<TITLE>21. Par 73-77</TITLE>L-73 And when Philip got saved, he went to find somebody else, a good sign he got saved. So he went to find his buddy, way around behind the mountains, they claim about thirty miles. And when he found his buddy, a real churchgoer, real good man, his name... Can somebody tell me what his name was? Nathanael is right. And he found him under a tree, praying. And Philip run up to him and said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And when this man got through praying, he raised up and said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see." That's the best thing. You come and see; you judge for yourself then. On the road around the next day when they appeared, Jesus was standing a praying for the sick, or whatever He was doing. And when Nathanael come up, when Jesus looked at him His first time, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Kinda startled him, how He know but what He was an infidel? What if He knowed he was something else besides an Israelite? Greeks, Jews, all look the same, them long beards and garments and so forth. He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
"Why," He said, "before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you."
"Saw me through that mountain thirty miles over yonder?" He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel." Is that what he said? That's what the Jews said; that was the sign of the Messiah.
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe that I am?"
"Yes, I do."
He said, "Then you'll see greater than this."

L-74 But what did the church people do, orthodox church, the big high class church? They stood with their hands behind them, said, "You know what? He's a fortuneteller. He's a devil, Beelzebub."
And Jesus turned to them and said, "I'll forgive you. You speak that against the Son of man, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, you speak one word against it, it'll never be forgiven you in this world, or the world to come." How many knows the Bible said that? 'Cause they called the Spirit of God working in Him, a devil. You better be careful on those things. See?

L-75 Jesus claimed He did nothing except the Father showed Him. Is that right? Saint John 5:19, He said, "I can do nothing till I see the Father doing it first." He showed Him by vision. If that was Jesus yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever... And find me a place in the Bible where it doesn't dovetail with that. If it does the Bible contradicts itself. See? Every Word of God has to be exactly the same, set together. See? That's right. Just take the one; don't take somebody's theology; just take the Bible and read it.

L-76 Someone said to me, "Well, Elijah, when he went out there and laid them stones on the--up on there and called the fire down out of heaven..."
I said, "Oh, and you mean God didn't show him?"
"No, sir."
I said, "And you're a teacher of theology in the seminary?" I said, "I'm ashamed of you. Elijah himself said, 'I've done all of this at your command.'" Sure. No man can do it in his own will. It's the Father that shows these things. See? It's an act of God and not of man.

L-77 Now, if Messiah will return to this building tonight, come in here and manifest Himself in among the people... Now, no matter how much you'd come here to me, if you don't believe it, it'll never work. When Jesus came to His own country, they said, "We heard he done this things over here; we heard he done it over in Capernaum; but let me see him do it here."
And the Bible said, "Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." Is that right? It's up to you. God is here. And one thing that we can rest assure on, to you newborn babies that just come into the Kingdom awhile ago...


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