<TITLE>14. Par 54-58</TITLE>L-54 Oh, the testimony, how it went on--could go on in this testimony meeting. One of them might've said, "You remember that day that--that Zacchaeus got up in a tree? You remember him testifying down there at the meeting? He said, 'I've got it in for Him, and I'll climb up in this tree down at Jericho. And when He passes by here, He won't see me. I'll pull all the leaves in around me like this and camouflage myself right good. I'll get a good look at Him.'"
"And He come walking right down the street, stopped right under that tree, looked up. Not only did He see him behind those leaves, but He knowed who he was. He said, 'Zacchaeus (Hallelujah.), come down. I'm going home with you for dinner today.'"

L-55 One of them might've raised up; might've been Matthew, and said (the same one that wrote this story tonight), said, "Brethren, do you remember also when He come out of Jericho, how that old blind Bartimaeus laying over there in a corner? And all the priests, and all of them said, 'Say, you. I hear you raise the dead. We got a graveyard full of them up here; come, raise these. Hey, you false prophet, you this, that, and the other,' and other hollering... Some hollering, 'Hail the prophet,' so forth; and others cursing Him and so forth. But He had His head set towards Jerusalem to go to be offered up to Calvary.

L-56 "And that poor old blind beggar down there, and that little Christian woman come by, picked him up. He said, 'What's... Madam, what is it?' (See, there's something another about a person that's a Christian. They're always willing to help somebody else to find it.) Said, 'What's all of this going by?'"
"She said, 'Are you just a stranger? This is Jesus of Nazareth, the prophet of Galilee. That's the Son of David, the One we hoped for.'"
"And he begin to cry out. He said, 'Now, Lord, He's probably too far away, half a block away from me.'" There at the walls that was spotted out where he was setting, and where He was, and more than a half of a city block away from it, like that, maybe right on a hundred yards. And he begin to cry out, 'Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.' And somehow or another he touched the border of His garment."
"He stopped and said, 'Bring him here.' That's Jesus of Nazareth."

L-57 What a testimony meeting, wouldn't you like to have been setting out there listening at them?
Now, brethren, the Bible says that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever: same Jesus. If you put the life of any vine... If you put the life of a--of a vine going up through the branches, and if it bears forth a branch and comes forth this kind of a branch, and brings this kind of fruit, grapes; if it ever puts forth another branch, it'll bring grapes, just the same.
And He is the Vine; we are the branches. And the first branch that ever come out of that Vine, they wrote a book of Acts behind it. That's right. And if that ever puts forth another Vine, they'll write another book of Acts behind it (That's right.), because it'll bring forth the same fruit, 'cause He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-58 Remember, He performed that sign of the prophet before who? The Jew and the Samaritan, not the Gentile. Remember, there's only the three races: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people: Jew, Gentile and Samaritan. Now, He never performed it one time before a Gentile that we have a record of. Why? Because the Gentiles wasn't looking for no Messiah.
That's the reason today they don't see it yet. They're not looking for anything like this. They don't believe the Holy Ghost, 'cause they're not looking for such a thing. All they go is join church, and put their name on a book, and say that's all there is to it.
But for those who are looking for the power, those who are looking for the Holy Spirit, those who are looking for the signs of the Bible to be fulfilled, "Now, come to pass in the last days," saith God, "I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh." Now, they're... Yes, He comes to those who are looking for Him.


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