<TITLE>11. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 "And when we come in, and we'd washed our nets, I remember Daddy setting down and putting his arm around me, and saying, 'Simon, my little boy, daddy's getting old. I'm going to have to go join our people pretty soon. All my life, boys... Come here, Andrew, and set on my knee. All my life I've believed that I would see the Messiah. I believed I'd see the Christ, that all of our people has waited for, for these thousands of years. And no doubt but now I won't see Him, because my days are about over. But you boys may see Him.'"
"'Now, I don't want you to be all mixed up and all indocumated with the modern trend of the world, but I want you boys to remember that when the Messiah cometh, when He comes, remember the Scripture says He will be a prophet like Moses.'"
"And I remember my old daddy, remember when we put him away (Andrew nodding his head, 'That's right'). And when Andrew and I walked up in the front of Jesus, He looked at me and He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.' Oh," he said, "that settled it forever, right then. I knowed that was that Prophet, because not only did He know me, but He knowed that godly old father of mine had instructed me to always believe God's Word, and that Messiah would be a prophet. We knowed him also. That settled it with me."

L-40 And of course, that time Philip was looking around to Nathanael, just laughing, you know, said, "Is it all right, Nathanael?"
He said, "Go ahead, Brother Philip."
"Well, you know when I seen that done, I run around the hill to get Nathanael over there. And what about it, Nathanael?"
He said, "Let me tell it. Let me tell it."
"Well, don't rock the boat. Set still."
He raised up, got up and begin to talk, you know. He said, "Well, I'd always... Philip and I had studied the Scriptures, and we knowed that--that the modern church didn't have the trend of it, long ways, because they were looking for some class to come out of heaven. And they didn't believe that--that God was coming, but we believed that God was going to be Man."

L-41 It ought to be striking. When God changed His cast, when God became one of us in order to save us, He had it... In the Old Testament, you had to--before you could redeem, you had to be a kinsman redeemer. The story of Ruth brings it beautifully. See? Had to be a kinsman, and God had to become kinfolks to us, become one of us. Think of Jehovah God in a manger crying like a baby. Think of Him playing as a boy. Think of Him building a house out of the very timber that He created. Amen.

L-42 They believed He would be, and He would be that great Prophet. And Nathanael said, "When I walked up into the face of the Lord Jesus, kinda a little skeptic of what Philip told me... And Philip told me, said, 'Why, He might even tell you who you are when you get there, wouldn't surprise me.'"
But said, "When I walked up into His face, He said, 'Behold an Israelite in whom there's is no guile.' And I said to Him, 'Rabbi, when did You ever know me?' Said, 'Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you.' That settled it."
"And you know what I done, brethren? You were there. I run right up, and fell down at His feet, and said, 'Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.' And there stood my pastor over there with--and blowed up like a toad frog, setting over there looking at me. But it didn't make any difference then, because I had seen the real thing. I run right up anyhow and believed it, because I knowed the Bible said that's exactly what He would do."


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