<TITLE>13. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 We've had two thousand years since we've had it, but He said it would be in the evening time. The prophet said, "It shall be Light in the evening time. There'll be a day that won't be called night nor day."
Now, the s-u-n rises in the east and sets in the west. And the S-o-n, like the s-u-n of God, this is the S-o-n of God. He came first to the east. We've had a dismal day. We've had enough to join church, and make an organization, and bring some people in, put your names on books, and get forgiveness of your sins. But the prophet said, "In the evening time it shall be Light." It's what...
We're right here at the west coast. We're less than half-a-mile from the water. If we go across we're back east again. That's the reason sin's abounding. The waves have swept it up, and she's just contaminated. But He said, "It shall be Light in the evening time."

L-43 Now, He was dealing with the Samaritan woman, and the brethren in the boat said, "You know what? We all thought that He'd been caught in a trap. We wondered what He will do now? She denied it. She said, 'I have no husband.'"
But listen what He said. I can hear Andrew say, "But brethren, you remember what He said? He said, 'Thou has said true. You've got five husbands, and the one you're now living with is not your husband. You said well.'"
"Now, we thought this Samaritan woman, being an evil character, that she'd say (like the well-trained preachers did), say, 'Well, you must be Beelzebub.'" She knowed more about God than a lot of ministers does today. She said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." Now, listen to her words. Read it, Saint John 4: "I perceive that Thou art a prophet. We (we Samaritans), we know the Messiah is coming, and the Messiah will tell us these things. That's going to be the sign of the Messiah. But Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you."
And she run into the city, and she said, "Come, see a Man Who's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah? Isn't that the sign that the Messiah was supposed to show?
And the Bible says, "The men of Samaria believed on Him because what a woman told them that He done." Was that Jesus yesterday? That'd be Jesus today, if He's the same Messiah. (Much more we could go to. We haven't time.)

L-44 About that time they put the oars back in the water, pulled a few times. You know, all the time they were testifying, they were pretty quiet. But about time they quit testifying, about like the time when the church quits testifying, giving God praise and glory, Satan must've looked up over the hill, said, "Oh, that... I got them just where I want them. They've went off without Him."
I'm afraid that's what the church has done today. You've got so interested in whether you belong to the Foursquare, or the Assemblies, or the Oneness, or the Twoness, or whatever it is. You're so interested that you're not going to build a building a little bigger than the other one, or you're not going to do something a little bigger, or have a bigger Cadillac, or something better than the rest of them... I think on our big programs and our societies we've went off without Him.
Satan saw it and he begin to blow with his poison breath, kicking up the waters. Said, "I'll drown them."


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