<TITLE>03. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 Friends, tonight, I believe if any man will come in this day, or tonight, reverently before God, and say, "Now, I'm not going to take any of my thoughts; I'm just going to open my heart to You, God. And You reveal Yourself to me. I want to see." I believe God will reveal Himself to the people that wants to find Him. He's never disappointed anyone. And then, could you notice these two friends, going along?
I can hear maybe, Philip say to Nathanael, "Now, look Nathanael, this Man is praying for the sick down there now." For Jesus, His fame had not yet got great into the country. He was just starting out. And He didn't claim to be some great Person. He give all the praise to God.

L-10 He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." And He said, "Now," if you notice Him, He was very humble, and a Man of sorrow acquainted with grief. He didn't claim to have any scholarship. But His simple teaching confounded the--the Pharisees and the scholars of that day, because they only taught as one from theology; but Jesus seemed to be able to have favor with God that would confirm what He was saying. Now, there's where the truth is, when a man says something and God backs it up.
And when He finally arrived at Jesus standing in the prayer line... Let's give a little drama, say, Jesus is praying for the sick. Many coming along, and He praying. He seen Nathanael coming down along the line. And He said, "Behold, an Israelite and in whom there is no guile."
If I should express that to... say, I'd turn around and say, "This man standing here," if I had never seen Him, I'd say, "here's an honest man, a Christian believer, truthful."

L-11 Well, that kind of astonished him, the Israelite, Nathanael. He turned and looked at Him. He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi, or Teacher? Rabbi is interpreted as a master, or a teacher. Like we say today, reverend or elder, something. "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi?" Or, "Here I'm a stranger to You. How did You know I was a believer? How did You know I was... (As we'd say today) a Christian."
Why, Jesus said, "Before Nathanael called you, or before you come to the prayer meeting, I saw you under that fig tree."

L-12 Now, let's bring that in terms of today. Now, what would a scholar of today say? "Well, that man is a mind reader? He is a... That's mental telepathy," or some name like that. And they didn't do any better that day. They pinned the same thing on Him. They said, "He's Beelzebub, the chief of the fortunetellers, or the devils," you know.
But not Nathanael. Nathanael was a just man. When he knew that there was something he'd never met before, he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." He fell before Him.
"Why" He said, "Nathanael, you believe because I told you that I seen You under the tree? Why," He said, "you'll even see greater things than this."
And then Jesus in all of His ministry, He never at any time give glory to Himself, or said anything about Himself that was great. He always magnified the Creator of His Being.

L-13 Now, Jesus in flesh was Deity. God overshadowed a virgin and created a Blood cell. We all know that the--the child, or the... comes from the male sex. The germ of life of any thing comes from the male. Like an hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch. An old mother bird can lay a nest full of eggs, springtime now; but if she hasn't been with the male bird, they're not fertile. They'll never hatch, no matter how much she warms them and hovers them, and... She can stay on that nest until she gets so poor she can't fly off. But they'll never hatch; they'll rot.
That's what I think's the matter with a whole lot of our churches today, friends. We just got a nest full of eggs, that's never germitized. We're just warming them up and calling them church members and things. We need to clean the nest and start over, don't you...?...


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