<TITLE>08. Par 67-73</TITLE>L-67   "But, you know, Rebekah kept holding on, his wife, and praying. And one morning when Jesus was coming into the city, well, then we find out that, Rebekah told us that Zacchaeus had went out to the--the street, to see Him. So he didn't believe He was a prophet, so he said, 'I'll just get a good look at Him,' how he testified to us at the restaurant the other day when we was eating. So he climbed up in a sycamore tree, and said, 'You know what, I'll just disguise myself up here so He won't be able to see me. I'm a little fellow, anyhow, very short. And I can't see Him down there, in a crowd, so I'll just climb up here in the tree.' And he got to where two--two limbs meet, and there he sat down, by these limbs."

L-68 That's just a good place to sit down and study it over. That's where two ways meet, yours and God's; your ideas. That's a good thing, to think it over.

L-69   "So he said, 'You know what, He must have been a prophet. He could have been. It could be possible I could be wrong. So I'll tell you what, I'll get a good look at Him; and He won't know me. So I'll just take all the leaves and pull them in like this, around me, and I'll disguise myself so He won't even see me at all. And I'll watch Him when He comes by. And if He doesn't look like the right kind of a person, I'll give Him a piece of my mind, sitting up here in this tree.' So he watched, and had a leaf so he could raise up and see Him when He come around the corner.

L-70 "And when He come around the corner, walking down the street, you know, looking from one side to the other, and the disciples saying, 'Stand aside. I'm sorry.' And people with sick children and things. 'I'm sorry, Master is awful tired; that great service last night. And, gentlemanlike, would you please stand aside and let Him by. Well, He is making His way down to the city, and would you please just stand aside?' And Zacchaeus sitting up here in the tree, looking down at Him.

L-71   "And Jesus come right straight under the tree, stopped, looked up and said, 'Zacchaeus, come down from there. I'm going home with you for today, for dinner.' That settled it for me. He knew he was up there, and knew his name, what he was. That settled it. That's Messiah, to me. Yes, sir. Because, we know the Messiah was to do that. Certainly. So He had to go home with him, said, that day for dinner. What a great time that was! We remember it."

L-72   You know, it must have been about that time, the testimony meeting was going on. You know, these disciples out there on the sea, testifying, it must have been down in the blackness of the night somewhere, up in the northlands there, that Satan must have moved up over the hill and looked down. He looked in that testimony meeting, and he found out that they had gone off without Him. There was his chance.

L-73 See, I think that scene has just about returned again, repeated itself. They had, in the enthusiasm of the revival, they had gone off without Him. And I believe that that's a lot that's happened to us today, that, in this hour of confusion, and after this great revival that we've witnessed. It's swept around the world. Every nation has had revival fires built, and burning; great healing services; people receiving the Holy Ghost, by the tens of thousands times thousands. And in the enthusiasm of it, like those disciples testifying what He has done, "and, oh, we seen Him do this, and we seen Him do that," I believe we've went off like them, without Him.


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