<TITLE>12. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 "And we thought, 'Well, did we leave our Lord without a drink of water?'"
"And she said, 'Why, we have segregation here. You Jews shouldn't ask Samaritan women such things as that.'"
"He said, 'But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'd give you water you don't come here to draw.'"
"Said, 'Well, You have nothing to draw with.'"
"You remember, the conversation went on, and we were listening. And after while He looked her right straight in those big brown eyes of hers, and said, 'Go, get your husband and come here.' And the woman flatly denied of having a husband."
"And we thought, 'Uh-oh, oh, here's a slip-up. Now, what's He going to do?' He tells the woman that she has a husband, and go get her husband, and she says she does not have a husband. You remember, brethren, how we looked at one another?"
"And then we noticed our Lord in His still manner, as He looked her in the face, and said, 'Thou hast said right, because you've had five husbands; and the one you're living with now is not your husband, and you've said well.' And that woman, did you remember, brethren, what she said?"

L-42 How much different her testimony was to the preachers of that day. The preachers said He's a fortuneteller, a devil, Beelzebub. Anybody knows that fortunetelling is of the devil. And that's the reason that Jesus said to speak that, was to call the Holy Spirit working a fortuneteller or a devil, was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost and was unpardonable, calling the Spirit of God a devil.
So then he said... "That woman looked Him in the face, and her in her condition, a sinner..." (I hope I don't hurt anyone, but I've got to say something.) In being a prostitute, living with five husbands, six husbands, she knowed more about the Bible than half of the scholars in this nation knows.

L-43 What did she say? She looked straight at Him; she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet," not Beelzebub, like the preachers said, but a prophet. Said, "We know, we Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us all these things. That's the sign of the Messiah, when He comes. We know Jesus, Who... I mean, Messiah, Who's called the Christ, He will tell us these things. That's the sign will follow Him, because He's a prophet. And You must be a prophet also. But the Messiah... We haven't had a prophet for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, so... But when He comes He will tell us these things. You must be One of His Servants."
Jesus said (and the only One that ever could say it, or ever will say it); He said, "I am He Whom you're looking at. I am that Messiah."
She dropped that water pot. She had something more interesting then than the water pot. Into the city she went, and here's what she said to the men of the city: "Come, see a Man that told me the things that I have done. Isn't that the very Messiah?"

L-44 What would they say today? "Mental telepathy, psychologist, mind reader, fortuneteller." No wonder we got an atomic bomb with our name on it. You've got to spurn--you've got to spurn mercy... And there's nothing left but judgment after you've spurned mercy. That's right. You step over the borderline. You do it so simple. Many people think they have to do something great. Why, if they had only knowed who John was... You'd never know who's who until they're dead. He comes to the elected Church, and that's the only one that knows Him.
I challenge you to go back to the Bible and find any prophet that they didn't do the same thing. Jesus, they didn't know Who He was until He was dead, buried, and rose again.


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