<TITLE>09. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 Look at the great Jewish teacher when he came that night, Nicodemus. He said, "We know that... (We, the Pharisees) We know that You're a Teacher come from God, for no man could do these miracles that You do, knowing these people, their hearts, and their lives, and what will be, and so forth, and healing the sick and so forth. You say, 'You only do it as He shows You.' Then God shows You what to do, and You go do it. We know that no man can do these things, except God be with Him." How it could...?...  stand here and tell a man there's two mules tied right there at the end of the way, where you've never been before. How You going to meet a man with a pitcher on your shoulder? How could He know those things without God telling you? How did He stand there at the well and tell that Samaritan woman, said she had five husbands, and never had been in Samaria before in Your life? "How could You do that without God being with You? How, when that Israelite, one of our renown men out here, come walking to You, which had been out there under the tree, praying. And we questioned him, to find out it was true, perhaps. And You walked up to him, and You said, 'Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile.' We knowed he was a renown man."

L-33 "And our brother said, 'When did You know me, Rabbi (or reverend, teacher, or whatever you want to call it), when did You know me?'"
Said, 'Fore Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you.'
"Why, he said, 'Why, Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel.' Said, "No man, we all know that no man can do that except God be with Him."
Where Peter said, "Now, God approved Jesus among you by the signs and wonders. He raised the dead. He healed the sick. He foretold things. He said this would be. He knew the secrets of their hearts. He perceived your thoughts. And we know that God was with Him. And you know the same, and you took the Prince of Life and slew Him, and desired another in His stead, Who God raised up as a witness, that He was the righteous Son of God."
That's when three thousand were pricked in their hearts, said, "Men and brethren, what can we do to be saved?"

L-34 Now, I had another Scripture here, I wish to read, Jesus speaking here, Saint John 17, or 16:30.
The disciples, He just begin to tell them. Jesus was a hard Man to understand. The disciples said, "Tell us plainly." Even, no one seemed to understand Him. He talked like he twisted, and parables and everything. That's the way the Word of God is written too, that the wise and prudent will not understand It, but He will reveal It to babes, such as will learn. See? It ain't for the... Don't you think that you can go get a Bachelor degree or something another, and come out and teach the Word of God. That don't have nothing to do with it.

L-35 I know people that's got D.D.'s, and D.D.'s and everything else, and know no more about God than a rabbit could know how to put on snow shoes. I ain't saying that for a joke either. But that's right. Don't know no more about God, than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knight. But they don't know God. The only thing they know to say, "Well, we studied it out this way." This Greek word means that. You have to know the translator, that's the only thing. I take it for what it says right there. I believe it. That's the way it's written; that's the way it's in my heart. That's the way I believe it and that's the way God reveals it back, and the results it produces... It's a faith. It ain't how many Greek words you know, how much scholars you are, it isn't a scholarship you got. God's isn't known by genealogy. God is knowed by kneeing-ology. That's right.


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