<TITLE>10. Par 88-99</TITLE>L-88   Watch the characteristics of God. Picked up a handful of dust and throwed it into the air, and it turned into fleas. The Creator characteristic of God was in Moses.

L-89 And Moses spoke, in Deuteronomy 18:15, and said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me." Now watch, that's the Word again, characteristic. God speaking through Moses, telling them that the Lord would raise up One like him. Now notice how Jesus' characteristics identified Him to be this promised Word. When Moses said it would be, the character of Jesus identified it. Notice now, "The Lord your God," that's God, that's the Word, "shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me. Whoever won't believe that Prophet, will be cut off from among the people." Now watch, when Jesus come, then what kind of a characteristic was He to have? See, notice now the promised Word, He was promised to be a Prophet like Moses.

L-90   Now, they'd had all kinds of teachers, all kinds of rabbis. They hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years, since--since Malachi, and now all at once here comes a Man on the scene.

L-91 Now, there was a fisherman, two of them, sons of a man, and one of them, his name was Andrew, and the other one's name was Simon. They had been told by their father that how to watch in the days; there had been lots of false things raised up. The old man... I read a little book one time, where, it might have been fiction, I don't know, that he said, "Sons, now just before the coming Messiah, as we're all looking for, there will be a time where there'll be all kinds of things happening. But the way you'll know this Messiah, He will be according to the Scripture. He will be a Prophet, because the Word of God said He is a Prophet."

L-92   Andrew heard John. Well, only thing John was doing, was just prophesying. You know, Jesus said, "You did walk in John's light, but I have greater Light than John. I have a greater identification than John, for, the works the Father give Me to do, they testify of Me." John just preached, he just forerun, he didn't do any miracles or any characteristics of God for the promise. But here come Jesus with that characteristic!

L-93 Simon went out to hear Him one day, and as soon as... Simon maybe went out with Andrew. Andrew had been attending all along. But, Simon, when he come into the Presence! Now listen, as closing. When he come into the Presence of Jesus, Jesus looked at him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." See, the characteristic of what was promised was identified in Him.

L-94 That man could not sign his name, the Bible said he was both ignorant and unlearned. But it was such an identification, that he quickly renounced all of his unbelief, and he said, "That's the Messiah that we've looked for!" All right, he believed It.

L-95   There was one standing there by the name of Philip, who ran around the city, the hill, the country, about fifteen miles, and got a friend, come back the next day with him, by the name of Nathanael. He found him under a tree, praying. He said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

L-96 He said, "Now, now, now! Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth, out of that bunch of low-class people down there?"
He said, "Come and see!"

L-97 That's the best, that's the best remark a man could make. Don't stay home and criticize. Come and find out, search the Scriptures! Come, see!

L-98   On the road around, they walked around, talking about what had been taking place, how he told him about Simon being made known by Him, his father and so forth.

L-99 Then when he come up into the line, might have been a prayer line, might have been out in the audience, I don't know. But wherever he come, and Jesus laid eyes on him the first time, He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile!"
He said, "Rabbi, when did You ever know me?"


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