<TITLE>10. Par 97-109</TITLE>L-97   Jesus. Quickly now before we close. One day, He was going down to Jericho, which was below the hill. But He had need go by Samaria, and He went a way around a city named Sychar.

L-98 Now there is three races of people. Believe what you want to, but there is. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. Now notice, when the Jews, they were looking for a Messiah. And the Samaritan was half Jew and Gentile, they were looking for a--a Messiah. But the Gentile, we the Anglo-Saxon, we were heathens, Philistines and whatmore, see.

L-99 But notice, He only comes to those who is looking for Him. He will only heal, tonight, those who are looking for Him to heal. He will only save those who are looking to be saved.

L-100   And notice Him now as He sends the disciples into the little city of Sychar, to get some--some victuals. While they were gone, a pretty, young woman come out, and she was a woman of ill fame. We would call her, today, maybe streetwalker. Her parents might have turned her out when she was a little girl, and that's the way she made her living, but there was something in that little lady's heart. She come about eleven o'clock, 'cause she couldn't come with the rest of the maids. If anybody has ever, here, been in India and the Eastern countries, as the customs never change, they cannot associate together, the right and wrong people. So they...

L-101   She come up, and Jesus was sitting there. In a little panoramic something like this, the vines grow over the back of a well. And the city public well was there, and the people come out to get water. And she come about almost noon, to get her water. When, the maids come early of the morning, to get the water, and they up there do their washing and things like that. Her way of making a living was a different way. So she come around noon, to get hers, when the maids wasn't there, for she'd have been drove away from the well.

L-102 And as she, not noticing no one sitting there, she put the little hooks in over the pot and let it down by the windle, into the well, and she started to draw it up. She heard a voice saying, "Woman, give Me a drink." And she looked over there, and there was a Man sitting there, which was a Jew.

L-103   He must have looked a little older than what He really was, because He was only thirty, about thirty-three, and the Bible said, "He looked to be fifty." You know, the Jews said, "Thou art a Man not over fifty, and say You 'seen Abraham'?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See?

L-104 So His beard must have been a little gray, or something, as she looked. And she looked at Him. His work must have had a tremendous effect upon His physical life. And she said...
He said, "Bring Me a drink."

L-105 And she said, "It's not customary for you Samarit-... or for you Jews to ask we women of Samaria such a question."

L-106 And He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you would ask Me for a drink."

L-107 Now she said, "The well is deep." What was He doing? He was contacting her spirit, see. The Father...

L-108 He said, in Saint John 5:19, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Now remember that. Put that down on your books, see. Jesus never did one thing until He saw in a vision what to do. That's right. Not hear; "what I see." "The Son can do nothing but what He sees the Father doing, then that doeth the Son likewise." He acted it off in drama. No man can do anything without really but what God tells him to do. Now notice, and the Father perhaps told Him to go up to Samaria.

L-109   And then this woman spoke to Him. He said, carried a conversation, to contact her spirit. And then when He been talking about "worshiping here at Jerusalem," the first thing you know, He found out what her trouble was. We all know what it was. She had too many husbands. And so He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
And she said, "I--I don't have any husband."


<A HREF="P11">Next Page</A>