<TITLE>08. Par 84-95</TITLE>L-84   So we find that during this time, that this Zacchaeus, our little character this morning, this businessman of--of Jericho, we... he might have belonged to the Kiwanis, if there was such a thing, or something to symbolize it. He--he might have been a member of some of the great orders there, there was in Jericho. No doubt, an outstanding man for his--his time, and he belonged to the church.

L-85 But the bad thing we find, that he had taken sides with the modern opinion, the popular opinion, of Jesus. And Jesus is the Word; and the Word, manifested, is Jesus. See? And so he had taken the--the side of the popular opinion that He was not a prophet, that He was only a--a--a... I don't want to say this word, as we would call it today, four-flusher, just something that was putting on.

L-86   But, you see, Satan can impersonate that so perfectly until it's hard to know which is right or wrong. Jesus said it would be that way in the last days, so much impersonation, as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses.

L-87 Remember, them two man could do anything that Moses and--and Aaron could do. But the only thing that Moses knew, and a vindicated... Well, he never came, Jannes and Jambres, to deliver the slaves. Moses came in the Name of the Lord, to deliver the slaves, see, because it was thus written. They told Abraham, "Your seed will sojourn for four hundred years, but I'll bring them out." So Moses had THUS SAITH THE LORD. But they could impersonate any kind of a gift that they could produce. Them knowing it, they never paid any attention to their impersonators, they stayed right straight with the Word. God finally declared.

L-88   And you know He said that it would be in the last days, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will these man of reprobate mind, concerning Truth." That's right, see, just simply impersonations. So it does get a bit confusing to the people.

L-89 Sometimes you scold them, but yet it--it's not that you don't like them. It's because you do like them.

L-90 What if you had, your little boy was sitting out here in the middle of the street, and you'd walk out and say, "Junior, dear, I don't think you should sit out here"; he would say, "go tend to your business"? You would give him a little... What is it you call it, like my daddy give me? A posterior protoplasm stimulation. Is that the way, the way it's pronounced? That's what he would need.

L-91 And so that's what sometimes you have to give the church; not because that you don't like Junior, but because that you do like Junior. See? Love is corrective.

L-92   That, Jesus wasn't evil with them. He loved them, and He must correct them.

L-93 So we find this little fellow and Rebekah, his wife. And she believed that He was a prophet, the Prophet. They hadn't had a prophet for hundreds and hundreds of years. They knew the next on the scene, next real prophet, would be Him. See, they knew that was come, 'cause it was prophesied. So the prophets had ceased, and then He come on the scene. And she had seen that Messianic sign, and she knew that was that Word. See, she had searched it out.

L-94   So our drama starts from here. Must have been an awful night on the little fellow. It was a restless night, and he couldn't sleep. He was--he was rolling around, over his pillow, all night long. Many of us know what those kind of nights are.

L-95 You see, Rebekah knew. She was connected with the disciples, and so forth. She knew Jesus was to enter the city the next morning. And she was so interested in her--in her husband, that she wanted him to be brought face to face with Jesus. And a man ever stands face to face with Him, it does something to you. He is not like other man. He is different. And she wanted him to be sure that she seen Him, seen His work, and knew that He was that Messiah. Although, the priests and them had said, "There's nothing to it. It's just a bogus. It's--it's a hoax." But she believed it, so she was praying.


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