<TITLE>17. Par 79-82</TITLE>L-79 And she tried to wash it. She--she couldn't. The tears dropped on it. She just couldn't wash His feet or break the box. And she'd try it. And the tears... And then she got kind of ashamed of herself, crying on His feet. And she--she took... Her hair fell down when she was... You know, she had her curls all done up like this, you know, on top of her head. And when she... her tear--tears dropping on His feet, and her hair fell down.
She started to--to wiping the tears off His feet with her--with her curls of her hair. (Some of our sisters would have to stand on their head to get enough hair to do that.) So then, she was wiping His--His feet with--with her--with her hairs of her head, as it spatted on--on His feet like that. And, oh, she'd look up, and she was scared. And then she'd... You--you...
Somehow or another you get all excited when you get around Him. I do. I get all excited when I feeled Him around me. Sometimes I don't know what I'm doing when I'm... I--I lose myself. I think we all do.

L-80 And as she was trying to say something and couldn't, the tears just running off of His feet. She didn't have any water to wash His feet with, and Pharisee hadn't give her no water. But what beautiful water He had: tears of repentance, washing Jsus' dirty feet. Oh, God. Tears of repentance, washing Jsus' dirty feet... She'd wash them, and then she'd kiss them, and wash them. And--and she broke the top off of this little box, and poured the anointment on there. And she looked up.
Now, if He'd have moved, she'd have got out of there in a minute. But He just... If she wanted to do Him a service, He just set still and let her do it. I love that. If you want to do Him a service, just... He will set still and let you go ahead and do it. See? He never bawled her out. He never said, "Say, you sinner, get up from there." No, no. He just let her go ahead and do it. He will let you do the same thing if you want to do a service for Him.

L-81 And as the tears, and the--and taking her hairs and washing His feet, she'd done forgot about old Pharisee standing up there and all the rest of them. She was doing Jesus a service.
That's what it is, you forget all about bishops and all these other things. Whenever you're doing Jesus a service, you just keep on doing it. I don't care what anybody says, you're--you're right on the job. You're doing something.
And she was a-kissing His feet, and wiping his feet, and trying to put this ointment on there; and the tears, and ointment washing down across His feet...
And there, first thing you know, Pharisee happened to look back and saw it. Oh, my. He puffed out like a frog eating shot. He... look up, "Hmmm, my." He wanted all the brethren to see that, you know. "Looky there." And he said within himself, "If this man was a prophet, he would know what kind of a woman that was. If he was a prophet, he would know this kind of a woman, what she was. Proves, brethren, he's no prophet."

L-82 But Jsus never said a thing. He just watched it. He just kept watching her, and she was doing the service that he ought to have done. So she just kept washing. And after while, when she got through, you know, and she was scared then, afraid, after she got His feet wiped off with her hairs and here, her mouth all greasy from that, I imagine she was a mess...
You know, somehow or another, you get in a mess when you get down before Christ. That's what's the matter with the people today. They're trying to dodge the new birth. You know, any birth is a mess. I don't care if it's in a pig pen, or if it's in a pink decorated hospital room. Any birth is a mess.


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