<TITLE>09. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 "And when I went down one day on the lake, after seining all night and was discouraged, Andrew told me (my brother, setting ahead of me here) that he was going to be on a certain place. When we was bringing our boats in, I seem all the women and men gathering from the little huts along the lakeside. I wondered what it was all about. And Andrew said, 'Simon, you must come with me today, for the Messiah is going to speak today down here.'"
"Well," he said, "now, I did not believe that that could be any Messiah, but I remembered what daddy told me. And when I walked up into His Presence, when I heard Him speaking, before I got there, there was something different about Him. He seemed to be a man who knowed what He was talking about. He wasn't talking like a scribe. He was talking like a man who knowed what He was speaking of."
"And He turned his head to see me coming. And as soon as He seen me, He looked me in the face and said, 'Your name is Simon. You are the Son of Jonas.'"
"Brethren, that settled it forever for me. Not only did He know me, He knowed that godly old father of mine that told me to look for this sign. Therefore, I knowed that was the Messiah, because it was the sign that father said the Bible said would be following and making Him the Messiah. Therefore I knowed He was Messiah."

L-30 It must've been then Philip, setting back towards the stern of the boat, turned around, put his arm around Nathanael and said, "Nathanael, shall I testify or shall you?"
Oh, Nathanael, being always a polite gentlemen, he said, "Go ahead and testify about it, Philip."
"Well," he said, "when I seen that happen to Simon, I was positive that that was the Messiah, because He was showing the sign of the Messiah."
"So therefore, I knowed that my good old friend here, Philip was--or Nathanael was a great Bible scholar, and he'd read up on the Bible. He knowed what the Messiah would be. So I took around the mountain fifteen miles till I come to Philip's house and--or Nathanael's house, rather. And I knocked on the door. His wife told me that he was back in the orchard. I went back there, and I found him on his knees praying: 'O God of Israel (That's when something happens--when you go to praying), send unto us deliverance.'"

L-31 "And I stood back, and in my heart I thanked God that I had the message for him, that God had used me to come around the mountain to my friend. And when he got up and dusted his clothes, I said, 'Nathanael.'"
"And he said 'Philip, I'm glad to see you.'"
"Quickly I told him, 'Come, see Who we have found.'"
There's something about it, whenever you come in contact with the real Messiah, Jesus Christ, God's Son, you can't keep it still. You've got to tell somebody. It just spreads; it thrills your heart. You can never be the same.
"Come, see Who we have found: Jesus of Nazareth, He's the Messiah, the Son of Joseph."
And you know, Nathanael, being such a scholar, and he was such a true Pharisee, until... He said, "Now, wait a minute. Now, wait a minute. Now, Philip, surely you haven't went off on some tantrum or some deep end. Now, you know, if the Messiah had come, He would come down to our organization. He would make Himself known to us. He'd go to Caiaphas, the high priest. He would never be born in Nazareth. He'd never deal with that bunch of holy-rollers, or so forth, down there. You know, if He was coming, He'd come to our church, 'cause we are the Pharisees."


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