<TITLE>26. Par -</TITLE>L-780-175 See, anything to blight His Name, anything to ruin the confidence of the people, not knowing that they were possessed of the devil to do that. They were working in harmony with the devil, trying to blacken the Name of the Son of God.
How did they do this, brethren? Because they never searched the Scriptures. Jesus said, "Search ye the Scriptures, in them you think you have Eternal Life and they are they that testify of Me." Oh, what a ministry He had. See? Yes, sir. "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me." See?
But here this Pharisee said, "We got him now. Oh, looky here, there's probably fifteen hundred people here at this feast. Now look at him setting over there. There he sets with a prostitute."

L-781-178 And oh my, what a horrible thing that was in that day. Whew. Hm. And there He was with an ill-famed woman, slipped in like, looked like He slipped in. He got by the foot wash flunky and everything else and set there.
And said, "Here she's over there washing his feet. Now, if he was a prophet... You see, brethren, that man's no prophet. If he was a prophet, then he'd know what manner of woman that was washing his feet."
And Jesus just set and watched her, never moved a foot till she got done. If you're going to do something for Jesus, Jesus set and watch you do it sometime. He lets you go ahead till you get finished, then the reward comes. Maybe you run the whole race of life working for Him, but don't worry, there's a reward at the end if you just take your way with His side.

L-781-181 You might not see one person healed that you pray for, just keep on praying for them. I've often said, "If I pray for five hundred tonight, all five hundred dead in the morning, tomorrow night I'll be preaching divine healing and praying for the sick." See? Don't have one thing to do with it. See?
He'll let you come right down to defeats and everything else, till you come right down to the end of the road and finish your work, like He let that woman. She wanted to do Him a service, so He just held His feet out there and let--let her wash them. Oh, if He'd said, "Don't do that," she'd have jumped and run, but He let her do the service.

L-781-183 And after she got through, finished the service that she was going to do, then He looked up to that hypocrite standing back there, was trying to cast a blackness on His Name, said, "Simon, I've got something to say to you, not to her, but to you. You, standing back there, in your heart that's the reason you brought Me down here. You have no fellowship with Me. Didn't I know it? But you brought Me down here, and you set Me back here to make fun of Me. Let... You never give Me no water to wash My feet; you never give Me nothing to soothe Me. Me setting here burning and hurting, you never give Me no oil for My face. You was ashamed to kiss Me welcome or shake My hand. (See?) You was ashamed before your company; you was ashamed to do it. This woman, since she's come in, she's did nothing but rub My feet and bathe them with the very tears of her eyes, wiped them with the towel of her own hair. Then I'll just show you whether I'm a prophet or not." Amen. I like that.
"Now, I want to speak to you just a minute. Your sins which are many are all forgiven you."
Hm, did they blight His Name? They thought they had it; they thought they had stopped it; they thought they'd fixed Him so His revival could never be in that community; they thought they'd ruined His influence; but it just taken one person that loved Him to turn the whole situation.


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