<TITLE>10. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Old blind Bartimaeus said, "Who--who passes?" And he started crying, "Thou Son of David, have mercy."
You think Jesus probably way out on the road there could've ever heard that man's cry? Not through all that howling mob. But what did it? His faith stopped Jesus dead still in His tracks. Jesus stopped with the same thing, to my opinion, that the woman did, and turned around, said, "Thy faith has saved thee."
With all that burden and concern, and the destination of every soul that ever lived hung on His shoulders, and He knew it, and He was going to pay the supreme sacrifice; and yet with all that pressure upon Him, the faith of a poor, illiterate, blind, ragged beggar stopped Him dead still in His tracks and received what He asked for. Not a priest, they didn't believe it. But an illiterate, blind, ragged beggar, that's what did it. Oh, praise God in the highest for such a Saviour!
God would humiliate Himself, and come down into a form of sinful flesh, and be concerned about the poor man that can live in the country. He was made poor, that through His poverty we may be rich. Oh, man and woman tonight, believe Him. Do you accept Him?

L-43 Now, one day He passed through the pool of Bethesda. Saint John 5. And the people said that... Or, the Scripture said, rather, that great multitudes... Listen close. Follow me now. Great multitudes of impotent folk laid there. Now, let's see what they looked like how this impotent folk... What--what's wrong with them? They were lame, blind, halt, and withered. What a mass of suffering humanity.
Just a little while after the woman had touched His garment, full of virtue, and here comes the Son of God right through a mess of people like that, perhaps ten times what's setting in this building tonight, waiting for the moving of the water. A mother with a water head baby, a poor old blind daddy, one crippled up with arthritis setting, and of blind, lepers, and everything else, twisted, lame, halt, withered waiting for moving of the water...

L-44 And Jesus, God, Emmanuel, full of virtue, full of love, full of compassion moved right through that audience without touching a one. See, friends, you fail to understand between the spiritual and the natural.
I've seen men who was theologians to the highest degree and knowed no more about the spiritual things, than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight. See? They understand Scriptural things but not spiritual things.
The Pharisees, very fundamental and orthodox, but failed to understand the spiritual things, so they said He was a spiritualist, or a devil; that is a spiritualist. See? 'Cause they'd seen the phenomenal, and they failed to recognize it; because they were just lettered altogether: fundamental in doctrine, but nothing in a vindication. Amen. I hope you see it.

L-45 Notice, now those people come by like people today with a love, they talk about love. There's two different kinds of love: Agapao love, Phileo love. Phileo love, Agapao love and Phileo love, one is Divine and the other one's earthly.
Agapao love, it would make... If you seen a man going over putting his arms around your wife, now, Agapao love would make you shoot that man to the ground and kill him. 'Cause it's human love that you love your wife that way.
But a Phileo love, the love of God, would make you put your arms around him and pray for his lost soul, if the law said it. Turns you altogether around.


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