<TITLE>06. Par 20-24</TITLE>L-20 Now, when Jesus made Hisself known to the Jew... Let's just look into the Scripture and see what He did to the Jew to make Himself known as the Messiah. I was reading out of the book of Saint John. Let's just take Saint John, the 1st chapter. And as we read, we find out after He was tempted in the wilderness, came out, He was anointed with the Holy Spirit, was in Him. "John bare record, seeing God descending out of heaven like a dove, a voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in.'" And He dwelt in Christ. God, Jehovah, the Father dwelt in His Son Jesus Christ, tabernacled there, manifesting Himself, showing the world what He was.
That's the reason His disciples couldn't understand Him. They say, "You speak in riddles." It was sometime Jesus speaking, sometime the Father speaking.

L-21 That's the way it is with you, if you're filled with the Holy Spirit. Any man that's filled with the Holy Spirit says things that he hardly knows sometimes what it is he is saying, if he's truly carried away in the Spirit.
How about you people with the gifts of tongues? What is any other inspiration. If it's in English, and not in an unknown tongue, it's still inspiration and you speak it. I've had times where I'd be so inspired by the Spirit, I'd say things and write things down that I didn't even know I did. You have too, no doubt. That's the works of the Spirit.

L-22 Now, we'll notice how Jesus manifested Himself. In Saint John, that 1st chapter, as we continue on, we find there was a man by the name of--of Simon Peter. We called him that. His first name was Simon, then Jesus gave him the name of Peter. And he came to the Lord Jesus, and he was an ignorant man. The Lord knowed he was ignorant. The Scripture says he was ignorant and unlearned. Perhaps couldn't even sign his name. He was a fisherman.
And his brother had found him, and said, "Come, see what we have found, or Who we found." And as he come into contact with this Man Who claimed to be the Messiah, as soon as He seen him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."

L-23 What was He saying to Peter? That Peter was the head of the Church. He was saying to him that he would know beyond a shadow of doubt, that was the Messiah.
Wonder what he thought--that ignorant fisherman, when he knowed that tho--Jesus didn't know him. And He said who you are, and what your father's name is. It astonished him.
One standing by, a convert by the name of Philip. He takes over... This is continued on in the 1st chapter. He takes around the mountain to find his friend, Nathanael, very staunch Christian believe--or orthodox believer. And we... They must have found him under a tree plair--praying. And he said to him, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Well, of course, this man being a good man, not tossed about with every wind of doctrine, he--he... I admire him. He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And I think that Philip give him the best answer that anybody could give him, "Come and see." Don't stay home and criticize it, come, look into it and see if it's right. Search it out by the Scriptures.

L-24 For they were believing that there would be a God-prophet arise. Do you believe that? Moses said, "The Lord your God shall rise up a prophet liken unto me." And they knew that when this Messiah come, that He would be a seer, a prophet.
And so, no doubt but what Philip might have told him, as they went to find Jesus, "Why, you know that old ignorant fisherman called Simon? Why, as soon as he walked into His Presence, He knowed who he was." And he said, "'Why, how could this man know me?' And that proves that He is the God-prophet. He's the One that Moses spoke of. We've found Him, the One that Moses and the law spoke of. Come, see for yourself." That's good. I love that.


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