<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 And Jesus had went about, just as fundamental as those Pharisees claimed to be, and when He done His works, they was expecting it to be something else, but because He could discern the thoughts of their hearts... Like when Peter came, He said, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas."
When Philip went and found Nathanael, and told him Who he had found, why, he couldn't understand it, that the Messiah would come out of Nazareth, out of that kind of a denomination, or no denomination at all. He couldn't understand it, and he said, "Come, see for yourself."
And when he come, Jesus said, "You... Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? I'm a stranger to you."
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
And Philip said--or Nathanael, rather, said, "Thou art the Christ; Thou art the King of Israel." See, the real true, elected recognized that to be God, when the real priests and scribes stood by and said, "That man is a fortune-teller." And anyone knows that fortune-telling's of the devil.
So they called the Spirit of God an unclean spirit, and Jesus said, "When the Holy Spirit come and made Hisself manifested, He'd do the same works that He did, and a word against It would be unforgivable." So you see the hour we're living.

L-23 Look at the Samaritan woman. As soon as Jesus told her the secret of her heart, she said, "We're looking for the Messiah to come, and He will tell us those things. But Who are You? You must be the prophet."
He said, "I'm He, that speaks to you."
She ran into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I'd done. Isn't this the Messiah?" And the Samaritans believed Him, because they were an outcast.

L-24 Now, I would like to say this: Jesus speaking here, was--said, "Oh, thou Capernaum, thou art exalted into heaven, because you think you have got the best synagogues, all those swell ministers, and everything, and you're very religious. You're so swelled up and so pious, till you are exalted into heaven, but I say unto thee, thou shalt be cast down into hell."
Where is Capernaum today? At the bottom of the Dead Sea. Every city that received Jesus, they stand today. Every city that He cursed, is gone today. Sure, He was more than a prophet; He was God manifested in the flesh.

L-25 And notice, He goes back into His--the Scriptures, and begin to show (as I wish to in the next fifteen minutes), that all ages, God has always had His people and had the supernatural working in all ages. When God sends a gift to the earth, if that generation receives that gift, then they become a blessed people, and if they turn it down, they become a cursed people, always.
Look at the generation in Jesus' day. God sent the greatest Gift that was ever sent to that generation, that's what He said, "There's a greater than Solomon here." And they turned it down, and called Him a fortune-teller. Where are they today? Scattered to the four winds of the world, the temple burnt. See, they turned it down.
And Jesus was referring--the chapter--the verse before this, of the days of Jonah. He said, "As it was..."
They come to Him and said, "We would seek another sign." And He said, "There will be a wicked, and an adulterous generation, that'll seek after a sign, and they will get a sign." I'm off of my text, but I want to get this to you.


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