<TITLE>12. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 And she said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." Now, listen to this woman. "We know (we Samaritans), we know that the Messiah's coming. And when the Messiah cometh, He will do these things. He will tell us these things. That'll be the sign of the Messiah, when He comes. So You must be His Prophet." In other words, she said the same thing the rest of them said. "When the Messiah comes, Messiah will be a Prophet, a God Prophet. He will be more than a Prophet, but He will show the Messiahic sign as a Prophet."
They'd had no prophets for four hundred and something years since Malachi, one of the minor prophets.
Said, "But when Messiah cometh, He will be a Prophet like Moses, a great Prophet, that'll foreknow things and tell things and tell us what we are and what we've done. He will be that kind of a man. I know when the Messiah cometh He will tell us these things. But Who art Thou?"
Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks to you."

L-33 Now, sometimes I've heard... An infidel said not long ago. "Not one place in the Scripture did Jesus ever say that He was the Christ." What about that and in others also?
He said, "I am He that speaks with you."
And upon this she dropped her--set down, or dropped her water pail and run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man, that's told me what I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And the Bible said that that city believed Him to be the Messiah because of the testimony of the woman.
Now, if that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, that'd be the sign of the Messiah today (Is that right?) if He's the same. Now, let's just stop just for a moment.

L-34 Now, there is three classes of people on the earth, if the Bible is right. And God forgive me for that sacrilegious word of "if." The Bible is right. And we all come from either Ham, Sham, or Japheth's children. That was the three sons of Noah, after the antediluvian flood, when the world was destroyed. We--we come from those three people.
Now, that was the Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. Did you notice Peter was given in Matthew (I believe, the 16th chapter) the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. And on the day of Pentecost he opened it to the Jew.
Philip went down and preached to these Samaritans and yet the Holy Ghost that fell upon none of them, yet he had the Holy Ghost. They sent and got John and Peter to come down, laid hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Right. See? Even the man full of the Holy Ghost, yet Peter had the keys. And that was another nationality of people, the Samaritans.

L-35 And then, at the house of Cornelius, they... Cornelius had seen a vision and they... The Angel told him to go down to Simon the tanner and inquire for one, Simon. And he come up and told him the things of the Lord. And while Peter yet spake these words the Holy Ghost fell on them. But you notice from then on, Paul, any of the rest of them, laid hands on them and so forth, they got the Holy Ghost.
But there was those three classes of people again: Ham, Sham, and Japheth's people: Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans.
Now, notice. When Jesus came, He performed that sign, as the Messiahic sign, before the Jews. Now, the Gentles, we, the Anglo-Saxon, we were not looking for any Messiah. He only comes to those that's looking for Him. He will only heal tonight those that believe they are going to be healed. He will only save those who's got faith enough to be saved in. He will only fill with the Spirit those who are looking for the Holy Spirit. When He comes to the earth again, He will come for those who are waiting for Him to come, and looking for Him to come, and prepared for Him to come. He will come to His church.


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