<TITLE>11. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 Let's just break in, and see what he was praying about. I can imagine hearing him say, "Father, we have longed for the Messiah, the Deliverer, to set us free from this Roman power. Oh, Father God, will I live to see the day when this Messiah shall make Hisself known to us? I have read in Your Scriptures where He's coming. Moses told us that the Lord our God would raise up to us a prophet liken unto him, and we would know Him. And Father, I'm longing and waiting for that time. I've studied the Scriptures. I've lived in them day and night."
And just about time he said, "Amen," and raised up, Philip said, "Come, see Who we have found. We found Him: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

L-46 Well, I can imagine Nathanael... Now, I give this a little drama. I can imagine Nathanael saying, "Now, Philip. I've knowed you to be a very levelheaded man. And I... Surely you haven't went off on the deep end on something." You know, like we'd say today. "Now, Philip, we've studied the Scriptures too much together. Now, you come tell me that the Messiah is here. Now, you know good and well if that Messiah come, He would come to us Pharisees alone, our group, and that alone. Or He would--they'd spread down the corridors, and He'd come down on the temple at the great temple that Moses built, and He'd introduce Himself to Caiaphas the High Priest. 'I am the Messiah that you're looking for.'"

L-47 See, that's the way they might've had it all drawed up. But God has His own way of doing things. See, see? He come just exactly with the Scripture, but they had the Scripture misconstrued. I wonder if He comes, if He'd come tonight, if a lot of us haven't got it all messed up. But the main thing is, be ready when He comes; that--that's the thing. No matter which way God sends Him, just let Him come the way He is, way He's--He's got planned for Him to come. Some of us got Him coming on a white cloud, some on a white horse. I don't care how He comes, just so I'm ready when He comes. I--I want to see Him. And I'm studying hard to know just exactly what the Scripture says, so I'll know Him when He appears. You see? Watch what the Scripture says about Him.

L-48 Now, he said, "Come see Who we found." Well, 'course the conversation went on, and let's break in on it as we go around the bank. I taken it from... He went probably one day around the mountain and come back the next day. On the next day around said... I can hear Philip say to Nathanael, "Nathanael, do you remember that time when you bought them fish from that old fellow called Simon?"
"Oh, yes, Jonas' son. Sure."
"You know, he didn't even have enough education to sign a receipt for you, a ticket that he got the fish."
"Yes."
See, the Bible said Peter was ignorant and unlearned. How many knows that? Yes, sir. He didn't have an education. He wasn't some seminary scholar, and he--he was an ignorant and unlearned man.

L-49 And said, "He couldn't sign that ticket. Why," said, "when he came up by his--the invitation of his brother Andrew, and he came up before this Who we know to be the Messiah... And I'm going to tell you why I know it. Now, you know, Nathanael, that you and I know the Scriptures say that He will be a prophet like Moses. And as soon as he walked into the Presence of Jesus, Jesus said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.' Now, how would He know that if He wasn't a prophet?"
And I hear Philip say, "You know, Nathanael, it wouldn't surprise me a bit but when you come up before Him He wouldn't say, 'Good evening, Nathanael.'"


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