<TITLE>24. Par 90-92</TITLE>L-90 John said, "I knew Him, 'cause I seen the Messiahic sign on Him, and I know this is Him." He didn't presume.
Nathanael didn't have to presume, not at all, when He told him. He knowed--he knowed what Deuteronomy 18:22 said. So He said, "Thou art an Israelite indeed: no guile."
He said, "When did You know me? When did You ever see me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you." He didn't have to presume.
He said, "Rabbi, Rabbi, Teacher. Although the schools are making fun of Your teaching, they're turning You out on account of Your teaching, but Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." He didn't presume; he had a Scriptural evidence of it. That's what the Messiah would do. He didn't presume.
That poor, little, old, dirty, stinking, prostitute, maybe all the organizations in the country maybe had excommunicated her. But she didn't see anything in them to begin with. When she'd see something real, she'd take it. So she seen an ordinary Jew setting over there; she thought. Looked like an ordinary man, He didn't have His collar all turned around, great big turban, Dr. Reverend Holy Father. He was just a man, just like the rest of the men. Sat, leaned back there, probably a little bit gray. He was only thirty-something years old, but the Bible said... You know, He looked fifty. Did you know that?

L-91 They said, "You say... You're not a man over fifty years old, and say you've seen Abraham? Now, we know that you are--got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was I AM."
"Now, we know you got a devil." See, they're blind.
He said, "You blind Pharisees, blind leading the blind." See? That's it.
Now, we see Him setting there. That little woman said to Him, she said, "Well, you want to... You Jews, you want to argue religion." That was the custom of the day, like today. "You Jews saying it's over here, and down here, and all so-and-so; and we say..."
He said, "Go, get your husband, come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "That's right. You've got five; the one you're living with now is not yours."

L-92 Look! Witness, that predestinated seed laying there. Glory! My, What? Could not been anything else--that predestinated seed. And when that water begin to fall on that seed, it started blooming. You didn't have to tell her; she knew.
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We know the Messiah's coming. We're looking for Him. And when He comes, He will tell us these kind of things."
He said, "I'm he."
She said, "That's good enough for me."
No presuming. She didn't come in, say, "Say, you Doctors of Divinity, I would like to take you all in a Scriptural argument." She said, "I'm presuming nothing. Come, see a Man that's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Christ?" That's it. She didn't have to presume, venture out without authority. She had authority. She had Scriptural authority to believe it.
"Oh, woman, you don't know. You don't belong to our school. You don't belong to any of these organizations."
She said, "I don't care what you say. I know what THUS SAITH THE LORD is. They said He will be a prophet, and there He is." Amen. She had Scriptural authority. She didn't presume.
"What school did this come from?"
"It come from the Bible." That's right. Oh, sure.


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