<TITLE>18. Par 67-69</TITLE>L-67 So she slips up real quick. She stands, the Bible said, behind Him. She got to thinking, "Oh, oh, I'm in the Presence of God." A strange feeling always comes over you when you come in that attitude. But if you come in the attitude that Pharisee had, you'll have the same feeling he had: nothing to it. But just come in that attitude if you want to see Jsus. See what kind of a feeling comes over you. Let that old heart melt within you this morning towards Him. Listen to His still small Voice. There'll be a different attitude.
She slips up. He was setting there. She thought, "Oh, oh, I'm so nervous. I don't know what to do. If I get around, maybe He might run me out of here. Oh, what... Well, I'm nothing--I'm nothing anyhow." Now, when you get to thinking that you're nothing anyhow. If you're afraid you're going to ruin your prestige, then you'd better stay away in the first place. "I'm nothing to begin with."

L-68 So she run around in front of Him and she looked. Then she was close. That's what you want to get, just a little closer look at Him. Maybe you're looking at Him too far away. You're looking at Him way back yonder two thousand years ago. What about Him this morning? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever: same power, same signs. "The works that I do shall you also." Brother Demos awhile ago quoted it in King James, "Greater than this shall you do." But the right translation, and anyone knows, is "More than this shall you do," not greater. No one could do any greater, but more of the same great works. He raised the dead and stopped nature. Nothing else could be done any greater, but more.
Why? He's in His church universal, the great holy Apostolic Pentecostal catholic church, around the world: Jsus in every member. He was only in one Man, God was then. Now, God's in His whole church. Right this hour people's being healed. Right this very minute people's receiving the Holy Ghost. If He was just standing here alone in a man form as He was then, He could only be talking to this audience. But now He talks the world over in the Holy Ghost.

L-69 So there she was in His Presence. She moved around. I can see those little eyes look up at her, and her heart nearly failed. "There's the Man that forgive that woman and knowed her heart. He knew that woman of Samaria, Sychar. He--He knew she had five husbands, and He knows how guilty I am." He does. He knows how guilty you are. He knows just how lowdown every one of us are. He knows us.
She looked Him in the face, and she recognized it. Now, she never looked over at Pharisee, or looked at the chart to see how many members belonged to the church, whether she'd join it or not. She looked at Jsus. She felt guilty, and she couldn't hold her tears any longer. And she looked down at His feet, and the tears begin to drop off on His feet. She was so ashamed. She fell down on her knees, she... He seen her. She couldn't hold her tears any longer.
There's something about when you get around Jesus, you start crying, not with a cold... I ain't go no use for these cold, starchy confessions, and putting your name on a book and joining the church. You got to die to yourself, be borned anew.


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