<TITLE>14. Par 128-140</TITLE>L-128 They hadn't yet fully been converted. We still have that type today, that thinks that a Christian oughtn't to talk to the drunk or to the prostitute. That's the person they ought to talk to. That's the person they should. That's the man that's down. That's the person to lift up. That's the one that needs God.

L-129   "So we listened to Him, and--and the conversation went on. And finally He said to her, 'Go, get your husband and come here.' And she said, 'I don't have any husband.'"

L-130 And Andrew said, "You remember how we all looked at one another? 'My, one time He was wrong! There's a slip-up, somewhere, because here He tells her, "Go, get your husband," and she says back, "I don't have any husband." And He tells her, "You've told the truth."' And then we all were surprised. 'What were we going to say now? Now He's told the woman she has a husband; and she turns around, says she hasn't got a husband. And here's our Master, and here's that Messiahic sign that we was to look for, and here it had failed.' And we were astonished, one to another, as we looked.

L-131 "And then He said, 'You have told the truth. Because, you have five husbands. And the one that you have now, and are living with, is not your husband.' And you remember how that woman looked at Him and said, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet'?"

L-132   Now, the--the--the great world council of churches that day, when they looked at it, they said, "This Man is a fortuneteller. This Man has a devil. He is Beelzebub." Would you think that religious leaders could draw such a conception as that, in the face of the time that it was supposed to happen, and according to the Scriptures? But they did it. And they still do it. Now, they said, "It's, oh, it's an evil spirit on the Man. That's what He's doing. He's just--he's just Beelzebub. That's what it is."

L-133 But this little, ill-famed woman said, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet."

L-134 How'd she know He was a prophet? Because He told her something was in her life, said, "You are a prophet."

L-135 And she said, "Now, we know, we Samaritans, we know that when the Messiah cometh, He's to do these things. He tells us all things."
And Jesus looked her in the face and said, "I am He."

L-136 And that settled it. There was no more question. The sign had been given. She had received it. She knew it. She dropped her water pot, and into the city she went.

L-137   Now, according to tradition; and anybody that's traveled, knows this. She wasn't supposed to do that. That's unethical for that famed woman like that, that type of--of woman, to say anything to a man on the street. No, sir.

L-138 But what? She had found something. She was like a house on fire, on a windy day. You couldn't put her out. She had found something real. She run through the street, saying, "Come, see a Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah Himself?" Amen. God give us some more converts like that. "You know we're looking for a Messiah," said. "We're looking for Him. And there sets a Man right out there at the well now, that told me the things I've done. Isn't that the very Messiahic sign we're supposed to look for?"

L-139 And they brought Him into the city. He never did it one more time. But the Bible said that the men of the city believed on Him because of the testimony of that woman. Amen. How God can do things! They believed it. And this Man had never been in that city before, and stand there and tell that woman she had five husbands. And it was the truth. And it was the hour, and the time, and they believed it.

L-140   Why can't we believe it? Why can't Tucson believe it? Why can't the church world believe it? Why can't America believe it? Why can't the world believe it? Here is the Scripture says it's supposed to be here at this time, and here it is with us.


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