<TITLE>14. Par 121-130</TITLE>L-121 Now, remember, there's only three races of people on the earth; that's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. We know that, if we believe the Bible. They all started from them three children, Noah's children: Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan.
Did you notice Peter with the keys to the Kingdom? The first one he opened it to was the Jews, at Pentecost. Is that right? And Philip went down and preached to the Samaritans; they had been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus, but had not received the Holy Ghost as yet; and they sent up and got Peter to come down and laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Is that right? Acts 10:49, "While Peter yet spake these Words, the Holy Ghost fell upon them that heard the Word." See? Now, notice them three people: Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans.

L-123 Now, here the Jews and the Samaritans was looking for a Messiah. Now, Jesus was on His road to Jericho, from Jerusalem to Jericho, but He had need go by Samaria.
Now, remember St. John 5:19, Jesus said, after passing the pool of Bethesda, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Did you get it? Jesus said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself (That's Him.) but what I (not hear the Father, but) see the Father doing." Now, that Scripture is right, or the rest of them might be wrong. He said, "Before I do anything, I see by vision what the Father shows Me to do, and then I go do it." See? It was just all around them. "But you--no man can come unless the Father draws him." That's true.
So He had need go by Samaria, and He went up around Samaria. And it was about twelve o'clock. And He sent His disciples in, when He come to the city of Sychar, and He sent His disciples in to get vittles: food. And while they were gone, a woman of Sychar come out.

L-126 Now, she was a woman that we'd call a woman of ill fame, probably a beautiful, young woman that took the wrong road and she was living wrong. And she come out to get water. 'Cause she can't come out... I've been in the country myself, and their customs are still the same. A woman of that type associates not with decent women; so she can't; she can't come to the well same time they're there or anything. And so--so she come to the well after the rest of them had got their water; she come out to get water.
And when she did, she stopped, and was letting down the windle, it's got two hooks, and just put it over the pot handle like this. It's not a bucket; it's kind of a pot like made out of clay, and they let it down into the well, and windle it back up. And so she started to let the bucket down, and she heard Someone say, "Woman, bring Me a drink." And she looked over. It was kind of a little panoramic like this here, where the city public well is out there, out of Sychar. And then she looked over there, and there set a middle-aged Jew. Now, He was really only about thirty-two.

L-128 But He'd just got through, in St. John 6, where they told Him He looked like He was fifty. But, of course, His work had done that, perhaps. Said, "You're not a man over fifty years old, and say you seen Abraham? We know you're crazy now."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That's right. They didn't understand It, yet being as ecclesiastical and intelligent as they could be. But intelligence ain't to know God; you have to forget all that to know God. No.

L-130 And there they were. So this woman said... Now, she was of what we call today a prostitute, and there she was. She said, "Sir, it's not custom for you Jews to ask me, a woman of Samaria, of something, because we have no dealings." In other words, there's a segregation.
He said, "Woman, 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." What was He doing? Contacting her spirit.
Now remember, He had need go up to Samaria. The Father just said, "Go up to Samaria." He did nothing till the Father showed Him.


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