<TITLE>10. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Now, let's watch this manifestation. As soon as He started His public ministry... And if we can follow His public ministry and see what He did yesterday, He will be the same today. Will you believe that? If we can find what He done yesterday to manifest Himself as Messiah...
Oh, may I say that again? For there hangs the campaign; there hangs the keynote; there hangs the thing that will shake the nation; there hangs the question that will put every church in Ohio in a revival in the next few days. There hangs the one and all sufficient thing. What He was, He is.

L-41 And if He is the same, then we should sell out, surrender everything to Him: our motives, our objectives, our wills to Him. But the world will never do it. He said they wouldn't. Men were ordained to this condemnation. But God is just. He must perform it. He must do it in order to remain God. It's His promise: the same yesterday, today, and forever.
When His public ministry first started... Let's quote the Scripture now from Saint John the 1st chapter. We started in Saint John 12. And you who are taking notes might read it. And we're going to use just a few things for the next few moments. And look at Him yesterday and see if He's the same today.
As soon as He was on His public ministry, there was one Andrew who got converted and went and got his brother Simon: Saint John 1. And when Simon come up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus knew who he was. And not only that, but He told him what his father's name was. Now, see if that's right. Search it in the Scriptures. He said, "Your name is Simon, but I'm going to call you Peter. And you are the son of one Jonas." That startled this old fisherman.

L-42 Now, remember he was not a scholar. He was a fisherman, that the Bible said was ignorant and unlearned: Acts the 3rd chapter. Peter and John, they perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned. We're taught that Peter could not even sign his own name. And yet by his humility, he was given the keys to the Kingdom. And Jesus named him, when he come into His Presence, tell him what his first name was. "You are Simon, and your father is Jonas." That was Jesus yesterday, making Hisself known to His Church. He will have to be the same today if He remains the same.

L-43 Now, then there was one by the name of Philip that was just spoke of tonight. Upon his conversion, which was out of the same city that Peter was, he had a good friend that belonged to a well-known denomination. But he was a just man, he was a good man.
And if any of you here has ever been at the holy lands, mark the place where Jesus was at preaching, and where Nathanael was under the tree, about thirty miles. And he went thirty miles to find a friend to bring him in the Presence of Jesus. I wonder if we'd go thirty steps today. But he was sold that Jesus was the Christ and he wanted his friend to know it.
And he went around the mountain and found Nathanael under a tree. And now, notice their conversation. He said, "Come, see a Man. Come, see this Fellow. We've found Him. He's Jesus of Nazareth, He's the Son of Joseph."
And watch this orthodox believer, this good church member. When he got up and shook the dust from him, he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Or could there be anything come out of a group of people like that, that'd be any good?"


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