<TITLE>05. Par 15-19</TITLE>L-15 It must've been about that time that--that Philip might've said, "But, brethren, you should've seen Nathanael's face, Brother Nathanael setting there in the head of the boat. You should've seen his face that day. When he'd been... We'd been discoursing one with the other, and when I brought him up in the Presence of Jesus, and I told him about things was happening... But he said, 'Oh, that's just--that's just something that you're imagining.'" But when he come in the Presence of Jesus, He said to him that what he was, that he was an honest man, a good man; and it astonished Brother Nathanael. But when He told him where he was before he came to the meeting, Nathanael was convinced that that was the Son of God.

L-16 Then big Andrew, putting his arm around Simon, might've said something like this: "But how did we all feel when He sent us into the city to buy some bread, and when we come back we heard Him talking to someone, and we slipped up close to listen what it was. And there was a--a woman marked of ill fame standing, talking to Him at the gate of Samaria, at the well?"
"And we heard Him ask her to go get her husband. And we looked around to each other. And she said, 'I have no husband.' We thought right then there was a slip somewhere. 'I have no husband.'"
And... But He looked her straight in the face and said, "You have said well. For you have had five husbands, and the one that you're now living with is not your husband.'"

L-17 "Brethren, did you notice the look on that woman's face? Quickly she turned and said: 'Sir, You must be a prophet. We know the Messiah will come, and He will tell us these things.'"
And then He gave that all sufficient satisfying consolation to that woman and said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
"Did you notice her looks, when she turned with that peaceful look in her face, running into the city screaming from both sides, 'Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah that we're looking for? Is not this the prophet that Moses said would rise up in the last days. Would be one among us? He's out there at the well now, a Man Who told me the things that I have done.'"
"And did you notice brethren when those Samaritans come from the city, they never asked Him to repeat that one time? They were satisfied that that was the Person and they know it."

L-18 The little boat as it dashed on across the lake. It must've been about that time that Satan must've raised up and said, "Oh, I've caught them alone without Him. Now's my time to settle the score with them, for they had been casting out my demons and so forth. So I'll settle the score." That's when Satan can settle the score when he finds that you've gone off without Jesus.
That's when Satan will get the church. When you get so interested in something else besides prayer meetings, when you get so interested that--that you're supposed to have a natural growth instead of a spiritual growth, then remember, Satan's on his road. He's caught you without Him.

L-19 O God, is my prayer, wake up the church again to old fashion, all night prayer meetings. Wake the people up to a--a spiritual atmosphere. Oh, it--it takes that to bring children into the Kingdom. It takes the atmosphere.
Right this night while we're sitting here, if this right atmosphere would take place, this entire group would be refilled with the Holy Ghost, every sick person would be made well. It's the atmosphere that does it.
You can take a hen egg and put it in a incubator and keep the atmosphere right it'll hatch out a chicken not an incubator. See? Because that it's the atmosphere that counts. Put a chicken egg under a--a dog. It'll hatch a chicken. It's the atmosphere. And that's what it takes in the church today, not so much starchy creed and theology, but the Spirit of the living God pouring down upon His people to bring a spiritual atmosphere.
Not one saying, "I believe it's this," and another one, "I believe it's that." It's hard for the Holy Spirit to work.


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