<TITLE>12. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 So then when they... She come out to get water; she took... If you ever was in the orient, they packed a, like a pitcher, it looks like to me, got a great big neck on it and--and two hooks around like this. And I've seen woman go down to the well, put a little rope, a little hook around and let the windle down, get out one of those big jugs, about five gallon, take three of them out, set one on top of her head, and one on each hip... A half a dozen women going down the street, talking, and laughing, bobbing her head up-and-down, just talking like women can do, you know. Walking along like that, and never spill a drop of water, just walking along talking...
And this woman come, and she was going to let her bucket down to get some water. And there was a voice came and said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked around, and she saw a Jew setting over there. Now remember, there was a segregation in them days.

L-36 So, she looked at Him, and she seen He was a Jew. Now, He is only thirty, about thirty-two years old, but the Scripture said He looked fifty. How many knows that? Saint John 6, says, "You say You were, saw Abraham, and you're not over fifty years old? Now, we know You got a devil." See?
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See, His work, maybe, had taken his youth away from Him. Might have been graying a little. But He was setting over against the pump, or over against the wall, where the vines grow over the wall. And she said, "Sir, You're a Jew, and I'm a woman of Samaria; we have no dealings with each other. It's not custom for You to ask me anything."
He said, "Woman, if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I give you water that you don't come here to draw." Now, what we He doing? Contacting her spirit.
And she said, "Well, You say worship at Jerusalem, and our father... You say You're greater than our father Jacob?" See, calling Jacob her father, same as the Jew. "Our father Jacob dug this well; he drank from it; his family drank from it; his cattle drank from it, and You're got water that's greater than this?"
Said, "Why, the water I give, is inside, bubbling up."

L-37 And the conversation went on till He found what her trouble was. Now remember, Jesus yesterday, to the Samaritans who were looking for the coming of the Messiah. The off-casts...
Now, what happened? When she looked again, and He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "That's right. You've got five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not yours; you said right."
What did she say, "This man is Beelzebub; this man has a evil spirit; he's a fortuneteller." No, she knowed more about God, being a prostitute, then half of the preachers does in this city. That's right, right. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet."

L-38 Now, if you'll run that word back, it means the prophet, the Messiah, "The Lord your God shall rise up a prophet likened unto me," said Moses.
She said, "I perceive that You are a prophet. We..." Listen, "We Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will show us these things." She knew that was the sign of the Messiah. She said, "But Who are You? You must be His prophet. For we know when the Messiah comes, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks with you."
She dropped the water pot and into the city she went. And she said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things that I done: isn't this the Messiah?"
If that is the Messiah yesterday, the sign of Messiah, He's the same today, it's the same sign to the Gentile church. He can't let us get by just on theology and joining churches. He's got to manifest Himself in the closing of the Gentile age just like He did in the Jewish age, and the Samaritans, or those who were looking for Him. We've had two thousand years of teaching now. Our age is closing. How many will agree with that, that the Gentile age is closing?


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