Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of inspiring,
Speaker 2: heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and speakers all over
Speaker 2: the Philippins. We hope that this podcast finds you in
Speaker 2: good shape and now here's your message.
Speaker 3: Good evening everyone, before you take your seats. High five
Speaker 3: Namandjan left right front back.
Speaker 1: Good evening.
Speaker 3: I'm Larry, one of the pastors here in Victory Green
Speaker 3: Hills is joyed to be invited once again.
Speaker 1: I'm already what do you call this?
Speaker 3: I'm stationed at our at our every nation building, by
Speaker 3: being the doing admin works there. But then I praise
Speaker 3: God for Pastor Francis, who once in a while who
Speaker 3: would call on me, especially now that he's in New Zealand,
Speaker 3: New Zealand and he's he celebrating their tenth Pam and
Speaker 3: And and Phastor Francis are celebrating the tenth year anniversity.
Speaker 3: Please do pray for our for your pastors, uh In
Speaker 3: people be pastor and thank you, thank you for praying
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: But stories and card causin a New Zealand Stories, okay,
Speaker 3: how many of you, I'll tell him that I can
Speaker 3: see your face? How many of you you've actually followed
Speaker 3: the whole the whole series.
Speaker 1: Okay, premier and see.
Speaker 3: Lord will be Okay. Yeah, this is a this this
Speaker 3: wonderful series. We actually started the series last year path
Speaker 3: if you if you notice it last year right after
Speaker 3: Prayer Fasting, we also had a series on the Gospel
Speaker 3: and know something about the Gospel also and and and
Speaker 3: it's good that we we saw different stories, uh, the
Speaker 3: different stories in the Book of Look they remember the
Speaker 3: first to the first two Sundays we talked about the widow,
Speaker 3: the widow, the crying widow who.
Speaker 1: Lost the mourning widow who lost a son.
Speaker 3: And then last week talked about the sinful woman was
Speaker 3: actually forgiven. And then they were gonna be talking about
Speaker 3: the blind beggary. And what I love about this series
Speaker 3: is that we would actually see people who.
Speaker 1: Encounter Jesus Christ. They not just encountered in the encounter Jesus.
Speaker 3: Christ led to transformation and they didn't stop there. Hey,
Speaker 3: right after being led to transformation, actually proclaimed the Gospel
Speaker 3: and the whole town or the whole community got actually saved.
Speaker 1: My prayer is that that's.
Speaker 3: That that's us la paramatto. This is not a classroom
Speaker 3: it's not a classroom. What we learn here should be
Speaker 3: applied out there. And maybe some of you you're thinking, boy,
Speaker 3: to miss more. The journey that I am in right
Speaker 3: now is not it's not that great. That's why we
Speaker 3: hang on again to the promise of the Gospel. That's
Speaker 3: why the title is Grace changes everything. You might not
Speaker 3: be perfect now, but again grace is sufficient for you,
Speaker 3: for each one of us. That's a promise I do believe.
Speaker 3: That's that's among the very very to go to, top
Speaker 3: five verses that I've ever memorized. That grace his grace,
Speaker 3: not our grace, not not our grace. If we rely
Speaker 3: only on our grace, guess what, you won't.
Speaker 1: Finish this straight.
Speaker 3: That the race strong, but you have to hang on
Speaker 3: to His grace, his grace that is sufficient for us.
Speaker 3: If it's been a sufficient never ending because it comes.
Speaker 3: Can we see in mosa good looks, Mulang think and
Speaker 3: good looks. My question, Guess what? It doesn't change anything.
Speaker 3: Only his grace is sufficient. And we said sufficient, it's
Speaker 3: never ending, never ending. We're gonna look at the life
Speaker 3: of this blind beggar. Okay, maybe some of you you've
Speaker 3: you've read through this the Bason Sarah it's it's a
Speaker 3: good story trivia trivia. This actually is probably as recorded
Speaker 3: in the Bible, the very last miracle of Jesus. The
Speaker 3: very first miracle is the wedding at Canaan, and this
Speaker 3: probably is the last recorded last recorded in reverence to
Speaker 3: God's word, can ask everybody to stand, Let's read the
Speaker 3: word of God, and let's let's pray.
Speaker 1: Let's open this service with the prayer.
Speaker 3: As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was
Speaker 3: sitting by the roadside roadside, begging and and hearing a
Speaker 3: crowd going.
Speaker 1: By, he inquired what this meant.
Speaker 3: They told him, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by, and
Speaker 3: he cried out, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 3: And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him
Speaker 3: to be silent, but he cried.
Speaker 1: Out all the more, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 1: And Jesus stopped and.
Speaker 3: Commanded him to be brought to him, And when he
Speaker 3: came near, he asked him, what do you want me
Speaker 3: to do for you?
Speaker 1: He said, Lord, let me recover my sight. And Jesus
Speaker 1: said to him, recover your side.
Speaker 3: Your faith has made you well, and immediately he recovered
Speaker 3: his side and followed him, glorifying God, and all the
Speaker 3: people when they saw it, gave praise to God.
Speaker 1: Let's pray, Father, may this be just more than a
Speaker 1: story for us. Father.
Speaker 3: I pray Lord that we will actually find our place
Speaker 3: in this story and be humble enough to admit, be
Speaker 3: humble enough if we need to repent. But Lord, I
Speaker 3: pray Lord that you are working, working something in our hearts. Father,
Speaker 3: transform us use this word. Is this preaching of your
Speaker 3: word Jesus name, We pray and everybody say amen, let
Speaker 3: me take your seats. I'm sorry due to some technical difficulties.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Okay, context there was Hey, I don't know if you've
Speaker 3: seen the movie vantage Point, but it's one of the
Speaker 3: nice movie that I like. I love those politically thrilling
Speaker 3: plots to watch. Okay, this is this movie vantage Point.
Speaker 3: It was actually set in Europe and somebody somebody like
Speaker 3: assassinated or no, actually bummed bombed a square where a
Speaker 3: political leader was, and they they had witnesses everywhere, of course,
Speaker 3: and they took u I believe three or four dvantage
Speaker 3: points to show show us the viewers, actually what happened.
Speaker 3: The advantage point from the bomber, the vantage from from
Speaker 3: a tourist, advantage point from from from a police official,
Speaker 3: so advantage point. What I love about that we showed
Speaker 3: it actually showed that we sometimes when we see things,
Speaker 3: we have our own personal biases. It's it's it's just
Speaker 3: according to one vantage point. My prayer is that as
Speaker 3: we go through this, this movie, but we movie story
Speaker 3: story in the Bible, that we would look at the
Speaker 3: different advantage point from the from the different characters. Different characters,
Speaker 3: the three characters. First is a blind band, a blind
Speaker 3: mat who was just sitting by the road, blind beggar.
Speaker 1: Okay, just sitting by the road. It's hard.
Speaker 3: It's like Dobamy, he's not just blind, he's also a
Speaker 3: beggarin blind para, not a beggar. Maybe if somebody was
Speaker 3: taking care of him, he won't be a beggar. Okay,
Speaker 3: But this person blind beggar par dob and.
Speaker 1: It talks about it.
Speaker 3: It actually points to so many things. Maybe because even
Speaker 3: his family has turned his back on him. Why if
Speaker 3: he's just blind, pair of my family copin to be
Speaker 3: with him, right, But no, he's a beggar.
Speaker 1: He's left on the street all along like an outcast.
Speaker 3: And you know those times there are actually lots of
Speaker 3: blind people because of course what happened means and then
Speaker 3: and sickness is prevalent, so people become become blind, become blind.
Speaker 3: But then, uh, there's also a myth or some wrong
Speaker 3: misconceptions that if you are blind, maybe it's because you sinned,
Speaker 3: or if you're born blind, maybe it's because of your
Speaker 3: father's sin that caused you to be blind, or your
Speaker 3: mother's sin that caused.
Speaker 1: You to be blind.
Speaker 3: So you're like treated like an outcast dobbolami so to
Speaker 3: speak at a blind beggar, he's actually very helpless, helpless,
Speaker 3: left alone in in society to rap.
Speaker 1: And then there's advantage point of the crowd at.
Speaker 3: This time, Uh, whenever, wherever, wherever Jesus is, a big
Speaker 3: crowd follows him. Okay, he's already famous kilinasa, why kilnessa
Speaker 3: because of his.
Speaker 1: Miracles left and right.
Speaker 3: He's the mean is actually at this point he was
Speaker 3: he just had the ministry in Galilee and he was
Speaker 3: going to attend a past the passover in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: That's why he passed by Jericho.
Speaker 3: So so when when when the blind man on the
Speaker 3: street beggar on this it can changeous.
Speaker 1: Imagine he's on the.
Speaker 3: Floor, arms of al happally, mos, there you go, Pally.
Speaker 3: He was hearing a crowd, hearing a crowd following, and
Speaker 3: that's not usual. It's actually quite unusual. So he asked
Speaker 3: that question.
Speaker 1: Who is who? Who?
Speaker 3: Who is there? Why is there a crowd? Then the
Speaker 3: crowd said, oh, it's Jesus of Nazareth who is passing by.
Speaker 3: Jesus of Nazareth. Hang on to that word Jesus of Nazareth.
Speaker 3: That time, when you actually refer to a person, it's example, uh,
Speaker 3: Larry of kestern City or.
Speaker 1: John of you would be referred by your name and
Speaker 1: then where you came from. Hey, but.
Speaker 3: The the blind beggar, I don't know if it was
Speaker 3: a mistake. He said no, he didn't call him Jesus
Speaker 3: of nazaidth he said, Jesus, son of David, this blind person,
Speaker 3: though he was actually blind. Have heard of Jesus as
Speaker 3: the son of David? Maybe some of us? Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: pastor son of David Good. So what's what's unusual about
Speaker 3: the son of David, son of David. If you go
Speaker 3: back to all the way to your to your Old Testament.
Speaker 3: The Second Samuel h chapter seven. It would tell us
Speaker 3: about the lineage of the Messiah. Remember Romans, Roman Era.
Speaker 3: They were wait, they were already so anxious for a king.
Speaker 3: Why they was being persecuted left and right, hard labor,
Speaker 3: hardship in apa. Not only not only that, especially when
Speaker 3: you're a Christ. And they were looking and waiting for
Speaker 3: a Messiah who they heard, they read would come from
Speaker 3: the lineage of As the son of David. And they
Speaker 3: knew this blind person knew all along that it is
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, early on, early on, he knew that, I'm
Speaker 3: reminding you, he's blind. He's on the floor, and he
Speaker 3: knew once he heard it's Jesus of Nazareth who is
Speaker 3: passing by.
Speaker 1: That's Jesus.
Speaker 3: He talks about already his faith, his faith that he's
Speaker 3: been waiting for. And he knew all along that this
Speaker 3: is the person who would actually take him out of
Speaker 3: his misery. And then the crowd you advantage point, No, no, no,
Speaker 3: blind beggar, no, Now now the advantage point of the crowd.
Speaker 1: What did the crowd do? The crowd who could see
Speaker 1: the crowd who was already.
Speaker 3: With Jesus told you Galishan, Galiley, Galli Shang, probably I.
Speaker 1: From Nazareth what he did from Canaan the miracles fend
Speaker 1: right and then Casamanila. But what did the crowd do?
Speaker 1: The crowd silence the beggar. You know this part. It's
Speaker 1: took me a while to get through this part.
Speaker 3: When I was preparing for this, because I had to search,
Speaker 3: I had to think and had to ask myself.
Speaker 1: Might like that.
Speaker 3: As a pastor now, as a Christian for twelve thirteen years,
Speaker 3: if I become a part of the crowd, that would
Speaker 3: silence somebody who needs help. Remember the Bible said Jesus
Speaker 3: came to seek the loss, the weak, the sick, the poor,
Speaker 3: the widow. Soame blind beggar, helpless, black beggar.
Speaker 1: Who should have who should have helped him? Probably the crowd.
Speaker 1: The crowd have heard of his teaching, have seen all
Speaker 1: the miracles. But what did they do?
Speaker 3: They silence him, They rebuke him, They said, stop, that
Speaker 3: does Jesus and do me bam we He's not going
Speaker 3: to give you money. But this beggar, you know what,
Speaker 3: this beggar, the blad beggar, he has nothing.
Speaker 1: To give it he's nothing to give.
Speaker 3: All he have is well or no no family, no money, beggar,
Speaker 3: remember begging, no, not even side probably hell. But he
Speaker 3: shouted all the more because of his faith, remember his
Speaker 3: faith that he knew this is Jesus, the Sign of David,
Speaker 3: this is Jesus the Messiah. So he shouted all the more,
Speaker 3: Son of David, have mercy on me. Son of David.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine.
Speaker 3: Put yourself there, a lot of people, there's a crowd.
Speaker 3: Jesus the only one walking. Those streets were not actually paved,
Speaker 3: they're coupled streets.
Speaker 1: And talk and a lot of people were walking ing
Speaker 1: eye crowd. But he still yelled at the very top
Speaker 1: of his voice, Son of David, have mercy on me. Mercy.
Speaker 1: Mercy is big here. He's not only asking Jesus Jesus begging,
Speaker 1: but ah, Jesus, Jesus pansing in moro. He's literally asking him.
Speaker 3: Asking if God would take his life, take his life,
Speaker 3: or God would prolong his life, prolong his life. You
Speaker 3: know why, during those times, it's already an act of
Speaker 3: rebellion when you say that you're a Christian. Another vantage
Speaker 3: point of the crowd is maybe they're silencing that blind beggar,
Speaker 3: so that in thepos.
Speaker 1: Saying why they're scared some of us, some of us
Speaker 1: who follow Jesus, at times we're actually.
Speaker 3: Scared to proclaim it or scared to demonstrate it, or
Speaker 3: sometimes you Christian nathing as a social media it can
Speaker 3: be I don't know different vantage points. I'm asking you
Speaker 3: to place yourselves where you are. We go through different seasons,
Speaker 3: we go through different stuff, and.
Speaker 1: Where you are right now. But for that blind beggar,
Speaker 1: it was a desperate call. It was desperate.
Speaker 3: I don't care whether I'll be thrown to jail because
Speaker 3: of rebellion.
Speaker 1: I'll be cut, my head be cut. But it's okay.
Speaker 1: It's okay because I know that only him, only that Jesus,
Speaker 1: Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the Son of David. Can you
Speaker 1: rescue me?
Speaker 3: Dvantage point up, place yourselves where you're nears or place
Speaker 3: yourself where you are.
Speaker 1: It's a desperate call. Milliam Webster Dictionary.
Speaker 3: Describes desperation as the feeling when you have lost almost
Speaker 3: all hope, at least my almost no feeling when you
Speaker 3: have lost almost all hope. In doing some research, these
Speaker 3: are the things that the top five that makes us
Speaker 3: desperate during this time in this time, relationships, whether you
Speaker 3: have a relationship, you're into a relationship, you don't have
Speaker 3: a relationship, or your relationship is complicated. It makes you desperate,
Speaker 3: makes people desperate. Money makes people makes people desperate. We
Speaker 3: have seen so many stuff on money. Glory makes people desperate.
Speaker 1: Work work makes you desperate, desperate to perform, desperate for
Speaker 1: a new bass, They're desperate.
Speaker 3: Discincution in promotion, status, status in life because you can
Speaker 3: match up or cool makes you desperate. I'm surprised that amount.
Speaker 3: The top five is social media. Social media, you're desperate
Speaker 3: because you see people there, but make it makes makes
Speaker 3: us desperate.
Speaker 1: And what do people do when? When? When? When? When
Speaker 1: people are desperate? She signed.
Speaker 3: And some people who are desperate for stuff sometimes turns
Speaker 3: to crime. Some people turns to drugs or even to
Speaker 3: sex or even lies.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the blind beggar. Have you experienced
Speaker 1: being blind?
Speaker 3: If it's blindness, can say such as physical, it's also
Speaker 3: spiritual blindness. Sometimes we can actually see physically see, but
Speaker 3: then spiritually we're blind. I I I remember one time
Speaker 3: years back, I have a problem with my eyes and
Speaker 3: there were times that that that that because of I
Speaker 3: mean the up because of the I don't know, maybe
Speaker 3: the fluids in my eyes had problems. So there were
Speaker 3: times that I could hardly open my eyes. It would
Speaker 3: actually cost me me like momentary blindness. Okay, even sometimes
Speaker 3: I opened my eyes. It doesn't only hurt, but I can't.
Speaker 1: See anything, okay.
Speaker 3: And then one time I went to pick up my
Speaker 3: girlfriend who was my my my wife now from her school.
Speaker 1: And on the way home, I.
Speaker 3: Said, I could not drive. Okay, I could not drive.
Speaker 3: I want you, I want you to drive, right, I
Speaker 3: want I want, I want you to drive. Okay, take
Speaker 3: on who looks a stage, So I'm I'm gonna. So
Speaker 3: I was just closing my I said, yet you drive,
Speaker 3: take the keys, you drive. And then and and and
Speaker 3: she was she was driving. And you know sometimes when
Speaker 3: when when you're when you're locked looking. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you've experienced this. Maybe you're in the car and
Speaker 3: then you're taking a nap. You close your eyes sometimes
Speaker 3: but I'm blissed. But everything goes fast and you just
Speaker 3: hear stuff and everything's like zooming. It's like times to
Speaker 3: the speed times too or times three the speed and
Speaker 3: and I had my eyes closed and said, what's going on?
Speaker 3: I just I just hear blaring horns and.
Speaker 1: Every peep and then and then it really hurts.
Speaker 3: But when I opened my eyes a bit, okay, there
Speaker 3: I saw yet my girlfriend then who I married now
Speaker 3: were driving in the opposite side of the road. Ohay,
Speaker 3: so right then and there I I I accepted the
Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord save me the RISTI
Speaker 3: and that that that's not true. But yeah, she was
Speaker 3: on the opposite side and said, pull over, pull over.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 3: You felt blindness, But sometimes in darkness is it's your life,
Speaker 3: the life that you live. And I came from a
Speaker 3: retreat recently, came from a retreat, uh to three days
Speaker 3: to night retreat where I'm blind. Well, I'm gadgets. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's just focusing on God. No gadgets, get it, God
Speaker 3: gadgets corneada corn corn. One of the lesson is teaching
Speaker 3: us how to breathe. Maybe you're not in the dark,
Speaker 3: or you're not blind now, but because of situation, you're desperate,
Speaker 3: desperate and the and suddenly I remember this. We were
Speaker 3: going through l a X coming from the World Con
Speaker 3: in public.
Speaker 1: This is in l A.
Speaker 3: Everyone's going through something. So everyone going through somethings. I go, okay,
Speaker 3: watch that, and then when I checked, it's actually a hotline.
Speaker 1: Where you could call. You could email if you need prayer.
Speaker 3: In some people who are out of desperation are on
Speaker 3: the last straw in their lives. Some people even thinking
Speaker 3: about committing committing suicide. They don't know where to call.
Speaker 3: I don't know what your dvantage point is.
Speaker 1: But then.
Speaker 3: There's hope in Christ in Lamentations three twenty one twenty
Speaker 3: three says this, I recall to mind, therefore.
Speaker 1: I have hope.
Speaker 3: The first part there is very important. You have to
Speaker 3: recall to mind. What does that mean? India? Kalang buboskalan
Speaker 3: Bibolmo came emergency inn in Bibolkadisha.
Speaker 1: Is that a break the.
Speaker 3: Glass in case of emergency that you use during emergencies?
Speaker 3: You call to mind what you have read. You call
Speaker 3: to mind because you have started a relationship with God.
Speaker 3: You call to mind what he promised you. So why
Speaker 3: now you call call it to mind? And then you
Speaker 3: put on hope on that. They said the Lord's loving
Speaker 3: kindness indeed never cease, for his compassions never fail. They
Speaker 3: are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. There is faithfulness.
Speaker 3: There's a covenant. There's a covenant that was given two
Speaker 3: thousand years ago. The mercy plea here is actually a
Speaker 3: covenant that was made to Abraham, Jacob and Isaac. You
Speaker 3: don't see, oh good story in the Old Testament Egypt,
Speaker 3: a promised land that was not God and Jesus. It
Speaker 3: is the same covenant that we have now. The mercy
Speaker 3: that the blind beggar was asking mercy, mercy, hallo blind beggar,
Speaker 3: Why not.
Speaker 1: He asked for mercy. He's saying, Lord, in all humility,
Speaker 1: I repent, I repent.
Speaker 3: Mercy is a powerful word. Why because only God can
Speaker 3: give us mercy? Blind beergar, but Bara and big guy.
Speaker 3: But he knew all along that only Jesus, the son
Speaker 3: of David, the Messiah, can give mercy.
Speaker 1: What's mercy? Mercy is.
Speaker 3: Unmerited thing. Mercy is you don't actually deserve it, but
Speaker 3: I give it to you. Example, cinemam to raise your
Speaker 3: hands Latin grade Latin greed, pola Latin greed. If and
Speaker 3: greed if lowest of the lowest usaid, okay, the noble
Speaker 3: allow once they are and we begin the noble allowance.
Speaker 3: You know, and you know we don't actually deserve it,
Speaker 3: but God gave it to us, and only Jesus, and
Speaker 3: only through Jesus, God gave us mercy. Mercy is actually
Speaker 3: one of the most powerful attributes of God. In here,
Speaker 3: the blind beggar is demonstrated demonstrating desperate faith almn.
Speaker 1: A to only struggle.
Speaker 3: He knows this, and he knew that he had to
Speaker 3: pursue God more, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 1: In desperate moments.
Speaker 3: We have to put our trust in a faithful God,
Speaker 3: not on our bank account, not on our wisdom that
Speaker 3: is limited, not in our own the Bible said, in
Speaker 3: our own understanding, but in desperate moments trust and hope.
Speaker 3: Put our hope. Be in our hope and a faithful God.
Speaker 3: And we should been a faithful God. He will never
Speaker 3: leave you nor forsake you, the Bible says. And in
Speaker 3: faithful God, trust in me, he said, and I will
Speaker 3: make everything for you and any faithful God.
Speaker 1: I am your strong power. I am your strong power.
Speaker 3: I am your I'm the source of your everything. I
Speaker 3: am the alpha and the omega, the beginning in the end,
Speaker 3: that is a faithful God in Hebrews ten twenty three said,
Speaker 3: let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess. We
Speaker 3: don't just profess it in our social media. In the
Speaker 3: in in our victory group Pastor in Victory Group of
Speaker 3: Pastor Latina Services attend Gostor Edgar, Pastor Day, Pastor Day
Speaker 3: and his pastor Francis Mi name preaching Victory group Latinam
Speaker 3: Victory groups in the Rehagana Manday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1: In the victory group.
Speaker 3: Breas not in our and serving, not hold on things
Speaker 3: that are unswerving, but put our hope in God.
Speaker 1: Put and hope on our abba Father, the one who
Speaker 1: gave us his son to be our hope, to be
Speaker 1: our living hope. It's continue.
Speaker 3: Jesus stop and went and asked the blind beggar to
Speaker 3: be brought to him. That's a three king question at all.
Speaker 3: What do you want me to do for you, parag lord,
Speaker 3: the research power lord, trick question. But when I'm in
Speaker 3: a blind chad, I'm a beggar chad.
Speaker 1: But why why did he ask this?
Speaker 3: I do believe it's Jesus by times advantage Moe it's
Speaker 3: it's two three different vantage points here. First, Jesus wants
Speaker 3: the blind beggar to profess what he actually needs, God
Speaker 3: needs Jesus. Faith is an inward conviction that brings about
Speaker 3: an outward action.
Speaker 1: Faith. You need to be humble in faith.
Speaker 3: You have to understand where you are, accept where you are,
Speaker 3: and be humble and repent, and then a manifestation would
Speaker 3: come out. MERI la labas you faith and my action, James,
Speaker 3: Faith without.
Speaker 1: Action is dead. Something has to be seen. So Jesus
Speaker 1: was actually listening. What do you want? My side?
Speaker 3: Different vantage point also is I do believe Jesus is
Speaker 3: also teaching the crowd.
Speaker 1: Remember the crowd was with him all the while. The
Speaker 1: crowd is there watching.
Speaker 3: It's a learning moment for the crowd and also a
Speaker 3: teaching moment for Jesus. He wants the crowd to learn
Speaker 3: that you have to put your faith in action. Remember
Speaker 3: it was the crowd who rebuked the blind beggar. Stopped there,
Speaker 3: don't meddle with Jesus. We're going somewhere. We're going to
Speaker 3: go pass over. We're just passing Jericho, so stay there.
Speaker 3: Jesus is actually teaching them. Now, look at this person
Speaker 3: who has nothing, yet he believes in me. Yet he
Speaker 3: knows I'm the Messiah, Yet he put his faith on me.
Speaker 3: Do believe Jesus is calling us, each and every one
Speaker 3: of us, in different seasons of our lives.
Speaker 1: He's calling us my son, my daughter? Where are you,
Speaker 1: my son? My daughter? Who do you put your faith in?
Speaker 1: My son? And daughter? Where are you? Now?
Speaker 3: Moving on, he said, Lord, let me recover my side.
Speaker 3: I believe that he has seen before. I believe that
Speaker 3: he he's saying now. He could have said, Lord, give
Speaker 3: me some change, some money, Lordico. He knew only Jesus
Speaker 3: could give him what nobody else could give his sight back.
Speaker 1: No doctor, no, no one can give what Jesus give.
Speaker 1: But heal him. But it did not stop there what
Speaker 1: was lost, and Jesus said, recover your sight. Your faith
Speaker 1: has made you well.
Speaker 3: Six times in this short passage it mentioned sight, sight,
Speaker 3: sight when you dig deeper. It's not only the physical
Speaker 3: sight that's being attributed here. Why because the crowd could
Speaker 3: actually see.
Speaker 1: The crowd experienced Jesus his miracles.
Speaker 3: They were following him, being part of the Howie Boys,
Speaker 3: being being part of the crowd. And yet there's something
Speaker 3: not right with the crowd. It's more than the physical side.
Speaker 3: It's the spiritual side. Where are you in your Where
Speaker 3: are you in your faith? I'm not asking how many
Speaker 3: victory gives you that atten Daniel on the Victory Weekend Ryo.
Speaker 3: By the way, we have a Victory weekend September seventh
Speaker 3: and eighth. Sign up if you need to sign up,
Speaker 3: finish your one to one, if you need to finish
Speaker 3: your one to one.
Speaker 1: It's not that it's not that you know. Faith actually
Speaker 1: precedes sight.
Speaker 3: Jesus could heal when we pray for somebody, now it
Speaker 3: alamna men when we're asking Jesus name mahiiliad.
Speaker 1: But faith precedes sight. You have to ask it for it,
Speaker 1: you have to loan for it.
Speaker 3: First.
Speaker 1: You need to know that he is the son of
Speaker 1: David the Messiah, just like that his side was give him.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's any more desperate story that
Speaker 3: I heard about a person than this person that I'm
Speaker 3: going to call on stage. She's a very good friend
Speaker 3: of thirteen fourteen years. I've known her even before I
Speaker 3: was I was a Christian.
Speaker 1: Uh and I do believe that.
Speaker 3: In times of death, and I do believe union Pinaca
Speaker 3: ultimately sometimes gonna die at the very point of death.
Speaker 1: Lord Thea.
Speaker 3: There even stories now, okay, right before they gave they
Speaker 3: they they died, then they gave their life to Jesus.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's that desperate.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to invite Lisa, one of our Victory
Speaker 3: Group leaders, to share her to testimony on stage.
Speaker 1: Isa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've known Pallari and Yet for quite some time.
Speaker 4: I'm now even before he became a pastor. I wasn't
Speaker 4: a Christian then yet, and Pastor Larry really reached out
Speaker 4: to me and my husband. We were separated then, and
Speaker 4: we were separated for three years and now we are restored. Anyway,
Speaker 4: that's not my story to tell. Actually, tonight, about two
Speaker 4: thousand and nine, we were childless for seventeen years, my
Speaker 4: husband and I and one a lady who was only
Speaker 4: seventeen years old then had two daughters, the other one
Speaker 4: she couldn't take care of her, so she asked me
Speaker 4: if I could take care of her.
Speaker 1: So I did so.
Speaker 4: About two days Palansha with me, I asked Pastor Larry
Speaker 4: to dedicate her. He was a new he was a
Speaker 4: new pastor then, Yan I missed here, Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 4: that's SOPHIEA and that's her mother, okay. And then we
Speaker 4: noticed that there was something coming out of for years,
Speaker 4: so we meet brought her to the hospital. She had
Speaker 4: a titis media that was that hell properly, so it
Speaker 4: went to her brain. The sepsis men enjoy this. She
Speaker 4: was having seizures. The doctor said, you know, it's okay
Speaker 4: for as long as we contained to twelve minutes. More
Speaker 4: than twelve minutes, it's going to be a problem. She
Speaker 4: was having forty five minute seizures NonStop. Because of that,
Speaker 4: she had to go undergo lumbertop. She had to take
Speaker 4: all these very strong medicines to control the seizure. And
Speaker 4: the doctor told me, ma'am, she now has cerebral palsy.
Speaker 4: She will not be normal. She cannot walk, she cannot talk,
Speaker 4: she cannot hear because it has severely damaged her brain.
Speaker 4: When we had to move her to the ICU at
Speaker 4: that time, my husband and I we just got back together,
Speaker 4: and you were financially we had financial struggles at that time,
Speaker 4: and we took her in and we brought her to
Speaker 4: Cardinal Santos because that was the closest one to our place.
Speaker 4: I didn't know Nagar and Palakamahal. The doctor told us
Speaker 4: prepare one to two million. At that time, we were
Speaker 4: so desperate, I said, Bahalana. We sold everything we had
Speaker 4: just to and asked help from our friends here in
Speaker 4: church and from people to help her, to help us
Speaker 4: with the finances, to help her with all the medical bills.
Speaker 4: And I called Pasor Larry. I said, Passer Larry. The
Speaker 4: doctor told me, waal Aana her eyes, it doesn't her
Speaker 4: pupils weren't moving anymore, practically brain dead. The nun came
Speaker 4: from Cardinal and did the light the last rites and
Speaker 4: they said, call your pastor, this is it. We signed
Speaker 4: a waiver already. Pastor Larry came. I remember pass Larry shorts.
Speaker 1: The money.
Speaker 4: Yes yet, and Pastor Larry came. Santaola. They came and
Speaker 4: they were with us, and I said, Pastor Larry, this
Speaker 4: is it. You already designed the waiver. I think she's
Speaker 4: gonna be done anytime soon. And Pastor Larry came. He prayed,
Speaker 4: he prayed for Sophia. Then her mother was there, but
Speaker 4: she was so young, she was only seventeen, so she
Speaker 4: really didn't know what to do. Pastor Larry came and
Speaker 4: did that the prayer for her, and when he left,
Speaker 4: two minutes later, the doctor came.
Speaker 3: In bosmona very new as a pastor. Okay, last right,
Speaker 3: and I last right, because I last right. It's actually
Speaker 3: a simple prayer. Lord, we commit thank you, Lord, for
Speaker 3: the life of Sophia. We commit to you now this
Speaker 3: life and thank you for the fruitfulness of her. And
Speaker 3: then in Jesu's name, wakaya, I I knew what to say,
Speaker 3: I know what to say. It doesn't come it didn't
Speaker 3: come out. Knugging her brother Randall, a good friend of mine,
Speaker 3: was there. Uh man, you know what we did. We
Speaker 3: prayed hard, warfair, warfare prayer. It's not committed. Lord, we
Speaker 3: know our God that this is this is not a
Speaker 3: destiny you have for Sophia. We claim her life right now, Lord,
Speaker 3: nugging warfare and then play.
Speaker 4: And then when he left, the doctor came in. You
Speaker 4: know what happened. She opened her eyes and smiled. So
Speaker 4: that was a miracle. Then, so I called passe Larry.
Speaker 4: You will not believe what happened. So, because we couldn't
Speaker 4: anymore afford the medical bills, we moved her to a
Speaker 4: public hospital and there she stayed for three weeks, she
Speaker 4: became well, so the mother told me at I cannot
Speaker 4: take care of her, please take her in Muna. So
Speaker 4: we took her in. After a few days, she had fever,
Speaker 4: so I brought her back to the hospital. She had
Speaker 4: pneumonia sabadi. So she was there for the next eight
Speaker 4: days and at that time the mother had to go
Speaker 4: to work and I was the one taking care of Sophia.
Speaker 4: When she got well, I brought her home. Ky, come
Speaker 4: back after a week for your checkup. During her check up,
Speaker 4: they measured her head. She had hydrocephalus. You know, at
Speaker 4: that time, I didn't We really did not know anymore
Speaker 4: what to do.
Speaker 1: We were.
Speaker 4: Emotionally, physically and financially drained already. But God just told us,
Speaker 4: just go she has a purpose in your life. La
Speaker 4: la ba laame. After a few days, we brought her
Speaker 4: back to the hospital. The time that they were gonna
Speaker 4: drain her brain, the water wasn't there anymore. Supernaturally, she
Speaker 4: was healed from hydrocephalus. She was with us for the
Speaker 4: next few months. After five months, she was going to therapy.
Speaker 4: After five months, she had another episode of seizure and
Speaker 4: we found out that she had epilepsy. You know, church,
Speaker 4: Kaka and her husband going on. Financially, we were really struggling,
Speaker 4: but we had we had a family here in church.
Speaker 4: They were with us throughout our journey, some financial, some
Speaker 4: they were really just holding the ropes with us. They
Speaker 4: were praying with us, and I think that was I
Speaker 4: think that was really what really helped us really overcome
Speaker 4: and really just had peace this by of the situation
Speaker 4: that we were going through right now. After that, I
Speaker 4: now have a nine year old daughter and eleven years
Speaker 4: restored to my husband, and we have also have a
Speaker 4: foster daughter now, So that is indeed faithful.
Speaker 1: And there you can give God praise.
Speaker 3: What reminded me of that story is that because we
Speaker 3: knew all along that she couldn't, you could she couldn't.
Speaker 1: She couldn't walk, she couldn't walk.
Speaker 3: Couldn't hear sometimes in glassy and then you walk in
Speaker 3: see her feet a club, so she doesn't her foot
Speaker 3: is not straight side. And then but it's coming in
Speaker 3: is a airporty picture video. She showed me this video.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we still get her now she's back with her parents,
Speaker 4: with their mother, but we borrow her from time to time.
Speaker 1: The doctor said, she couldn't be here.
Speaker 4: She's walking and she could hear, and she studies in
Speaker 4: a regular school.
Speaker 1: She studies in a regular school.
Speaker 3: How desperate dimma gul aditomo almno means a desperate comil
Speaker 3: hood come, How desperate you can you be? But our
Speaker 3: Abba Father is always there for us. Thank thank you,
Speaker 3: Lisa's this is now their beautiful family. An Akoreian dela
Speaker 3: sometimes out of desperation. But do you still have to
Speaker 3: wait for that desperate moment to call on God to
Speaker 3: rely on her on him? I don't know what what's
Speaker 3: what you're going through, But then what you're part of
Speaker 3: the crowd, part of you, the blind beggar, But same
Speaker 3: vantage point that doesn't change.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the son of David, the Messiah.
Speaker 3: The Lord of Lord, the name above all name, our healer,
Speaker 3: our restorer, our hope, living hope.
Speaker 1: That is Jesus Christ. Let's let's close this and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask the worship him come up.
Speaker 3: And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God,
Speaker 3: and all the people when they saw it gave praise
Speaker 3: to God. The blind beggar has a name. His name
Speaker 3: is bartimeeos If you if you research it. Bartimeos in
Speaker 3: the Book of Mark. Upon the research, we figured out
Speaker 3: why okay, the Dealersha with Dealersha boy in Delsha armored
Speaker 3: Bartimeus because he became famous.
Speaker 1: Why did he become famous?
Speaker 3: Because if he's story, can you imagine I was the
Speaker 3: blind Now I see, oh, I remember you.
Speaker 1: You didn't give me any change when I ask the
Speaker 1: ha blind shad in person. I'm I'm that stinky guy
Speaker 1: on the road. Now I see who made me?
Speaker 3: Well? The one that you called Jesus of Nazareth is
Speaker 3: actually Jesus, son of God, son of David. He became famous,
Speaker 3: and he became famous proclaiming God. And my prayer is
Speaker 3: that now that we have transformed lives. Because of our
Speaker 3: transformed lives, now we preach Jesus, sometimes the more preaching.
Speaker 3: But when Jesus, when people see that hope in you,
Speaker 3: they would want that hope. They won't want that living hope.
Speaker 3: In next slide boom in closures one that say said
Speaker 3: God has chosen you to make don't among the gentiles
Speaker 3: the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you.
Speaker 1: What we have to profess is Christ in me. Can
Speaker 1: you say that christ in me? Christ in me.
Speaker 3: Christ in me means now I am bold and courageous.
Speaker 3: Christ in me means I am an overcomer. Christ in
Speaker 3: me means I have the name above all names. Christ
Speaker 3: in me means Abbah is my father. Christ in me
Speaker 3: means he never, He will never leave me nor forsake me.
Speaker 1: Christ in me means.
Speaker 3: I can do all things because he gives me strength,
Speaker 3: because his grace is sufficient.
Speaker 1: Because I am in Christ.
Speaker 3: Hope glory, we proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with
Speaker 3: all wisdom, so that we may present everyone.
Speaker 1: Perfect in Christ.
Speaker 3: Can I ask everybody to stand up, Lord, cans have
Speaker 3: worshiped him, to come on stage.
Speaker 1: Father.
Speaker 3: Wherever we are, Lord, meet us. Maybe some of us
Speaker 3: we have to repent and turn our ways. Maybe some
Speaker 3: of us we have to stop running because we're running away,
Speaker 3: we're not running to you.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of us we need to be full in
Speaker 1: the spirit. Maybe some of us, though we see, we
Speaker 1: are blind.
Speaker 3: But Lord, I pray, right now, Lord, search our hearts,
Speaker 3: Search our hearts, right now, Search our hearts. Jesus, Thank
Speaker 3: you Lord that your peace transcends all understanding. Thank you
Speaker 3: Lord that your love Lord, God is in hope your
Speaker 3: love Lord, cast out fear your love.
Speaker 1: Lord. God never seizes and does it end. S Worship God.
Speaker 4: Thank you for listening. We hope that you enjoy today's episode.
Speaker 1: Don't forget to share and subscribe to this podcast for more.
Speaker 1: God bless you all.