Cecil duCille
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Mahomet, Illinois
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Prophecy (Burt Asbill): …If you are hungry, I shall fill thee. If thou art thirsty, I shall give thee water to drink. Yea, I say unto thee, if thou should draw nigh unto Me, surely I would draw nigh unto you. Has it not been spoken that in this time and in this place thou art to rend thine hearts and not thy garments? Is it not the time that thou would look with the eyes of the Spirit, yea, into the innermost recesses of thine own heart? Is this not a time, saith the Lord, of examining those things that lie within? For surely, saith the
Lord, I AM the Deliverer; I AM the Healer; I AM He that bringeth unto thee the proclamation of the year of jubilee. For surely this is the time and this is the hour, saith the Lord, when thou would lift up thine heart unto Me, surely I will come and I will sup with thee, even as it is written, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” Any man that openeth unto Me, surely I will come in unto him.
I say unto thee, I have moved upon the land and upon the people, all in many different places, saith the
Lord. There are those that are hungry, but yet they are not hungry enough, saith the Lord. There are those that see, but they see men as trees walking. I say unto thee, it is not the time for thee to move in thine own thing or in the things of thine own business, but it is the time to move thou into Me, saith the Lord, that I might bring forth the revelation of My Son within the midst of thy vessel, that it might take and bring into subjection all those things that are out of order and out of place and those things that are in a position of pre-eminence when they should be in a position of adoration and worship.
So, surely I say, if thou art hungry, I will feed thee; if thou art thirsty, I will give thee water to drink, and if thou wilt draw nigh unto Me, surely I will draw nigh unto you, saith the Lord.
Cecil duCille: Father, we just thank You for Your presence with us this morning. Oh, we are so blessed by Your visit. We feel quickened by knowing that You are here and by Your Spirit moving in us and through us. We pray, O Lord God, that You might move through the church this morning, that even the absent members might be quickened. Hallelujah. Continue to bless us today, Lord, and be with us and show us Your way. Grant us Your peace. In the name of Jesus we thank You. We praise Your holy name.
Amen.
Brethren, I am praising the Lord for His giving us the privilege of being here this morning. I in particular have a special praise to God for being here. When the morning lights, I praise God to see another day. It is such a blessing to come into a place where you feel the Spirit of God moving in praise and worship. Hallelujah. We are so blessed.
This morning I want to ask Brother Paul to come up and to read a letter from Brother Wilkerson. It is a shocking and very strong word and I want us to consider it this morning. We are blessed in that God has been speaking to me through half of the night and giving me what to say to you today. So, I am blessed and thanking God.
AN URGENT MESSAGE:
I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world.
AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE – EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.
For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.
There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written,
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (verse 3).
God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.
The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, “God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart’” (Jeremiah 18:11-12).
In Psalm 11:6, David warns, “Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup.” Why? David answered, “Because the Lord is righteous” (verse 7). This is a righteous judgment – just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah’s generation.
WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD’S PEOPLE?
First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. Lay in store a thirty-day supply of food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.
As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is outlined in Psalm 11. We “flee like a bird to a mountain.” Or, as David says, “He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven – his eyes beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men” (verse 4). “In the Lord I take refuge” (verse 1).
I will say to my soul: No need to run…no need to hide. This is God’s righteous work. I will behold our Lord on His throne, with His eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take – trusting that He will deliver His people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds.
Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose.
God bless and keep you.
In Christ,
DAVID WILKERSON
Cecil duCille: I am praising God for His mercies toward us and I particularly thank God for the gift of the Spirit which He has given me. I know that it is not mine, so I feel very humbled. As a servant I feel blessed to be able to give you the Word directly from the Lord to the best of my memory. About two o’clock this morning, the Lord came and began to teach me a lesson, and it went through the whole night.
Nearer to morning, around four or five o’clock, I got up and I said, “Okay, I should write it down.” But I felt so much that I would remember it that I didn’t bother to write it down. I went back to sleep, and lo and behold, when I got up I couldn’t remember a word of what was in it. So, I had to lie back down again and say, “My God, please give it to me again. Please show me and forgive me for not obeying to write it.”
Then He brought back the memory to me. Praise God.
He is talking about our ability to see, our vision. He showed me that something is wrong with our vision. The Holy Spirit gives us vision and lets us see. If different things in our lives interrupt the sight and the vision so that we see half-way or wrong in some way, God is saying to us that we need to repair our vision.
All right. The Word was that God came and He showed me my glasses. I was not seeing very clearly through my glasses. You know, very often, brethren, I have to take my glasses and clean them because I am not seeing too sharply through them, but I forget that it is the glasses. So, my glasses were kind of cloudy. I took them off to see what was wrong and I just couldn’t find out what was wrong with my glasses. So, I went to some men I saw sitting in a police station somewhere, and I said, “Gentlemen, look at my glasses for me and tell me what is wrong.”
Nobody knew what was wrong, but one young man said, “Let me see them.”
When he took the glasses they became like a telescope. Instead of my glasses, it was a round telescope and it was held by three screws.
What he said was wrong was that one screw was slack. Now, the glasses had three lenses, and one screw was slack and because that screw was slack, moisture seemed to have gotten into it and had formed a type of fungus inside the three different lenses. There was a large piece of fungus on one lens, a smaller piece on another lens and the third lens had none.
I said, “So, shouldn’t we just scrape it?”
He said, “No. If you scrape it off you will destroy the glass.” He said, “You have to go to an optometrist, someone who has a special solution to soak this glass in and cleanse the glass so that the vision will clear.”
The rest of the night, now, I began to look for this optometrist. But in the meantime, the Lord came to me and began to show me certain things. He was saying that the blind man cried out, “Have mercy upon me, thou Son of David!” and He spat on the ground, mixed it and put it on his eyes. Very unusual. It was as if God used the way He had created Adam to recreate eyes in the man.
You know we have a little song that we sing:
Create in me a clean heart, O God
And renew a right spirit within me.
Somehow or the other, I can see God saying to usthat some of us have such damage to our eyes that weare totally blind and we need a new creation. We needto allow God to create new eyes in us. Hallelujah.
There was another man to whom He just said, “Receive thy sight,” and he received his sight.
Then there was Samson who got himself involved with the harlot. He was so blind that she wanted to kill him and he was kind of assisting her. It went on and on until she finally got him to tell her the secret that if his hair was cut he would lose his strength.
Now, you would ask the question, “Why would he tell her that?”
Let us look at the story. Samson had a problem with women. He had a problem with women and it disturbed his ability to see God. Judges
16:4, And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. I want you to understand, your Bible is a very peculiar book. When yousee that it mentions that the woman lived in a valley, immediately something should rise in you as you readyour Bible. “He went to a woman in the valley of Sorek.” The moment you see that it said that it was ina valley, you know that the man was going down. Amen. Going down, stepping down from the standardof righteousness which God had given him, which God has created that man should live in. In other words,every man must have a certain amount of control over his own body. You notice the three lenses in thetelescope? The first lens was the body; it had the biggest hunk of fungus. Then the next one was the soul,it had another hunk. The spirit was free and yet the other two were bound. Now, what made Samsonalways go after harlots? Did you notice it? This was not the first one. Every one he went after, it was aharlot. He had a problem. I am saying that this problem exists in the church, in the Body.
This morning we were thinking about the Outer Court being trampled under foot. That is what Brother Wilkerson is writing about, that the Outer Court is going to be crushed. This means everything carnal, everything natural will be under judgment. Now, if I am a spiritual man and I am carnal, I am under judgment. I might believe I am in the Holy Place because the Holy Spirit is in me. NO! The Holy Spirit can be in me and I am not in the Spirit. Are you with me, brethren? You can have the Holy Spirit and not be in the Holy Spirit.
The five foolish virgins had everything as far as equipment was concerned that the five wise had, and one little detail that was major. The detail is to have the God that is in the universe, the God that built the universe, the God that you have in your spirit, to have Him in your soul. This is the same God that speaks in tongues, that delivers His Word, and that manifests Himself to us as we sing. Sometime we should have a sing-fest, where we just sing and praise God. My soul really lifted up when I heard the singing and you know where it took me? Back to my room where Jesus Christ was talking to me and every time I am in the Spirit that is where I find myself, sitting down listening to Him. Not seeing His face, but looking at His garment and just feeling the energy of God’s blessing upon me. Hallelujah. I came in here to hear praising the Lord and it could have been the angels of God praising God. Hallelujah. There was an uplifting. Amen. Yes.
The man Samson had a problem and the problem was one that would make a person be in the Outer Court, though your place is in the Holiest of All. God gives us the ability to be in the Holiest of All with Christ Jesus Himself and we choose to be in the Outer Court because of our carnal appetite! Brethren, do you know why God leaves your carnal appetite with you? God could take it away and kill it and just leave you happy and free. Amen. But He left your carnal appetite with you to give you an opportunity to kill it, to control it, to exercise the power of life over the power of death, the power of the love of God over the power of the love of the world. Do you hear me? He leaves you free to exercise the power that God has given you over the carnal realm. We know He said to Adam, “Take charge of the carnal realm. This is your duty, this is your power, and this is your privilege. You take charge of the carnal realm.” Did you hear the word that He used? Dominion! God said that we should not have dominion one over another. That means that you must not dominate another human being. God said to Adam, “Dominate nature! Dominate the world.” Glory to God. “Dominate the circumstances!” Hallelujah.
Brother Wilkerson gave us this message and he always gives this type of message yet now it has come to a fullness. Believe you me, when the Lord spoke to me that I was to come to Mahomet it was that I should come as if it were a last chance, a last time to speak the Word. I said to myself, “How could Brother Wilkerson give such a Word and remain there?” Have you ever noticed it? He gives a Word that New York is going to be destroyed. He saw the destruction going into New Jersey and yet he is sitting down right there in the middle of it. Why doesn’t he move? But he finally gave us the reason – he believes
God will put the shadow of His protection over certain people.
I remember when Brother Campbell came here for the first time many years ago. This land was here and we hadn’t even built this place yet. He prophesied that this was a place of refuge. It means that the shadow of the Almighty would cover His people at midnight, in the darkness, but you must believe it! If you are in the Outer Court you may be sitting beside someone in the Holy Place or in the Holy of Holies. He said to leave the Holy Place and to run for the Holy of Holies! That is why we sing “flee to the mountain top.” That song came out of the heart of God. My wife and I sat down at the piano and the song just flowed. Amen. But you could be sitting down beside someone in the Holy Place and if you are in the
Outer Court you will be wiped out and the person left sitting there.
I never forgot what happened to us in Nairobi. We were in Nairobi, Kenya, when the terrorists put that bomb in that government building and blew that whole building out. It left just the skeleton of the building. But guess what? There was a desk that was left in the center of the room, everything else was gone, but one desk sitting down there. That night we went to church and here comes this sister. She had a little scratch on her forehead and that is all. She was just praising God because she had been sitting at her desk when the bomb blast killed everybody else, she was left there alive. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. I am saying that God is mighty to save. God is able, glorious, but guess what? You have to be in the Holy Place, you have to be in the Holy of Holies, the place of refuge. Do you know why? The place of refuge is obedience to the Spirit. If the Spirit of God tells you to run and you say, “Oh, no, I’ll sit down. God will take care of me.” You are a goner; you are in the Outer Court. Do you understand? So then, the people who are righteous are not righteous because they are better than the other people who are not righteous. They are righteous because they are obeying God and the other person is not obeying God. Hallelujah. You can be righteous one minute and unrighteous the next minute. Do you understand?
God Almighty is speaking a Word to us. He is speaking about our eyes. When they finally caught Samson, they slapped a hot sword across his eyes and singed out his eyes. They put him as an animal to grind corn. As he was grinding he said, “Oh, God.” Now he can see. Do you remember the poem The Blind Plowman? “He took mine eyes that I might see.” Now he can see. He said, “…My God, that I may be at once avenged …for my two eyes.” Amen. Then, when the boy led him into the arena, they were laughing at him. They were having fun at him, “Look at the man, the mighty giant that used to kill us.” They didn’t know that the man’s hair was growing back. They didn’t know that repentance brings back your hair. What did God do that for? He did it to bring the man to repentance. Oh, God loves us so much. We should be ashamed of ourselves and I’ll tell you why. We don’t love our children as much as God loves us, because we love the nice pretty ones that do well more than we love those that don’t do well. We are disgusted with some of them because they don’t do well and they do us bad and evil. God loves the bad ones just as much as He loves the good ones. All of His plan is to bring you out of the darkness into the light. He wants to bring you so He will do all kinds of things to you. Yes. He will sting you, He will bite you, He will cut you, He will bounce you to bring you unto Himself. Then, what a glorious morning when He hugs you and says, “I’ve got you!” Hallelujah. Amen. That is the love of God that is greater far than tongue or pen could ever tell. Oh, what a God we serve, far beyond our conscious understanding. We can’t understand God. How could He love a wretched person like me?I look at my own life. Why am I here? Why am I here? Only God, nothing else but God’s mercy and He wants me to do something and He brings me here because He knows I will do it. Amen. You know the stubborn child that you have, the “bad one”? Sometimes if that quality is turned to God, that quality will be glorious in the sight of God. God sees some of us rebellious and the rebellion is the good nature that God put in you to be able to stand and to withstand in a battle. Amen. The devil takes a hold of that good nature and turns it into rebellion. So, we see the rebellious one and oh, we are against the rebellious one. But oh, how beautiful he is when he turns to God. Hallelujah.
So, Samson began to find God. He began to find God and he said, “…O God,… for my eyes” and then he pulled down the temple of Dagon. Oh, my goodness, what a beautiful thought. And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me… (Judges 16:28). My God, what a prayer. What a prayer. Think of your heart saying, “Oh, God, remember me. Jesus Christ, have mercy upon us. …I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this once, oh God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.” Yes, the same Philistines, the same Palestinians, the same Hamas is out there now trying to destroy Israel again. Once again, once again Israel is going to rise up and strike them down. Believe me. Amen. We will live to see it, Samson tired of sin. You know the little song said: I am tired of sin, footsore and weary…
Do you remember such a song? Nobody knows that song? Oh, my goodness. I have to teach you some of these songs. “Footsore and weary, tired of sin, Lord God I want Your righteousness just this once. Just one time now and I’m going home but I’m bringing down those Philistines with me,” and he said, “for my two eyes.”
God Almighty showed me last night how we should repair our eyes. Do you know why? I look at the prophets, the prophets God has given us. I am not talking about the two men that you know as prophets. I am talking about you. Do you know that the finger here is the prophet. But all the sinews that go towards making this one finger move, they are in the prophetic ministry. The dreams and the visions and the thoughts that God is bringing through His people should channel a clean word of God’s intention, in this hour, to the world. Hallelujah. But as I said to Brother Burt this morning, it seems that all our prophets are seeing is the dog in the back yard. Local. We are local. Do you know why we don’t see what God is doing? Because we can’t even see our own, how are we going to see out there? If you can’t see close/near, you are farsighted, but God is saying, “I do nothing unless I reveal it to my people.” Paul was saying that Jesus said, “No man knoweth the day nor the hour, but you are not like those that sleep in the night.” You are not like those who can’t see or can’t hear; God will let you know. Amen. God will let you know. He said, “It shall not come upon you as a thief in the night.” Because God will tell His people what He is doing. That is why Brother Wilkerson was able to come forth with that Word.
Look, brethren – Brother Wilkerson is blind in many ways. He doesn’t see the gospel of the kingdom like we do. Did you know that? But he is open to God in one way so that God can tell him something for us.
Our eyes are not in good condition. God has been telling me, “The only way you are going to clean that cataract off your eyes is to take it to the optometrist. He must put a special substance upon it and it will clean the glasses, otherwise you will continue to be blind or partially blind.” Yes, sir. We’re going to take it to the optometrist.
Now, this is like Samson and how he got involved with Delilah. That was the bottom line, you know. He had been going down, going down, going down. He judged Israel for twenty years without being involved. Then he couldn’t take it any longer. He got Delilah and she took him down in the valley. The problem here is there is so much of Delilah in so many of our people and we need to get the Delilah out of us. The Delilah was in Samson’s heart. Yes, it’s not Delilah that was bad. It’s Samson that was bad because he wanted a Delilah. Is your heart pulling you towards a Delilah? He was steady for twenty years, had no problem for twenty years and then he must have been looking at Delilah, watching her and he finally capitulated. Dagon is the god of erotic behavior (to be less explicit). That is where they took him. That is where he was going to make his grave. God is talking to us. The same Spirit that is in your Spirit, that makes it so we can function in the Spirit, is the same Spirit that God wants in our souls, that our minds should function normally in the mind of Christ, clean. God is saying to us, “Get rid of Delilah.”
You know, sisters, if a woman wants to wear the pants, you know what that means? Take over the house and rule. That is the spirit of Delilah. That is one part of it. The other part of it will follow. But God is saying that we, brothers and sisters, must get rid of the spirit of Delilah, for Samson had the spirit of Delilah as much as Delilah had the spirit of Delilah. We should probably not go too far with that. Just leave it at that and leave the Holy Spirit to deal with His people.
Now, his eyes were bothering him. Look here, remember the last message you heard me speak on how we feed through our eyes? Remember? God took us into the Holy Place and said that there were twelve loaves of bread and we are going to eat from whichever loaf we prefer, but that we feed with our eyes, we feed with our ears, we feed with our minds by feeding from the Word and from others. God wants the children of God to feed from the twelve loaves that He has provided the apostolic teaching. But we feed: we see something in the world there; something there; something attractive there; something attracts and all that feeding goes into the mind and it disrupts the power of God from taking charge of the mind.
Brethren, we are at the hour when the power of the living God is going to take charge of the mind of man. Do you hear me? The power of God is going to take charge of our minds. Begin to offer up your mind to God. “Oh God, I bring You this offering this morning. You need to cleanse it. I don’t want to think evil of my brother. I don’t want to think evil. I don’t want to do this and that and that.” Faith is the substance of whatever you hope for. If you hope to be like Jesus, tell God. “I don’t want to be like Mary, John or Tom. I want to be like Jesus. This is my cry, Oh God. I want to be like Jesus. Break down every separating wall, pull down every fence, wreck all my plans, but make me like Jesus, my God.” Oh yes, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You.
So, our eyes are in bad condition. Remember, they were my glasses, not yours. They were my glasses, so my glasses are going to be fixed. What about yours? You know what I am saying?
It is such a blessing. I am so blessed. You know, every night the Lord comes in the early morning and teaches me. Sometimes I forget the lessons. Sometimes I don’t remember it until I am speaking and then something flashes in my mind. This morning I really remembered it and it was really such a blessing to me, just to go over and over it. He goes over the message, one message will go over and over for hours and hours and that is for you. You know, that is why I am here. He is giving me this for you. I am not fool enough to believe that I am exempt, because, you see, you must divide/separate the man or the woman from the gift. Separate the woman from the gift, the man from the gift. You are two different people and the gift of God is trying to make you like Christ. So, you are not like Christ yet, but the gift of God is working on you to make you what God wants you to be. Therefore, we are fellow travelers, except that one day He is going to stop the traveling and put everybody who wants to go that way and who wants to go the other way.. That is why He said that those who come in the morning get the same pay as those who come in the evening. Amen.
That thief on the cross, he spent all his life killing and murdering and everything else. He had a lowdown mind. But bless the Lord, he had eyes to see Jesus. The other man could see nothing but another thief hanging on the cross with him. But this man saw Jesus and he said, “Remember me, Oh God.”
Don’t you understand, beloved brethren, that righteousness is not how many times you pray or read your Bible, but it is how you submit to the Spirit of the Living God? Don’t you understand? Anybody here could tomorrow morning surpass all of us in righteousness by just saying, “Yes, Jesus.” You know, sometimes, the poor little ones, those who we look at as weak and poor in the congregation, they are the ones that will be able to submit, because the mighty big people who want to rule, it is hard for them to submit. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. It is such a pleasure to have Jesus using you. Do you feel good like me? You know, I hear the music, I feel to dance, but I’m afraid that somebody would… you know…, so I have to just keep myself down. But bless God Almighty. Hallelujah. Thank You, Jesus. It is something to dance about. Yes, sir. It is something to dance about, to know that God Almighty has forgiven my sins, my errors, my weaknesses. When I look at my weaknesses, I say to myself, “A wretched fellow you are.” Yes. Yes. Yes. I look at my grandfather and I look at my father and I feel like them. You know, my mother would shake her finger in my face: “Don’t be like your father. He is a nasty man.” How would you like that? You pretend that you don’t understand and you cover up your face. You well knew what she was talking about. Blessed be God Almighty.
But it is good to obey the Holy Spirit. It is good to have the Spirit of the living God in you and to obey Him. When you feel rebellious and bad and the Spirit comes, it is good to straighten up and say, “Yes, Lord Jesus Christ. I am wrong.” A little song says:
Violent, full of sin I am
Thou art full of truth and grace
Plenteous grace with Thee is found
Grace to cover all my sins
Let the healing streams abound
Make it pure within
Praise God Almighty. Sometimes you sing those songs and they really bring a blessing. When I get up in the morning or in the night singing one of those songs, I know God is talking to me. Amen.
But, YOU MUST GET DELILAH OUT OF THE CHURCH. Let me repeat it again, I’ll tell you why. It is not everybody who believes the message of the Kingdom that is in the Holy Place. It is not everyone who has the Holy Spirit who is in the Holy Place. When you get into the Holy Place, the Holy Place has to get into you in order for you to be in the Holy Place. Can you understand it? In other words, if you are in the Holy Place and you are acting like a tramp, do you think God will say, “You are in the Holy Place, therefore I will just take you in.”? No, no. You have rejected the Spirit of God that makes you holy. We cannot be holy without the Spirit of God. If you are acting like John Brown you can’t claim to be holy. Don’t you understand it? You cannot act like your mother or your father and expect to be holy. You can preach like Paul, you can sing like angels, you can do anything else and bless God’s people, too, but remember; to be holy you have to follow the Holy Spirit.
Excuse me for saying Holy Ghost and correct me please. I don’t want to say ghost, I want to say spirit. Ghost has a little different meaning than spirit. Did you know that? You must study. You love to study, brother. You go study and give us a lesson on the difference of ghost and spirit. Do you notice that the Bible never said ghost you know? The Bible said spirit all along and they translate it ghost. Did you ever notice that? Check your Greek and your Hebrew. It always says spirit and they translate it ghost. Therefore you must check it out. Ghost has a little different meaning. Ghost refers to the spirit of a dead man. God bless you. God bless you.
Now, listen, brethren. Let’s go on. We have a little bit more to go. There were two blind men in the New Testament. There was blind Bartimaeus and there was the other blind man that God made the spittle and put on his eyes and sent him on. Praise God. I want to talk about those two because the one, his eyes were gone, clean gone. He was blind because he probably had no pupil or something, but Jesus Christ right there created eyes. He used the power of creation; He took spittle and made clay and put it over his eyes and said, “…Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash:…” (John 9:11). When the man washed the clay off of his eyes, his eyes were perfect, 20/20 vision. Let’s take Mark 10:46 first and then we will go to Luke 18:35.
Mark 10:46, And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. 47And 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. Now, Jesus cannot disregard that kind of a plea. You know, when God says sometimes,“Command Me,” that is what He means. If you work according to God’s plan and God’s law, God must.Jesus could not pass him. Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. 48And 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. Yousee the words “Son of David” have a special meaning, meaning that He was the Messiah. That is what itmeant in the Hebrew. He was saying, “Jesus, Messiah, the One that should come, the promised Son ofDavid have mercy on me.” Verse 49, 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. 50And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. 51And 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.
We are talking about the optometrist. Do you understand? You are to go to the optometrist and you must ask for what you want. He is not going to give you sight unless you ask for it. He is not going to clean your glasses for you unless you ask for it. So bring your glasses up to the optometrist and tell Him what you want and it must be from your heart, brethren. This man was hollering. They couldn’t shut him up because he knew that God was passing him by and he did not want God to pass him by. He wanted his glasses cleaned, moreover, his eyes. Verse 52, 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. Do you understand what happened here? Jesus never touched him. It wasn’t necessary. He touched Jesus with his faith. WHATSOEVER YOU DESIRE, IN PRAYER ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU. TOUCH JESUS NOW AND YOU WILL BE HEALED COMPLETELY.
Let’s look at John 9:1, And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Now, this is another case. In this case now, God wanted that man as a minister. God wanted him, so God made him born blind, then God sent Jesus to heal him. Isn’t this a wonderful God? That is a different case. That man didn’t ask for anything. He was just made by God, set there, punished, suffered blindness. Suffered blindness all his life so that God might glorify Himself in him. Some of you are like that, but don’t count on it. You go and ask God to open your eyes.
God bless you and thank you very much for being here. Praise God. I think you caused me to be here, so I want to thank you for holding me here. Praise God. Hallelujah. God bless you, brethren.
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