<TITLE>18. Par 63-65</TITLE>L-63 And he just watched Him till He got right down like that. Jesus come along with His head down, walking as He usually did in His common stride, walked right under the tree, and looked up, and said, "Zacchaeus. Come down. I'm going home with you for dinner."
"Remember what Zacchaeus said? That took all the starch out of him. Yes, sir. 'Cause he knowed He was a prophet."
"And you remember?" Philip said, "You remember brethren, when we went out the gate, and we, that other testimony we got outside the gate? There you know, they heard a noise coming, when Bartimaeus testified to us. He said he'd been setting there dreaming of Bible stories his mother told him when he was a little boy, just like John was testifying of, and saying how mother told him how great Jehovah was, and how that right down that same road, them cobblestones where he was setting, that Elisha and Elijah come arm and arm right down that road going down to cross the Jordan." Amen!
"Oh, if I would've lived in that day, I'd have run out to them and say, 'Oh prophets of God, have mercy and pray for me,' and the Lord would open my eyes. But alas the Rabbi tells me, the priest, that the days of miracles is past."

L-64 "And I remember then that Joshua crossed the river and said--and said Bartimaeus, 'crossed the river not five hundred yards from where I'm setting," and the great Joshua, God, moved back the waters in the month of April when it was pretty near a mile across the valley here, and moved it back, and stood still. And the waters held there place, up yonder in--in--in the mountains. The snow waters held its place while two and one half million Israelites marched across and set up camp." Oh, my.
"If I'd have only been setting here then. And I'm setting on the rocks, right here this morning," he said, that fell when Joshua, they sounded the trumpet and God knocked the walls down, and Rahab, the harlot's house stood because she believed."
"And then Joshua one day, when he was out with the great men, walking around looking through the fields. Seeing how the great looking over the situation. He saw a Man standing with His sword drawed. And Joshua drew his sword; he went to meet Him. He said, 'Are You with us, are You for our enemies?'"
He said, "I'm the Captain of the host of the Lord."
Joshua threw off his helmet, and throwed down his shield, and dropped his sword, and fell on his knees.

L-65 "Oh," said blind Bartimaeus, "if I'd have only been there then. I'd have run up to that great Chief Captain and said, 'Chief Captain of the host of the Lord, have mercy on me a blind man.' I'd receive my sight."
Little did he know that within a hundred yards of him that same Captain was coming, walking toward the gate. Oh, if this church could realize tonight, that same Captain, "I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee. I'll be with you always, even to the end of the world. And the works that I do shall you also. A little while and the world will see Me no more. Yet you'll see Me (the church elected). You'll see me, for I'll be with you. The works that I do, you'll be doing also, till the end of the consummation of the world," order of the world.
Now, notice, and he said, "You remember what blind Bartimaeus testified? When He come by, he said all the people were screaming and some hollering, 'Away with that impostor.' And they was throwing rotten eggs and overripe tomatoes at Him. Now, he said he could hear that priest say, 'Hey you that raised the dead. You tell me they raised up the dead man called Lazarus. We've got a graveyard full of them up here. Come up and raise some of them, we'll believe you.'"


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