<TITLE>08. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 I'd just loved to have heard Him, wouldn't you? Just to see how different He was. And you notice, as long as the lunch was in the little boy's hand, it was just five loaves and two fishes. But when it got into Jesus' hand, it fed five thousand. So the little things that we have, if we'll just let Him have it... The little faith that we've got, if we'll just let Him have it, it'll do great things.
John was so elated. He said, "He looked like Jehovah, as He stood there taking those biscuits and breaking them. And I climbed around behind the rock. I wanted to see where it come from. And He held the biscuit up in His hand. (And, I'm saying "biscuit" because we southerners know what a biscuit is, you know.) And so, He took this biscuit and broke it, and I watched that broke place, and He handed it out. And when He started back, before I could notice, the biscuit had done growed out again." Said, "In those hands... must have been anointed with them same hands that made that bread up there in the heavens and sent it down. And I'm... say I'm giving my testimony to you brethren, out on this lake tonight. It's a settled thing with me. That's more than a man. That's Who--Who the prophets told us about."

L-31 And then I can see Simon. As always, you know, he wants to get his testimony in too. And I don't blame him when you got something to testify about. You just got to let off the pressure. That's all. So Simon must've said, "Now, brethren, it's my time." And he said, "Andrew, my brother setting here to my left, when he went down to hear John preach... Oh, you know, folks. We've heard all kinds of things, and I never paid much attention to it."
"But one night he--he didn't come home, and I wondered where he stayed at. And the next morning, here he came in, starey-eyed, and saying to me, 'Come, see Who we found: the Messiah.'"
He stayed with him long enough to be convinced. That's where many of us fail. We just don't stay long enough to be convinced, not concerned enough. Be concerned. This is between life and death to us, between being well or being sick. And we ought to stay and see till we're convinced. And then nothing's going to stop us then, when you're convinced. Faith has to have some object to work on, come from.

L-32 And now, "When he come told me... And I remember the day that I met him, and I said, 'Well, I'll go with you to the meeting. It's going to be down there on the shore this morning, you said.'"
"And I seen a lot of the poor fishermen, the women turning their washtubs upside down, and going down there to--to listen to Him. And this Fellow was attracting quite a crowd of people. And I--I thought I would go down. And I--I got me a piece of driftwood, and thought I'd just set down and listen. I got way back."
"And all the time, when He was speaking, it looked like He was looking right at me. And I kept getting more interested all the time. I kept coming closer towards where He was at. And I said, 'Well, He speaks Scripturally. He seems to know what He's talking about.'"
"Then all of a sudden, He looked right in my face. And He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.'"
He said, "Then I was convinced," said, "because Andrew, here will bear me record. My old father, a real Pharisee... And he was a strict religious man. And when we fished on the sea here (and we still have his boat) and he was getting old, and let us... seen his hair graying, and his face wrinkling, I knew dad was going to leave us pretty soon."


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