<TITLE>07. Par 25-30</TITLE>L-25 Just don't stay home and criticize. Come find out if... It means the difference between death and life. If it's not right, don't believe it. If it is right, then believe it. Get behind it.
It's what I've always tried to say to the people. If Christ be Christ... If this blessing of the Holy Spirit be of God, let's get behind it with everything that we can and follow Its leading. If it isn't, leave it alone. It'll prove itself according to the Word. "For every plant that God has not planted will be rooted up." The Scripture says so.

L-26 Now, we find this kind of a--a critical condition that Philip had met, or Nathanael had met, after his friend telling him, that... Why, I guess he said something like this. "Now, Nathanael, I... or Philip, I have always knowed you to be a good sound thinking man. And you come tell me that--that the Messiah is coming out of Nazareth? Why, the Messiah doesn't come out of Nazareth, comes out of Bethlehem. So then you go telling me all these things."
"Well," he said, "don't start criticizing. You may not understand it all. Just come, look into it. It wouldn't surprise me if He didn't know who you were when you come up."

L-27 And they walked up in before where Jesus was praying. They might've come into the prayer line with Him. I do not know. But as he came in the Presence of Jesus, to see Him the first time, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Why, you said, "Sure, he's dressed like them. All the orients dress the same. He could've been Greek. He could've been an Egyptian. He could've been any of those Eastern people. They all wore the robes and turbans just alike, bearded." But Jesus knew that he was a believer, an Israelite.

L-28 He could've been a hypocrite. He could've been a unbeliever. But Jesus said, "An Israelite in whom there's no guile..."
No doubt but what the... Philip in the instruction meeting, about fifteen miles around the mountain, had instructed Him in the Scriptures. He was ready.
That's why Brother duPlessis is here to try to instruct. I heard him saying he'd been in meetings around for ten years. A man of honor, a man should take his Word. He will not give his own Word, it'll be God's Word. But to instruct the people, so they... And you listen to what he's got to say. Brother duPlessis and I have never worked together in this fashion before. But I--I heard him say... I didn't know how long he'd even been around the meetings. I never know; people just come and go. But I learned to love him and know that he was a good man with a high reputation around the world among all the churches.

L-29 And Philip, probably give an instruction meeting. And when he stood in the Presence of Jesus with Nathanael, He said, "Behold, there's an Israelite in whom there's no guile." And it astonished him.
He said, "That might be the God-prophet that Moses did speak of, because He will be a prophet, but He will be the God-prophet." So he said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi?" In other words, "You never seen me, how can You know anything about me?"
And Jesus turned and said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." That settled it.
Said, "Rabbi, Thou art the King of Israel. Thou art the Son of God."

L-30 That was Jesus yesterday, and the sign of the Messiah yesterday. It's got to be the sign of the Messiah today.
There were some of those who stood by, of course, who didn't believe that, very fine scholarly men, Rabbis, doctors of the law, great men, holy men that you could not lay your finger on their life. If they were to be, they'd be stoned. They come from a lineage of the ministers for hundreds of years; they know all the law.
It's one thing to know the Bible, and another thing's to know the Author of the Bible. Not knowing the Bible, you have Eternal Life; but to know Him, you have Eternal Life. To know Him. You might not know one word of His Bible, but if you know Him in the power of His resurrection, that's Eternal Life.


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