<TITLE>11. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 You know, a wagon goes out in a field, runs over humps and bumpity, bumpity, bumpity, making all kinds of noise, squeaking and squawking and jumping. But coming back it's loaded down with good things. It passes the same bumps and don't make a move. We ought to be loaded. As long as there's malice among us, as long as there's differences among us, we're not yet loaded.
Take a weed, light-headed. But wheat comes up, holds itself up in the air, and shakes by the wind, sticks its head straight up. But when it becomes full-headed, it bows.
I think that's what's the matter with all of us today, the churches. We don't associate ourselves enough in--in real humility, not a false, but something that you stay there until something's happened to you. Humility... Too much wind and thunder, and not enough still small voices, I think that is true. We look and see that it's true because the fruit that it bears upon our people. Somehow it isn't just like it used to be.

L-42 Back to our story. We'll get that Sunday. Notice, we find these Pharisees--this Pharisee making everything ready for his big blow out, as we'd call it, big spread that he's going to put on. And I look at the--the man out there ready to take the soldier's chariots, and the one taking the rich man's donkey.
And--and in Palestine, they wear a garment on the outside, which is a robe. On the inside, they wear a underneath garment that comes to the knee. And as they traveled in those days, they walked up over the mountains and--and across, making shortcuts. And when they did, the walkers and the one who had beasts of burden, they walked the same path.

L-43 And the beasts along the road where they walked, and--and then laying upon the ground, the dust begins to accumulate. And where the beasts had crossed the land, there was a smell in the dust. And as the--the people walked, and this big garment swinging loose caused a wind, and it picked up the dust, and it got on their limbs, on their face. And they wasn't presentable to entertain if they were smelling like that.
So they had a--a foot-wash flunky that would meet the guests at the door. And when anyone come up with their card of invitation, he had a whole rack of what we would call, something like bedroom shoes, made out of textile or--or some kind of a goods. And the sandals of those days were sometime a piece of wood, like we have them, called the Roman sandal, with a piece of leather that the toe went between. The--the foot was exposed then to the dust.
And as they tread along, they'd come to this place, give their--honor their ticket. And they would reach down and take off these sandals and set them up in a place, with their name, and reach up on the mantle and get another pair of soft sandals and put on their feet, which they were ready then to go in. Oh, their rugs was sometimes were real thick and great tapestries. They had a beautiful play in their homes. Those people were rich.

L-44 And then the next thing this person did, he was--washed, his feet. And then the next thing happened, he went to the next guest, and he was standing with a towel over his arm, with a little cruse in his hand. Then he--he would pour oil in his hand, let him rub it behind his ears and on his neck, because his face was burning. He was dirty. And he'd take this towel then and wipe his face off good. And--and he was all right, the smell was off of him, and he was anointed with perfume. And that was costly, very costly.
They get it, they tell me, from way up in the mountains where they get these little apples after the rose is gone. And the little apples... And it's a very costly thing. Like the queen of Sheba brought up to Solomon: spices, and spikenard, and so forth. And they made this perfume out of it.


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