<TITLE>11. Par 139-149</TITLE>L-139 I wonder, tonight, if the boss would walk in and see some of you businessmen here, setting in a meeting like this that's called "holy-rollers," wonder if your face... Well, you're already identified, so you might as well set still now. Zacchaeus done had it in his arms; he had done give away. And you've done got in here, so you might just set still, go on through with it, setting in there.

L-140   He had his arm around the garbage pail. What a thing for a businessman! Here he comes, his face red. And them saying, "Well, what you know, Zacchaeus?" You know, it been pretty sharp, the business had, so he finds out. Say, "Here he is. Now he's working for the city. I know, I know his business is bad, look what kind of a job he's got."

L-141 He was determined to see Jesus, regardless. He had heard about it, and he wanted to know for himself.

L-142 I would to God that every man would take that attitude. If you've ever heard of Him, find out. He's not dead. He's alive, just as much here in this place tonight as He was on the shores of Galilee. "Lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the world. The works that I do, shall you do also." That isn't so, then He was a false Messiah; He wasn't the--the Messiah that He's supposed to be. But if He does maintain and keep His promise, He is still God that makes Hisself known to the people. He would have to do the same things He did. That's His way of doing things. He'd have to show Himself the way He did then. Hebrews 13:8, Paul speaking to the Jews, he said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Therefore, He must be the same in principle, the same in power, the same in everything that He was. He must be the same today.

L-143   Sometimes, we see the works of God, I know there's hypocrisy mixed with it. When you find a bogus dollar, what does that speak to you, you businessmen? Will you quit? Will you take all the money out of the bank and throw it in the--in the river because you found a bogus dollar? That bogus dollar only means that there's a real dollar it's made off of. And Pentecost is full of carnal impersonations. But what does it mean? There's a real one there somewhere. It's somebody trying to impersonate something that somebody else really has. It's only a meal ticket. It's only of Something that's genuine, behind the thing, that somebody is trying to impersonate.

L-144 So we find, Zacchaeus gets his garbage pail. And his competitors going down the street, laughing at him. But it didn't make any difference. He was determined to see Jesus. Then he'd have an opinion of Him.

L-145   We could just get that feeling among us, if we could just be determined, that we are going to find out what This is all about, if it's the Truth. "If God be God, serve Him." Elijah the prophet said that, on top of Mount Carmel. "If God be God, serve Him. If he Baalim be God, serve him." If Jesus Christ can't declare Hisself just the same as He always was, then He did not raise from the dead.

L-146 If we only try to get the people in upon a psychological appeal, if we can only change them from Methodist to Baptist, or Baptist to Pentecostals, what is it? It's a bunch of psychology. That's right.

L-147 A living God Who created heavens and earth is still the same Creator. He is still, in principle, the same God that He ever was. I'm glad I seen God before the church got a hold of me, to know that there was Such.

L-148 I see their fusses, and the stews, and whining. It's always been that way, all. They had the same thing, all through the Scripture.

L-149   But this little fellow wanted to see Jesus, and he was determined to do it. He was a businessman, and he wanted to do business right. So, he, when he got determined... His wife home, praying, and the prayer of Rebekah was following him. And the little fellow had to get up the tree. He had to shinny up the...


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