<TITLE>11. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 There was a man, standing there preaching one day at the beginning of His ministry. They went and got an old fisherman; Andrew went and got his brother, brought him up there. And when he come up to this mere man, just a man, Galilean carpenter. But when he come up to Him, in the face of Him, this Galilean carpenter Who said, "I do nothing until the Father shows Me first," looked straight in that man's face and said, "Your name is Simon, and your father is Jonas." What was that? That was God speaking through His Son. God was in His Son. That's the reason He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me."

L-40 When Philip got converted, went around behind the mountain fifteen miles, found Nathanael under the tree and brought him back, come up to where a Man was preaching, a man, flesh, mortal, blood, flesh, bones, just a man; and as soon as they laid their eyes to one another, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite, in whom there's no guile."
And he screamed back and said, "Rabbi (Teacher), how did You know me; You've never seen me."
Then from this mortal lips of a Man came a word, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." How could He, fifteen miles around the mountain? That was God speaking through His Son.

L-41 When the woman at the well came out to get some water, and she saw a Man, m-a-n, flesh Man, setting over, leaned back against the wall, a Jew, thirty years old, looked fifty said the Scripture. "You mean to say that you're a man not over fifty years old and you say you seen Abraham? Now, we know you're crazy." Mad, which means "crazy," got a devil.
He said, "Before Abraham was I am." That wasn't a Man speaking because He was only thirty years old. It was God in the man. Certainly, it was.
And that woman looked at Him, and He said, "Bring Me a drink." That was man.
She said, "It's not customary; there's a law of segregation, you Jews to we Samaritans. It's not custom for you Jews to ask me a woman of Samaria such as that."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to." If you knew who you were...?... to. I wonder sometime when we get on our knees if we really know Who we're talking to. "If you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. And I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
Said, "The well's deep and how You going to draw water? You haven't got nothing to draw with."

L-42 The conversation went on. That was Man speaking. But in a few minutes, something happened. 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 husbands, and the one that you have now... You have had five and you're living with the sixth one, he's not your husband: so therefore you said the truth."
That startled that woman. Why? She knowed that couldn't be a man. She knowed He was more than man. Certainly He was more than man; He was God. See, this day when they want to make Him a prophet. He was a God of the prophets. He was God Himself made flesh in a body, His own creation that He built Himself a Tabernacle, holy, and He lived in it. And He walked through it, and He talked through it, and He expressed Hisself through that body of flesh, that He might by that one body give it as a sacrifice, that He might bring all of us to Him as sons and daughters of God that the Holy Spirit can speak through us and continue His work: God in His Son.


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