<TITLE>35. Par -</TITLE>L-58-7 Now, if you can bear with me just a few more minutes, I want you--I want you to get this now. Don't... This is your Easter message coming right now. See, see, see?

L-59-1 The first thing that he did, he destroyed God's first, precious fruit Tree, Christ. He was that Tree from the garden of Eden. That's right. The first fruit Tree, he destroyed It. The first One God planted here on earth was Christ; he destroyed that Tree that was bearing His fruit. Now, they had all kind of organizations, and he just had that in his hands; but when he come to a Tree that bore the actual fruit, that Roman bug got in there (See?), destroyed the Tree.
The Tree? Yes. Jesus said, "If I do (in Saint John), if I do not the works of My Father, or have not the fruits of My Father, don't believe Me." He was bearing the fruit of God. What kind of a fruit did He bear? What kind of fruit? Let's watch Him for a few minutes. We went through it many times; let's just take a little preliminary one for the people that's setting here waiting for a minute to be prayed for.

L-59-3 What was the first thing they knowed he wouldn't--recognized Him to be the Messiah? When Peter first came to Him (and Andrew had brought him), and He looked at Peter and said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
He knew right then, according to the Scripture, that that was the Messiah. They'd been... Did you know there'd been many raised up before that, according to history, and called themselves "Messiah," but none of them could do this; 'cause the Messiah... Moses said (the Word of God, which cannot fail, was spoke by Moses), he said, "Your Messiah will be a prophet like me."
And so, when this stranger walked up before Jesus, and Jesus said, "Behold, your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas," Peter knowed right then Who He was; He knew that was Him.

L-59-5 When Nathanael went and got Philip--or Philip went and got Nathanael, rather, and brought him over there, and Nathanael, a great man (See?), great man, religious man (and--and Philip telling him about on the road over, what He'd done to Simon), and when Nathanael walked up in the Presence of Jesus, what did Jesus say? He 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 were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel." See?
Why? That's the fruit. "If I do not the works of My Father..." He knowed the very thoughts that was in their hearts.
A woman touched His garment one time, and went off and set down in the congregation. Jesus looked around and said, "Who touched Me?" All of them denied it. He looked around and saw her. She had a blood issue; He said, "Your faith has saved you." Oh, my.

L-60-2 The little old Samaritan woman... Now, remember, He never went to the Gentiles like that. No, sir. He even told His disciples not to go to them. That's us; this is our day. He went in the form of the Holy Spirit to us, as He said He would be. But when He went to the--them what happened? When He went to the Samaritan woman, the woman said--He said to her, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "It's not customary for you, being a Jew, to ask me a Samaritan. Had segregation by their colors and so forth. He let them know right then there was no difference, was all come off the same tree. We're all sons and daughters of God; we're all... See?
And He said--she said, "Why, we worship our father, Jacob. (See? And that was the Jews' father too. See?) Our father, Jacob, dug this well, and you say you're greater than he?"
And He said, "The waters that I give you is Everlasting Life." See? He said...


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