<TITLE>18. Par 83-87</TITLE>L-83 And the new birth is the same thing. It's a mess. But it comes life out of that mess. Only way you can receive life, is through a birth. It's messy, but it makes life. People try to dodge it. They don't want to wash the manicure off of their face, some of them, or... What is it you call that stuff? Not manicure, mascara. That's what it is. Ever what... I don't know that crazy stuff. You'd look a whole lot prettier if you wouldn't wear it, and--and... Yes. If you'll try a little Acts 2 and 4, it'll beat all that Max Factor ever could make. I'll tell you that. If you'll just try a little of that, it'll be an eternal beauty, a sweet, meek, quiet spirit.
That's what this woman had. That's what Esther had when she come before the king. That's the reason she overrun the other girls, because she come adorning herself with a sweet spirit before him.

L-84 Now, here was this woman before Jsus, washing His feet. And after she got the service done, she thought, "What's He going to say?" She stopped. Her big black eyes, and the tear streaks down, and the mess all over her face where she'd kissed his feet, and she looked to see what He would say.
Pharisee standing there, everybody quiet then, nobody was saying a thing, you know. They was everybody breathless. I can see Pharisee with a righteous indignation, you know, running through him. Oh, he was blowed up. He thought, "To disgraced my service..."

L-85 They still think the same thing when they see a mess like that, you know. It's that a disgrace." It's an honor to any church that will see a newborn babe come through.
"Oh, how disgraceful. My bishopry will be ruined." There he stood just blowing up like a frog. Then he stood there, all...
Jesus was watching the woman. So after while, He turned His eyes around. We'll see whether He was a prophet or not (Oh, my.), see what He said. Said, "Simon, I got something to say to you." Here He come. We'll find out whether He's a prophet or not.
He said, "You invited me down here, and I took off from My schedule. I left sick people laying around the gates. I left lepers crying. I left multitudes of people hunting for Me in the wilderness, and around over the sea banks to try to find Me, because you invited Me. And I come."

L-86 "And when I entered the door, you never washed My feet. You let Me enter in here to disgrace Me, show Me up before the people. You never give Me no anointing to anoint My hands and My burning face, that I walked through the sun to come to your invitation. You never did it. You never kissed Me welcome. You just let Me come as a bum. But this woman..." Oh, my. What's He going to say? "But this woman, she has washed My feet with her tears." Hallelujah. "And she hasn't ceased of kissing My feet since she's been here." That's it. "And I say to her..." Oh, what's He going to say? "Thy sins, which were many, are all forgiven her." That's it. "Thy sins, which were many, are all forgiven you."

L-87 Oh, God. Let that be my plea. Let that be me when I come to the end of the road. May I hear Him say--of every service I can do Him, every mission can go on, everywhere I can preach, every sinner can draw, I hope to hear Him say, "Your sins, which are many, are all forgiven. Enter into the realms of life, into the--what's been prepared for you, these blessings which has been prepared since the foundation of the world." I'm sure we all feel that way, don't we? Don't you?
Let's bow our heads just a minute while we're thinking on these things here. We don't want our time to get away from us.


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