<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 And all at once I imagine that Nathanael said, "Well, that Fellow is just a little different from the ordinary scribe. He doesn't try to dress so fancy. And He's just an ordinary looking man." Maybe... "I like His talk."
And when he got to thinking those things, Jesus turned around, looked at him, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." In other words in the Christian, English version of it today, He would say, "Behold there is a believer who's honest."
Well, Nathanael thought, "Now, wait a minute; I just come from over here on the other side of the mountain." Maybe started day before. "Now, Philip my friend who got converted, come over and told me. Now, here I am standing here, and the man tells me I'm a believer. And I'm a truthful man, which that's right." He said, "Rabbi, You mean me? How did You know that? How do You know anything about me? I'm a stranger to You."
Now, what was Jesus doing? Introducing to the world what God wants the world to have, the faith that Jude said to contend for.

L-34 Well, I can imagine some of them standing around, say, "Uh-huh. He read his mind. That's what he did." See?
He said, "How did You know me?" Now, look how impossible this would be nearly. Jesus said... Now, he was wondering in his mind. "It couldn't have been telepathy." So he was wondering then, "How did that Man know that?"
And Jesus said, "Before Philip called you when you was under the tree over there, I saw you." That's settled it.
He said, "Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel." That settled it.

L-35 I can imagine the Pharisees saying, "Now, there He knew that. Now, there's a trick in it somewhere. There's got to be something there." The man... And finally they drew that... They couldn't figure it out, because you cannot figure out God.
God is to be received by faith, not by knowledge. You might read the Word through, and know every Word of it, and still be lost. You cannot figure it out. It's by faith are you saved and that through grace, not of works lest any man should boast.
But quickly as soon as he seen the phenomena, he said, "Thou art the Son of God (The believer did.) the King of Israel."
He said, "Because I told you that, you believe?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "Then you'll see greater than this." 'Cause he's a believer.

L-36 Now, let's look at Him again. That was the faith that Jesus was introducing to the world. Now, He did not at one time, did I ever read, say to the people, "Bring Me this one here, and I'll show you I can heal." He never claimed to be a Healer. You can't make the Word of God contradict Itself. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; It's My father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works."
One day He had to go up to Samaria, or to--down to Jericho. Instead of going right straight down to Jericho, He had need of going by the way of Samaria. And when He got up there, He sent the disciples away, being about eleven o'clock, into the city to get some vittles. And while they was gone, a woman (as we call over here "ill famed,") came up to the place to get a jug of water. You'd almost have to go in the orients once to find out what those things really are.

L-37 So He... She come up to get the water at about eleven o'clock in the day. Jesus was setting over against the wall, probably setting there looking down, waiting for her to come. So when the woman come, that was perhaps fulfilled what the Father told Him to go by. So He looked over at the woman.
He said, "Bring Me a drink."
And they had a segregation in that day, a ritual, about like we have today. And said... She said, "Well, it's not customary for Jews to ask Samaritans such."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you water that you don't come here to draw."
Why, what if the woman wouldn't have believed Him then? But the conversation went on. To my honest opinion, Jesus was trying to contact the woman's spirit.


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