<TITLE>12. Par 119-134</TITLE>L-119 "Oh," he said, "now wait a minute, wait a minute! I got to see that for myself. I--I--I got to see that."

L-120   So we find here, the next day, what takes place. They arrived, great crowds of people are standing. Jesus perhaps was talking. Maybe they were sitting, many of them, maybe they were standing; I don't know. But, however, Philip come up, and he brought Nathanael up, and when Jesus turned and looked at him, He said, "Behold an Israelite, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile."

L-121 Why, it so surprised that man! He said, "Rabbi, how, how did You know anything about me? I--I--I don't know You. And You've never seen me, and I've never seen You. How, how would You know anything about me?"

L-122 He said, "Well, before Philip called you, you were under the tree. I saw you." Oh, my, what eyes! The day before, and fifteen miles around the mountain, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."

L-123   What did this learned scholar, a son of God, to be, what did he learn? He learned that that was the identification of the Messiah. What did he do? No doubt he looked around and saw his priest, and all the rest of them, standing. He run up to His feet, and fell down, and said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel."

L-124 Jesus said, "You have believed because I've told you these things. Now you'll see greater than this."

L-125 Oh, but there was some standing by, priests, clergy. And they knowed they would have to give an account to their congregation, for it, so they had to say something. You know what they said? "This man is Beelzebub. He is only a fortuneteller, or some sort of a devil."

L-126 And Jesus turned and said, "You speak that against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you. But when the Holy Spirit comes to do the same thing; to speak a word against It, will never be forgiven in this world nor--nor in the world that is to come." What a place it would put us in then!

L-127   Now we find out, on down through, we could go through the Scriptures. They... Let's take another page and turn the Bible again. "We had need to go by Samaria," one day when He was on His road to Jericho. Jericho was at the bottom of the hill, and Jerusalem was on the hill. Samaria is way back, it would be like going to--to California by the way of--of Hot... by the way of Little Rock. You would by-pass around. But He had need go by Samaria. Now we find out that, the Samaritans, they originated from a--a mixed class of people.

L-128 There is only three races of people on earth, that's: Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. If we believe the Bible, they all started from Noah's children, and that's what sprung out from the world.

L-129   And now we find out that: the Jew, and the Gentile, and the Samaritan. Peter, with the keys given to him on Pentecost, he opened it at Pentecost, to the Jews, he opened it down to the Samaritans, and opened it to the Gentiles. Then the whole race, races, had heard the Gospel. No more you hear him using of the keys, because the Gospel had been opened to all of them. Notice now.

L-130 These Samaritans was half Jew and Gentile. They believed in the same God that the Jew believed in, and they were looking for a coming Messiah.

L-131 Now, the Messiah only will appear to those who are looking for Him. See? Now we Gentiles wasn't looking for no Messiah, and we never saw any. This is our day.

L-132 So the--the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah. And if the Messiah was on earth, it's duty bound, to the Samaritan people, to identify Himself like He was to the Jews.

L-133   Now any of us know that Messiah identified Himself by being the prophet that Moses said that God would raise up. How many believe that, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure.

L-134 He was the Prophet. He identified. Now, that was Jesus yesterday. And if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, it'll be Jesus today, same thing.


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