<TITLE>20. Par 227-239</TITLE>L-227 {259-2} Walks up there, Jesus standing there, just an ordinary little Fellow. Walked up--and said, "Why, your name is Simon, and your father's name was Jonas." That deflated him. Why? that little Eternal Life seed struck in there. Yes, sir.
Said, "Wait a minute. How's that? You never did see me, neither did you know my dad 'cause he'd been dead for years, but here you come tell me that. Now, I know that the Bible says..." (Now, that's not go back to what the elders says.) but "the Bible said that the Messiah would be a prophet. There He is. That's Him."

L-229 {259-4} One day He passed through Samaria going down through there with a bunch of Jews. He left them. And this little ill-famed woman come out, maybe a pretty little lady, you know; and she'd been turned out on the street as a kid, and she was going through there. Maybe she was thinking about something. She walked up there, and set the bucket down, and she started to let the windle down, you know, get the water, and she heard a Man say, "Bring Me a drink."
She looked around and there set kind of a middle-aged Jew. She said, "Say, aren't you a Jew? You shouldn't do that. It's not customary for you to talk to me. I'm a Samaritan."
He said, "But if you knowed Who you're talking to, you'd bring--you'd ask Me to give you a drink."
She said, "Where's your bucket? Where's your string?"
"Well," He said, "the water that I give is Life."
"The what? (See?) Why," she said, "why, you all want to worship in Jerusalem. And our fathers worshipped in..."
"Oh," He said, "that's right," but said, "we Jews know what we worship," but said, "you know, the time is coming when--when men will not worship in Jerusalem or in this mountain." He said, "They're going to worship God in the Spirit, because He is a Spirit; He's Spirit and Truth."
Well, she begin to study, you know.
He said, "Go, get your husband, and come here."
She said, "My husband? I haven't got any husband."
Oh, He said, "That's the truth." Said--said, "You've been running around with five and got the sixth one now." And said, "You--you've had five. And--and you--you know, you--you told the truth."

L-236 {260-2} Watch. What was it? That Light struck that seed that had been laying there that was spoke by God. Yes, sir. The seed was on the earth. When God moved the water away and the sun hit it, it come up. That's right. See? That's all it needed was sun. It needed light. Yes, sir.
And then when the Holy Spirit in Him moved away her past life and showed it to her, that Light struck it; she said, "Sir, I perceive You're a prophet." She said, "That's how... We know--I know it, that when Messiah comes, that's what He's going to be, and we ain't had a prophet for hundreds of years. We have never had a true prophet for hundreds of years." And she said, "How... You tell me about my husband and told me how many I've had and so forth... Why," said, "I don't understand this," said, "when Messiah cometh, well, He's going to do that, but Who are you?"
He said, "I'm He." That was it: A harlot.

L-239 {260-5} And the priest looked around and said... Well, they'd have to answer to their congregation, said, "Don't fool with that fellow. He's--he's possessed of a devil."
Now, that's the difference. That's the same thing today (See?), same thing today. Hits just exactly. Yup, yes, sir. She--she knew it because the Light struck it.
They... Them fishermen, woodsmen, farmers, tax-collectors, harlots, they seen in Him what the simple Scriptures said He would do, and the Pharisees couldn't see because of their tradition. Amen. They couldn't see because their traditions; but the prostitute, the farmers, and all them, they saw it. All that was predestinated, when the doubts rolled away, the seed went to growing. That's right.


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