<TITLE>11. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 It wasn't no strange thing, after the woman at the well. She was just a prostitute who came out to get some water. And while she was getting her water, a Hebrew was setting over against the wall and said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She said, "Why, the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with, and not customary anyhow, for you Jews to ask Samaritans such."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." And the conversation went on, and He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "That's right. You've got five."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet. Now, we know when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us all things."
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
It was after she had had that experience that she could run into the city and say, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah? Isn't this the sign of the Messiah?"
You say, "It's not written in the Scriptures, Brother Branham, that Messiah would do that." But she said it, didn't she? Philip said it, didn't he?

L-38 I want to ask you something, especially you Jews. On the kosher bread at Yom Kippur, the Scripture only gives record of two pieces of bread. But you know, it has three, and the middle piece is the broken piece; the Messiah. What was it that told Job where to be buried? Not a Scripture wrote about it. What was it that told Abraham to buy that piece of ground there by Job? Job, when the Spirit come upon him and he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, the last days He'll come upon the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." It was after the lightning and the fire that Job could say that. It was then that Abraham could bury Sarah. And it's then that Isaac slept with his father. It was then that Jacob died down in Egypt but had his prophet boy to say, "Put your hands on my hip and swear by the God of heaven that you'll not bury my bones down here." Why? It wasn't written in the Scripture. Why? He was a prophet. And he knew that the resurrection wasn't going to be in Egypt; it was going to be in Palestine.

L-39 Why was it Joseph said, "Don't you bury my bones down here. I want them buried up there in the promised land." Why? In Matthew 27 the Bible said when Jesus rose, that many of the saints that slept in the dust of the earth come out, and went into the city, and appeared to people. What was it? It was spiritual revelation. Jesus said that's where He'd build His church. See? It's after you become acquainted with God, that you could take His Word for anything. It's after Jesus had showed those disciples on that tree, said, "No man eat from thee from henceforth." And the next day they found that tree withered. It was after they had that experience of seeing, that Jesus said, "Say to this mountain be moved; don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you say," after they'd had that experience.

L-40 Tonight, standing here, speaking on the Word, what is that in this building here tonight that has made this great stir? What is it that makes our hearts feel different in here, right now, than what it did when we was out on the street? It's the Holy Ghost. It's the Spirit of Christ gathered with us here. Now, after you've had this experience, then you can call those things which were not as though they were for your healing. It's after you've had an experience.


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