<TITLE>15. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 He stopped and stood still, looked around. They brought him over. He said, "Your faith has healed you." Oh, my. There he went walking on.
The little lady holding him by the arm, she must've said, "Did you hear what He said?"
"Oh, yes. Oh, think. He told me I'd get my sight."
The procession was moving on down the road. He was heading on up the mountain to go to be crucified. He said, "Receive thy sight. Thy faith has saved thee."
Just the same as your faith saves you from hell. Same Greek Word's used "Sozo." Yes, same time--every time it's translated, physically saved or spiritually saved, same faith does the same thing. "Thy faith has saved thee."
Oh, his faith stopped Jesus, and had Him to stand still. So he said, "He told me... He is the Messiah. He had... He's got all the signs of Messiah, and He told me I'd receive my sight. I'm satisfied I will receive it. Oh, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied." He starts saying...
Directly he seen a shadow. "Huh, oh, I have received my sight." And down the road he went. When He says anything, just keep believing it.

L-59 I read a little story (maybe fiction, maybe not, I don't know) on Bartimaeus. It said he had a wife and a little girl, and said that one night his wife got sick, so he--he went out and he said, "Jehovah, the only thing that I have to offer You..." They had to have some kind of entertainment to attract the attention, the beggars did, like they do in India. If a beggar in India hasn't got something to attract the attention of the--of the passerby, he will never get a coin: seldom will, anyhow. They got little monkeys. The little monkey will beat the guy, and he will run like he's screaming and crying. They got a cobra, or snake, that fight a little animal, and they--and everything to entertain, for something another to make them give a coin.
So they said that Bartimaeus had two little turtle doves, that'd do tumbles over one another. He said, "Jehovah, I haven't got much. But if You'll just let my wife live... The physician's just left and said she's going to die. I need her so bad. If You'll just let her live, tomorrow morning I'll give you my two turtle doves for a sacrifice."

L-60 And his wife got well. So he offered the turtle doves. Some weeks later... He said he had a little girl that he'd never seen in his life, a little curly-headed girl. One night she got real violently sick, and the good physician come again and he said, "Bartimaeus, the child is almost in hysterics. I think the child is going to die."
"Oh," he said, "good physician, are you sure?"
"As far as my medical training will let me know, the child is dying now. The fever is running into a spasm, and there's nothing that can be done for it."
And he made his way out the side of the house in the moonlight, feeling along the side. He said, "Jehovah, I haven't got but one thing left."
I don't know what kind of a dog they call that today, that leads the blind. I forget. [Someone says, "A seeing-eye dog."--Ed.] A seeing-eye dog... Well, instead of a dog leading the blind in that day, they had a lamb that would lead the blind.


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