<TITLE>08. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, and the world wants glamour. They don't want the old fashion preacher any more, the old hell fire and brimstone, as we used to preach it. Today they want a little curly-headed, Hollywood type, with a little frocked-tailed coat on with, and I don't know what, and stand up and crack a few jokes. We're got too many jokes on the public today, the Arthur Godfreys and so forth, and all these little, what you call them's, and of that. But what we need today is the old fashion Gospel in the power and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and a clean-up in the church from the pulpit to the cloak room. That's right. We need it, men and women. We got too much Hollywood evangelism, a lot of acting and pertaining. We need the real genuine Jesus Christ. Amen.
So that glamour doesn't take with Jesus. All the old fine robe that he had on, his fine groomed hair, and his--his fine Egyptian made robe wouldn't never attracted the attention of Jesus Christ. He don't care how--how poor you're dressed, or how you're otherwise. It's your heart that He's looking at.

L-24 So Zacchaeus thought, "Now, I cannot climb up that tree. If I would, and I'd have to come down and meet Him, I would not be presentable."
Here some time ago in my church, there was a girl that I asked her to sing a special that night. And she--she was a wonderful little singer, and her--she was out of a poor home, real poor; and they had a hard way of going. And she said she could not sing. And I asked her why. She wouldn't tell me why. And she went out; she told another girl that she didn't have the money to put a manicure in her hair. You know, one of them curly things. And so she said that she didn't... That's wrong, I--I know that; that's not right. What is it? Anyhow, a permanent--permanent in her hair. What is a manicure anyhow? Oh, fingernails. Oh, my. She wanted a--didn't have the money to put a permanent in her hair. And I told that girl; I said, "You know what, I wouldn't let you sing now." That's right. You're not getting up there to show off, or to be a show before those people; you come to sing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's right. Any other attitude from that, God would refuse it. True.

L-25 So Zacchaeus, his little robe wouldn't make any difference. But if you're determined to see Jesus, God will make a way for you to see Him. So he said, "I can't not get into this tree now. So there must be some way." And God always has a way. So he happened to look down at the corner, and the city garbage can was setting there. "Well," he thought, "perhaps, maybe I will go down, and get the garbage can, and pull it up here; I can get on the garbage can, and then shinny up the tree, and get up there all right." So he thought that was a very good idea. You know, God knows how to take us off of the high horse.
So he goes down to the corner, and he takes a hold of the garbage can, and the city collector had not yet come by to take his deposit; so there was, every can was full. There was nothing else in sight, so he thought, "Well, being all... He heard coming down around the bend... "I'll have to hurry, because He's not very far down; I hear a great noise."
You know, I kindy like that. Everywhere you found Jesus, you found a little noise. That kindy fits my Irish disposition, and especially when it's been changed.


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