<TITLE>09. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 It was the woman at the well, how that her sins were so bad that she couldn't come to the well at a normal time of day; she had to wait till all the decent women got away from the well. Nobody in the city would listen to her, because she was a woman of ill fame.
One day, while she was standing there at Jacob's well outside of the city of Samaria, she looked setting against the wall, and she seen Someone there that said, "Bring Me a drink."
And she said to Him, "It's not customary for Jews to ask Samaritans such."
He said, "But if you know Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." The conversation went for awhile. After while, He found where 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 got five, and the one you're living with's not your husband."
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will be a God prophet. Moses has told us that the Lord our God would raise up a prophet like him. And when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things."
Jesus said, "I am He that speaks to you." Something happened to her. From that time, she was in the city giving testimony, "Come see a Man Who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" Things had changed when she'd met God.

L-27 One day, God which is Life... Life and death met together. Death always doubted Him to be the Son of God. When the devil had Him out there, he tempted Him. Said, "If you be the Son of God, turn these stones to bread, I'll believe You." He was tempted.
He wondered just what that was. "Was that a prophet or was that really God?" He didn't know. He didn't know then that God had to be made flesh and dwell among us.
One day a Roman soldier put a bandage around His face, took a reed and hit Him on the head, and said, "Now, and if you be a prophet, if you be this prophet, tell us who hit you." Still He couldn't answer, because He'd been minding the devil.
On the cross they asked Him, "Come off the cross; we'll believe You to be the Son of God." All that temptation... The devil didn't know Who that was in that body of flesh.
So, going up the hill to Calvary, Satan still wasn't satisfied that that was God, Emmanuel, the virgin born Son of God.

L-28 Let's take a trip to Jerusalem for a moment. It's on a terrible morning. The sun looks funny. When the morning sacrifice was offered, the smoke from the brazen altar, instead of going up to God, He refused it. It was hanging over city. It was a gloomy looking time.
We're standing in an upper room. I hear a noise. There's been a riot down in Pilot's judgment hall since early, about three o'clock. There's been a riot down there. What is it? Let's go to the window; I hear a noise. Pull back the curtains. I hear something bumping along the street as you go out towards Golgotha. There comes a Man coming down the street, old rugged cross on His shoulders, bearing it, dragging on the back, bumping over those hard stones. It rubbing the place, meat off of His shoulders, a crown of thorns on His head, mixed with tears and blood streaming down His face, with mockery soldiers spit all over His beard, where there's face bleeding, where they jerked the handfuls of beard out of His face... Old cross dragging out the bloody frit--footprints as He walked down the street...
I noticed on His back, He's got a robe across His shoulders, wove throughout without a seam. There's little red dots all over that coat. As He goes on up the hill, those dots get bigger and bigger and bigger, spreading. After while, they all run into one great big splosh.


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