<TITLE>09. Par 27-29</TITLE>L-27 And now, notice Peter with the keys... To prove that now, Peter with the keys of the kingdom... How many believe God gave him the keys? Jesus did. Sure He did. And when did He use them? In Acts 2, to the Jews. Then went right down to the Samaritans, although Philip had went down and baptized them in the name of Jesus Christ. But they had not received the Holy Ghost as yet, because Peter had the key. Come down and laid his hands upon them and they received the Holy Ghost.
And then, guess what's the next generation, the next class? The Gentile. And he went up and opened the Gospel to the Gentiles. And from that, there was no more need of Simon Peter's keys, 'cause it already opened to all the world.

L-28 Now, the Gentiles wasn't looking for no Messiah, but the Jews and Samaritans was. How did He declare Hisself? The same thing that He did at Sodom. What did He do to the Samaritans? When the woman come out... The woman that was... The prostitute, came to the well, or the woman living in adultery... She had six husbands, five she'd got rid of and was living with one then. And she came to the well to get water. And Jesus saw her, and He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
And she said, "You... not customary. We are... got a segregation around here. You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan woman. You shouldn't ask me such a thing as that. We don't have no dealings... one another."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
And the conversation went on till He contacted her spirit. Then He said He found what she wanted, He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You've said the truth, for you've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband."
She said, "Sir..." Listen at this woman. Now, this is a Samaritan. Said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now, we know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things." That was to be the sign of the Messiah.
And Jesus said, "I am He that speaks with you."
And what did she do? She dropped the water pot, and ran into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I have done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And the Bible said the man of the city believed Jesus to be the Messiah, because He had told the woman the things that she had done.
Now, you produce one time He did that to a Gentile. He never. But Jesus said when the Gentiles... or the Pharisees, and preachers of that day, said He was of the wrong spirit doing that, that His gospel wasn't true because they... He was tearing down their churches and their organizations, calling them a generation of vipers and everything else, foxes and everything that He could think of: He was really splitting them open.
But yet, He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the works." That's true of any man. God doesn't back His ministry up, then it's not God's ministry.

L-29 Notice then, this woman, she said, "Come, see this Man. And the... the people of Samaria believed on it." He never did one more time. He just did it that one time. But the woman was... told the man that Jesus did it. Secondhandedly, through the woman, the whole city believed on Jesus, because of that one miracle.
I wonder what's going to happen to America? That prostitute will stand in the judgment and condemn tens of millions of church members in the judgment. 'Cause not only once, but thousands times thousands of times it's happened across the country, around the world, examined by science, every critic it could go through it's went through, and still come out one hundred percent pure: the Holy Spirit, the Word backing it up. Where are we going to stand, brethren, at that day? Just think it over. And that may be before morning. We're at the end. I'll get more in that tomorrow.


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