<TITLE>13. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 Notice, he told his sons, said, "Now, don't you forget. Stay with the Scripture. The Messiah, according to Moses, the one that we followed all these years, said, 'The Lord our God shall raise up a prophet among us. He will be a prophet. Messiah will not be just a scholar, educator, some high priest, some dignitary, but He will be a prophet." Now, we're going to hunt for Him now, for just about ten minutes now, 'fore we start praying for the sick. "He will be a prophet."

L-52 And Andrew goes and finds Simon, his fisherman brother, and said, "Come, see Who we've found. We've found the Messiah."
I can imagine Simon saying, "Oh, yes. Uh-huh. We've had them everywhere."
But he come walking up in the Presence of Jesus. And as soon as Jesus saw him coming, He said, "Be..." He spoke to him and said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."
That got it. He knowed right then. Not only did He know who he was, but He knowed that godly old father of his. "You are Simon, the son of Jonas." Right then, to Peter that was the Messiah, because He'd proved exactly what the Scriptures said He would be.
Not because He was fine dressed, had so many degrees out of college, spoke His words politely, had a great influence amongst the people. That wouldn't be a prophet. Prophets are very much hated, and so... The people don't like them. Revelation 11 said when they two... the nations hated those prophets. They've always done it.
Jesus said, "You're the ones who stoned the prophets, and you whitened their graves." Said, "You're the one that put them in there. Which one of the prophets that God sent that you didn't stone?" They always are contrary and against the religious systems of the day. And we find out that they stand out boldly. And here was Jesus standing out there. And they seen, though, that He was doing the sign of a prophet, and Simon said--confessed Him to be the Son of God.

L-53 There was one standing there by the name of Philip (Right... just a couple of verses below it here), Philip. And he had an associate. If you ever studied Philip's life, he had an associate which they set and had Bible studies together. We do that lots of times, set, and study about different things. And ministers, and brethren, lay members, we all study the Bible, get our Bible at home. Boyfriends, and girlfriends, when they're Christians, and husband and wife, we have a little Bible studies.
Nathanael and Philip had been studying the Scrolls together, and they'd been convinced, because they were both believers, that Messiah was... It was time for Him to come. So when Philip saw that happen, he took around the hill to find Nathi--Nathanael.

L-54 Now, if you'll mark it, if you're ever there, from where Jesus was preaching to where he found Nathanael in that grove, was about fifteen miles. He probably went one day and come back the next. And he found Nathanael. We know the story. He was out in his orchard praying, and the--under the fig tree, a praying.
And I can imagine seeing Nathan--or Philip, standing there waiting until he got through praying. And maybe he was praying something like this: "O Lord, we are ready for the Deliverer. Lord, we have been in Roman captivity all this time. Your people is suffering. O God, they're--they've all gone astray. And looks like the churches has all let down. We are praying, O Lord, send us the Deliverer. Send us the Messiah. We've longed for Him. We prayed and here the--the days are getting past now for me, and I've wanted to see the Messiah. Amen."
When he raised up, Philip said, "Come, see Who we have found." Not, "How you getting along? How is the chickens progressing, and the eggs are all right? And how's the milk cows?" No, no. How's the olive orchard. No, straight. That's the trouble today. We got too much nonsense mixed in Christianity. Straight to the point... "Come see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." That's the way to take the message.


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