<TITLE>19. Par 55-57</TITLE>L-55 They put him by. I laid my hands upon him, his old head shaking like that. I said, "Father, he worked a many hard days for these boys. They've honored him now, bringing him across the river at this time of the morning to be prayed for. I pray that You'll heal him." I said, "Take him on. Bring the next one." First thing you know, you heard everybody hollering, screaming. Looked, the old man had the board on his own shoulders, going around waving at everybody, like that...?... That's what it is. It's just simple faith to believe God. It's not some hocus-pocus. It's just childlike faith. See, we--we've sprang plumb away from it trying to explain it. Just believe it.

L-56 That's right. That's the way with this great mighty Captain of the host of the Lord. He was there that night, the same as He was there. And you know there's something another about it. Where Jesus is, you always hear a lot of noise. I don't know why, but it--it's that way. Wherever you find Jesus you find a lot of noise.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.].. shoving and screaming, and some of them hollering one thing, "Hosanna, hosanna, to the prophet of Galilee."
Others saying, "Away with the impostor. Get him out of this city. We don't want him here." And some throwing overripe fruit at Him, and probably eggs the same way, you know, then going on.
And he said, "Who passes by?" said Bartimaeus. "Who is it passing by?" And they crowded over him, and shoving him back. And maybe after while he--they shoved him down. He set down, felt back for his rock again. People... He'd hear somebody saying--one for Him, one was against Him. Same way it is today: some for Him, some against Him. Directly he heard that priest that he'd heard go in, saying, "Hey, You, the prophet, You, the one that said you raised a dead man named Lazarus; we've got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Let's see you go up and raise one. We'll believe you. Until you do that, you're a false prophet."
He said, "That's that same man told me he was going down to stop it. What's this all about?" See?

L-57 And he'd say, "Somebody tell me. Somebody help me. Somebody help me, because... What... Who's passing by? What's all this noise about?" Nobody would listen to him, and after while... It must have been a young woman. She seen the poor old fellow laying there, and she picked him up. She said, "Sir, are you hurt?"
"No, ma'am." Said, "I--I wish you would tell me, what's all the noise about?"
"Oh," she said, "Jesus of Nazareth passes by."
"Why, Who's Jesus of Nazareth?"
"Are you not a Israelite?"
"Yes."
"Well, you see, I am a servant of Jesus of Nazareth." You know there's something about Jesus of Nazareth's servants, they're always willing to help somebody that's in need. They're always willing to stop and help somebody that's in need. God's servants does that. She said, "I'm a believer of Jesus of Nazareth. Now, you know, this Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of David, that..."
"The Son of David? Why, I remember... I was just setting here thinking, and my mother told me that the Son of David would come someday. "
"Yes, that's He, the prophet of Galilee."
"A prophet?"
"Yes."


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