<TITLE>15. Par 60-63</TITLE>L-60 We find out that then John said, "He that said to me in the wilderness 'Go baptize with water,' said, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining, He's the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.'" And John was standing there waiting for a sign, watching.
He said, "There's One among you..." He was so positive it was going to happen. Said, "There's one among you right now that you don't know. There's one here if you watch."
After while he saw the sign over Him. He said, "I--I saw Him. I recognized His Messiahic sign. There come that Light of God like a Dove, coming down upon Him, the voice from heaven saying, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I'm pleased to dwell in.'"
There He went out into the wilderness, was tempted for forty days and nights of Satan, getting prepared for His ministry. When He come forth down along Judaea, and out of there, He begin praying for the sick. Signs and wonders begin to follow Him. People begin to believe. Some of them made fun of Him. Some of them that John had prepared recognized Him.

L-61 One of them in there was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He stayed all night with Him till he was convinced He was the Messiah. Then he went and told Simon, brought Simon.
Now, Simon... they were scholars, if you ever read their lives. Their father was a real teacher, a Pharisee. (Now, watch, we're coming right into something. Don't miss it.) And Andrew got Simon to come with him to the meeting. And as soon as Simon walked up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, who Andrew had told him was the Messiah...

L-62 I can imagine hearing Simon say, "I'll know Him. I'll know what He looks like. My old father told me one day," he said Simon, "I'm getting old. I thought I'd see the Messiah. We've longed to see Him through the ages, but I'm getting too old now. I probably won't see Him. But don't you boys be deceived. If He comes in your generation, remember there'll be a lot of false cults going by. But you remember, you're Hebrews. You must believe the Word of God. And listen, when that Messiah comes, He will be exactly what the Word said He would be. Moses, our prophet, said, 'The Lord our God shall rise up a prophet among us.' Now, it's been hundreds of years; we haven't had one. We're having all kinds of things, but we're looking for Him."

L-63 And here come Simon, walking up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus. And Jesus. looking upon him, said, "Behold, your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." That took the starch out of him. See, not only did He know who he was, He knowed that godly old father of his. He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
And Peter recognized right then that that was that prophet, because he had told exactly the truth. And he fell at the feet of Jesus, and Jesus made him the head of the church at Jerusalem, with not enough education to sign his own name. But he had the revelation. That's what it takes. That's right. It pleased God to place him, because he recognized, Scripturally, that that was Messiah.


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