<TITLE>10. Par 97-108</TITLE>L-97 And you couldn't stop her, because she had found something that was real. Her sins was revealed. And when her sins and wrong was revealed, she can remember tonight, in Glory. She can remember that there was a Spring for her. There was a place where, all the creeds and--and the churches had turned her down, but yet she found a oasis. She found a place where there is Somebody Who cared. What a rejoicing!

L-98 And how we can rejoice with her, we who was bound down with creeds that pulled us away from God, and we found a Fountain filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. There we lost all of our starchy condition. And--and we drank from the Fountain and refreshed. And we remember the One who paid the price, that we could have His Spirit upon us, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. What a memory to remember by!

L-99   I imagine tonight that Hagar could have something to think about, too, when she had been put out, misunderstood. Now there's many of us here can think about Hagar, as she, her being misunderstood.

L-100 Who walks the right life with God, who takes the straight, narrow way, but what knows what to be misunderstood means? I'm misunderstood. Every person, all you brethren that try to live right, and you sisters, you're misunderstood.

L-101 Your neighbors think you're some old model, and they try to throw off on you. "Why don't you attend these societies? And why don't you have these card parties, when things?" And you shun those things. You're misunderstood.

L-102   So was Hagar misunderstood. And she had her child, little Ishmael, that was the fruit of her womb, from a legal marriage to her husband Abraham. And she was--she was a slave girl. And she had been given by her mistress, Sarah, to Abraham, to wife; which, polygamy was legal in them days. And she lawfully had married the man, because she had been given to him. She had bore the child, just what their hopes was. There's nothing the woman had done out of the way. And, yet, misunderstood by her mistress, and put her out into the wilderness to die. What a place to be!

L-103 And the water was spent from the bottle. Little Ishmael's throat was beginning to dry. He was crying for water. It got worse. And only a mother's heart could hear that baby cry of a little, parched lips in--in the desert somewhere, of her only child, and feeling his little body drying out, and he's dying. No water, just rocks and sand, as you would look out here in the deserts of Phoenix. Not a place. Misunderstood! What a time!

L-104   There she was, a slave girl, to begin with, and had tried to act in the right way that she was supposed to act. And here she's got the baby in her arms, and it dying. And she was so sad. She laid it under a little bush. And went about a bow-shot, and she knelt down to pray. And there appeared a well, oh, my, "The well of Him that liveth and seeth me." Still stands today. It was put there, some way. That well still stands as a memorial.

L-105 I haven't got education enough to pronounce it. But I--I tried it, a while ago, when I was writing some little notes. And I--I tried to pronounce it. I couldn't do it. But you know what it is. I--I call it one thing, another. I said, "I better not say that. It'll just show my ignorance worse."

L-106   But one thing I want to say. I know where there is another Well that was put down on the Day of Pentecost. It's just as open tonight as it was the time when it was opened back there, and the waters is just as fresh to every man or woman that wants to take the right road with God's Word, and walk with Him.

L-107 I come to this well, remembering Jesus Who made it possible that me, an alien, a drunkard's son, could come up to that Well and be pardoned of my sins, and drink of Eternal Life.

L-108 Oh, how Hagar must have felt when she seen that well! It saved the life of her and her child. She sure can remember that oasis, all the days of her life, and all--all through time that she can remember it.


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