<TITLE>19. Par 210-218</TITLE>L-210 Then, we think we're something. We get on a fifty-dollar suit and... Oh God, have mercy on us. We think we're somebody, walk along with our head up in the air, "Oh, I belong the certain church. I'm as good as anybody there is." Oh, you poor, wretched, miserable, hyp--Pharisee. You're only an actor. You ain't got no salvation. You'd prove it if you did. That's right. "Oh, I sent a check in for fifty dollars to charity, last year." Who cares for that? God don't look at that. He looks at your heart. You're trying to act like you're something. He never rebuked you for it. But why don't you go out and do something? Just acting.

L-211 Here, the first thing they done when a man come in, he got... Walked to the house, if he wanted to be really welcome, the host welcomed him. Now, the flunky met him at the door; the first thing he done, was reach down, take off his shoe. And he took his foot like this, like this here, and set it up over his foot, and got down and washed his feet like that. After he washed it off real good, took a towel and wiped it, he washed the other feet. He took his sandals and set them up on a mantle, like this, up there. Then he reaches over, in return, and get a nice set of satin sandals, silk or satin, and he takes his foot, and after they're dry, and fresh, and everything, all the dung washed off of them, then he takes and sticks this on. If it don't fit, he get him another one, until he gets it fit on real good.

L-212 Then, he's all washed down. He feels pretty comfortable. Then he goes into a little chamber. This man meets him at the door. Then he goes into a little chamber, there stands another servant, and he has a--a cruse of oil. And, oh, it's called spikenard, and what a famous stuff that is. And he puts it in, a little in his hand, a little in the other hand, and he rubs it together, rubs it over his face and over his neck. Because the direct rays of the Palestinian sun, both men and women, has to keep themselves oiled. It'll just tear the hide off of you, nearly, and their neck, and around on their cheeks. And this...
Now, oil will contaminate. That olive oil, if it sets here very long, get an awful smell to it. But they put, oh, a spikenard perfume in it. And that's a very costly thing. Now, they get it down in--in Arabia.

L-215 You notice, a rose, when a rose blooms, and after the bloom is gone, it leaves a little apple where it was at. You've seen that many times, a little--a little bud.
Now, there's a bush, a famous bush, it grows high into the mountains, way down in Arabia, and they take that little bud after the--the rose is gone, they take that little bud out of there, and unshell it, and it's got the most wonderful smell. I seen one one time, and you could rub it on your hands like that, and one of them little buds like that, and you'd smell for two weeks, of that perfume. Oh, it's very costly.
The queen of Sheba, when she came to meet Solomon, that was some of her treasures that she brought, some of this famous perfume from down there in--in Egypt.

L-218 Now, watch. Then they put that in that, and, oh, it's very costly. And they would put that in there, and they would rub their face and their neck. And then, instead of the smell of the odor, the feet was washed, all the dung and stuff was washed from his feet, and there he sets then with his face all bathed over, and his neck all bathed over. And they give him a towel and he pats it off, like that, and he feels fresh then. Then he goes to the host, then.
Now, right here, Brother Neville, if you'll stand up. Now, now, say, he was my guest. Now, the first thing he does, when he meets him, he reaches out a hand like this, and lays it on his shoulder. And he lays his hand on this shoulder, like this. Well, then, when he does, he reaches up and kisses him on the neck. Then he takes that hand down, lays this hand up, and this one here, and he kisses him on the neck there. Now... (Thank you.)


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