<TITLE>16. Par 199-215</TITLE>L-199   And now--now, John, who was looking for Him, saw the God's sign coming down. "Jehovah, the God speaking with a Voice, and in the shape of a dove, lighting upon Him, and the Voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in.'" "In Whom I'm pleased to dwell," the same way, just turn the verb before the adverb. See? Now, "'In Whom I'm pleased to dwell in, or pleased to--to be dwelling in.' He, He has satisfied Me. He's did just what I--I know that He should--He should do, and what I said that He would do." Now, and when Peter standing, or I mean...

L-200 Andrew, standing there, he saw that. So he saw Jesus the next day, said, "Rabbi, where dwellest Thou?"
He said, "Come, see."

L-201 So then he went and told his brother. After staying with Him all night, the next morning he was fully persuaded that That was Messiah. And the next morning, he went to get his brother. And he brought him, said, "Come on. We found the Messiah."

L-202   I can imagine Simon saying, "Now, wait just a minute. I'm a commercial fisherman here. I'm a--I'm a Pharisee up here. I belong to the same church my daddy did. And I've had all this Messiah stuff, all the way."

L-203 "But wait a minute, Simon. Do you remember the teaching of our--of our Word? You remember what... I know you seen all this stuff. But didn't dad foretell us that all this stuff with glamour would come up, but that wouldn't be it? But we would know He would be a Scriptural man. He would stay with the Word because He will be the Word." See? So they just couldn't understand that.
So Simon walks up, and said, "Well, I guess I'll go see."

L-204   And as soon as he come into the Presence of Jesus... Now, he had left off a day's fishing, of his daily bread. He was a businessman, you see. And so he come to this meeting. And in this, he walks up.

L-205 And when Jesus laid His eyes upon him, He said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there is no guile." See? Look. No, I'm sorry. I quoted the wrong man.

L-206 Here is what He said. He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas."

L-207 Then Peter took out a policy. See? He made an investment right there. Not only did He know who he was, He knowed that godly old father that had told him what would happen. And he seen the Word vindicated. That rich young ruler might have been standing, to see that same thing. But Peter was ready to sell out his business and his membership, and make an investment. It done something to him.

L-208   How about Nathanael? Had this grove out there, like you have here in Phoenix. And--and one day he was out there. And he was a Bible student. And when Philip saw this done, went over and told him, said, "Hey! We--we found the Messiah Who Moses spoke of."
He said, "Now!"
"Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

L-209 Said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of such a place as that? I've looked. Who did you say He was?"
"Jesus of Nazareth."

L-210 "I looked over every one of our presbyters, and none of them has said nothing about Him. We don't have any school seminary He come from. No."

L-211   Did you know, all the way down through the Bible, the prophets that rose up, we don't know where they come from? No background to them. They just moved on the scene, and moved off just the same way. They had no experiences back somewhere. They come to bring the people that had got out loose, and bring them edges back and tie it into the Bible again. See?

L-212 Where did Moses come from? A humble parent. We just know his parent, know nothing of his background.

L-213 Look at Elijah. We don't even know who his papa and mama was; just come on the scene.
Look at Obadiah. Look at all the rest of them.

L-214 Look at Amos, we spoke of the other night. No one know where he come from. He was a herdsman. That's all we know. He just come on the scene.

L-215 Yet, when he finished his work, like the great Elijah, God give him a chariot ride right into Heaven. See?


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