<TITLE>09. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 "But one day He came down to the seaside. And I thought, 'Well, I believe I'll walk up there; it ain't very much out of my way. I'll walk up and see what this Fellow's got to say.' No sooner than I walked up there I knowed there was something different about that Man. And I said one thing before I went up there. I remember my old daddy; he was a great old Pharisee as all you brethren know. And I remember when we used to fish out here in the sea. He was very religious. I remember before going out he'd say, 'Simon, my little son, let us kneel and ask Jehovah Who owns all the fish, that He will fill our nets tonight with fishes, for I need it. We need bread at home. And I--we have need of some fishes, so let's pray, Simon.' How we used to kneel on the bank and pray."

L-24 "I watched him when his hair begin to slip away, turning gray. Finally one day he set down on the side of the boat after a big catch, that God had answered prayer, and he said, 'Simon, my little boy, daddy's getting old, and I must answer my summons pretty soon on high. I've always prayed, Simon, that I'd live to see the day when the Messiah appeared. Now, Simon, there's no doubt but what there'll be lot of confusion in that day. There'll be all kinds of things falsely rise up just before that coming Messiah. But I want you to be... I believe you'll see it, Simon. So I--I want you to be sure of one thing, Simon, don't never accept it 'less it's got the sign of the Messiah. Be sure that that Messiahic sign is Scriptural. And now here, Simon, here's how you're going to know Him.'"
"And I remember setting on his knee and looking in his eyes as they quivered and filled with tears. 'Papa, what will He look like?'
"'He will just be an ordinary Man and perhaps not liked amongst our people. He will be a Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. He will be rejected and despised. But, Simon, they'll be many man rejected and despised, but this Man will be a prophet, for Moses said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me.'"
Moses was a perfect type of Christ, lawgiver, priest, deliverer, so forth, as the Bible reads of him.
"And Moses said that God told him that they'd raise up a prophet like him, and this will be more than a prophet. He will be a God prophet. And you'll remember him, oh, Moses, as all of our people have--or you'll remember him, Simon, as all of our people does know prophets are sent from God. And prophets have--he is a revelator of the Divine Word. He's a Divine interpreter of the Divine Word. And if this prophet says something and God backs it up, then that prophet's from God. Because if he says something that's the Word of God, a promise of God, and God turns around by that prophet and backs it up and says it's true, then you hear Him, 'cause that's our commission, Simon. Don't be deceived, Simon. But now, Simon, when you see them things comes to pass, you watch this prophet.'"

L-25 "And that day all that seemed to flash back to me, for my dad's been dead for years. But when I walked up there, begin to look at that little Fellow, no beauty we should desire, we hid as it was, our face, I thought, 'That's just exactly what dad told me the Scripture said about Him. No different from any other man, looked just like other men.' But when I walked up into His face, He looked straight at me and said, 'Your name is Simon. And your father's name is Jonas.' Not only did He know me, but He knowed that godly old father of mine that had passed on. I fell at His feet, said, 'You are the Messiah.'" Said, "That settled it for me. For I know my daddy had taught me the Scriptures, that that would be the sign of the Messiah."


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