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Simon and says to him, “We have found the Messias (which

being interpreted is Christ)”.

And he led him to Jesus. What a wonderful thing that would be

for a Jew, you know what they had been looking for for

centuries, the promised Messias. What a wonderful thing that

these men had found Him that day. It is interpreted for us, but

He is not ours as the Messias but as the Christ. These

persons had found Jesus. How wonderful that is! Each one

had his own impression of Him. That is what I am impressed

with here, that Andrew is able to say,

“We have found the Messias”. And then, on the morrow, Philip

said, “We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law,

and the prophets”. What an impression! ‘All that the Old

Testament Scriptures have been speaking of, and all that

Moses has been speaking of, we have found it in this Person’.

They all had their own impressions of Christ and how

wonderful it was for them to come to Jesus in that way.

Then there is Nathanael and the Lord takes account of him.

He says of him, “One truly an Israelite, in whom there is no

guile”. He represents what God is going to do in the Jews, I

think. You could not say that of a Jew today; you could not say

that of an Israelite today—

“truly an Israelite”. What God had in mind was what is

princely—“in whom there is no guile”. But God had been

working in this man. The Lord took account of him. He could

see him under the fig tree and he had something in that man,

that is, “an Israelite in whom there is no guile”. It is what God is

going to do in Israel in a day to come. He represents that, and

he says immediately, “Thou art the Son of God, thou art the

King of Israel”. Well, that is the second psalm. But the Lord

tells him. You are going to see greater things than that,

something greater than the King of Israel; you are going to see

the glory of the Son of man. That is greater! How wonderful