<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 And Bartimaeus begin to wonder, "Who is this such a Person, wonder Who this could be? Then he hears another voice, "Hosanna, Hosanna! The prophet of Galilee comes." What was he saying? "Hosanna! The great prophet Jesus comes to the city. Make way for Him! Give to Him songs! Give to Him praise!"
And Bartimaeus said, "Who passes?" No one paid any attention to this poor old beggar, too insignificant to be looked at...?... everywhere. But after while a kind little lady stooped down. And he said, "Madam, who is passing by?"
She said, "Oh, blind man, do you... Have you not heard that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah of God?"
"Oh," he says, "I heard my mama tell me, that someday the Messiah would come, but surely the priests wouldn't be talking about Him like that, and saying all those things."
But she said, "It is true. This Man is the Messiah."
"Oh, you mean that the Son of David is coming through and they're treating Him that way?"
"Yes, that's Him."

L-31 Then all of his dreams, all of his fond hopes jumped into action; he sprung to his feet, and screamed, "Oh, Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!"
And the people said, "Oh, shut up; sit down: you know that there's no such a thing as any of that for you, blind Bartimaeus. The days are past for those things. That guy is just a fanatic."
Down in his heart where he'd been dreaming... "But mother read to me out of the Bible that Moses said, 'The Lord your God shall rise up a prophet likened unto me.'" How that the prophet Isaiah said the lame would leap like an hart, and how the blind would see when this Prophet came. And faith took a hold, and he cried the much more, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!"

L-32 Now, He could not hear the literal voice of the blind man with all that voice screaming, and hollering, and saying the things, and mocking, and scoffing, and praises together. He would not hear physically, because He was too far from him.
And Jesus in this certain time, He knew that just a few days hence He was going, He was on His road down to Jerusalem. And there He must be mocked, and spit on, and made fun of, and beaten, and His back scratch with steel cat-o-nine-tail, or Roman lash, and there had to go to the cross. The great nails was in His mind, the thorns on His head, the spear in His heart, the agony of Gethsemane. All that was loaded on His precious heart. And I can see Him undisturbed by the criticism.

L-33 You know a big man can be criticized and he pays no attention. But it's the little one that speaks the loudest. So He wasn't paying attention when they were criticizing, making fun of Him, He had one thing: that was doing the will of His Father. With His heart full, to know that He came to His own, and His own received Him not, and knowing that He was to die for their very sins. He had His face set towards Jerusalem's Calvary. All that on His heart, He never noticed the flying missiles, and the criticisms, and so forth. He was walking towards Calvary.
So He could've not have heard that man's voice. If you was ever at Jericho and watched the distance to the road. But... And all the crowd, but something happened. I can imagine as He passed by, and the crowd still hollering, the lady said, "Oh, sir. Cry out again."
He said, "Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me! Oh, He couldn't hear me, so I can see. O Father God, I believe with all my heart that this One Who's persecuted and made fun of, is Your Son. I believe He is the Son of David."


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