<TITLE>15. Par 50-54</TITLE>L-50 Philip said, "You know, Brother Nathanael, it's all right?"
"Yes."
"Simon, when you come up that day and that settled it with me too. When I stood there and I heard them Jews out there, our people, saying, 'That Man is a fortuneteller. He's Beelzebub, He's a devil. That's what He's doing.'"
"But to me, it was settled. That was Messiah. I knew it. Now, He didn't have to do nothing for me or tell me anything. I seen Him do it for others, so I believed it."

L-51 "And so, Nathanael and I had been good friends so many years. We went to church together since little boys. And I run around the mountain and found him under a tree, praying. And when I told him come see Who I found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph, you remember, Nathanael, what you said to me?"
"Yes." I said this, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
"And then tell the brethren then, what did I tell you?"
"Why, you said, 'Come and see.'" Well, that's a good thing.
"Are you glad you come?"
"I'll never forget you Philip; I'll never forget you. When I come up Philip kept telling me..."
He butted in with a testimony of how it was ahead of Philip.

L-52 And said, "Philip kept telling me that this Man had told that, Simon here, that I knowed didn't have any education, and told him that his name was Simon, and give him another name of Peter, and said that his father's name was Jonas. And I knowed both Simon and Jonas. I bought fish from both of them. So I knowed that that was so."
"So I said, 'I'm going over to the meeting, and I'll just look at this Fellow and see if that is Messiah. I know that when the Messiah was coming, He sure was going to be a prophet.'"
"So then, when I walked over to Him. You know what happened brethren? As soon as I walked up into His Presence, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
"And I said, 'Rabbi (Reverend, teacher, you know.), when did You ever see me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you."
Said, "That settled it with me."
Philip said, "Now, wait just a minute, brethren. Do you remember that time that we were down in Jericho?"
"Yes."
"You remember that little fellow Zacchaeus?"
"Oh," said the brethren, "we'll never forget that."

L-53 They were having a good time out there testifying, just getting dark, you know, maybe long about this time. And they--and saying, oh, just a having a great time...
So he said, "You remember when we was down there, that little fellow Zacchaeus? You remember when he testified down there at the dinner that day?"
"Yes, yes, I remember it."
"You remember Bartimaeus?"
"Yes, I remember him."
Now, we remember that Zacchaeus had a wife. And her name was Rebekah. And she was a lovely believer in the Lord Jesus. So she'd prayed that her husband, which was one of the main pillars up at the church with Rabbi Lavinski." I hope there's nobody here by that name. But that's just a fiction name. I'm just giving for my story.

L-54 Said that he was the main pillar in one of the churches. So Rabbi Lavinski told him, said, "Now, wait just a minute. Don't you believe that nonsense. That woman of yours is just a little upset. That guy's no prophet. We haven't had prophets for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Don't you believe that. That's a bunch of fanaticism. Like that wild man trying to drowned everybody down there on Jordan. John, Herod cut his head off. This guy will come to a...?... come to an end one of these days. Don't you believe that stuff."
And you remember Zacchaeus thought the Rabbi was right, 'cause he was taught to believe that his Rabbi was exactly right.
Now, we find out that... "You know, but Rebekah asked us all to pray for Zacchaeus. And we'd all been praying, because we know our Master was going down there to hold a meeting one day."


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