<TITLE>12. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 Along the road, I wished I could've heard them talking. No doubt but what they were speaking about what the Messiah was to be. Well now, Nathanael was a learned man. Well, he said, "No doubt, certainly, I know what--what the sign of Messiah will be, because He will be a Prophet."
Now, maybe their conversation went something like this. "Do you remember the old fisherman down there by the name of--of Simon?"
"Yes, I remember him."
"Well, you remember he could not even sign his name to a receipt for your fish."
"Oh, surely. I know he and his father too."
"He walked up in front of this Man now, that comes from Nazareth, this Galilean Prophet, and immediately as soon as he got into His Presence, He told him his name was Simon and that he was, his father's name was Jonas. It wouldn't surprise me but what He would tell you who you are."
Well, it'd be hard for Philip to believe that. But now, remember friends. What am I saying? What am I trying to get to you? That was how the public knowed that that was the sign of Jesus, the Messiah.

L-43 Now, I'd lay a challenge to that. There's no one can dispute that. That's the truth. It was a sign that was to be with the Messiah.
Well, as soon as Philip came up into His Presence, and bringing Nathanael, Jesus turned and looked at him. And said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile." That just deflated this church member. He hardly knew what...
He said, "Rabbi (which means teacher), whence did Thou know me? You have never seen me. This is our first time meeting. How would You know that such things was about me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." All the way around that mountain, what eyes. See? "I saw you."
Listen to this quotation. Then what happened? Nathanael fell on the ground, no doubt, and looked up at Him and said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel, that great Anointed One. For I know that the Scriptures told us that that would be the sign of Messiah. You are truly the One that we have looked for."

L-44 Well, if that was Him yesterday, making Hisself known to His people, well, He's the same today. The Scripture says He is.
Oh, of course now, there was those standing there who did not believe that. And they were staunch believe... staunch orthodox. They study with their backs turned, with their robes, and all their great turbans on and so forth, with all the religious banner and dogma that they could have, standing there with great titles to their names and things like that, and their congregation present, knowing that they would have to answer to their congregation for that... They could not dispute it; there it was. The phenomena was done. Something had to be quoted.
And what did they say? They said, "This man is Beelzebub, the chief of the devils, a fortuneteller. He's reading their minds."
Now, when they... They didn't say it out loud. They thought it in their heart, the Bible said. And Jesus perceiving their thoughts, turned and said, "I will forgive you for that. But someday the Holy Spirit is a coming, and when He comes He will do the same thing, and to speak a word against it will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world that is to come." So you see where we stand then in this day.


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