<TITLE>13. Par 146-157</TITLE>L-146 And she was going along there, going up about eleven o'clock. She couldn't come early in the morning when the righteous women come. And they packed their water up on their head, and the jugs, and went back down. And so she couldn't come, mix with them. They, they had a segregation of that in that day, the right and wrong didn't mix together. The immoral stayed in their place, so she couldn't come with the rest of them. They wouldn't let her come. So after everybody had got their waters and went back... She come for Better.

L-147   And then she come up there with this pot on her head, no doubt she was going along, thinking, "Now, the man that I married, got a hold of last night, I'm doubting him. He's a man, he acts so funny. I--I just don't know about him. I haven't got a chance. I'm ousted from society. And I can't go to those churches, they don't... Just look at them! I don't know what to do. I'm in distress. And I've been reading the Bible; surely, someday, that Prophet will come on the scene. Now I know they've claimed that there is no such a thing, and, 'this is so maybe a hundred years off, and a thousand years off. We've been looking for it for thousands of years, and it's never happened yet, so we ain't looking for it now. Everything is so. Oh, no, we got churches and things. We don't need nothing like that now.'" So then she was going along there, thinking.

L-148 You know, when you think about Him, that's when He appears to you. Like we had last night, when they was on their road to Emmaus.

L-149   When she thought on those things, she heard a Man say, "Bring Me a drink."

L-150 What about it? In her darkest of hours, when her morals was gone. Maybe a pretty little lady, been turned on the street to live that. Sometimes it's not the little girl's fault, it's her parents' fault, to let her get out like that. And there she was, maybe her little curls all hanging down; she was depleted, going along, weary, and nobody had anything to do with her, the child, and may be a big story behind it.

L-151 Anyhow, I know one thing, she had read the Bible, and she believed the Bible. And there was a little seed laying down in her heart, says, "If it ever happens, I'll know it." She was predestinated to that.

L-152   Look at that old Judas standing there and acting like what he did. It was black down in the bottom of his heart. The Light was shining up here in his works, but down in his heart he didn't believe It. And here she was... See, the Light couldn't get down to that. But here she was, believe, she believed It, but her life was blacked out; when the Light struck, It took the blackness out. But when the Light struck up here, It blacked it all over. That's the difference.

L-153 See, she was born for that purpose. She, she said, when He told her how many husbands she had, she... What happened? She got all at once excited like. She got in distress. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. I know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll do these things."

L-154 Then He called her. Then He called her. "I am He, He that speaks with you." She recognized it by the Word of God. He called her from her sins, to a Life. And her name is in the Bible, and she has got immortal Life today.

L-155 He can call you the same way, because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The...

L-156 Yeah, her morals was gone, but still she knew that He had that discernment. She knowed that that had to be the Messiah. Then when Jesus said, "I am He, I am He," she knowed that was.

L-157   One time the disciples was out on the boat, all hopes was gone. The storms, they had went away without Jesus, and the storms was just--just like it was at Lazarus' house. All hopes was gone. The little old boat had waterlogged. And they was screaming and crying, and maybe praying and going on, and the lightning a flashing, and the boat filled up with water, the mast poles dropped down, the oars broke, and they were holding one another, crying.


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