<TITLE>08. Par 100-112</TITLE>L-100   And listen, Rebekah, when you see your Zacchaeus getting kind of restless, just remember, God is answering prayer, you see. That's the way it happens. When you see him getting so he can't give you a good word, just remember, keep holding on. It isn't long till God is going to pass him by that way.

L-101 He got real restless. When he was up, put on his best garments. And I can see Rebekah turn over and say, "Zacchaeus, you're up very early this morning, my dear."

L-102 "Oh, yes. I just... uh, uh, uh," you know. "I--I just thought I'd step out for a bit of fresh air."

L-103 But, he had on his mind, "I couldn't get that Fellow off of my mind. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go down there to the gate where He comes in. And when He comes in that gate, I'm going to give Him a piece of my mind, for having my wife out, these meetings, and carrying on like this. I'm going to tell Him what I think about Him." You know, usually people build up that kind of a complex, you know, just on hearing something.

L-104   So he got all groomed. He slipped down. He looked back up, the house, and see if there was anybody looking, and seemed like nobody was looking. But Rebekah was watching through the crack of the window, seeing what he did. And instead of turning down towards his restaurant, he went down towards Straight Street.

L-105 You know, you usually find Jesus on Straight Street. That right. Straight in your business! You want to find Him, be honest, be sincere, be straight with God and with men, be straight with your neighbor.

L-106 So he slips down the street, 'cause he knowed He was to enter at this certain gate. He had been delayed a bit that morning, because two blind men needed healing, as the Scripture tells us, and He had healed those. And when he got down to the gate where Jesus was supposed to come in... You know, the Bible said, "He was kind of short in stature." And when he got there, some of those great big people were standing there, and he couldn't even get a place, to get up to see Him. They was hanging on the walls and everywhere.

L-107 You know, there is something about it, that, when Jesus comes around, it always attracts an attention somehow. They were there, ready to sing, "Hosanna!" And they...

L-108   He said, "Now, I'll never be noticed here. And I won't be able to notice Him, 'cause He will walk perhaps in the middle of the street, with a body guard, and I won't be able to see this Fellow. But I do not believe that He's a prophet, because I been taught that the days of prophecy and the days of miracles is past." You know, time hasn't changed too much since then.

L-109 If God ever was God, He is still God. If He isn't, then He never was God. You can't just say He is God one time, and not God the next. He doesn't get older. He can't change His mind. He's got to stay with His decisions. Therefore, you can rest assure that, what He said, that He will do. That's what...

L-110   "Abraham believed God, called things which were contrary as though they were--they were not. The things that seemed real, what his eyes could see, but it was contrary to the Word of God, and he--he for... he doesn't... didn't even look at them. He called them as they were not. He believed God." He never just held on for one day. He went on down through life, twenty-five years, before Isaac was ever born. And he got stronger, all the time.

L-111 We today claim to be, by grace, and by the mercy and the adoption by Christ, that we become the Seed of Abraham, and we can't trust God twenty-four hours. But the real Seed of Abraham takes a hold of God's Word and nothing is going to move him from it.

L-112   God told Abraham, when he was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five, they was going to have a baby. Why, they went and got all the pins and birdeye, and got ready for it. That's right. There wasn't nothing going to stop them. They knowed it.


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