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Peanuts By Dr. Clark Chapter Summary

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Dr. Clark started off preaching very slow, effective, with the power of the anointing, and with conference; he began to give accolades to the pastor, his people, and all the other preachers. He then acknowledged a sister who was hospitalized with a stroke, about a week and then died. The day he delivered the eulogy, that morning while reading the newspaper he began reading peanuts, and a member of his church also brought a book entitled Peanuts and give it to him. In the book he read an encounter between Lucy and Charlie Brown; Charlie Brown was trying to explain to Lucy this matter of Indian summer. Lucy’s reply was the matter of Indian summer was a trick or device of the Indians to defeat the Calvary; Lucy went on to say she was going into the business of making cartoons. …show more content…

Clark went to the scripture which came from the gospel of Luke 19:10 He started talking about how Jesus passed through Jericho doing good. Wherever Jesus went he was on a mission, and had a purpose. There was a man name Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was short in statue. Zacchaeus sought to see Jesus and who he was. Dr. Clark considered Zacchaeus a wise man, whoever seeks to see Jesus is wise. However Zacchaeus could not see Jesus for the crowd was in his way, it posed a problem in his attempt to see Jesus. Dr. Clark preached God forbid if you and I ever get in the way of anyone trying to see Jesus, God forbid by our conversation or life should ever pose a problem to see Jesus. We want to be the kind of Christian that people could see the master in us. The unsaved should not have a problem seeing Jesus in our life. But Zacchaeus had a problem seeing Jesus so, Jesus came to where he was, Dr. Clark preached that Jesus doesn’t require us to get better before seeing him; he carries us to where we should be. Jesus looked up to Zacchaeus and said come down I must abide at your

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