<TITLE>04. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 And he said, "You know, I had a friend, our brother now, beloved in the Lord, Nathanael, and he was some fifteen miles away from where the services was going on, and I took a foot around the mountain. Finally, I come to his house, and knocked at the door, and his lovely wife a--came to the door, and I asked where Nathanael was."
"And she said, 'Philip, he's taking a stroll out in the gardens.'"
"And I went out into the gardens, and I heard someone over there under a tree. And he was praying like this, 'Oh, great Jehovah, we have longed and longed for the time that You'd send us deliverance. Won't You please send the--the Deliverer now? As You sent Moses when You're people were in trouble, send us help now.'"
"And I was so carried away to tell him that help had come, that I even forgot to say very much when he got up off his knees. I said, 'Come, see Who we have found, the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.' I just couldn't take time to tell him anything else. It was so on my heart; I just had to burst it out."
That's the way when God gets a hold of a heart and really convinced. You just can't keep still; you've got to tell somebody. You can't keep this hid. Lighting a candle and putting it under a basket does no good. You've got to let your light shine.

L-10 And he come quickly to the point, and said, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth. And of course, you brethren know that Nathanael always was quite a theologian. And he said, 'Now, wait just a minute, Philip. I've knowed you for many years, and I--I have thought you to be a good sane, sound man. But now, you don't mean that you've gone off on some tantrum, or some deep end, and have got lost out here with some fanatical prophet so called. If there was to be any Messiah, don't you think that the high priest would know about it? Don't you think that He would come to our denomination and tell us about it?'"
But you know, as it was then, so is it today. Something that God sends, it must come to our denomination, or it--it just isn't right. But God usually sends it out of every denomination, and confuses the whole crew, to those who are looking and waiting for something.

L-11 So he said, "I quoted him the story, and he said, 'Now, Philip, you know there's nothing good could come out of Nazareth.'"
And Philip, I think, gave him the best answer I ever heard. "Don't stay at home and criticize, come, see for yourself."
That's a good thing, when people say that the Holy Spirit isn't moving among the people today, that that's emotion. I think the best answer is, "Come, see for yourself. See what takes place."
When men of all walks of life, wicked, drunkard, all streetwalkers, and everything are straightened up and cleansed by the Blood of Jesus Christ and made saints, that takes more than psychology, or--or human theology, or--it takes the power, the regenerating power of the Holy Ghost to change a man's soul, his mind, his way of living.


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