<TITLE>11. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 That's what it is today, brethren. The message... We haven't got time for fifteen years of schooling. The message is urgent. The world's at the end. The time is at hand. These very things that you'll see through this meeting proves that the next move is the coming of the Lord, the translation of the Church: Scriptural.
I'm not saying that to make fear. I'm saying that as a warning to be ready. We don't know what minute He may come.

L-38 Now, see what taken place. He said, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." And Philip spoke these words to Nathanael...
And Nathanael was a staunch orthodox, you know, so... Very starchy, I suppose. He said, "Now (something like this), wait a minute. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And perhaps they might have said this: "Now, if there was to be a something like that coming, well, of course it would come through us Pharisees."
Or the Sadducees said, "It would come through our church." And if it was coming, well, of course, the corridors of heaven would open, and--and the Messiah would walk right down upon the--by the temple. And He'd say, "Caiaphas, the honorable high priest, here I am."

L-39 But you see, God doesn't do things that way. He never did do it, and He never will. He comes and takes the dumb things of the world and makes something out of it, and proves Himself to fulfill His Word. Now, search the Scriptures and find out if that isn't true. He takes something that's insignificant.
When He called His apostles, what did He take? Fishermen, uneducated people. Why didn't He take the cultured? Why didn't He take the priests? They had ministers of that day that would far exceed anything that we've ever had. They had to be come out of lineage of Levites to be priests. Their great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers was priests. And why didn't He go to that type?
But see, He taken something, was nothing, to prove that He is God; that He can make something out of nothing.
And as quick or as soon as you and I can realize that we are nothing, that's how quick God can go to work with us. When we get our intellectual conceptions out of it, and just say, "God, I believe. Help Thou my unbelief." That's it. If the Word says so, then it's true. God's behind His Word, and He's in His Word, and He is the Word.

L-40 Now, we notice that this staunch orthodox looked at him and said maybe something like this: "Now, Philip, I've knowed you to be a good man. We've went to church together for years. But I believe you've went off on the deep end. There must be something wrong with you. You've had some kind of an illusion. You mean to tell me that a man from Galilee would be the Messiah? Is that the Man that I heard that had that illegitimate birth, that Baby many years ago they talked about? Black name to start with... And here you come telling me that this turns out to be the Messiah. Oh, Philip, get next to yourself. Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
I think he gave him an answer that would stop all of us. He gave him the right answer. He said, "Come and see." That's it. Don't stay home and criticize. Bring your Bible and see if it's right. That's good doctrine for us. "Come, see."
"Search out the Scripture," Jesus said, "for they are they which testify of me."
Now, "Come, see."


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