<TITLE>08. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25  When He made Hisself known to Philip... When Peter came into the meeting, and He told him, "Your name is Simon (or Cephas) and your father's name is Jonas..." And when they went and got a man and brought him to Jesus, He said, "You are a Israelite in whom there's no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
What did those who stood by, the Jews say? "That's Beelzebub; he's a fortuneteller."
When He went into Samaria, and the woman come out to get a drink at the well, or to get her water, when Jesus said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink," she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to talk we Samaritans. I'm a woman of Samaria."
And He said, "If you knew Who you was speaking to, you--you'd ask Me for a drink." He talked to the woman till He found where her trouble was and said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
Said, "You've had five; and the one that you now have is not your husband. You said well."
She didn't say He was a devil or a Beelzebub. I quote this again. She knowed more about God than ninety percent of the preachers in America knows tonight. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." Spiritual, she's use to it, been taught it. "We know. We Samaritans know when the Messiah cometh He'll tell us all these things. But Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
She ran into a city of her own city of Samaria and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Christ?" That was not done to the Gentiles in them days. It is now. That's the way He declared Hisself then.

L-26  Now, and if the queen of Sheba would stand in that generation and condemn them... Oh, hear me people. If the queen of the south, Jesus said, would stand and condemn that generation, and we've had two thousand years of teaching on that, and here He is doing the same thing tonight, what will she do with this generation when she testifies? Think of it. We that say that we're good and go to church... What is a sin? Is unbelief. No matter how religious you are, just so good you wouldn't do this, that, or the other, the Mohammedans are the same. Buddha's the same.
Religion is one thing; salvation's another. Religion is a covering. Salvation is a gift of God. She'll stand and condemn this generation. Why? She stood when she seen that gift of God working through a man; she said, "That's the truth." And she accepted Jehovah as her God. Then the eunuch taken the message down after Pentecost to the people of the birth death, resurrection of Jesus, the coming of the Holy Spirit. Oh, what are you going to do if God makes His stand and if you make your stand?

L-27  Here some years ago here in the middle America there was a preacher by the name of Daniel Greenfield, a great and mighty minister. Many of you clergymen has read his book. And one night he had a dream. And on this such night that he had a dream, he thought he went--he died and he went up to heaven. And when he go to the gate, the gate keeper come out and he said, "Who approaches this place?"
And he said, "I'm Daniel Greenfield, an evangelist from America."
Said, "Just a moment, Mr. Greenfield, I'll see if I can let you in. If your name's on my book, all right.
He looked the book over. He came back and he said, "Sir, I'm sorry, but your name is not on the book. You must depart."
"Oh," he said, "surely you're wrong. I preached the Gospel. I lived a good life." Said, "Surely my name is on the book."
"I'm sorry," he said, "it's not here."
He said, "What shall I do then?"
He said, "You might appeal your case to the great white throne judgment."
"Well," he said, "I have no choice; then I must do it."


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