<TITLE>16. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 When Martha... When Mary, Martha and Mary's brother had died, Lazarus, when little Martha went out, she'd sent for Jesus to come, and He didn't do it. They found all kinds of faults in Him, seemingly. When she run out to meet Him, she had a right to say, "Looky here, we left our church to follow You, and now, my brother has... You've prayed for the sick and they been healed. And I sent for You to come pray for my brother, and You let him lay there and die. And he's been in the grave four days, rottening now." She had a right to, did she? Sure she did, humanly speaking. But what?
She knew that God was in that Man. She'd read those story of the Shunammite woman, how she knowed God was in Elisha, the prophet. So if God was in the prophet, surely He was in His Son. So she went out, and she said... When she met Him, she said, "Lord..." That's what He was. She respected that gift of God; she said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." There you are; there you are.
Said, "Where have You buried him?" There you are.
What if she'd went out there and said, "Well, if You'd just only done this, I'm in doubt now whether You're really true or not." He'd have never come from the grave. But it's her respects. Look at the thousands that died during that time. See? But He raised three; three's a confirmation.

L-59 Now, He promised in His Word, the things that He did back there, He said, "I do only as the Father shows Me." And when... The only way that He made Hisself known to the people, was by seeing a vision, telling them who they was, or what was wrong with them, or something like that. He vindicated Hisself before both Jew and Samaritan, and they recognized Him by that. How many knows that's the truth in the Scriptures? All you hands, you mean to tell me there's no more Bible readers than that in here? But that's true.
When Philip found Nathanael; Nathanael come back, and he told him said, are you... When you're in the presence, He told Peter what He was, and who His Father was. Nathanael couldn't believe it, walked right in the presence of Jesus, and Jesus said he's an Israelite in whom there's no guile. He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?"
Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."

L-60 When He went to the Samaritans, the woman come out to get water; He said, "Bring Me a drink." He talked to her a little while, and--and caught her spirit. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You got five." There was her trouble.
She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things."
He said, "I'm He."
She run into the city, and said, "Come see the Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" That's the way He showed Himself at the ending of the Jewish dispensation, back there. Now, the end of the Gentile, He never did that before the Gentiles back there (Search the Scriptures.), not one time. But He's doing it now, as He promised He'd do it at the end of the Gentile, before He turns to the Jew. Might tell you something.


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