<TITLE>08. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Notice, what did He do in the days gone by then? Now, there's only one way to do it, not take what the Baptist says, what the Pentecost says, or what the Methodists say, but take what God says. That ought to settle it. Now, we're reading out of Saint John 12, let's go back to the 1st chapter of Saint John and find out what He did. And if we can find out what He was yesterday, He's got to be the same today.
Now, remember, He manifested Himself to the Jews; keep that in mind. The Jews, no Gentile, He did not go to the Gentiles, and forbid His disciples to go to the Gentiles. Do you remember that?
Why? This is our age; that was their age. The Gentiles wasn't looking for Him; the Jews was. Now, we're talking to the Jews. Now, here He is in the 1st chapter of Saint John. We find out when He was anointed, and begins His earthly ministry, that He begin praying for the sick. And he found a man by the name of Andrew. And Andrew goes quickly and gets his brother, which was Peter, knowed then by the name of Simon.
And when he brought Simon up... Now remember, this Simon was a fisherman. The Bible says he was ignorant and unlearned. Brother, that would knock all your seminaries and schools in the head right there. See? And this man was given the keys to the Kingdom of God, a ignorant and unlearned fisherman.

L-24 Now, I'm not trying to support ignorance, but I'm trying to tell you: you're putting too much on education and theology, and not enough on God and His omnipresence and power. This man, the Bible said, was ignorant and unlearned. The historic writers say that he couldn't even, wouldn't even know his own name signed before him. And yet it pleased God to take nothing and make something out of it. And He give that man the keys to the Kingdom of heaven.
Now, when Andrew found, went and got his brother and said, "Come see, we found the Messiah." Now notice, here comes, not a big theologian like Caiaphas or some of the priests; they'd have never believed it. But He got a ignorant man, and he walked up in the Presence of Jesus. Now, watch what Jesus said when he found this man, a Jew now, a ignorant fisherman. And He said, "Your name is Peter, or Cephas, and your father's name is Jonas."

L-25 What do you think that ignorant man thought, when here was a Man that never seen him in all of his life? I'm reading out of Saint John 1. When this ignorant fisherman come in the Presence of Jesus Christ, Jesus told him what his name was and what his father's name was. Does the Bible say it? Anybody that's ever read it? What do you think he said? Now, that was Jesus yesterday. That's the way Jesus made Hisself known to the Jew.
And later Peter was given the keys to the Kingdom. Then a fellow got converted by the name of Philip, very same day. Well, he was so enthused, until he went around the mountain, fifteen miles behind the mountain. I think that's about the right measurement, so I'm told. And he come to a house... Let's dramatize it so the children will catch it.


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