<TITLE>11. Par 121-137</TITLE>L-121 Sometimes today, we say we're looking for Him, and put millions and billions of dollars in things, and building institutions and things. I wonder. And missionaries starving on the field, I know them, out there tonight preaching, without a pair of shoes on. We put millions and millions of dollars to nonsense, and then, why, our own acts condemn our testimony.

L-122   But here this young woman, as we know her, she was a Samaritan. Jesus was on His road to Jericho, which is below Jerusalem. But He went around to Samaria and came to a city called Sychar, and sent the disciples in to buy victuals, foods. And while they were gone, this young woman come up to get water, and He--He said to her, "Bring me a drink."

L-123 And she looked around, seeing Him being a Jew, she said, "It's not customary that You would ask me that." Said, "You're a Jew."

L-124 He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I give you water you don't come here to draw."

L-125 So the conversation went on, about religion, finally He contacted her life. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."

L-126 Said, "You've told the truth. You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband."

L-127   Now a few days before there, the teachers and rabbis of that day, the men that ought to have knowed better, said, "He is Beelzebub. He does that by an evil spirit." They had to answer their congregation. So they made up, said, "It's an evil spirit."

L-128 And Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for that," the atonement hadn't been made. "But when the Holy Ghost is come to do the same thing, to speak against It will never be forgiven," and we know it happened when Titus, after they had rejected the Holy Spirit, Titus burnt the temple and scattered the Jews to all over the world. And they're just now gathering again, is fulfilling Scripture.
Now, notice, now this young woman.

L-129 When, those Jews seen that done, and called It, "a evil spirit, an unclean spirit," the Bible said, "calling the Spirit of God, doing the work, an unclean Spirit, a devil," like a fortuneteller or some evil person.

L-130   And then, quickly, this woman knowed different. When He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I have none."

L-131 He said, "You've said truth, 'cause you have five, and the one you're living with, not your husband."

L-132 Look at this. Quickly she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Remember, they had had no prophets for nearly five hundred years. Malachi was the last Hebrew prophet. "We, we know that Messiah is coming, and this will be the identification of Messiah. We know, when He comes, this is what He'll do."
Jesus said, "I am He that speaks with you."

L-133 And she took a policy. Uh-huh. And into the city she went, to scatter the good News, that she had found the Messiah. She had Eternal Life because she had believed on Him. How did she know? She seen the identification of the Scripture manifested by Him.

L-134 "We know that, when the Messiah coming. Four hundred years we haven't had a prophet, and, when He comes, that'll be the next man on the scene. Now when He comes, we'll know Him, and He is to do that same thing."

L-135 Said, "I am He." She took a policy. She was interested in it.

L-136   Nicodemus. Few moments, in closing now. Nicodemus, a rabbi, man of about eighty years old. He had been convinced that there was something about Jesus that was different than other man, so he wanted a policy. So he came by night, for the policy, and he found the bank open for business. Uh-huh.

L-137 It's always open. It's open at a banquet. It's open out there on the street. It's open anywhere there is anybody ready to do business, this policy and the one who holds it.
He found the bank is open. He took a policy.


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