<TITLE>14. Par 52-56</TITLE>L-52 The church is a whole lot like it was in the days of Esther. Esther didn't take the perfuming of--of the women. She adorned herself with the modest apparel, the hidden man of the heart. And the king said, "Put the crown on her head." Esther was a type of the church today, those who are ready to come out and adorn themselves with the sweetness of the Holy Spirit, not the perfuming and the dressing of the world, try to compare with them but that hidden man of the heart, that's the one.

L-53 Notice, we find Jsus setting out there with dirty feet. They'd never been noticed. How did He get in? How did He miss... How did the foot-wash flunky miss Him? How'd the rest of them miss Him? I don't know. But He was setting there with dirty feet. Nobody was doing anything about it. Oh, Pharisee, he and the other, the bishop, and the archbishop, and the cardinal, and all the rest of them was over there tipping their goblets together, and drinking the--the fine wines, and--and talking about the things of the--of Israel, but failed to see the God of Israel.
That's today. We want the biggest building in the town or... And all the people like to flock to the biggest building there is in the city. All these big, the best dressed, and all this other. And some poor little man preaching the Gospel down yonder on the street corner, or out there somewhere in a alley, in a little church, and you don't want to associate with him. What's the matter? There's something wrong. Go up there where the rest of the people act like this and dress the best. It's too bad it's getting into our realms. Right.

L-54 What we need is a humbling. What we need is a rebaptism of the Holy Spirit, with God's love and power to take this world out of us, bring us back to adorning again to the Word: washed by the water of the Word. Get back to Christ, instead of fashioning ourselves of the world, trying to act like the first lady and--and all these other things, some of the bishops, and so forth. Don't matter about that. You want to be like Jesus, Jsus.

L-55 Now, think of it. Everybody standing around the fence after the feast got on, the fragrance of the lamb and--and the--everything. There was nobody on the street. Everybody was standing, looking in, their mouth's watering, grasping for a bite of the lamb. They couldn't come in. No. They were the poor, the trash, outside. And here was one on the inside dressed and looked like them on the outside. Something wrong somewhere... Setting there, not only the decency to wash His feet, or--or kiss Him welcome, just let Him set there, nobody around Him. His disciples couldn't come; they wasn't invited. But here He's setting here, looking around.

L-56 Now, listen. Way down the street, to the lowest part of the city, down in the red light district, we turn right, go up an alley. There's a little old creaking steps coming down the back. And as you climb it, she squeaks and skreaks. Open the door, and we find in there a little woman. Oh, I don't believe she meant to be bad. Maybe she had a good parent, and she just took the road that's wrong. Or maybe she was a good girl; some slick-haired, curly-headed Judas ruined the little lady's reputation.
I'm always hitting at the women. I'm going to take up for you awhile. There's a many a good girl gone wrong because of some little perfumed Judas running along with his hair slicked down, and hold his mouth open in front; going on with some little something of a--one of these here Ricky or Elvis' machines out here on the street. Take some little girl out 'cause she thinks he's cute, give her a cigarette, get her on a dance floor.


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