<TITLE>21. Par 60-62</TITLE>L-60 "And he--he raised up his leaf and he looked out. He said, 'Uh-huh. What's them? Oh, oh, that's supposed to be His disciples Rebekah told me about. Uh-huh, I'll wait just a minute.' Then after while he raised up the leaf again, said, 'Now, let's see if I'm covered up good. Yeah, I'm setting on two limbs.'" That's where two ways meet, and that's where a lot of people set, where yours and God's ways meet. That's right. Got to make a decision from right there.
"So he--he was setting on this limb, you know. And he looked, and after while he seen kind of a vacant space, and after while he looked, coming around the corner. He raised up his leaf real easy and looked out, peeked out from under the corner of it. And you know what? He looked Him in the face. And as soon as he seen Him in the face, he said, 'There's something a little different about that Man. I can hear Him the way He talks, and how compassionate He was, that He was a different. But you know, I'd have to know that He was a prophet, because if He ain't a prophet then He's not the Messiah, because Moses told us that Messiah would be a prophet. So I've got him fooled now. I got a good look at him. I'm going back and tell Rebekah. You know what I got a good notion doing? Jumping out of this tree and really giving Him a piece of my mind.'" Know... You know how...?... "'I believe I will tell him that all the days of miracles is past, 'cause Levinski said so, and all the rest of them. The rabbi Jones and all of them said so (You see?), so I know. I believe I'll do it. But I just better set still, 'cause I'm covered up right good.'"

L-61 "So He walked..." Said, "And--and what is your name, sir?"
"I'm Bartimaeus."
"Well, Bartimaeus, He walked till He got right under the tree. And when He got under the tree He stopped, looked up, said, 'Zacchaeus, come down right away. I'm going home with you for dinner.'...?... Bartimaeus, could you believe that was the Son of David?"
"Oh, yes. That will be what He will do. Where's He at?"
"He's done gone way down the street there now."
He jumped up and threw down his coat. "O Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. Have mercy on me. O Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. Yes, have mercy on me." His last chance, there He was passing by, He done gone by, and how would He ever hear that poor old blind man, insignificant? And the people said, "Set down, set down. Don't--don't be hollering like that. Set down. He's gone down the road. "
Then it must have been that Bartimaeus said, "He's the Messiah. I know He is. The only way that I'll ever be able to catch Him now, if He's down there... I know that Messiah, when He comes, He will tell us all things. We know that He will be a prophet." So he must have fell on his knees and said, "Jehovah God, if that is the Messiah, that's Your Son. I pray that You'll stop Him. Oh, let Him have mercy on me." And Jesus stopped. What was it? Not his voice stopped Him, but his faith stopped Him. Watch, "Thy faith has saved thee." See?

L-62 Watch. With all the burdens of the world, He was going right up to Jerusalem to be crucified. He knew it. All the burdens and sins of the world. Every sin that was ever committed, or ever would be committed, rested upon Him. Think on his heart. Even the eggs and fruits and things that was thrown at Him, all the screams of "Come up here and raise some dead. Show us a miracle. Let us see you do so and so if you're the Messiah. Let's see..." That bunch of the--the ministerial association of Jerusalem (You see?), or of Jericho. "Let us see you do something. See, I told you; there's nothing to it." He don't mind devils. He don't yet (You see?), so... He just does as the Father shows Him, He said.


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