<TITLE>13. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 Well, it might've been Simon, you know, who knew something about those things too, that raised up and said, "Well, that's very good, John. But what bothered me first when Andrew come told me there was a prophet down there... Well, I could hardly believe that. But I remember my daddy told me that when the Messiah come that He would be a prophet. And when I went down there that day and--with Andrew, and I looked at Him in the face, and He looked to me and said, 'Your name is Simon. You are the son of Jonas,' that settled it forever for me. I knew that was Him, because we've had four hundred years without this Prophet and here He comes on the scene. And I know it was season, the time was right, and that was bound to be Him."
Now, remember, Jesus didn't do it four or five times; He did it once, and that settled it. They were ready. They knew that that was He.

L-55 Might've been Philip at that time raised up and said, "Simon, I was standing there. Though the miracle wasn't performed on me, it was performed on you. Yet, I believed, and was so convinced till I ran around the hill and got my friend here, Nathanael. And when I brought him back, I told him about what taken place, and what had happened to you, and how that we knew that this was the mark of the Christ. This is what the Scripture said He was supposed to do. And when you come up in His Presence, He looked at you and said, 'Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile.' And you said to Him, 'Rabbi, how did You ever know me?' And He said, 'Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you.'"

L-56 And Nathanael might've jumped up at that time and said, "And that settled it for me. I fell at His feet. There stood my priest, and give me a dirty look. But it didn't make any difference how much look he went, I'd done looked into the Bible and seen that that was Messiah. So I fell at His feet and said, 'Thou art the Son of God. You are the king of Israel.'"
Oh, my. Wouldn't you like to have been in the testimony meeting, setting out there rocking in that little ship? About that time, maybe--maybe Nathanael started praising the Lord, and... said, "Set down. You're rocking the ship. Set down." You...

L-57 You know, there's something about when you go to tell about the goodness of God, you get all upset, excited, you know, emotional. Someone says, "I don't believe in emotional religion." Well, you better bury what you got, then. That's right. So if your religion hasn't got a little emotion in it, you better bury the thing. That--that's right.
And they must've got... The old ship must have been rocking around pretty good when they all got to testifying. And it must have been Andrew then, just couldn't hold it any longer. Said, "Brethren, just a minute. We all remember down at Sychar that day, that how He sent us into the city to buy some food and wanted to be left alone over in that country of Samaria. He told us He had need to go by there. The Father was sending Him that way. And so we--we all wondered about why did He stay alone. And go into the city, and You knowed how they treated us."


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