<TITLE>12. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Well, He seen this woman, and that must've been the one. So He began to talk to her to find her spirit. Now, remember, Jesus could perceive the thoughts and the intents of the heart. And does not our Bible tell us (Hebrews, the 4th chapter) that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing to the asunder and marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart and mind? The Word of God.
Jesus was that Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." There was the Word of God piercing into that woman's soul, finding where her trouble was. How many in my class tonight knows what her trouble was? Raise up your hand. Sure. She had five husbands. So He said, "Go, get your husband, and come here."
"Why," she said, "I have no husband."
And Andrew said, "Brethren, you remember what we thought? Oh, oh. Oh, oh. He's made a mistake this time. He's sure wrong there on this Samaritan. It might work on Jews, but I don't know about Samaritans. He sure made a mistake now, 'cause she says herself she doesn't have any husband."

L-39 Now, if you'll just remember, the same thing happened to a Jew, too, one time. When the Angel of God went down in human flesh at Sodom and Gomorrah, there was one of the queens of the Jewish women, Sarah... A modern Billy Graham and Oral Roberts goes down into the city of Sodom and preached the Gospel, but there was One of Them stayed back, talking to the elect Church. He never went down to the church in Sodom; He come to the called out, the elected church, Abraham. We've just been through it.
And while He was talking to Abraham... Now, He was a stranger, and He said, "Abraham..." Now, remember, He never called him Abram. Just a few days before that his name had been changed from Abram to Abraham. Said, "Abraham, where is Sarah (Not Sarai. Sarah, her prince name--just been given her a few days before)? Where is Sarah, thy wife?"

L-40 How did He know he was married? And how did He know he had a wife? How did He know her name was Sarah?
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."
He said, "I'm going to visit you. I'm going to bring it to pass. You've waited twenty-five years for this baby. I'm going to visit you according to the time of life by her."
And Sarah, in the tent behind Him, laughed within herself, and thought in her heart, "Me, an old woman nearly a hundred years old, can have pleasure with my lord again, my husband? Me, an old woman a hundred, and him around a hundred years old? Could I ever have pleasure again with him? It just can't be so."
And the Angel, the Man that was a human being, eating flesh, drinking milk, and eating corn bread (And Abraham said it was God.), He said, "Why did Sarah laugh in the tent, saying within herself 'How could this be?'" She doubted.

L-41 Now, remember, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man," that that same Spirit that was represented in human flesh, that Abraham called Elohim... Anybody know what Elohim means? Sure, the Almighty, the self-existing One.
Abraham, the patriarch, called Him Elohim. He represented Himself in a body of flesh, eating and drinking and just like any other human being. And He done that sign to the elected Church before He destroyed Sodom. Oh, don't miss it, brethren. That hour has arrived. Elohim, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. While His body's setting at the right hand to make intercession for His Church, that same Spirit dwelling in His people, God manifested in the form of the Holy Ghost in His people, doing the same thing (Do you see it?) to the Gentiles.


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