<TITLE>12. Par 46-50</TITLE>L-46 Jesus led by the Spirit, went up to Samaria and sent all of His disciples away to get vittles in the city. That was when John got angry with them 'cause they wouldn't sell them anything to eat, and wanted to burn the city up, later become the disciple of love.
Now, we find that while he was gone, a young woman... We believe in this country to be a woman of ill fame. She came out to the well to get water. While she was at the well to draw the water, she looked over, and setting against the little panoramic, something on it, maybe a scene like this, and there set a middle- aged Jewish Man, setting there.

L-47 He was about thirty-two or thirty-three years old, but according to the Scripture, He looked to be around fifty. They said, "You say that You've seen Abraham, and You're not no more than fifty years old." See, His work might've put that look on Him.
He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." That wasn't Jesus. That was the God in Him speaking out, that He was in the burning bush back there at the beginning.
Then we find that this woman, as she looked, Jesus wanted a conversation with her. He said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "Why, it's not customary for you Jews to ask Samaritans such." It was the law of segregation. They didn't want any fellowship together. And Jesus let her know that that wasn't right.
He said, "But if you know Who you were speaking to, you'd ask Me for a drink; and I'd bring you water you don't come here to draw."
She said, "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say at Jerusalem."

L-48 And the conversation went on till Jesus contacted her spirit and when He seen then what the Father sent Him up there for. He knowed something was going to happen. It hadn't happened all along the road, so He waited till He got there, and sent His disciples away, and said, "This must be the woman." That was Jesus, the man. But God the Man in Christ knowed what He wanted. He just led His Son by the Spirit.
So then God goes to work and begins to use His own Son's lips to speak. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You're saying well, because you got five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. Thou has said well."

L-49 And look what she said. What did the orthodox Jew say when He done that miracle on him? Was that a miracle He done on Philip, or Nathanael, knowed where he was at the day before? Was it a--a miracle He done on Peter, Who knew who his father was, and what his name was, and so forth? Now, look that was the Jewish. Now, let's see what the Gentiles are going to say, or the--the Samaritans, which is half Jew and Gentile.
Said, "Now, Sir," this woman said, "Sir, I perceive ('He knowing I had five husbands'), I perceive that You are a prophet." Now, listen to her words. "But we know," the woman said, "we know when the Messiah cometh..." You believe He was Messiah? "We know when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things. He will show us all things. And we know He will come, but we... You must be His prophet."

L-50 Now, wait. What did the Jews say? "Thou, Rabbi, art the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
What did Samaritans say? "Now, we're looking for such as that to happen, but it has to come through the Son of God, this... The Son of God when He comes, the Messiah, it must come through Him. But You must be His prophet."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
And on this she run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah? Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?" If that was the sign of the Messiah at the closing of the Jewish dispensation, it's the sign of the Messiah at the closing of the Gentile dispensation, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Right.


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