<TITLE>18. Par 88-92</TITLE>L-88 Now, 'course the Jews in them days, they had it all figured out, those great big churches. "Oh, when the Messiah comes, there'll be a trumpet sound across the skies, and God will crank up something, and let the corridors of heaven drop down. And there'll be an angel salute blast across the earth. And the Messiah will come riding down them corridors like that with Angels and bands, and things like that, come right down to this temple, walk into it. And He will be Messiah. He will take a rod, and rule the earth."
Look how much different He come. But He did come Scripturally: setting on the foal of a mule come riding into Jerusalem, lowly and meek. That's right. See? They even turned the prophet around, John. He'd preached the Messiah with the fans in His hand thoroughly purging His floor. And when He come meek and lowly... But John knew that was the Messiah because he saw that Light over Him. And he knew that... He said, "He that told me in the wilderness, 'Go baptize with water,' said, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining, He's the One that baptizes with the Holy Ghost and fire.'"

L-89 Nobody else saw it. John saw it. The promise was to John. Nobody saw the star the wise men followed. And so it is tonight. You can set here double blind and never see the power of God. You could never understand it until God opens up your heart. "All the Father's given Me will come to Me." And, "No man can come except My Father's drawed him." That's all. That settles it.

L-90 Now, we find out that they forsook all, and they followed Him, and saw that He was the Messiah. Andrew went and told Peter, said, "You know what our father told us? (Something on this order, perhaps.) We know when Messiah cometh. Moses told us that the Lord our God would raise up a prophet just like him. And we know that we've been taught if there's one among us who is spiritual or a prophet, what he says comes to pass, then hear him. If it doesn't come to pass, then don't hear him. And we know that the Messiah will be the--not only a prophet. He will be the God-prophet. So this Man is that Guy."
"How do you know, Andrew?"
"Just come, see."
Walked over there, and as soon as he walked up in front of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas." He knowed right then that was the Son of God.

L-91 Here come Philip with Nathanael. Soon as Nathanael walked up to Him...?... no...?... might guess the great conversation they had, talking about it coming over, and how He'd told Peter these things, and give him another name, and told him who he was, and his father, so forth about it. "You know Messiah's supposed to be a prophet."
Why, here he comes up then, walks up in front of Jesus. And Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
He said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." That settled it for him.

L-92 A little old wretched woman, filthy, dirty, living with six men (She'd married five, and the one she lived with then wasn't hers.) went out to a well one day to get some water. And when she let down the pump, or the bucket, in the windled down to get the water... And when she started up with it, she seen a middle-aged Man setting over there, a Jew.
Said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She said, "We got segregation. There's no--no--not no customs here for you being a Jew to ask me, a Samaritan woman, for such a thing as that. We have no dealings."
He said, "But if you knew Who were talking to you, you'd ask Me for a drink. You'd ask Me for water." They just... They went on talking to one another for awhile. What was He doing? Trying to find out where her trouble was.


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