<TITLE>06. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 And now, let's see the type of ministry He had. Let's just follow His ministry for a few moments now, 'fore we start the prayer line, and ask Him to continue His ministry. Now, when He first come into power, we notice a lot of things that God answered His prayer so much for the sick. He started right off first praying for the sick. Is that right? Signs and wonders begin to follow Him. And then He begin to do things that seemed to be strange to the people. Then He had a great gathering, until He disagreed with their theology of that day; then they cut Him off right there.
Now, in the beginning of His ministry, there was a man by the name of Nathanael got saved and--or Philip, rather. Philip got saved and he went to get his buddy right quick. That's a good sign He got saved, wasn't when you goes tell somebody else about it?
He went to find his buddy, so he was hunting for him, and he found him under a tree, praying under a tree. So he said, "Come, see Who I found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Why this nice religious man said, "Why, could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Oh, it was a wicked city. He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, see." That's the only way to be convinced about anything. Don't you think that's right? I think if we have more Nathanael's around New York...?... will say, Come, see. Come, find out for yourself." See? Come and see; don't judge anything till you look at it and examine it with the Word of God. He said, "Come, see."

L-19 Well, when he came up in the line, I don't know what... Jesus perhaps praying for the sick or whatever He was. He was standing in the congregation. Jesus looked out on the congregation and saw him, or he might've come in the prayer line. I don't know where he was at, but then when Jesus saw Him, He said, "Behold, and Israelite in whom there is no guile." That was a honest, good believer. So, the man kinda astonished, he said, "How did You know me, Rabbi?" or reverend, whatever you want to call... "How'd You know me?"
He said, "Why, before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." My, that was quite a something to him, and he run up to Him; he said--said, "Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel."

L-20 What do you think would happen today in New York, if such as that taken place? You know what they'd say, "Ah..." Dr. Jones would say, "you know what That is, that Guy is a fortuneteller. It's mental telepathy; that's what it is." Well, did you see Dr. Jones' spirit lived backed in that day. Did you know that? The Pharisees, those great scholars and teachers said the same thing. They said, "He's Beelzebub." The prince of the fortunetellers (See?) he... 'Course fortunetellers are devils; you know that. So he said, "He's a prince of the fortunetellers," the prince of the devils.
Notice Him again. There was... One day He was going down to Jericho; instead of going to Jericho, he went up by the way of Samaria. That's strange. Going up this way, instead of going straight down to Jericho. But He had a need to go by Samaria. Now just a minute we'll find out why He went. When He got up there, He sent all His disciples away into the city to buy some bread. And while they were gone, a woman come out. We in America believe the woman to be a prostitute, and the Eastern teaching is different, but we will take it over in the American, Western phase of it tonight, so it'll...


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