<TITLE>12. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 Now, may the Lord add His blessing. Now, what do you say takes place? Here stands a man; I guess we're strangers to one another. I've never seen him. You've just been to church and seen me set up here. Well, I mean I don't know you, don't know a thing about you. Now, here's a man standing here, his... Here's another Bible picture.
In the Book of Saint John the 1st chapter, when Jesus' ministry first started, Philip got converted, and went, and found Nathanael. And he brought... said, "Could any..." He come when he found Nathanael; he was doing something. He was under a tree, perhaps, praying. And Philip being all enthused about Jesus and believing on Him himself, He said, "Oh, come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

L-50 I think he gave him a--a word that all of Phoenix ought to know, and the rest of the world, said, "Come, see." That's the best thing to do. Come find out for yourself.
Now, this man was a very staunched Hebrew. He said, "Could any thing good come from Nazareth?"
Said, "Come, see."
I think that is a most logical answer. And when he come, now, I can imagine Philip saying, "Now, when you go, don't be critical. Don't look for some great big something; just look for a humble Man, just like a fisherman or something, not dressed any different than any other man, not a great high priest robe on, big turban setting on top his head to make him look like something. Men are not something the way they dress. See, what they are, they're in their heart.

L-51 And then when he come he found an ordinary Man, just a clean dressed Man just like any other man. And He looked at him, and Jesus turned and looked at him, the first time He ever saw him. He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." Now, he could not been an Israelite; he could've been something else. He couldn't have be an honest man; if he had not have been Jesus would have knowed it. How did He know he was a honest man?
And that Man, it kind of startled him. He thought, "That's just a Man."
But that wasn't a Man speaking, it was God in the man, speaking. And he looked at him, and he said, "Rabbi (or preacher, Reverend, as we'd say today.), Rabbi, when did You ever know me?"

L-52 Why Jesus looked at him, He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree I saw you." Do you know what that Jew said? He was a real Jew. He said, "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
Now, if He's raised from the dead He's got to be the same in principle, the same in power, and all, because He said, "The same things I do, you will also." Now, may He grant it.
Here's a man, total stranger. I've never seen him in my life, he's standing here for some cause. I don't know. But what do I do? Just yield myself to the Holy Spirit. And then whatever He... If this man, I don't know him, and the Holy Spirit, which is Christ in Spirit form... It's just the Lord Jesus come back in Spirit form. "I go to the Father, in a little while the world won't see Me, yet you'll see Me, for I'll be with you, all the way to the end of the world." The Holy Spirit is nothing in the world but the Spirit of Christ back working in the Church. If the Spirit of Christ worked in Jesus, the Logos worked in Jesus, and He gave His Blood that He might cleanse us... And God by foreknowledge set orders in the church of different things. That same Logos working in us, will do the same thing: got to.


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