<TITLE>10. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Must've been Philip about that time said, "Yes, Simon, I was standing seen that. You know what I done? I took around the hill to find our brother Nathanael setting up here. Nathanael, remember it?"
"Oh, yes, Philip, well, I remember it."
"I remember I went around the mountain, and I--I found Nathanael a praying under a tree. And I said, 'Nathanael, come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.' And you remember what you said, Nathanael?"
"Well do I remember. I said, Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth amongst them holy-rollers, or whatever you want to call it. There be any Messiah coming, He'd come up here to Caiaphas the high priest. He'd come make Himself known to our organization. So there couldn't be anything raised up down there in there that, any son of Joseph or so forth, could ever be any Messiah. And you remember, I remember what you told me too, Philip." What was it? "Said, 'Come and see.'"
That's the best idea. Don't stay home and criticize, come, find out for yourself. Come, examine it by the Word, see if it's right. That's good theology. Come, see for yourself. Said, "Yes, I remember it."
And said, "You remember what we talked about coming along, Nathanael?" The boat was rocking along, the little waves now going across the sea. "Yeah, I remember."

L-27 They was all giving their personal testimony about Jesus, what they thought of Him. And so, he said, "Yes, well do I remember, yes I remember. We was talking about you Simon, yeah. I..." He said, "You remember that old fisherman that couldn't even sign his own name on a receipt for your fish?"
"Yeah."
Said, "He told him who he was and who his father was. Now, you know Nathanael, that you're a scholar, and you know the Bible says that the Messiah will be a God prophet; we'll know Him by the sign of a prophet."
"Yes, I remember that. And I remember you told me He might tell me who I was when I come before Him. Oh, I remember that."
"Well now, Nathanael, you want to testify from here out?"
"I certainly do, brethren." Oh, my. When you've ever met Jesus you like to tell about it.

L-28 I can see him stand up in the little boat and say, "Brethren, I walked up there; I wondered what that Man... I'd heard Philip talk about Him and I thought, 'Well, surely Philip wouldn't tell me anything wrong.' I got there, saw a little group of people." Oh, perhaps maybe what's like here tonight, or something. Said, "A little group of people standing along." Maybe it was in a prayer line. "And when I got up before Him, He looked at me and He said, 'Behold, an Israelite, in whom there's no guile.' And I thought, 'Now, that's strange, I never saw Him before, and He never saw me before. So how does He know that I'm an Israelite? How does He know? I could be a Arab; I could be a Greek; why, we all dress alike, so how'd He know I was a Israelite and had no guile; I was a--a just, honest man?' So I said to Him, 'Rabbi,' I didn't want to disregard, disrespect Him. So I said, 'Rabbi, how did You ever know me? You've never seen me, and You don't know me. This is the first time we met, so how did You know me?'"
"He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you.'"
"Yes," said Philip, "I remember what you done, you fell at His feet and said, 'Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.'" Say, you remember Rabbi Lavinski over there, what he said? He said, 'Now, look, congregation, don't you believe that stuff; that's Beelzebub; that's the devil in that man, doing that. He's a fortuneteller. See? You remember what Jesus said to him? He said, 'I forgive you for that, but someday the Holy Ghost is coming, and He will do the same thing, and if you speak a word against it, it'll never be forgiven you in this world, neither in the world to come.' Remember that?"
"Yes, yes, remember that."


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