<TITLE>11. Par 117-128</TITLE>L-117   One day, his little girl got sick. Oh, my. He, no doubt the man had picked, like that, would have called the doctor. The physician come, attended to the child. The fever got worse and worse. After a while she got so hot, and everything, she finally got to the point of death. He was in distress. He had to do something. He, he just didn't know what to do. Now he thought, "If I could only find Him, wherever He is." Now he never waited until it got nighttime, like Nicodemus did, to have a private interview. Time was for action, the time had come for action and he must act then.

L-118 And I think, brother, sister, the same is now. The time has come for action. The time has come to believe or don't believe. That separating line comes to every man and woman. It comes to every child. Sometimes when you pass that line, there is only one thing left, that's judgment, when you pass between mercy and judgment, when you pass that line.

L-119   Remember, he got in distress. He didn't know what to do. There stood his priests, all the rabbis standing around him. The fellowship was with him, all down there, watching his little girl die. The doctor standing on the outside, with his hands folded, shaking his hands, "I've give every medicine that I knowed, and still..."

L-120 See, it was Jesus a working all the time. Jesus was doing this for a purpose, to bring the color out of that little fellow. After a while, I can see him go get his little black hat and pulled it on, put his little priest coat on.
"Where you going?"

L-121 "I heard He's down at the river. I'm going after Him!" Oh, my! Away he went!

L-122   In that hour of distress, he had to make a decision: let his child die, or he knowed that was the manifestation of the Word. He was a priest, and he had read the Word, and he knowed that that was God's manifestation. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. He knew that, and he was forced to the issue. He had to make a mistake, let his child die, or make his confession. When he got in that distress, it was about that time that Jesus came along. He went to see Him. He said, he said, "I'll go with You, whatever You say." And out on the road, here come a runner, the dark thing there. Had made his confession, that he believed Him. He had done excommunicated himself then, and put hisself in public eyes then, that he was a believer on Jesus.

L-123   And here come a runner, said, "Don't bother nobody, 'cause your girl has already died. She died yesterday. She is already dead. Don't, don't fool with it no more."

L-124 And, oh, his little heart like to a failed. But he looked and seen those eyes of Jesus, said, "Didn't I say to You? Don't fear, if you want to see the glory of God. What you scared about? I've already told you I would go."

L-125 He has already said He would come. He has already said He would do this, and here He is doing it. Amen. He said He would rise on the scene in the last days and do these things as He did, as we've read last night and talked. Here He is doing it. What are you scared about?

L-126 Remember, when He came, and He called her from the dead. He came on the scene and called her from the dead.
Old blind Bartimaeus, one time, hit his darkest hour.

L-127   Jesus was down there, organized a Full Gospel Business Men's breakfast down there in--in Jericho, and He had Zacchaeus down there. He had met him in a tree, down the street. So when He was... Well, He wouldn't organize anything else, I'm sure. See? So then when He come down there, He--He had him, Zacchaeus had went with Him.

L-128 Old blind Bartimaeus had been blind since he was a little boy. So he thought Jesus might come out that gate, and he was waiting. After a while he heard a lot of noise, and everybody coming by.


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