<TITLE>09. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 It was after the woman at the well, who came out there as a prostitute, we'd call her today, a woman of ill-fame. She came out to the well to get water, and she seen this Jew setting over against the well. She'd never saw Him before; He was a stranger in the city, because that was a Samaritan city. And here was a Jew, and He ask her for a drink. And she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans such."
And the conversation went on, Jesus trying to contact her spirit to see what her trouble was. And He said, "Go get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
Said, "That's right. You've had five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not yours."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a Prophet. Now, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things. But Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks with you."
It was after that she had seen His power, through God, to know the secrets of her heart, 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?" It was after she had seen it. After the miracle had been performed on them.

L-39 It was after Jesus had cursed the tree, and in twenty-four hours, saw it withering, that He told the disciples, "Have faith in God." After they had seen the power of God, they was asked to have faith in God.
Jesus said, in Acts 1:8, "You shall receive power, after the Holy Ghost has come upon you." Not before, when you get your Ph.D., but after the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll have power of faith to believe.
It was after they had waited ten days in the upper room, with this promise, the doors and windows locked because they were scared. It was after the Holy Ghost came down on them with tongues of fire, and the Spirit, like a rushing, mighty wind. After that happened, they wasn't a scared then, they went into the streets and declared to all people, that He was the resurrected Christ. After that they--they evangelized the world, and sealed their testimony with their blood, after they had received power, after they had the Holy Ghost.

L-40 Oh, how thankful, I am to know that great faith in God is still accompanied by an experience. And tonight, you may not have had that experience. But if God will come tonight in the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, Who said in St. John 5:19, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me first."
If He will come and will do the same thing in this audience to prove... He said, "I... A little while and the world won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world. I'll be the Vine; you be the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. And the branch will bear fruit of what kind of a vine it's sticking in.

L-41 And if you've grown up out of a seminary vine, and just got an education in theology, that's the kind of a fruit you'll bear. If you've come up in that kind of a church, that's probably the way you believe. But if you've been planted, rooted and grounded in Christ Jesus, you'll bear the fruits of Christ. You have to. If you've got that experience, the fruit's not strange to you. Let us look to Him now, as we pray.


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