<TITLE>10. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Then he might've said, "You remember that, Brother Nathanael?"
"Amen. I remember it."
"And I waited until he finished praying, and I said to him, 'Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth the Son of Joseph.'"
"Oh," he said, "now wait a minute. What's this you're saying? Now, look Nathanael; I know you've--you've been a good man, and you're plenty Scripturally balanced. Don't you go off on a deep end now. Now, what have you done? You tell me that this Galilean Prophet they're talking about is the Messiah?"
"Listen, Nathanael, I saw Him, and heard Him, do the sign of the Messiah. We know the Messiah is to be a God Prophet. When I seen Him stand... Do you remember that old fisherman you bought the fish from down on the lake that day, by the name of Simon?"
"Yes, I remember it."
"He was so illiterate, he could not even sign a receipt for the fish."
"I remember that."
"As soon as he came up into the Presence of this Jesus of Nazareth, He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.'" He said, "Now, Philip, or Nathanael, I wish you could search the Scripture. Is not that the sign of the Messiah?"
And he said, "Oh, certainly the Messiah will be a Prophet. We know that. We're trained in that. But where would we find such a man? Is there... Where's He from?"
"He comes from Nazareth."
"Nazareth? Could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?"
I believe that he gave him one of the best answers that any man could give another. He said, "Come and see."

L-27 That's the best thing to do. Now, just don't stay home and say, "Well, the Joneses said so-and-so." Don't do that. Come, bring your Bible, and search the Scriptures, and see if it's right or not. Come, see for yourself. Don't come just for an hour. Come to stay till you're thoroughly convinced that it's right. That's the way. Check it by the Scripture, knowing that whether it is--it is true or whether it is not, when you are convinced to the Scriptural teachings of the Bible whether it's right or not. Now, that's what he was referring too. "Come, see for yourself, whether it is the--or the--truly the Messiah or not."
Well, he said, "I'll come and see."
"So as he... We went along the road, I told him the different things that had happened. And so when he walked up into the Presence of the Messiah, to Jesus..." He perhaps maybe He was standing like you are. Maybe He was sitting down. Maybe He was how--whatever position He was in.
"When this man walked up into His Presence, being a religious man, a good man, He said, 'Behold, an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.'"

L-28 Now, this astonished him. He didn't know what to say then. He wondered how He ever knowed who he was. He said, "Rabbi..." Which the word "Rabbi" means "a teacher, a Hebrew teacher." "Rabbi, when did You ever know me? Now, You tell me here that I am an Israelite."
Now, it wasn't because he was dressed like an Israelite, because all the eastern people... He could've been a Arab, or he could've been a Greek. They all dressed with the garments, and the turban, and just like they do in the east. He could've belonged to many different forms of people then in the eastern country.
But it wasn't his dress; it wasn't His color. They're all dark brown. And so He said, "You are a Israelite in whom there is no guile," a direct, positive witness of the Messiah. See? "Thou art an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
He said, "Rabbi (other words 'teacher, reverend, we'd say today'), how did You ever know me?"
And He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, fifteen miles around the mountains the day before. "When he was under the tree, I saw you."
And said, "I fell before Him and said, 'Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.'"
He knew it. He knew it because that he saw the Messiahic sign on Him.


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