<TITLE>06. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Now, notice Him. As He is here on earth we see some of His work. Let's see what He meant in Christian faith now. Here He is here. The stream of all Christianity, the Head, the Beginning, the Origin of the Christian faith was Jesus Christ, God's Son, the beginning of Christian faith, the starting point for all mankind of all ages to look to that starting place and begin from there. He was an example to us. Is that right?
On 13th chapter Saint John when feetwashing is brought along, and He said... Watch a Peter, self-starched this Peter--Peter was, protested...?... stood there as a stiff collar. And He walked up to wash Peter's feet. He said, "You're never washing my feet." Oh, my. We have so many of those today.
"You're never washing my feet."
Jesus looked at him, said, "Well, if I don't wash you, you got no part with Me."
Peter said, "Then Lord not my feet only, but my hands and head." Kind of unstarched him, didn't it?

L-16 Oh, I'd imagine those kind words looking around at Peter and saying, "Now, now... If I--if I can't wash you you got no part with Me. If you can't follow My commandments, if you can't do the will of the Father... Peter, I love you. But you've got to do these things." That's part of the Christian faith.
There as He got through washing the disciples' feet, set down, and said, "Now, you call Me Lord and Master. And you say, well, for so I am. If I then You're Lord and Master have washed Your feet, you ought to wash one another's. For... (Listen at it.) For I have given you an example, that you should do to each other as I have done unto you." He was the Example of Christianity. He was Christianity. He was our Pattern.
Don't never try to pattern your life after some preacher, after some priest, after some great religious man here on earth, but pattern your life after Christ. He is your Example. He set an example. He lived an example and presented it to the Church. Oh, I hope that soaks so deep.
Why is it that people don't want to hear the Gospel? See? Notice, soak down deep.

L-17 He said He was the Example. Now, we see Him; watch what an example He set. He walked out saying, "I have nothing that I can do in Myself." And then one came to Him, kind of a little indifferent, looked around over the audience, and Jesus standing there looked around at him; He said, "Thou art an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
When Philip went and found Nathanael, out under that tree praying for him, said, "Come over here. I want to show you we found Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And this self-starched man, he said, "Why, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, see." That's the best way to find out. Go, find out. Said, "Come and see."
Well, he come over there, you know, a nice man, good moral man, honest as the days is long, and he walked up there before Jesus, standing out there in the crowd, and Jesus looking around. I'd imagine when he heard Jesus, or saw Him pray for some of the sick or something, his heart begin to kind of melt down a little.
You know I can hear him almost say a word to Philip. Say, "Philip, that Fellow's a little different from the ordinary preacher that we see." Oh, my, is He different? He said, "He's just a little different. I kinda like the way He talks."
I hear Nathanael say, "Well, I--I--I thought you'd change your mind when you seen Him and got to hear Him once. You were just passing your opinion, back down there, said, 'There couldn't be anything good come from Nazareth.'"


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