<TITLE>15. Par 63-68</TITLE>L-63 Let me tell you. Before there was a bad woman, there had to be a bad man too. That's right. Remember, that's some mother's darling. And today, the reason the church is in the condition it is, you want the big class in your church. And you failed, the church is failing to go get the prostitute, and streetwalker, and bootlegger, and what there is with the city. That's where Jesus wants us to go. That's where He desires us to bring them in. But, oh, we want the guy that's got the money, that can pay best, and pay off the church debts and things like that. You call it "the upper crust." There's a lot of crust to it. That's right. Don't know how upper it is, but a lot of crust. We must go in the hedges, and highways, and byways, and compel them to come to Christ: the outcast.

L-64 She goes up. I see her moving her way up. She looks in. She looks up over the top of their heads. Now, she says, "Wait a minute. I shouldn't do this. I--I... Must be something wrong with me. I--I--I'm beside myself tonight. And I--I can't go in there; they'd throw me out." But she looks over again. And there He sets humbly, looking at His dirty hands. And the people passing by, and all the rest of them eating lamb; they never passed it to Him. He never had nothing, just let Him set there. And there He was setting at the feast. And all of them on their tables, how they lay down and eat there... That's good for your boys, see now. They lay down in Palestine and eat like this, laying down on a couch. And so all of them laying down and eating, and poor Jesus just setting there, looking...

L-65 She said, "Oh, if I go in, Pharisee'd throw me out. That's all." Said, "But, I--I can't stand it. I--I just can't stand it. Look at Him the way He looks. Look at those sad eyes, as He looks around. She looks down, and she sees Peter and James and them, standing there, just prancing. He looks over to the Peter and them, looks back down again, just waiting.

L-66 Said, "I just can't stand it any more." So she said, "I've got to go in. But me, if I go in there, me, a woman of my type to go before Him, why, I couldn't do it." After while she said, "But I remember in Galilee, I heard Him say this, 'Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Whosoever will let him come.'" Said, "Surely that means me then. If whosoever will, that's me. And I sure laden, heavy laden. He told me to come. So here I go." I wish you'd get that kind of an idea tonight.
Right down through that crowd of Pharisees she went, on her way, elbowing her way to Jesus.
God help us tonight, say, "I elbow our way through all this stiff, starchy ideas of the church today and get to Christ." Amen. Yes, sir.

L-67 She went right on through pushing Pharisees every way. And she got right to where He was. And she broke the alabaster box, and poured it on Him, and she fell down on the floor at His feet, and she begin to weeping. And she was petting His feet. And she just kindy... got kinda beside herself. She--she was weeping and she begin to rub His feet and [Brother Branham makes a kissing sound--Ed.] kissing His feet, and... Well, she was at the Fountain of Life. She was at the only place that she could ever get help. No wonder she was hysterically. No wonder she was beside herself. God help us to get beside ourself long enough to get saved anyhow.

L-68 I remember when I got saved. I was beside myself. I didn't pay attention to the old starchy, ritual program, no more than she did. She busted right in on the party. And she went on, 'cause she wanted to get saved. We get people like that, with that determination, you're going to get saved. Yes, sir.


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