<TITLE>10. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 Now, I would just like to make a little statement here. Let's just dramatize him for a moment. I can hear Peter say, "You know that I was a Pharisee. My father was one of the head men of that Pharisee church. And my father told me, one day when we got through seining, 'Simon, we have made our living day by day off of this lake.' (Now, listen close.) We made our living. And father and I, and mother, and Andrew, and all, so that we would catch fishes every morning we prayed that God would give us our daily bread, give us our fishing."
"One day when dad come in, and set me upon the bow of the boat, and said, 'Simon, my little boy, daddy has always believed that someday the Messiah would come in my day. All of us Jewish people has looked for that. But perhaps I won't see Him. I'm getting too old. But, Simon, when He comes, there'll be a lot of stuff go out before He comes that'll cause the whole country to be confused. There'll be false messiahs and everything come. But, Simon, I want you to be taught.'"

L-33 Oh, how it would do good if we American people would teach our children such things, instead of tap dancing, and rock and roll, and the stuff that we so do today, and just let them join the church, but tell them what to look for. "Now, said, "Simon, when He comes, our prophet Moses said that He will be a prophet. 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto me.' And we as Hebrews are knowed to believe that God's Word comes through the prophet and nothing else. Now, I want you to remember, Simon, when He comes He will be this prophet."
"And when I walked up into His sight the first time..." (Listen close--Simon testifying. We got a testimony meeting now out on the Galilee.) And said, "When I walked up first in His sight, when this Man looked at me in the face He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.' Not only did He know my name, but He knowed that godly old father of mine. That settled it to me. I knowed He was the Messiah. That finished it for me."

L-34 Philip said, "Can I testify, brethren?" So he said, "I was standing and seen that (Now, Nathanael, don't feel bad.), but I run to tell Nathanael, because I knowed that Nathanael was a Bible student. So I run around the mountain to find Nathanael, and I said, 'Nathanael, come see Who we have found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.'
And he might've said this: "Nathanael, you know where I found you?"
"Yes, I was under one of my fig trees, praying. Yes, and he said, 'Come, see Who we have found: the s... Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph. That's the prophet that Moses told us would come.'"

L-35 "Oh, now," said Nathanael, "now, Philip, you've--you've gone off on the deep end. Why, if the Messiah would come, He'd have to come to Caiaphas first, or He'd have to come to our church. If He--if He was real Messiah, you know He'd have to come to us Pharisees. That's all there is to it. But just to say He would come out of Nazareth, a bunch of holy-rollers (Excuse me. I oughtn't to have said that. Excuse me. I didn't mean that. See?), He wouldn't come to a bunch of people like that. If He ever done anything, it would be amongst us smarter people, if He did it." But you see, God does what He wants to; that's His business.
And he said, "No one would come like that." He...
And Philip gave him one of the best answers that any man could do. He said, "Come, see for yourself."
Now, that's a good idea. Don't stay home and criticize. Come, find out for yourself, and search the Scriptures; for the Messiah will certainly be Scriptural. Come, find out for yourself.


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