<TITLE>09. Par 86-97</TITLE>L-86 We haven't got a medicine that can create, and create a cell in your hand, to heal; create in your body, to heal. We can move a tooth, we can cut out appendix, or take out a gall bladder, but who healed? God. No medicine will build tissue, only God. Life builds tissue. God is the only healer, and we were talking on that.

L-87   And we find out now, that Jesus went about healing the sick. And there was one of His disciples by the name of Andrew.

L-88 And I want to make this in a drama because there is children sitting here, and a little sick girl laying down there. I want her to get it.

L-89 You know, Andrew was a brother to Simon, which was later called Peter. And Andrew had become a--a follower of John. And John had announced that there was a coming Messiah, and he was sure that it would be in his generation. That's the reason he never went to any schools or seminary. His job was too important.

L-90   Why, you know, if the priest would have understood that he was to be the one to announce the birth... or the coming Messiah, and to introduce Him to the world, why, they would have said, "Now, now, Doctor John, don't you feel like that Brother So-and-so here, don't you think he is just qualified to be the Messiah? Why, look at him, he--he--he has got a good background. You know you know it, that's the Messiah. Why don't you go and tell the world?"

L-91 But, see, his job was too important to be persuaded by man. He went into the wilderness and waited in the seminary of God's learning, until God told him, "Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending, that's the One to announce, the Messiah." See?

L-92   Now we find that Andrew had believed it, no doubt had come back and told Simon about it, many times. But Simon, kind of being a little hardheaded, as we... Excuse the expression; I hope it don't sound sacrilegious. But he, kind of a little hardheaded, as we could call it today, "Oh, go on, if you want to listen to that." And one day he come and told him that he had found the Messiah, and he hardly could believe it.

L-93 And I can just see Andrew bringing Simon up now before the Lord Jesus. First time he had ever seen Him. Jesus had just returned from the wilderness. His ministry was starting, now He had to be identified. And as soon as Simon walked into the Presence of the Lord Jesus, Jesus looked at him and said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jona."

L-94 Now immediately we find out that Simon believed. He was then had the name of Peter. Why did he believe it?

L-95   I read a story of his father, Jonas, was a great man of--of prayer. He had raised his boys to--to believe in God. And each day their occupation was fishing, so many times they would have to get on their knees and pray for God to give them a good catch of fish so they could pay off their debts and get bread for that day.

L-96 And before he died, the old fellow sit on the brail of his boat one day, and he said to the boys, he said, "Sons, we are Hebrews, and we believe that there was a coming Messiah. And I have always hoped that I would live to see the day to see the Messiah set his feet on the earth. And I... but I guess I won't live it, because I'm old now and I must go. But, boys, Satan is not going to let that Messiah arise without a lot of false messiahs first. So I want you boys to remember, don't be surprised at a--a lot of things will take place. But I want you boys to be instructed. Remember, that we have this: a Messiah, when He comes, He will have to be Scripturally identified by God, before He is the Messiah." We need more daddy's like that today!

L-97   "He'll have to be Scripturally the Messiah. And now we have followed Moses, the great prophet who led our people out of Egypt, and we have listened to his teaching. And we--we know that--that Moses was right. And in Deuteronomy, the 18th chapter, Moses told us that, 'The Messiah; the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto me, and they must hear Him.'"


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