<TITLE>06. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 And I think that's a whole lot of we couriers today, we preachers. We are so carried away with our denominations, with our little groups, until many times we fail to recognize when we're in the Presence of God. Oh, I wish I could get to Him like that. I wish I could've come to Him and talked to Him. Before I ever would have presented some earthly need, I'd have fell on my face and said, "Jesus, be merciful to me."
Little, maybe, did that courier recognize, that one day that's going to be his Judge. We do the same thing. We're so took up with little factions, and little things of petty understandings among us, and so forth, till we fail to recognize the very God that's in our midst. We do it. It's too bad, but we do.
And then I notice as he hurries away... I don't know how he did it--because he had other things on his mind. Oh, he thought he had done something great because he had found Who his master sent him after, not realizing that he'd done the worst thing he ever could do: to be in the Presence of Christ and not worship Him and ask forgiveness and for mercy.

L-19 Notice, he hurries back down and tells his master, "I found Him and He promised He would be here." Oh, how that pleased that little fat Pharisee.
Now, he said, you know, "Now I'll make arrangements for the feast. I'll set the--all my tables out here under this great veranda; the grapes will be ripe at that time."
And if you ever was in the orients, or the eastern countries, how they can really put on the dog, as we call it. And there's no--there's no middle class of people there. There's either the rich or the poor. And the rich has everything, and the poor has nothing.
And how he was going to cook and barbecue the lambs, and how the outsiders would stand around and lick their lips and everything, couldn't get a bite of it... And... But he could do it. He was rich. He could put it on.

L-20 Now, let's look at him as he's in this great mood. He gets everything ready for this visitation. And after he got everything ready, the day finally arrives that Jesus was to appear. He had enough confidence to believe He'd be there.
So he got all of his sheeps killed, and his ox, and so forth; the very best of cooks; oh, my, how they can cook. They can barbecue that lamb; and I'm telling you, it sure is delicious: cook those great big roasts on the outside, on this big turning spindle, till you can smell it for a mile.
And, oh, he got everything ready, and the day finally arrived. I can see him have his floors all repolished and the very best robe on. He had sent out all of his invitations to all of his pastoral friends, everything, to come in to see. And the great joke of it was, they were going to have Jesus there. That was a joke. They were going to have a big time out of this guy after they done eaten.
Then they got... These Pharisees had a lot of "flunkies." You call them "servants" here. They had flunky for everything they wanted done; they had a little flunky to do it. So, the barns was all fixed for those who come in carriages, to put away their horses. Everything was just at the hand for the great feast to come.


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