<TITLE>20. Par 69-73</TITLE>L-69 One said, "You remember (another one raised up up there)," said, "Do you remember also, that when He went through the gate that day, going out of Jericho? There was a blind man setting there, and he had been, said he had been talking. His name was Bartimaeus. You remember his testimony?"
"Yes."
"He said that a crowd begin to make a lot of noise, and he said, 'What's all the noise about?' and people running over him."
You know, still when Jesus comes, a lot of noise. And there was... I can... He said he heard the chief, the general counselor, the head of the ministerial association come down there to stop that revival. "They can't have no such revival as that down here." And so they was making Him leave the city.
And run and said, "Hey, we understand that you raised up a man from the dead called Lazarus. We've got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come up and raise them up. We'll believe you." See, but God don't clown for nobody.

L-70 There was sometime another bunch believed He wasn't a prophet. They put a rag over His face in the Roman yard, and took a stick, put a rag over His face, and hit Him on the head, and said, "If you are a prophet, tell us who hit you. We'll believe you. Tell us who hit you." But He never opened His mouth and said a Word. 'Course He knowed who done it, but He don't clown for the devil. He just does things to glorify the Father. That's the same thing... Yeah, "If you are a prophet..." They all doubted it. That's right. They all doubted it.
Zacchaeus said he doubted, but then he was a believer. He become a member of the full Gospel church brethren, and was real loyal to it down there, 'cause he believed that He was a prophet.

L-71 Then we find out that old blind Bartimaeus standing out there, and some young lady come by. And he was all... He'd been throwed over to one side, and she picked him up. She said, "Sir, what is the matter?"
He said, "Young lady, please tell me Who passes by?"
"Oh, thou dost not know? Thou art a Jew, and don't know the day and hour we're living?"
"No, my fair lady. I don't know Who it would be."
"I'm His disciple."
"Who is He?"
"He's Jesus of Nazareth."
"I never heard of Him."
"Why, He's the prophet of Galilee that the Scriptures spoke of."
"Oh, the Messiah, the Son of David?"
"Yes."
"Where's He at?"

L-72 Now, if you're ever in Jericho, mark where--where blind Bartimaeus was setting, and mark where Jesus was where He heard him. It was impossible for Him to hear him against one saying, "Hail to the prophet. Glory to God in the highest," so forth, and the other one said, "Get him out of the city. He's a false prophet. Raise the dead; show us something here": a mixed multitude. You couldn't... He couldn't hear it. His natural voice, couldn't have heard it.
But old blind Bartimaeus got on his knees and said, "O Jehovah God..."
And when he did, Jesus stood still. I wish I could preach on that: "Then Jesus stood still." He stood still and said, "Bring him here."
His faith, the faith of that blind beggar stopped the Son of God on the road to Jerusalem with the sin of all the world laying upon Him, going to Calvary to be crucified. And the faith of one beggar on his knees, crying out, his faith, He felt his faith. Sure, He was God's prophet.

L-73 Oh, what a testimony meeting. Wish we had time to go on, but we haven't. We got to stop the testimony meeting and close. Oh, it's about maybe getting a little later, and it's done got dark. Oh, the old boat was just rocking from one side to the other, hollering, "Glory. Hallelujah." Oh, they were satisfied. They knowed that He was Messiah.
About that time, back over behind the hills there in Galilee, the devil raised up. He said, "Uh-huh. I got them just exactly where I want them. They've gone off without Him. Now, I'll get them."


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