<TITLE>17. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 "Well," he said, "remember when we was going out the gate, blind Bartimaeus... When blind Bartimaeus said... He'd been sitting there, thinking about how that the--that the Messiah would be when He come, and so forth. And how that if the prophets lived, he'd go by and ask him for to receive his sight. And all at once he heard them coming by, a howling mob. There we were again. And he was sitting there shivering in the cold. You remember his testimony? And he said--he said, 'Who goes by?'"
"And said everybody said, 'Oh, shut-up.'"
"And he heard somebody holler, 'Hey. Hey, you. You, the Galilean prophet. You. We hear You raise the dead.' It was a priest. Said, 'We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come up and raise one for us; we'll believe you.' (That same old devil still lives, you know.) 'We heard you raised the dead. We got a graveyard full of righteous men dead up here. Come, raise one of them--we'll believe you.'"

L-56 Never bothered Him a bit. He just kept walking on. The souls of the world was resting upon Him. He was going to Calvary, going up the hill.
Bartimaeus said, "Who passes?" And they shoved him down.
And after while some nice, courteous lady come by and said, "Oh, poor fellow."
Said, Oh..." I said, "Who's passing, lady?"
"Oh," she said, "don't you know who it is?" Said, "It's Jesus of Nazareth."
"No, I don't know Who Jesus of Nazareth..."
"The Galilean prophet?"
"No, I never heard there was such a Person."
"You know who the Son of David is, coming to be?"
"Oh, the Messiah?"
"Yes."
"Oh, if I could only see Him."
"How do you know it is?"
"I'm one of His followers."

L-57 And I want to say something here. His followers always show courtesy to everybody in their life. You see? They're ready to help somebody, ready to do something for somebody else, His true followers.
And said, "Yes (And might've... Let's say it was Rebekah.) My husband was just saved awhile ago, and I'm so full of joy."
"Well, now, you mean that that is the Messiah that we're taught was to come, the prophet that Moses said? How far is He?"
Now, if you was ever there, and looked where he was supposed to be setting, he was a good two hundred and fifty yards away, with about four or five thousand people screaming, "Hosanna, to the prophet, Hosanna, to the prophet."
Another one hollering, "Away with him." And throwing overripe fruit at Him and things like that. All those kind of things, how could He have ever heard, "Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy! Thou Son of David, have mercy!"

L-58 So let's think that Bartimaeus thought this: "If He is that Messiah, He's a prophet." If I can just see him kneel down on his knees, shivering, and saying, "Oh, Jehovah, You're Messiah, that I've longed to see all my life. And if that's Him passing by, let me touch Him, Lord. I can't get to Him, but can my faith reach Him? Oh, let me touch Him, Lord."
About that time, Jesus stopped, and said, "Bring him here." He couldn't have heard him; he was too far away from Him, all that hollering mob, but his faith stopped Him. And look where He was going: to Jerusalem with the sins of the world on Him. But look, the faith of one blind beggar (Amen) stopped Him. And the faith of one person here tonight will bring Him from glory down here to do the same thing.


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