<TITLE>13. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 Look at Korah, Moab in the Bible, when Israel came up. There was Ko--Moab, come from the sons of Lot, which was by his daughter. And they had a great place, a great church. And when they come down to curse Israel, why, they built the same kind of altars, prayed to the same God, made the same sacrifices, bullocks. And they offered a sheep, representing the coming of Christ. And fundamentally speaking, everything that Moses was offering down there, Balaam was offering up here. So if God only requires fundamental teaching as intellectual, God could not refuse Balaam's offering.
But the reason, why did He refuse Balaam and accept Moses, is because there was signs and wonders. God was a vindicating. They had Divine healing, a brass serpent. They had a smitten rock. They had joy. They had a leading Spirit. They had a Pillar of Fire. They had everything among them, signs and wonders, God proving that He had accepted them.

L-42 That's the way it is today. It was when Jesus and Nicodemus stood together. Nicodemus in a fine church, orthodox as it could be, taught to the very last word, and Jesus was also. But God was with Jesus. "Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no man can do the miracles You do except God be with him."
Philip, or I mean Peter, expressed the same thing in Acts 2. Said, "You men of Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, listen, a man approved of God among you by signs and wonders and miracles which he did in the midst of you all, which you all yourselves are a witness..."

L-43 Let's take Him when He went up one day, going down. And we will close just in a moment for the prayer line. Let's take Him, He had to go to--down to Jericho. But strangely, He went up by the way of Samaria. And on the road up there, He sent His disciples away, being noon time, I wonder. He had told Nathanael where he was when Philip brought him. And here He sends His disciples away and sets down upon the garden gate.
If you was ever in the orients and see how beautiful it is around those wells. He was setting over against the wall.
And a woman came out. We know her here as a prostitute. I don't think she was because of the customs of what she was doing, she couldn't have been. But we'll say for--for the sake of--of point now, that she was an ill famed woman. And she came to the well to get some water. Jesus fastening His eyes upon her, watched her as she drew the water from the well. And He said "Bring Me a drink."
And she said, "Why, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such." Said, "we don't have no dealings."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd give you water you didn't come here to draw."
Why, she said, "why, the well's deep and You have nothing to draw with."

L-44 And on went the discourse, as they went on. And finally... Now, I have my own way, which I'll get to you in a few moments and show you what Jesus was doing. He was trying to find that woman's spirit. The Father had told Him to go up there. So He's holding this--this discourse with her to find out what her spirit was.
So as soon as He caught her spirit, after talking to her, He said, "Go, get your husband." That was her trouble. He knew her trouble. Said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any."
He said, "True, you've had five, and the one you have now is not your husband."
Why, she turned and she said, "Why, I perceive, Sir, that you are a prophet." Now, listen close, teachers. She said, "We," the Samaritans, "We know that when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things." The very sign of Messiah, that the Jews were calling Beelzebub, the Samaritans said, "When... We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. He would know that I had five husbands. We know that He will do that, the Messiahic sign."


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