<TITLE>11. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 Oh, he might have said, "If I would've lived in them days, I would've liked to fell before His feet too." But little did he know that that same Captain of the host of the Lord was not a hundred yards from him, the same Captain. While he was thinking on those things...
It's usually when you think about the Lord... It's usually when you got your mind not on something else, the things of the world; or how you're going to make a lot of money, or what kind of a big organization you're going to build... That's what's the matter with the world today. We got our mind on the things of the world instead of on God.
Let's think about God. The Bible says, "If there be any praise, there be any virtue, think on these things." Our mind strolls off. And first thing you know, we strayed out in there somewhere, we're thinking about something else. Let's keep Jesus on my heart, in my mind all day long, day and night. That's the way.

L-46 While he was thinking about that, he heard a noise. It's strange. Wherever Jesus is there's a lot of noise. I don't know why, but it usually is. And a lot of noise come from on the inside. First thing, the gate burst open, and... hears a great noise, and people running, and some hollering, "Hosanna, Hosanna to the prophet of Galilee," the women, and some of the men.
Then he could hear some hollering, and making fun of Him. "You're nothing but a fake," over-ripe eggs and fruit throwed at Him.
He heard that same priest awhile before, before they had the association to meet together. "And you say you're a prophet. We heard that you raised a dead man out of the grave. We know you, faker. They laid that man there, and your disciples did that. That's nothing but a fake. If you can raise the dead, we got a whole graveyard full of them up here. Come, raise some of them, and we'll believe you."

L-47 Jesus don't mind the devil. He never did. That same old devil said to Him one time, "If thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be turned to bread." He could've done it.
One of them put a rag around his face one day down there in the courts, put it around his face, his eyes, and hit Him on the head with a stick--the mockers, and said, "If you're a prophet, tell us who hit you." See that old devil?
The same old devil lives today. "Go down here and heal old man so-and-so on the corner. Go over here to so-and-so, and heal them." We don't take orders from the devil. Jesus said, "I can do nothing till the Father shows Me first what to do. For He worketh and I worketh hitherto." And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
So you hear anybody say anything like that, walk away; it's the devil. We don't take orders from Satan. We just come from above. When He shows us what to do, then we go do it. If He wants Mr. Jones on the corner healed, He will tell His servant, and he will go over and heal him (That's right) just by His orders. "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first what to do," Saint John 5:19.

L-48 Now, I can hear that priest call out to Him, "You're nothing but a fake."
Jesus, the burdens and sins of the world on Him, He was going straight to Calvary, right up to Jerusalem to be offered up into the hands of sinful men, the Gentiles. They was to crucify Him. All the burdens and sin of every sin that was ever committed on the earth, or ever would be committed, rested upon Him. And they were laughing, making fun of Him; others hollering, "Hosanna to the prophet of Galilee, the Son of David."
That's the way it is today right in Beaumont, Texas. Some of them will laugh and make fun. Some believes the story. It's always been that way, and it always will be that way, until the consummation. It'll be that way: a mixed multitude.


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