<TITLE>12. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 When He said that, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things." See, that was the work of Messiah. What is Messiah? Well, it's the--the Logos, the Spirit of God. Messiah is the Spirit of God, the Christ, the Anointed. She said, "When that Spirit comes from glory, when It's here on earth manifested, It'll tell us these things. That's the nature of it. That's the nature of God." She said, "Now, You must be a prophet, and we know Messiah cometh will tell us these things, but Who are You?"
He was the only One that ever could, the only One that ever will be able to say it, "I'm He that speaks to you." What was that? That was God speaking through His Son.
She left that water pot and run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man, Who's told me the things I've ever done: isn't this the Messiah?"

L-44 You believe God's in His Son? God's in His universe? God is in His Word? God is in His Son? Now, is God in His people? What the death of Christ was, was to sanctify a church that He might work through to continue His work. There had to be an atonement made, and His body, the Man Jesus, was made a Sacrifice, willingly, like we've take it through this last week in a type of Isaac, willing, submitted himself to death. He didn't have to die. He said, "No man takes My life; I lay it down." And He did that, that through that sacrifice, that fulfills the Scripture, "He that's borned of God does not commit sin, because he can't sin." There's a bloody sacrifice for a man that's in Christ. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God don't see your sins; it's covered by the Blood.

L-45 Here some time ago I went into a city where we was holding a great revival. And we'd been... I had to go way out in the country. There was thousands and thousands of people in Ohio attending the meeting. I had to get outside to get a little rest. We'd been eating at a little Dunkard restaurant, nice. And Sunday came along, so the little restaurant closed. And all of them went down fixing the afternoon service, Brother Baxter and them, and I had to get me a bite to eat before I went down. And I went across to an ordinary, typical little American roadside restaurant. When I walked in that door, it was the most disgraceful sight I ever seen. There stood a policeman with his arm around a woman, and the police was as old as I am, maybe married and a bunch of children at home, and a wife. With his arm around a woman, playing a slot machine, which is illegal in Ohio... No wonder we're corrupted. The very laws of our land is corrupted with it.

L-46 There's nothing sound any more but Jesus Christ and His Word. And you're afraid to take It. It's the only foundation you can lay any hopes upon. "My hopes is built on nothing less than Jesus' Blood with righteousness; all around my soul gives way, then He's all my hope and stay. For on Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other grounds is sinking sand, All other ground." Eddie Perronet wrote that sermon there, or that song that they'll sing at the baccalaureate service when the church comes in.

L-47 Notice, and while this policeman is standing there, I stopped. I thought, "Isn't that strange?" I looked over there and there was a young teen-age girl not over eighteen years old. A bunch of these hoodlums with their hair hanging down here like women, and cut way off in the back, and duck tailed, ever what you call it, a bunch of little over jackets on, motorcycle riders and everything, standing over there at a table with their arm around that little girl, around her legs, up on her hips. Another one--I couldn't express in a mixed multitude what was going on. And I said, "Oh, looky there; look at that."


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