<TITLE>10. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 Oh, how did he do it? How could he do it? I wished I could've been the flunky at that house that day. Oh, I'd have washed His feet. Amen. I'd have been standing there waiting for Him. I'd have been watching if I'd have knowed. But as it was then, He was a fanatic. He was just fanatically.
And that's the reason today that we fail to see Him. You call it fanaticism when it's the power of God, when it's Christ resurrected from the dead, and people fail to recognize It. You call it slain, slant it over sideways, say, "I don't have to fool around with that bunch of holy-rollers. I go to church. I'm as good as the next one." And you don't realize what you're doing to my Jesus.

L-43 There He was setting there with dirty feet. It kind of does something to me. They call Him there, "Jsus." Instead of Jesus, they say, "Jsus." And I think of Jsus with dirty feet. Could you imagine it, the King of heaven with dirty feet?
Well, that's the way it is today. You do nothing about it today. They talk about Him, say everything about Him. What? About Him when He comes into the meeting and the things He does. They talk about it and say everything, "Oh, it's Beelzebub. It's a spiritualist. It's a devil. It's... There's nothing to it. Doctor So-and-so knows all about it." All right. You see who Doctor So-and-so was in the Bible? He hasn't changed much today on that.

L-44 There Jesus was setting there with dirty feet, unwelcome, and nobody paying any attention to Him. That's the way it is today. We pray for a great meeting. And Jesus will come. And then nobody will pay any attention to Him. God comes into the place, "Well, our programs take up all of our time. We got too many things to do, so much we got to be taken care of." And it'll all... Taken up like that...
And Jesus, many times, is not entertained as a Guest when He comes to the church. God help us to recognize that. Jesus wants to be entertained. Then when the Holy Ghost comes into the church, and wants to bless the church, people set just as cold and starchy. That's the same thing the Pharisee did: too busy with other things. We got too much to do. We're afraid we'll interrupt something. Don't worry; you won't interrupt nothing when you're entertaining Jesus. You'll be right in the program of God. You might be out of man's program, but you'll be in God's program when you're entertaining Jesus.

L-45 There He was, dirty feet. I can see the disciples. They couldn't come in. They wasn't invited. He was the only One invited. And He got by the flunkies. And He walked over in a corner and set down, a "wallflower," we'd call it today.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham..." Well, that's the way He does--He's treated yet in the churches. He's a "wallflower" or a picture hanging on a wall, or something He used to be.
But I declare to you tonight if tomorrow night's my last night, maybe forever, for here, I don't know, maybe for sometime. But I declare to you; that same Jesus is raised from the dead and is here in Minneapolis tonight in His same Power. And people are turning their back on it, and call it fanaticism, and treating Him tonight the same way they did then.

L-46 Oh, you got your big churches, and your orthodox, and stiff as a board, and straight as a gun barrel. That's don't spell nothing. Oh, you like to have your entertainments, and your social parties, and set around, and carry on, and giggle, and joke, and everything. That's not what religion consists of. It's a worship, not set with your heads bowed, and holler "Amen" like a calf bellowing. But it needs to get into the Spirit of God and to worship God in power and in Spirit. That's right. But oh, we're so stiff and starchy today. We can't do that, you know. They was too. And that's the reason Jesus, after being invited, that's the welcome that He got.


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