<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 That's a good thing for a dad to do, or mother. Wonder today if we put more time on instructing our children in the things of the Lord, than we do about hot rods and other things, and we wouldn't have so much juvenile delinquency. That is true.
Susanna Wesley was the mother of seventeen children. She didn't have no push button dishwashers, and--and spigots to turn on to get water, and yet with all those children she could spend two to three hours a day in prayer around those seventeen children. From that little nest of little birds came forth a John and a Charles who stirred the world. We need more mothers like that with time to teach their children about God.
I stood by her grave not long ago in London when I was there to pray for the King. And standing there with my hand on her grave, I said, "God rest that precious mother. I know You have." And there buried close to her, of course, is Bunyan of "Pilgrim Progress," and so forth and William Cowper. Then over in the churchyard John lay, the remains of his body into the dust.

L-20 Then Simon said, "Dad has told me many times, 'Thou Simon son, just before the coming of the Messiah, there's going to be a great stir among the people, and the enemy will put out a--a many a false thing calling it Messiah. And I want you to remember, Simon, my boy, that the true Messiah what He will be and what He will look like and what He will be like. The true Messiah will be according to the Bible to what our prophets has told us. Moses said, "The Lord, your God, shall raise up a prophet likened unto me."'"
And he must've reach over and touched Andrew and said, "Andrew went first to hear Him. I couldn't believe it when that--what John was down there preaching, predicting, 'There's coming an--a Messiah.' To me it was just another go-on, but one day Andrew come told me that I should come see this Man, at least listen to Him once, and I had in my heart what father told me and what the Scriptures had said that this Messiah would be a God Prophet."
"And when I walked up into the audience with my brother, Andrew, quickly He turned and looked right at me in all that crowd. Must've been that He knew that I was thirsting."
God usually comes to those who are thirsting and really wanting to get a hold of Him, desperately.
"And He must've looked at me. When He did, He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.' That settled it with me, for I knew that my father told me that the Scriptures said that the Messiah would be a Prophet, and this Man not only knew me by name, Who had never seen me, but He knowed my father also, told me I was the son of Jonas. That settled it."

L-21 Philip, he must have took the floor about that time. Now, these are Christ's own disciples that were just having a testimony meeting, not the outside world, those who lived with Him, and sleep with Him, and dwell with Him, and--and knows what He is, heard Him talk and speak.
Philip said, "Simon, that convinced me also, because I'd read the Scriptures all my life and then taught them; and I knew as a Jew that we're taught to believe our prophets. And the prophecy truly said that the Messiah, the Son of God would be a prophet like Moses. When I seen the sign of the prophet done then I knew that was Messiah, because it had been hundreds of years since we've had a prophet."
"I think around some four hundred years since Malachi, and I knew that that was the next thing to appear was the Messiah, and that was Him. So I run down the hill to my grand..." Philip as we took him last evening and found him... Philip found Nathanael, rather, under the tree a praying and said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see. Come, find out for yourself."


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