<TITLE>19. Par 79-83</TITLE>L-79 Nathanael went back to Deuteronomy 18. And you find in Deuteronomy 18:15, if you want to put it down. He didn't have to presume. When Philip went over and got him, he said, "Come, see. We found the Messiah."
Now, you see, Philip was positive. He knew what he was talking about. He said, "We found the Messiah." Not "Come, let us go over here and see. Let's--let's reason it out together, and see if this could be the Messiah. Let's you and I just take our books and go down and find out." It wasn't no reasoning with him. He wasn't presuming it was the Messiah; he knowed it was. He knew it was.

L-80 So Nathanael, being a good scholar, when he walked up there in the face of Jesus, and Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile," his presuming was done.
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree." No more presuming... What? He knowed that God had said that.
God had said, "If there be a prophet, one that raises up among you, and what he says doesn't come to pass, then don't hear him. But if it does come to pass, I have sent him." There you are. He didn't have to presume. He knowed that was the Messiah.

L-81 Look at the woman at the well. When Jesus was out there at the well at Samaria, when He--she was standing at the well, she said... You know the story about "Bring Me a drink," and said, "The well's deep and you have nothing to draw with," and so forth, as the conversation went on.
And finally He told her, said, "Go get your husband and come here."
And she said, "I have no husband." She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." After He told her... Said, "I have no husband," she said...
He said there, "You've said well, because you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know..." Not, "We presume. We presume that maybe, we--we presume maybe that the Messiah might do this. We presume..." "We know that when the Messiah cometh..." Hallelujah. That's it. We know. We're not presuming nothing. We know exactly what the Scripture says.

L-82 Brother, the Scripture says we got to be borned again. We got to separate ourselves from all filthiness of the world and be holy. We got--we've got to do that. That's what the Bible said. Our women are not to act like the world. Our men are not to act like the world. We're not to stand around and tell dirty jokes to each other. We're not to go out here and smoke cigarettes, take a social drink to keep our job.
Why, if I had to--to eat soda crackers, and drink branch water, I'd rather starve on the street than I had to keep a job where I had to drink the devil's rot and smoke cigarettes, and everything else to keep favor. No, sir.

L-83 I'd rather separate myself from a group of people that calls themselves Christians that'll call me old fashion (if I was a woman) 'cause I had to wear--wear long hair and decent looking clothes. I'd rather separate myself and be a fanatic, than to associate with such people that would laugh and make fun of such things as that. Why, it's an abomination in the sight of God. That's right.
But yet, we try to say that's just the thing. We presume that's all right. The rest of them does it. Why, that don't make any... Judas betrayed Christ. Is that a sign you have to do it? No, sir. We don't want to do that. You want to--you want to keep God's Word. Don't presume nothing. Take what God's Word says. Yes, sir.


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