<TITLE>04. Par 22-31</TITLE>L-22   And as Bartimaeus tried to think back of the time when he was a little boy, how that along about two o'clock, in the evening, his pretty, little Jewish mother would call him, "Bartimaeus." He could almost hear her voice again, as it echoed around the hills, and he would come running up. And she would get out on the front porch and get the old rocking chair, and get him up in her arms. And he remembered how he would look at her pretty eyes, and what a pretty mother he had. And how she used to rock him to sleep, for his taking his evening rest. And how she did that, she would tell him stories, stories of their people, and of the great and mighty prophets of God that had been among them. And how that he loved that, he loved to hear it.

L-23   It's too bad that mothers set their kids down to a television program of some scandal of Hollywood; instead of doing the same thing, telling them Bible stories.

L-24 But she was a genuine Hebrew mother, and she would tell the little fellow stories. She would say, tell him about God sending the great, mighty Moses, when they were slaves down in Egypt. God had promised Father Abraham that he would deliver them. And He appeared to a--a--a great prophet that God raised up among them, called Moses. And He come in the form of a Pillar of Fire, and sent Moses down in Egypt, and the great, mighty signs and wonders He had brought them out. And how that in the wilderness, with no bread or nothing to eat, yet they were walking in the line of obedience, and God rained bread down out of the sky.

L-25   And I can hear little Bartimaeus say, "Mother, just a moment. God must have all of His Angels working up there, and He's got great big ovens all up through the skies, and the Angels work overtime, getting the bread ready, and push it out on the..."

L-26 "No, honey, you're too young to understand. You see, Jehovah don't have to do that. Jehovah don't have to have ovens. He's a creator. He just speaks it, and it's so."

L-27 Then what we going to say about Jesus, when we seen Him take the same thing? There must be something godly about Him. He must be some relation to Jehovah. Somebody today trying to make Him just a prophet, or an ordinary man, or a philosopher, a good teacher. He was nothing less than God manifested in flesh.

L-28   There as she would speak to him and tell him about how that the coming across the--the--the great wilderness, to which was just beyond the Jordan then, and how that in the Springtime, when the month of April, when the snow was melting, up in Judea, and all the mountain waters coming down, and all Jordan was--was just filled with water, the great backwaters in the river bottoms. It looked like Jehovah was a poor guide, to bring His people up to that time that the rivers was flooded, at their worst. How would they ever be able to build a bridge across it? And little Joshua, or little... not Joshua.
But little Bartimaeus might say, "Mama, how did He do it?"

L-29 Said, "Honey, remember, Jehovah is still the creator. He just spoke, and the..."

L-30   God likes to get things in a... when it's in a muddle, and show Himself God. Right in Spring! When Summertime, you could probably cross the Jordan pretty easy there, there is a ford from the city. We know that, by the spies going over and coming to this. But God let the whole valleys get filled up with water, and then He come and pulled His great power down from Heaven and made a dry road across it. There stood the rocks just below, where Joshua had had them to pile up, as a memorial to Jehovah, how that their people was cared for. And he...

L-31   Another one he--he liked real well, was about the--the Shunammite woman. He remembered that. And his mother used to tell him the story of the Shunammite, and of the great prophet, Elijah, in his day, and how that this woman was kind to this prophet. Yet, she wasn't exactly an Israelite. She was a Shunammite.


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