<TITLE>09. Par 35-36</TITLE>L-35 And on the road around, no doubt in their testimony, as Nathanael was giving to, or Phillip giving to Nathanael, he told him, perhaps, about what Peter had come up, and He had told him his name, or said, "You remember that old fisherman down on the river?"
"Yes."
"Why, He told him who he was, who his father was, when he got there."
Oh, I can just imagine Nathanael said; "Now, just a minute, Phillip, you probably went off on the deep end. You must be joining up with some holy rollers or something. What's went wrong with you, Phillip? You and I used to set in the same synagogue, worship together, how we've sung the hymns of David, and how we have worshipped Jehovah; and here you come telling me of something like that."
"Well, just come on and find out." And around the hill they went, about a day's journey. And when they come up... Remember, this was Jewish people.
And when he come into the Presence of Jesus... Oh, perhaps he might've been out in the audience, or maybe he was in the prayer line; I do not know. But when he come into the Presence of Jesus for the first time, Jesus turned and looked at him; and listen what He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." Now, all men dressed alike. He could've been a Greek, and he could've been a thief. He could've been a unjust person. But Jesus, on His first seeing him, said, "You are an Israelite, and you're just an honest truthful man."
It astonished the man, and he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? Why, You have never seen me (in another words) all Your life, and I've never seen You. And I'm from thirty miles around here at another place. You've never even been in that country. And how would You know me?"
And you know what He said? "Before Phillip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, thirty miles around the mountain.

L-36 What did this Jew say? What did he recognize like that when Jesus displayed that before him? He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." That's what the Jew said when he saw it.
Now what did the unbelieving Jews say? They were standing by, and they said, "This man is a fortuneteller, a devil, Beelzebub." Who was that? Atheists? Church members, scholars out of the best schools that the world's ever had, the best schools of theology.
"Thou art the Son of God," said the man, who the miracle was performed on.
And the unbelieving Jew said, "He is Beelzebub, a devil. He's doing that as a fortuneteller."
And Jesus turned to him and said this, turned to them first, and He said, "You can say that against Me, the Son of Man; I'll forgive you for it." And I want you to notice: they never said it out loud; they said it in their heart. And Jesus perceived their thinking, said, "You say that against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven you; but when the Holy Ghost is come," in otherwise, to do the same thing, "one word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world to come." Be a pretty serious thing when He manifests Himself through the Holy Ghost in the same way, wouldn't it? "I'll forgive you, but when the Holy Spirit's come to do the same thing, just one word against It, thought, mind, or any way, will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world to come." And the Scripture goes to say, "Because they call the Spirit of God in Him that was doing this a fortuneteller or Beelzebub," an unclean spirit.
Now, that's the way He made the Jews know. The real true Jew that was borned and foreknowledge of God to be saved, recognized it, because God was with Him. And he recognized it quickly and said it's the Son of God.


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