<TITLE>10. Par 36-40</TITLE>L-36 But this fellow, he was a different sort of a character. And he had... He got everything ready, the selected, and no doubt sent word around to all the high priests, and the bishops, and so forth. "Now, he's coming down. Be here. Now, we'll just certainly one time for all prove that there's nothing to this guy. And you all come down. You've never seen Him. And we'll expect maybe something that we can catch Him in."
So finally everything was put in order. The right day come for the--the feast. And the--or that morning everything was set in order and everything ready. And oh, how they could get it ready. Everything just touched...
That morning, real early, all the servants was up with the towels over their arms that was going to serve. The beast had already been killed and was being barbecued in the front yard. And the wines was all set in the special bottles and jugs, the goblets was on the table everywhere. And all the servants was ready to serve the crowd that come.

L-37 Transportation was a very odd thing. They had three ways of transportation. The army come in a chariot. The rich man came on a mule. The poor walked. So they had different ones out there to take care of the guests as they come up. It was really set up real nice. Now, let's keep our minds close.
And as we see, that perhaps maybe the man that was going to take care of the soldier's chariots that came, they--they had a place they'd take care of their--unhook their horses and put them in the stable and give them food. And the ones for the rich to take their little donkey out and fix him. And--and then they had another fellow there. He was called the foot-wash. He was a flunky, the lowest paid man of all the group--a flunky, foot-wash, lowest job of all.

L-38 And sometimes when we think that we're somebody... And the highest Hierarchy of heaven became flesh in a foot-wash flunky when He come to wash mortal's feet. When He come to the earth He didn't come to be a big somebody. God always takes the--the nobodies to make somebody out of them. That's the trouble with the people today; they're trying to be a somebody. You want to become a nobody. God takes something that there's nothing to, to make something out of it, and it proves that He's God. How that this low job to wash the feet of the people, and Jesus taken that job, the lowest that there was on the earth, to become an--an example.

L-39 He didn't have to do that. He could reach in a fish's mouth and pull out a coin, or--or speak to the mountains, it'd poured gold by the billions of tons. He could pump water out of a well and turn it into the most delicious wine in the country. He could take five biscuits and two fish, and fed five thousand. He didn't have to do it. But He come for an example the way Pentecostal people should be: took the lowest job. Oh, sure, that's what... But we try to take the biggest. If we can't be bishop, doctor, pres... or something--highest places, biggest things... Oh, my, we're just--we're full of big things.

L-40 I don't come, when I'm invited like this, to baby and pet people. I pray, say, "God, that's Your people. What can I say when I see the things creeping up?" Then the Holy Spirit begins to tell me, "Strike at this." See, we want something big. God takes something little.
Elijah heard the mighty rushing wind, the thunders, lightnings, and the earthquake, and never bothered him. But what attracted him was a still small Voice. That made the prophet put something over his face and walk forth to hear God. I wonder if we Pentecostal people hasn't relied too much on rushing winds, a lot of noise, instead of remembering, or hearing that still small Voice. We hear so much rumble, we can't take time to hear the still small Voice.


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