<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And now, you have to be very careful in dealing with people, especially when you're asking them to do something that you know that they... Unless you're led of the Lord to tell them, you better just keep still. Let it be based on their faith. But when you see and know that it's the Lord, then you can rest assured that it's going to be all right.
That brace come off her back, she'd drop right over. See? So being by a vision, I told her to go take her braces off. The ladies took her back into a room, and she came to the platform waving those braces and glorifying God.
And down the line a little farther down, there was a lady come who had a lump sticking out on her neck, in here. And before a thousands of people, I just put my hand on the lump and begin to pray for her. Now, I know that this may sound strange to people, but something felt like it slipped under my hand. And when I took my hand off of the woman's throat, before those thousands of people there, that growth had disappeared, right before the audience.
Now, anyone that's mentally right would know that God had to do that. There had to be a miracle performed. And we want to have that type of line, the Lord willing, just testing our faith to God's promise in a few nights.

L-6 Now, tonight we want to read some out of the Word of God. And the--the 19th chapter of the book of Saint Luke, we read this:
 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: And when he was come... he asked him,
 Saying, What will thou that I should do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith has saved thee.
 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.
May the Lord bless the reading of His Word.
Now, we have before us tonight, one of the great instance in the ministry of our Lord Jesus in a--a sign and a seal of His Divine Messiahship, proving to the world that He was the Messiah. Our scene starts tonight at the gates of Jericho, as you go in at the north side of the gate, perhaps, coming down from Jerusalem. There was a beggar by the name of Bartimaeus, and he set there begging, as it was his--his way of making a living.

L-7 And in those days there was many beggars. There was lepers. I often wondered what it must have been when Jesus was here. Of those massive sights... And I never fully could understand it until I come from India where we would find laying on the streets lepers, no hands, no ears, and just all kinds of massive forms of sickness and affliction.
And at nighttime when they would gather up the dead bodies on the street, would take them over to a great salamander of some kind and dispose of their bodies, no John 14 there, just dumped them in and let them go.

L-8 Must've been something like the sights that Jesus seen. And so many beggars on the street, they had a hard time thriving. Because perhaps if a man had a coin or two that he could give, when he come into the city, the first one he met, he gave a coin. And that settled it for the day. And those beggars would hang around the gates, lepers, crippled, blind, afflicted, making their living by begging.
And now, as we notice our subject tonight, this beggar was at the gate side. Just... Let's just imagine what was going through his mind, just for a short time. I can imagine as he sit there in the sunlight, when the warm rays of the Palestinian sun baking upon him, had drug hisself off into the corner and was meditating, thinking.


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