<TITLE>01. Par 1-6</TITLE>56-0218E, The Worst Sinner In The City, Calvary Temple Soul's Harbor, Minneapolis, MN, 96 min
L-1 My favorite hymn... The background of it, if you would only know what, how it come about... My friend, Brother Booth-Clibborn wrote that on his knees by inspiration in a corn field one night with pasteboard pieces in the bottom of his shoes for soles on his shoes, sold it to WyCliffe for one hundred dollars, and he taken the copyright of the song. And that's my favorite of the hymns. It expresses the ex--the extreme Deity of the Lord Jesus, and especially in a day like this, when they try to make Him just a prophet. He was more than a prophet. He was God.

L-2 In the Scripture lesson tonight in Saint Luke the 7th chapter and the 36th verse... And then when you go home, finish reading this chapter, I just read this, because I know tomorrow is Sunday. We don't want to stay long, but we... Tomorrow you have Sunday school and many services.

L-3 And while visiting here, I certainly had lots of good friends that I really would've liked to have visit, the Stadsklevs setting here, and the Petersons, and so forth. But my reason is for the preaching services, but looks like wherever I go, it starts healing services. And then, of course, I can't visit while we're in healing services. I have to place my time on fasting and waiting on the Lord. I'm sure my friends understand this, so...
The 36th verse, we read this:
 And one of--of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went unto the Pharisee's house, and sat down to eat.
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we pray that You'll bless these words to Your glory. In Jesus Name, we ask it. Amen.

L-4 There seems to be something wrong. This is not just exactly right. Why would a Pharisee ask Jesus to come eat with him? Well, that's--that's not just right. Because the Pharisees didn't like Jesus; they hated Him. They had no dealings with Him at all. And usually, when we want somebody, when we love somebody, we want them to come eat with us. But you don't ask your enemies to come eat with you. So there's something wrong with the picture when this Pharisee wanted Jesus to come and eat with him.
And usually, it's fellowship we want. And the Pharisees had no fellowship with Jesus, 'cause they were a stiff, starchy, sectarian group. And Jesus was the lovely Son of God. And you know, just like, young women, they have things together. They have their own talks; they like to be together: young women. And the older women, they have their times together. They like to associate together. And the young men, and the old men... The little children, they have their fellowship with each other. They get in the street and play. You know, the Bible speaks of that in Isaiah, the little children playing in the streets.

L-5 But what could this Pharisee want with Jesus? You know, you take a--a little girl, little girl, and let her follow around with grandma all the time, there's something wrong. There's too much difference in their age. They don't have things in common. You can depend on this: that's either grandma's pet, or grandma's got a sack of candy somewhere. There's something up the sleeve when you see a little girl following grandma.

L-6 And you notice people gather together. Like in the city, the Kiwanis gathers. When they do, they have things in common. They like to talk about the affairs of the city, and relief for the poor, and every... Everyone...
My mother had an old proverb she used to say. "Birds of a feather flock together." There's a lot of truth to that. Because we have things in common. That's why we're here tonight. We have things in common. We're... Reason you didn't go to the bioscope or something on that order, because that you--you... We had things in common as Christians; we come to fellowship around the Word of God and to talk about the Lord Jesus.


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