can choose to fill it with suspicion. I can choose to fill it with trust.”
• Scripture’s repeated call to “trust” is because there will be many times when answers aren’t given ([34:42]).

7. Faith is Logical in Light of God’s Track Record

• Pastor Daniels challenges listeners to consider that, upon objective review, trusting God makes more sense than doubting, given God’s past faithfulness ([35:54]).
  • Quote [35:57]: “Doubt is what doesn’t make sense. Faith makes sense.”
• In the John 9 story, Jesus provided a solution (healing), not a detailed answer—obedience and trust bring the breakthrough ([36:01]).

8. Trusting God’s Method, Place, and Timing

• The healing is messy (Jesus uses mud)—not how we’d choose, but effective ([38:50]).
  • Quote [38:41]: “But I gotta trust that you use the mess. That’s a messy miracle.”
• Sometimes God sends us to unexpected places (“Siloam,” meaning “sent”) for our breakthrough ([39:39]).
  • Many times, long periods of lack or suffering can tempt us to give up on hope ([41:03]), but God is able to do “unprecedented” things.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Perception vs. God’s Perspective ([07:24]):
  “It is possible for us to look at the same thing and not see the same thing… You see a closed door as rejection. I see the closed door as protection.”

• On Difficult Losses ([10:14]):
  “When you lose something, you don’t just lose something; you lose what that something gave you.”

• On Assets, Liabilities, and Wisdom ([11:32]):
  “Just because we are all equally valuable to God doesn’t mean everyone adds equal value to you. It takes wisdom to recognize rare… The unwise assume rare is regular.”

• On Obedience Without Explanation ([37:55]):
  “He had to obey without any promise of an outcome. Lord, I don’t know what you’re going to do. You may heal, you may not, but I’m going.”

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• [00:04] – Opening reflection: Why spiritual formation demands learning to handle God’s silence
• [03:41] – Disappointment and doubt as tools of the enemy
• [06:49] – Literal blindness as metaphor for spiritual blindness
• [14:36] – How sight (or lack of it) impacts speed, sanity, safety
• [18:54] – Disciples question Jesus’ reasoning around the blind man’s suffering
• [22:30] – Theological misunderstandings on suffering and iniquity
• [26:12] – Jesus reorients focus to how God “uses” our story
• [31:24] – When reality doesn’t match God’s promises
• [34:09] – Choosing what to fill the gap with: suspicion or trust
• [36:01] – God provides a solution, not always an explanation
• [38:41] – Trusting God through “messy miracles” and unusual methods
• [41:03] – Encouragement for the “almost given up” — God’s unprecedented power

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Conclusion & Takeaways

• Listeners are encouraged to acknowledge the discomfort of unanswered questions and to intentionally fill those voids with trust.
• God’s call is to faith that persists beyond clarity, embracing the reality that His solutions may be messy or unexpected but are always purposeful.
• Final prayer: Pastor Daniels closes by praying for those in a “John 9” season right now, asking for trust to fill the gap and for faith to believe that God will finish the good work started in each listener.

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For further encouragement:

• Recommended to revisit John chapter 9 and reflect on your own moments of spiritual blindness or discouragement.
• Share the message with someone in a season of waiting or confusion.

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Transcript

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Hallelujah. To God be the glory for the things he has done. Let's. Let's journey together to the Gospel of John, chapter number nine. Beginning our reading at verse number one, there's a brief conversation that I want to have with us from this text today. John, chapter nine, verse one. It says, as he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind? Neither this man or his parents sinned, said Jesus. But this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. I'm gonna stop the reading of scripture there, and we're gonna teach from this topic. In our time together, y' all had a lot of preaching this weekend. Now you got room for one more? I want to talk from this subject very simply. I can't see it. Clap your hands if you're ready to receive God's word. I can't see it. I want to start this sermon with a statement that I'd like for you to take into consideration. Every human that is serious about their spiritual formation must be discipled on how to handle challenging situations where God will not give an explanation. Every human that is serious about their spiritual formation must be discipled, trained, mentored, taught, equipped on how to handle challenging situations where God refuses to give an explanation. I'm suggesting that disciples of Jesus must learn how to operate without receiving answers we prefer when God has determined that the answers you prefer are not answers you actually need. Herein is why development in this area becomes essential, imperative, and important. Because many of us have been trained on how to respond when God speaks, but we have not been appropriately equipped on how to act when God is silent. And if I could make an honest admission in my attempt to communicate what

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is on my heart for this house

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today, a lot of my frustration with the Father isn't with what he says. It's what he does it.

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It's not in the answers I do get. It's in the explanations I don't. Therefore, we need to be equipped to engage with a God. Listen to this. Who has promised to reveal Himself but is not obligated to explain himself. Because revelation and explanation are not the same thing. God has committed to making Himself known,

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but he is not committed to making his decisions understood. And the enemy understands this reality. So he uses the absence of answers as an opportunity to open the door to something called disappointment. And disappointment is the emotion you feel when there's a gap between what you expected God to do and what God actually did. And when disappointment comes through the door,

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it never comes through the door by itself. When disappointment walks through the door, he

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brings his cousins with him.

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And one of his cousins name is doubt. Because the enemy wants to use the

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disappointment to cause us to doubt.

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And I don't know if you have

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had any experience with this, but what I've experienced is this.

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When many people walk away from the faith or lose their faith, very rarely is it a result of a debate. More often than not, it's a result of their doubt.

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Doubting who God is, doubting God's nature, doubting God's character.

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And the enemy understands this reality and he uses it as an opportunity to accept, exploit.

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Watch this.

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Our disappointment to push us into doubt, to push us into disillusionment, and for some of us to even push us into dysfunctional behavior.

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Therefore, we must be equipped to successfully steward seasons where we're dealing with some issues, but God won't give us answers.

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And for those of us that are

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wrestling with this reality, John Chapter 9 serves as an incredible teaching tool to

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aid and equip us in successfully stewarding

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these kind of seasons and situations.

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John chapter number nine introduces us to an experience that Jesus has with a blind man.

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I want the church to say blind.

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Come on, say it again.

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Say blind.

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Come on, one more time.

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Say blind.

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It's important for us to understand family, that whenever we see literal conditions in the Bible, they can also be used as metaphors for spiritual conditions. So for an example, when we see individuals in the Bible who might be dealing with literal paralysis, it is a metaphor of God's ability not just to deal with literal paralysis, but metaphorical paralysis. Because some people know what it is like to be stuck with. Not in your legs, but in your life.

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Come on.

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To be stuck in our relationships, to be stuck in our career, to be stuck in certain mental states. And Jesus's ability to heal the immobile literally is also a revelation of his ability to heal our immobility metaphorically. So that wherever you and I are stuck, we can see the power of God manifest. Wherever we are paralyzed. This man is blind. And blindness for him means the absence of physical sight.

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Blindness for us means the absence of spiritual sight. And spiritual sight is the ability to see a thing the way God sees it. Are y' all here? I said spiritual sight is the ability to.

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To see a thing the way God sees it.

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Because here is the truth. It is possible for us to look at the same thing and not see the same thing.

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And some of our frustration with the

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Father is because Sometimes God, in doing what we think he should be doing, and the reason is he's not seeing what we think he's seeing.

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He's saying we looking at the same thing, but we don't see the same thing. You see a closed door as rejection. I see the closed door as protection. So you mad? I'm not mad. I'm not mad.

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I'm glad.

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Because what you mad about, I'm glad about because you think I restricted you from a blessing. I protected you from a trap. Am I talking to anybody in the building that's honest enough to admit that there were some things in certain seasons that you were initially upset about. And now when you look back in retrospect, you upset that you were upset because you see God was using the setback as a setup for come up,

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come on in here.

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He says we're looking at the same thing, but we don't see the same thing. So I'm not responding the way you think I should be responding because I don't see what you see in this.

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This.

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You see I'm behind schedule.

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Boy, if I had time.

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But I see while you walking up one side of the mountain, Abraham, I got a ram going up the other side of the mountain. And I'm not going to let you outpace your provision. I'm going to keep you at a steady pace so that you get to the right place at the right time, so that when you get there, the ram is is there and you have what you need. Somebody ought to praise him not for when he sped you up, but for when he slowed you down. This praise is because you didn't get me there when I wanted to get there. This praise is because you didn't give me what I wanted when I wanted it. Everybody knows how to praise God on a yes, I need about 18 of y' all to praise them on a note. I learned how to praise them on a note.

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This.

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So when you see God healing people

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from blindness, literally, metaphorically, the implication is it is God helping you see that the way he see it. It's not just am I making making sense? So this man text says is operating with the absence of sight. And whenever you don't have something, you

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don't have that something. And you also don't have what what that something give you.

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So when you lose something, you don't just lose something, you lose what the something gave you.

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And sometimes you don't even know what you lost until you lose it. Cuz you thought you were just losing that thing and then you lost that thing, and when you lost that thing, you lost the things that thing was giving you.

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If I had time. Am I making sense? See, this is why sometimes it's difficult to discern whether something or someone is a.

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Is an asset or a liability. Until you lost it.

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Yeah.

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Relationship ology is coming in June, July. Stay with me. It's coming.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes you don't know if.

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Okay, now let me say this because I know.

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I know some of us have.

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It's a little cringe.

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You cringe a little bit when I

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say asset or liability.

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I'm not saying someone is an asset or liability to God.

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Right.

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So I'm well aware of Every human is an image bearer of God.

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And we are all have.

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We all have intrinsic and inherent worth and value. So we are all equally valuable to God.

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Got me Wall street, off the Street.

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Equally valuable to God. However, Just because we are all equally valuable to God doesn't mean everyone adds equal value to you. And wisdom enables you to discern difference. It takes wisdom to recognize rare. Y' all are not talking to me, right? The unwise erroneously assume that rare is regular. So they treat rare like it's regular, because when it's regular, it's replaceable. Who's gonna help me preach? Yeah, regular is easily replaceable. Rare is difficult to replace. And it takes wisdom to recognize. I can't wake up tomorrow and find

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another one of these.

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So I need to treat this as a unique gift that God has given to me once, and he is not obligated to give it to me twice.

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Sometimes you don't know until it's not there.

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Y' all follow me here.

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You. You thought they were an asset, and then you lost them. And then you realize I didn't lose nothing but a headache. Oh, y', all. I like this section.

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This is where I'm going right here. Okay. I mean, you thought you about to be broke up and just.

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And you're like, praise God. I just.

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I feel better. So much better since I laid.

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Because when you don't have something, you not only don't have what you don't have, you don't have what that brought you. When you lose something, you not only lose what you lose, you lose what it gave you. So when this man doesn't have sight, I don't want you to just see someone who doesn't have sight. I want you to see someone who doesn't have speed because your sight affects your speed. Have you ever been driving in the

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rain and the rain is falling so aggressively? That you have to slow down your pace because the visibility is limited, so your speed is restricted. And that is not just the case in the car. It is also the case in the kingdom. When visibility is limited, speed is restricted. But you go further when you're clearer.

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Come on here.

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When you know your turn, you don't worry about missing your turn.

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Yeah. So. So because he couldn't see, he couldn't move as fast as people who could see.

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So don't just see a man who lost his sight. See a man who didn't have speed. Don't just see a man who didn't have sight of speed. See a man who did not have

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the kind of sanity that you do

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because your sight affects your sanity. And I know some of you, you

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can't relate to this because you, you

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know, God didn't give you the spirit of fear. So you never have any sort of fear. But, but there are some of us who grew up and then we grew up and we can remember times when we were growing up we might have been home alone.

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And let's say we home alone. Right? And especially if it's at night. Come on. And it seems, especially when you as a kid, some of you right now,

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even when you come on.

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Yeah.

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When you're home alone, it's at night. I don't know why the house get loud. The house just start making noise.

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You like what is.

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And what do we do?

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Turn all the lights on. Because you feel safer when you can see. Can you imagine the paranoia he's having to live under Cuz he can't see. All I hear is footsteps. You coming to hurt me or you coming to help me? I don't know. Cuz I can't see. Since I can't see, I'm paranoid cuz I don't want to not protect myself from a threat.

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Then at the same time I don't

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want to push back a blessing. But because I can't see. And let's be clear, let's, let's be honest, being unclear does produce a degree of anxiousness. I want to make a decision and I'm unclear.

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So I don't want, I don't want to make the wrong decision.

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So I'm anxious because I got to make a decision. So I'm anxious about that. But I don't want to make the wrong decision. So I'm anxious about that. So don't just see a man who couldn't see, see a man whose feed was speed was affected, see a man whose sanity was affected, see A man whose safety was affected because when your sight is clear, you don't just avoid what's evil. Watch this. You're also able to discern opportunity. So he didn't have sight. So he didn't have speed. He didn't have the kind of sanity that you and I would have. And he had to depend on others, probably for his safety. That's the man that meets Jesus in the text. And this man's blindness is a metaphor for the kind of problems you and I will often face. I call them pregnant problems. He had one problem that produced three more. He couldn't see. That's one problem. Now I got a speed problem. Then he got a sanity problem. Then he got a safety problem. Are y' all here? And then he runs into Jesus. And the disciples ask this question, rabbi,

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who sinned this man or his parents

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that he was born blind? There's so much I could do with that.

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First of all, what do they call him?

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Because he's not just a redeemer that gets you to heaven. He's a teacher who shows you how to live on earth. Does that make sense?

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And many people never get spiritual sight because they want the redeemer and not the.

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Rabbi,

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save me, but don't teach. Rabbi, watch this. Watch this. The disciples asked him, rabbi, this is

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important because I think there's some things we can learn from disciples in terms

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of what we shouldn't do as disciples. But there are also things we can learn from disciples in terms of things that we should do as disciples. Because the disciples often model what it

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means to be a good disciple.

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You know what they did here?

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They asked, what did you see?

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A lot in scripture, them asking.

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They actually asked questions,

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am I making sense? Like, they do a great job.

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Jesus does a great job of showing

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what it means to be a healthy mentor. From time to time, they do a great job of showing what it is to be a healthy mentee. What do you see?

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Initiation.

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What does this say? It says, they free from the prison of pretension. I'm not trying to act like I know when I don't. Because I'm not trying to impress who've been assigned to help me. I'm not trying to impress you. Help me. I don't understand how to do this. Help me. I'm too old to learn everything through experimentation. If you already made the mistake, I don't want to help me.

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Notice the question, who's seeing this man or his parents that he's born blind? What are they looking for, y'? All? They See an issue and they looking for an explanation. Here's the assumption, if there's suffering, there's got to be sin. Notice they didn't ask what happened, did they? They say, who's sin? They think they already know it.

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Their assumption is, somebody sin,

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who did it, Jesus. They looking for an answer. Because if it's suffering, it's got to be a reason, right? If something's going wrong, somebody must have done something wrong. If I'm in a predicament, it's got to be punishment.

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Now the question is, why are they thinking this way? I want you to know they just

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didn't get this out of thin air.

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This is an informed opinion. It's inaccurate, but it's informed. They were taught this. They operated in that day, many of them, what's called a theology of retribution. The righteous prosper, the wicked suffer. So if you suffering. That if something's going wrong, you did something wrong. They had a God whose wrath was

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not attached to love.

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Did you hear what I just said? Yeah, they. They had a God whose wrath was not an expression of his love.

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They had a.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's a theology of retribution that came from misinterpretation of scripture.

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Notice the question.

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Who sin? This man or his parents?

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Now, the text says he's blind from birth. Is that right? So if so.

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So if I've been blind from birth, I didn't. It can't be prom. I didn't go like, what did I do? I sinned in the womb.

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Because bad theology will have you making absurd assumptions.

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And sometimes you don't know the absurdity

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of your assumptions until third way challenges them. Something's going wrong because I did wrong. Because that's what they're summing. Because there's got to be a reason the relationship didn't work out. It's got to be a reason the business deal fell through. It's got to be a reason Doors keep closing in my face. It's got to be a reason. Pain in my body has got to be. It's got to be a reason. So they say, who sins? This man or his parents? They're misreading Exodus 20, which talks about the visitation of iniquity to your children's children. And a simple word study, simple etymology, would have corrected their theology if they just looked at the word. At what the word iniquity meant. If they just look at what it means, they wouldn't have came to that false conclusion. They would have saw that iniquity isn't even necessarily activity that iniquity is an inherited. The word is crookedness or leaning. So it is this inherited orientation we have towards certain behavior. It's not the behavior itself.

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It's the propensity for.

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Just means I'm leaning.

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It doesn't mean I fall.

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It just means in whatever area I'm leaning. It don't take much there.

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Are y' all okay?

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And watch Jesus's answer. They're trying to find the reason. And watch what Jesus says. Neither. Neither this man or his parents sin. They gotta be like, now wait a minute. Cause what do they want an answer. What do we want when we're going through John 9 experiences an answer, I need to know why? And he says, neither. So he tells them what is not. But then he doesn't tell them what it is. He just says, it's not this, But he doesn't tell them what it is.

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Why me? Is it what I did?

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It's not that. What is it? That's all you need to know.

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Is it when I didn't do this? Is it when I didn't do that?

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It's not that. It could have been all of that, but it's not that. Neither. And doesn't give an answer. He says, but this happened. But.

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So he's talking about. He's not talking about causation here. He's talking about usage.

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But this happened.

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Not. God made this happen. This happened. And this is how God is going to use what happened. The works of God might be displayed in him. Now we're getting ready to have a grown folks conversation. Are y' all ready? I said, we're getting ready to go grown. Are y' all ready? So that the works of God may. May be displayed him, not through him. The way I'm getting ready to use him is not through what he does. I'm not about to use his skill. I'm gonna use his story. Be careful when you tell God to use you, because very often we want him to use our skill. And he's like, not only will I use your skill, I'm gonna use your story. I'm gonna let people know you are blind since birth. And then one day you ran into somebody like me, and I picked you up, I turned you around, I placed your feet on solid ground. He didn't use a Lazarus's skill. He used Lazarus's story.

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We.

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We don't even know Lazarus's skill, but we know he stayed in that grave four days and Jesus got him out of his so that you know he can get you out of yours. And I came to tell somebody. He's setting you up to use your story. This is about to be a comeback story, a bounce back story. This shouldn't or couldn't or wouldn't have happened story. Hallelujah. Sometimes he allows a crucifixion to be public because the resurrection is going to be public as well.

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He says, I didn't cause it, this is the consequence I'm done to you over living in an imperfect world where all of the created order is not aligned with God's original intent. So now even creation itself doesn't operate the way God intended. So fault lines shift and earthquakes happen. Hurricanes and tsunamis and tornadoes

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and animals

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that you should have been in harmony with, like Adam in the Garden of Eden, are in enmity with each other and with you. And stuff that shouldn't hit your body hits it and you're like God, it didn't neither and I didn't cause it. But I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna use your story, Use your example. It's some stuff I'm not letting stay private. It's too much.

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I'm.

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I'm. Because I'm a use it. This happened that the works of God might be displayed, platformed, amplified in him. God didn't cause it, but he used it for us. Here we are thousands of years later being encouraged by the story of a man whose name we don't even know. And the same God that used him in this way is the God who also use us in this way. He uses your story. So here it is. Listen to me. You and I will not just have one 1 John 9 experience throughout your life. You're gonna have several John Nines where there's a gap between what he doing and what you see. Lord, I heard what you said. And you said, no weapon formed against me shall prosper.

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And I believe you.

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But right here is giving, prospering. That's too real. I. I heard what you said.

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When I'm confused, trust in the Lord

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with all my heart.

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Don't lean to my own understanding. In all my ways, acknowledge you.

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You'll direct my path.

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So I'm trusting you.

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I'm acknowledging you.

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I'm still confused. I feel realness in this section right here. I'm like, I prayed and I'm still confused.

[Lead Pastor]

And I called prayer partners.

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I'm more confused now. After I talked to them, I heard what you said.

[Lead Pastor]

I don't see it. You said, healing the children's bread. I'm your child. Where's the healing? I don't see it. It's John 9, and you and I are going to have some John 9 experiences where there's a gap between what he's doing and what makes sense. And he refuses to give us an answer. So now I got to decide how will I handle that gap? Because God want to use that gap and the devil want to use that gap. But I determine who gets to use that gap. God wants to use use it for spiritual formation. The devil wants to use it for spiritual deformation. I determine who gets to use it. So since God is not going to fill the blank with an answer, why they do me like that? Why did I go through that? Why me? Why didn't they pick somebody else? Why did you let this happen to

[Assistant Pastor]

me out of all people?

[Lead Pastor]

This shouldn't have happened to me. I actually did what was right. I'm not saying it shouldn't have happened to anybody else, but I got a few people that I know if it. I don't want it to happen to anybody else.

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But if it happened to them, I would have understood. I'm not judging.

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I don't want it. I would have.

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I'd be like, yeah, I get it, but.

[Lead Pastor]

Is this too real? Is this. Lord, I'm trying,

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Trying,

[Lead Pastor]

and I don't see it. So since you won't give me an answer, I have to choose what I fill that blank with. I can choose it with. To fill it with suspicion. I can choose to fill it with trust. And maybe this is why all throughout scripture we're encouraged and commanded to trust. Because God is subliminally saying, I'm telling you to trust me because you're going to need to.

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I'm telling you to trust me because I know some answers you're going to

[Lead Pastor]

want and I'm never going to give. I told you all things work together for good. I never told you you would know the good that those all things are working. You just gotta trust that good is coming out of this that you don't even see. So what do I do when I want to answer God with God? Me? I choose to fill that blank with trust. And trust is actually the logical choice. It's an expression of faith, but it's actually quite logical. Because when you objectively look at your past and your track record and you see the consistency to doubt God is what's actually illogical. Doubt is what don't make sense. When you look at what you've come through and what you survived and the faithfulness of God.

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Doubt Is was.

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It doesn't make sense.

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Faith makes sense.

[Lead Pastor]

So I gotta trust in the text. They had to trust what God was going to do. Because if you read the rest of the narrative, here's what you'll see. God didn't give them an answer. Look at Pastor. But he did give him a solution. He never told him why, but he helped him fix the what.

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So the Father may not give you

[Lead Pastor]

an answer, but here's what. He will give you a solution.

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I'm not. I'm not going to always tell you why you're in the condition that you're in, but if you'll listen to me, I'll give you a solution to handle

[Lead Pastor]

the condition you're in.

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I give you a solution even when

[Lead Pastor]

I don't give you an answer.

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Now you're going to pout about the

[Lead Pastor]

answer, or are you going to accept the solution? If you like me, I pout a little bit. Y' all too much for me. I can't do fake. This is

[Assistant Pastor]

I shake back.

[Lead Pastor]

But something, I'm like, God, Why now?

[Assistant Pastor]

Why me? Why this?

[Lead Pastor]

But in the text, the Bible says. He spits in dirt, makes the dirt mud, puts mud on the man's eyes, and then tells him to go to this pool called salon. And the Bible says the man went washed and came home Sid. He didn't tell the man, I'm putting this on you and I'mma heal you. He just put it on the man and said, go to the pool of salon. So the man just had to trust. He had to obey without any promise of an outcome. Lord, I don't know what you're going to do.

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You may heal, you may not, but I'm going. And you may open the door. You may not, but I'm going. You may turn this around. You may not, but I'm going. My obedience is not attached to an outcome. I trust that if you're sending me here, you're sending me here for a reason. So here I go. They had to trust the way God

[Lead Pastor]

was going to do it.

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This man couldn't see, but he had

[Lead Pastor]

to hear when Jesus spit in that dirt. Here's a lesson. Sometimes we're going to wish God would do it in a cleaner way.

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Have you ever been going through something? You're like, God, this is messy,

[Lead Pastor]

But I gotta trust that you use the mess. That's a messy miracle. But I gotta trust the way you're

[Assistant Pastor]

doing it is the way it needs to be done. And it is messy and it is muddy and I don't like it. But the way you're doing it must

[Lead Pastor]

be the way it needs to be done. I gotta trust the way he's doing it. I gotta trust where he's gonna do it. He sent this man to a place called Siloam, and Siloam means sent. So he sent him to Scent because this is where I'm going to do this. And have you ever felt like, Lord, I don't know why I'm in this place. Okay, my help is right here. Right along here.

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I'm getting ready.

[Lead Pastor]

I'm going up to the balcony next week because that's what my. Here it is. Here it is. Don't miss this. Don't miss this. Have you ever just looked at life? I wonder how did. I just wasn't on my vision board. God's like, you gotta trust where I'm gonna do this. Now, Lord. Yeah, this. This is the place in your life. I'm gonna do this. I'm sending you to Scent because this is where I choose to do it. Okay? And last but not least, he had to trust when God was going to do it. This man had been blind since birth, which means he probably had released himself of any expectation that he would ever see. He probably been blind so long, he gave. Oh, my. He gave up on the possibility of something changing. I feel something on that.

[Assistant Pastor]

And some of you almost. I heard that almost.

[Lead Pastor]

Some of you almost resign yourself to accept living without something forever because you live without it so long. Blind since birth can be a metaphor for as long as you can remember. And some of us, like Pastor, I can't remember the last time I had joy. I can't remember the last time I was. Was not exhausted. I can't. I can't remember. This man had been blind since birth, but probably right when he accepted that he was going to have to live with this, with that forever. Here come Jesus and say, no, you not. No, you are not. I'm about to do for you what

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you thought would never be done. I'm about to shift your expectation. I'm about to change your reality. I'm about to show you that it doesn't matter how long you haven't had it. When you run into me, I do something called unprecedented. I will do what hasn't been done before. And may God push you into a season called unprecedented. If you receive that, come on and raise your voice and thank our God for unprecedented.

[Lead Pastor]

I want to pray for you because some of us, we. In a John 9 right now,

[Assistant Pastor]

We're

[Lead Pastor]

like God, I don't see it. But here's what I will do. I will fill that gap with trust. Because you've earned it.

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You not only deserve my trust,

[Lead Pastor]

you've earned it.

[Assistant Pastor]

Family.

[Lead Pastor]

First of all, thank you for finishing the message. So many people start and they don't finish. I want you to know God's going to finish the work he's doing in you. I want to thank you for being a part of this YouTube family. I want to encourage you, if it bless you, to send a message to someone else. And last but not least, if you believe in sowing back into the field you're harvesting from, ways to give are on the screen. Take care. God bless you.