<TITLE>13. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 Now, watch what she said. This is Samaritan now. What did the Jews say when He did that to the Jew? "Why," he said, "You're the Son of God, the King of Israel."
What about Samaria now? What did she say? "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know (We Samaritans), we know that when the Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ, when Messiah cometh He will tell us these things, all things." But she couldn't understand Who He was. He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Now, watch, and on that, she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me what I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
Then if that was the sign of the Messiah then, and He's the same today in the Spirit of the Holy Ghost, He will do the same thing, because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Isn't this the Messiah?
Now, one more statement. Isn't this the Messiah? And they come heard Him speak. Now, that's what the Samaritan thought. That's what the Jew thought was the sign of the--of the Messiah.

L-46 And at the pool of Bethesda, when He'd healed a man, looked all around and found a certain man, said, "Will thou be made well?" Left the multitude of afflicted, healed that man, and made him well, put him on a his... bed on his back and went away... And they found Him, and they questioned Him. And He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
Now, notice, then if He has raised from the dead, and we who are struggling, and trying, and putting forth every effort... Every one of you from different churches, whether you're Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, or Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, if you are putting forth your best with all that you know how to love and to serve the Lord Jesus, He's obligated to His Word, to manifest Hisself to you. He's obligated to do it, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-47 Now, then the only way that we would know that He is alive, first... Now, remember, now you could say, "Well, I feel Him in my heart." That's fine here in America, but that won't work overseas. The Mohammedan said, "I feel Mohammed." The Buddha says, "I feel Buddha. We can produce just as much psychology as you can." Certainly can. They can work themselves up into such a frantic, they could take a lance...
I've seen one in Zurich, Switzerland, not long ago. Well, I never looked at it, but he stood right there and took a sabre and pushed it through his body, over his heart and put, let a doctor come there and pour water in it, run out on the other side. Pulled it back out, and walked off the platform laughing. See? A Mohammedan.
I've seen them at the, what they call the feast of the prophets, take a sword or lance and stick it through their chin, and just screaming and going on, till it go up through their nose and plumb up into their forehead, and drop it down like that, and never bleed a drop under such excitement.

L-48 But when it comes, there's no such a thing as that in the Bible. That's a fantastic. That's a--that's something else. That's just a psychology. But Christ, who raised from the dead, acts according to way He did in the Bible. See? So those religions can produce psychology, but they can't produce the resurrection. And Christianity is the only religion out of the hundreds that there is under the sun this day, can--only one that can produce the evidence that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead.
"Sirs, we would see Jesus." I want to see Him. I love... There's never when I have a meeting, but what my heart rejoices when I know that His great Presence is near to watch Him moving, something just takes wings within me. My soul lifts up into a atmosphere that you can't explain. I've seen it set congregations electrified.


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