<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>64-0620E, God Has A Provided Lamb, Municipal Auditorium, Topeka, KS, 75 min
L-1      Let's read out of--of the Book of Saint Mark, I believe I would, have chosen to read a little while and talk about, and the 46th verse of the--of the 10th chapter. Let us stand in respects of the Word, while we read. The Word is God. We all know that. So you stand, pledge allegiance, which you should do; you stand to salute the flag when it goes by; why not the Word of God when It's being read?
And they came to Jericho: and as they went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more the great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, What will thou that I should do to thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
... Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith has made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

L-2   Let us pray. Great Holy Spirit, quicken this Word to us, tonight, in this little drama. And may we see this scene lived over, and, by doing so, take faith that God still lives, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We ask it in Jesus' Name, His beloved Son, our Saviour. Amen.
You may be seated.

L-3   Our subject tonight is: God Has A Provided Lamb.

L-4 And now this morning we had such a great time, as we seen Jesus enter Jericho. And we found out that there was a little fellow there by the name of Zacchaeus, he--he climbed up in a sycomore tree and camouflaged hisself, because he didn't believed Jesus was a prophet. But his wife was a disciple of Jesus, and she had been praying for him. And when Jesus come right under the tree, He stopped, looked up and called him by name, and said, "Come down, I'm going home with you today." And I thought it would be a good thing tonight, too, while we're here, that we'd just continue with Jesus. We asked Him this morning to go with us, and we wanted to go with Him, and let's just continue with Him through Jericho.

L-5   Now, tonight, our scene opens at the same place, at Jericho again, and Jesus is in the house of Zacchaeus now, having His--His meal. And it's a cold October day, and it's still quite early in the morning, yet, and the wind is coming down off of the--the mountain. Up around in Judea, she gets pretty cold up there, early of a morning, especially in that time of year.

L-6 And the country at that time, even like it is over in the old country now, it's full of beggars. They get around on the street corners and beg. I... Down in those countries yet, the streets set full of beggars. India and, oh, Africa, and many places, they still have the beggars; lame, halt, blind, withered. And sometimes the people who can't make a living for them, theirselves, they just beg, and sit there sometimes and starve.


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