<TITLE>08. Par 29-30</TITLE>L-29 Now, let's take that being Chicago tonight, and say setting along here would be a whole, maybe twenty, or thirty, or forty wheelchairs. And some critic would come in the meeting and say, "Look, let me see those people who believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And they claim that Congressman Upshaw and all these people that's been healed... And we've heard all these testimonies of the lame, halt, and the short legs made long, and the dead raised up, and the doctor's statements of it, and so forth, like that... "Let me see them walk down and make them well."
Now, that would be the same spirit was on them people in that day. They wanted to know the same thing. "How could this man walk by there, full of love, full of compassion, and leave all those people laying there?"
Now, Jesus answered them in Saint John, 5th chapter, 19th verse. Listen, He said:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he sees the Father doing;... that doeth the Son likewise.
Is that right? If that was Jesus yesterday, that's Jesus today. You do nothing except God shows first what to do. Now, Jesus plainly said, "He did nothing except the Father showed Him."

L-30 Now, there was a blind man, one time, setting at the gates of Jericho, calling out and screaming for mercy. The throngs of people, some of them, cursing Him, and some of them making fun of Him, and some of them booing Him, and some of them cheering him, and--and as they passed by this gate. And this poor, blind beggar, as they tried to get to keep still over there, said, "He couldn't hear you." Going way out there to the road, which is a--quite a distance down that road, and Jesus heading towards Calvary, His face fixed on Calvary, His crucifixion laid just before Him. And here He's walking up this road. And this poor blind beggar against the wall, pressed back by the people, but he was crying, "Jesus, have mercy on me. Have mercy on me," and crying for mercy.
Now, it wasn't the voice of the beggar that stopped Jesus in His tracks; it was the faith of the beggar that stopped Jesus in His tracks. He stopped, looked around through His audience, said, "What will I do for--what would you, that I do for you?"
He threw aside his garment, and said, "Lord, that I might receive my sight."
He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." Not, "I healed you. Thy faith." In other words, enough faith in God to pull out of Jesus Christ, or stop Him, in His march to Calvary with the burdens of all human beings, every death that ever died in the world or ever would, rested upon His decision at Calvary. And those things a pressing in His mind, and leading in front of a multitude, and them mocking, making fun of Him and everything, and the priest hollering at Him, and sparring Him, Him walking right on down, that same road that Elijah and Elisha come down together, with their arms around one another, the same road that Joshua led the children of Israel years before, up them old stones there as they marched around Jericho, and shouted, the walls fell. That same road Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was going to Calvary immediately to be crucified, and the faith of a blind beggar stopped Him in His tracks. He turned, looked around, said, "What would you, that I would do for you?"
"That I might receive my sight."
He said, "Thy faith is sufficient."
And I can see the blind beggar standing up, say, "Oh, He told me. He told me. He don't know me, and my faith stopped Him out there in the road." I can see the multitudes going on, making fun, as He walked on down the road. He...?... say, "I know I'll get my sight." After while, he begin to see. His eyes come open. Here he went following Him down the road, a singing His praises to the top of his voice. That was Jesus yesterday. That's Jesus today.


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