<TITLE>13. Par 135-145</TITLE>L-135   There's a man there named Philip had seen that, and so elated him! He knew that was the Messiah, because He was a Prophet. They had had all kinds of prophets, but it wasn't the right kind of Prophet. When they seen this Prophet come, fully identified by the Word!

L-136 That's the way the church is a prophet today, ought to be fully identified by the Word of God, which is the Prophet. And if we organize ourselves and get groups, and separate from one another, "seemingly not having the Faith," how we going to take the Word? See, we can't do it. Come back to the Word, This is Eternal Life, "My Words are Life."

L-137   Now notice what happened. We find Philip becoming so enthused, till he run around the mountain. If you'll measure: it, or ever over there, it's about fifteen miles. Probably come back the next day, bringing a man, Nathanael; who had found his friend, that they had had Bible study together. And he was under an olive tree, praying, because he owned a grove. And, quickly, he never had any time now to fool, he was also a holder of the policy and was wanting to show others. When you get this policy, there is something about it, you become a salesman right quick. And he never waited or talked about how his grove was getting along. He said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus the Son of Joseph, Jesus of Nazareth!"

L-138 Quickly this staunch Hebrew from the great Sanhedrin courts, from the synagogue, said, "Now, could there be anything good come out of Nazareth?"

L-139   See how God just humbles man, humiliates them? When they got theirself built up to something, God raises up some little something don't even know his ABC's, and just humiliates the thing. See, that's the way God does it. Because, God is still God, He takes nothing to make something out of it. What if He'd have come to Caiaphas and the high priests, and the clergy that was trained to take the ministry of that day when the Messiah come? They'd have had something to brag about.

L-140   And may I say it, not being rude; I hope I'm not understood that way. Could it not have happened again? So what we think, "we Methodists has got it, we Baptists has got it," and God might raise up a man that never come from any sort of a school, or some bunch of people that He could anoint with His Spirit, that don't even know their ABC's. The Bible said that "Peter was an ignorant and unlearned man." But what he had, they taken notice to it, because it was God living through him. "Such as I have, give I thee," see, to the lame man.

L-141   We find then in this great time, that this man said, "Well, now wait a minute, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

L-142 Now he gave the man a real good answer, he said, "Come, see."

L-143 Don't sit home and criticize, come find out for yourself. Don't tell or say what somebody else has said. Come, see for yourself.

L-144 On his road around the mountain, they might have talked about the time that--that they were went to buy some fish. He said, "You remember the old fisherman that could not sign his name to the receipt, the old fisherman?"
"Yes, I remember him. Simon."

L-145   "Well, when he walked right up into the Presence of--of this... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... holder of Eternal Life, why, He said to him, as He looked around there, and He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas.'" See? And he said, "You know that we're taught by our leader that left this word, that in this last days, for us, 'there will come a Prophet,' the Lord will rise among us."
"Oh," he said, "I can hardly believe that. I'll have to go see."


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