<TITLE>12. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 I was reading his life here not long ago, blind Bartimaeus. He'd been blind for many years; he had a wife, a little girl. He'd never seen the little girl. And blind Bartimaeus, the story goes, might have been fiction I don't know.
But in those days they had a lamb that led them like the seeing-eye dog does now. And he had two little turtledoves to do enchantments. They would turn little tumbles over each other, and that's what would attract attention of the tourists and the people coming through. That's how... He had his little can out or whatever it was to beg. There they'd watch this little turtledove.
In India I... Everybody and every beggar's got a little over...?... over something another to attract attention to get the alms from the people.
And Bartimaeus had two little doves that just tumbled over each other, and the people would laugh at it, and then give him a little coin. And it said that one night his wife taken sick, and the doctor had come and said, "There's nothing that we can about it, Bartimaeus. You wife has such a tremendous fever, that she's going to die." So they said, he felt his way around the house till he got to the corner, and he raised his hands and said, "Jehovah, if [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"Can't do that." Said, "I'll give you money to buy you a lamb."
He said, "Great High Priest, I never told God I'd give Him a lamb. I told Him I would give Him this lamb."

L-50 You're glad to bring somebody else to church. You're glad to put flowers on the altar, and do little charitable deeds, which is all right. But are you the lamb? You are the one that God wants on the altar--you. Sacrificial life, giving yourself completely into His will.
And he said, "Blind Bartimaeus, you can't do that. That lamb is your eyes."
He said, "Oh, great High Priest, if I serve Jehovah and keep my promise to Him, Jehovah will provide a lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes."

L-51 It was on this cool October afternoon, God had provided a Lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes, that his eyes could be opened.
Let me say to you tonight, my dear friend, of this city, God has provided a Lamb for you, too. It's the same Lamb: "The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." If you don't know Him as your Saviour, while you been setting, listening, meditating, just like I've told you, of being alone, like Bartimaeus was, alone. Now, He's near you now. Won't you receive Him? Let's bow our heads just a moment now.

L-52 I wonder, while we have our heads bowed, quietly if the organ will give us just a little background. While you've been thinking, has sin come up in your heart that you know that you are not right with God, and if you should die, would it be all of it for you? If it is, will you just raise up your hand? Don't... No one look up. Keep your heads bowed now. Just raise up your hand, and say, "God, be merciful to me."
God bless you, young man. God bless you, you, you, you. That's right. Oh, twenty or thirty hands up. God be merciful.
Though you belong to a church, but yet you have never, never knowed what it was to be borned again, will you just lift your hands and say, "I've been thinking, preacher, I want Him for my Saviour, too. I want Him to be merciful to me, right now. Now, I believe that same Jesus is not far from us, now. I now accept Him. I want Him to help me."


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