<TITLE>09. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Well, then another one spoke up and said, "What about blind Bartimaeus when we went out of the city? When there he was setting out there dreaming of the days, he said, when he had his sight. How his mother had told him about the great day of Jehovah once spoke for the people. But he'd been blind all these years."
"And how when we came out of the city, the people making fun of Him, and the priests hollering, 'You Who raised the dead. We got a graveyard full of them up here. Come up and raise them up.'"
See God don't clown for people. Jesus just does as the Father shows Him and that's all He does He said: Saint John 5. You know, they still have them evil spirits in the world today though. They'll say, "Let me see Him heal this one. Let me see Him heal that one." See? That's the same evil spirit. They just don't know.

L-29 The same one set up there on the cross or before He got to the cross, when He was tempted he said up there, said, "If Thou be the Son of God, perform a miracle here before me and turn these stones into bread and eat and I will believe you." See?
Jesus said, "But it's written. Man shall not live by bread alone." See? He didn't clown for Satan.
And when they had Him in the courtyard, put a rag over His face, wrapped around His eyes, and took a stick and hit His precious head, said, "If you're a prophet now and can tell us, if you're that Messiah prophet, tell us who hit you on the head," He never said a word. The powers and gifts of God are not to show off with. They're to serve God by. They're for the glory of God to do something to help somebody, not to come out like a stuffed-shirt and saying, "Me, my, great..." That's not it. When a man does that, he's little in my sight. Who is great? One, God.

L-30 Then it might've been then, immediately after that, that Andrew might've said this, "But brethren, remember the time when He sent us into the city? He told us that morning He was going down to Jericho, but had need go by Jerusalem, or go by Samaria from Jerusalem, up around Samaria and then to Jericho. Remember how tired He was, and all day we said, "Why, why don't you take me? Why don't You do?"
"He said, 'I'll wait here, and you go in and get yourself food.' Now, while we were gone, and we got the food to return, you remember we come up... And we found out when we had gotten there there was a woman on her road up, and there He was alone with the--a woman of an ill--ill condition." She was a foul woman, a woman that we'd call today of the street, red-light lady. She had... Her marriages was all mixed up, and she was living with men without being married to them, very foul person. Them days they wore a garment had to prove that. "So when we seen--come up... You remember we slipped in behind that bush and that little wall and see what He would say? That's what settled it with every one of us."

L-31 "He asked the woman to bring Him a drink, and she said, 'We've got segregation here. We--we don't... It's not customary for you Jews to ask we Samaritan women such a thing as that.'"
"He said, 'If you knew Who You were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd give you water that you don't come here to draw.'"
Remember how the conversation went on. What was He doing? The Father, He said, in Saint John 5:19... And listen to this, brother, sisters: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, never took credit for healing anybody. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works."
Then notice what taken place in Saint John 5:19 He said this. He'd went to a pool of Bethesda. There laid great multitudes (Many more people than is around this place tonight) of lame, blind, halt, withered, crippled. Now, the Scripture says that: Lame, halt, blind, withered. And here He comes.


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