<TITLE>18. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 Let's go back and see if that's true. After He was anointed of God, filled with the Holy Ghost, 'cause the Messiah was the Anointed One, is that right, brethren? The--the Anointed One... He was a man, when it comes to man. He was born, eat, drink, had flesh and blood like we have. But His blood was not--He wasn't a Jew; neither was He a Gentile. He was God. See? The blood comes from the male sex, how many knows that? He wasn't His mothers blood, she was Jewish. And then who was His Father? Who was His Father? God. Then God doesn't have blood because God is a Spirit. But He created a virgin blood cell into the wombs of Mary. Without sexual desire it brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus. Through that Blood I'm sanctified. Through that Blood a sinner is made clean. Through that Blood is what I have faith for this healing here. Through that Blood changes my life. That's the Blood.

L-57 When He was thirty years old the Holy Spirit came upon Him like a dove, and He started His first ministry. Let's see what He did, "The works that I do." The first thing He did, we find out, there was a fellow, Andrew went and found Peter, his name was Simon then, and brought him to Jesus and Jesus said to him, "Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas. Thou art the son of Jonas." Is that right? The first thing He did... Now, do you believe that Simon... He--he was a Pharisee of the church of the Pharisees. We're taught by the chronicles of the Bible that he was a Pharisee. Therefore he'd been taught that there would be a prophet raised up that Moses said, "There'll be a prophet raise up." How many knows that the Messiah was to be a prophet? "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like unto me," said Moses. He is to be a God prophet. And as soon as he found out that he knew who He was, he recognized Him.

L-58 Then away went a fellow named Philip, went over in another country fifteen miles around the mountains and found a fellow by the name of Nathanael, his friend, under a tree, praying. He said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
I think he give him the best answer any man could give, said, "Come and see." Just don't set there and criticize; come, find out for yourself. And I can imagine going around the hill, they said, "Say, you know that old fisherman you bought that--them fish from that time and he couldn't even sign that receipt, couldn't sign his name or nothing?"
"Yes, oh, Simon, you're talking about the--the fisherman, the big fisherman, yes."
"He come up before this one we know to be the Messiah, and He told him what his name was, and told him his father's name."
"Ah, go on," said Nathanael, "you've gone off the deep end."

L-59 But as soon as he walked up before a congregation, something like this, Jesus was perhaps ministering to the sick. He looked around, He seen him coming and He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile." Why, it took him right off his feet. How did He know he was an Israelite? Not the way he dressed, 'cause all the easterners dressed alike: turban, robe. He said, "An Israelite is whom there's no guile." In other words, a--a guileless man, a Christian, a real believer, we'd call him.
He said, "Rabbi (means teacher), when did You ever know me? Why, this is our first time ever meeting, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, fifteen miles around the mountain, "I saw you before you come to the meeting under that tree."
He said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you believe, you'll see greater than this."


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