<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Now, today we've got a little drama that the Lord has placed on my heart for this afternoon. And I want you to be real quiet for a few moments and listen.
Now, we're going to get out early enough, the Lord willing, so that those who can come back tonight... And I understand that some of them was looking for this to be the closing service. Many strangers in the city wanted service tonight also. If your pastor desires you to be at your church tonight, hasn't closed, that's your duty to be at your--your post tonight. That's right. No people away from their churches. You've got your church...
Now, when this is all over, we want you to go back to your church. Go back to your church where you come from. Take right on and be a better Christian if you can be. And all the converts that's been in the meetings, try them that's in the neighborhood. Visit them and bring them into your church to have fellowship with you. That's what the revival's for. Rejoice with those who's been healed. And now, always remember me in your prayer.

L-6 Now, there seems to be something wrong with our story this afternoon. As we look at it, there just seems to be not the right kind of a--of a sound to the voice that speaks. How could these Pharisees love Jesus? They hated Him. Why, they had nothing to do with this man called Jesus. He tore up their churches and everything else. Why, they despised Him.
And how could this Pharisee ever ask Him down to his house for dinner? We usually invite people who we love to eat with us, you know, like somebody that you--that you appreciate. There's something about eating with each other. That's the reason we have the Lord's Supper. It's to fellowship around the Lord's Supper, what makes it so great to us.
But how could this Pharisee invite Jesus to his house? As the old wicked world saying, "he had something up his sleeve"... He had some kind of a selfish motive.

L-7 The word "Pharisee" means "actor." The very word "Pharisee" means "an actor." And an actor is a mimic or impersonator. And how well that does fit our modern word of "hypocrite," a actor, an impersonator, somebody who's trying to be something... As Congressman Upshaw used to say, "When you're trying to be something that you hain't." The late Congressman that was healed in our service after being in a wheelchair for sixty-six years, he used to say that; "Don't be nothing that you hain't." That's Southern.
But this Pharisee had invited Jesus. Now, they had no fellowship together, so there must be some kind of a selfish motive. They had nothing in common to talk about.


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