<TITLE>18. Par 65-66</TITLE>L-65 Now, these Samaritans was looking for a Messiah. The Jews come, He showed Hisself as Messiah. And when He did that, they recognized that was the Messiah. Others didn't want to, because their church held them out of it. Well, you know what happened.
Then there was some Samaritans. One day, He was up here at Jerusalem and was going down to Jericho, which was right down the mountain, right down along the trail to Jericho. But He had need to go by Samaria. That would be like me going to my home in Indiana by going by the way of California, go way out of your way. I live in this direction. California, I suppose, is this way (See?), down the coast. And I have to go east.
But He went up around Samaria, and He stopped at a city called Sychar, and He sent His disciples away to get food. And while they were gone into the city of Sychar, what happened? Jesus was setting over against the hill, and out come a little woman from the city. That's found in Saint John the 4th chapter. Out come a woman from the city, called the woman of Samaria. Now, listen real close.

L-66 This woman come out. Now, she was a woman of bad reputation. Now, if we was going to say today, we'd say, "the lady of the red light," or something. Here's what was the matter with her. She had too many husbands. She'd had five husbands, and she was living with one then. So it wasn't hers.
So she come out to get the water about eleven o'clock, and she looked over there and saw a Jew that said, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
"Why," she said, "we have (in so much), we got segregation here. Why, You shouldn't ask me that. I'm a Samaritan, and You're a Jew. We have no dealings with one another."
What's He doing now? Now, you have to take my word. He's contacting her spirit. The Father told Him to go up there, but now here's the only person that He seen. So she come, so that must be the one. So He's contacting her spirit. He said...
She said, "Why, our fathers drank from..."
But He said... first He said, "I... If you would ask Me, I would give you waters you don't come here to draw."
She said, "Oh, the well's deep, and You have nothing to draw with."
He begin to talk to her. See, he was catching her spirit.
And she said, "Why, You worship at Jerusalem; we worship in this mountain," and so forth.
He said, "The hour is coming when the true worshippers will worship the Father in truth and spirit." He caught what her trouble was. He said, "Go, get your husband, and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "You've told the truth. For you've had five husbands, and the one you are now living with is not your husband."
Look at that little woman. She knowed more about God than half the preachers of this day, in her condition. She stopped. She was amazed.
Look at them... Look at those priests back there, said, "This man is Beelzebub, a fortuneteller."
But that little prostitute woman stopped, and said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art That prophet. We know when Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But Who are You?"
He said, "I'm He that speaks to you": Jesus yesterday.


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