<TITLE>08. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 How about Joan of Arc? Any student here would know about her, a little girl who saw visions, and Angels, and had revelation. And...?... the Catholic church burnt her to a stake, crying for mercy, calling her the same thing they called Jesus, Beelzebub, a witch. Joan of Arc was burnt as a witch to a stake by the Roman Catholic Church...?...
And about a hundred years later they found out she wasn't a witch; she was a saint. But God sent His message through just the same. And they failed to see it. They didn't know Who the Son of God was until He was dead, buried, and He rose again. God's sovereign; He does His Word. And His... The Church must wake up here in these last days. It's such a pitiful thing.

L-28 A few weeks ago in my city of Louisville, there was a lady going around with a little baby in a ten cent store. And she was showing things, saying, "Look, dear." And the little fellow stared. And she was showing something else, "Look, honey." And that little fellow kept staring. And directly she went through a counter that had a little trinket that rattled. And she shook it before him. And the little fellow just stared right out in space. And she fell across the counter exhausted and crying.
And some of the people went to her to see what was wrong. She said, "Not long ago he just took the way of staring, looking right straight ahead." Said, "He's a little human being, and he ought to notice things that pertains to this human life. The doctor told me long ago, he was better." But said, "He's not."
And I wonder if that isn't just about the way of the Church today. God is shaking every kind of a gift in front of the Church, and it just sets and stares, say, "Well, I suppose that's pretty good; if it been in my denomination, we might've accepted it."
Don't you see? Spiritually instead of mentally paralyzed the church set. There's been Billy Graham's; there's been Oral Roberts, there's been great men, Jack Shulers, and whatmore, in the last few years that's combing in this nation. And still they just, the church just sets, "Well, I'm this, or my church..." You get those ideas.

L-29 And Nathanael had the same ideas, said, "Now just a minute," he said, "if there's anything good can come out of Nazareth, it wouldn't be the Son of God, He'd come to the high priest."
And I think Philip give him the best answer that anybody could give him, he said, "Come and see." Now that's sensible, logical, correctly, "Come and see for yourself; don't stay home. Come out and find out for yourself. Come and see."
And I tell you what... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and besides that, He told him who his daddy was and what his name was."
"Oh, now just a minute," Nathanael would say to Philip, "Philip, I believe you went off on the deep end."
"You come find out for yourself."

L-30 They came up into the crowd where Jesus was. They--maybe they were out in the--the audience, or maybe they were in the prayer line. When Jesus saw him for the first time, He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Now, remember, the first time He ministry, here He's introduced Hisself to Jewish generation in this manner. "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
Well now, you say, "Way he was dressed." No, he could've been an Arab; he could've been a Greek, most any nation. All the orients dress the same. Said, "Behold, an Israelite (How'd He know he was a Israelite?) in whom there is no guile."
And when He said that, it astonished him so much, he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? I've never saw You, and You've never saw me. When did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
How many knows the Scripture says that? That was Jesus yesterday; that's the way He made Hisself known to the Jews.


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