If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.”If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.
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… but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he hears him. Since the world began, it has been unheard of that anyone open the eyes of one who was born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. They answered and said to him, you were completely born in sins and you are teaching us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him, do you believe in the son of God? He answered and said, who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him? And Jesus said to him, you have both seen him and it is he who is talking with you. Then he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him. And Jesus said, for judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind. Then some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and said to him, are we blind also? Jesus said to them, if you were blind, you would have no sin. …
So our 23rd president, 23rd president of the United States is a man named Warren G. Harding. He was president, sorry, 29th president of the United States. It was Warren G. Harding, president from 1921 to 1923. And apparently Warren G. Harding was a decent human being. but at the same time in the years since he's since he was president he has been consistently on the list of worst presidents that we've ever had and and apparently Warren G. Harding even thought this about himself there's a quote that he he said about himself he said I am not fit for this office and never should have been here so how did Warren G. Harding get elected if he wasn't fit for the office. He wasn't competent for the office. And even he said, I'm not competent for the office. How did he get elected? So Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book about the, well, he wrote a book a number of years ago called Blink. And in it, he tells the story. And this is his perspective. …
… You don't know where he's from, yet he opened my eyes. Then he says, if this man were not from God, he could do nothing. You see, Dr. Judy, the more he articulated his new and differentiated from his old, the more he began to believe in who Jesus was. And I came to tell somebody today, if you're going to overcome those old narratives that folks try to impose on you, you're going to have to keep articulating your new. You're going to have to start believing in the God who changed you from your old into your new. Believing is knowing that God took you from your then and situated you in your now. Believing is understanding where you are now and expecting that God has more in store for you. Believe that if God did it for you then, then he can certainly do it for you now. Believing in who God is and what God has done for you is the way to overcome old news. People will keep asking you, how did you gain all that confidence? How are you able to do some of the things that they cannot? How did you come out of your situation. And let me tell you, when you believe that God made a way, you have no choice but to give God credit for all that God has done. …