<TITLE>16. Par 53-54</TITLE>L-53 He said, "You know what? I remember Rebekah told me that that guy was a prophet. Now, I believe there's a hoax in that somewhere. (They still believe the same thing.) There's a hoax in it somewhere. Those disciples somehow they work it up among them, something another. They go get somebody that He knows, and He tells him them things. So I--I know... You know what? I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm just going to hide from that fellow."
So he set down where two limbs meet. And you know, that's a good place for you to set awhile, where two ways meet: yours and God's. Make your decision from there. So he set down on this limb, and he reached over and got some of the big sycamore (Sycamore... actually it was an olive tree.) So he just pulled over the... and covered himself all up everywhere. Said, "He will never see me setting up here, but I'm going to get a look at him when He comes by." He covers hisself all over, and he leaves one big leaf there, so he could raise it up and look out, like this.
So he sets there and he said, "Now, I'll be able to know, because somehow or another, everywhere he's at there's a lot of noise." You know, that hasn't changed. No, where Jesus is, there's usually a lot of noise. So he said, "I'll hear the noise coming a long time before he gets there."
So after while he heard the noise. And you know, coming in front, great big, sturdy, fellow finally, Peter, saying, "Would you stand aside? We're very sorry. Our Master's tired. He preached all night long last night. He healed many of the sick. Would you stand aside, please? We're sorry. People with their children, well, would you just stand aside, please? Our Master has got to have His breakfast yet this morning. Would you just stand aside? So Zacchaeus said, "That ain't him. That's that old ignorant fisherman up there I used to buy fish from. That ain't him. So about that time, he said, "He must be a great big, princely, guy with a crown on his head, walking sturdy, you know." You know, I hate to see anybody put on the dog. That's a stuffed shirt. That's--that's not a man of God. So here... But they noticed when He come along, a little humble Fellow, not with His collar turned around in the back, and turbans on top of His head; but He was just an ordinary man dressed like an ordinary man.

L-54 So as He comes walking by, Zacchaeus pulled his leaf down, said, "You know, there's just something about that Man that I like." You can never get a glimpse of Him but what you love Him, I don't care who it is. I know the first time I took a look: by faith I saw Him, what He was. Put my hands on His feet, seen Him dying there for me, and looking down to me. Oh, that was enough.
Zacchaeus pulled his leaf down, said, "Oh, is He coming closer? Now, He can't see me. He won't know I'm here. Now, He don't know, because if He'd see me up here... But He can't see me, 'cause I'm all covered up. I'm in this tree, and a little bitty fellow setting up on this limb here, and I'll watch him." So we noticed Him. He come walking, just in His ordinary manner, walking quietly, walked down. I can see little old Zacchaeus looking under the tree leaf, like this, you know, looking as He come by. When He just got passed by, he raised his leaf up.
Jesus stopped, said, "Zacchaeus, come down. Going home with you for dinner." Not only knew he was up there, but knowed what his name was. That settled it.


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