<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 But a real good old time case of the baptism of the Holy Spirit in your heart, it'll make you forget your pride. It'll make a tuxedo suit put his arms around a pair of overalls and call him brother. It'll make a silk dress put her arms around a calico, say, "Sister." It does something on the inside of you that goes beyond intellectual conception; it's a birth of the spirit that lives in the human heart.
Now, as soon as He told that to Simon, he became His servant. Immediately then Philip got around Him too. Said--he said he another friend, and he went around the mountains, fifteen miles to find his friend Nathanael. Let's follow him just a few moments. And he goes to get him. Perhaps Mrs. Nathanael was at the house, and he said, "Where is Nathanael at?"
"Oh, he went out to the orchard just awhile ago."
Out in the orchard he goes, and there he finds Nathanael out there under a tree, as any good loyal person would be, praying. As a Christian gentleman, of course he wouldn't interrupt him when he was praying. After he got through, I can just see Nathanael raise up and say, "Well, if here ain't Philip."
Now watch him; he's got a message. Without receiving his introduction or anything, he said, "Come, see Who we found."

L-24 I wonder what would take place if this little group of people here in this building tonight, would be that enthused about Jesus? I wonder what would take place if one of these little churches around here, would get that enthused about Jesus is always on your heart, you're--you're thirst is first and that's God. The first thing is Jesus. "Come, see who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Well, now you know, this here fellow Nathanael was orthodox, very straight, good fellow. And I can hear him say to Philip, "Now, wait just a minute, Philip. You must've went off on the deep end, or something. You mean to tell me that the Son of God would come out of Nazareth? That little group of people down there they're so mean? If the Son of God, the Messiah, was here, He'd come to the temple. He would come to the--to Jerusalem and not to Nazareth."

L-25 I say this with love and respect, but that's the same way they think it today, they can't believe it. But even, you Catholic would say, "He'd come to the Vatican City; He'd let the pope know." And you Presbyterians would say, "Oh, He'd let the bishop know." And so forth, all of us... But God does things in His own way. And it's always contrary to the way the clergy has it figured out, always. You historians know that. Never in any age did the clergy have it right. Be careful.
To you protestants first, what about Elijah? They didn't believe he went home on a chariot. They sent their little children down behind Elisha, saying, "You bald-head, why didn't you go up?" And the prophet cursed those children. And a curse come on them and two she bears killed forty-two little children.

L-26 How about Moses? When Jesus was here, He said, the disciples said to him, said, "Why do these Scribes say (the ministers), why do they say that Elijah must first come?"
He said, "He's already come, and you didn't know him." And they knowed He spoke of John the Baptist.
Now, to you Catholics. What about Saint Patrick? Did the church recognize him? They thought he was a witch. But after he was dead, the message had been given, then the church received him. What about Saint Francis of Assisi, a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, he protested the Catholic church. When he went to preach down on the corner that day, the little birds was a hollering, he said, "Sisters, you stand still, keep still while I'm preaching." And they obeyed him. And after he was dead, now he's canonized as a saint in your church.


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