<TITLE>25. Par -</TITLE>L-779-168 He was permitted to be blind so the works of God could be manifested (See?), 'cause he come on the side of the Lord Jesus. He took sides with Him.
Now, he put a stinger to them. You know what they did? They said, "Now, we know you were borned in sin, try to teach us." And shoved him out of the church, knocked him out, pushed him out, throwed him out. But as soon as he was throwed out, did you notice? Jesus found him again. Amen, amen. Jesus found him again. So don't worry if they throw you out. He'll find you again. See? All right.
And He said to him, "Does thou believe on the Son of God?"
He said, "Lord, Who is He?" He didn't even know, but the only thing that he knowed, that where he was blind, he could then see.

L-779-171 I know this one thing, brethren. They might call this fanaticism and whatever they want to, but wherein I was once a sinner, I--I've come into grace now. Something has happened to me. See? This one thing I--I now know by trusting His Word, by believing Him. I've been kicked out of every organization under the face of heavens. There's none of them that will receive me any more. You know that. Some of their men will out here, good men will accept, but every organization, it's thumbs down on me. That's right. But He's found me; He'll find me somewhere or another. That's right. Come along like that.
And so it'll be all right, because we want to take sides with Jesus, and the only way you can take sides with Jesus is taking sides on what He said, believing His Word. So let's take sides with Him. The blind man gave them a real testimony. All right.

L-779-173 We find again that they tried to blight His Name. (Just for a little bit, and I've got to skip over some things here so.) One time there was a Pharisee. I preached on it here some time ago and called it "Washing Jesus' Feet." I believe you all heard me preach on that here, when a Pharisee asked Jesus to come down to his house, a big, old, stiff-starched Pharisee, and asked Him to come. And you know I gave it a little drama, how the courier come and found Him, and He come on down, yet He knowed He was hated, yet He went anyhow. And when they got Him in there, they never washed His feet and let Him set down there, stinking and everything else from the toil of the road, and there He set there.
And a little woman come in. They thought, "Oh, my, the Lord is good to us, because look, this just brings our big party." They'd brought Him there just to make fun out of Him. They brought Him there just to have some fun from Him. And now, they thought the Lord was working right with them, because that this ill-famed prostitute woman come over and was crying and washing His feet with her tears and wiping them with his hair. An old Pharisee and all the rest of the priests standing over in the corner said, "Brother, everything, the Lord set it up just exactly for us. Here we can put a smear on his name right now. He calls himself a prophet, and the people thinks that he's a prophet. And they call him the Galilean Prophet. And he even claims to be the Messiah, and we know Messiah will be a Prophet. And here he is setting back there. You see where we've brought him. Look at there. Boy, we've got him fixed right now. There he is setting back there, stooped down like a whipped-out puppy or something back there, and some prostitute of his own class would come around and wash his feet like that. And now, he don't even know. If he was a prophet, he'd know what kind of a woman that was. Now, boys, we'll drink on this one," said, "because look there."


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