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We take you to the pulpit of the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ in another place, but the blind beggar receives a size.

What's over my particular?

Passage this morning, but as I look at that, as I look at this passage and read this passage, you think about Zacchaeus what you think about the story of the cross in the journey that Jesus is on these two instances, although in our fine planning.

We have approached them backwards.

These two instances really are the last kind of group Ministry moments that Jesus has, if you go back and look at the other account, Jesus wife in Matthew, Mark and John you, you get the sense that because he is the healing of Bartimaeus.

At least from a recorded idea, is the last recorded miracle that we see, Jesus me.

Jesus, have that kind of moment and then his interaction with Zacchaeus, is really kind of his last Ministry moment.

If you will, that he has with people other than those closest to him, and he's going to go on and of course, he's going to miss her very much.

So, to his Apostles, and his closest kind of group of friends as they celebrate Passover together.

And, and then, and then the road to the Cross, just approaches its and very quickly.

And then we have the story of Jesus death, burial and Resurrection, which gives us great and amazing.

Hope this morning, but a woman since we kind of Are looking in that direction, I want us to spend time cuz it kind of parallels with some things with, at least a story that Jonathan shared with us last week to look at these two stories week weeks together, and I kind of back in back together.

Let's pick up our text here and we'll start in verse 35 of Luke chapter 18 as Jesus approached Jerusalem.

A blind man was sitting by the roadside begging when you heard the crowd going by.

He asked what was happening.

They told him.

Jesus of Nazareth is passing by, he called Jesus, Son of David.

Have mercy on me.

Those who led the way rebuked him and tells him to be quiet, but he sounded all the more son of David have mercy on me.

Jesus stopped.

And ordered the man to be brought to him.

When he came dear.

Jesus asked him.

What do you want me to do for you?

Lord, I want to see he reply.

Jesus said to him, receive your sight, your faith has healed.

You immediately, he received his side and follow Jesus, praising God, when all the people saw it.

They also praise God, has go to God In Prayer as we dive into this passage this morning.

God, we thank you for mazing story this This brief yet.

Amazing moment.

As Jesus is walking toward the cross.

As he has his eyes are said in that direction.

We thank you for this moment of him stopping and healing this man.

So we can be encouraged so that while our faith can be lifted, so that our faith can be strengthened gone.

We are grateful for that this morning.

How was to open up our hearts and our minds if we study today.

Help us to draw closer to you in this time is in your son's name.

We pray.

Amen.

So what are some lessons that we can kind of learn this morning?

From this particular passage?

Will there be any of these aren't going to be just real groundbreaking things with me since I think will help us grow closer to God.

The first is the base is acting even when you can't see where you're going, faith is acting even when you can't see where you're going.

It's been a long time since I've been to Cracker Barrel.

Cracker, Barrel is one of my favorite restaurants because it's just, you know, it's just old fashioned food, you know, just good old-fashioned food.

Now, I remember the one time that we took my great-grandmother to Cracker Barrel.

She sells the worst food she ever put in her mouth.

And compared to the way she cooked, I completely agree with that, you know, if that's what she was used to it.

She was a great cook.

But Cracker Barrel is also if if you just stop and listen, one of the loudest restaurants, it is there is so much clinking and clanking and it is just a very loud restaurant.

And if you just stop and listen, it can kind of be overwhelming.

But let me ask you this morning.

Just just listen for a second.

Just listen for a second.

What do you hear?

What do you hear, Johnson?

What do you hear?

I hear Cason UK Wiley.

What do you hear?

Listen?

A baby, okay.

What do you hear saying?

What do you hear this morning?

Heard babies.

How many you had babies?

That's a good sound to hear.

Isn't it?

Now?

I want you to close your eyes.

Cauldrons.

And listen.

Other than babies.

Do you hear something you didn't hear before?

Do you hear the rustling of the papers?

Somebody's opening up candy somewhere?

There's a lot of things that you here.

It's interesting to me that when you take a sense away, the others become stronger and there are things that you hear that you'll hear in the room when you can't see and when you just close your eyes, that you wouldn't normally here and think of was kind of in in your present.

And I think about this blind, man, and I think about a life of not being able to see the life of not being able to see you soon.

We we we we we, what would you do?

It's just all of a sudden, you could not see any more just all the sudden you can know how upside down would your world become?

It would become just just totally upside down because we are very visual people aren't, we were very visual.

People how many of you other than maybe we'll Haley will buy a vehicle side?

Unseen.

Okay, so tenuous are insane.

Just I'm not I'm you know, I had a good friend that he he works.

He's over the maintenance department of this company and he does all the maintenance on their vehicles in his boss called him one day because I found a great deal to track down to Louisiana.

I want you to go down there and get it.

I mean a great deal on this truck.

Wheelie.

We got to buy this truck going to have this truck got down there and it had been flooded out during Hurricane.

Katrina had to rent another truck because he bought the truck before they got down there and they had to pull this to all this truck back.

But for most of us, how many of us if we're going to buy something like that where to purchase something like that.

What are we going to go do first?

We're going to look at it, right?

We're going to kick the tires.

You take it for a test drive.

We want to be able to see that visual thing right there in front of us.