<TITLE>11. Par 118-133</TITLE>L-118 I looked around, here is this little redcap standing over there, head up. I said, "Hello, sonny," started back.
Said, "You, you don't know me, do you?"
I said, "No, I don't believe I do."

L-119 Said, "You know, one day you come to my house." And said, "My mama had been standing out, and you patted her on the back, wet."
I said, "You're not that boy?"

L-120 Said, "Yes, I is." He said, "Yeah, I--I is that boy." He said, "I--I am not only healed," but said, "I--I--I've got saved since then, too." So, that, that was it.

L-121 Oh, amazing grace! The same God, that a blind beggar could stop Him, an insignificant, little, negro woman could ground a plane. Her prayers and faith in God! She was believing it.

L-122   Jesus stood still. That blind beggar's face stopped Him right in His track I'd like to have a few nights, to preach that subject, "And then Jesus stood still." But there He stood, said, "Bring him here." Amen.

L-123 I was reading a story about blind Bartimaeus, here some time ago, when I was taking Bible history. It's probably a legend, but it said that he always believed in healing. No matter what the priests said, he still believed in it. Said he was a married man, had a wife, and a little girl that he had never seen. She was about that age then, about sixteen years old. He had never seen her. Said what he did for a--a...

L-124   You know, you have to have something a little different from the other fellow, when you're begging, or you can't attract the attention of the people. In India, they--they let one of these little mongoose kill a cobra, and something another that they can do to attract attention. I seen a--a monkey take a stick and just beat the ball, over the street, something another, to get the attention, then they give them money.

L-125 And said Bartimaeus had two little turtledoves that would make, do tumbles, like little... over each other, and that entertained the--the people, the tourists, and they would give him money.

L-126   And said that one night his--his wife got real sick. And they had had the doctor, and the doctor said, "Bartimaeus, there is nothing I can do. She, I can't break that fever."

L-127 And said he felt his way around the wall, and got outside of the house, and said, "Jehovah, I love You. I believe You. I have nothing I can offer You. I got two little turtledoves here, that I make my living by. But if You'll just let my dear wife stay with me to help raise my child; and I'm blind, and I can't see; if You'll just let my wife get well so she can help me around, I'll promise You, tomorrow I'll make a great sacrifice. I'll take my little turtledoves up, an offering for my offering."

L-128   Well, they say his wife got alright. He took the turtledoves and offered them.

L-129 Sometime after that, his little girl got sick. She also was at the point of death, so he went out to pray again. He said, "Jehovah, I don't have nothing left, but I've got my lamb." And in them days, a lamb led the blind like the seeing-eye dog does now, they were trained to lead the blind. And he had a lamb that led him to his post where he begged. He said, "The only thing I've got left, Jehovah, is this lamb." And said, "If You'll just let my little girl live, yet I've never seen her, but she is such a comfort when I stroke her hair with my hands." And said, "She loves me, and I love her." And said, "Jehovah, if You'll let her live, I'll--I'll give You my lamb, for a sacrifice."

L-130   And his girl got alright. And here he was, going down to the temple with the lamb. And the priest come out and stand upon the balcony, and said, "Blind Bartimaeus, where goest thou, this morning?"

L-131 He said, "I'm going to the temple, to offer this lamb for a sacrifice."

L-132 "Oh," he said, "blind Bartimaeus, thou cannot do that." Said, "I'll give you some money, and you go to the--the stalls, and you buy a lamb and offer it."

L-133 He said, "I never promised God a lamb. I promised God this lamb."


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