<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 So he stood on the corner patting his little foot, you know, and his face red. Because he'd been pushed out there; he thought he was somebody. As long as you think you're somebody, you're going to get nowhere. You just remember that. You got to get away from what you are. We're not much anyhow.
Here some time ago I was down in--in Tennessee. I was in a museum, and they had the estimations there of the human body. And a man that weights a hundred and fifty pounds, in chemicals is worth eighty-four cents. So there's two boys standing there talking about it. The human body, you got just enough calcium for so-and-so, and enough whitewash to sprinkle a hen's nest, I guess, or something like that in your body. And then you'll put a ten dollar hat on it, a fifty dollar coat on that eighty-four cents, and stick your nose up (If it'd rain it'd drown you.), and think you're somebody. Now, that's right. That's the way the human race acts. Now, isn't that right? That's right. Somebody, and you're eighty-four cents. That's right.
One boy said to the other one; he said, "John, we're not very much after all, are we? Eighty-four cents."
I touched the boys; I said, "But, boys, you've got a soul that's worth ten million worlds; take care of that. The eighty-four cents don't mount to very much, but the ten thousands worlds means everything to you."

L-18 So as this little fellow stood there, he begin to think, "You know what? Being as small as I am, and if that same crowd that was down there... If I'm told right, one glimpse of Him, they all follow Him after that." That's right, just once come in contact with Him, you'll go everywhere He goes from that on. So he said, "If they come up here, I'm too little. The same crowd down there, plus all it'll pick up between here and there will be here, so then, I won't be any better off, standing right here than I was standing down there."
So he begin to think, "Now, what could I do?" And if you're determined to see Jesus, God will make a way for you to see Him. So he begin to think, "What could he do?" So standing by his side was a sycamore tree. He thought, "That's a good idea. I'll just get up in that sycamore tree. When I get up there, I'll just get me a good place and sit down, and when He passes by I'll be all by myself, and I can see Him good."

L-19 But now, the next thing is, how's he going to get up there; he's little? And he had on his best garments; he was groomed to his best. You see, the world likes glamour. Jesus wasn't glamorous; He's just a plain, common, man. And the Gospel today is not glamour; it's just plain old fashion salvation to all men. He hasn't changed; He's the same.
But the world thinks you have to be dressed so-and-so. You have to put on your best manners. You have to be something. As congressman Upshaw used to say, "Be something that you ain't." And that's right. There's so much put-on among people today, trying to be something, try to talk different, try to--something that you're not. I pray that I'll live to see the day when men will be what they are. Then every man will know how to take you. God speed the day, that when every man that claims to be a Christian will be just what he is. If I was, didn't believe Christ, I'd be against Him; I'd be here speaking against Him. But I believe Him, and I love Him, and I'm for Him with everything that's in me; I'm for Him.


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