<TITLE>12. Par 50-54</TITLE>L-50 "Aw," he'd say... Nathanael'd say, "Let me go and see for myself." That's a good idea, you know. And first he couldn't hardly believe it, and he was invited to come see for himself. Said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth," that bunch of holy-rollers, or you know, people down there?" Excuse me. "Could anything good come out of there?"
He said, "Come, see for yourself." Don't stay home and criticize it. Come, find out. Come, see. And don't just take the man's word. Search it, and see if it's Scriptural or not. See? "Come, see for yourself."

L-51 And on the road around they talked. Finally they arrived where Jesus was having the healing service. They... Nathanael might've been in the prayer line, I don't know; he might've been standing out in the audience. But when he first saw Jesus, and Jesus looked upon him, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile." That took the wind out of his sails, as to speak. He... Why, he didn't--he couldn't understand.
He said, "Rabbi (which means, "teacher") how did You ever know me? This is the first time we ever met. How would You know me?"
And He said, "Why, before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Fifteen miles around the mountain, what eyes, "I saw you."

L-52 Quickly that man recognized that that... They hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years, you know, and he recognized immediately that was Him. So he run up to Him and said, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel." Is that right?
He said, "Because I told you that, you believed?"
Why? Now, that was Jesus yesterday. If He's the same today, He'd do the same thing. See? If He's the same yesterday... That's the way He made Himself known to His people. That's how they recognized Him: not by His teaching; by His works. See?
Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures. They are They that testify of Me. In them you think you have Eternal Life: and They are They that testify of Me. And if I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, and you can't believe Me, well, then believe the works that I do. They're the one that testifies of Me." The work's a confirmation of the Word. That's what testifies. Well, wouldn't it be the same thing today? The works testifies. Here's the Word says so, and here's the works that testifies of the Word. Now, He can't change. He's got to be the same.

L-53 Now, oh, there was them standing there, sure, standing back there, the great, High Priest, and priests in the synagogues, and all of them standing there watching, and, of course, they had to give an answer to their congregation. It... The work was done.
You know what they said? They said, "He's Beelzebub, fortuneteller, a devil."
And Jesus turned and said to them this: "Verily, verily I say unto you (See?) you speak that against the Son of man, I'll forgive you. But (otherwise) someday the Holy Ghost is coming to do the same work, and to speak a word against it, will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world that is to come."
Now, see, see, watch that prophecy swinging on into our day. See? To speak a word against it will never be forgiven in this world nor in the world that is to come.

L-54 And here was Philip, Peter, and them standing there, those Jews saying, "He's the Son of God, the King of Israel," because He did those things before them. And the supposed to be orthodox said He's was Beelzebub, the devil, fortuneteller. See?
And Jesus testified that that would come in another day by the Holy Ghost, 'cause the Holy Ghost wasn't given then. He hadn't yet been sacrificed. So the Holy Ghost would come, and to speak against It then because... What is it? Calling the Spirit of God, that's doing the works of God, an unclean spirit, a devil. See? Now, it's prophesied by Jesus Christ that it would happen that way. It's got to be that way.


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