<TITLE>04. Par 8-9</TITLE>L-8 Now, the first thing, when His ministry first started out, there was a fellow--fellow by the name of Philip got converted. And as soon as he got converted, he went to find his friend Nathanael, was a good, true sign that he got converted. When a man, once with Jesus, he wants everybody to know about Jesus.
And so, Philip goes to find Nathanael, and he found him under a tree. And so he said, "Come, see Who I found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
So Nathanael, a very curious sort of a fellow, a righteous man, raised up and said, "Jesus of Nazareth? Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Philip give him the real answer. "Come and see." That's the best way to find out whether there's--anything is real or not. Go look at it. That's the way Moses found out about the burning bush. He turned aside to take a look at it, see why it was burning.

L-9 That's the way you'll ever get anywhere. If you're on the path down the life's journey, without God, without Christ, step aside tonight, look it over and see what God will tell you. Take off your shoes too, when you step on the holy ground and be reverent about it. Don't come to criticize. Be reverent. Believe, and then, listen to what the Holy Spirit will speak in your heart. Be humble. Open up and let God have His way with you.
Now, when Philip found out that Nathanael was going back with him, perhaps Jesus was standing in the prayer line. I don't know where He was. He, perhaps, was in the prayer line. Philip might've come up to Him in the prayer line, or he might've been standing out into the audience somewhere. But when Jesus turned around and He fastened His eyes upon Philip, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Now, if--if the Holy Spirit would repeat the same thing tonight, It would say, "Here's a Christian, a truthful man, and honest." See? "Behold, an Israelite, a believer, in whom there is no guile."
Why, it astonished the Israelite. "How did that Man know who I was? How did He know that I was an Israelite, first, and how did He know that I was truthful, and honest, and no guile?" He said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi (or Reverend, Master, Teacher), "when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
What if that would take place in New York tonight? Do you know what would happen? They'd say, "That--that guy's a fortuneteller. (Uh-huh.) He's a... That's mental telepathy. Why, he's a witch. I knowed he was a soothsayer." See? That's the reason you don't get nowhere.
You know what Philip done? Philip never stood back and said, "Now, wait a minute. How did that? Is--is He a fortuneteller?" Philip run and fell down by Him; he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
And Jesus said, "Because I told that, you believe? If he's a believer," He said, "you'll see greater things than this. If you believe."
Now, that was Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago. Wouldn't that be Jesus tonight? Same Jesus?


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