Sermon Illustration On Blind Bartimaeus
Blind Bartimaeus Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025 (message contributor) (rate this sermon illustration) 329 views Scripture: Matthew 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52 Tags: Healing, Blind, Bartimaeus Denomination: Independent/Bible. Following Jesus means furthering His efforts to reach and love those ignored by others. Mark 10:46-52 tells the story of Jesus calling out Bartimaeus and healing him of blindness.
In this passage we see the crowd is not receptive, not wanting to engage the blind man, but Jesus shifts His entire purpose to a person they would have rather ignored. Here is this week's reading from the gospel of Mark: Mark 10:46-52 They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.
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When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!". The crowd around tell Bartimaeus to be quiet. Is this because they think he deserves to be begging or that they are more important than he is?;whichever it is, they are determined that their claim on Jesus is stronger; but Bartimaeus' faith in Jesus is so strong that he shouts all the more loudly.
Jesus on hearing Bartimaeus calling him the Son of David and asking for his mercy, stops and. What was so special about Blind Bartimaeus? Nothing. Except his faith.
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He was an outcast, a beggar, a blind man but his faith has withstood the testimony of time. Sermon on 2 Chronicles 7:14 - The Prayer of God's People Sermon on Walking with God 5 God's Resources for your christian life +100 Top Easy Sermons to Preach Conclusion: The story of Blind Bartimaeus teaches us that faith, persistence, and humility are the keys to encountering Jesus and experiencing His transformative power. Just as Bartimaeus moved from a life of begging to one of.
Yes, Bartimaeus was blind. He could not physically see. But such physical conditions were compounded with stigmas.
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He was therefore ostracized and reduced to begging. Society was not structured for his benefit. It left him on the margins, desperate and uncared for.
Indeed, Bartimaeus was blind, and all that comes with it socially and psychologically. So while his condition is blindness, the. This sermon is based on Mark 10:46.
In his condition, Bartimaeus is a good portrait of every person who is outside Jesus and lost in sin. Like Bartimaeus, the lost person is spiritually blind, 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph.
4:18. October 24, 2021 Video The story of Blind Bartimaeus acts as a bookend in Mark's gospel. It closes out a long section that began back in chapter eight, when Jesus healed another blind man - only that time, Jesus had to spit twice before the man could see.
This whole section has come to its climax here in chapter ten, where we've been walking with Jesus this month. The itinerary Jesus and.
