<TITLE>13. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 "You remember how our hearts like to failed us? We thought, 'Now, now, there's something wrong. Here our Master says to that woman, 'Go, get your husband.' And we had seen the Messiahic sign over Him, and everything, and we knowed He was the Messiah, and here--see His works, and knowed He was that prophet that God said He would raise up. We knowed He was, but yet here's a woman denying that He's telling the truth. Just like Sarah denied before the Angel, 'I never said it.' But you see what the Angel said.
So they stood there just a moment, "and He... Said, 'I have no husband.'"
"And then our Master looked her straight in the face and said, 'You have told the truth.'"
"Now, we couldn't understand that, why it was, here one minute He said, 'You have a husband,' and she denied that she had a husband, then He turns back, and said, 'You told the truth.'"
"Then you remember how all flusterated we were? And then He said to her, 'You have told the truth, because you've had five husbands, and the one that you're now living with is not your husband. So you have told the truth.'"

L-50 "How we were all alarmed, see what the woman would say. We know when He did this, the Pharisees, the church, the unbelievers, they said, 'This man is a fortuneteller, Beelzebub, a devil.' But this little woman in her condition, turned, and looked Him in the face, and said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things, but Who are You?'"
"And He said, 'I am he that speaks with you.' And on that she ran into the city and begin to tell the men of the city that 'Come, see a Man Who's told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah.'"

L-51 Now, that would go right over the top of an unbeliever. They'd never know it. They were predestinated to disbelieve the Word. You believe that? Jude said so. "Men of old, foreordained to this condemnation," to rise up in the last days to disbelieve God's Word. How many knows that's the Scripture? Sure, foreordained of God to be unbelievers. What a pitiful shape. Unbelievers, can't help it, no more than Esau could help being Esau, or Pharaoh being Pharaoh. What a pitiful condition. And if you are a believer tonight in the Word of God, how blessed your eyes are to live in this day to see the glory of God, how it's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit throughout the world, if you're not so churched together, and wound together by creeds and denominations, that you can't even listen to the Word of God.
What a horrible condition to be into: twice dead, plucked up by the roots, not a hope of ever being saved. That's what the Scripture says: so dead that they don't even understand nothing but their creeds.

L-52 Notice that woman. She wasn't dead. She caught it quickly. She was a seed predestinated to Eternal Life. And as soon as that flashed over her, quickly she caught it. She knew. She said, "Sir, we know when Messiah cometh He will tell us these things. Who art Thou?"
And He said, "I'm He."
And she believed it, and went and told the men in the city. And they come out and invited Him in. He never did it one more time. But the Bible said that they believed Jesus because of the testimony of the woman.
Now, that's as much Scripture as I know how to place it. It's right here before me and you read it the same. Saint John, the 4th chapter is where you find it.


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