<TITLE>18. Par 60-62</TITLE>L-60 Now, He is here tonight, or He--He said something that He can't back up. And to think that someone would say that God put affliction upon people to make them be His servants. Oh, friend, that's an error of the devil. If God made you afflicted so you could be patient, and He could show His mercy to let you suffer, then when Jesus come, He absolutely protested what God did. He healed every one He come in contact with. Then He done exactly what God made the people sick for His glory, and Jesus come down and healed them. Then He took the glory off of them by healing them. Could you imagine that? No, sir. Not at all. Jesus don't want you to suffer.
Listen, friends. People who say that. The pagan of Africa can produce a better god to the people. No wonder we got Communism. God don't want you to suffer. He wants you to be well. He died for that purpose. He don't want you to suffer. He wants you to be well, and He's made one basic thing: if you'll believe. He sent His Word. He sent His Son. He sent His prophets. He sent law. He sent everything and today sent the Holy Spirit to continue the ministry that Jesus did when He was here on earth.

L-61 Here's a woman standing before me. She's a colored woman. And if this ain't a beautiful picture of a Bible scene I don't know it. Here is a colored woman, a white man, the only difference, we're both human beings, the same blood. God made of all nations one blood. The only difference is the country she was raised in, the country I was raised in, an Anglo-Saxon, and her an African down where the sun's hot and up where it's not. We're different color of our skin. We're both human beings bought by the Blood of Christ.
But today in a lot of the country there's a segregation between colored and white, and there also in Jesus' day was a segregation between the Jews and the Samaritans. And when Jesus met a woman in the time of the segregation, He said, "Bring Me a drink," to the Samaritan woman.
He did, didn't He? And she looked around and seen Him being, as we'd say, a white man which He was a brown man, a Jew, but the segregation. Said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such, for we have no dealings one with the other." See she was still back in the old line of thought.
He said, "Woman, if you knew Who were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink, and I'd bring you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "The well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with."
He said, "The water that I give is Eternal Life springing up."
She said, "Well, our father's worship in this mountain; you say at Jerusalem," and He said... When ahead the conversation went on till He caught what her trouble was.

L-62 Now, remember He was on His road to Jericho. Is that right? But He had need to go by Samaria. Wonder why? The Father sent Him up there. Now, here was a woman. He didn't know what was wrong with her. He didn't know her trouble. The Father sent Him up there till the woman come out. Now, the Father sent me to Chicago. Here's a woman here. I don't know nothing about her. She's a colored woman, and I'm a white man. We know nothing about each other. I don't know you. You don't know me. So here we are.
But as the Lord Jesus spoke to the woman, finally He found what her trouble was. He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have none."
Said, "That's right. You got five. The one you have now is not your husband."
Now, look what she said. "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet." Now, we know (we colored people know) that when Messiah cometh He will do these things, but Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He." And she left the water pot, and run into the city, said, "Come, see a man that told me the things. Isn't this the very Christ?
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