<TITLE>12. Par 54-58</TITLE>L-54 I wish I had that job. I'd have been watching for Him. I'd been looking up and down the road. I'd have been sure He got the washing. If I'd have been there, I'd have wanted to be sure I washed His feet.
But where was that flunky? Where was one? He still had the stink of the road on Him. He had dirty feet. He wasn't anointed. The Scripture says so. And there He set there, and nobody paying any attention to Him.

L-55 That's the way it is in our... most revivals today. I hate to say this, but it's the truth. We invite Him and try to ignore Him. Somebody can say something, or start to worship God when we ask for Him to come (and He comes in the form of the Holy Ghost), and somebody will say something. And somebody will start to worship, and it'll disturb the whole meeting, because somebody said, "Amen," or "Hallelujah." Ignore Him... And if somebody would say, a certain person said, "Amen," "Hallelujah." They'd say "holy-roller," or some dirty name. Jsus with dirty feet...
God, what's the matter with this generation of people? Where are they at? What's happened? Jsus, with dirty feet, setting among the people where He's invited and with a dirty name. There He sits there, stink of the road on Him, everything that they can throw onto Him, or the people that worships Him, they throw it on, call them a bunch of riff-raff and everything else: Jsus, with dirty feet.
But He never said a word. He just set there with his head down, a wallflower, as we'd call it, at the party. That's what He is today at the worship. At the worship where we're supposed to be representing Pentecost, He becomes a wallflower.

L-56 Here not long ago, a noted evangelist was at Shreveport, and he was preaching. And he's a fiery preacher too, and he was preaching away. And one precious Pentecostal brother was used to praising God, and the Holy Spirit fell on him, and he hollered, "Glory to God."
And this evangelist turned around and said, "Shut your mouth. You disturb me."
Well, you disturb me when you don't say "Glory to God." I--I think something's happened.

L-57 I used to have an old dog, poor old fellow. He sent me through school by hunting. He'd tree anything there was. But one thing he was a-scared of, or didn't want to get to, was a skunk. He'd get him under a brush pile, and he--he'd just go around barking. If I wanted him to get him to really go and get that skunk, only thing I had to do was pat him, and say, "Sic him, boy." He went in and got the skunk.
The biggest skunk I know of is the devil. The best way I know to do, is say, "Amen. Hallelujah." That's, "Sic him, boy. Go after him. Put him in a stump."

L-58 Yeah, they invite Him, but they don't want Him. When He comes they won't receive Him. They got their own ritualistic way, and they've got to have it that way. Not welcomed after He gets there: everybody pass Him by as if He wasn't there; looking around, hearing Pharisee's modern jokes.
Like some of these television outfits we've got today, people would rather stay home and watch some Ricky get up down there with a television outfit and crack some kind of a joke, with some woman's been married four or five times, and so forth, and stay to hear that, and love that better than they love prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Why, no wonder the revival's gone. You can't build a church upon embers or coals, some phoenix. You can't do it. Old burnt-over coals... You've got to have somebody their heart's on fire; they're looking for something, something to take place, watching every service, right there at the spot, watching.


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