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Need Some Mercy?
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Meet Jesus
Jerry Vines
Mark 10:46-52
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We continue in our studies of people who met Jesus in
the New Testament—people who had particular problems,
particular needs and they brought these needs to
Jesus.
When they met Jesus those needs were satisfied.
This morning it's Need Some Mercy—Meet Jesus.
Along the way in the ministry of our Lord, His
journeys carried Him to the city of Jericho.
Jericho,
in the day of our Lord, is a far cry from Jericho in
our day.
The last time I went Old Testament Jericho
was 1989.
I was president of the SBC at that time and
when we got to Jericho, I heard that Arafat was there.
He has a compound there.
I said to a couple of friends
of mine, "let's go see if we can see Arafat?"
Each
one of them had a cell phone.
I got them on each side
of me.
I thought that would make me look more
important.
We walked right up to the gate where the
guard was and announced ourselves and said we would
like to see Arafat.
There was some commotion; they went inside the
compound and came back and said that Chairman Arafat
had just laid down for the day and was resting and was
sorry that he would not be able to see us.
Jericho, today, is just but a reflection—a pale
picture of what you would have found in the days of
Jesus.
Today is just a little place and about all you
can find there are some stores where you can buy some
trinkets and some other things like that.
It is run
down.
It is decrepit, dilapidated kind of place.
But when the Lord Jesus Christ went to Jericho, in the
New Testament day, it was quite a resort center.
I was
a large city—about 100,000 people who lived there.
It
was a city of villas and baths.
It had become kind of
a winter resort.
Herod had built a theatre and an
amphitheatre there.
The name, Jericho, means
fragrance.
It was a city that was filled with
beautiful fragrances.
The fragrances of the rose
gardens and the palm trees.
It was indeed a resort
center.
But there came a day when Jesus came walking
through the city of Jericho.
When Jesus went walking
through, the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the
Valley, lent to that city a fragrance which comes even
to our day and it blesses us to see what Jesus did
when He went there.
Jesus Christ is on His way up to Jerusalem.
There is a
large crowd of people.
The pilgrims are getting ready
for their annual journey up to the city of Jerusalem.
They are thronging around the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus
Christ is on His way to Jerusalem and we know that He
will never return to Jericho again because Jesus is
going up to Jerusalem for the last time.
HE will go up
to die on a cross.
The people are gathered around Him, listening to His
every word.
Watching His every deed.
The Bible tells
us that there was a man, right on the outside of the
gate as you go out of the city of Jericho.
His name is
Bartimaeus.
He is one of the most familiar to us in
all of the Bible All of us have heard the story of
Bartimaeus.
Some of you may remember the gospel song
that has immortalized Bartimaeus.
Some of the lines of
the song go like this.
One sat alone beside the highway begging.
His eyes were blind, the light he could not see.
He clutched his rags and trembled in the darkness.
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