<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Say, you Catholics, you claim Saint Patrick. Did you ever read his actual history? He was just about as much Catholic as I am. He protested the Catholic church. And he done miracles. But after he was dead, you recognized him as a saint.
How about Saint Francis of Assisi, a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, who made the birds keep still while he was preaching? You didn't recognize him then. But you did later, after he was dead.
How about you school children? Joan of Arc, you Catholic people? That spiritual woman, who saw visions and was filled with the Spirit, and you burned her to the stake as a witch, as a Beelzebub, like her Lord was killed. You, the Catholic church, did that. But about a hundred years later, you found out she was a saint. 'Course you done a lot of repentance. You dug up the dead bodies of those priests and throwed them in the river. Now you canonize her as a saint.
God declares Himself in every age. And He's got to declare Himself tonight, or He isn't God of the other age. And the people's got to reject it like they did back there. His servants will have to suffer as they did. It must fulfill the Scriptures.

L-29 Now, notice closely, as we go on. What was He yesterday? Turn back to Saint John 1 and read. We find immediately after He was anointed with the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost came into Him, He went about--begin gathering up His disciples. And one got converted and went and got his brother. His name was Andrew. And He went and got Simon, his brother, an old ignorant fisherman. He was so illiterate until he couldn't write his own name.
What's your schooling, and education, and Bible colleges, and things got, if God took a man like that that couldn't write his name? I'm not downing them, but you put too much emphasis on those, getting your preacher out of some seminary. Don't take a seminary experience to... Take the God's experience a backside of the desert. God takes something that isn't, and makes something out of it, to show that He is.

L-30 This old fisherman couldn't even sign his own name, so illiterate. And Andrew found him and said, "Come see, we've found the Messiah," Saint John 1. And as soon... Watch Jesus yesterday. And as soon as he came into the Presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon. And your father's name is Jonas." What do you think that ignorant unlearned fisherman thought? He never questioned it at all. He knew that he was in the Presence of the Messiah. And he got the keys to the Kingdom, a man that couldn't sign his name. The next day, there was one converted named Philip. Jesus yesterday, watch what He did.
And as soon as Philip got converted, he went around the mountain to find a friend of his by the name of Nathanael. And he... Let's just dramatize this. There's little children here.

L-31 And I see Philip going around, hurrying. And he gets to the house and knocks at the door. [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] And the--the lady comes to the door, and he says, "Where is Natha--Where is Nathanael?"
"Oh, he just... Philip, he just went out into the orchard to pray." And out in the orchard goes to--Philip, just as hard as he can to find Nathanael. And when he finds Nathanael... 'Course Philip was a Christian gentleman: he was on his knees praying. He waited till he got finished and raised up, brushing off his clothing. And he--I can hear him say, "Good morning, Philip. I'm so glad to see you again."
Notice, before Philip said anything, he said, "Come, see Who we found." If the church would be that much interested in getting Christ to the people, instead of so much social gossip and carry-on... Talking about this creed and that creed.
He never even taken time to speak to him. He had something more important. He said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."


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