<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 My heart bleeds for Him. And to think He's waiting for us to take this Gospel to all the world. Then He said, "I will return." He's setting on His Father's throne tonight, waiting to return to His Own throne. His--David's throne to rule and reign through the millennium. He's longing to return, and He's depending on the Church. How short we have fallen. God help us and forgive us, is my prayer.
In the Scripture, I just was reading, was of a blind man. Its scene is at Jericho. The poor fellow in rags, shivering. I've heard many dramatized pictures of this scene. But just to speak on His Word for a moment, to see how that the poor fellow... Many lepers, and blind, and beggars in that day, his chances is very small of ever getting a coin now and then. Perhaps, he'd just eat every once in a while. His clothes was ragged. Someone that come by in the morning, if they was wealthy enough to give a coin, the first one they met, that settled it through the day.

L-21 So, being so many... And Jericho was a wicked city, always has been a cursed city, since Joshua took it for Israel. Cursed the man that would build a wall. And him standing in that condition, perhaps, getting a late in the fall, getting cold. And he shivered by the side of the wall. Inside they were carrying on, making noises. And he set close to the road, perhaps within a few hundred feet of the road that led from Jerusalem to Jericho.
A blind man setting by the walls, where their theology of the priest of that day had said the days of miracles were past... Right down that same road Joshua, the great conqueror for Israel, brought the children of Israel, shouted and the walls of Jericho fell. It was on that same road, not many years before that, that Elijah and Elisha walked arm-and-arm and crossed Jordan. And Elisha returned with a double portion of the Spirit.

L-22 I can imagine the blind man saying, "If I'd have only lived in the day when the great prince Joshua came by. I would've asked for a blessing. If I'd only lived when the prophet came by, I'd have asked those anointed ones, if they would've helped me." Little did he know just around the corner was the Prince of all, the Son of God. As He comes through the gate, the people, priests, making fun of Him, crowds railing Him, and crying after Him... Some of them loved Him, some hated Him.
I can hear a noise, and I can imagine the poor blind beggar said, "What's the noise about?" You know, usually where Jesus is there was always a little noise, a little upsetting. Why? Life comes in; life brings noise.

L-23 If a baby is born and it doesn't cry, it's dead. That's what's the matter with the church tonight. We need some more weeping, breaking up, in our services. When Israel travailed, children was born. When the church travails, children will be born.
And I can see the prophet, or the Prince of the prophets, the King of prophets, the Lord Jesus Christ, as He came out of the gate, moving along, His face set towards Calvary, the burdens of the world laid upon His blessed shoulder. The Bible said, "There was no beauty we should desire Him." Perhaps a frail little fellow as He walked out of the gate, His head threw back, His eyes set toward the heaven as He marched forward to do the will of God. People making fun of Him, we just have a shadow of it, to what He went through. Maybe they was throwing things at Him, as it would be today, rotten tomatoes, and so forth, scorning Him, making fun of Him. And a little beggar standing by the side of the gate said, "Who passes by?"
One said, "Jesus of Nazareth."
He begin to cry, and his faith stopped the Lord Jesus. He turned around and said, "What would you that I do?"


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