<TITLE>14. Par -</TITLE>L-22-1 Now, when He was here on earth, He came as the Messiah, was baptized by John the Baptist (had done no works yet), and He entered His early ministry. Who was He sent to? The Jews.
Now, we realize there is only three nationalities of people in the world. That's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan, which is Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people, Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. You remember, Peter called on them with the keys to the Kingdom on the day of Pentecost (to the Jews): "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ."

L-22-3 Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans. They all believed and repented and had been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, only the Holy Ghost hadn't come on them. Peter had the keys. He came down and laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
And then Cornelius, the Gentile, had a vision that he was to send and get a man called Peter, Simon Peter, that dwelled in a man's house who was a tanner. And when Peter came up there, while Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them. Then said Peter, "Can a man forbid water? These have received the Holy Ghost like we got it at the beginning." Every branch coming forth just the same. See?

L-22-5 Now, when Jesus met... Now, He did not come to the Gentiles. How many knows that? He forbid His disciples to go to any Gentiles. How many knows that? "Go not in the way of the Gentiles, but go, rather, to the lost sheep of Israel, and as you go, preach, saying, 'the Kingdom of heaven is at hand,'" to the lost sheep of Israel.
Now, who was looking for Him to come in that day? Not the Gentiles; we were heathens, Anglo-Saxon. We were Romans, worshipping the sun and so forth. We wasn't looking for any Messiah. But the Jews and the Samaritans was. Now, how did He declare Himself to them people that was looking for Him? Let's go back now to Saint John the 1st chapter, and just for a moment now and listen close.

L-22-7 The first Jew that was ever brought to Him--when Philip--or Andrew got converted and went and found his brother, Simon Peter, he brought Simon in front of Jesus, and Jesus told him what his name was and what his father was. How many knows that? What do you think that done to that man, that would later have the keys to the Kingdom in his hand? That's what He proved Himself to be: Messiah. Quickly then, Philip got converted and went and found Nathanael. (That's thirty miles around the mountain.) And he come up to the house, and I can hear him say, "Oh, Mrs. Nathanael, where's Nathanael?"
"Oh, he's out in the--in the olive orchard."
Run out there real quick: "Nathanael, where are you?" And he found him under a tree, and Nathanael was praying. And he waited till he got through praying, and he said not "How do you do, Nathanael? How's the crops doing?" Oh, he had a message. That's the way a man who's met Jesus had. He got no time for foolishness. He said, "Come, see Who we found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

L-23-2 And now I can see Nathanael brushing off his clothes from prayer. He said, "Now, Philip, I knowed you to be a good man and an honest man. Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth? Why, you know if the Messiah would come, He'd come to Jerusalem, to the church." (That's what people think today. See?) "He'd come through Jerusalem. Caiaphas never announced it at the last meeting. So none of the theologians announced it. So I've known you to be an honest man. Have you went off on the deep end?"
"Oh, no, you come find out."
He said, "Could anything good..."


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