<TITLE>08. Par 34-39</TITLE>L-34 And he went up there, and he started to take a stick to turn it over, and it snapped the stick. He said, "Hey, I thought you said he was dead."
Well, I said, "I separated his head from his body. He should be dead."
He scratched his head. He said, "He's just dead and don't know it." And that's just a whole lot of good theology in that.
Oh, brother, when Christ comes, He brings Life abundantly. Said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out," when He was coming to Jerusalem.
And we find out a noise was around the bend. He said, "What's all the noise about?" See, he'd been thinking on those things. It had to happen. Have you been thinking on those things for tonight? If you have, it's going to happen. It's just got to. You draw nigh unto God, He will draw nigh unto you.

L-35 And then what took place? After while here come a bunch of people singing, "Hosanna in the highest; blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord. Blessed is this Galilean prophet, for He makes the blind to see and the deaf to hear. Blessed be the Name of the Lord."

L-36 Then behind that come the critics, them priests and religionists of that day, saying, "Shh, shut up. Hold your peace. There's nothing to that guy." Listen at it. And once and awhile something smashed against the wall. It's an overripe tomato or something, thrown at Him.
Oh, if he could've only seen, walking right down through that street, a little Man, not too big, no beauty we should desire, graying in His hair, walking slowly, not paying any attention. And there was them priests saying, "Say, you holy-roller, you that said you raised Lazarus from the dead. We got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come raise them. Let us see you do it."
You know them kind of spirits never died. They still live. And the other one does too, thank God.

L-37 "Hey, you done miracles up in another place. Let's see you perform a miracle here. We'll believe you. You hypocrite, we know that the days of miracles is past."
Bartimaeus got all confused. He said, "What is this anyhow?" People just climbing over the top of him...
After while, a gentle little lady said, "Oh, beggar, I'm sorry that they've walked over you. What was you asking, sir?"
Said, "Who is it that passes by that's causing all this commotion, one one way and one another?"

L-38 You know, when Jesus is around, it usually produces that kind of a crowd: one for Him, one against Him, one saying it's the devil, and another one saying it's God. And it hasn't changed.
And so he said, "There's something taking place. And I don't understand what it is."
And she said, "Why, sir, have you never learned of Jesus of Nazareth?"
"No, I don't believe I ever heard of Him."
"Well, He's a great prophet out of Galilee. Oh, you should see Him. Why, a woman just touched His garment here a few weeks ago, and He turned around and told her what her trouble was. And there was a--a little man just on the other side of this wall, climbed up in a sycamore tree this morning to see Him. And his wife told him all about these things, and he said, 'Oh, there's no such a thing as that. Them things don't happen. If that Man does that, He's a devil.'"

L-39 "So Zacchaeus climbed up in a sycamore tree and pulled the limbs all around him so nobody would see him. He said, 'I'll stand here because I'm a great member of the church. And I'll take this little leaf and raise up here, and He will never see me. And when He passes under this tree, I'll get a good look at Him, and I'll tell the priests all about what I think of Him.'"
So when Jesus come around the corner and got under the tree, He stopped. Zacchaeus said, "Now, wonder what He's going to do."
He looked up in the tree and said, "Zacchaeus, come down from there. I'm going home with you today for dinner." Not only he thought he was hid, but Christ knowed him, and knowed his conditions, and knowed what his name was. He hasn't changed. He's still the same Jesus.


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