<TITLE>12. Par 150-167</TITLE>L-150 I didn't mean that. That's a Southern expression, of "shinny." How many knows what "shinny up a tree"? Well, how many of you Kentuckians are around here anyhow?

L-151 He had to shinny up the tree, go up the tree. And here he is, setting up there now in the tree, wiping the garbage off of his new garment; picking the splinters out of his knees and hands, where he had climbed the tree. But no matter what taken place, he was determined to see Jesus. And if you're really...

L-152   Hear me. If you are really determined to see Him, you don't care what you have to go through with, how much criticism, what other people says. You want to see Jesus, you'll do anything to see Him. You'll wait your turn. You'll do whatever you're supposed to do, just so you get to see Him.

L-153 Trouble of it is, of today, they're not thirsting enough. There's not enough thirst and hunger for the people. I believe the church ought to be a little more saltier than what it is.

L-154 Salt creates a thirst. Salt is the savor if it contacts. "But if the salt has lost its savor, it's henceforth good for nothing," but become an organization. That's right. But you got to have the savor in it. The savor is the salt, the strength.

L-155 If a man sees Christ living in you, it'll make him thirst to be like you. It'll make him see Jesus in you, make him see God.

L-156 How did they know Moses was of God? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And they knowed that God was with him.

L-157   Now we notice, like Peter said on the Day of Pentecost, about, "You men of Israel, how you..." Indicted that generation for crucifying the Son of God. Said, "You... Jesus of Nazareth, a Man that was approved of God among you, vindicated of God, by signs and wonders which God did through Him; you've took the Prince of Life, with wicked hands, and crucified."

L-158   Did not Nicodemus well express all their feelings? It was a social prestige of belonging to something, that kept them from seeing Jesus. Said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You're a Teacher, comes from God, 'cause no man could do these signs lest God is with him." They recognized it. But because of social prestige, they was ashamed to admit it.

L-159 They ought to have been like the blind man that Jesus healed.
They said, "This Man is a sinner."

L-160 He said, "It's a strange thing. You, leaders of the day, and don't know where this Man come from?" Said, "Whether He's a sinner or not, I don't know. But this one thing I do know: wherein I was once blind, I can now see." That's it. That's one thing he did know.

L-161 I like the positive testimony of men who stand in the midst of people and say, "I know there is something. Something happened to me."

L-162 As I tried to say about the colored sister, "I'm not what I want to be, or not what I ought to be, but yet I know I'm not what I used to be." Something had took a hold of her.

L-163   Zacchaeus, setting up there, what a mess he was in, setting up there. And you know...

L-164 Listen to me. Men who believe God, get in messes, anyhow. They do things that's absolutely contrary to the run of the day.

L-165 Listen to Moses. One day, a sheepherder. A great warrior in Egypt, to deliver his people, and had failed. Then he become a sheepherder, for forty years. A good old man, settled down, fine fellow, had a wife and baby; Zipporah, Gershom. Now we notice that, after God found him, and he saw God in the burning bush, the next day he had his wife setting on a mule, a child on her hip. The white beard flied. A crooked stick in his hand, leading this mule; the wind blowing. His bald head shining, in the hot sun, going down to Egypt.
Somebody would say, "Moses, what are you doing?"

L-166 "I'm going down to Egypt, to take over." A one-man invasion, but he done it. Why? God told him to do it. That's why. See, it looked--looked crazy. Where, the man had run from the place, now he's going right back.

L-167 That's the way people who find God, determined to see Him.


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