<TITLE>25. Par 200-208</TITLE>L-200 There was a fellow standing there, by the name of Philip. Philip saw that, and he thought, "Wonderful, I know a man who's a Bible scholar, lives about fifteen miles around the mountain. I'll run around and tell him. His name is Nathanael."
He run around there real quick that day. Next morning he got there maybe at the break of day, run up and knocked on the door. And Mrs. Nathanael said, "Why, he's out in the orchard out there, Philip." He was his friend. He went out there, and he was on his knees, praying. As soon as he got up off his knees, Philip said, "Come, see Who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Now, this religious, great dignitary said, "Could there be anything good come out of Nazareth?"
He give him a good quote, good thing; he said, "Don't stay home and criticize it; don't go talk about it. Just come and see for yourself. Come, see. Just come, find out if anything good could come out of Nazareth."
"You mean the Messiah? Why, if the Messiah would come, He'd come down, and down out of the... The corridors of heaven would be let down; He'd come right out to the palace. He'd come to our great organization." They still think that (You see?): it has to come to their organization. "He'd come right to our organization, walk down upon the canopies of the palace there, and He'd go out in the outer courts, and come right up onto the throne, and up to the holiest of holies, and say, 'I am the Messiah.'" Messiah never comes like that. Messiah comes where He wants to. He's sovereign; He does as He pleases.
He said... Now, "Well," he said, "come, see. Come, see for yourself."
Don't stand around and say, "I don't believe in that holy-roller stuff." Just come, find out if there's anything about it.

L-205 So he, on the road over, I can hear them talk. Let's, would you like to hear what they was talking about? Let's listen and see what they said. I believe, going along side of the road, you know, Philip said, "You know, Nathanael, I know you're a Bible student, so I want to ask you something. We are looking for a Messiah, aren't we?"
"Oh, yes, we're getting in the last days to this generation, and I believe this generation will see the Messiah." Now, listen. "Oh, but here we are; we're not even a nation; we're all scattered out amongst the people. How can we? All this..." God comes in the hour that you think not. That's when He's there.
He said, "But wait a minute, what kind of a Person will this Messiah be?"
"Oh, well, well, Moses, our teacher told us He'll be a prophet."

L-208 "I'm going to tell you about this Jesus of Nazareth. You remember that old ignorant fisherman you bought that fish for that time, brought--bought from him, and he couldn't sign the receipt, didn't have enough education?"
"Yeah. Oh, oh, yes, uh-huh. Jonas', Jonas' boy. Yeah, I bought from Jonas too."
"Well, now, you know what? Peter come over there..." Or Simon, rather, his name was Simon then. He said, "Simon came over to His meeting. And no sooner than he walked up... And you remember how Simon used to tell us that his father told him that 'Not to be deceived, because there'd be many false prophets before the real Messiah.' And that's true. 'Many false messages will go forth.' But said, 'You'll know when the real message comes, because remember, we Jews believe that this Messiah will be a prophet.' We believe our prophets."


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