<TITLE>09. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 And you cannot come together for fellowship unless you've got something in common. That's the reason we love to come to these meetings. We've got something in common: the Holy Spirit, brotherly love, fellowshipping one with another while the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses all of our sins. We have fellowship; we have something in common.
When you see a--young people with old people, you see a little girl hanging around grandma all the time, there's something wrong: too much difference in their age. You know, the young women, the sixteen years old, they like to pop their chewing gum and, you know, and things like the others, and talk about the boyfriends. And the--and the old ladies, they like to talk about stitching, and cutting and sewing, and cooking, and so forth. And the little kids like to--to play dolls or marbles, tops, or whatmore. But when you see a little bitty girl hanging around with grandma, you just imagine grandma's got a sack of candy somewhere. Something wrong, or she's grandma's pet...

L-34 So this Pharisee must've had, as we'd call it on the street, a 'trump card' up his sleeve to invite Jesus, 'cause he hated Him. There was no fellowship. I just imagine he said to the other great men in his neighborhood, "You know that so-called prophet? Our people knows that it's telepathy. We know that he's a fortuneteller. And there's nothing to him."
You know, all them didn't die. A lot of them still lives. "We know that they--we don't believe Him, our--our association has done denounced it. So you know what? At this certain feast that I'm going to have, I'm going to see if I can get him down here, and we'll prove that He's not. We'll prove that He's not what He says he is. So we'll get Him down here." And that's to my opinion, was the card he held in his sleeve. Oh, these Pharisees.
There was only two classes of people then: rich and poor. So they--they could really put on a feast. Oh, my, how they could do it. They'd pick, select the most suitable time of the year, maybe when the grapes was all ripe around in the vineyards. And the night-blooming jasmine and the orange blossoms that--that filled the air, and just made the valley full of the fragrance of the--of the odor. And then they would take and roast a lamb. Oh, a delicacy, roast that lamb. And--and the poor people would smell it down in town, and their mouth would water to smell that lamb roasting.

L-35 But you could only come by invitation. They had their yards all fenced in and so forth. And they'd probably get out in the great patio in the back. And it was a real selected time for their so-called fellowship that these priests and hierarchies had together. And they just invited the celebrity. So you see, Jesus would be out of place there. Anybody filled with the Spirit would be out of place there. So they--they had all their discussions of other things.
And that's one thing I like about a Business Men's meeting, not only a businessmen, but where they set and talk about how they can get a little on this side, and cut off a little from this one, and rob Peter to pay Paul, they say, you know, and such things. I like it where you come and you talk about Jesus, and about God, and about the Holy Ghost, and about the power, and the resurrection, and the coming of the Lord. That's what I like in the Business Men.


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