<TITLE>12. Par 46-50</TITLE>L-46 And he was standing on the corner, just happened to think, "Well, do you know what? That crowd will follow Him. (That's right. They will.) Wherever He goes, they'll go too. You know what? I'm so little, when they get up here, they just might tramp over the top of me. So there's only... I don't know how to do it."
So he looked and there was a sycamore tree standing there. Thought, "Well, you know what? I believe I'll get up in that. And when I get up there... Now, what am I doing all this for? So I... but if I get up there, I'll see Him when He comes by. And I'll preach Him a sermon from the top of this tree."
So he looked around, and he was too short to reach the limb. You know? But he was determined he was going to see Him. If you're determined, God will fix a way for you to see Him all right. See? You just be determined. See?

L-47 "And so he looked around and he happened to think, 'Well, what is it? Well, the garbage collector hadn't come by yet this morning.' And the garbage pail was setting over there. So he goes over to get the garbage pail and it was too heavy. 'Well, nothing else around. But I want to see Him.'"
Oh, you'll do strange things when you want to see Him. You do things you don't think you would do, embarrassing things.
"So he puts his arm around the garbage pail. Here he comes now. And just about that time, here come two or three businessmen around the corner, his competitors. Then he's caught in a trap.
Maybe some of you are in the same shape tonight. You're caught amongst this holy-rollers. So there you are. You might as well just take it. See?

L-48 "So there they was. He had the pail in his arms. And his little face got red. But he didn't care. He's going to see Him anyhow.
That's the way. Now, Zacchaeus, now, you're getting right. Takes it over and sets it down by the tree. And shinnies up the..." I don't mean to say that. We call it in America "shinny up the tree." You know, it's get up on the tree and climb up it.

L-49 "And he got up there. Got him... Set down where two limbs come together, like this, set down across those limbs." That's a good place to set down awhile, where two ways meets, yours and God's. Think it over a little bit.
You're going to die one of these days. You've got to meet the God Who wrote this Word. You've got to give it an answer one of these days. So I hope that there's many Zacchaeuses here tonight, will set on that cross place tonight, make up your mind.
What a pitiful looking sight he was. Setting up there picking the splinters out of him and garbage all over his new suit. And... But he was determined to see Jesus. See? He wanted to see Him.

L-50 So he begin to think, "You know, what's making me do this? You know, Rebekah told me that that guy was a prophet, that He could see. Now, I don't believe that. There's no such a thing in this day. My priest told me there's no prophets of this day. Prophets was hundreds of years ago, way back in Moses' time, but there's no prophets today. So you know, what I believe? Before--before I give Him a piece of my mind, I believe I'll just cover myself up, so He can't see me." So he got all the limbs, and pulled them all around him, and camouflaged himself so nobody could see him.


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