<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 But this woman knowed more about the ministry than lots of preachers know today. That's... Although we think she was a harlot, but she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah cometh, He will show these things." That she was taught;She knowed what she was looking for.
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Upon this she left her water-pot and run into the city and said, "Come, see a Man Who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah? Isn't that what the Messiah is supposed to do?"
"Yes." And the men believed Jesus because of the saying of the woman that Jesus was the Messiah, because He showed the Messiahic sign.

L-16 Now, not one time in Scriptures did He ever do it to the Gentiles. No.
But He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, and in the days of Lot." Now we took it... Notice. In the days of Lot there was three classes of people. There always is three classes. Everything's in a trinity and trinity by one.
Notice. There was... In the days of Lot there was the unbeliever, the Sodomites. There was Lot, the lukewarm church and his family. There was Abraham, the called out, setting out in the desert by a choice. Not because he had to, but by choice he took the way with the Lord's despised few.
When the Angels came down and spoke to him, They were... I believe it was a theophany; I truly do, because it was God. Two of them--a modern Billy Graham and so forth went down into Sodom and preached to the Sodomites and to the lukewarm church. And they never done any miracles, only blinded them. And preaching the Gospel blinds the unbeliever. We know that. Preaching of the Word blinds him that believeth not.

L-17 But watch the sign that this Angel done out there to the elect Church. He had His back turned to the tent and was a Stranger and He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" Is that right? Told him he was married and his wife's name was Sarah--a Stranger, and watch the Bible specifically says, "She's in the tent behind You," behind the Man. God manifested in flesh, this Man was. Abraham called Him Elohim, the Almighty. See? What He is going to do in the last days? "In the tent behind you." What kind of a mind reading or mental telepathy is that?
And He said, "I am going to visit you." Now, remember "I." "I" was God that made the promise. This same man said, "I." And "I" is a personal pronoun. All right. "I will visit you according to the time of life," and Sarah laughed within herself in the tent. You know... And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" Behind Him... Sarah denied it. God would've struck her right there, but He couldn't, 'cause she was part of Abraham.
Our sins would ruin us if we wasn't a part of Christ. He can't strike the Church, because we're Christ. See? Sarah and Abraham were one. Christ and His Church is one. Our sins are covered by His Blood, by His faith. Not ours we're trusting in, His finished work.

L-18 Now, remember Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Otherwise, a visitation of the same thing... Now, if God showed His sign at the end of the Jews and at the end of the Samaritan dispensation, and let the Gentiles get in just on common theology, He did wrong. He's infinite. His first decision how to do anything always remains the same. That's where we have faith in His Word, because what He says He can't change it.
I can change mine, because I'm finite. He's infinite and cannot change His Word. Therefore when God says anything, lay your soul on it, 'cause it's True. That's the only way you can ever have faith is believe what He said. That's the only way you can please Him is to believe what He said.


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