<TITLE>19. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 "Come, see for yourself." Here they go around the bend, coming around. He said, "Now, look. Do you remember that old man named Simon, that couldn't write his name, when you... He bought some fish from you, and you couldn't give... he couldn't give a receipt?"
"Oh, yeah. The son of Jonas?"
"Yes. Yesterday he came up before the Messiah, that we know Him, Messiah. He'd never seen him in all of his life. And He said, 'Behold, your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.' Now, look. We both know the Scriptures. And doesn't our Bible tell us that the Messiah would be a prophet? And here He is, doing this."

L-64 Aw, Philip couldn't believe that--or, Nathanael. So he come up in the Presence of Jesus. And when he walked up in the Presence of Jesus, Jesus looked right at him and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there's no guile," in other words, a righteous man.
And it astonished him. He said, "Rabbi (which means "teacher"), Rabbi, when did You ever know me? You've never seen me. Why, I--I'm from another part of the country. I just come in here. You never seen me. How do You know I'm a righteous man?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes.
You know what that Bible scholar said? He said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Why? He saw He was exactly the manifestation of God's Word. Four hundred years without a prophet and here He stood, exactly what the Bible said He would do. "Rabbi (teacher), You are the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I told you this you believe? Then come on, follow Me. You'll see greater than this." You see?
All right. Oh, that was Jesus yesterday.

L-65 Now, there's only three races of people in the whole world, if we believe the Bible. Oh, I know they claim there's many, but look. We all sprung from... After the antediluvian destruction, when the world was destroyed with water (We believe that as Christians.), Noah had three sons: Ham, Shem, and Japheth. And we all come from them three boys: had to.
And now, if you notice, Peter was given the keys to the Kingdom. And that was Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Now, Peter had the keys to the Kingdom. On the day of Pentecost, he opened the Gospel to the Jews. Acts 7, he opened it to the Samaritans. Philip went down preaching to the Samaritans, only they had been believed, only been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and he went down and laid hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Then in Acts 10:49, he opened the Gospel to the Gentiles at the house of Cornelius. See? There's both Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people (Get it?) the three races.

L-66 Now, there were two races of them looking for a Messiah. That was the Jew and the Samaritan. But we Anglo-Saxons, Gentiles, we worshipped idols, club on our back, and we worshipped idols. We wasn't looking for no Messiah. And He never did that before any Messiah--or no, that sign there before any Gentile. Never, it's not written in the Word. But look. That was His sign that proved that He was the Messiah.
Look at these staunch Jews: Peter, and who else could we say? Many of them: the woman with the blood issue that touched His garment; Zacchaeus up in the tree; blind Bartimaeus whose faith stopped Him, and He turned around. All those staunch Jews. He showed that He was the Messiah by being the Prophet that manifested Himself.


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