<TITLE>20. Par 76-78</TITLE>L-76 That's about the way serving the Lord, you know. You've got to put your heart in it; you got to be sincere. You've got to meet God, not go to church and make some cold, dry-eyed confession; go down there and stay down there...
I was raised in a Baptist church, you know that. And we wasn't Baptist like you all Baptist here: Walk up and shake hands, and take the right-hand of fellowship, and put your name on the book, and be baptized. We got down at the altar and beat one another on the back till we come through. We got something, brother. I mean, you need more... You need some Kentucky Baptists, old missionary Baptists out here. I say, they... The only difference I seen between them and the Pentecostal people is they didn't accept speaking in tongues; that's all I know. They...
We come through; we stayed there at the altar, and the old mammies around us crying and praying and beating us on the back until something happened. We stayed there until we died, and was borned again, and become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Yes, sir. Too bad we got... We got to meet God. When man meets God, it's different. He's a... He's a different person from then on.

L-77 There was a leper one time, just full of leprosy. And when he met God, from that time on, he had no leprosy. There was a immoral woman come up to the well one time to get some water. And she seen a--a Jew setting across on the other side. And she let down the pitcher; she was so immoral; she couldn't come out with the decent women. They segregated them then; they don't now. So they just... That's society. So they just put the well... bucket down and started bringing it up like that.
And when she did, she heard someone say, "Bring Me a drink, woman." Or "Woman, bring Me a drink." (That's the way He said it, 'cause the verb's always before the adverb in that country.) But He said, "Bring Me a drink."
And so, she said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask the Samaritans such. We have no customs to one another."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw."
"Why," she said, "the well's deep and how do you... How you going to draw with any how?"
He said, "The water that I give is Life, Eternal Life bubbling up in the soul."
"Why," she said, "our--our fathers worshipped in this mountain and you say at Jerusalem..."

L-78 And He went on with the--with the conversation until He caught her spirit. When He caught her spirit, He said, "Well, you go get your husband and come here."
She... (Remember, she was a immoral woman.) So said, "Go get your husband and come here."
"Why," she said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You've said the truth. 'Cause you've got five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. In that thou saidst well."
Watch that woman. Quickly, she had met something, the same One that you meet nightly. Would it change you like it did her? She said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." What difference it was to that, to the priest that said He was Beelzebub. She was better trained then half the preachers, and yet a prostitute.
Said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet. Now, we know... We Samaritans are looking for a Messiah to come; He will be a God prophet. He will be the Messiah, but He will tell us these things. He will do these same kind of works when He comes." Is that the sign of the Messiah? It was then. See?
Said, "We know... I know that You're a prophet; I perceive You are. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who art Thou?"
Jesus said, "I am He that speaketh with you."


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