<TITLE>23. Par 88-91</TITLE>L-88 Then He went into His ministry. Quickly, He found the man. He knew who he was. He called him Simon, said, "You're the son of Jonas." There was a man named Philip got converted, and he went--and he was interested in getting his friend, Nathanael. So he went around in another part of the country, oh, a couple of counties, perhaps, out, and found Nathanael who was under a tree praying. Said, "Come, see Who I found. Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And Nathanael was a very orthodox believer; he said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth, a very wicked city?"
He said, "Come, see."
Now, I think, friends, while we're reasoning together, I think that's the best thing anybody can do, is find out for yourself. Isn't that right? Now, let's just come right down to earth now. See?
Now, he said, "Come, see."

L-89 So he followed him. And when he come up in the crowd, and was standing out in the audience like that, where the rest of them was (Jesus, perhaps, running His prayer line or praying for the sick), Jesus turned and looked over at him; He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
"Why," he said, "how did You know me, Rabbi? Why, You don't know me. You've never seen me. How did You know me? How did You know I was a believer?"
"Why," He said, "before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
What did the world say it was? What would they say it was tonight? Mental telepathy, or Simon the sorcerer, or a witch, or fortuneteller. They said the same thing then. They said, "He's Beelzebub, the prince of the fortunetellers, the king of all of them, the prince of the devils."
But what did Philip say to this, or Nathanael? He said, "Thou art the King of Israel. You're the Son of God."
And He said, "Because I told you that, you believe?" Said, "You'll see greater things than this."

L-90 Let's follow Him a little farther. I see Him one day going through a audience of people, and a woman touched His garment and run out. She thought, "If I touch His garment, all right." She set down in the audience, or stood out there, whatever it was. Jesus said, "Who touched Me?"
Said, "Why, all of them's touching You."
He said, "Yes, but I got weak." Virtue, you know, we got weak. He looked around to see who did it, and He found the little woman.
For she said in her heart, "I believe Him. If I can just touch Him in some way, I--I will be healed."
And she went out there, and Jesus looked over till He found her; He said, "Thy faith has healed thee." See, she drawed from the gift of God, pulled the gift out of Jesus, which He was the greatest gift God ever give, was His own Son. You know that. And so, she pulled the faith of the power of God through Jesus to herself. He never said, "I did it." He said, "Thy faith has did it."

L-91 And we find Him going through the Pool of Bethesda, and many places, or other places in the Scripture. And we find Him there at the Pool of Bethesda, going through there; a few days after that, woman touched His garment. There that had a great multitude, hundreds of people of lame, halt, blind, twisted, withered, waiting for the water to move. And Jesus went down through them, never said a thing, and went over... For He knew... See, the Father had showed Him. That... He knew where there was a man at was going to be laying on a pallet. So He found him and said, "Will thou be made whole?"
He said, "I have no one to put me in the water."
Said, "Take up your bed and go unto your house." He picked up his bed and went walking away.
The Jews questioned Him. And He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise."
Now a... Jesus told the truth... Do you believe that? Yes, sir, we could take it from Genesis to Revelations. No prophet, no time, no time did Jesus, at any time, ever done anything without first it being revealed to him.


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