<TITLE>06. Par 21-22</TITLE>L-21 Then when He looked at him He said to him; He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
And he said to Him, "When did you know me, Rabbi?"
And He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you."
Now, it's astonished him. How could He do it? But Philip knew that to persuade Nathanael that it could be done because he'd had an experience of being with Jesus. You know, there's something about being with Jesus gives you an experience. Being around where He's at, watching His work, and then that gives you faith. When you have an experience, it gives faith. Faith goes by your experience.
Now, notice in this. Now, as he come up... Well, we can see them as they begin speaking to each other as they moved up. And He begin to tell him what was taking place, and who he was, and where he come from, and all about it. And then as quick as he got the experience... Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. When he got to experience that a miracle of God had been performed on him, then he could fall at His feet and say, "Rabbi, thou art the Son of the living God. Thou art the King of Israel." But first he had to see it done. He could faith in God, after God had manifested Himself. That's the way God does.

L-22 The woman, that Brother Neville was reading about tonight in the Bible, she was setting at the well, or getting her water out of the well. She was a Samaritan. She had been taught that there was coming a Messiah Who would do great signs and wonders. She knowed a little about it. And when they dipped the bucket into the well to get the water, Jesus said, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "Why, You have nothing to draw with. And why would You ask me for a drink? Seeing that you're a Samaritan first, we have no dealings with each other, and so forth."
The conversation went on. By and by here's what taken place: He found where her trouble was. Remember, she first come out there to criticize Him as a Jew. But He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "That's right. You've got five. And the one that you have now is not your husband." And quickly, as soon as that happened she was puzzled in her mind. Remember, she'd went to a cold formal church. She knowed not what to do. She said, "Well, now sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. That we know when the Messiah cometh, that He will tell us these things."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you." Oh, what an experience. "I am He that speaks with you." And what did she say? She ran into the city with an experience that she had witnessed that Jesus was the Son of the living God. Why? She had seen a power working in Him that had performed a miracle, that told her who she was, and where her sin was, and where her trouble was. Therefore she could run and say, "Truly, that is the Son of God. Come, see the Man, that told me the things that I have done: isn't this the very Messiah?"


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