<TITLE>02. Par 6-11</TITLE>L-6 Now, we will go right straight to the Scriptures. I--I just hate to start. I have a little weight in my heart tonight for you. I love you in my heart. That's a humble spirit. I wish I could speak your language. I'd like just express to you what I'm thinking. But I pray the Holy Spirit will express it for me. I mean that.
I'm thinking now that some are here, if I should return in six months, there would be some gone. Some would be missing. An audience of this size, many old people, I may be gone too before that time. But if--if some would be gone, there's no doubt, this is the last time that we will look upon each other, like we are tonight, until we stand in His Presence and see Him Who is the invisible One among us tonight.

L-7 Then, I want to say to the pastors: this has been such a great strain of faith. Each night I almost collapse. The Spirit just moves through the people. I'm sure after I'm gone weeks the people will be coming to their pastors and tell--testifying of their healing. It's just has to be. And you remember, if that isn't so, then I'd be a false prophet. But it's the truth. There's so many healed, I just can't speak it fast enough. I've very seldom ever seen that in a meeting.
Here, I want to also thank this fine interpreter. I know that he wouldn't interpret it that way. I've had many interpreters, but it's very seldom that you find an interpreter so filled with the Holy Spirit, that'll enter into and can interpret it just like the Holy Spirit speaks it. It goes to show the same Holy Spirit working between us. God bless him. And God bless this boy too.

L-8 These people are so humble, you have to let them interpret one for the other. God will... God dwells in humility. Now, to our text. We are going to speak on the subject of "Blind Bartimaeus." Bartimaeus.
I read a story sometime ago about blind Bartimaeus. And it was told like this, that he'd been blind for many years since he was a young man. And he was a beggar as the Scripture says. And he had a wife and a little girl. And the little girl was about twelve years old. And he'd never seen her face.

L-9 And beggars in those days, there were many of them. And the man, the business man, and the tourist, they would come to the work of a morning. They would have to... They give them a coin, what they had to spare for that day. And if they didn't have something to attract the attention of the passer-by, well then, they wouldn't get nothing.
And we're told that blind Bartimaeus had two little turtledoves, and they would tumble over each other. And that would attract the attention of the people that passed by.

L-10 And then one night his wife got sick. They sent for the doctor. The doctor said, "There's nothing I can do Bartimaeus, she's going to die." So he went out along the side of the house, feeling with his hands, and he cried, "Jehovah, what could I do without her. I promise You, if You let her live, tomorrow I will make You an offering of my little turtledoves." And the woman got well. He offered them up.
Not later... Not much later from that, his little girl got sick. And he went out to pray for her. He didn't have nothing to offer, but his lamb.

L-11 Now, no doubt but you've seen dogs lead blind people. But in them days, a lamb led the people, the blind. And Bartimaeus had a lamb that would lead him down to the gate of Jericho where he begged. So his little girl got well. And so he went up to offer the lamb.
And as he was entering the temple, the priest said, "Blind Bartimaeus, where goest thou?"
He said, "I'm going to offer my lamb. I promised God I would do it."
The priest said, "Oh, Bartimaeus, you cannot do that. I will give you money, and you buy your lamb to sacrifice."
He said, "No, priest, I never promised God a lamb; I promised Him this lamb."
And he said, "Bartimaeus, you cannot do that; that lamb is your eyes."
He said, "True, Priest. But if Bartimaeus will keep his promise to God, God will provide a lamb for Bartimaeus' eyes." Amen.


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