<TITLE>09. Par 39-43</TITLE>L-39 And then, we find out that they would make ready for months and months, and send out these invitations. And they'd get everything ready. And they chose a certain time of year for such a feast, maybe when their--their grapes were ripe and the--the air was filled with the aroma of those ripened grapes. My, it'd just make you hungry to smell them. They knowed how to make everything just right.
And then they'd--they'd decorate their--their, what you call here, I guess, a patio, or piazza, we called it in the north, and--and fix it all up, and make it so pretty. They had this big feast out in the yards where they had fenced off, so that the outsiders and them that's not invited could not get in. And, oh, how they would barbecue roast lamb and put all kinds of spices on it. And my, they could really make it look good, and was good.

L-40 And then they would make--get everything ready just to the dot. They'd have all their stables fixed for those who came by cart, that they could pull their horses in. They had hitch racks, flunkies there, that as soon as... all their flunkies, all dressed as servants, and standing ready...
And when the chariot drove up, those who came by chariot, the flunky would take the chariot, go on down, take the horses out, and the harness off of them, and--and give them fodder, and so forth. And the one that rode on saddle, remove the saddle, and take care of the horse. They had everything just fixed.

L-41 And then, there was another flunky that I'd like... The cheapest flunky of all of them... And that was the foot-wash flunky. He was the poorest paid man of the bunch. That's what makes Him God to me. He was the highest of the highs and took the part of a foot-wash flunky on earth. And we walk around, think we're somebody. And the God of glory, revealing the glory of God, washed the feet of fishermen. And that's what makes Him real: become a servant, the lowest of servants, went down upon His knees to wash the feet of the very creative dust that He made.

L-42 There he was, down on his knees washing the feet--the poorest paid man in the bunch, and the worst job.
Now, the people only had about two ways of motivation. That was either by an animal or walking. And when the people walked, they went up over the hills, the shortcuts, and so forth, over the hills to the cities. And along this trail, the animals walked also, the--the horses, and the--the camels, and the donkeys, and... Along the road where they went, the dust was contaminated.
And when the people walked, they had a Palestinian garment on, which is a robe. And then as they walked, the robe was low, and the dust, as they swung their feet, the robe give a swing, and it picked up the dust off of the road, and it got on their limbs, on their faces. And the smell of the barnyard, like the--where the animals had been along the road was on them. And they were not--they...

L-43 It felt uncomfortable to walk into a--the house to be a guest, with all that smell on them. So what they would do, they would have a big bunch of what we would call today, like the ladies wear, a little house-slipper, a little, like a little piece of cloth that they put on their feet. And then they would set all these in little rows.
And maybe someone come up, and here's what taken place. (Come here, Brother Roy, a minute.) Here's the way they greeted one another. They come in like this, and they would take his shoe, and take it off, and see what size his shoe was, then fit it with a pair of bedroom slippers, we'd call it.


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