<TITLE>14. Par 46-47</TITLE>L-46 I can see old blind Bartimaeus setting there said, "Who was that said that? They said, "My faith had saved me. But yet I--I can't see. But He said, 'My faith had saved me.' And Who was it said that?"
Look what said it. Who was it said, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it"? Who was it said, "That the things that I do shall you also"? Who was it said, "These signs shall follow them that believe"? Who said it? Who said that, "In the last days they'd be heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are right, having a form of godliness..." Oh, pious with a face long enough to eat oats in a churn. (I don't mean that by no joke, because it's not a joking place, but that's--that's true.) Walk along very religious... That's all it is, is religious. But as far as salvation, some of them knows no more than an Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight. That's right. There they are.
"Oh, oh, you know our church doesn't teach that." But the Bible does. God said so.
He said, "Let every man's word be a lie and Mine be true." To me, that's the Truth. If God said it, that settles it.
"He said I would receive my sight. Now, said, 'My faith...' Yes, I believed Him. I didn't have one speck..."
Somebody said, "Uh-huh, there's no difference in you. Get away."
"He said I would receive it, and I will. Oh, glory." He said, "I can begin to see my hand. Where'd He go?" Here he come down the road, rejoicing, praising God that he had received his sight.
What was it? "That priest was right, you know. He said, "God will provide a lamb," or when he said, "you can't offer that lamb, because it's your eyes."
And blind Bartimaeus had said, "God will provide a lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes." He had. God had provided a Lamb.
And that same Lamb is provided for every person here tonight, and for every person on earth tonight.
"Receive thy sight. Thy faith has saved thee."
The word "save" there is the word "Sozo" physical or spiritual, you can't separate it. As long as God's saving the soul, He's got to save the body just exactly.
"Wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we was healed." Same Blood, same Man, same day, can't separate it.
Now, is your spiritual eyes open? If not, He's passing this way. Shall we speak to Him now as we bow our heads. Pianist, if you will...

L-47 Our heavenly Father, we commit these words to You, and may You water it day and night in every heart, maybe, not the way they were framed and put together, but as a little boy one time, saying his ABC's on his knees, the minister asking him, "Sonny, why are your saying your ABC's on your knees for?"
He said, "Well, I don't know how to pray. My mother's gone. And I heard her pray. So I knowed the alphabet, and I just said it, and maybe God could pick out the words, the letters, and form the word."


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