<TITLE>07. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 And as he come around the hill, he told him what had been happening, saying, "You know Messiah will be a Prophet. We know that."
"Oh, yes," said Nathanael, "I know it will be--He will be a Prophet."
"Well, I seen Him do those very things. Without a shadow of doubt I know it, I've seen it; I've tested it, and--and I know it's true."
"Well, I'll just come see then."
Round the hill they went. When they got into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, He looked down to Nathanael, said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile," when he come into the line.
And he said, "How did You know me, Rabbi, Teacher? You've never seen me in Your life. How did You ever know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you." Now, that's what the Scripture says.
Philip being a Bible student that knowed that that was what the Messiah was to be like, he said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel."
And Jesus said, "Well, because I've told you that, you believe? You'll see greater things than this. If you'll just believe that much, you'll see greater than that." First you got to believe it.

L-23 Now, and then--it must've been young James, or one of them setting there said, "You know one day... We all know Rebekah, That's the wife of the businessman of Jericho, Zacchaeus. He runs a tax outfit down there: collects taxes. And we know that Sister Rebekah had prayed so hard for Zacchaeus to--to receive Jesus, and told him all the things that--that she's seen; but the Rabbi had told him that He was nothing to Him, because He wasn't recognized among the clergy of that day. So he would not accept him."
"So Zacchaeus, you remember his testimony at the Full Gospel Businessmen's Breakfast that morning, when he come in and told us that the--about what had happened? He said he got down there to see Jesus, and there was too much of a crowd."

L-24 And somehow or other where Christ is, it's just... "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me." All those that's drawable. "All the Father has given Me, will come to Me."
And he said, "Zacchaeus seen, that him being small in statue, as he testified, he could not get to see the Master. So he runs down to another corner, knowing which way He was going through the city, and he climbed up in the sycamore tree, and he--he said, 'Now, I'll just set up here on these--where two limbs meet.'"
That's a good place to set where two ways meet: that's your ideas and God's Word. See? Where your ideas and His meets, that's a good place to rest just for a few minutes. Decide on which way you're going from there.


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