<TITLE>17. Par 70-73</TITLE>L-70 But you will do ridiculous things when you--you want to see Jesus. There's nothing going to stand in your way. They can call them holy-rollers or whatever they want to. If you got your mind made up to see Jesus, you'll go to see Him anyhow.
So there he was setting up on where two limbs... Now, that's a good place that everybody comes to, where your way and God's way meets. And he set on this limb, pulls brush all around him. He said, "He will never see me." So he made himself a door, a big leaf here, so he could pull this leaf up, and look, and he could see Him coming, then drop it back. Looked all around. There's no way for Him to see him. After while he heard a noise.

L-71 You know something strange? When Jesus is around, there's a lot of noise. So he seen Him coming. He raised up this leaf, and he watched Him. But there was something about Him that looked different. He wasn't like other men. We see the big fisherman going along saying, "Step aside, brethren. I'm sorry, I can't... We can't let you around Him. He's tired. He's been preaching most of the night. Sorry, folks. We can't..."
"And as He come by... You remember what Zacchaeus said? He had his head down. He come right and stood under the tree. And when He stopped under the tree, He looked up, and He said, 'Zacchaeus, come down. I'm going home with you for dinner.'"
"Oh, you remember what Zacchaeus said? That settled it. 'How did He know who I was? And how'd He know I was in the tree?'"
Zacchaeus, here tonight, He knows right where you are, and what leaves you're hiding behind. Exactly right.

L-72 One of them might have said just a... Now, let's let Mark testify once, and then we'll close. Mark might have said, "Listen. You remember Bartimaeus, what he said? He'd been setting there all morning, everything, all hopes was gone. And he heard a noise coming out of the city. And he happened to remember, when he was setting there studying, and thought, 'You know what? If I would've lived in the time of the prophets, right down this street come Elijah and Elisha, arm-in-arm, going down to cross the Jordan. If I would've lived in those days, I'd have run out there before those prophets, and fell down, and said, "Oh, great men of God, pray for me that I'll receive my sight." But alas, the priest tells me that the days of miracles is passed.'"

L-73 "'And just think, a hundred yards from where I'm setting, the great warrior, Joshua, was walking around one afternoon. And all at once he seen a Man standing over against him with a drawed sword. Joshua pulled his sword, and run to meet Him, and he said, "Are You for us, or are You for our enemy?" And He raised up the sword, and the zig-zag lightning flew from it, and said, "I'm the Captain of the host of the Lord." And Joshua, the great warrior, threw off his helmet, laid down his sword, and fell at His feet. Just think, that was only about a hundred and fifty to two-hundred yards from where I'm setting.'"
Little did he know that that same chief Captain was on the road out through there then. Little does people know that same chief Captain is right in this building tonight. If it isn't so, the Bible is a misleading Book. He said, "Wherever two or three are gathered I'll be in their name--be in their midst where they are gathered in My Name."


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