<TITLE>12. Par 126-134</TITLE>L-126 But there is something about it, when you want to see Jesus real bad, you'll do anything. See? You'll--you'll just do anything, if you want to see Him real bad. So he gets out there and he... See, Satan is going to try to keep you from doing it, too. Everything, he is going to put... He is going to put a flaw in the way, every time, to keep you from seeing Him. He'll blind your eyes with anything he can. But if you're determined, God will make a way for you. He is passing this way this morning, too. Don't let Satan put something in your way, your "time, and this, and I've got to do this." Just sit still a minute.

L-127   So he gets down, stoops down, that nice robe on. He is sure spoiling himself now. He gets a hold of this garbage pail. Just about the time he gets a hold of it and starts packing it, here come his competitors around the corner.

L-128 About the way it is here, Zacchaeus. You said you would never get in a bunch of holy-rollers, but you're here.

L-129 Well, here he sits, he is standing here now with this garbage pail, his--his face red. Well, the competitor said, "Well, look, there is Zacchaeus, the restaurant man down here, he has changed his job. He has got a new position. Well, you know, he is a--he is a... works for the city, the garbage disposal." Well, there is something another about it, though, if you're determined to see Jesus, you'll do anything. He just held to it, and his face reddened, his face swelled out. And here he goes, right over and sets it down. He looks around, let them get around the corner.

L-130   Then he gets up on the can, and shinnies up the tree. Uh-oh, excuse me, I ought not to have said that. Shinny, you know, that--that's a... How many knows what's "shinny up the tree"? Well, that's alright then. See, in other words, he climbs up the tree.

L-131 And he gets up there, and there he is, sitting there. You talk about a mess! Garbage all over him, he is a polluted sight.

L-132 And, sometime, God just let's you get like that. Amen. I heard somebody today, you know their new way? I hope it never gets in our Pentecostal realms, though I see it leaking in; come in, shake hands, "I--I take Jesus as my personal Saviour." I like to see them get down there at the altar, and die, beat, and squall, and slobber. And, you know, when you... We used to have some horses, and when we fed them clover, that real pretty, sweet clover, honey in it, it made them slobber. When you get close enough to Canaan, you'll slobber a little, too, you know, so eating that Honey out of Canaan.

L-133   So we find that here he is, up in the tree now, wiping the garbage off of his new... He didn't think he would do that. Just let somebody get praying for you, you'll do strange things. And he wiping it off like that; and splinters all in his knees and all over his hands, sitting there picking them out. He said, "Well, now, if I ain't a mess! Here I sit." Said, "You know, Rebekah told me that fellow was a Prophet. Now, I--I'm going to wait, I'm going to hide." So he sit down where two limbs come together, it makes a nice place for a seat.

L-134 And after you've got that far, and you've got this far this morning, Zacchaeus, you're sitting, too, where two ways meets, yours and God's. See? When you disposed yourself enough to come out here this morning, well, Rebekah's prayers is about to be answered. But you're sitting where two ways meet now, yours and God's. See?


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