<TITLE>09. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 I would like to ask the scientist teacher of this school, or whatever school, what kind of an atom did He turn loose? Not wheat, but wheat growed, milled, shortened, baked, and ready to eat. What did He do? And when He broke those fishes--a fish sired, borned, raised, scaled, cleaned, and fried, and was there in a second when He reached for it, what did He do?
"And when they taken five biscuits, and fed five thousand people off of five biscuits and took up basket's full." I can hear young John say, "That took all of the doubt away from me. Because I remember that my Jewish mother used to tell me... Oh, I can remember her pretty, big brown eyes looking at me, and saying, 'John, my son, I want to speak to you of something that's real that'll mean something to you someday. Of all that you ever do, John... My ambitions is for you to be something great, but above all things I want you to be a believer in Jehovah, as I and your father are, and are trying to raise you.'"

L-29 "And I remember as a little boy, when my little eyes would look up to hers, and she'd say, 'John, when God Jehovah brought His people up out of Egypt, out into the wilderness where they had nothing to eat, Jehovah rained down bread out of heaven every night and fed all His children.' And brethren in this testimony meeting, I would ask my mother, 'Mother, has God got a whole lot of Angels that's professional bakers, and He's got a great big sky up there full of ovens, and every night He'd bake that bread, and bring it down by the Angels, and lay it all out on the ground? Is that the way He done it, Mama?'"
"She'd say, 'No, John, you're just a little boy, so you do not understand. Jehovah is a Creator. He just spoke the Word and the bread came down.'"

L-30 "Now, my brethren, this afternoon when I seen a Man Who eat with us at the table, Who wears the same kind of clothes we wear, Who cries when we cry, drinks at the same fountain we drink, has His ups-and-downs and flusterations as we do; but when I seen Him take that biscuit, break it five thousand times, I knowed He was associated with Jehovah. He was that same Jehovah that my mother told me that brought bread out of heaven, because here He was doing the same thing that Jehovah done. He was not...
"To me, from henceforth," said John, "He's more than a man. He's Jehovah, because He does the works of Jehovah. And now, do not we remember that He said, 'If I do not the works of My Father, then do not believe Me? If You cannot believe My teaching, then believe the works that I do. And if I don't do the same works that Jehovah done, then believe Me not.' And there He did the same work that Jehovah did, and only Jehovah could do it."
So to men today who teach that He was nothing but a good man, or merely some prophet, that social Gospel won't stand up. He was God, the Creator, represented in a body that's called Jesus Christ, the Son of God. John said, "That settled it for me."

L-31 Well, of course, you know Simon. He's always got to put his part in too. He was an ignorant man, the Bible said, unlearned. He did not have an education: 4th chapter of Acts says that, or the 3rd chapter of Acts, I believe, said that he and John both were both "ignorant and unlearned." I've been told that he could not even sign his own name. But Jesus gave him the keys to the Kingdom, because he had the revelation of Who He was.
He had something to say. He said, "Well..." I can see him put his arm around Andrew, his brother, and say, "Andrew, I remember when you used to come tell me about some wild-looking fellow coming out of the wilderness, by the name of John, that was baptizing the people with water, saying that a Messiah was coming. Well now if... course, I could not believe such a thing as that. But one day Andrew persuaded me to come and listen to this Man, and to see if He really was the Messiah."
And he said. "I have been taught by My father..."


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