<TITLE>03. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 Now, we'll have to see what He was. We'll have to see what kind of a church He organized, and see what kind of doctrine He preached, and what kind of a works He did, and what He left for the people to do. And then see if the disciples, if they done the same thing He did, and the way they did; then we'll know, by the Bible, what was the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Would that be true? Amen.
Now, when Jesus came, we all know about His birth, born in a manger. And He went out the way of capital punishment. (Out of the world, through capital punishment, executed) through a stable door to a rugged cross.
His life was completely misunderstood. The first time that the Angels introduced Him, and the wise men followed the star, when He was first born He was persecuted until the day He died by the church. That's true. We know... He was misunderstood, but He was God's Son.

L-12 Now, His work began after His baptism at the age of thirty. Immediately after God the Father came down in the form of the Holy Ghost, look--looked like a dove and went into Him, His works began, not before. And neither can it begin in you, until Jesus comes in the form Holy Ghost to live in you.
Now, watch. Immediately He started praying for the sick. And the people begin to get healed. The lawyers, the doctors, they come out and they criticized Him. But let's see what kind of a faith He introduced to them.
We'll start in the book of Luke. We find out that in the book of Luke, why the first thing we find him a doing; standing, praying for the sick. He had a man by the name of Philip, got converted. He got saved, and he went to find his friend. That was a good sign he got saved. He wanted to tell somebody else.

L-13 Every man that finds Christ, it's so much to him, he wants to tell his friends and everybody. So he went around into another part of the country. And he finds a man who was his friend. His name was Nathanael. And he found Nathanael under a tree, praying. So he said, "Come, see Who I have found; Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And Nathanael was very much religious. And he said, "Could there any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And Nathanael or Philip, gave him the best answer I know. He said, "Come and see." That's so good. That's good yet. "Come and see. Look for yourself."

L-14 And Nathanael went with him. Then when he come to where Jesus was, I can imagine seeing him come up to where the prayer line was, where Jesus was praying for the sick. Jesus stopped, looked around, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom is no guile."
Why, it astonished him, that is, the--the Nathanael. He said, "How did He know me?" He said, "Rabbi, how do You know me? I've never seen you before. And You have never seen me. How did You know I was a righteous man?" You see, he could've been a sinner.

L-15 Now, the word, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile," if I'd say that to you in German tonight, I'd say, "A righteous man in whom is the truth. He's not a liar, a righteous man!"
Why, he said, "How did You know I was?"
Listen to Jesus. He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under that tree, I saw you." Amen. What did Philip say...
What did Nathanael say? He said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
And He said, "Because I told you that, you believe Me? Then you shall see greater things."
Now, what did the Pharisees say? They said, "He has a devil. He is Beelzebub. He is the prince of all the devils." In other words, He was a... They believed Him to be a spiritualist, a work of devils, mind reader, or a fortuneteller. "He was the king of all of them," that's what the Pharisees said.
I wonder what they'll say in Germany if He would come tonight and do the same thing. What attitude would they take? I hope they take Nathanael's attitude, don't you? Amen.


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