If you will, let's open our Bibles
to John chapter 1. John chapter 1. We're just going
to look at three verses tonight. It's the calling of Philip. This
is when Christ found Philip. There's a whole lot of messages
on what we'll look at next week, Lord willing, on Nathanael. I
know a whole lot on Philip, and as I studied it, I dwelt on this,
and it just stayed with me for a week and a half now. I thought,
this is just too precious to pass up. I don't want to zoom
through this, so we'll take our time and look at it. God calling
Philip. This is how a sinner like Philip,
how just a man born of Adam, like me, like anybody, whosoever,
this is how they can be just before the holy God they offended.
This is what takes place. The Lord is just. He's holy. Evil can't be in His presence.
He doesn't tolerate the wicked. He doesn't have pleasure in them.
He doesn't tolerate the jesting. He has to be holy to be in His
presence. And He's the justifier. Christ Himself came to this earth,
the Lamb of God, for His people, conceived holy, born holy, lived
holy, hung on that cross holy, sinless, bearing our sin. He's the just and the justifier.
And He's the finder of His lost sheep. Boy, is that good news. It ain't on us. I don't have
to sort these things out. I don't have to come to an understanding
and a knowledge or work. He comes to us. He comes to us. It says in John 1 verse 43, the
day following, this is the day after the Lord called Peter,
Another day after, Andrew and John were called and they saw
him. The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee and
findeth Philip and saith unto him, follow me. Now Philip was
of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael
and saith unto him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law
and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
And Nathanael saith unto him, Can there any good thing come
out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and
see. Why was Philip found of the Lord? Why was any sinner found of the
Lord? It says, Jesus would go forth into Galilee. The Lord
would. I've dwelt on that, I mean, for
hours. Jesus would go forth into Galilee. All I can think of,
that's our kinsman-redeemer. Here's Jesus of Nazareth, the
man, the God-man on this earth. He's kin to us. He's born a woman.
Our kinsman-redeemer. He's able to redeem. He's able
to save those He came to seek and save. He shall save His people
because of His blood, because of who He is, God Almighty in
the flesh. That kinsman redeemer was Ken,
he was Abel, and he had to be willing. Jesus would go forth
into Galilee. Jesus would go forth into Ashland,
Kentucky, into Rock Valley, Iowa, into Hamel,
California. He would. He would. That's why Philip was found to
the Lord. We'll see us next week when we
look at Nathanael. But Galilee was like, it was a province,
what we call a county. It's like San Diego County. And
Nazareth and Bethsaida, they were towns inside of that province,
inside of that county. So what was Galilee? That was
the world. That county was despised. It
was up north. It had nothing to do with them.
Herod province stood off. Y'all keepin' people. The Jews
despised them. There was a bunch of Gentiles
up there. They didn't like Galilee. They sure didn't like people
from Nazareth. That's a little bit worse than being out in the
country. And they couldn't stand people from Bethsaida. That's
a rough place. Galilee represents this world.
Paul wrote to Timothy, he said, this is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world.
What Galilee is picturing here. He came and He would come into
Galilee. He would come into this world
to save sinners of whom I'm chief. Christ came into this world to
seek and to save them that were lost. Not the righteous, them
that are lost. It says in verse 43, The day
following, I thought of what Paul said, when He separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace. There's
an appointed time for every child of God. He will not lose any.
There's an appointed time He would go to Galilee. He would
come to where you are. This was Philip's day. The day
following Jesus would go forth into Galilee and findeth Philip. That means He obtained Philip.
He got a hold of him. He didn't come across him. He
obtained Philip. He findeth Philip and saith unto
him, follow me. What happened when Christ found
Philip? Christ came to him. He found him where he was and
he said unto him, this person, said unto him, follow me. Just as our Lord spoke to that
other dead man. Philip was a dead man walking.
He didn't think he was. I'm breathing air. I'm alive.
He was dead on the inside. We see that in Lazarus. That
was another dead man the Lord came to. He spoke unto him. Called
his name out. And he said, Lazarus, come forth.
And Lazarus came forth. The Lord spoke to Philip and
said, follow me. Philip followed him. Lazarus
came forth, still bound hand and foot. And Philip was still
bound in this body of death. This old nature, this old man
that we're born into, it was still there. Just like we still
are. But now there's light. Light
was commanded. A new birth was commanded in
him. He said, follow me. And that's the same it is with
every sheep of our great shepherd. The Lord comes to us. He comes
where we are. He meets us where we are. And
he speaks to the heart of his children. And he commands them,
follow me. Follow me. It's a command. God
Almighty's willing something, commanding something to happen.
It's going to happen. It's not a suggestion. It's not an offer. He comes to His people. He shall
save His people. And He commands them to follow Him. This is personal.
And praise be to God, it's forever. It's forever. If He comes to
you and He commands life in your heart, it ain't going away. Now,
our walk through this world, He's now our destination. I don't
want to get ahead of myself. If I'm going from here to Texas,
I may go north a little bit. I may go south a little bit.
I may stop for gas. But I'm going in one direction.
I'm going to Texas. We're going to Him. We follow
Him. We follow Him when He commands us. How was Philip or any other
saint able to follow Him? How was it? He was spiritually
dead. He was spiritually blind. He was lame on the inside. David wrote to us and said, Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Do I need to
make myself willing? I will be willing, but do I need
to muster up something? Do I need to get the ball of
faith rolling? For it is God which worketh in you, both, both
to will and to do of His good pleasure. What a picture we have
here. Here's a saving of this mighty
apostle, used of Christ, in one verse. God came to him. He found him. He spoke unto him. He said, follow me. That's it.
Not too fancy, is it? That's not too... ain't a whole
lot of bells and whistles on that. What happened? God saved
the sinner. He was pleased to do so. He would. He would. Christ would go forth from Galilee,
found Philip, he said to him, follow me, and that's it. That's
the simplicity of Christ in his marvelous gospel. He saves sinners. He comes to them. Speaks to them.
Did all this happen because Philip was an important man? Was Philip
a very religious man? He cleaned his act up and cleaned
living and he studied the scriptures a lot. He deserved it for some
reason? Of course not. Look here in verse
44. We could read through this really quickly, couldn't we?
We could go from verse 43 straight to verse 45 and not skip a beat.
But in verse 44 it says, Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter. Just like Andrew and Peter, Philip
was from Bethsaida. That was worse than Galilee.
This was a rough fishing village. It means fishing house, Bethsaida.
You had to be rough to make it there. It's a rough place, and
if you're going to live there, you've got to be rough to live
there. Commercial fishing port here on the north side of Sea
of Galilee, and it's the dregs of society. Law didn't go up
there much. Leave them boys alone. They're
fishing. Let them do what they're going to do. Turn over to Matthew
chapter 11 real quick. Matthew chapter 11. We remember this name Bethsaida
from something else, don't we? Matthew chapter 11 and verse
21, our Lord speaks and says, Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe
unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which
were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would
have repented long ago and sat clothed in ashes. But I say unto
you that it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at that day
of judgment than it is for you. That ain't a good place to come
from, is it? This is where the Lord performed some miracles.
He called three apostles out of Bethsaida. That's where He
went and spit on the ground, made that spittle and put it
in a man's eyes. We know He healed that man's blindness. So He was
in that area. The Lord was working in that
area and those were great miracles. And He says, Woe unto you! God
Almighty is in your presence. That's worse than Tyre and Sidon. They're just left to themselves.
Now you're without excuse. Christ came to you. We could
read it this way in our day. Woe unto you, Hamul. That's not arrogance. That doesn't
sit with me that I could puff myself up like, well, I'm better
and everybody else is in trouble. That's painful. That's a weight.
That's a struggle I have. Woe unto you, Hamul. God Almighty
saved some folks in this place. Christ has been exalted in this
place. It would be better for Tyre and Sodom. Better for Sodom
and Gomorrah. Woe unto you, Rescue. Woe unto you, Dan. Woe unto you,
St. Croix. God's got a man there
for 40 years preaching. Woe unto you, Shoahaven, Australia.
Wherever His people are, that's where Christ is. That's where
He's proclaimed and He's exalted. It's a bad place to be, but that's
where the Lord came and He found me. Do you know that? I had a privileged upbringing.
I had believing parents. I was taught manners. I lived
in good neighborhoods. I had a quality education. But
this heart is an old, rough fishing village. There's scars. It smells like fish. Hooks are
sticking out all over the place. It's a rough place. My inner
man, born of Adam, it was from the dung hill, from the miry
clay. the bottom of a prison pit. That's what it was. And
just like Philip, just like Andrew, just like Simon, just like every
sinner Christ came to in this old world of Galilee that we're
in, He came to save. We were utterly undesirable.
You don't want to buy property in that part of town. Looked
down upon, not even pitied enough for someone else to cover us
and our bloody and our nakedness like that baby. That's where
the Lord came to us, and that's where He found us. We were found
by Him that we didn't seek. He came to us. But Phillip didn't
go on about that, did he? He didn't go on about how he
was from the rough side of town, and how bad he had, and he had
it worse than somebody else. Maybe before the Lord spoke in
his heart, he may have. You don't know where I'm from, buddy. But
things had changed. The Lord spoke to him. Things
had changed. The Lord came to him in power,
personally spoke to him, unto him one-on-one, and he said,
follow me. And something changed. What happens
in the heart of one of God's children whenever he speaks to
us? What changes in us? Our past changes? Our present
changes and our future changes in our eyes. We have to look
at everything chronologically. I can't speak in terms of the
infinite. I can't speak in eternal terms.
I can't wrap my head around that. We're stuck in time. But our
omnipresent Lord isn't. We see in part, we know in part,
but there's something that happened. Something changes in us. Turn
over to Isaiah chapter 1. So many times I've looked on
my own words, I've looked on my own thoughts, my own actions
from my past, and I've had nothing but regret and sorrow. Truly. I kind of feel bad about that.
I mean, just shame. You want to curl up and go hide
somewhere. I don't understand what future sins lay ahead of
me. I don't know what the Lord will have come to pass in my
life. I haven't had too much time to
dwell on the sins that I'm committing right now. I don't think it's
wrong or I'd be doing different. I don't know what I don't know. This is active. This is day to
day. I haven't had time to reflect.
But I've had some time and I've had some light given to me on
my sins gone by. As I age some, I look back and
I say, what's foolish? What sin I committed against
God? That past has changed. It's not forgotten by me, but
the Lord did something for that day, and He's humbled me through
this. Look here in Isaiah 1, verse 18. Isaiah 1, 18. Come now and let us reason together,
saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, blood red, they
shall be white as the snow. Though they shall be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool. Every bad memory I have, every
horrible thing I know, I did. It was me. The Lord said, all
that scarlet you caused will be white as the snow. Isn't that
something? He tells Isaiah later on, he
said, I blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and
as a cloud thy sins. He says, return unto me for I
have redeemed you. Where the hell did that sin go? God bought
me. The blood covered those sins. What I thought, can we really
get a hold of that in fullness? We only see our sin in part,
don't we? I could admit to a couple of bad things, you know. I know
I am sin, but the Lord hasn't fully opened my eyes of what
I truly am, or I'd probably explode. Every one of them. Been put away as far as east
is from the west. Isn't that something? That's
great mercy. That's humbling, isn't it? David
wrote to us, for as the heaven is high above the earth, so great
is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east
is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions
from us. All sin is washed in the blood
of the Lamb for His people. That past has changed. All those
things I got a good handle on were wrong. Christ had to pay
for those. Everything I'm doing now that
I reflect on in 20 years is horrible. That's what that blood covered.
That's something, isn't it? Our past changes, but our present
changes too. The Lord comes to us and He commands
our hearts, life, our present changes. We no longer serve those
fake gods and religion which is serving ourselves to feel
good, to feel proud, to feel worth. There's something in us.
We no longer do that. We serve the Lord. We serve the
true and living God. We no longer live for ourselves,
but we live for others. The Lord's people, the ones that
we know now and the ones that the Lord hasn't called yet. That's
our intent, isn't it? The Lord saved me by His gospel.
I want somebody else to hear that. I'll tell somebody else. Turn over to Ezekiel 36. This
is our present change. This is three books to the right.
You've got Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel. Ezekiel 36. Verse 26. Ezekiel 36, 26. A new heart also
will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I
will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. And ye shall keep
my judgments and do them. And they shall dwell in the land
that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be My people, and
I will be your God." This is a promise to that nation of Israel,
but that's a shadow, that's a type of His promises for His spiritual
Israel, isn't it? The Lord said, I will put My Spirit in you.
I will give you a new heart. A flesh. It's what will happen
when He saves His people. Have that new heart put in us.
And I've heard people say before that the Lord had worked in them. They were in this world doing
whatever they was doing. The Lord finally came to them. He
came to them where they were. He spoke to them. Saved them
by His grace. Did a work in them. And then
later they went back to those same old circles they used to
run in. They'd go visit old friends that they used to have drinks
with, or they played ball with, or that they had Bible studies
with, or whatever it was. Whatever side of that lake you
was on. Old co-workers, and they'd say,
you know, it's not the same as it used to be. They've changed. They're different. Something's
different. No, nothing's changed in them. That's the same as it's
always been. Ain't nothing changed. Old circles
haven't changed. There's been a change in you.
God's put His Spirit in you. We still have this old nature
with us, but we have a new nature now too. We have His Spirit put
in us, and that's where the internal conflict comes into play. Inward
and outward. Outward with people we used to
know, our friends, our family, our loved ones, and all those
things. But inside, if I was on a deserted island, there's
conflict. All the things I think and I
want, I think what's right and want to do, and there's a new
man in me. It's not that way. Paul wrote,
said, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. Become new. What's new? Well, now we've been
given the eyes to see. We have seen the Son. Now we
know of our wickedness. We didn't know that before. We
knew we did something bad. I told some lies or whatever.
Now we see we ain't nothing but sin. And we see His holiness. Now we see our weakness in this
flesh. I can't do nothing. I can't take
my next breath unless the Lord allows it. And we see His mighty
sovereign power in all things. And we see that there's remission
for sins in the blood of Christ and only His blood. Nothing else. The new man doesn't fret and
worry over all the events going on all around us in this world.
We know that the Lord rules and reigns in all things. That old
man has problems, don't he? That new man don't. If I'm looking
up, if I'm looking to Him, we'll take care of a bit of this one.
Knowing the God of providence, we see absolutely everything
in our past has brought us to the feet of Christ. Everything
in my life, every breath I took, every molecule that ever moved,
what it takes for God to save you, everything, to bring me
right to His feet. Because He would find us, He
has found His people, once He's come to already, and His word
was effectual in our hearts. We know our sins, all of them
are forgiven by His blood, by Christ's blood, and we've been
given a new heart. He's our King, He's our God. And His will is
being done. That changes our present, doesn't
it? We look around us. Our present changed. Our past
changed. We knew that's what everything was necessary to get
me in the right mindset. The Lord got me right where He
wanted me. To teach me something. Reveal Christ in me. And now
our present changes. But our future changes too. Past has changed. Our present
changes. And our future changes. Now we
have a personal destination. Maybe before we thought we was
going to heaven. Now, we desire to be conformed to the image
of Christ. We want to be with Him. Lord, where dwellest thou? Wherever you're dwelling, that's
where I want to be. I don't want to be in heaven,
I want to be in Christ, my firmament, my heaven. I want to be with
you, with the person. But before this life's over,
that's what we look to ahead. Before this life's over, now
we have purpose, we have direction in our lives here on this earth,
not just bouncing to and fro, not turned by every wind of doctrine.
Now we seek to serve our Lord to further His gospel, His free
and sovereign grace in the person and work of Christ our King.
We want to tell people about that, don't we? Turn over to
Philippians chapter 1. Philippians chapter 1 verse 20. according to my earnest expectation
and my hope that in nothing shall I be nothing I shall be ashamed
but that with all boldness as always so now also Christ shall
be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death for
to me to live is Christ and to die is gain and knowing the Lord's
power and providence to accomplish His perfect and holy will, we
have comfort knowing that whatever may come in time, whatever's
coming down the road in the Lord's providence, that it's right,
that He's holy and He's just. And I want Him glorified in my
body. Whether He keeps me alive and uses me, has me follow Him
and tell others as much as I can, as He opened doors and He enables,
that's what I want. And if He says, I'm going to
kill you tomorrow, I say, good, that's gain. Thank you, Lord.
If He keeps breath in me for another two years, I'm thankful.
If He takes me home tonight, well, that's gain. And I get
to be with Him in person, see Him face to face. That affects
our future, doesn't it? That's what the Lord puts in
the heart of His people. If someone were to tell the new creation
in the heart of a believer, if they could not speak to the old
man, just speak to the new man, someone walking down the street
to the heart of a believer could say, you know, in the future,
the economy in this country is going to fall. If they said,
you know, in the future, in 10 years from now, the way things
are going in this whole country, the entire United States will
be nothing but communism. It's going to be like Russia of old.
If they could speak to that new man and tell them that, the old
man would probably do back flips, wouldn't he? What are we going
to do? That new man would say, this
is the Lord's economy. The heart of the king is in His
hand. He turns it, howsoever He pleases. He loved me before time. He put
me in Christ back then, my Redeemer, and He fully finished the work
of redemption, and all the glorying of the Father when He walked
this earth, and all the things that happened in my life. Therefore,
my good, the good of Christ's people, and the glory of God.
That's okay. Economies crashing. That's alright.
Who crashed? It's His. He did it, didn't He?
That's what the new man says. That's why for us to live is
Christ. And for us to die and shed this body of death, this
wicked Bethsaidian that I was born with, oh, that's gain. That's
gain. People say, oh, we lost them.
No, no. No, they gained. They gained
when a believer goes home. There isn't much anxiety for
the future whenever the Lord awakens us, stirs up our pure
minds, and points us towards Christ. There's an old song,
I'd like to change a lot of the words, but it says, we don't
know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future.
My past has changed. The way I look at it. My presence
changed. Everything comes into play today.
My mercies for today are new, aren't they? And my future's
changed. What's coming down the pipe? That's alright. The Lord
chose it. He willed it. That's right. That's
right. That gives us comfort to get through the week, don't
it? Back to our text there in John 1. Now we go and tell our
loved ones, those we care for, those we know, that we found
Him. Him. It says in verse 45, Philip
findeth Nathanael and saith unto him, We have found Him. We found
Him. This One, God Almighty, we found
Him. Of whom Moses and the Law and
the Prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph.
We found the One that Moses wrote about. We thought it was the
Law the whole time. I can't do that law. Here's the one that
filled it full. We saw all those prophets. What
was I talking about? This Messiah coming. Here He is. He's fulfilled
the prophets. Every jot and tittle, just as
He fulfilled that law. Him, that's who we found. This
is a person. It's God in human flesh. The
Almighty. And we found Him. We found Him. Athenian, we found Him. Isn't
that something? Was it right for Philip to say
we found Him? That was right. Did you know
that? It's not an error. We found him. We found him. We
know that Christ would go to Galilee. We know that Christ,
He found Philip. We know that He commanded Philip
to follow Him and he followed Him. In power and truth. But Philip found the Lord too,
didn't he? What are we saying? I am His and He's mine. He's mine. Our Lord gave these
two illustrations back to back in Matthew 13. He said, Again,
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hid in a field.
The which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof
goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. He's right here. We've found
Him. I know where He is. I'm telling
you, there God. Get to him. He said in the very
next verse, again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant
man seeking goodly pearls, who when he had found one pearl of
great price, went out and sold all that he had and bought it. When we find him, we see him,
he comes to us where we are, reveals himself to us, calls
the power, now we found him. We ain't going to let him go.
It's like Jacob Braston, I ain't letting you go. So you bless
me. I'll stay right with you. I found
him. We're going to tell people that, don't we? Elihu told Job. He said, If there be a messenger
with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto
a man his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him and saith,
Deliver him from now going out of the pit. I have found a ransom.
I'm going out of that pit. I found a ransom. It's Christ.
He found me. I found him. Noah found some
things too, didn't he? And the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man
and beast and creepy thing and the fowls of the air, for it
repenteth me, makes me sigh that I have made them. But Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. He found grace. Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord. How? Grace was there. Grace was
there. That merchant man, he found that
pearl of great price. How? The pearl was there. The
pearl came to him, didn't it? The Lord and providence and that
past and that present and that future. The Lord brought him
right to it. That man that found that treasure hid in a field,
because there's a treasure put in that field. Philip had searched
the Scriptures before, likely with Nathanael, wasn't he? They
probably sat and read the Scriptures together. It says in verse 45,
Philip findeth Nathanael and saith unto him, We have found
him, of whom Moses and the law and the prophets did write. Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. Now we've seen the Lord. Now
you and I see the Lord. That's who we look for. Now don't
go back to that law and say, what needs to be done? We look
for Christ who fulfilled it. We don't go to the prophets,
oh, what's coming? What's coming up next? What's
the sign of time? It's been fulfilled. Christ has come. That's what
we look for. Now we read the prophets and we see that declares
Christ. We read the New Testament. They didn't have this at the
time. Philip Nathaniel didn't have a New Testament. We do now. And we see this, all these things
come to completion, come to fruition. The Lord finished them. We don't
see what needs to be done. We see the one who has done it,
who was successful. That's the pleasure and comfort
I have of going through the Psalms. If we see Christ, His person,
that completed work in the Psalms, now I can truly have comfort.
Now I can read that and say, my Lord did this. That's why
I'm able to have comfort. That's why I'm able to lay me
down to sleep. That's why I'm able to wake up in the morning and pray
to Him. We'll see next week, Psalm 6. That's why David had
a waterbed. He cried so hard that bed was
floating. He made a couch with it. It's
alright too, isn't it? It's alright too. We can wake
up and go to that throne of grace in the next one. I have found
Him because He first found me. I sought the Lord because He
sought me. I love Him because He first loved
me and I give myself to Him. All of it. Lock, stock, and barrel
in this body of mine. It ain't much. I can give my
whole self to you because He laid down His life for me. Philip
did one more thing in our text. It says in verse 46, And Nathanael
said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Oh, how I'd respond to that right
now. Philip saith unto him, Come and see. Come and see. He was declaring Christ to Nathaniel. And like so many before this
took place, like so many in our day, so many in that day, there's
so many questions asked to God's watchman. Hypotheticals, trivial
things, stumbling stone questions. They come with all these questions
and the answer is the same. I don't have all the answers.
Come and see. I can't answer all your questions.
I can't fulfill every request. Come and see. Come to the Lord. Come to where He is. What a lesson
there is here in being patient and forgiving to our brethren.
Philip was the one used for that great revival in Samaria, wasn't
he? He was the one sent out in the desert to preach Christ to
that Ethiopian eunuch. But he was also the one who asked
the Lord, said, You show us the Father. Three years later, the
Lord showed us the Father. Christ said, I've been with you
so long and yet, hast thou not known me, Philip? I've been with
you this whole time. Like our Lord told Andrew and
John, come and see. Like Philip told Nathanael, come
and see. We tell all those that doubt,
all those that are troubled, those that are heavy laden, those
that have questions, they have heartaches, just come and see. Come and see. If we come to where
Christ is preached, where He is found, where He is, we will
see in time. If we come, we're going to see.
All right then, we're not going to go from infants to 40-year-olds
next morning. But in time, we'll come and see.
If the Lord is teaching us, if the Spirit is moving on us, all
of our questions will be answered in our season. Nathanael's was
too. The Lord willing, we'll look at him calling Nathanael
next week. Let's pray together.