<TITLE>17. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 He was probably setting there. He--He wasn't but thirty something years old, but the Scripture said (Saint John 6), said He looked fifty. Said, "You're not a man fifty years old and you say you've seen Abraham."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That's right. See? Probably His work broke Him down, might've been grayed up a bit, or something.
While He was setting there and she was looking at Him: Man looking about fifty years old setting up against the side of that wall... Said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask us Samaritans."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink." What was He doing? Now, you'll have to take my word for this. He was trying to contact her spirit. God had sent Him down there. God sent me to this church. I don't know you. See? I don't know none of you.
But God had sent Him up there. He had need to go by Samaria. Why? They were looking for a Messiah. He had to go up and show them that He was Messiah. So He set there. This woman said, talked to Him, said, "The well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with." Said, "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain (and so forth), and you say at Jerusalem..." And the conversation went on.

L-60 What was He trying to do? Find where her trouble was. Now, listen close now. Find where her trouble was... Now, what is it? The Messiah is going to make Hisself known to His own in Samaria (See?), to the Samaritans. How He done it to the Jews, He has to do the same thing to the Samaritans. Sure. He has to call His own by the same...
Remember what I said last night? If God ever makes a decision to do a thing a certain way, He has to do it every time the same way. If He didn't, He made a mistake when He done it the first time. See? You don't give one a piece of corn bread and the other a piece of cake. It's all the same, just exactly. See? Now, notice, He's--He--He's infinite, perfect, omnipotent, omnipresent. Now, we seen that... this Samaritan. Now, how's He going to make Himself known to a Samaritan? The question's between Him and the woman.

L-61 And after He looked at her a few minutes, the Father had sent Him up there, so He--He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
"Why," He said, "that's right. You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So you said well."
I can see that pretty big bunch of curly hair drop down over her shoulders, and her big brown eyes, and the tears roll down her cheeks. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." How much different from that prostitute, and them preachers. She knowed more about God than half of them. It's a great deal that way today too. That's right. Yes.
She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. She said, "We know, we--we Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah comes, that'll be the sign that He will do. So You must be His prophet. We know when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things; but Who are You?"
Oh, my. There never was but One could ever say this. He said, "I'm He Who speaks with you."
She recognized it. That was the Messiah that she'd been taught that was coming. She knowed He'd be a prophet, a God-prophet. So she said...

L-62 She dropped her water pot, or set it down, or what, and she ran into the city. And watch her message. She ran in, said, "Come see a Man Who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very sign of the Messiah? Isn't this the very Messiah? Don't our Scriptures tell us that when He comes, that's what He will do?"
And the Bible said that the men of that city believed Him to be the Messiah because of the testimony of the woman that He had told her the things that she'd done. Is that Scripture? Saint John 4.


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