I Was Blind But Now I See: Testimony and Discipleship

He simply says, if god can change me, I can invite somebody to come to Jesus. He simply said, if god can heal me, I can invite somebody to come to Jesus. He said, if god can save me from my tithe and dying situation, I can invite somebody to come to Jesus because testimony was never meant to be a private thing. It was meant to be an evangelical thing so that you could tell the world that I met how I met Jesus. [00:57:14] (33 seconds)  #ShareTheTestimony

I was once blind, but now I see. Your blindness is a testimony for where you used to be at. Your sight is in acknowledgment of what god has done for you. When you move from one to the other, you move forward because god has something for you to do. Notice that the man did not get indignant, ugly. He did not get mad, he simply acknowledged the fact that I done told you this once before. [00:53:56] (32 seconds)  #OnceBlindNowSee

And that confession put pressure on people because when the narrative changes, people begin to look for reason to talk about you, to pick on you, and Jesus here allows this man to tell his whole story. The man does not try to defend who Christ was. He does not try to defend how he got his sight back. He simply confessed that I've been changed and the reason I am who I am is because of Jesus the Christ. Amen. [00:47:42] (28 seconds)  #ConfessJesusChange

Can you imagine your son being healed and you being afraid to testify just who Jesus is? Because in those days, they would lose their ability to worship in the community. They would lose economic relationships. They would lose social identity. They would lose family stability all because they wanted to have power. You know, every time I see this text, I think about what they were trying to get him to do. They were trying to make him not remember the fact that he was blind, and now he sees. [00:43:55] (45 seconds)  #TestifyDespiteCost

Struggling to get in because people had set the standard that if you had a problem that it was because of some sin you had committed and sometimes in life, god will put something on you which is what the text says so that he can bless you and bless somebody else. Yeah. He he was excluded because he was dependent on others to do for him because he was impaired, they considered him impure. [00:42:00] (34 seconds)  #FromImpairmentToPurpose

But when Jesus came into his life, Jesus speaks liberation. Jesus speaks change. Jesus adjusted his situation and as with we are today, sometimes folks will get mad at you and then try to turn the table on you doing good. Because they even questioned why Jesus healed them on a Sunday. Just imagine that. If you were blind, you don't care what day you got healed on as long as you got better. But you have folks who won't celebrate it because in those days, you were not supposed to do anything on the Sabbath. [00:42:49] (42 seconds)  #LiberationThroughJesus

Realizing that he he it was not a temporary improvement in his life. It was a permanent change and because it was a permanent change, he he had permanent transformation. In other words, he had exited blindness and entered sight. He had a new identity. He was not defined by his blindness, but he was defined now by his sight. [00:45:32] (25 seconds)  #NewIdentityInChrist

I don't know about y'all but when you confront your critics, that means you done survive some stuff because when people are criticizing you, they are finding fault in something that you've done but but if god has changed you, you are stronger than your critics because your critics seek to tear you down and god seeks to lift you up. [00:53:28] (27 seconds)  #StrongerThanCritics