<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 Becoming a footwasher, taking the towel and girded Himself and washed the disciples' feet, said, "Let him that's great among you be the servant of all." That was His example. But us today, oh, hostile: "Yes, sir. I wouldn't stoop to that fellow though; that old drunk, you know, I wouldn't have nothing to do with him. Oh, I'm Doctor Jones." See? That's the reason we're not getting anywhere. That's the reason our pulpits are weak. That's the reason today, we don't have signs and wonders in our churches. That's the reason today we don't have an old fashion revival. We're thinking we're somebody when we're nothing.
The Bible says when a man thinks him something when he's nothing, he deceives himself. He knows nothing that he ought to know. And he ought to know that he's a sinner.

L-34 And then the first flunky that met the man, he set him down in a chair, and at first it was a little, what we call, a vestibule in the south. And he sets him down in the chair something like this. And he sets his foot up; he takes his shoe off, gets some nice clean water, and bathes his limbs because they're sweaty and stinky with the manure and stuff on the road and the dust that's come up, and it smells bad. And he washes his feet, then he dries them all good with the towel, wipes them good, then he takes the other foot and does the same. And then if he's invited to a banquet like that, then as the host, always provides him with shoes to walk on his fine carpet. He has a little rag or a satin slipper. He reaches up here and he gets one till he gets it, fits his feet right good, so he puts it on his feet.

L-35 Now, he feels very much better. His feet and legs are washed and the smell is going away. So then, he starts to the next door. And when he goes there, to the next door, there's another flunky who meets him. And this flunky here that meets him, is the one who has a pitcher of oil in his hand.

L-36 Now, and this oil is made of olives, and it's got a very fine spikenard smell to it. And this spikenard is a very famous apple, kind of like a rose apple. You know when the roses quit blooming and the wintertime comes on, they have a little apple. Well, way up in Egypt, or some of those countries down in there, they get this little thing. I seen one once. It's a little apple-like. And you can rub it in your hands just once or twice, and it so saturates into your hands, until weeks later you can still smell it. And it's a very expensive thing to make this spikenard oil. And they grind these and put them into the oil, because oil will actually become in a few days, or a few weeks, or months, it gets an old smell. So this keeps it very fresh all the time. Very expensive... That was some of the treasures that the queen of--of--of Sheba brought and gave to Solomon, was some of those things. They had to climb high in them, high in the mountains to get these apples to make this oil.

L-37 And then with this cruse of oil, courtesy of the host, he holds his hands out, and his hands are dusty and--and sweaty too. So he takes his hands and gets some of the fine oil; he rubs them all over his hands. Then he gives him a towel, and he wipes his hands off right good. Then he gives him some more of it. He puts it all over his face and the back of his neck. And it's rather soothing. If you ever put it on you, if any of you people has ever been visit Palestine, and know what I speak of, it's soothes.


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