<TITLE>13. Par 145-155</TITLE>L-145 But American people let the little girls go out here and see these--these, some of these women from Hollywood, put on some kind of a vulgar dress. First thing you know, here she is out on the street, same thing on: actors, Pharisee. That's right.
Then you see somebody, a minister, go across the country with a ministry. You find out, here comes some Pharisee actors, putting on, impersonation. It lays in every walk of life: actors. It's too bad. Why don't you just be yourself? God will think more of you. Just be... Everybody knows what you are anyhow. You're life speaks what you are, so don't act.

L-147 What'd this Pharisee want with Jesus? I can't get that in my mind. What did he want with Jesus? He hated Him. And here he is, going to have a big supper now.
And oh, my, I can see it, walking up-and-down his great big corridors of his home. How they can put on. Walking up-and-down there, rubbing his chubby, fat hands, you know and the big diamond-stud rings all over his fingers, saying, "Well, I suppose, getting about time for me to have my banquet. Hmmph." Perfumed rooms, and his Persian rugs on the floor, walking back and forth, this big fat roly-poly Pharisee, walking back and forth, said, "Well now, if I could just get some sort of entertainment. If I could just find something. 'Course, you know, I'm a well-known man. And I stand in good with all the--the--the upper crust." Huh. Huh.
Upper crust? That's what people has got their mind on today, is the upper crust. What do I care about the upper crust? I want to know what Jesus wants me to be. I don't care about the upper crust. Let them take care of theirselves; they're buzzards, Pharisees, acting. Let them alone. Jesus said, "They're blind leaders of the blind."

L-150 Some man wrote me a letter from over in Germany, said, "Come over, and let him put some--some sacks over peoples heads, and then let me know what was wrong with them, then he'd--he'd talk with me."
I said, "Tell that old fox, 'Today I cast out devils, and tomorrow I'm made perfect."' Amen. Amen. Devil, actor...

L-152 Here he is, walking up-and-down, say, "You know, I am the greatest degree in this city. My word in the Kiwanis stands high. And at the temple, everybody looks up to me. I am Dr. Pharisee, Father. I'm the big shot around here. I got plenty of money. Everybody knows it. I live in a mansion. Everybody looks up to me. Oh." [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] "Why didn't I think of that?" I can see him rubbing his hands together. "I know what I will do. I know how I will get everybody out here to my party, and I will be the talk of the town."
That "I, I, I, I, I, I," you know, that's a disease, so many people get it. "I will do. I did. I will." Get "I" out of the way. Where Jesus belong in this thing? "I will do." See? "I will do," and "I will have," and "I will say." And, "I, I, I, I," that's all they think about.
He said, "Well, why didn't I think of that before?" All right. It dawned on his mind, what he was going to do. So it's long, late in the evening. I see the sun going down.

L-155 And there's someone, great crowds of people standing around. And they... I see this fellow standing on his toes; he's looking over the crowd. And everybody's setting breathless. They're listening to the Words falling from the lips of a Man that, "Never a man spoke like that before." He's teaching.
And I see this courier from this Pharisee's house. He's got a commission to run. He's been going all day long, two or three days, maybe, coming from way lower Palestine, plumb up into the northern part, trying to find Jesus. So he finally runs on to Him; getting late. He's sweating, tired. His legs is all full of dust. He's just a flunky at his master's house. That's what they were. They had a lot of flunkies just to work for them, do their dirty work and everything.


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