<TITLE>11. Par 109-118</TITLE>L-109   And maybe the conversation was something like this. See, he didn't have time to say, "How is the olives getting along?" Or, "How is the wife and kid?" See, the message was urgent. He had seen something. He had seen the Scripture identified, Messiah, and that's what they had looked for for years and years and years. He said, "Come, see Who we found! Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph, come, see Him!" The message was urgent.

L-110 I tell you, brethren, if we could get that kind of an enthusiasm, that our Message is so urgent. We don't have time for foolishness. Let's get the Message to a people, a people who has sweated it out through persecutions, are the children of our fathers who stood on the streets, with a--with a tambourine in their hand, and would eat corn off of a railroad track, to support this Highway, this Gospel. And now see Christ among us, let's get to the world with It, as quick as we can, and find him.
Said, "Come, see Who we have found."

L-111   Now we find out that Nathanael was quite a theologian, and I can imagine him saying to Philip, "Now wait just a minute, Philip, what kind of a deep end have you went off?" You know, that talk still goes around today, see. "What end did you run off on?" Some loose end out somewhere, you know. "I--I know you to be a sound, sensible man, and here you come running up and telling me that the Messiah is here on earth?"

L-112 He ought to have talked to the magi. You know, the magi was up in Babylon. They were Jews up there studying astronomy. And when they seen those three stars come in line, that was a sign, an old Hebrew sign, that when those three stars come in line, the Messiah was on the earth. They come, screaming, "Where is He, born King of the Jews? We saw His Star and we've come to worship Him."

L-113   But, Philip, this. They didn't have the different outlets like television, radio and newspaper, and things in them days, and they never would have published anything like that anyhow. So the first thing we know, we find Philip and Nathanael speaking, "Well," he said, "come."

L-114 He said, "Look, could any good thing come out of a bunch of holy-..." or excuse me, "a bunch of people like that, out of Nazareth?"

L-115 Well, you know what I think? Philip give him the best answer that anybody could give a man. He didn't try to explain it. He didn't try to go into the technicals of it. He just said, "Come and see. Come, see for yourself. Tuck that scroll under your arm, of Deuteronomy 18, and come follow me and we'll find out."

L-116   Let's pick up their conversation as they walked. See, they had to get there, one day, and come back the next, fifteen miles. So on the road, around, I can hear Philip say, "Now look, Nathanael, as many Bible studies as we had, we firmly believe that the Messiah is to be the God-Prophet, 'cause Moses said so. And we followed Moses, and was supposed to follow him until this Prophet arrived. And when this Prophet come on the scene, then He would tell us the way of life, from then on. And if... You know, who don't believe Him will be cut off from amongst the people, if we don't believe Him."
"Well, how do you know this guy is a Prophet?"

L-117 Say, "Do you remember that old fisherman down there, that you bought them fish for that day, from, and he didn't have enough education to sign his name to the receipt?"
"Yeah, I remember him. Oh, his name was Simon. Yes."

L-118 "His brother, Andrew, has been attending John's meeting. And when he seen the announcement, and heard the announcement of John, saying, 'This was the Messiah.' And, John, we know was a prophet, so he couldn't say nothing wrong. He announced, 'That is the Messiah,' and so he said he saw the sign over Him. And he brought his brother yesterday. And as soon as he walked up into His Presence, He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.' Why, it wouldn't surprise me if He don't tell me who you are, when you get there," he'd say.


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