<TITLE>07. Par 24-28</TITLE>L-24 He said, "That I might receive my sight." Now, he never asked Him how pretty heaven would be. He didn't want to ask Him, well, some of the theology that He was teaching. He had something in his heart he wanted, "my sight." He said, "That I might receive my sight."
Jesus said, "Thy faith hath saved thee."
I can imagine the crowd going on, Jesus going on towards Jerusalem to be sacrificed, but the faith of that beggar stopped Him. All at once I can see Him then, as He stands, the crowds going on down the road.

L-25 He begins to look; he said, "He said, I could... I would be able to see. I believe Him." And after while he begins to see his hands, and here he comes down the road, rejoicing and screaming that he was able to see. He followed Jesus, because Jesus had done something for him.
I told a little story not long ago, or I read it (may I pass it to you) of blind Bartimaeus. They said he was--been blind practically all of his life. The little story, it may be fiction; it'll do for this time. And said that he used to go down to the gates, and he had two turtle doves that done little enchantment, tumbling over each other to attract the attention of the tourists, something a little different so--so he could get a coin, a few more coins. Say he had a child. And the child got sick one night. He went out and prayed, and he said, "God, if You'll let my baby live, I'll promise You, tomorrow I'll sacrifice these doves for You."

L-26 So, the next day the baby was well. He taken the doves and sacrificed them, as he promised Jehovah to do it. Not long after that, something else happened. And what it was his wife took sick. The doctors could do her no good. He said, "Lord, if You'll just help my wife, and let her get well, I'll sacrifice my lamb." Now, today a blind man's led by a dog; in them days they were led by a lamb. And so the next morning his wife was well.
He goes up to the temple to sacrifice the lamb. The great high priest, Caiaphas at that time, stepped out and said, "Where goest thou, blind Bartimaeus?"
He said, "Oh, high priest I go to the temple to sacrifice my lamb. I told the Lord last night if He'd let my wife live, I would give Him this lamb."

L-27 He said, "Oh (high priest, you'd or), blind Bartimaeus you can't sacrifice that lamb." Said, "I'll give you some money, and you go buy you a lamb at the stall."
He said, "High priest, I never promised God a lamb; I promised Him this lamb."
He said, "...?... but, blind Bartimaeus, you cannot sacrifice that lamb; that lamb is your eyes."
He said, "Oh, high priest, I have made a promise to God, and God will provide a lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes."
A few months later by the walls of Jericho there was a Lamb provided for blind Bartimaeus' eyes. That same Lamb is provided tonight for every person in here in sin, for every backslider, for every sick person.

L-28 And may He come in His resurrected power as He would stand, and may He take this church into His charge tonight. May He help me, His poor unworthy servant. May He help me tonight, and anoint me, that before my people, that I might have some way to do something in this audience tonight by His power, that if He will let me as I submit myself to Him, that you might leave this tabernacle tonight, or this place, saying like those who came from Emmaus. He walked with them all day long. They didn't recognize Him. Many Christians today walk with Him, but don't recognize Him, don't recognize Who is doing these little things for you. Then when He was in there He did something just a little different from other people, and they recognized it was Him. Their eyes were open. May the God of heaven open our eyes tonight to something, that we'll say when we leave here, "Did not our hearts burn within us?"
Shall we pray to Him.


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