<TITLE>07. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 Why, when Jesus comes to the city, there ought to be the flags out, and people on the street talking about Him, and glorifying Him, and the sick and afflicted accepting His healing blessings, and out on the street testifying everybody.
But we give Him the last place. And still He's continually comes on back again. He's willing, not willing that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance.
Now, the day is drawing close at hand. After while, he has all of his flunkies out. They have lots of flunkies, just guys that's around the place. So he puts them all out to their duties. And the first thing, a chariot run--comes up. Most of the travel in those days in Palestine was by foot. And that's the only transportation they had, besides the animals; and most of those were beasts of burdens that packed the--the burden.

L-29 But the great chariot rides up, and the Doctor, Reverend So-and-so got out. And he come in, and he embraced him and took him into the house. And the flunky took the--the horses around, and groomed them, and put them into the stable, and--and made everything ready, and shined his chariot up while he was at the banquet. Everything just all polished, just like a modern day "blow-out" today, as we call it (That's right.), in the name of religion too.

L-30 And most of the people walked. And when they walked along the roads, the animals walked the road also. And they didn't have concrete roads and asphalt like we have today. It was just a little dusty path along up over the hills and down through the desert.
And as they went up that way, and the beast walking along there too, the dust taking care of the odor from the animals, as the droppings and so forth. And it got into the dust, and it awful smell along the road. And the Palestinians in those days wore a robe. And they had an underneath garment, just come to the knee, and they wore sandals. And as they walked, this robe swept up the dust, and it got for the perspiration on the legs, and on the face and hands, and it caused an awful an odor. The odor from the animals on--that traveled the road was on the person when they come.
And when they come to the door, they were in no condition at all to be entertained at that time, because they smelt from this road. And their face were burning from the hot rays of the Palestinian sun.

L-31 And so, what they did, when they were--a guest was coming, why, they always had a flunky at the door; the first fellow that you met was the footwash flunky. The worst job in all the other flunkies was the footwasher.
And to think of it, our blessed Lord Jesus become a footwasher, come down from the highest place in heaven to take the lowest flunky's job on the earth. And then we think we're somebody because we wear good clothes and ride in a nice car. Shame on you. It's a pity that we got so far away from God. Oh, we're very religious. But, I mean, get close to God.

L-32 So few... I hate to say this. But so few of professed Christians today in our land knows so little about God. Oh, they know all their religions, but to know God.
Humbled Himself, and that's what makes Him great to me. That's what makes Him real to me is to think that He was willing to come down here and not be some great somebody, take some great name, or something like that. He made Himself humble and become a servant to all of them. That's my Lord Jesus. That's the One I love; that's the One, I'm--want to give my life entirely to serve Him, and to work for Him, and do everything I can to get people to look at Him, and believe Him, and love Him. He's lovely. He's precious.


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