<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Any man that's got any God about him, as soon as hears of God doing something, it strikes in his heart. It's bound to anchor. "What did you say?" And a kind little lady stepped down and said, "Sir, have you not heard of Jesus of Nazareth?"
"No. Who is Jesus of Nazareth?"
"Well, that's that Galilean prophet." Said, "He does great miracles and signs."
"Could that be the Messiah?"
"Well, some people thinks He is. You can draw your opinion looking at the crowd. One saying one thing and one another."
Well, usually where Jesus is around you get that type of a crowd. One says one thing and one another. Because everywhere that the sons of God gather, the devil sets in the midst of them. They've always done it. And you get that different crowd, one saying one thing and one another.

L-20 Bartimaeus... Those great Scriptures that he'd had in his mind and in his heart since he was a little boy, every one of them seemed to press right up then. Oh, when a man's in need. If you feeled your need of Christ tonight, everything you've ever heard about Him will come right forward.
I stood by a man sometime ago who was dying, an accident. And I talked to him. He was slowly passing away. And I told him, I said, "If you ever prayed, you better pray now." I started to turn away. He said, "Don't leave me." Maybe two hours before then, he'd a run me away. But he had a need. Brother, when men has needs, they'll seek God. They sure will. He had a need.

L-21 A chaplain told me sometime ago in the army, that he was called into a tent one night. And a great officer had been machine-gunned across the--the gut--bullets had cut him through. And he was dying. And someone had told him to go over there. And he said to the man, he said, "Sir, are you a Christian?"
He said, "I once was."
He said, "How long have you been backslidden?"
Said, "Well, I don't know."
He said, "You once knew Christ?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "Where did you leave him?"
He was struggling and the blood filling up in his lungs. And he said, "You had better think fast."
He said, "What can I do?"
He said, "Go right back to where you left Him and begin right there. There's where you'll find Him, is where you left Him."
And he laid there a moment as he was struggling and a smile come across his face. He said, "Now, I remember."
He said, "Start from right there, sir."
He said, "Now, I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." And when he said that, he lifted his hands and smiled and went out to meet God. Bring up a child in the way that it should go.

L-22 Bartimaeus, at this time all those teachings, as Jehovah being the mighty Deliverer, sprung to him. What was it? He had need. And he rose to his feet and he screamed, "O Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me."
Now, from where he was sitting to the street, was probably at forty or fifty yards, and all that great crowd around, some of them throwing over ripe fruit at Him, and some yelling this, and some yelling that, you know Jesus physically did not hear him. Someone said, "Oh, shut up." Said, "Do you know what you're doing? You must be excited. You must be beside yourself. Keep still."
And the world has always tried to keep the real believers still. But that didn't stop Bartimaeus. He knew his child teachings, that Jehovah was a Deliverer. And if this person was the Messiah, he had a right for help.
And I say the same thing tonight. If Jesus is the Son of God, has raised from the dead, the same yesterday, today, and forever, we've got a right to ask for help, for He said, "Whatsoever thing you desire, if you pray, believe you receive it; and ye shall have it." We've got a right to ask for it. That's the teachings of the Bible. We have a right to.


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