<TITLE>15. Par 60-64</TITLE>L-60 Jesus never opened His mouth, just kept walking on. All the... He was going to Calvary, right then, going up to Jerusalem. The burden of the world was upon Him. Every man that ever died, every sin that was ever committed was laid upon Him. And He knowed He was going to death.
I can hear Bartimaeus say, "Who passes by?" Nobody would tell him.
Directly, this kind little woman said, "Sir, let me help you up, kind sir."
"Oh, you're a nice, lady. Who are you?" He told...
She told, "I am the servant of the Christ."
"The what?"
"The Christ. Are you a--you are a Jew?"
"Yes."
"Have you not read in the Scriptures where the Messiah was coming?"
"Oh, the Son of David?"
"Yes. What a kind of a man will He be?"
"Oh, He will be a Prophet," said blind Bartimaeus. "He will be a Prophet."
"That's Him that's just passed by."
"O Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me."
Some of them said, "Shut up. How could He hear that?"

L-61 Go to Jericho one time and see where he was setting and where Jesus was at: about three hundred yards, thousands of people saying, "Hail to the Prophet."
Others saying, "Away with the hypocrite." Overripe food throwed at Him and everything like that... "Out of our town." See? And others blessing Him, and some cursing Him, same thing today, same thing...
Some say, "It's true. It's of God."
The other one says, "It's a devil." There you are. See? God takes His man but never His Spirit. The devil takes his man but never the spirit, just go, lives on in somebody else, just keeps coming back, like the Holy Spirit. See?
Now, they both live today. They both live in Grande Prairie. You know that. Sure they are. Both spirits, that wherever men are gathered together, you find both spirits.

L-62 Here they was. And now, there... Jesus could not have heard him literally, too much noise. But blind Bartimaeus must have said this, "I know then that that's that Messiah that I knowed would come. And I know that He's a Prophet." So he must've fell on his knees and said, "Jehovah, Jehovah." See, it compares with the rest of the Scripture.
The woman that touched His garment... He's a High Priest tonight, that you can touch His garment. "Jehovah, I'm blind. I have no money for an operation, and they couldn't do me no good anyhow. Jehovah. That's the Son of David and He's passing me by. Have mercy." His faith stopped Him, the faith of a blind beggar, an insignificant person.

L-63 Not his cry, He couldn't have heard it: too much, one saying this and the other one saying something else. But his faith stopped Him. 'Cause Jesus said so. And remember, with the sins of the world on Him, going to Jerusalem, the faith of one beggar stopped Him in His tracks.
Wished I had a few days, I'd like to preach to you one night, just on preaching: "And Jesus stood still." The sun stood still. One of these days time will stand still. But Jesus stood still, said, "Thy faith has saved thee."
"And you remember what blind Bartimaeus said? He said that that was the Son of God. 'That Man was a Prophet. My faith was strong enough to stop Him. And I asked Him for my sight and He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." I stood looking. The crowds went on down the road. I said it has to be so. It has to be so. I know it's so. And after while I begin to see a shadow. I begin to notice. And there was my hands. And I run down the road rejoicing.'"
"Oh, sure."

L-64 Oh, what a testimony meeting they were having. No doubt they were weeping and shouting and jumping up and down in the boat, hollering, "Glory to God. Praise God, brethren. We know we are right. We know that He is the Messiah."
So is it today; you can take all your dead theology you want to, I'll take the living Christ. Amen. For me and my house, we'll serve God.
So I like an experience, a Urim Thummim, a Word of God made flesh and dwelt among us. That's me.


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