<TITLE>10. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 How could He hear Him with about five thousand or six thousand people maybe, screaming, "You fanatic. Come on up here on the graveyard. Raise up my uncle. He died twenty years ago. Ha. Oh, You Who raised Lazarus from the grave, nonsense, how easy we know that You took him down there, to have your disciples to fix that all up. It's a phony. There's nothing to it. Oh, come up here and raise the dead up here for us. We'll believe You then." The...
And that was not just the sinners; it was sinners, of course; but that was rabbis and priests who ought to have knowed better. That's right.
"Thou who destroys the temple and raise it up, perform a miracle in my sight. We want to see You do something. Oh, we've seen you take that little old business man this morning; he's cracked in the head since You talked to him. But let me tell you something. Let me see You do a miracle and we'll believe You."
Jesus walked right on. Jesus will never touch or pay any attention to anybody like that. And if you got that kind of an attitude, just know where you're standing and what crowd you're associating with. That's right.

L-32 God, when they put a rag around His face and they hit Him on the head, and the Roman soldier said, "Now, you who can discern the thoughts, you who are a prophet, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you." He never opened His mouth, said a word. Sure, He only did as the Father showed Him. He knowed one thing that He had to do, go to Calvary. And He was on His road (Praise God.), marching to Calvary to die for them horrible ungodly sinners, You and I.
On His road to Calvary, seemed to be not much interested, but one old blind man. And the others mock and said, "Say, let me see You do something. Hey, you miracle worker. Let me see you perform something."
You know what kind of spirit was in them? What Jesus told them, said, "You're of your father the devil." Scholars, educated, smart men, priest, rabbis, holy fathers, "You are of your father the devil." He said it.

L-33 Why? When the devil met Him when He was first anointed, the Son of God, in the wilderness, and God came into Him, the devil said, "If You're the Son of God, perform a miracle here before me and let me see You do it. You're hungry, make these stones bread." He could've done it. Certainly, He could. Said, "Perform a miracle, let me see You do it. I'll believe You're the Son of God."
Well, if... He said, "It's written in the Bible." Father's Word says, "Man shall not live by bread alone."
Said, "Come here a minute. I want to show you something," took Him up on the pinnacle of the temple, said, "Oh, you're a fundamentalist, are you? You like the Scripture. Well, let me show you what Psalms says. Now, I want you to jump down off the top of this temple and go right down to the ground. And just before you get to the ground, before all the people, then come right back up again and set up here. Oh, what an outstanding miracle that'll be." That's as bad as dripping oil off a hand; it's not Scriptural.
So the first thing you know, he said, you know what he said? he said this, he said, "It's written here in the Scripture, that ye shall do... give the Angels charge over thee, 'less any time thou dash thy foot against a stone, bear thee up." But He hadn't dashed His foot against any stone.
Finally, He said, "Get thee hence, Satan. It's worship... It's written that thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shall you serve." Yes. He did what the Father had showed Him to do.

L-34 Now, then He goes on up. He starts on, got maybe, a hundred and fifty yards, poor blind Bartimaeus, he was in a terrible shape. He holler, "Oh, have mercy, have mercy." He's still walking on. He couldn't hear him, naturally with His ears; it was too far from him. If you'd measure the distance from the gate to the side there, you'd--you'd find out. All right, or where they mark and said he was setting...


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