<TITLE>15. Par 56-58</TITLE>L-56 So I can just see old Zacchaeus up there, pulling all the limbs and leaves around him so he'd be well camouflaged. Nobody would see him.
And after while, a noise came up the street. (Strange, wherever Jesus is there's usually a lot of noise.) And here come a lot of noise up the street. He said, "Well, He must be approaching."
And he noticed coming around the corner a great big fellow, bald-headed. Said, "I'm sorry, folks. You have to step back. Our Master's very tired. He's been here..." others passing by.
Now, which one of them would be Him? After while a little meek-looking Fellow come by. He thought, "And that's what they call a prophet? That's what they call the Messiah? Why, He's no prophet. Look at Him. He don't even look like one. He don't even dress like one."
But He walked quietly, till He got right under the tree, and He stopped, and He looked up, said, "Zacchaeus, come down. I'm going home with you today."
"You remember what Zacchaeus said when he joined the Full Gospel Business Men down there after he got saved? He said that he was took off of his feet when not only did He know he was up there, but knowed who he was, and said, 'Zacchaeus, come down from that tree. I'm going home with you.'"
"Zacchaeus fell down, and said, 'Lord, if I've done anything wrong, I'm willing to make it right.'"

L-57 How we need more Zacchaeuses today. When they can see the manifestations, and the Presence of the very God that's promised in the Bible, and get up and walk away from it, what a pitiful condition this nation is in. What a ripened judgment condition.
And many times you say, "I don't have to listen to that," go listen to somebody will pat you on the back, and let you live in sin. Then meet it yonder at the judgment bar and see what's going to happen. You flee from the wrath that is to come. Repent, or perish.
God, when He does things like He's doing today, nowhere in Scripture did He ever send such until judgment followed it. Exactly right. Judgment's going to strike, as certain as I'm standing here on the platform as a servant of Christ. Certainly. You remember that.

L-58 What a testimony meeting. Oh, my. And then he said, "Do you remember when we went out of the city too?" Said John, "When we went out of the city, there was an old blind man setting out there, named Bartimaeus. And he was setting on the rock, and we was about a hundred yards from him. And out of the city came a great roar. Remember how Bartimaeus testified to us and told us how it happened?"
"He was setting there studying about, 'Oh, if could've lived in the day when great prophets walked down this road, when Elijah and Elisha, arm-in-arm, came down this road going to the Jordan to pull back the waters to cross over. If I would've lived in that day, I'd have run out on these cobblestones, and fell down before them, and said, "O, great prophet of God, pray for me that I receive my sight."
"'But alas, they taken me over to the synagogue, I asked the priest about it. He said, "Now, wait a minute, Bartimaeus. You're an old blind man. There's nothing can help you. The days of miracles is past. Just belong to the church, and you'll be all right someday, when you go to heaven.'"
"'But you know, I've always thought in my heart,' he said, 'that if there was ever a God, He has to still be God.'"


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