<TITLE>12. Par 133-149</TITLE>L-133   You ought to see them women. You women talk about walking correct! I've seen them take them pots, that hold about five gallon, and they take and put them on top their head, one up there. Put one on one hip, and one on the other'n, and walk right along, talking to one another, and never spill a drop. Just walk just as nice as you ever seen.

L-134 Now in the East, see, the bad women and the good women can't associate together. It's different here, but--but they can't there. She is marked, she is marked. That's all. If she ever has the wrong husband, she ain't no more associated with. But there... It's all messed together here now, we find out, but there it wasn't.

L-135 So she couldn't come with the virgins, of the morning. She had to come up about noon, to get hers, water.

L-136   So she started to let down the waterpot. But there was a predestinated seed in that little woman. She let down that waterpot, and she heard a Man say, "Give Me a drink. Bring Me a drink."

L-137 She turned and looked around, she seen this Jew. And this Jew, maybe, a middle-aged Man. I don't know what was in her thoughts then. So she said, "Why, it's not customary for You, being a Jew, and ask me, a woman of Samaria." See, she didn't know what it--what it was. She just... maybe the man is maybe getting smart with her, so he... Said, "It's not customary for you Jews."

L-138   And so the conversation went on. What was He trying to do? He was trying to attract her attention. The Father had sent Him up there, but now He had to find out why up there.

L-139 They were looking for a Messiah. He had done identified Himself with the Jews, now here He is with the--with the--with the Samaritans.

L-140 And said, "It's not customary for you to--to--to ask me, a woman of Samaria, for such."

L-141 So He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. I'll give you waters you don't come here to draw."

L-142 And they went talking about worship. Directly He found what her trouble was. We all know what it was, too many husbands. He looked at her, said, "Woman, go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."

L-143 He said, "You told the truth, for you've got five, and the one you're living with now is not yours."

L-144 Watch that woman. Look at the difference between her and that organization. Watch her as an individual. Watch those Pharisees, said, "This Man is Beelzebub." Look at her. Not her.

L-145 She turned, and she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet." Ah, there is that Light, see. When the Son hits the Seed, and the right kind, it's going to bring forth Life, just as sure as the world. Struck that Seed in that little prostitute's heart! She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Now we know it's... We have been hundreds of years since we had a prophet. And we know that when Messiah cometh. We're looking for Him. And when Messiah cometh, this is the thing He is going to do."

L-146   That's the sign of the Messiah. Don't you see? It was the Messiah that was in Moses. It was the Messiah that was in Enoch. It was Messiah in every age. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's Christ all the time.

L-147 Said, "I know. We know that when the Messiah cometh, that's what He is going to do."
He said, "I am He that speaks to you." Oh, my!

L-148 Upon that, she dropped the waterpot, run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man Who has told me what I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?"

L-149 And the people of that city, without seeing it done, the whole city believed on Him. That's right. Why? His characteristic of what He was. He was identified to that city of Sychar. He was identified, the Messiah of God, by His character, characteristic was in Him. Cause, He was--He was the God of the prophets. He was the Prophet. He was the Prophet manifested. He has always been, down through the age, the same, and if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now to hurry and close.


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