<TITLE>13. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 And Simon might've stopped here and said, "I see my old father brush the hair back out of his eyes, as the gray beard and hair. We'd fished together on the Galilean sea here all of our lives. And he said, 'Simon, my son, you may live to see the Messiah. And when He comes, He will be a rejected One. Oh, He will not have much followers to follow Him. But He will call the elected of God. He will call. And Simon, I prayed so hard that I'd raise a boy that would be amongst God's elected. Now, Simon, when the Messiah cometh, I want you to remember. He will be criticized. He will made fun of. But here's the sign that you'll know He is the Messiah. He will be a God prophet, because Moses, the great prophet that we followed, said, 'The Lord, our God, shall raise up a prophet likened unto Him.' Now, He will be a prophet like Moses, but far greater than Moses. See? He will be a Prophet, King, Priest, Law-giver. He will be God in flesh. But He will do the sign of the prophet, and that's the way you'll know that He is the right One.'" See?

L-50 And he said, "Then when I walked up before this Jesus of Nazareth. And I thought, 'I'll go and see it's somebody falsely. I don't believe what Andrew's telling me. I believe he's just got caught up in some emotion.' But when I come off from my ship, he told me He was up there on the bank. And I went up and set down on a chunk, waited to hear this Galilean speak. And while He was speaking, He turned and looked at me. And when He looked at me, I knowed He was different from other men. Just let Him gaze upon you one time. I knowed there was something about Him. When I heard Him speak, He didn't speak like an ordinary man. He didn't speak like a Pharisee. He didn't speak like a priest. He spoke like a man that knowed what He was talking about. And He was certainly convinced on what He said. And when He got through His speech, I stood up and I looked at Him in amazement. And He turned and looked at me, and He said, called me by my name. Said, 'Your name is Simon.' Not only that, but He knowed the name of my godly old father that's gone on. Said, 'You are the son of Jonas.'"

L-51 Said, "Brethren, that's what convinced me He was Messiah, prophet-God, God prophet. I knowed that was the Messiah, because He had no way of knowing me; and yet He called my name; and my daddy said to look for that. Not only that, but He let me know that He knowed my daddy had told me such a thing. I can never forget, brethren, those eyes how they pierced me when they looked at me. And He said, 'Your name is Simon. And you father's name is Jonas.'" He said, "It was that time that I was convinced that He was the Messiah of God."
Wish we'd be that simple this afternoon. Wish the world would recognize that.
"I knew He was the Messiah."

L-52 Must've been Philip then, about the center of the boat, that said, "Brethren, I want to tell on Brother Nathanael setting up there at the other oar. When I went to find him, I was convinced, and I heard Him call Simon and knowed that his name was Simon and knowed that his father's name was Andrew, or knowed his father's name was Jonas." And said, "I was convinced. So I wanted to find this brother, Nathanael here, because that I knew he was a good man. And when I went over the told him to come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph, he said, 'Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?' And I said, 'Come and see.'"
Now, that's a good thing to do: Come, see for yourself.
"And on the road around, you remember you'd say, Brother Nathanael, how we talked, and I told you when you bought them fish from that old fisherman that couldn't even sign the receipt, couldn't sign his own name, so illiterate."
And yet, he was made the head of the church and give the keys to hell and death--no, the keys to the Kingdom it was. I beg your pardon. Jesus raised with the keys for hell and death. He was give the keys to the Kingdom. Now...


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