<TITLE>09. Par 24-25</TITLE>L-24 "Isaiah said He would be rejected. A man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. We would hide, as it was, our faces. Now, don't believe the modern trend of Him, Simon. But you watch for that sign of the Messiah. He will be a Prophet."
"And brethren, that day setting on the chunk..." He said to the--perhaps to the apostles as we give the little drama.
"I set there and watched and listened to this Man. He was a--a very forceful speaker. He didn't speak like one of the priests from the Bible, from the scrolls; He spoke with authority. And when He spoke, He seemed to have perfect confidence in what He said was right. Therefore, I begin to kinda like Him."
"Then all of a sudden, He turned and looked at me setting on that stump and said, 'Your name is Simon. And you're the son of Jonas.' That proved to me that He was the One that God was going to send. He was that God Prophet. For He not only knowed me, my name was Simon, but He knowed that godly old father of mine. He said, 'You are Simon, and you are the son of Jonas,' my dad. Therefore, I knew that my dad had instructed me by the Bible, and now the Bible was a living fact that here He was calling me by name, that never even seen me in His life, never heard of me, knowed nothing about me. And here He calls me Simon. Not only that, but He spoke of my own father that's been gone for fifty years, said, 'You're the son of Jonas.' When He said that I fell at His feet, 'cause I knowed that was the Messiah." Amen.
Messiah yesterday... What would the Messiah be today if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever?

L-25 Well, it must've been about that time, Philip's time, to stand for a testimony in the boat. As it was almost dark then, about shady. And, Philip stood up, and he said, "Brother Nathanael, you bear me record of this. I stood there and seen our Lord tell Simon here, that his name was Simon; he was the son of Jonas. That helped me too. And I had a brother that belonged to a great denomination called the Sadducees. So I--I went to see him. And it's about fifteen miles around the mountain."
"I went over one morning, early, I got up, had my breakfast and taken off across the mountain as hard as I could, and went over, and along about late in the evening I come, or in the afternoon, I came to the place where I knowed that this man lived. And I knocked on the door, and his wife said, 'He has just taken a visit out in his--in his grove. And he's out there among the trees somewhere. Philip, you'll find him out there.' So I went out amongst his trees, and when I got out there I heard a noise. And I went looking under the fig tree, and there he was on his knees praying.


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