<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 And he heard a noise. Usually where that Captain is there is a lot of noise. He heard some noise, and he wondered what it was all about. And just in a few moments, the whole place was covered, completely covered with people. And he begin to hear all kinds of voices. One saying, "Hosanna to the King of David, the Son of David."
Others holler, a screaming, "Away with that fanatic. He isn't nothing but a fake healer. He's a devil. He's possessed with Belze--Beelzebub. And there's nothing to Him. He's nothing but a false teacher. Away with Him."
And poor blind Bartimaeus begin to wonder, "What's all this about?"

L-27 And then he heard that priest that had spoke to him a few hours before, saying, "Say, you Galilean so-called prophet, if you raise the dead like you said you did, raised Lazarus from the grave, we've got a whole graveyard full of them up here on the hill. Let's see you come raise some of them." You know, that devil isn't dead yet either. He still lives. That's right. "Let us see you do something."
Jesus never even paid any attention to him. And if He didn't then, neither does His people today. Let him holler his head off; we don't care. We walk in the Spirit of the Lord.

L-28 They were hitting with overripe fruit, making fun of Him. And others screaming, crying, and shouting. And it was a mixed multitude. And wherever you find Jesus, you find that same thing. The Gospel attracts a mixed multitude: three different classes of people: a believer, a unbeliever, and a make-believer. That's usually what's in the multitudes. And there they was, all of them just a carrying on.
And he raised up; he said, "Who is this?"
And someone said, "Shut up! I'll have the priest to throw you out of the synagogue. Set down!"
"I'd like to know," he said, "Who this Man is that's got all this emotion stirred up." And he could not get no one to listen to him. And he heard the snarls of the priest again. And some woman was going to have a fake washing His feet, and all so forth, making fun of Him, just like they do today, the same thing.

L-29 You know, God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The devil takes his, but never the spirit. The same spirit lives on among the people. That is true. God took Elijah, but the Spirit come upon Elisha. God took Elisha; It come on John the Baptist. Them Spirits does not die. And He took His Son, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost come on the Church. Amen.
Those critical spirits of those unbelieving priests still live today among the people: religious spirits, criticizing, making fun.
But as Jesus was at that day, so is He today, the same yesterday, today, and forever. He goes on about the Father's business. The Church of the living God shall prevail. They'll move forward.
Jesus had the whole burdens of the world upon Him. He was headed right then for Jerusalem to be made a sin Offering for the world. He, being the Son of God, the anointed Messiah, certainly He knowed what was coming a little while ahead of Him. Going on His road right then to die for the sins of those people, and them going on like that to Him. His head was set straight towards Jerusalem. He went marching on. He never listened to their scoffs and carry on. He never paid any attention to that. He moved on.


<A HREF="P9">Next Page</A>