1968 Revival Meeting Where E a Johnston Came to Christ — E.A. Johnston

For Jesus, he who bore the load of sin, as he knocks and asks admission, sinner, will you let him in? Number 17, let us rise, please.

Jesus, Lord, hear our prayer.

Blind Bartimaeus Cries Out to Jesus

...disciples and a great number of people, blind, barren, the son of Simeon, sat by the highway side begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and to say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

Many charged him that he should hold his peace, but he cried, the more a great deal, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called, and they called the blind man, saying unto him, be of good comfort, rise, he calleth thee.

And he cast in a way his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. And Jesus answered and said unto him, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.

And Jesus said unto him, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way. In the 26th chapter of Acts, the 18th verse, to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sin and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

In 2 Corinthians chapter 4, in the 3rd verse,. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, and whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Hearing the Gospel of the Grace of God

Dear friends, there may be tonight in this audience somebody who has never heard the gospel before. That's rather a strange thing to say in this country or in a country to the north of us. And yet, my friends, there are many today who have never heard the gospel, many in the United States, and many in Canada, and many in other places of the world who have never heard the real gospel of the grace of God.

And if you'll pardon us, I'll refer into a personal reference, making a personal reference. I remember when I was a young man being brought to our hall in Montreal, and I had never heard the gospel, hardly ever heard it.

I remember hearing it once in a certain system, but apart from that, having attended what they call divine service every Lord's Day of the year, twice a day, sad to say, never heard the gospel. I wonder tonight if there's somebody here who's never heard the gospel that God loves you, and that the Lord Jesus died for sinners.

I wonder if there's anybody here tonight who's never heard it. Oh, dear friends, tonight we pray that you will not hear only the speaker's voice. You may hear the very voice of God speaking to your heart tonight.

Recognizing Personal Sin and the Coming Judgment

In all the first steps to heaven, I'm sure every Christian will admit that the first step to heaven is to find out that you're a sinner. Oh, how easy it is to look in the prison tonight, to look in the penitentiary tonight, to look in the saloons and the gambling dens and say, those men and women are sinners, to hear men and women on the street blaspheming and cursing and to say, those people are sinners.

But oh, my friends, how hard it is for a man or woman to look into the glass, the mirror, into the looking glass and say, there, there's the sinner. Oh, my friends, and I don't know if you've ever discovered yet that you are a sinner.

You know, God makes it very clear. As our dear brother said last night, God makes it very clear in very small words in the third chapter of Romans. Oh, you haven't got to get a degree, you haven't got to have a B .A. after your name or an M .A., but God makes it so clear.

The very youngest boy and girl in this room tonight can understand when God says, there is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. You haven't got to have a degree to understand the little word all.

A-L-L means you, means everybody, means me. There is no difference. What a solemn statement. There is no difference. God says it. And let God be true in every man or liar. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Is there a young man in this audience tonight or a young lady or an old man or an old lady who's never discovered that truth for themselves, that they have sinned against God? And the Bible says, the word of God declares that the point unto man wants to die, wants to die, and after this the judgment.

What a solemn thing, my friend, if you have to stand face to face with God. What a solemn thing tonight, my friend, if you were called by death, if you were called out of this world by death and had to stand in the presence of God in your sins, and the Lord Jesus said in the eighth chapter of the gospel by God, if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins, and where I am, there ye may be also.

Bartimaeus as a Picture of Spiritual Blindness

What a solemn statement. And I believe in these few verses we read together in the tenth chapter of Mark, we have the story, an illustration of a man who was blind, of a man who found Jesus, a man who had his eyes opened, a man who was saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And God tells us in these few verses the history of this man whose name was Bartimaeus. And tonight, my friend, if you're not saved, you're blind. You're blind just as blind as Bartimaeus was, though he was blind physically and you are blind spiritually.

In fact, I say your case is worse than the case of Bartimaeus. What a solemn thing. I notice tonight as I read these few verses, it says in the forty-sixth verse, and they came to Jericho. Now Jericho is a picture of this world.

In the Bible, Jericho is a type. It's a picture of this world. And how wonderful to know that Jesus came to this world. We read a lot these days about the other planets. They tell us, some people try to tell us that men live in the other planets.

We do not know that. We don't pretend to know. But we do know that Jesus came to this planet, that Jesus came to this world. He came here, my friend. He left the very heavens above, the maker of heaven and earth.

How great he was. How wonderful he was. How marvelous. The Son of God. The eternal Son of God, the maker of heaven and earth, became a man. And most of us have looked into a cradle and seen a little baby lying there, a little helpless boy in his cradle.

We think of the mighty God, the eternal one who became a man and lay in the manger of Bethlehem. What a wonderful thing that was. That Jesus came to this world. He came here, my friend, because he is the savior of sinners.

He came to seek you. He came to find you. He came to find me. He came to die. He might save our precious souls. He might cleanse our sins away with his precious, precious blood. And I want to say right here, my friend, that outside of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, outside of his sin-cleansing, precious blood, there is no salvation for any child of Adam's race.

Christ’s Blood and the Exclusivity of Salvation

Modernism will land you in hell. The modern preacher, with all his doctrines of following in the steps of Christ, will lead you into the lake of fire, my friend. There's no salvation in modernism. There's no salvation in the modernist preacher's doctrines tonight.

Only the blood of Christ has power to cleanse from sin. And God tells us in his word that the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin. And all other religions, all other doctrines, lead to hell.

The Lord Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me, Christ alone. Is the savior of sinners. He tells us, too, in this 46th verse, that as he went out of Jericho, Jesus left Jericho.

Christ’s Resurrection and Second Coming

And 2 ,000 years ago, Jesus left this world. Jesus left this world. How did he leave, my friend? Let me tell you the shocking statement of a modernist preacher who said these blasphemous words. He said, the body of Jesus lies in a Syrian grave while a spirit marches down through the ages.

What a shocking shame. That doctrine comes from hell. Jesus birthed the bonds of death. Death could not hold the Son of God. He arose. The man, Christ Jesus, presented himself, showed his hand and his feet and his side.

He was alive, a living man. And he ascended up to the right hand of God in the glory. Lives there a prince and a savior, the savior of sinners by the grace of God, my savior. Is he your savior tonight?

I challenge you, young man, young girl, is the Lord Jesus your personal savior? Have you yet had personal contact with Christ? Well, Jesus left this world. But, oh, my friend, the Bible testifies that the Jesus that left this world is coming back again, coming back again, the very Jesus who hung on the cross at Calvary 2 ,000 years ago, nailed there by men like you and me, poor sinners.

That Jesus is coming back again, first to call away his beloved bride, his saints to glory, and then later he's coming back to judge this world. And, oh, my friends, though the Savior is not wanted, though the Savior is not popular, and though this world doesn't want anything to do with Christ, he's coming back again to judge this world.

And they're going to look and they're going to see that man who they nailed to the cross, who they spit upon, who they crowned with thorns, where Jesus is coming back again. My dear young man, you've got a Christian mother and a Christian father.

The Reality of Heaven, Hell, and Eternal Accountability

They prayed for you. Many of us are parents tonight. We could all stand here one after the other, walk off this platform and tell you of the tears we've shed for our boys and girls. We could tell you without any shame of how we got down on our knees and wept over our family.

We're not ashamed to say that. Oh, my friends, tonight God is real. God is real, and the devil's real, and heaven is real, and hell is real, my friends. Do not believe these modernistic preachers who tell you with a smear on their faces that there's no such a place as hell.

They lie. They lie, my friends. God says there's a hell. But all glorious news, the cross of Christ has blocked the road to hell. The cross of Christ has blocked the road to hell. And to get to hell, you must leap over the cross.

You must pass the cross, my friends, for God has blocked the road to hell. Praise his name with the cross of Christ. The cross of Christ. Jesus left Jericho. He went out of Jericho, and it tells us in this 46th verse that there were with him his disciples and a great number of people.

Isn't that like Christendom tonight? Isn't that what this western world is like tonight? His disciples, those who follow Christ, those who belong to Christ, those who know the Savior, and a great number of people.

Oh, the world is filled with people who all expect to get to heaven someday. Someday they expect to get there. And I'm talking now about these so-called Christian lands in which we live. They expect to get to heaven someday because they live a good life, because they keep the Ten Commandments, they say, because they go to church every Sunday, because their name's enrolled in some register.

They expect to get there. There's a great number of people who profess to follow Jesus. Maybe there's a young man tonight in this room or a young lady who says, yes, I profess to follow Jesus too. You've never been born again.

You've never been saved by the grace of God. You've never felt the burden of your sins. You've never been in the presence of God and owned your guilt. Oh, how solemn. But here we find a man who was an earnest among the crowd that says that, um, blind Bartimaeus, 46 verse, the son of Timaeus sat by the highway side begging, try to picture the scene as you can of Bartimaeus sitting there, the blind beggar.

Spiritual Blindness and the World’s Empty Promises

He was sitting there at the mercy of his friends and the neighbors and the crowds that went by. And he was begging for his life, begging for his existence. And oh, tonight we can go down the street to this great city.

We can pass up to the other great cities of North America and we can see young girls and young boys and young men and young women and all people too who are sitting by the highway side begging from this Christ-rejecting world for pleasure and for happiness and for joy.

And they're begging, poor blind beggars. They cannot see, my friends, that the end of this life is judgment and the God of this world, God tells us. Who is the God of this world? Satan himself is the God and the prince of this world.

And he's blinded, blinded the minds of them that believe not. And blind, my friends, sitting by the highway side begging. Young man, are you begging tonight? Are you begging tonight from this poor Christ-rejecting world under the judgment of God?

Are you begging for happiness, begging for joy, begging for money, begging for pleasure, begging for amusement? Are you among the beggars tonight? Oh, Bartimaeus was, and though he was blind, he wasn't deaf.

Are you deaf tonight? I have news for you, my friends, for in the Gospel Luke, in this very account, we read these extra words. Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. What a message for Bartimaeus' ears. Unstopped, undeaf ears heard the message as it rang into his ears.

Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. Oh, what a wonderful message. As Bartimaeus heard the message, Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. He had heard of Jesus. Who hadn't heard of Jesus? He was known throughout the land of Palestine.

His miracles testify to who he was, the Son of God. He raised the dead. He opened the eyes of the blind. He went to the grave of Lazarus, a man who had been dead for four days. He called him out of the grave.

Bartimaeus had heard of Jesus, and Bartimaeus realized that here was the man who would give him his sight. Here was the one who would give him his sight. And I want to tell you something. It was Bartimaeus' last chance.

The Urgency of a Personal Response to Christ

You know, there's something solemn about that. There's something solemn, my friends, a last chance. You ever have a last chance? I've read in the newspapers of a judge who said to a young man at the bar, this is your last chance.

Your last chance. My friends, this might be your last chance. You say, sir, I'm young. I'm strong. I got muscles. I have a good heart. I expect to live for another 50 years. Listen, this might be your last night on earth.

This time tomorrow night, you may be in your casket. This time tomorrow night, you, my friends, any one of us, speaker included, may be in your casket, cold and still and deaf. I ask you where you're going to.

Where do you expect to spend eternity? You can't afford to be wrong. You may miss your examinations in school. You may lose your job. You may lose your health. And you may regain each of these things.

But if you die without Christ, my friends, I want to warn you solemnly in the presence of God, there is no second chance. There is no second chance. Jesus said, if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins.

And where I am there, ye can not come. No possibility. Those are the words, and not of the modern day preachers. Those are the words of the Son of God. Are you going to believe them? Are you going to be deceived by this modern day preacher?

Jesus said, ye cannot come. What a solemn thing. Oh, as part of me has heard the message we find in the 46th, 7th verse. He began to cry out and say, Jesus, thou son of mercy, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

What a wonderful thing. And many charged him that he should hold his feet. But he cried, the more a great deal, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And this is a very solemn thing. And I believe we have pictured, and part of me is just too prized, exactly what happened with the day.

Resisting the Pressure to Silence the Gospel

Young lady, you're going to school tomorrow. The Lord leaves us here. And if you're spared, you're going to school tomorrow. You go to your school teacher. And tell her or tell him, I'm going to become a Christian.

And they'll say, hold your peace. Don't worry about those things. Get on in the world. Get an education first. And then when you get educated, think about these questions of religion. It was just the same in the days of Bartimaeus.

They told him to hold his teeth. Why? Well, men can go down the street and they can be drunk. I'm thinking of dear Mr. McKay McAdams. The man you may have heard about, but you haven't heard what good news it was.

A drunkard, a drunkard is home, the home of a drunkard. His family, their father, the drunkard, and the whole of McAdams, about 2 ,000 souls. They knew David McKay, the drunkard. But all my friends, Christ saved David McKay.

And the very people of McAdams now, they make fun of David McKay. Why? This world would rather have anything but Christ. And I believe and I speak reverently that this world would gladly receive the devil and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And they're going to receive the Antichrist. The Lord Jesus said so. I have come in my father's name and you receive me not. Another shall come in his own name and him ye will receive. The world wants anybody but Christ.

I ask you, my dear friend, do you want Christ tonight? Young man, do you want Christ tonight? We sometimes said in preaching the gospel of Christ or hell, for every child of Adam's race, Christ or hell, which will you have?

Conviction of Sin and Assurance of Forgiveness

What a solemn thing to be here tonight under the sound of the word of God. To have been here last night and to hear the glorious message of sin forgiven. Oh, my friends, do your sins bother you? I remember one night meeting a man on the street and he told me his name was Mr. Wright.

He told me this in a joking way. He said, even when I'm wrong, I'm still right. And we asked that old man, are you right with God? And he wasn't right with God. He wasn't right with God, my friend. Are you right with God tonight?

Are you right with God? Are your sins forgiven? Can you say if I had died last night, if my loved ones had found me cold and death in my bed this morning, I know on the authority of the word of God, I'd be in the glory with Christ.

Can you say that? Can you say it, young man, from your heart? Oh, how solemn. Bartimaeus cried out. He was in earnest. He was in earnest. And I've read and you've read, too, probably of the last century, the 19th century, when men and women fell out of their chairs and cried to God for mercy, when men and women wept over their sins.

But I've never, I don't think in all my experiences, I was saved 30 years ago. Seen a man in our halls weeping over his sins. Oh, my friends, the devil has blinded. As the end of this age draws near, the devil has succeeded in blinding with a deep, dark blindness men's hearts and men's souls and men's eyes.

Bartimaeus was in earnest. I wonder tonight if you're in earnest. I wonder tonight if you're real, if you're sitting there in those seats and the devil's whispering into your ear. Don't believe that. Don't believe that stuff.

Are you listening to the devil's hiss? The serpent's hiss? The devil's sneer tonight? Oh, young man, are you in earnest? Bartimaeus was in earnest. Notice the next verse. These lovely words. The 49th verse.

Jesus Stands Still for the Cry of a Sinner

And Jesus stood still. Oh, what a wonderful thing. You know, in the book of Josh, where the sun stood still. And here the Son of God stands still. Wonderful news, isn't it? Marvelous news. Are you here tonight?

You know, again, we refer to ourselves. We sat in the little, in the hall on City Council Street with the burden of our sins, knowing we were going to be damned in hell. Knowing, my friends, the sins were mounting up like mountains to the very heavens our sins were getting higher and higher and higher.

And knowing there was absolutely no hope of ever getting to heaven. Knowing we could do nothing. We were powerless under the power of the devil. Is it any wonder we loved the gospel when we heard the melting story of the Savior's love?

That Jesus took our place. That Jesus bore our sins on the cross of Calvary. That God judged His Son in my womb instead. And that by receiving that blessed Savior, my sins would be gone for eternal ages under the cover and the shelter of the blood of Christ.

Is it any wonder I say we love the gospel of the glorious gospel of Christ? Tonight, my friends, your sins may be troubling you. Maybe there's a man tonight in this audience who says, yes, I'm a sinner.

I know I'm lost. I know I can't get to heaven. I know I must turn over a new leaf. I must do something to appease God. I tell you, my friends, you can do nothing. For all has been done by the Lord Jesus on the cross of Calvary when He said it is finished.

The finished work of Christ. Finished. There's nothing more to do. It's finished. He's finished the work of redemption. Blessed be His name. Is that Savior yours? He can take your sins away. The burden rolled away.

The burden that the dear young man said to us. Oh, he said, as I got off my knees, the burden was rolled away. The burden of my sins, the burden of my guilt was rolled away. Jesus stood still. What made Jesus stand still?

It was the cry of a poor blind beggar. The cry of a poor blind beggar. There he was, crying for mercy. And those words of mercy. Oh, my friends who sit in that chair tonight, you haven't got to do anything.

Just bow your head. Just close your eyes and say, Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. And immediately, immediately, the pierced hand of the Son of God will reach down and lift you up. Oh, how wonderful. Jesus stood still at the cry of a blind beggar.

Christ’s Personal Call to Every Sinner

And commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, sent him to him, be of good comfort, rise, equality. What a personal message this was. Here was a personal message from Jesus to Bartimaeus.

Jesus sent a personal message from his own heart of love. Through his mouth, his own words, that message went to Bartimaeus. Rise, be of good comfort. He calls me. Was that good news to Bartimaeus? Oh, my friends, the same Jesus tonight called you.

You say, sir, if you only knew what kind of a sinner I was. If you knew, if my mother knew, if my father knew what kind of a sinner I was, they'd hang their heads in shame. Friends, you may be the worst sinner in this world.

You may be black. You may be, you may be unfit for society. But you can be fit for heaven tonight. If you'll come to the same Jesus who will stand still. Somebody has said that Christ will stop making worlds at the cry of a poor sinner who cries for mercy.

Jesus, they say, will stop making worlds at the very feeblest cry of a poor sinner of Adam's race. And Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. Notice the 50th verse. You see, when this message reached the ears of Bartimaeus, Bartimaeus had to make a decision.

Casting Aside Every Hindrance to Come to Christ

Bartimaeus had to make a decision. And my friends, you have to make a decision. Bartimaeus said, oh, I won't go. I don't want to go. I want to stay right here. I don't want to go to Jesus. I want to stay right where I am.

But notice what he did. And he casted away his garments, rose, and came to Jesus. What a wonderful thing. You know, they tell me that this garment was the beggar's garment. When a beggar was given a place on the road to beg, and he was supplied with a special garment that he had to wear, Bartimaeus knew he didn't need the garment anymore.

He was no longer going to be a beggar. He was going to Jesus. He had faith in Christ. He believed that Christ could open his eyes, and he was finished being a beggar. Oh, you want to stop begging tonight?

You want to stop begging tonight? You know, people look at us, and they say, you fellows, what do you do in life? What do you live for? You might as well be dead and live the way you do. But you know, they're blind.

They're blind. You may have heard the story of a preacher who one time became very discouraged. He had tried to preach the gospel faithfully, and he decided to give up. He decided to stop preaching. He never saw any blessing.

And that night as he slept, God spoke to him. He had a dream, and he dreamt he saw men and women with blindfolded, with their eyes blindfolded, walking down the street. At the end of the street, there was a great gulf, a great precipice, and they were stepping off and falling down the precipice to death.

And as he dreamt, he heard a voice say, wake them up. Stop them. Stop them. And he awoke and said, by the grace of God, I'll keep preaching the gospel. By the grace of God, I won't stop. I'll keep preaching.

Are you blindfolded? Young lady, are you blindfolded tonight by the devil? Blindfolded by the devil of God and prince of this world. He's blindfolded you. You're marching to hell. I say, stop, stop. Jesus calls you.

Isn't that wonderful? Young lady, Jesus calls you. Rise, be of good comfort. He calleth thee. Who was callin' him? The Savior was callin' the sinner. He calleth thee, oh dear sinner. He loves you. He loves you.

God’s Love Displayed in the Gift of His Son

God loves you. Isn't that wonderful? The devil whispers in our ears. No, he doesn't. And God, and I speak this reverently, has been pictured, and I say this very reverently. God has been pictured by the devil and by man as a person who's just waiting and longing to catch men and to throw them into hell.

That's not true, my friends. God loves you. Oh, he loves you. The Lord Jesus and the third of John, I say this reverently too. In the 16th verse, the Savior says, and with all his heart and with all his soul, for God so loved the world.

For God so loved the world, as much as we say, and I say it reverently. I can't tell you it. I can't tell you it. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Oh, Jesus called you tonight. Be of good comfort. Come in all your sins just as you are. Come just as you are. Jesus is a sinner's friend. Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful? You may say, oh, sir, I'd be ashamed to tell my mother.

I'd be ashamed to tell my father what I've done in my life. But I'll tell you something. You can come into the presence of Jesus. You can tell him everything you've done. Everything. If it was possible for your memory to retain your sins, you could list them down and sheet the paper and say, Lord, here they are.

And he loves you just the same. The sinner's friend. Are you a sinner tonight? Oh, there's a lovely verse in the fifth chapter of Romans that says that God commanded his love toward us. Why will we let sinners?

Christ died for us. And then it says that Christ died for the ungodly. What a wonderful verse that is that Christ died for the ungodly. Are you ungodly? Oh, I tell you, that's a wonderful verse. Some of us were ungodly.

The speaker here tonight was ungodly. But oh, Christ died for the ungodly. Isn't that a lovely verse? Wonderful, blessed verse. Christ died for the ungodly. He loves you, my friend. Sinner's friend, God loves you.

Christ loves you. He died for you. He proved his love on the cross. And then again, we find that Bartimaeus cast away his garment. That garment, I believe, would hinder his progress from coming to Christ.

Removing the Garment That Blocks Salvation

That garment would stand in Bartimaeus' way. He might fall over. He might trip over. It might hinder his progress. I ask you tonight, my friend, what is hindering you from coming to Christ? You know the truth.

A young man in Montreal just the other day said these words. He said, I know you have the truth. I know you have the truth. I know it's the truth. My friend, what is hindering you from becoming a Christian?

What's blocking your progress? What is your garment tonight that's keeping you from Christ? What is your garment that's stopping you from becoming a Christian? There's a garment that's in the way. Something that's in the way that's blocking you from the Lord Jesus Christ.

And I give you these questions that the Savior asks in the 8th chapter of the Gospel of Mark. What shall a prophet, a man, if he should gain the whole world and lose his soul? And what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

What are you giving in exchange for your soul? That precious soul of yours, oh friend, let me say it again. Let me say this in all due reverence and love to your precious soul. This might be your last night on earth.

This might be the very last night the Lord Jesus may come tonight and you'll be left behind, dear boys and girls. I once took the time to sit down in my living room and try to picture myself as an unsaved man.

And I picture myself coming home from work and coming into my house and seeing the house empty. And as I walked up the hall looking in the room and calling my wife, I couldn't find her. And calling my family and I couldn't find them.

And I phoned the Mr. So-and-so's house, there was no answer. And I phoned another house and there was no answer. And finally I remembered a home where I knew the boy wasn't saved. And so I imagined all this and I phoned the house and he said, Mr. Wakefield, something funny has happened this afternoon.

But all of a sudden my mother vanished, vanished. And I said, my wife and my family have gone to glory and I'm lost. And I tried to picture it, my friends, and I trembled. I sat in the chair, trembled.

I sat there and felt myself as I fell upon my knees in my imagination and said, oh, God save me. But the answer came back, it's too late. I never knew you. Oh, friends at home, young man of a Christian father, mother, how can you leave this hall tonight without Christ?

Young lady, dare you leave this room tonight without the Lord Jesus, your savior? This might be your last chance. God speaks once, yea, twice. A man, forsee with it not. Oh, tonight, we wish we had the power to go down and unlock your heart.

We wish we had the power to speak to your soul. We have nothing to do, we can't do anything but tell you and point you to Christ. Christ alone can save. Christ alone can break the power of sin. Oh, my friends, tonight, won't you cast aside that garment?

Coming Personally to Jesus for Sight and Salvation

Well, we find to proceed with our chapter, the 10th of Mark and the 51st verse, I want you to notice that God records in this book that Bartimaeus came to Jesus. Oh, how wonderful are the records of God.

How wonderful are the records of God. Has God recorded after your name that you came to Jesus? Bartimaeus came to Jesus. Verse 50, the end of the verse. The 51st verse, and Jesus answered and said unto him, what wilt thou, notice how personal this is, what wilt thou that I should do unto thee?

Oh, what a moment this was as Bartimaeus with his blind eyes said he couldn't see Jesus. You can't see him tonight. You can't see Jesus. But Bartimaeus couldn't see Jesus. He just stood there in his blindness and he heard the Savior's word.