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John chapter number nine, if you don't have a Bible with you, it's fine.

We're going to put the words up on the screen for you, but we're going to go over into the ninth division of the gospel of St. John.

The ninth division of the gospel of St. John. The ninth division of the gospel of St. John.

And we've been in a weekend where oftentimes what happens around here,

and it happens probably around here more than it happens anywhere else that I go as much as I travel,

is my plans get thrown

to the side and God just comes and interjects a word and God's been talking to us about vision

and God began with us on Saturday night out of Mark chapter 9 talking to us out of the story of a man

who Jesus touched the man was was blind. Jesus touched him.

And then Jesus asked the man, do you see anything?

And the man said, I see men as trees walking.

And Jesus touched him again.

And we learned that vision is incomplete if we don't see people properly.

That it wasn't enough for the man to be able to see.

He could not afford to see people as inanimate objects.

People are not trees.

People are people.

And there's a group of people in the church that have only been touched to the point that they're able to see men incorrectly.

And you've got to go deeper in that touch to get to the place that you see people right. It's not enough for you to say I'm out. You've got to care about other people that are still in. It's not enough for you to say I'm delivered. You've got to burn to see other people delivered. It's not enough for you to say I'm blessed. You've got to have a heart to see other people get blessed. And so we learned that

Jesus, first of all, had to take that man out of a city called Beth Seda. Beth Sada was a city

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