<TITLE>37. Par 272-279</TITLE>L-272 And then you in the prayer line, now is it... Which is the first person? Just come here. Now, just stand right there. That's--that's good enough (See?) stand right there. I believe, awhile ago, you raised your hand I didn't know you. That's right. We're strangers to one another. All right.
Now, I want to ask this audience something. Here's my hands up before God, and she raised her hand that we knowed one another not. Now, isn't this a Bible picture of St. John 4, when Jesus met a woman at the well? A man and a woman met for the first time. And what did Jesus do? He went to talking to her. What was He doing? Now, He said, "The Father..."

L-274 He had need to go up to Jerusalem, or up to Samaria. Now, see, the--the Jews had seen that sign, for He was a Prophet and He showed the sign of a prophet. And there's--there's only three races of people; that's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. Now, the Jews had seen their sign, 'cause they was looking for a Messiah. They saw it. Now, the Samaritans must see it, because they was looking for a Messiah.
Not the Gentiles, not one time did He ever perform that on a Gentile, but He prophesied "In the last days..." like He did, "As it was in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot," when that Angel come talked to Lot, told Sarah what she did in the tent behind Him. Jesus said that would repeat again at the last day. How many Bible readers know that? See, right. See? Now, we're in the last days; it's the Gentile's time. If He... See, I said in the beginning of my sermon, if God does anything, makes Hisself known one time, He's got to remain that way.

L-276 So how did--how did Nathanael know He was the Son of God? Because that He told him where he was at, something about him.
How did this woman know? Look, let's take her conversation, see how much--how much more she knowed about it than all them preachers down there. She went out there. She might've been a beautiful woman. She was going to get a bucket of water. She pulled up the bucket of water. He was a Jew; she was a--a Samaritan. And so, pulled up bucket of water, and over against the little panoramic there where the well is. Still remains there at Sychar. So then He was setting there like that, He said, "Woman, bring Me a drink." She turned around. Now, she was a woman of ill fame, you know; she'd been married too many times. And said, "Bring Me a drink." He...
She said, "It's not customary for you Jews to ask a Samaritan woman something like that."

L-279 The conversation... See? The Father had sent Him up there. Now remember, He did nothing till the Father showed Him. See? So now He set there, so what was He doing? He was trying to find what her trouble was, so she could take a message to that people. Said... Wanted to find her trouble, you know. Said, "Bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
She said, "Well, the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with. How would You get water out of here?"
And went ahead talking, the conversation, you know, about worshipping at Jerusalem. What was He doing? He was trying to find her spirit to see what was wrong. He found it. You know what it was? She had five husbands. And He said, "Go, get your husband and come here." She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "You've said well. You've said well, for you've had five and the one you're living with now is not your husband."
Now watch. Now, she didn't say, "He's a fortuneteller," like them preachers did. She didn't say, "He's Beelzebub." She said, "Sir (Listen.), I perceive that You're a Prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh He'll tell us of these things." That was the sign of the Messiah.
Jesus said, "I'm He that talks to you."
She ran into the city, and said, "Come and see a Man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"


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