<TITLE>18. Par 65-67</TITLE>L-65 There was Peter, the apostle. We'll bring it down home just for a moment. Peter, the apostle, he had a good old father. His name was Jonas. And I can just imagine Peter and Andrew, and Jonas--they were fishermen. And I can see old Jonas, about eighty years old, out there as the little old feeble arms, helping them pull them nets in. He sees he's losing his strength, knowed it wasn't going to be very long till he was going to go away. I can see him set down on the side of the boat after a good catch that day. He'd prayed that morning.
He said, "My sons, come near me." He might've said it like this: "You know, we people have looked for a Messiah, and we know He's coming. I've so longed to see Him. I thought surely He would come in my generation. But it seems like I'm going to go before He comes. I'm getting old. "But my sons, don't be disturbed now. Just before His appearing there's going to be all kinds of fanaticism raise up around it," always is.

L-66 It's the devil, trying to put a scarecrow out (See?), scare you away. But remember, the scarecrows is always at the good tree. Just remember that--not out on the old sour apples, no. It's always where good eating's at.
So he said, "Just remember. Now, there'll be some raise up saying they're this, and some they're saying they're that, and some are saying they're so forth, and claiming messiahs and everything else. But don't you believe it. Now, the only way to be sure is take what the Word says."
"Now, the Word said Moses, the prophet of God." And the Word always comes to the prophet. He said, "Now, Moses said that 'the--the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me.' Now, it's been hundreds of years since we've seen a prophet. But remember, when the Messiah cometh, He won't be saying He's that. But when He comes, He will be a prophet, and you notice Him. "Now, our Bible tells us if a man claims to be a prophet, and what he says comes to pass, then listen to him, because you can fear him because he's from God. But if what he says doesn't come to pass, don't pay attention to it. Just go on (See?), 'cause it's not right. So now you boys remember that."

L-67 And Andrew, you know, was the first one to find him. He said, "Hey, Simon. Come on, go down to the meeting in the morning. He's going to be down here. The churches won't have Him, so He's down here in another place. So you come down here."
And, "Oh," Simon said, "now remember. We're Pharisees, and we've--we've got to stay..."
"But I just want you to come. Just set down and listen for a few moments; watch it."
So the next morning... I can see after they got through pulling the nets, why, Jesus came down to the coast. And--and the first thing you know, Simon must've come up in the audience. And when he come walking up through there, Jesus looked over at there, and said, "Thy name is Simon. And you're the son of Jonas."
Now, you talk about a persistent boy; he was from then on. Nobody could make him doubt it then. He knowed it. Because why? He had saw that sign of a Messiah. He saw the Word. He knowed that the Man didn't know him, didn't know his name, didn't know nothing about him; and here He told him, not only him but who his father was, and what his name was, the very one that told him to look for this sign. He was persistent.


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