<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 But He comes walking on. I can see Him as He walks quietly, a little frail-looking body, as He moved on up the side of the road, and some screaming one thing and another. And all of a sudden, there comes a sharp voice that blind Bartimaeus can hear. It's that same priest that talked to him a few hours before. Said, "Say, You Divine healer, Who done that fake job on that man called Lazarus, if You are the Divine healer and can raise the dead, we've got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come raise up some of them."
You know, they've been dead a long time. But that spirit still lives today. "If you can heal, do this. If you can do so much, do this." God cannot work against your faith. You've got to believe it. If you believed it, you wouldn't ask such questions as that.
Same one that said on the cross, "If Thou be the Son of God, just come down and we'll believe You." Same fellow that met Him in the wilderness said, "If Thou be the Son of God... If Thou be... And You're the great miracle worker, let's see You perform a miracle here before me and I'll believe it."
God doesn't clown for people. He's got a purpose of doing things. God doesn't do things just at random or to please unbelievers. He works His will to fulfill His promises.

L-24 And as I see him sitting there, and he started to raise up, and the crowds was pushing him over, and he falls to his knees; he said, "What is all this disturbance? Who is it passes by?"
And some of them pushing him back off, "Sit down."...
And finally, I can see a kind hearted lady bend down over the old blind beggar, kinda lifts him back to his feet. And he says, "Kind, lady, would you be so good as--and kind as to tell me what's all this rush and disturbance about?"
"Oh," she said, "sir, perhaps you don't understand. That is that Galilean Prophet that's going by."
"What Galilean Prophet, my lovely lady? What Galilean Prophet? I have never heard of such a One."
"It's Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David. Are you acquainted with the Scriptures, blind sir?"
"Yes, I am acquainted with the Scriptures. I was just setting here in the warm sun thinking about the great Jehovah God."
"Well, this Man Who's passing by is Jesus of Nazareth, His Son, Who heals the sick and does good kind things to people."
"Oh, you don't mean that that's the Son of David? Now He's too far down the road. I'll never be able to get through that mob." He's--He's almost a hundred yards to the road, and then maybe two hundred yards down the road. "How will I ever do it? But if He is the Son of David, the Spirit of God is in Him. And if He's the Son of David, He can hear my cry." And he screams, "Oh, Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me."

L-25 Why, Jesus could not have heard him, physically, because everyone was screaming one thing and another thing. But what was it? His faith touched Him. And He stopped.
Remember, He was on His road to Jerusalem to be offered for a sacrifice for the sins of the world. And the burden of all the world rested upon His shoulders. And all of that, and the screams from one side to the other, yet the faith of a blind insignificant beggar stopped Him in His tracks.
Faith of one individual little insignificant person here in this building tonight will bring Him from glory to this building here, to prove that He's still the Son of David, the same yesterday, today, and forever. No matter how poor you are, what color your skin is, whatever you are, that doesn't matter. He will stop at the faintest cry of faith.


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