<TITLE>11. Par 35-39</TITLE>L-35 His faith stopped Jesus of Nazareth on his road to Jerusalem. All at once, as He walked, He stopped, looked around. What was it? With the Calvary in his mind, with the sins of the world on His shoulders, with howling mobs on both side, a poor illiterate beggar... The faith that that man had stopped Him in His tracks. And He turns around, looked at Him, said, "What would you do?"
Then He said, "Lord, that I..."
"What would you that I do for you?"
He said, "That I might receive my sight."
He said, "Thy faith has healed thee."
I can see him as He turns around; on up the road old blind Bartimaeus standing there saying, "He told me that I was healed?" See him trying to look for his hand. Said...
Oh, hear someone trying to say, "There ain't no difference in you. You--you--you're no different."

L-36 "But, but, but He told me. He told me I..." After while he... Daylight begin to break around him. First thing you know, he could see his hands. Here he comes up the road, screaming, and shouting, and praising the Lord. His faith had healed him. His faith was so great till it stopped Jesus of Nazareth and got a conversation with Him. If a blind beggar, without even enough clothes hardly to hide his skin could stop...
Maybe a man that couldn't even sign his own name, if his faith could stop Jesus of Nazareth in a multitude of people crying for His Blood, with a burden on His heart, and know that death laid before Him at Calvary, how much more ought your faith to stop Him tonight and bring Him to your individual needs. Hallelujah.

L-37 Oh, my. I was reading a little story on him not long ago. Maybe I had just a moment or two for it. They said that he had a little girl. He'd never seen her. And he'd always prayed that he'd see that little girl.
And they tell me that blind Bartimaeus had a--a couple little doves that done little enchantments. You'd have to do something to attract the attention of the people, passer-bys. Or so many beggars, they couldn't get any--anything at all. But if they could have these little doves to do little tumbles over each other that... (Now, the story may have been fiction.) Do little tumbles over each other, why, it would stop the people and they'd watch the little doves, then they'd think, "Oh, well, give him a coin." You see? And that's the way he made it, his living.

L-38 And so they said his wife got sick one night. and he went out and prayed, and he said, "God, I haven't got nothing. I'm a poor beggar. But if You'll just let my wife get well, I--I'll give You these two turtledoves tomorrow for a sacrifice." So his wife got well, and he kept his word.

L-39 Said not long after that that his little girl got sick, very sick, sick to die. And said the old blind beggar wept most of the night. And said he went out and prayed, and he said, "Lord, I haven't got nothing else to give You."
But these days, we have dogs, you know, that lead the blind people? They say they had a lamb then, that they'd harness up a lamb and train it to lead the blind people.
He said, "Lord, I only got one thing left, and that's my lamb. but if You'll just... If you'll just heal my little girl, and not let her die... I've never seen her. If you'll just let my little girl live, I--I promise You I'll give You my lamb tomorrow as a sacrifice." Why, he said, the Lord healed his little girl.


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