<TITLE>14. Par 48-51</TITLE>L-48 So they was watching. John bare record. Andrew goes home, and he said to Simon that night, "We have found the Messiah."
Well, I can imagine Simon saying, "Now, wait just a minute, Andrew. We're taught better than that. Now, some wilderness, so-called prophet out there, oh, just whatever you say."
And one day Simon went with him into the Presence of the Lord Jesus. Now, Simon was uneducated. We know the Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned. He could not even sign his own name. That's the kind of person that God picked. And if education is such a great part, why didn't He--why did He pick a person like that to give him the keys to the Kingdom?
See, we get off the track. Now, I'm not supporting illiteracy, I'm only stating facts. God wants a humble heart. I would rather my children know Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and not even know how to sign their name, than to have--than to be the best educator there is in all the world. That's right. Notice. For that's Eternal Life to know Him.

L-49 Here He was. Simon walked up in His Presence. Said, "You just come listen at Him one time. He's going to start preaching now in a few days, 'cause He come out of the wilderness. And the people has begin to come, and He's begin to praying for the sick, and they're getting well. And won't that be the Messiah?"
"Now, look here, Andrew. The Messiah, according to the Word, will be a prophet."
"Well, I believe John was a prophet."
"What sign did he show he was a prophet?" He just talked. See? All right.
But come to this person. Now, here comes Simon Pe--Simon walking up into His Presence. And as soon as Jesus saw him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." That did it. He knowed right then that was the Messiah. Why? Not only did He know him, but He knowed that godly old father of him who had kept him in the Word. See how it all dovetails together? Simon Peter quickly recognized that that was the Messiah, and was given the keys to the Kingdom.

L-50 There was one standing there by the name of Philip. He'd also been a Bible reader, and he and a man named Andrew had had much fellowship--like you people, going to the house... If you believe... How many of you study with one another, study the Word? And you go to the house, and you search the Scriptures?
And they were concerned about the time they were living in, so they searched the Scriptures real close. And when they did, they found out what He was to be. And when Philip saw that, that was enough for him. Around the mountain he went, which is about fifteen miles around the mountain. If you're ever in Palestine you can mark the places. And he went around one day and come back the next.

L-51 Now, when he found Nathanael he was in the orchard out there, in his grove of fig trees, and was out there praying. And so here come Philip to find him. He found him on his knees praying, praying to God. After he got finished praying, he raised up. And he said, "Nathanael, come see Who we have found. We have found the Messiah that was spoke of by Moses, the prophet that Moses said the Lord our God would raise up. We've found Him."
I can imagine Nathanael saying, "Philip, what do you mean? Who is it?"
"It's Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
Now, that was too much for that fellow. He said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth, that bunch of holy-rollers, or (excuse me) people down there? Could there be anything good come from them? Why, we know if it come from anywhere it'd be from our denomination here. Could anything good come out of there?"
Now, Philip give him the best answer that anybody could give him. He said, "Come, see." Don't stay home and criticize. Come, take the Scriptures, and find out whether it's right or not."


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