<TITLE>04. Par 14-18</TITLE>L-14 And then, when Fanny Crosby... one day when they come to her with these big bargains... She was poor too, and they come to her, and said, "We'll give so much, if you'll just give your talent over to making songs for the entertainment world." She flatly refused it. She would not do it.
She said, "If there's anything that I have, it belongs to Christ."
And so they, the men who were talking to her, said, "Then I suppose that you're expecting to go to a world where there is Everlasting Life, and so forth?"
Said, "Yes."
"So what do you expect this Christ to be?"
Said, "He will be a man."
And said, "Then if you're the same over there as you are here," said, "you'd never see Him." Said, "You're blind."
She said, "Oh, I'll know Him anyhow."
So they said, "How would you ever know Him, if you are still blind over there, as you never had sight in this life? And on the other side, if you had no sight there, how would you know Him then?"
She said, "I'll know Him."
And they laughed at her, and she turned and started through the house. When she had made her decision, "No, sir, nothing of the world. All my talent is given to Christ."... And they said... She started back across the house and raised up her hands. She said.
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
And redeemed by His side I shall stand;
I shall know Him, I shall know Him
By the prints of the nails in His hand.

L-15 It's those great crucial moments that the--the strain is put upon us that God moves in, when we make the decision for Him. That's between Life and death, that little sharp edge. Sometime at the last moment when you think you're not going to be well, and somebody's making fun of you, still hold your testimony. It's that time that God moves in.

L-16 Bartimaeus had arrived on the scene kind of late. So it was a early spring morning, I believe, along April, 'cause it was near Easter. And his clothes was all ragged, I suppose. He got up to the gate. It was quiet, so he said, "Well, I'm a little late, because I overslept." But the sun in the Palestinian skies was just perhaps rising in the east. And him kind of on the north side throwed a...
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] over the wall, where it was shook down by God, when Joshua came in.
Let's think he got him a rock, and set down in the sunshine, and said, "Well, maybe there's one merchant a little late. I'll get a coin, maybe, today for my family, 'cause we're really in need."

L-17 And he got to thinking about... While he was setting there in the warm sunshine, his ragged coat wrapped around him, he begin to think about his dream, how real it was. Then his mind floated back in a daydream, like... I know we all have those experiences.
Many times I could climb so high in the mountain till I'm out of hearing distance from any--anything, just set up there only with the--the animals and dream, oh, just dream of God and the coming of the Lord; and look out and hear Him scream in the birds, and watch Him in the eagles, and see Him in the sunrise and sunset. He's just all around you. Be alone and dream.

L-18 So Bartimaeus, perhaps, was setting out there in a dream like that. And being it was spring, he said, "Oh, I dreamed last night that I had my sight. I can remember when I was a little boy. We lived just around the mountain here, a little cabin around the side there in my...
Remember when I used to be in this early spring, when the little buttercups would come up, how I used to run out as a little boy and play, and mother would let me pick her a little bouquet of flowers. And how I would look, laid out there on the soft beds of the grass, and look up and see the white clouds passing over in April, the warm sunshine bathing down upon me.
How pretty this world must be. But I've long lost sight of it for many years of blindness, so I guess it'll never be. But oh, how I appreciate that dream last night--to even dream that I could see."


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