<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 And then on his road over, Philip probably instructed him and tell him, "Now, when you come up, come up believing. Go up there and just stand in the line. Watch and see what takes place." Oh, I can hear Nathanael say, "I don't know whether I could believe that or not." Well, just go and find out. Come on, go with me.
And around the mountain they came, and they found Jesus praying for the sick or whatever His duty was to do that day. And when they found Him, Jesus seen Nathanael coming, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
And this Hebrew was astonished. How did He know me? He never seen me in His life. He said, "Rabbi, whence knowest Thou me?" Jesus said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you." I saw you: what eyes, thirty miles around the mountain. "And I saw you when you were under the tree."
"Why," he said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."

L-30 Later the Jews said, "That's Beelzebub. He's a fortuneteller."
Jesus said, "Now, you speak that against the Son of man, I'll forgive you; but when the Holy Spirit has come, to speak against that, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come." Oh...
I passed another birthday the other day. I told them I was twenty-five years old. Somebody looked at me. I said I'm only counting the years I was converted. The rest of them doesn't count anyhow. That's right.
But physically, I was forty-eight. And as I see that if I'm ever going to do something for God, I got to do it now. For I see the signs and the writing on the wall. I see the church going into its Laodicean condition. I see little isms, and fashions, and little sensations scattering the church and separating it, making it worse than ever. Then I know it's time. I can't help it. Something in me makes me scream out, "Back to the Word." That's right.

L-31 Oh, church of the living God, how can it be? The last few days I've been torn and up early of the morning praying. And I said to God the other morning, I said, "God, I don't know what more You can do. I have done as You have told me as far as I know, the people constantly drifting, drifting." I said, "The next thing, You'll have to move Yourself. You've got to put a faith and confidence in those people's heart to believe it or all I could do will never change it."
Then I wonder at this: if in our great nation and in our great fatness of our land that we have smothered ourself down under little creeds and denominations, till God has rosen up to place it before the people to only bring judgment. That's right.

L-32 Christ passed through the land. He said, "If I do not the works of Him that sent Me, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of God, though you don't believe Me, believe the works." And if that great body of Christ did those kind of works in that day, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, His body produces the same works.
He said, "Well did Isaiah speak." We have eyes that can't see and ears we can't hear. Said, "Though He had done so many works of God before them, yet they could not believe." And I wonder if these great shaking campaigns that's crossed the nation, not only nation but nations, and the great signs and wonders and people still reject it. I wonder if it isn't to fulfill the Scripture, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man."


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