<TITLE>15. Par 51-52</TITLE>L-51 Standing there grooming his little self, he thought, "Wait a minute. That crowd will follow him." That's right. They usually do. "That crowd will follow him. So if he comes up here, well, I'll be no better off than I was down there." So he says, "You know what I believe I'll do. There's a sycamore tree standing there, so I believe I'll just get up there. When I get up in that tree I'll tell him when he passes by."
So he looks around, and say, there set the city garbage can setting there. "Well, maybe if I could get that over here... I can't shinny up the tree." (Shinny, I meant climb up the tree. See? Excuse my language. I'm just a Kentuckian.) So--so he goes over and gets his arms... Now--now, he--he backs off. "You know, my, I got on my best clothes. How can I...? I couldn't be caught with that garbage can."
But there's something another about it. If you're trying to see Jesus, you'll manage some way to see Him. You'll do things you didn't think you did. You didn't think you'd ever do it, but you do it anyhow, if you want to see Jesus. You lay where some of these people are, and you'll just lose all of that old prestige.

L-52 So he slips over, and holds his nose, and gets the garbage pail. (You understand, honey?) Here he comes over, you know, packing...
And he happened to look up, and here's his competitor, saying, "Well, you know what? There's Zacchaeus. He's working for the city now, the garbage disposal."
Well, he was determined to see Jesus, so he didn't care. Maybe some of you all might feel the same way. Some doctor of divinity setting back there saying, "I wouldn't want to be caught amongst this bunch of people," but you're exposed now, brother. You're ruined now. But if you're determined to see Jesus, you don't care anyhow. That's right. You don't care anyhow.
Here he comes with the garbage pail, walks over and sets it down by the tree, and shinnies up the tree, and gets up there, sets up there picking splinters out of his hand, wiping the garbage off his new clothes. But he wants to see Jesus.


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