<TITLE>13. Par 38-39</TITLE>L-38 If his faith was strong enough to touch Jesus enough to stop Him and have an audience with Him, then Jesus is passing this way tonight. Every man and woman in here, suffering with diseases, can have an audience with Him. I declare that Jesus Christ raised from the dead and living among us today. And the very things that He did then, He does tonight. In His resurrection He looked out upon His audience, He knew the secrets of their hearts. Is that right? He does tonight.
And He said--He talked to the woman at the well; He knowed where her trouble was.
He said to Philip, when He come to him, met the--brought Nathanael, looked out over the audience, said, "Nathanael, you're a good man. A honest man."
He said, "How'd You know me?"
Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "Thy art the Son of God, the King of Israel."
He said, "Because I told you that, you believe?" He said, "You'll see greater things than this." Because he believed.

L-39 I read a story once of blind Bartimaeus, a fiction perhaps. I will quote it before we pray for the sick.
He said blind Bartimaeus in those days, he had two little turtle doves, and they done little enchantments for the tourists. They had to do something outstanding, or they couldn't live--couldn't make a living, begging, and they had no other way to live. So said, "Those little turtle doves would do tumbles." Said, "One night--he had a little girl, and she got sick. So he went out and prayed, and he said, 'Lord, if You'll heal my little girl, tomorrow I'll give You those turtle doves for a sacrifice.' So the Lord healed the little girl, and he kept his word. A few nights later, his wife got sick. She was sick to dying. And the doctors could do nothing for her. So he went out and prayed again, and he said, 'Lord, if You'll heal my wife, I'll give You my lamb.'" In those days--the blind men today, are led by dogs. In those days they were led by lambs." So he said, "I'll give You my lamb." So the Lord healed his wife. And the next day he was on his road up to the temple to do what he had promised the Lord to give his lamb.
And Caiaphas was the high priest in that time, said, "Blind Bartimaeus, where goest thou?"
He said, "Oh, high priest, last evening my wife was sick unto death. And I prayed the Lord to spare her life, and I'd give Him my lamb." And he said, "He spared her life, and I'm going up to the temple to offer my lamb as a sacrifice unto the Lord God."
Why he said, "Blind Bartimaeus, thou cannot offer that lamb. I'll give you money to buy a lamb."
He said, "Oh, high priest, I never promised God a lamb; I promised Him this lamb for the sacrifice."
He said, "You can't take that lamb. That lamb is your eyes."
"And said the old blind man straightened himself up; he said, 'Oh, high priest, God will provide a lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes.' That day he was setting, shivering in the cold, he heard that noise coming up the street, God had provided a Lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes."


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