<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 There's something wrong. What would this Pharisee want with Jesus? Why, the Pharisees hated Jesus. And here he is asking Him to come, eat dinner with him. Just something wrong. How they hated Him, and here he is, ask Him to come to dinner. Just doesn't work right. There's something wrong.
Like a little girl about eight years old. She's hanging around with grandma, and now there's something wrong. There's too much difference in their age. Now--now, she might be grandma's pet. (Pet or a baby.) Maybe grandma's got a pocket full of candy. There's some reason; there's too much difference in their age that this little girl just stays with grandma.
Now, you see, little children have things in common. And they--they play together, because they have things in common. The Bible speaks of that in Isaiah, said little children playing in the streets, because they have things in common.

L-14 Now, the young women, they have things in common. They--they hang together. And the older women, they have things in common. The young men, and the old men, the lodges, like the--the men of the city, they have things in common. They get together and talk about things of the city, because they have things in common. The reason Christians hang together, they have things in common. It doesn't matter whether we are German, Swiss, or--or American, or what; we just have things in common. We're interested in something. And you didn't come out this afternoon because I was American; you come because I'm your brother. And we're speaking about something that we're all interested in.

L-15 An old American proverb, my mother used to use it. She said, "Birds of a feather flock together." You know doves and buzzards don't have any fellowship. They just don't flock together. Well, that's a... Why? They don't eat the same thing. A--a--a buzzard eats dead things. A dove couldn't eat that; it would kill him. You see, a dove doesn't have any gall; he couldn't digest that: a very beautiful type of a Christian. See? When you're converted, God does an operation; He takes the gall out; then you don't want no more of the buzzard's diet; you got all the gall taken out. You can't digest the things of the world.
But did you ever notice a buzzard or an old crow? Now, he can set out there and eat on a dead carcass, and he could come over and eat wheat with the dove too. Now, he's a hypocrite. Well, now... But the dove, he can't go over and eat with the crow. So birds of a feather flock together.

L-16 There's something wrong with the picture. What did this Pharisee want with Jesus? There's something up somewhere. And now let's look and see what it was. Now, the Hebrew--or the Greek word for "Pharisee" means "a actor, somebody that acts like something." We got too much of that in the world today.
In America, we have too many actors, especially out in Hollywood. They're always before the camera. So when they come out in public life, they still think they're before the camera: they're acting, putting on something that they're not. I don't like that. I like for you to be just what you are. Don't you like that? Just be what you are and everybody will know how to take you.
Too many of us look at the television and...?... and--and when we go out, you see little children that go to such places. They go out, act like the actors. The devil does that. I want... I don't want to act; I want to be what I am. And sometimes, preachers become actors. Oh, sure. And they get in the pulpit, they use the pulpit for it. "Well, brethren, we are here today..." because they're in the pulpit. You all see? Get saved: quit that putting on. God don't want you to be an actor. He wants you to be a partaker of His Holy Spirit. Let It do the acting. Amen.


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