<TITLE>11. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 Peter, the fisherman, would have likewise. How about blind Bartimaeus, that laid at the gate, as we talked of last night? The blind man could say, "I was blind until I come in contact with God, and from that time, I could see."
Oh yes, if your spiritual blind, come in contact with Him, and from that time you can see. Everything that comes in contact with God is changed.
The leper, one time, come in contact with God, and he was changed from a leper to a well man. There was a immoral woman, one time, met Jesus at the well. She was full of sin; her heart was heavy; her burdens were too much to bear. Society had kicked her out. And she stood there and seen just an ordinary Jew, a Fellow kindy aged for His--looking aged for His age. I think the Scripture claims that He looked to be fifty when He was only thirty. And he said, "You're a Man yet not over fifty years old, and say You have seen Abraham."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

L-37 So He was only thirty or thirty-two years old, and a young, beautiful woman come up one day to the well, where He was setting, tired. And He said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she said, "It's not customary for You to ask me such things as that. I am Samaritan; You're a Jew." Segregation...
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to..." What was that woman doing? She was meeting God. She met a Man, but it wasn't a Man that she was meeting, It was God in the Man she was meeting. God let that soak in.
The Scripture said, "You've entertained Angels, not knowing what you were doing, unaware of it."
Same as Abraham entertained Angels, and immediately after the Angel left and had performed a miracle before him, he called the Man, God, Elohim, the Almighty God setting there eating steak sandwiches, drinking milk from the cow, eating cakes. And He was Almighty God.
The woman, little did she know. Look what it done for Abraham then. It changed him and Sarah from an old man and old woman of a hundred years old, back to a young man and woman, that brought forth Isaac. They met God. That's what done the difference.

L-38 This immoral woman, she met Jesus, and she spoke to Him. Watch, how He made Hisself known. He said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I do not have any husband."
He said, "You've said well, for you've had five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not your husband. You've said well." And from that time, she was changed.
Oh, what a difference. That Jesus when she met Him there looked like a man, and when I can imagine seeing those big, pretty eyes, tears coming out of them, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] But Who are You?"
Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks to you." And from that time, from that time, she had a message to tell the world, "Come, see a Man, Who told me the things that I've done. The Messiah is on the earth." She stirred a city.
A few hours before that, the city would have laughed at her. She couldn't even come to the well with the rest of the women. What happened? What made the men listen to her? If you've ever been in the Orients, they wouldn't listen to a woman like that. Some oriental brother was trying to tell me, said, "The woman wasn't a prostitute, 'cause the men wouldn't of lis--listened to her."
I said, "But brother, you failed to see that she had met Christ. That's what made the difference."


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