<TITLE>17. Par 57-59</TITLE>L-57 That was the Jews. But now here He goes up to the Gen--to the Samaritans. And now, He sets down and sends the disciples away. And a woman comes out, a woman of Samaria. She comes out to get some water. And Jesus carried a conversation with her. He begin to talk to her, contacting her spirit. Father told Him to go up there; He was contacting her spirit. And then when He found just exactly where her trouble was, He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "That's true." He said, "You got five, and the one you have now is not your husband." Isn't that right. See?
Would you get a chair just a minute, Paul, 'cause bless... Would you, somebody set it up, the lady with a chair. Be seated just a moment.
And said, "You said well. Said, 'I--I have no husband.'"
He said, "Go, get him."
She said, "I have none."
He said, "That's right; you got five. And the one you have now is not your husband."
Now, look what she said; now look at this woman now. Listen my subject, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, raised from the dead.
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we know (we Samaritans)--we know that when the Messiah cometh (which is the Christ), when Messiah cometh, He'll do these things; He'll tell us these things, but Who are You?"
And she said--He said, "I am He that speaks to you."

L-58 Now, if that was the sign for the Jew, for the Samaritan, and Gentile, and the whole world then, that He was the Messiah, because He done those things, would not it be the same signs of the Messiah if He is the same tonight? Is that right? Then if He's raised from the dead, He's no more in a corporeal body, but He's in our body. All that was in God He poured into Christ, and all that was in Christ He poured into the Church. See? So it's just a continuation. "That day you'll know that I'm the Father, and the Father in Me and I in you, and..." See? All together. The Holy Spirit working among His people.
Now, here's a lady, I--I don't believe I ever saw her, as I said a few moments ago. God knows the lady. We've been raised miles apart and first time of ever meeting in life. Now, if there's--if that lady is here for some purpose, I don't know. She wouldn't be on the platform. But if the Holy Spirit will reveal to this woman, just like He did the woman at the well, and will find out what this woman's trouble is and will correctly tell her, she--she knows about that, whether that be true or not, wouldn't you, lady? You'd know whether that was true. And if He would tell the same thing, would you all believe Him now with all your heart? All right, all right.

L-59 Now, to contact the woman's spirit. Now, please be real reverent and keep your seats. Now, the Holy Spirit is here, and I--I know that He is here so be real reverent, now, as I look to the woman just a moment. Now, lady, I just want you to answer me as I talk to you. And then that'll be... Now, if I tell you, well, you come here and say this lady setting here would say, "Mr. Branham, I'm sick."
"Oh," I'd say, "go ahead you're healed (See?); you're going to get well." She has a right to doubt that; she don't know me. She don't know how firm my words are. But what if someone, something comes here to me and tells me about it, and what she is, and what she's done, or what about her, then she'd scratch her head, she'd say, "Say, that man don't know me; that had to come from some other resource." Then whatever she classed it to be, that would determine what she got. If she said, "Now, well, it's not of God." It'll never bot--never help her a bit. But if she believed it was of God and embraced it as God's promise, then God's obligated to His Word. See?


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