<TITLE>11. Par 97-103</TITLE>L-97 Then His earthly ministry began. Now we find Him, the first thing, there was a man by the name of Andrew, in Saint John 1. We find that he went out and got his brother, Simon, and brought Simon to the meeting where Jesus was speaking. And when he did, and Jesus saw Simon; quickly, when He saw him, He told him his name was "Simon," and he was "the son of a Jonas." Now, then, that took the starch out of this apostle, and he recognized Him then to be the Christ; and finally become the head of the church at Jerusalem, because he had recognized that That was the Christ.

L-98   Did you ever think what made him recognize this Man to be the Christ, by just saying that? Because that the Christ, according to the Scripture, was to be a prophet. Moses, their guide and teacher, had told them, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto Me." No matter how many intellectual men had raised up, there had to come a Prophet, and that Prophet had to show the sign of a prophet.

L-99 Now perhaps I'm talking to many Jewish people, tonight. And you know, in the Scripture, the Jew believed his prophet. Because, it was the prophet that the Word of the Lord came to, him, and him only. The Word of the Lord come to the prophets. "God, in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son, Jesus Christ," Hebrews 1. Now, the Jew believed the prophet because the prophet had the Word of the Lord.

L-100   Now, the way they told whether that prophet was right or not, was because they watched the prophet. And if he said anything, prophesied, and it come to pass, God said, "You hear that prophet, for I'm with him. But if it doesn't come to pass, then ignore what he says." That's no more than right, see. "If there be one, a prophet among you, spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in visions, speak to him through dreams. And if what this prophet says comes to pass, then hear him, for I'm with him. But if it doesn't, then don't."

L-101 So, Jesus standing there. And they had not had a prophet for four hundred years, in Israel. And here stood a Man that seen an ordinary fisherman come up, and told him what his name was and what his father's name was. What an astounding thing! What was He doing? He was calling that man. And when that Light flashed upon that predestinated seed, Life come quickly, he recognized what it was.

L-102   This man we're speaking of now, Philip, he saw this performed, so he runs around the mountain, is about fifteen miles, and to a friend that had been a--a--a studier of the Scripture, with him. And, this man, his name was Nathanael. And he must have had a grove, and so he was out in the grove, in prayer, by the time Philip arrived. And they were both Hebrews now, watching for the coming of the Messiah. So when Philip found him, he said, "Come, see Who I have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."

L-103 And, course, Nathanael being a great man, and knowing that Nazareth was a--a mean town, and--and he said, "Could there be anything good come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come, see."


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