<TITLE>14. Par 149-160</TITLE>L-149   But let's go back just for a few minutes now and identify what Jesus was when He was on earth. And we'll find out what He was then, what He's been in the other ages, then it'll have to be the same thing in this age, to make it right. Now we find, when He come on the scene, we have no...

L-150 We knowed He was the Word. He was the Word. And the Word always corrects the error. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-151 Just for a little thought here, look at the... you people who worship Mary. See? She said the Holy Ghost overshadowed her and brought forth this Son, and, "It was of the Holy Ghost."

L-152   Then when He was about twelve years old, they was up at Jerusalem, at the feast of the Passover, and when they... or Pentecost. And when they come back down, it was three-days journey, they had missed Him. So they went back to find Him, and there He was in that auditorium there, the church, just debating with those priests and things. And so His mother walked up, her and Joseph. And she said, "Thy father and I have sought Thee with tears." See? Before those priests, she denied her own testimony, calling Joseph His father. See? She said that "God" was His Father, and here she said, "Your father and I have sought with tears."

L-153 Watch that Word. That twelve-year-old boy, of course, probably not a day's schooling in His life. Watch that Word, though. He was the Word. He said, "Know ye not that I must be about My Father's business?" If Joseph was His father, He'd a been with him down there in the carpenter shop. But His Father was God, and He was straightening those priests out. That, and there He would "be about My Father's business." See the Word correct the error. It always does, every time. She didn't, probably never seen it, and went on, groping right along. People do the same thing today.

L-154   But may God quicken us now, for these next few minutes, to see what He was.

L-155 Now we find, from His baptism, into the wilderness, and He comes out of the wilderness.

L-156 And there was a fellow, by the name of Andrew, had been attending John's meeting. And he couldn't get his brother, Simon, to--to go to the meeting. Finally, one day, when they was washing their nets, he--he came to the place where he--he met Jesus. And Simon knowed, in his heart...

L-157 I read a little story on it, here not long ago, of Simon. His father, Jonas, is a great believer, is a Pharisees. He said that, "Many times... Son, I'm getting old and gray." He said, "I--I prayed so many times for God to--to let me see the Messiah." And said, "We trusted God for our fish, for our living. And--and your mother is gone on now, and look like I won't be able to see Him. I'm--I'm getting too old." And said, "Now, son, I want you to sit here by me. I want to tell you.

L-158   "Now, just before that Messiah arises, there'll be all kind of false things go on. That's to Satan." He said, "But remember, you'll only know the Messiah, always stay with the Word. Moses said, 'The Lord our God shall raise up a Prophet.' Now, we haven't had one for hundreds of years. But there will be a Prophet, identified Prophet rise up amongst the people, that'll be the Messiah. He'll be the next One."

L-159 Then when Andrew took him down to see Jesus, and told him about John preaching, and saying a Messiah was coming, to him it was, well, just another fellow passing through.

L-160 So, one day, Simon come right into the Presence of the Lord Jesus Himself. And Jesus looked at him and said--looked at him and said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." That did it. See?


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