<TITLE>11. Par 26-27</TITLE>L-26 So maybe, he was there that morning to see that. However, he believed through the Scriptures that that was the Messiah. And, but yet he couldn't make a confession because the--the ministerial association of Gadara had said this: "If there's anybody ever attends one of them revivals that that prophet of Galilee over there, holds, we will excommunicate him that hour from the church. So well, he had--had a pastor though. And he had a big congregation, and a nice bunch of people, and--and he knowed he loved the Lord. But right down in his heart, he knowed there was something else ought to be added. Oh, Zacchaeus, I hope you're setting here tonight and don't get up and go out till this is over. See? Just set still for a minute.
And there he was, you know, out there, and believing that, and come by the little candlelight, and study through the night, when he'd go to one of those meetings, and listen, maybe disguised himself, and put a veil over his face, or something, so he wouldn't be knowed as a doctor, or Dr. Jairus, you know, or... He just wouldn't want to be known amongst the crowd. But yet, he was setting there. And he watched this, and he studied it; but yet, he couldn't open it, publicly confess Him, because he'd have to give up his ministerial association and his fellowship with his brethren. And that's the reason, all of them together run Jesus out of Gadara, and put Him back over in His own country. In His own country it been the same thing. And anybody joined themselves with this so-called prophet of Galilee, why was, had to be excommunicated.

L-27 But you know, God's got a way of bringing that real genuine faith out in us. God has peculiar ways of doing it. And so, let's say, one night the little girl had come in, and she was... He had one little daughter about twelve years old, and he was getting aged. And that was the only child he and his wife had.
One night she came in from skipping the rope, or something around the parish, and she came in, she said, "Daddy, I am so sick."
So he felt her little head and he said, "Yes, honey. You are sick." So he said, "Mother, I'll tell what. You put her to bed, and we'll go down and get the doctor." That's the only sensible thing to do.
So they went and got the good doctor from the neighborhood. And he came up and he felt her. And he said, "Yes, she's burning with fever." So he doctored her for two or three days. And come to find out, her fever grew worse. And oh, it got in such a place, till... It got so hot, that he was getting, the doctor got worried about it. So he tried all the herbs and all the remedies that he knowed to try to help this little girl. But he--he couldn't do no good with it. He just couldn't break the fever.


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