<TITLE>13. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 "You remember how we all stood with our ears pricked up and--and the chills going over us. What's the matter? We wondered. Had our Master been caught in a trap? Now, He tells the woman she's got a husband, and she says, 'I haven't got a husband.'"
"Remember how we thought? Then what did He... Just as cool as He could be, said, 'Thou hast said well, because you've had five and the one you're living with now is not your husband.' The scene changed right quick."
"And what did this woman say to Him? 'Sir, I am a Samaritan woman. I may be living in sin (done a little something like this) but I know the Scriptures. I come out of a home that taught the Bible. I... You must be a prophet. I know, we're taught, all Samaritans taught that there's a Messiah coming, Whose name... Who will be the Christ (means the Anointed One), and when He comes, He will tell us these things. That will be the sign of the Messiah. You must be His prophet.'"
"Jesus said, 'I am He.' There never was a Man that could say that but Him. That's right. There never will be. 'I am He.'"
"And she left her water pot and run into the city and said, 'Come, see a Man.' Told the men in the street. 'Come, see a Man Who told me what I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?'"

L-44 If that was the sign of the Messiah yesterday, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, it's the same today. It's got to be.
"Yes, we remembered that. How that the woman said that." And how that the Bible said that all the city believed Him to be the Messiah, because the woman told the people in the city that He--they never had met before. In the conversation, He said, "Go get your husband."
And she said, "I have none. He said, 'You've got five.' And you men know that that's the kind of life I've lived, and that convinced me that He was the Messiah, because He knowed the secret of my heart."

L-45 Now, listen. Does not the Bible say that--that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us? Now, to you Bible readers, does not the Book of Hebrews tell us in the 4th chapter that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword piercing to the asunder of the marrow of the bone, and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart? The Word, and when the living Word, which is Christ, comes into our midst, is not It--It's still a discerner of the thoughts of the heart? The living Word, Christ, the living Word. He is the Word, and He's the living Word.
This is the letter Word, and when the letter Word is brought with the living Word, It's sharper than a two-edged sword and a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. Jesus looked upon His audience and perceived their thoughts. Some of them stood by and said, "He's a fortuneteller. He's Beelzebub, a devil."
Jesus said, "I forgive you for that, calling the Spirit of God an evil thing, an evil work. I forgive you for that, but someday the Holy Spirit's coming; and you speak one word against That, it'll never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come."
Then what--what is blaspheming the Holy Ghost? See? Call the Spirit of God an unclean thing. It's blasphemy. That's what blasphemy is [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.], calling the Spirit of God an evil spirit. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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