<TITLE>07. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 Look at Nicodemus coming to Him. Nicodemus was a scholar coming to a Man that had no diploma. He was aristocrat coming to a pauper. He was an old teacher coming to the youth. See the difference? But when he come, he come with a open heart seeking the truth. You come that way. Just come the same way with a open heart seeking truth. "Seek and ye shall find; knock, it'll be opened; ask and ye shall receive." That's it. That's the basis that Jesus said to come on.
Now, Jesus when He was here He--He was a humble ordinary Man, not so much as a brea--great fiery preacher. He said His voice was not even heard in the streets. He was just an ordinary man. But there was something about Him, that people realized that those things, qualities that was in Him was beyond the ordinary man. They knew it was.

L-29 Why, as they... And I've just said that He was God's example for all Christians. And He was God's desire. He was God's Gift. And frankly, in Himself He was God Himself, presenting the faith to the people.
Now, we see Him... Oh, I just love this part here, to watch what He done. What did He do that was different?
We notice in the first beginning of His ministry when He first started out, there was a man by the name of Philip got converted. So he goes out and finds Nathanael right quick, and said for Nathanael to, "Come, see Who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Well now, Nathanael was aristocratic upright man, very much of a believer, and he turned around quickly, said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

L-30 Oh, friends, you don't understand... Now, to some of you people that just want to go to a big church because it's a big beautiful building and wouldn't come to a place, regardless of how much you thought God was there, just because it's amongst a poor bunch of illiterate people, let me show you how wrong you are.
Did you realize that only through death can life come? Do you know that out of corruption comes life? Did you know even your natural life comes out of corruption? Everything you eat is dead substance to bring blood cells? If you eat a steak tonight, a cow died so you could live. If you eat a potato, the ta--potato died. If you eat kale greens, it died. Something has to die to produce life. That's the reason you cold formal intellectual faith, you can never receive Jesus Christ. You've got die in order to be borned again and live again, going beyond (See?), not of corruption.

L-31 Philip said--or Nathanael said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"...?...
Now, I think Nathanael asking that question, Philip gave him the best thing that could be given, said, "Come and see." Don't stand off out here and criticizing now, just come over and find out. You come over yourself. That's the best way it is. That settles it, doesn't it? Come, see for yourself, very good answer.
So what happened? Nathanael being honest hearted, he followed Philip. And when he come... Oh, so much could be said here, but--but for the cause of time.

L-32 Look. When he came, and he came up into the line, or into the audience. Might been in the prayer line, it might have been out in the audience, out there somewhere. But when Philip walked up, "I want to find out now if I can introduce Nathanael to--to Jesus."
And I can see Nathanael as mentally thinking. He walked up in the audience, and the first thing you know, Jesus standing there talking, praying for the sick, or whatever He usually His procedure was. About eighty percent of His ministry was praying for the sick. So I suppose He might've been praying for the sick, having a lot of people coming by praying for them.


<A HREF="P8">Next Page</A>