<TITLE>10. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Now, we notice as soon as He started off in His ministry, we'll watch what kind of a ministry He had. We'll start from the 1st chapter of Saint Luke, quoting it by memory; you might read it when you wish to. Saint Luke the 1st chapter, it teaches that Jesus begin to go about doing good for the people. He would pray for the sick and they'd be healed. Now, that's one of the things that He did, prayed for the sick. And one day... Now, listen close now, 'cause if you do not listen close to catch every word, it'll be a stumbling block to you in the next twenty or thirty minutes when the prayer line starts. See?
Now, listen close. The first thing we find Jesus doing, after He had chose two or three of His apostles, and one of them's name was--was Philip. And Philip was a good man, Saint Philip.
And when He seen and knew that that was the Messiah, because He saw Him praying for people and them getting well, he went--went over around about thirty miles, around behind the mountains there of Judaea, and he found his friend whose name was Nathanael. And Nathanael was under a tree praying. And he said, "Come, see Who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And he said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Nathanael said.
He said, "Come, see." Now, I think that's the best answer that any person could give at any time, is before criticizing anything, come and see it first. Look at it yourself. Live in the light of the Bible and see if it's right. No matter what it seems like, and what others say, the religion of Jesus Christ has never been popular, and it never will be popular, because the world knows its own. See? And you're not of the world when you become a Christian; you are a different person from the world. We know that.
Jesus said, "I pray, Father, that they not be of the world." So you're not of the world. The world, the Bible said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." That's the Scripture says that. So you can't love two masters, Jesus said. You can't love God and mammon. The word "mammon," translated means, "the world." And He said, "You'd either serve one and hate the other, or vice versa." Jesus said that in Saint Matthew the 5th chapter. Can't serve the God, and the world at the same time, you've got to be one or the other.

L-23 And God have mercy.. That's what's the matter with our people today called Christian in this--this nation. They're trying to live like the world and profess to be Christians. And that's the reason the unbeliever, outside, has such a hard time to make up his mind, is because he sees people that call themselves Christians, live no different than the rest of the world. That's pretty blunt, but that's truth. We got to face truth.

L-24 There's probably men and women setting here I'll never see again till I see you at the judgment. And I--I've got to be truthful and honest, because I've got to face the judgment and meet my words again at the judgment, so I have to be truthful about it.
Now, we notice that--that Philip, as soon as he found Nathanael, he said, "Come, see Who I have found."
And Nathanael, being a righteous man, a good man, he said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Nazareth was a mean wicked city, very bad, outlaws; gangsters and so forth raised up, and--and they had outlaw bands in those days that come out of Nazareth, very vile city. He said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see."
Now, we might ask today, "Could anything good come out of the Methodist church? Could anything good come out of the Baptist church, Presbyterian, or whatever church it may be?" The first thing to do is come and see; find out.


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