<TITLE>10. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 So he sits down on the limb, setting there, garbage stink all over him, splinters in his hand, a businessman of the city, Zacchaeus, the great man. But he's determined to see Jesus. God can get you in some horrible shape sometimes; but if you get that way and determined to see Jesus, you'll see Him.
So sitting there pit--picking his splinters out, he said, "You know, I just remembered, Rebekah told me that that Man could stand in an audience of people and could discern the thoughts of the people. You know what? I'm going to play a trick on Him. I'm going to camouflage myself; He will never see me in this tree and nobody else will."
So he gets the limbs, and he pulls them all around him, makes a good camouflage all around him. And when he did, he left one little leaf here so he could raise that leaf and look out, like a little window. You see? Said, "Nobody will ever see me up here where I'm sitting now." Don't you worry; God knows right what perch you're setting on. That's exactly.

L-31 So he set there, waited awhile; the noise got closer and closer. And after while he said, "Now..." The devil setting there talking to him, said, "Now, aren't you a pretty looking sight, one of the most outstanding businessmen of the city; you know all the doctors; you play golf with all the different societies and so forth; and here you are setting here, garbage all over you, setting up in a tree to watch a holy-roller preacher pass by. What a disgrace you've come to."
Well, he kept picking the splinters. After while he heard a noise; he looked, coming around the corner, here come a great strong-looking man walking in the front, kindly bald-headed and big shoulders back, the apostle Peter. "Stand aside, folks; we're sorry; the Master's on His way this morning, and He's been up late in the night; we're sorry, we--He can't speak with you this morning."

L-32 Here come eleven others on the side, "Stand back, folks; we are sorry to have to do this. We--we don't mean to be rude, but we are sorry, the Master's coming right down. He's very tired. He's not very big man after all; and He's a small man of statue. And He's been up much of the night. And He's been praying much for the sick; and virtue's gone from Him. So we're sorry, but you'll just have to stand aside."
And as they pushed the crowd back, Zacchaeus pulled up his leaf and he looked; he said, "Now, isn't that ridiculous." So his eyes cast over this way, and there stood a friend of his, a man that had a little sick girl, and the doctor had told this man that that baby can only live just a few days. The best specialist in Jericho said, "That baby can only live just a few days longer. It has a tremendous fever, just the first breath of cold air would set up a more infection and would kill the child."

L-33 And Zacchaeus said, "The very idea of a man would defy the intelligence of this mighty doctor, that would take that baby from the bed to come down here to visit such a ridiculous sight as this. Why, it's suicide. I'm telling you; he ought to go to the psychopathic ward. Why, it's terrible to think that a man would be so--so tore up, would be... He must be a psychic neurotic to bring that baby out of the bed, when a doctor told him that a little cold air would kill that child. And here he's got that lovely little girl down here and depriving her of the next two or three days of her life, that she could've stayed, out here to meet this fanatic. Oh, it's ridiculous."
And I see the little mother holding the baby, and she's patting it and kissing it, and the little baby almost unconscious. And then she says, "Dad, you hold the baby; I'll try to meet Him."
Zacchaeus looking through his little leaf watching it you know, "I'll see what happens."


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