<TITLE>16. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 God made Hisself known in a body of flesh and performed this sign. And the reason that God didn't take the life of Sarah... He couldn't do it, for she was a part of Abraham, and Abraham had the promise.
You get it? Oh, my. Then He can't take us. We're part of Christ. See, He'd had to take Abraham too, 'cause that's part of Abraham. And when He... We're the Bride of Christ, the church is. And then, what is in Christ, we are a part of Him. And that... He couldn't do it. And He said, "Yes, you did."
Now, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." What was it? God, Jehovah, manifested in human flesh. And now, the Holy Spirit, God, in the last days just before the destruction, or burning the earth with fire like He was going to burn the earth at Sodom, we got modern evangelists that's sweeping the earth in church natural. And the Holy Spirit has come into human flesh, the church. That's the sign to the Gentile.

L-60 Let's go back on Galilee just a minute. Oh, what a time they were having. I believe they were all hollering "Amen," too. And then, we could go to, oh, Bartimaeus, that how Jesus, going up there towards Calvary, coming out of Jericho... And Bartimaeus, that ragged old beggar setting there, and, why, He could have never heard him naturally.
Why, there was thousands of people following Him, hollering, "Hey, you that can raise the dead. We got a graveyard full of them up here. Let's see you come do it," throwing overripe fruit at Him, and everything. His face set towards Calvary, He's going.
But that old beggar perhaps knowing... Might some young Christian girl might've come by, and the poor old fellow... They was tramping him down, and he said, "Madam, tell me who passes by? What's all the commotion?" (It's strange where Jesus is, there's a lot of commotion, noise, one for, and one against.)

L-61 So they--they find out this young lady said, "Why, sir, I am a follower of this young Prophet. You are a believer in the Scriptures, aren't you?"
"Oh, sure."
"Well, don't you know... Did you ever read the Bible 'fore you lost your sight?"
"Many times."
"Do you know the Son of David?"
"Yes. He's to come."
"There, He's just passed by."
Then Bartimaeus must've said, "If that's Him, my voice... I'm weak and old. The only thing I can do is say, 'Jehovah, have mercy. Oh, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.'"
And the faith of that beggar stopped Him. Just like the woman with the blood issue stopped Him with the touch of her faith. The faith of that beggar stopped Him, and He stood still. I'd like to preach on that tomorrow night, "And Jesus Stood Still," if the Lord will.
Now. Notice, and He stood and called him, and said, "What would you that I would do?"

L-62 I can remember Zacchaeus up in the tree. And he got up there to hide, you know. He said, "Oh, I'm a businessman here in the city. I'd never be mixed up with that bunch of holy-rollers. Hear them coming up, so I'll get up in this tree. And when He passes by I'll draw my opinion of Him."
Here He comes walking right under the tree, you know. He stopped, said, "Zacchaeus, come down," setting up there with leaves pulled all around him, so nobody'd see him. But He knows just where you are. You might pull Methodist leaves, and Baptist leaves, and all kinds of leaves around you, but He knows right where you are.


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