<TITLE>09. Par 75-81</TITLE>L-75 And then, now, he's going to have to take care of the... his guests, when they come. Any host will do that. So he had to hire some stable boys, 'cause some of his hosts would becom-... or some of his guests would be coming on chariots, and some riding on mules, some walking. So anyone that makes a--a... has a banquet, has to make ready, to entertain their guests. So Pharisee got everything just fixed up, and all of his servants, and got them ready, got the stable boys where they could take the horses, and all the fodder and stuff ready for them.

L-76 And then he had an innkeeper, or a doorkeeper, that had to take up the invitations, 'cause you--you could not come unless you was invited. And to take up the invitations, he had their names down, ever who was going to be there. And they come, they identified their name, and so they could come in.

L-77   Then, let's just look what had, what they had to do, for a while. I've been in the orients, and maybe many of you has and watched how they do it. It's--it's really striking. And you notice, then, when everything is taken care of, then when they come in the door, the first thing, the--the keeper of the door asks who they are. And they tell who they are. He looks on his list, and here is the name, then he checks it. Then what he does, he takes his staff, sets it in the corner. The--the boys takes the horses, if he's walking... or if he's on the horse, and puts it in the stable.

L-78   Now the next thing he does, he enters into a hall. And in here there's a bunch of--of men, what's called, the feet-washers, the flunkies. It's the lowest paid job there is, is a foot-wash flunky.

L-79 And to think of it, we who think we're somebody, and our Lord identified Himself, on earth, as a foot-wash flunky. That's exactly what He did. And then we think we're somebody. We'll run off here to school and get a little education, and let... and learn to say a few big words. And come back and put on a--a suit of clothes, and walk out here and want to be called "doctor, reverend," or somebody.

L-80   I was up at a big museum not long ago, and looking at some of the estimation of a man weighed a hundred and fifty pounds, how much chemicals there was in his body. You know how much there is when he's all rendered up? He's worth eighty-four cents. Then he'll put a ten-dollar hat on a eighty-four cents, and a five-hundred-dollar mink coat, and turn your nose up; if it rained, it would drown you. And then go along, taking care of that eighty-four cents, right, thinking you're somebody. And you don't give a care, you act like it, about that soul that's worth ten million worlds. The difference, the rashal, how we can get!

L-81   Now, this foot-wash flunky, he had to wash their feet. Now, in the... When you traveled in Palestine, the Palestinian garment is a robe. It hangs low. And then the underneath garment just comes to about the calf of the leg, here, for the underneath garment. And as the--the animals and the men travel the same trail, the animals, of course, going along the trail, and--and--and as--as they travel the same trail. And--and the dust would come up from where the animals had been, and it was a stink in the dust. And it got on their feet when they were perspiring. And their feet was shod with sandals. And that would get all full of perspiration, and--and be wet, sticky.


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