<TITLE>18. Par 57-59</TITLE>L-57 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... but she had to come when she could. So she comes up with her water pot, and perhaps thinking what she'd... about the night before. And she let the pot down to get the water. When she windled it up like this with the windle, and set it down, she looked... She heard somebody say, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked over, and there sat a Jew setting over there.
Now, she was a Samaritan. She said, "It's not customary for you Jews--you being a Jew here, ask me, a Samaritan woman."
He was a young fellow. Well, He was really only thirty years old, but the Bible claims that He looked fifty. You know that? I guess His--His work grayed Him up a little. He said, "You're... over in Saint John 6, he said, "You're a man not over fifty years old and say you've seen Abraham?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That's right. That's right. See? Now... But He looked fifty, I suppose. Said, "You're a man not over fifty years old."
Now, but when she seen this Jew sitting there, she said, "It's not customary for You, a Jew, to ask me, a woman of Samaria, such a thing as that. We have no dealings with one another."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
She said, "The well is deep."

L-58 Now, what was He doing? You'll have to take my word for this. He was contacting her spirit. He was trying to find her spirit. See, the Father had sent Him up there. He had need go by Samaria. But when He got up there, He didn't know no more to do than wait. And then, here she... Say the same thing here tonight. Father sent me to Beaumont. I have to wait to see what He's going to say. I--I don't know. See? Just wait. Now, we find out after while whether He did or not. See?
And then, He set down there and talked to her. What was He doing? Contacting her spirit, and He found where her trouble was. Anybody know what it was? Sure. She had five husbands. Six, really. She had five husbands... "The one you're living with now is not your husband." All right.
And He said, "Woman, go, get your husband and come here," (after He found her trouble).
She said, "I don't have any husband."
"Oh," said, "you've said the truth." Said, "You said the truth, because you've had five, and the one you're now living with is not yours. So therefore, you said the truth."

L-59 What did she do? She wasn't like some of them self-styled priests with their collars turned around, with all the theology in the country. She knowed more about God than half the preachers in the United States know, and her in that condition. She turned around and said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." Amen. Said, "We know, we Samaritans, we know that that'll be the sign of the Messiah." That right? "We know the Messiah, which is called Christ, when He comes, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?" Oh, my.
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
Brother, she drank from a new fountain then. She left that water pot there and run into the city as hard as she could. Listen what she said. "Come, see a Man Who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"
And the Bible said the men of that city believed Christ because of the woman's saying. If that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday, it was the sign of Messiah today. Is that right?


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