<TITLE>05. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 "I found him on his knees, and I--the message was burning in my heart till I could hardly wait to tell him, but yet, I let him finish his prayer. And when he got up, not knowing I was there, usually I would go to him and said, 'How is the grove getting along, Nathanael? How is everything up at the market? Have you did any trading with the--the caravans that's coming through?' As he usually did, because he was rather a business man. But I had something to tell him." That's what we need today, brethren: A message that's so burning that nothing else takes it's place.
Quickly, he didn't say, "How do you do, Nathanael?" He said, "Come, see Who we found."
There's something about when you find Jesus, that it's the--it's your subject day and night. You can't talk about nothing else.
"Come, see Who we have found. Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

L-13 And Nathanael being a just man, and a level thinking man, he said, "Now, wait just a minute. Now, you know that there could be nothing good come from Nazareth. And if there was such a thing as the Messiah that was coming, He would come to the high priest first, and make Hisself known. He would come to our church."
But you see, God does things peculiar, strange. He does it in order to pull the elected from everywhere.
"And then when, I told him that if he was going to be critical, the best thing to do was just come, see for himself..."
I think that's a very good message to anybody. Don't criticize. If you hear of somebody that's receiving the Holy Spirit, if you see a life changed, and something definitely, and they say, you've been told that there is no Holy Spirit, do not criticize it, take your Bible, look it over, see if God promised it, and then go see for yourself. Don't stay home. Go find out. Look it over yourself and compare it with the Scriptures. And if it's with the Scriptures, it's right. If it isn't with the Scriptures, that's questionable. But as long as it's Scripture, and a promise, it is true.

L-14 And he said, "Come see for yourself." Then he looked back over his shoulder to find Nathanael setting there weeping for joy. And he said, "Brother, do you remember our conversation along the road? I told you that the Scripture said that the Messiah would be a Prophet, a God Prophet that Moses said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up.' And all of our people questioned him, 'Are you that prophet?' And he left them kindly in a daze not telling them exactly what he was." And he told, said, "You remember the old fisherman by the name of Simon?"
"Yes," said Nathanael, "I remember him."
"You remember when we bought that fish from him that day, and you wanted him to sign a receipt, and he didn't even have enough education to sign his own name. But that same illiterate man came before this One that we know to be the Messiah, and as soon as he came, He told him who he was, and what his father was."
And Nathanael said, "I'll come see for myself. He will never tell me nothing. My mind's stronger than His. He will never read my mind. He's no mind reader."
"And when we come up into the Presence, and then I can hear him say, 'Just a moment.'"
Philip say, "Nathanael, I'm getting filled up. You tell the rest of it."


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