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do you do Most of us at some point in life will experience loneliness, whether it's a short season or a chronic situation.

How should the church respond to those who are lonely?

Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn from Jesus' response

to a blind and hopeless beggar named Bartimaeus.

Halister Begg is teaching from the Gospel of Mark chapter 10, starting with verse 46. When we take our Bibles and we read the gospel records,

we discover that Jesus was concerned for lonely people.

And it's a very worthwhile exercise to take your Bible and to go through the gospel records

and to look for the times when Jesus encountered people as individuals and often some of the most likely individuals,

one of whom we're going to consider now, the story of this man called Bartramaeus.

What I'd like to do is to set it up as if we were shooting a film.

That is, to not shoot it just with a wide-angled lens

and take everything in, but rather to set up the camera angles as we would choose, setting them on. in on the crowd. Mark tells us in verse 46 that there was a large crowd. Now that's

not an unusual phenomenon in the Gospels. There were crowds of people increasingly

following in the wake of Jesus. None more so than after the

feeding of the 5,000 when in John chapter 6 Jesus has to explain to them what the

nature of following him is really all about and they had been intrigued by these miracles and they were

interested in what was going on and so there were crowds and crowds and crowds of course draw a crowd.

Now they knew enough.

They knew enough to answer the question

that was posed by the blind man.

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