<TITLE>10. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 Now, let's look at Him then just a moment. Where is He? Now, He's going to represent Hisself in His Church. "I'll be with you, even in you." Then that shows that He will be represented in His people. Is that true? Now, let's look what kind of a person He was. Now, if we want to see where--where He's represented, let's find out what kind of a person He was, and what He did. Let's examine His life a little bit and see what He did, and then we'll--we will find out whether He's with us or not.

L-19 Now, in the days of the Scripture, He didn't take upon Himself any great name. He was a Man that was humble, but yet, a Man that could tell you, if it was necessary. You know what He told Herod; you know what He told the Pharisees. He platted those robes together, beat them out of the temple, and called them hypocrites and snakes in the grass and everything else, and called Herod an old fox, and (See?)--but yet, full of humility, humble Man. And He went about doing good to everybody that He could.
Now, we... I--I got His picture, what, in my mind, what He looks like. Now, let's see Him at the beginning of His ministry. I can see Him going along, and after He became--become famous, He went out and begin to preach the Gospel. He'd been preaching for two or three days, and there was a fellow by the name of--of Philip came and got converted.
And oh, Philip thought he'd found the greatest thing in the world. He had. So he was so enthused, till he couldn't keep from telling everybody about it. So he goes to find his buddy, Nathanael. And he said, "Nathanael, come, see Who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

L-20 And, watch now. Nathanael, was a staunch Hebrew, very Orthodox. He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Philip said, "You come and see." So I can see Jesus standing in the prayer line, praying for the sick. And the first thing you know, up come Nathanael and Philip, just a walking. And first thing you know, I--I believe Philip might've been letting Nathanael go ahead.
And when Nathanael come close to Jesus, Jesus looked up at him, and said, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile."
Oh, my. Why, today, I'd... If I'd say the same thing, I'd say, "Here's a Christian, a truthful, honest person, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."

L-21 Well, it--it astonished the--the Hebrew worshipper. "Why," he said, "Rabbi (or Reverend, Master, Teacher), well, whence knowest Thou me? Well, You don't know me. You've never seen me. How do You know me?"
"Why," He said, "before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you."
Now, what would that be nineteen hundred and fifty-three? You know what they call it? Mental telepathy, mind-reading.
The Hebrews, the Orthodox Jews said the same thing those days. They said, "Oh, well..." They couldn't deny but what He knowed the thoughts of the people.

L-22 Someone said the other day, said, "Brother Branham, do you say Jesus was a mind-reader?" Sure. He perceived their thoughts. Call it whatever you want to. I don't mean one of these here, setting out here, or what the devil has made a pattern of setting out yonder, with her hand out, reading down along some circles, or something. That's the devil. But everything the devil's got, he patterned it off of God. You got a hypocrite out there, that does all kinds of evil things, but yet, where they got it, it had to patterned off of God. Isn't that right?


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