<TITLE>13. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 Now, Jesus immediately... There was a man by the name of Andrew, a great man, fine man, a fisherman. He and his brother, Simon, they fished together. So they heard of John's ministry. And so being religious, they studied the Scriptures very much together, and knowed that there was coming a Messiah.
Their father, Jonas, was a--a Pharisee, a teacher. And now, as we are told, one day he set on the side of his little ship and said to Andrew and to Peter, "My boys, I always thought that I would live to see the Messiah." But as his gray hair blowed in the wind, and his wrinkled skin, he said, "I'll be gathered with my people, so I suppose I won't see Him. But maybe you'll see Him in your day.
"Now, son, when the Messiah comes, just before His comings there'll be everything taking place, all kinds of messiahs. But don't be deceived, my sons. Remember, the Bible teaches us, Moses, our--our prophet, teaches us that when Messiah will come, He will be a prophet, not an educator, not a scholar, a prophet, the King-prophet, where all those great gifts was in those prophets will all gather in one Godhead. See? He will be a King-prophet.
"You must remember, that Moses told us not to be deceived, but the Lord God would raise up this Messiah, and He would be a prophet."

L-45 So when John came, they asked him. He said, "Art thou that Prophet?"
He said, "I am not. But He comes after me. I'm not worthy to bear the latch on His shoes. He's coming after me. I am not that Prophet, but He will come after me. And I say unto you that He's among you now, and you don't know it." And He was. Said, "There's One standing among you right now Who you know not. He is the One."
He was so sure He was living in that day just before... He knowed his job was to announce the Messiah. And when he was announcing the coming of the Messiah, he knowed it had to be in that age right there. So he said, "He's among you. He's on earth today. He's standing among you."

L-46 My, now what was... Wouldn't that give a bait for all the denominations of that day? "Well, here we got Dr. So-and-so, Rabbi So-and-so. Look what a fine looking young fellow he is. Look how he combs his hair, how well he speaks. Why, he's... Why, he graduated... He got his Bachelor of Art when he was only fifteen years old. Why, you know that's the Messiah." See?
But John would shake his head. He said, "He that told me in the wilderness to go baptize with water said, 'Who I see the Spirit on, descending, this Light coming down from heaven, and coming upon Him, that's the One. I'm waiting to find Him." One day he walked out there, and there He was. He saw Him. A man of no education, never went to school a day in His life, we don't have a record of Him ever went to school, never wrote a book. Nothing. We just hardly know... He just come up, went away the same way. But He was Emmanuel.

L-47 Here Andrew had been following these meetings listening to John, and he stood there that day and heard John say, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." John standing there amazed, looking at something, here it was coming down, a voice saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell in." Nobody else heard it; nobody else saw it. But John bare record that he saw it.
Why? It was promised him. The rest of the world wouldn't set here tonight. You're promised something, and you're looking for it. That's the reason He reveals Hisself the same way.


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