<TITLE>10. Par 35-39</TITLE>L-35 Christ said, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." And the first Vine that come out of the Branch brought forth a Pentecostal Vine that went forth preaching the Gospels. Signs and wonders that followed the Lord Jesus followed that Church. If that Vine produced that kind of a Branch, the first one, the next Vine will have to produce... The next Branch will have to be like the nex--the first Vine. And every Vine that comes out of that Branch will be like the first one. They'll can be no difference, because it's the same Life that's supporting the first Branch, supports to the last Branch. And the same fruit that come on the first Branch on the Vine will be on the last Branch of the Vine.
Now, when Jesus was here on earth, He did not claim to be a healer. All knows that. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works."

L-36 What I referred to in my sermon, the Balm, the Holy Spirit that came like a Dove and set upon Him, and went into Him, and He was filled with God... He was God. God was in Him without measure. He's in us by measure. We're adopted children. But we're children just the same. A spoonful of water out of this big lake out here, have the same chemicals that the whole lake's got. But it's just not as much of it.
Now, we find Him going about... Let's watch His ministry just for a moment. And we're contending that Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." We see the first Branch bear that fruit. Let's see what He was, and then we can tell what the first Branch was, and what this Branch ought to be.

L-37 We find Jesus in Saint John 1. As soon as He had been filled with the Holy Spirit, and came from the wilderness, we find that a man named Andrew got converted and went and found his brother, Simon. And Simon came up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, and Jesus told him who he was, what his name was, and what his father's name was: Saint John the 1st chapter. That astonished the fisherman. And He told him, said, "Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas. But from henceforth, ye shall be called Peter," which means "little rock" or "little stone."
Immediately after that, there was one standing there by the name of Philip. And he was so thrilled by seeing this, he took off fifteen miles around the mountain and found his brother, Nathanael, a friend of his, under a tree, praying, and said, "Come, see Who we found, the Messiah."

L-38 On his road back, he begin to talk to him what He'd said about Peter, about calling his father's name. And then when he come into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus looked at him and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Saint John the 1st chapter, the beginning of His ministry...
And when he looked at Him, he said, "Rabbi, how did You know me? I've never seen You before, and You've never seen me. How did You know that I was an Israelite, a just men with no guile. How did you know that?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you when you were under the tree."

L-39 That was Jesus yesterday. And what did this believer say? Now, no man can believe without God calls him to believe. You might have so...
There... The meetings produce three classes of people. And one of them is a unbeliever, the next is a make-believer, and the next is a believer. That's the three classes of people that the Gospel brings. It's always from Moses time, and all the way through, always been from Eden: Cain, a make believer; Abel, a believer. And it's been that way all along.
And he said, "When did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." He'd been right there all the time. But He saw him before he come to the meeting, and told him what he was doing.
He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."


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