<TITLE>07. Par 54-66</TITLE>L-54 "Oh, yes, I remember that, well!" All of them, "Yes, yes!" The boat was just a shaking, everybody having a wonderful testimony after the revival was over. So they were having this testimony meeting.

L-55   And he said, "Yes, and you remember we slipped up, and, to our surprise, we saw our Master talking to a marked prostitute. 'Uh--huh,' we thought, 'that's bad. Look at Him out there talking to this young woman. And sent us away, and here He is out here with this ill-famed woman sitting here.' Remember, we was standing just behind the bushes, and we listened to their conversation.

L-56 "And we heard Him say to her, 'Woman, go get your husband and come here.'

L-57 "And we said, 'Well, we might have been mistaken, maybe the woman was just legitimately married.'

L-58 "And she looked Him back in the face, and said, 'Sir, I don't have any husband.'

L-59 "You remember how our hearts failed? 'Our great Messiah that we had confidence in, here was caught in a lie, a cross fire, 'cause He said, "go get your husband," and she had witnessed back that she had no husband. Now it's backfired on Him.' Remember how we all looked surprised, and the breath was gone out of us?"
"Yes, I remember it."

L-60 "And then you remember the next words? He said, 'Thou has said the truth, because you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not yours.' Oh, you remember the testimony meeting behind the bush? My!" See, you can't corner Him. He is God. "Oh," Simon said, "that just..." Andrew said, "That settled it for me."

L-61   Bartholomew said, "Wait, I would like to put in a testimony. Can I do it, brethren?"

L-62 "Oh, well, I suppose you can, we got plenty of time. He hasn't come up yet, so we'll just make a few paddles. Go ahead, Bartholomew, you testify."

L-63 "Well, one of the great things to me. You remember our sister down in Jericho, named Rebekah?"
"Yes."
"And her husband run a restaurant down there."
"Uh-huh."

L-64 "And--and he was a businessman, and his name was Zacchaeus."
"Yes, yes, I remember him well."

L-65   "You remember, she was--she was one of our sisters. She had believed on the Lord, and she was so afraid that Zacchaeus would let it all get by without accepting Jesus. And, oh, Zacchaeus was a very good friend to the priest there. And so she was praying that something would happen that his eyes would come open, and he would recognize that this was the Master, this was the vindicated Word of God, made flesh among us. And we tried to tell her... tell him about how that Jesus of Nazareth knowed the secrets of the heart, showing that He was the Word, 'cause the Word discerns the thoughts in the heart.

L-66 "'Nonsense,' he said, 'I believe the priest. What the priest says is good enough for me.' Because he belonged to all the--the orders of the city, the Kiwanis and everything else, you know, so kind of hard for him to let down on it. So Rebekah had asked us all to pray, to pray. And every time we'd come up to the subject He was a prophet, he would say, 'Nonsense! The priest says, "He is Beelzebub. He's a devil. He does that by the power of the Devil. And He's just a mental telepathist. That's all there is to it. There is nothing to it." So there is no such a thing in this day; we haven't had prophets for hundreds of years. And how could that Guy, not even with a fellowship card, how could He ever be a prophet? Oh, no way He was such a thing!'


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