Shalom everyone! I would like you to please open your Bibles today to the first chapter of the Gospel of John, the Gospel of Yohanan. And I would like today to continue with the reading of the Word of God. We are studying in John chapter 1. We are studying the whole Gospel of John. This is the fourth Gospel. This is the Gospel that presents our blessed Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, as the eternal Son of God. God the Son who became a man, and the Messiah, the Savior, the Anointed One, that believing on Him, recognizing who He is and what He has done, will provide for one eternal life.

We have arrived to 35th verse of John chapter 1, so I would like you to follow me as I am reading John 1:35 to verse 51. And so we read: Again, the next day after John stood, And two of his disciples, And looking upon Yeshua, Jesus, As He walked, He saith, Behold the Lamb of God. And the two disciples heard Him speak, And they followed Jesus. Then Yeshua turned, And saw them following, And saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, Which is to say, Being interpreted, Master, Where dwellest thou? He saith unto them, Come and see. They came, And saw where he dwelt, And abode with him that day, For it was about the tenth hour.

One of the two which heard John speak, And followed him, Was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his own brother, Simon, Or in Hebrew, Shimon. And he saith unto him, We have found the Messiah, Matzanu et HaMashiach, Which is being interpreted, The Christ. And he brought him to Yeshua, And when Yeshua beheld him, He said, Thou art Simon Bar Yonah, Thou shalt be called Keifah, Siphah, Which is by interpretation a stone. The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee, And findeth Philip, And saith unto him, Follow me. Now Philip was of Beit Tzada, The city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, And saith unto him, We have found him, Of whom Moshe, Moses in the law, And the prophets, And the prophets, Did write Yeshua of Natseret, The son of Yosef.

And Nethanael saith unto him, Can any good thing come out of Natseret? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. Jesus saw Nethanael coming to him, And saith unto him, Behold, An Israeli indeed, In whom there is no guile. Nethanael saith unto him, Knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. Nethanael answered and said unto him, Rabbi, Thou art the son of God. Thou art the king of Israel. Atah hu ben ha'elohim. Atah hu melech Yisrael. Yeshua answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, Believest thou, Thou shalt see greater things than these.

And he saith unto him, Verily, verily I say unto you, Ye shall see heaven open, And the angels of God ascending and descending Upon the son of man. And I'm going to stop, beloved friends, beloved brothers and sisters, Here in verse 51. I read for this ministry meeting in John 1, Verses 35 to 51. And really, Now we've arrived to the time in which the first Talmidim, The first disciples of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, Were now following after him. In fact, In fact, In these verses, John 1, Verse 35 on, All the way to chapter 12 and verse 50, We have the public ministry of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. To remind you that up to this point, He was, He was in a sense, Hidden from the eyes of men.

Except, For some time that he, When he was 12 years old, We're reading of him, That he went to the temple in Yerushalayim, But really, He was not hidden in the sense of not being seen, But he was not in the public, Until this John 1, In verse 35. By the time that we conclude in chapter 12, There we find him in chapter 13 on, In the upper room in the city of Yerushalayim, With his disciples, Keeping Pesach, Celebrating the feast of Passover, The feast of Passover, The feast of Pesach, Introducing what is known to be to us today, The, The Lord's Supper, Or is it the remembrance meeting? And then, In the remaining chapter 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, He is there in the upper room, With his disciples, On our way to the garden of Gethsemane, And then, In the garden of Gethsemane, He is captured, Being taken to Pilate, And Caiaphas, And ultimately, On a Roman cross, And there he died, To pay for the sin of this world.

So here, With this ministry, In John 1, Verse 35, To verse 51, We see the early disciples, That have become his own disciples, In Hebrew they are called Talmidim, The followers, Of the Lord Yeshua, The Messiah, The early ones, And so we begin, To deal with Yeshua's public ministry. Again, To remind you, That in this very same chapter 1, We could see that he was the eternal word, The Logos, The Mimra, He was the eternal one, He was one of the persons of the Godhead, He was the creator of the universe, He was the divine one, And he was the one that in him was life, The source of life, He was the one that was the source of light, And he became a man, John 1:14, And the word became flesh.

Then we could see, From verses 15, All the way to verse 34, That John, John the baptizer, Came to witness, To give a testimony, That Yeshua, The Messiah of Israel, The Savior of this world, Have come. We read that the law was given by Moses, But grace and truth came by Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. We also have seen, That John bear record, And he confessed, That he is not the Messiah, He himself was not the Messiah, He himself was not Elijah, Eliyahu, Or that prophet, But that he was but a voice, Who is crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. The Messiah is here, The Messiah have arrived, Israel get ready, The Mashiach is here, Here he is in your midst.

And then he presented him, As Yeshua, The next day, Jesus came towards John, And Jen, Yohanan Amatbil, John the baptizer, Proclaim, Behold the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin of this world. Well, Now we have arrived to verse 35. Verse 35, From verse 35, To verse 51, We have the early disciples. In fact, In verse 35 to 39, We have the first two disciples, Andrew, And another. Then in verse 40 to verse 42, We have a third disciple, His name is Shimon, Simon Peter. And then in verse 45, To verse 51, We have additional disciples, We find out here, About Netanel. We have Philip, And Netanel, That are mentioned in these verses. And so beautiful to see how, John, Yohanan Amatbil, John the baptizer, Directing the attention, Even of his own disciples, To the person of the Lord Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah.

And so in verse 35, To verse 42, We see, The disciples. It says in verse 35, Again the next day, Notice, In verse 35, We have the following day, The events occur, One day after another. In verse 29, It says, The next day. You notice that? So what we do have, The first day, In John 1:19, And this is the record of John, When the Jewish leaders, We mentioned the fact, That when you have Jews, In the Gospel of John, Some almost 70 times, Most of the time, It has a reference, To the Jewish leaders, To the Pharisees, The Sadducees. To remind you, That everyone in this event, Is Jewish. Yeshua being Jewish.

The disciples being Jewish. John, The baptized, Being Jewish. The people, The multitude, Being Jewish. The Jewish leaders, The Pharisees, The Sadducees, Are being Jewish. John emphasized, In his own Gospel, The Jews, The Jews, Is in reference, Is in reference, To the spiritual leaders, Of Israel. So every time, You read, The Jews, You always have a reference, 95% of the time, In the Gospel of John, Has a reference, To the Jewish leaders. And so the first day, The Jewish leaders, Sent some Levites, And priests, To ask John, Who he was. Verse 29, The next day, The Lord Jesus, Come to Yohanan Hamadbil, To John the baptizer, And he proclaimed, Behold, The Lamb of God, Which taketh away, The sin of this world.

Now the third day, In verse 35, Again the next day, After John stood, And two of his disciples, And looking upon Yeshua, As he walked, He saith, Behold, The Lamb of God. Now I want you to know this, It's very interesting, Because there is a spiritual lesson here, In verse 29, It says, Yeshua came to John, And John proclaimed, Behold, The Lamb of God, Which taketh away, The sin of this world. He wanted Israel to know, Here is God's Lamb. Here is the promised Mashiach, The promised Messiah. Here is the promised one of Israel. He is the one, That takes away, The sin of this world. Not only atone, For the sin of Israel, But take away, The sin.

Not only the sin of Israel, But take away, The sin of this world. But when we get to verse 35 and 36, The following day, Which is the third day, We find out now, That he is proclaiming, Behold, The Lamb of God. Now notice, Brothers and sisters, He doesn't say, The Lamb of God, Which taketh away, The sin of the world. He already said it, In verse 29. But here, He is just simply, Proclaiming, Look, Behold, Hine, Hine, Look, Here is the Lamb of God. Now notice, The difference between, Verse 29 and verse 35, Is simply this. In verse 29, We see Yeshua comes. In verse 35 and 36, We see Yeshua walk.

The only difference we can see, Is the one representing, He is coming. He is coming down to this world. He is coming down, Sent by God. He is coming down, To pay for the price of the sin of the world. Because soon and very soon, At the end of these three years, Three and a half years, Of his public ministry, He will become, The Lamb of God, That will take away the sin of this world. And as we look at Him, And we see Him as the Lamb of God, Who took upon Himself the sin of this world. Now, After we have accepted Him, And embraced Him, We are to look at Him as He walks.

And just, Not so much to be occupied with our sins, To be forgiven. But to be occupied with the person. With the person. Who is He? We just read, In verse 34, And I saw and I bear record, That this is the Son of God. God the Son, Who became a man. In other words, John, John the baptizer this time, He has his disciples, Two of them with him. With him. The word disciples, Come from the Hebrew word, Talmidim. To be Talmid, To be a disciple, Is not only to be a student, But to be a follower. Yohanan Amatbil, John the baptizer, Was just like other of the rabbis, Among the people of Israel, Who had followers.

We read in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 3, That many, From Judea, And the surrounding area, And the surrounding area, And by the Jordan, Came to him, To lehitabel, To be immersed by him, Confessing their sins, Because he was presenting, The coming kingdom, The kingdom is coming. And many followed him, And understood, That the king is coming, And the kingdom is going to come. And so here, Now he has some of his disciples, And notice, Brothers and sisters, My dear friend, It says here, In verse 36, He declare, Behold the Lamb of God, He neseha Elohim, God's Lamb, And immediately, In verse 37, The two disciples, Heard him speak, And they follow Yeshua, They follow Jesus.

Notice that? It says, And the two disciples, Heard him speak, And they follow, Jesus followed Yeshua. And this is so beautiful, To see in the life of the, John the baptizer, That he always, Directed the attention, To the person of the Lord. That's why, He called himself, In the previous verses, Of this same chapter, John 1, Verse 23, He said, I am a voice. That's all. I am but a voice, That is crying in the wilderness, Make straight away of the Lord, As said, The prophet, Yeshayahu, Isaiah. Get yourself ready. Here is the one. Here is the Lamb of God. You need to get your life straight, And turn to him, Because he is the one, That I would like to represent, To present you before him.

So look at him. So the two disciples, Instead of following, Continuing to follow, Yohanan Hamadbil, John the baptizer, They followed, After Yeshua. This is so beautiful, Beloved friends, That they followed, After Yeshua, The Messiah, Himself. In fact, If you look, At the Gospels, You will notice, Once and again, How, The early, Disciples, Were directed to the Lord. Actually, Those two disciples, We don't read their names here, But these are, Andrew, And another, Of whom we know, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. In Mark chapter 1, And verses 14, We read, After the John, Was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, Preaching the gospel, Of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, That the kingdom of God, Is at hand, Repent, And believe the gospel.

We read, Now, As he walked by the sea of Galilee, He saw Shimon and Andrew, His brother casting their net by the sea, For they were fishers. And Yeshua said unto them, Come ye after me, And I will make you, Become fishers of men. And straightway, Verse 18, They forsook, Their nets, And followed him. This is so beautiful, To see, These two disciples, Who used to be the disciples of, John, John the baptizer, They left him for Yeshua, For Jesus, For Yeshua. Come ye after me, And I will make you, Make you fishers of men. John, In John 1, And verse 37, We find out, That after he proclaimed, Behold the Lamb of God, The two disciples heard him speak, And they followed after Yeshua.

And really what happened, In between the line, We find out, That the Lord also said to them, As he walked there by the sea of Galilee, Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, And I will make you fishers of men. So Simon and Andrew, Shimon and Andrew, Simon Peter, Shimon Petrus, Those are those, Early disciples, That followed him. This is so, Beautiful to see, Because it really shows us, Some details, That we don't get, In the Gospel of John. As we continue on, And you find out, That in verse 38, Yeshua asked those disciples, It says in verse 38, Then Jesus turned, And he saw them following, He said unto them, He says, What seek ye?

They said unto him, Rabbi, Which is to say, Being interpreted master, Where dwellest thou?

Notice that they call him Rabbi, The Hebrew word Rabbi, Or Rabbi in English, In Hebrew we say Rabbi, Rabbi simply means, Harav Sheli, My teacher, Two words is, Rav Sheli, Rav means teacher, Sheli means mine, Together, Ravi, Or Rabbi, Simply mean, My teacher, And notice what they call him Rabbi, Again to remind you, It simply means teacher, You notice throughout, The Gospel of John, And elsewhere, Yeshua, The Messiah, Is called Rabbi, Or my teacher, Of course, He is more than just a teacher, He is the eternal son of God, He is more than just a teacher, He is the creator of the universe, Who became a man, And the word became flesh, But he, In

his life, He was the greatest teacher, He was the greatest teacher, That ever lived, What a privilege, It must have been for the disciples, To listen to his teaching, What a teacher, He must have been, What a Rabbi, He must have been, In chapter 1, A bit later on, Nethanel called him, Nethanel answered, And said unto him, Rabbi, Teacher, My teacher, You are the son of God, You are the king of Israel, Notice that, He was much more than just a teacher, He was much more than just a Rabbi, He was the eternal son of God, He was the king of the Jews, The king of Israel, He was the lamb of God, So, How

beautiful it is, That they called him Rabbi, Teacher, In John chapter 3, Also, We find out of Nicodemus, We will get to it later on, He came to him, Nicodemus was the great, One of the leaders of our people, Israel of all, He came to the Lord Yeshua by night, And he said to him, Rabbi, We know that you are a teacher, That come from God, Even the, You might say, The ruler of Israel called Yeshua Rabbi, Because Yeshua was a Rabbi, You're the teacher in Israel, He was the teacher of teachers, No one is like him, It is so interesting, That all throughout scripture, He is called Rabbi, In chapter 4, In verse 31,

We read, In a meanwhile, In a meanwhile, In a meanwhile, In a meanwhile, His disciples prayed him, Saying, Master, Eat, Rabbi, Tochal, Rabbi, Eat, They called him Rabbi, In Hebrew, You are our teacher, They called him in chapter 6, And verse 25, 25, Also we read, And when they have found him, On the other side of the sea, They said unto him, Rabbi, When camest thou hither?

Rabbi teacher, Where did you, When did you come hither? To here? When did you arrive, To here? It is fascinating, How throughout the Gospel of John, We read of him, As the Rabbi, As the teacher, In chapter 9, The blind man, Jesus answered, And said, We read of the blind man, And the disciple asked the Lord, Yeshua, They said to him, Master, That's the word Rabbi, Rabbi, Who did sin, This man, Or his parents, That he was born blind? They want him to teach them, Why is that, He is in such condition, As a blind man? In chapter 11, Of the Gospel of John, We read, In verse 8, The disciples said unto him, Rabbi, Master, The Jews of late, Sought to stone thee, And goest thou hither again, Rabbi, The Jewish leaders, Did not agree with you, And they were going to stone you, Are you going to go there, To the city of Jerusalem, Are you going to do so?

But they called him Rabbi, And so how beautiful, As we go back, To chapter 1, In verse 38, As they ask him, Rabbi, Where do you dwell? Why would somebody want to ask him, Where do you dwell? Because they wanted to know, Where does he live? Because they wanted to follow after him, And hear what he has to say, And how beautiful it is, When the Lord, Is responding to them, In the next verses, But he asked them, What do you want? Whom do you seek? What do you want from me? And they said, Where do you live? Why do you ask him, Where do you live?

Because they wanted to go, To be with him, And sit under his feet, And learn from him. Do you want to learn from him? Do you remember how, Mary or Miriam, Sat at his feet? Listening to the advice, To the counsel, To the word of the Lord, To the word of Yeshua, The Messiah, This rabbi, This rabbi, This master, This is the rabbi of rabbis, Who knew God, Who taught the word of God, To his followers, In the days of his life, In the days of his flesh, Here upon the face of this earth. And notice how beautiful, In the next verses, We read that the Lord, Is inviting them, And he says, Come and see.

Come and see. Is found in scripture, Many, many, many times, Beloved brothers and sisters, Come and see, Is an invitation of the Lord. Come, And see. And see. Come and see where I live. Why? Because when one sees where he lives, And where he is, And what he does, He or she, Are getting attracted to this person. And you remember, You remember what we read in the scripture, How the kind of a life, Our Lord Yeshua, The Messiah, Have lived. You remember, We read of him, That he was very, He lives simple. He lives in a, You might say, In such a way, That no one, No one in humility, In simplicity, He was the one, Of whom, We read, That simple life, That he lived, Was an attraction, To all, Beloved brothers, And sisters.

It says, The foxes have holes, And the birds of the air, Have nests, But the son of man, Has nowhere to lay his head. We read in Matthew chapter 8, And verse 20, He declared this for himself. In other words, Here in this world, While he was the creator of all things, He had really nowhere to lay his head. He was living, You might say, In the midst of his own, Those who loved him, Those who furnished for him a place to be. He was here in his creation. He lived, You might say, Independence of God, And the provision of those who loved him. And so we read, Come and see.

Come and see. Come and see. And notice what these beloved brothers and sisters, They came, And they saw, Where he dwelt. And they abode with him that day, For it was about the tenth hour. It's getting to be evening. It's getting to be evening. You remember, In Israel, The days began at evening. And from even to even, Ye shall celebrate your Shabbat. Leviticus 23 and verse 32. And so the days began at the evening. The day was the end of the day. And then we see they came, And they dwelt with him that day. And when we say dwelt with him that day, They remained with him overnight.

And they enjoyed his presence. And they ended up to be so much attracted to the Lord Jesus himself. We read now in the next verses, And so we're now continuing to read in the next verse, Verse 40, 41, and 42. We read in these verses about another disciples. Notice that. In verse 40, One of the two, So that Andrew, That Andrew and another, That another disciples, Must have been John, The one, The evangelist who gave us this gospel. Why? Because he never mentioned his name. In this gospel of John, He always called himself the disciple whom Yeshua, Jesus loved. But now notice, One of those disciples, Notice that it says here in verse 40, One of those disciples, Which heard John speak and followed him, Was Andrew.

You notice that? So one of the two, Was Andrew. Now what does he do? He was Simon Peter's brother. So he found now in verse 41, He find his own brother Simon. And he saith unto him, We have found the Messiah, Which is being interpreted the Christ. The Christos in the Greek. The Messiah come from the Hebrew word the Mashiach. Translated into the Greek is the Christos. That's how we get the word Christ in the English. But it's coming from the Hebrew word Mashiach, Messiah. So what happened is that Andrew find his brother, Shimon, And he said to him, We have found the Messiah. You remember, beloved brothers and sisters, We have already mentioned earlier that there was an anticipation in Israel for the coming of the Messiah.

The Messiah. Over 400 years have passed by since the last prophet of Israel, Malachi, Have made a promise that one will come, behold my messenger. He will come to introduce the messenger of the covenant. Malachi Brit. And here is John the baptizer introducing the messenger of the covenant. There was an anticipation of the coming of the Messiah. So, 400 years, over 400, 450 years passed by now since Yeshua began his public ministry. And here, how precious it is when Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, went to find him and he said to him, We have found the Messiah. The Messiah that Isaiah was speaking about. The Messiah that Daniel was speaking about.

The Messiah that Moshe was speaking about. The Messiah whom the prophets of Israel were prophesying, He will come, He will come, He will come. The Messiah that Malachi was speaking about. He is now here. We have found the Messiah. And notice, which is being interpreted, the Christ. You notice that twice in the Gospel of John. John helped us. John the evangelist helped us to understand. That when we say Messiah, Mashiach, we say Christ Christ. The same person. The same one. In John chapter 4 and verse 25. If you remember the Samaritan woman. She also. In chapter 4 and verse 25 said. The woman saith unto him. I know that the Messiah is coming.

Which is called Christos, Christ. When he come, he will tell us all things. So here. Andrew said. To Simon Peter, Shimon. We have found the Messiah. I love this expression. Because any one of us who come from Israel. From among our Jewish people. When we discover. Who this Jesus. This Yeshua is. We realize that he is. The promised Messiah. For our people of Israel. The Messiah of Israel. While the rest. The vast majority of our people. Do not accept him. As yet. As the Messiah. But actually. Beloved friend. He is the Messiah. The promised Messiah of Israel. To remind you. That we are in John 1.

There was not yet. The church age. As yet. The church will be. Born. Three and a half years. After this time. Because once. The Lord ministered. Among the people of Israel. During these. Three and a half years. The church was not yet. In existence. They anticipated. The kingdom is coming. That's why. John. In the. Previous verses. Says. Make straight. The way of the Lord. As the prophet says. The kingdom is coming. The kingdom is coming. The kingdom is coming. The king. Is in our midst. The kingdom. Will be established. Established. But. The kingdom. Was not accepted. And the king. Was rejected. And that's why. The kingdom.

Was postponed. And the church age. Will be established. And. And now. For 2000 years. We live. About 2000 years. Doing this church age. Today. But here. Beloved friends. Beloved brothers. And sisters. Andrew. Present. Before. Shimon. The Messiah. We have found. The Messiah. Notice. In verse 40. 42. How beautiful. Andrew. Brought. Peter. To. Simon. To. The Lord. And notice. To Yeshua. It says. In verse 42. He brought him. To Jesus. He brought him. To Yeshua. And when Yeshua. Beheld him. He said. Thou. Art. Simon. Bar. Is the. For the Hebrew. Ben. And often times. We are. Interchanging. This. We use the word. Bar. Mitzvah. The son. Of the commandments. When a boy.

Become. 13 years. Of age. Among our people. Of Israel. He has a. Bar. Mitzvah. The son. Of the commandment. The word. Bar. Is equivalent. To the Hebrew word. Ben. Here we find. Simon. Here. The Lord said. Simon. Shimon. Bar. Yonah. His father. Was Yonah. Like Yonah. Hanavi. Jonah. Thou. Shall. Be called. Siphaz. Or. Keifah. The word. Keifah. Is the. Hebrew word. For stone. Or the. Aramit. Hebrew. For stone. That word. Is. Very interesting. Because. It's found. In Job. Chapter 30. And verse 6. And Jeremiah. Chapter 4. And verse 29. The word is. Keifim. In rocks. Your name is. Keifah. The Aramit. For the Hebrew. For stone. Keifah. The Aramit. And Hebrew.

Interchanging. And so. You find. Here. That. Now. Shimon. Was. Called. Now. By. The name. Siphaz. Or. Keifah. Which simply. Mean. A stone. And why. Because. Peter. A rock. Or a stone. A rock. Is going to be. The one. That will become. The rock. The pillar. In the midst. Of the assembly. And he will give. A testimony. That Yeshua. Jesus. Is. The Messiah. The son of God. As we will read it. Later on. But we clearly. Can see it. In Matthew. Chapter 16. Where he. But the Lord. Said to him. Thou art. Peter. And upon. This rock. The rock. In Matthew. Chapter. 16. And verse. 18. Is the testimony.

That. Peter. That Siphaz. Gave. That Jesus. Is. The Messiah. The son. Of the living God. And the Lord. Said. In Matthew. 16. 18. And upon. This rock. I will. Peel. My church. Not upon. Peter. But upon. The confession. Of Peter. That the Lord. Jesus. The Messiah. Is the. Son. Of. God. And so. How beautiful. It is. Beloved. Brothers. And sisters. God. He changed. The name. Of. Simon. He changed. It. And he said. Simon. Bar Yonah. Thou. Shall. Be. Called. Keifa. Siphaz. Now. Remember. It is. Very. Common. You might. Say. In biblical. Days. That God. Himself. Changed. His servants. For example. Avram. In. Genesis. 17. Verse 5. Name. Was changed.

To. Avraham. Sarai. In. Genesis. 17. Verse 15. Was changed. To. Sarah. Yaakov. Jacob. In. Genesis. 32. Verse 28. Was changed. From. Yaakov. Israel. Israel. Beautiful. To see. Here. In. John. 1. 42. Peter. Or. I should say. Shimon. Name. Was changed. From. Shimon. To. Keifa. Or. Siphaz. Amazing. In. Esther. Chapter. 2. And. Verse 7. Hadassah. Name. Was also. Changed. To. Esther. That. A. Name. That. Was given. To. Her. In. The. Diaspora. Why. Hadassah. Mean. Myrtle. A. Hebrew. Name. Was given. To. Esther. Which. Is. Star. Because. Of. The. Fact. That. They. Paul. Paul. Paul. Because. When. He. Lived. In. The. Diaspora. His. Name. Was. Also. Called. Paul. Shaul. And. Paul. In fact. In. Revelation. Chapter.

2. And. Verse. 17. We. Read. That. All. Believers. All. The. Conquerors. Will. All. The. Overcomers. Will. Receive. A. That. Even. The. Three. Boys. Who. Were. Friends. Of. Daniel. The. Babylonian. Changed. Their. Name. To. Shadrach. Mishach. And. Abednego. Because. They. Wanted. To. To. Indoctrinate. Them. To. Become. Like. Pagans. But. Their. Name. Was. Hananiah. Azariah. And. Mishael. And. Also. Daniel.

tashazar they gave him another name so you notice beloved brothers and sisters the difference because in the pagan world they receive a pagan names in order to hide the biblical hebrew names which they had which meant so much hananiah means jehovah had mercy azariah means is god is or jehovah is my help mishael means who is like unto god daniel means god is my judge this is and hadassah means myrtle and her name was changed to esther the difference between what happened by the babylonian and what the lord is doing the lord is actually giving them a biblical hebrew name or or aramaic name to emphasize who they are and what they're going to do

and in the case of shimon he's giving him that name kephar cephas in order to emphasize the fact that he will become a you might say a stone a rock that will stand for the lord and be a pillar among the people of god and so in verses 35 to 42 we find out about the early first disciples of the lord so we have andrew and then we have a john whose name is is another disciple because there were two disciples of john the baptizer who followed the lord yeshua in that verse 37 and then we have shimon is introduced to us whose name was now changed by the lord to kephar to cephas now

notice as we continue on from verse 43 to verse 51 we have the next disciples which are really philip and nethanel mentioned now these are the early five disciples of our lord yeshua the messiah and apparently the first two which we read about here in verse 35 andrew and john the apostle they were the first one they left john the baptizer and follow after yeshua the messiah so now let's go to verse 43 to 51 and you notice the following day very interesting because in verse 43 it says the day following yeshua would go forth into galilee and notice here we find philip he found philip and he said unto him follow me follow me

follow me and you notice what happened philip verse 44 was of bethsaida the city of andrew and peter apparently they were all living close by in the north in the galil if you ever travel with us to the land of israel you will enjoy to come to the very same location where these disciples have lived that word bethsaida come from two hebrew word bait house tzayda or latzud in hebrew means is where you are you are fishing you are fishers of men is the house where you hunt where you fish and so there we find out that in in that city it was the city of andrew and peter and there you find out verse

44 philip was of bethsaida the city of andrew but you notice that he is the one that was called the lord called him he said follow me follow me philip and so we read in verse 45 beloved brothers and sisters what does philip does after we find out that that philip now followed him you notice what it says in verse 45 he find a tunnel and you notice it's so beautiful one friend find another one friend find another and this is so precious because there is this privilege to share with others concerning the messiah the christ the anointed of the lord the redeemer the savior and it's so important for us to share this with

one another with others and let them know about the person of yeshua jesus the messiah so philip find nethanel and he said to nethanel in verse 45 now notice that notice the statement this is so precious he says we have found him a little bit different than what we read earlier we have found the messiah verse 41 simon was told we have found the messiah verse 41 but now notice it's not so much we have found the messiah but we have found him who is that him who is that him notice the him here of verse 45 that philip says to nethanel we have found him he continue and he says look at this that

him that person is the one is the one that moses in the law and the prophets did right moshe wrote of him the prophets wrote of him and his name is jesus yeshua of natseret the son of yourself so in other words moses in the law and the prophets spoke concerning the coming messiah and you remember beloved friends that earlier in that very first first chapter when those that came down from jerusalem these priests and levites they asked john yochanan are you who are you he said i'm not the messiah are you eliyahu well why he asked if you're eliyahu because malachi wrote about about eliyahu that will come he says no i'm not and

then they asked are you that prophet verse 21 of our chapter and you notice what john says no but who is that prophet is the one of whom we read in the toronomy chapter 18 when moshe said to our forefathers the people of israel a prophet like unto me god will raise from among you he will be one of he will be one from among you a prophet that will be raised by god and you have to listen to him and so philip said in the tunnel we have found him the one that was that is moses spoke about him in the torah in the law but not only moshe wrote about him but the

prophet spoke about him and beloved friends beloved friends the whole prophets of israel wrote about the coming messiah and of course we know that the the famous prophecy of isaiah chapter 53 that we all love to read of the messiah that will come in isaiah chapter 53 and where we read these famous words who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the lord revealed for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he has no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men and

men of sorrows and acquainted with grief and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteem him not isaiah is prophesying concerning the coming the messiah in verse 4 of isaiah 53 surely has borne us our griefs and carried our sores and we did esteem him stricken and smitten and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgression he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripe we are healed all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way and the lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all the him the

him the him who is that him he shall grow up he has no form no comeliness when we shall see him he is despised we hid our faces from him and we esteem him not surely he has borne our grief we did esteem him stricken and smitten of god the him of isaiah 53 is the him of john 1 and verse 45 philip said to nethanel we have found him we have found him have you found him my dear friend have you found the messiah have you found the son of god who became a man by the name yeshua from nazareth who was born to the virgin miriam have you found him and you embraced

him and accepted him as your lord and savior and mashiach we have found him and notice how beautiful beloved friend as we continue here it says in the next verses verse 46 here's the response of nethanel initially nethanel said he said can there any good thing come out of nazareth nazareth was a small town in the galil small town in the galil not said can any good thing come out of this small town if there is any good thing it will come out of jerusalem if there is any good thing that we're going to come out of the center of jerusalem the center of israel but nazareth a small town in a far wave north

of israel in the galil can any good thing can any good thing come out of nazareth nethanel ask and look at this beloved brothers and sisters and dear friend philip said unto him come and see this is so precious because that's the whole point that when the messiah will come he will come into this world in humility he will come as a descendant of david he will come as a as the prophet isaiah said in chapter 11 there shall come forth a rod out of the stamp of jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots here's where you get the word branch netzer the hebrew word come from nazareth the word netzer and

natseret is the same word and there shall come a a rod out of the stamp out of the stump you know when you have a shoot that come out of a stump the lowest part of the tree is the stump and out of it will come a shoot and then it will be the one that will become the branch that will come out of the roots of jesse the roots of david it is so precious to realize that when the messiah will come he will not come in his first coming in power and glory but he will come in humility he will be born of the virgin miriam he will become as a a humble

man that will come into this world in humility and here we find natanel's question can any good thing come out of nazareth any good thing well philip said to him come and see you remember we already read when they ask yeshua where do you dwell in verse 39 yeshua said come and see bo'u v'tiru here we have here natanel come bo v'tirei come and see you come and observe for yourself and beloved friend as you and i observe the person of the lord yeshua the messiah and we come to him to see come to the bible come to the word of god come to the promises that are found in the word of god come

away from the world and all that which keeps us so occupied to come to the to see scripture to see the word of god to see what god has for you for me for us for humanity come and see come and see and you will find the loveliest person that ever lived a man by the name of jesus yeshua in hebrew the messiah a man that was born to the virgin miriam according to the prophets of israel we have found him who moshe moses in the law genesis exodus leviticus numbers deuteronomy and the prophets from yeshua isaiah to malachi malachi all the prophets have spoken concerning him this is so important beloved friend the lord

yeshua himself when he spoke to the disciples who were so discouraged and went down from ammaus and they went down from jerusalem to ammaus he is the one that spake to them and opened to them the scriptures and you remember what we read in in the gospel of luke chapter 24 we read how the lord opened their eyes and he said to them in verse 25 of luke chapter 24 all fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken art not the messiah to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory and beginning with moshe moses and all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the

things concerning himself and then later on when he came into the midst of the disciples and he said unto them in verse 44 of luke chapter 24 he said these are the words which i speak unto you while i was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of moshe to rat moshe and in the prophets neviim and in the psalms in the writings concerning me you notice the three distinction or the three the three separation of the tanach the hebrew scriptures the law the prophets the writing the law of moses the prophets and the psalms the writing these are the three divisions of the old testament as

is known today the hebrew scriptures we call it the tanach the law the prophets and the writings and all the law the prophets and the writing spoke about the the coming mashiach and now he's here he came he came beloved friend and here we see netanel come and see come netanel come and see the tunnel is the name of our youngest son a gift of god netanel and how precious it is to read of netanel here and notice what beloved friend as we conclude here with this passage when he said netanel we invited him to come see and yeshua saw netanel in verse 47 he come to him he came he came netanel came and

he said unto him behold look at the lord yeshua the messiah look what he said about netanel he said an israeli indeed yisraeli amiti in hebrew in whom there is no guile well netanel is just like you and i there is much guile in us in you and i there is much guile beloved friend in a tunnel there was guile but here we see this expression that the lord in verse 47 he says in him there is no in whom there is no guile there is no lie no guile but why does he say it to netanel not because netanel was sinless not because the tunnel was did not have any guile in a sense

that he never lied or he never have fault in him no but he was a man that was ready to receive the lord into his heart in a moment you and i came to a point where we recognize that we are wrong before god ready to receive the lord yeshua the messiah in our hearts god is giving us a standing before him he recognized he acknowledged us as as forgiven and here is the lord he's preparing now to open the heart of netanel and netanel to see who yeshua who jesus really is that would happen when the person become a believer we become justified by him we become a reconciled to him the apostle paul

said to the romans in romans chapter 8 he says there there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in christ jesus in the messiah yeshua the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us in the believers because his righteousness are being attributed to the believer in roman chapter 10 we find out that the believer as it says for christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes because the law is so holy and men by nature is so sinful but when a person of except the lord yeshua jesus the messiah his righteousness is being attributed to the believer what a wonderful truth to learn and so yeshua said

of netanel he says behold an israeli indeed in whom there is no guile so netanel beautiful beautiful he says unto him when knowest thou me how do you know me in verse 48 he questioned how is it that you know me and yeshua's answer to him look at this yeshua showed to nathanael that he was much more than just another man much more than just another rabbi much more than just another prophet but he was the all-knowing god the son who knows all things about all men and he says before philip call you before philip call thee when you were under the fig tree i saw thee i saw you even before philip call you

i saw thee i saw you you see beloved friend god sees everything about us he knows everything about all of us because he is god he is divine and he knows all things about us you remember what the psalmist of israel said in psalm 139 of the all-knowing god it says psalm 139 to the chief musician of psalm of david this is david said o lord thou has searched me and known me thou knowest my dwelling my down sitting and my uprising thou understandest my thought afar off thou compasses my path and my laying down and art acquainted with with all my ways for there is not a word in my tongue but lo o

lord thou knowest it all together thou had beset me behind before and laid thine hand upon me such knowledge david said about the god of israel is too wonderful for me it is high i cannot attain unto it god is all-knowing he's not he's he's omniscient he's everywhere he knows all things he's omnipresent he's everywhere he's omnipotent he's all-powerful and here we find out that yeshua jesus is omniscient he's all-knowing and he said to nethanel and israeli indeed in whom there is no guile why why do i know that there is no guile in you because i prepare your heart to come to know me as the mashiach as the mashiach as the savior as

the king of israel as the son of god and here before philip called you verse 48 when you were under the fig tree i saw you nethanel and you know my dear friend god see you where you are today wherever you are whatever you do wherever you go you might try to hide from god but he knows you where you are where you go what you do he knows the thoughts of your heart he knows the word of your mouth before you even said a word he knows that you failed he knows that you failed he knows that i failed but he still loves us that was fascinating and he want you and i to

come and see come and see and he will see the loveliest person who was born to the virgin miriam he is the mashiach of israel and the savior of this world look how beautiful look at the response of nethanel nethanel you might say right here here is where he turned his heart in full recognition by the spirit of god to see who yeshua jesus is and nethanel answered and said unto him rabbi here's again the word rabbi teacher but he's more than just a teacher more than just a rabbi you are the son of god you are the king of israel thou art the son of god thou art the king of israel nethanel said

to rabbi yeshua the son of god the son of god beloved friends you remember what we said again and again in the study of the gospel of john that the purpose of the writing of the gospel of john is found in john 20 verse 31 but these are written that ye might believe that yeshua is the messiah the son of god and that believing he might have life through his name here is when nethanel received life through the name of yeshua and where he declared that he was the son of god ben elohim but not only that he also recognized that yeshua is the king of israel he is the king of kings and he

is the lord of lord and he is the king of the jews the king of israel the son of god and the king of israel you remember how the gospel of matthew began in chapter 2 right when the wise men came and they asked the question where is he that was born the king of the jews matthew 2 in verse 2 he is the king of the jews on them on the cross the superscription was this is jesus yeshua melech ha-yehudim the king of the jews but before he gonna reign as a king he must become the lamb of god that will take away the sin of this world rabbi thou are the son of

god thou are the king of israel wonderful what a day that will be when israel the nation will come to recognize that yeshua is indeed the promised king of israel when israel will turn their hearts as a nation to the to that rabbi to that son of god to that mashiach and israel will recognize that he is the king of israel the king of kings and lord of lords and now to conclude this message verses 50 and 51 look at the promise look at the response of yeshua to nathaniel who have confessed who he was yeshua said in verse 50 jesus answered and said unto him unto nathaniel because i said unto thee i saw

thee under the fig tree believest thou believe thou you believe because i said this thou shall see greater things than these notice what the greater things than these notice that he will see greater things than this he will say in verse 51 and that's the last verse of john chapter 1 yeshua jesus said to nathaniel verily verily i said to you hereafter hereafter you will see heaven open and the angels of god ascending and descending upon the son of man notice the word son of man this is a messianic title that yeshua that yeshua gave always to himself in the gospel ben haadam taken from daniel chapter 7 verse 13 and 14 he was the

promise ben haadam the son of man the mashiach this is a messianic title son of man son of man mentioned many times but notice you will see god's angels ascending and descending upon the son of man ascending and descending upon the son of man ben haadam and the word for the angels here as we have here the angels it is the messengers of god they will be the one that will serve the mashiach the messiah the son of man of course he making a reference to genesis chapter 28 when yaakov had this vision if you remember in chapter 28 verse 10 and jacob went out from beershevan he went towards haran and he lightened upon

a certain place and he tarried there all night because the sun was set and he took off the stones of that place and he put them for pillows and he laid down in that place to sleep genesis 28 verse 10 and 11 and then verse 12 it says and he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of god ascending and descending on it on that ladder behold god stood above it and said i am the lord god of abraham thy father and i and the god of isaac the land wherein thou layest to thee will i give it and to

thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed you notice dear friends dear brothers and sisters the letter from the earth to the heavens that yakov saw is a a symbolic is a type is a picture of the messiah the only ground upon which anyone will ever get to heaven is through yeshua jesus the messiah who said in verse 51 verily verily i say unto you hereafter ye shall see you nethanel and all the disciples you will see heaven

open and the angels of god ascending and descending upon not upon the ladder but upon the son of man ben adam the messiah yeshua himself who is the son of god the king of israel what a wonderful promise is that promise that we have here in this john chapter one so nethanel proclaim and you and i can proclaim today lord rabbi thou are the son of god thou art the king of israel rabbi atahu ben ha elohim what a wonderful what a wonderful revelation nethanel received and i trust my dear friend that as you listen to this message that you also will receive that revelation from the lord who is the son of god the

king of israel and you will trust in him and you will become a child of god and you will belong to heaven on the basis of the finnish work of the lord jesus the messiah may god bless you and may god bless his word take care