<TITLE>19. Par 63-65</TITLE>L-63 And when Peter walked up into His Presence, He said, "Your name is Simon; and you're the son of Jonas." Talk about persistent. He was so persistent till Jesus said, "You're a rock." Yes, sir. "You're really going to stay in the path. I'll give you the keys to the Kingdom: and whatever you bind on earth will be bound; what you loose in heaven will be loosed. And whatever you loose or bind in heaven and earth, I'll do it in heaven as you do it on earth." Persistent. I'll say he was persistent. Yes, sir. He had perseverance. Yes, sir. All right.
Philip was standing there and he saw that. He was very perseverant, so much that he crowded in on one of his denominational friends and said--persuaded him to come see for himself: very persistent, sure.

L-64 The woman at the well, she was out there, and ill-fame, in a bad condition, and one day when Jesus come up to the well and saw her standing there, and asked for a drink, and she scolded Him. Said, "Why, you're a Jew, and you ask me such a thing as that?" Said, "Why, you know good and well you, a young Jewish man, ain't got no business asking me, a Samaritan woman, such a thing as that. We don't have any dealings with one another. Don't you know there's segregation? Where you from anyhow? (See?) Don't ask me such a thing as that."
He looked her in her face and said, "But if you knew Who you were speaking with, you'd ask Me for a drink."
Oh, persistent. He knowed where He was standing too, didn't He? The Father had sent Him up there, you know. He had need to go by Samaria when He come to Sychar. And then when He stood there, and we see Him standing there, very persistent. He didn't take her insult. And she looked at Him, and He begin that...
She said, "Why, we worship in this mountain, and you say in Jerusalem." And the conversation went on.
And He said, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "Well, I don't have any. What are You asking me such a thing as that for?"
He said, "You said... you told the truth. You've had five and the one you're living with now is not yours."

L-65 Oh, brother, that changed things. She stopped. She said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Now, we haven't had one of them for many hundreds of years. But we're taught that we're going to get a Messiah. And when that Messiah comes, He will be a prophet."
He said, "I'm He that speaks with you." Oh, did she get persistent. She got perseverant.
Now, remember, if anyone knows the oriental customs, a woman of that fame has no business telling men nothing. That's right. No, sir. They won't even listen to her. A woman of ill-fame, coming down the street marked with ill-fame, the men won't have nothing to do with her. That's right. Her voice is nothing.
But, brother, she got awful persistent. She got the priest and she got all of them. She was determined they was going to know. She said, "Look." In other words, "Search your Scriptures. The Man told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah." Quieten her voice if you could. You couldn't do it. She was persistent. "That is the Messiah. There's our chance. That's Who we've waited on, and there He stands."
And with that woman's tremendous persistency, even the people in the city believed on it. Didn't say, "Now, you come tell me what... Who am I? Where did I come from?" They didn't believe that. The persistence of that woman proved that He was Messiah. And the Bible said, "And the people of that city believed on Him because of the testimony of the woman." She had struck fire. Oh, my.


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