<TITLE>10. Par 108-117</TITLE>L-108 Oh, how many Zacchaeuses there is nowadays, talk about Jesus at the meeting, "It's a bunch of holy-rollers. There is nothing to it. If I ever catch that Man, what I'll do!" See?

L-109   So he walks down to the gate. But the strange thing was, you know... He was going to get him a place right in the gate, tell Him he was a businessman; he belonged to the--the Kiwanis, he--he belonged to the associations and--and all the--the sororities of the city. He, he was--he was one of the officials there, and he was outstanding and respected. He was a decent citizen. And really he wanted to tell Him He didn't need to come to that town, they had plenty of preachers and plenty of churches, they didn't need His ideas around there. So he struts down the street, and his little chest stuck out, you know. And, oh, my! What? Why, the rabbi might make him a deacon if they do something like that. So he goes down to the gate.

L-110   But the strange thing. Well, you know, somehow it's odd. But everywhere that--that Jesus appears, there is usually somebody there to hear Him. See? And before he got there, he--he heard a noise. And they were singing all kinds of songs, and--and, "Glory to God in the Highest," and all these fine hymns they were singing, and some screaming and shouting. Isn't it strange, where Jesus is, there is always a lot of noise? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? It's just...

L-111 You know, He entered the temple, and one day in Jerusalem, rather. And, when He did, they broke down palms, and screamed. And there stood those there, those great professors of societies and things, and priests, and said, "Make them hold their peace."

L-112 He said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will cry out immediately." See, something is going to cry out when He is around. That's right.

L-113   You know, when Aaron went in to the Shekinah, before the Shekinah, he had to be anointed, and he had... his garments had to have a pomegranate and a bell. And that's the only way that they knew that Aaron was still alive, when they heard this noise. And when I think that that's the only way that God knows whether we're alive or not, when you hear a little noise. You take anything that's so dead, that something happened to it. So they had to tell whether he was alive or not, by the noise that was made.

L-114   So Zacchaeus heard all this noise down there. And so when he got there, the gates was jammed up, and up on the walls, and everything. And he was just a little bitty fellow, after all, so he thought, "How am I going to see Him? There will be so many of them holy-rollers around Him, till I--I just can't see Him. So you know," he said, "I know one thing, I can't see Him here, because I'm too small.

L-115 "But I know He is going down to my competitor's for--for His lunch. So I don't see, if He was a Man of any intelligence, He would come to my place of business, my restaurant. But He is going down to Lavinski's." Or, I hope there is not a Lavinski here. "So then, anyhow, He is going down to his restaurant. And, really, I serve the best food, and--and why would a Man even... and Rebekah being a member of His church, and then He go to a place like that?"

L-116   Well, he said, "I know one thing, I'll go down here to where Hallelujah Avenue crosses Glory Street. He'll pass that way." That's true. "Right there, down at the city street, where Hallelujah Avenue and Glory Street crosses." You can always find Him right along there.

L-117 So he left the crowd and run down there, and he thought now, groomed himself all up, and said, "Now when He comes around the corner, I'll tell Him, I'll give Him a piece of my mind. He is to pass this way, so I'll--I'll--I'll... when He comes by." Then he got to thinking, "You know what, that crowd will follow Him."


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