<TITLE>07. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 I think every person that goes out to preach the Gospel, should never go until they have a personal experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I believe that was the qualification that Jesus gave them: "Tarry at the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power, then you shall be witnesses of Me, in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and Shreveport, Louisiana," as it would read like that. I hope that don't sound sacrilegious, but you know what I mean by it.
No person, no matter how well you're educated, how smart you are in the Bible, the devil's twice as smart as you are. Yes, sir. He could twist it and make you look like Ned in the first reader, if he wants to. He certainly can. But if you've ever got an experience and met God face to face, there isn't enough devil's in hell to take it away from you, because you know what you're talking about.

L-16 Moses in all of his training, he could even teach the Egyptians theology. He didn't go back down to Egypt, and God didn't send him back to brush up on his mathematics or his war strategy. He never sent him back down to take another degree in college. For He met him by a burning bush on the sacred sands behind the desert, and give him an experience that you couldn't explain it away from him. With all of his theology, he'd made a mistake, and he was a running from God, but when he met God face to face, something happened to him that he was ready to go back to Egypt. No matter what the circumstances was, he was on his road, because he had an experience. He knowed what he was talking about. That's the way with every believer that's received the Holy Ghost.
Therefore, I say tonight, them disciples in that little ship, was like we'd be here tonight: All of us wants to tell somebody, give an experience. We'd like to tell it in detail. That's the way they were.

L-17 So it must have been Andrew next. He just couldn't keep still any longer. They'd done pulled the oars in the boat, and probably it was a float then. The dark was setting in, and he said, "Brethren, what could we all say to this? Do you remember the time that we were going to Jericho, and He said, 'He had need to go by Samaria.'? And we wonder why would He go up around those Samaritans. But when He came to the city, and He sat down at the well, and sent us away into the city to get some food. And when we come back, do you remember (all of us are witness of this), we came up close, and heard Him speaking, and we were all marveling at this, our Lord would talk to a woman like was talking to Him. But we heard the conversation when it--we broke into listen behind the bush or behind the wall, when He told her, said, 'Woman, bring me a drink.'"
"And she said, 'It's not customary for you, Jews, to ask a Samaritan, a woman of Samaria a favor. We have segregation. We have no dealings with each other.'"
"But He said to her, 'But if you knew Who were talking to you.'"


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