<TITLE>16. Par 170-182</TITLE>L-170 First thing, this little woman kept squeezing between them men, and around, till she touched His outer garment now. The Palestinian garment swings free; it's got an in--inward garment, too, to keep the dust from the limbs. And He would never felt that physically. Then, she touched Him. That's exactly what she want to do. She went back out and sit down.

L-171 That was her darkest hour, all the money was gone, everything else, and Jesus come along. Jesus turned and said, "Who touched Me?" He looked out there, and there she was. He said, "Thy faith has saved thee."

L-172   The little woman at the well morally, she couldn't been any worse. She had... She just taken her sixth husband, so morally she couldn't been any worse. Her darkest of hour, no doubt, going up there and say, "What a wretch am I! I'm a young, beautiful woman, but I'm beginning to age just a little bit. I'm getting in my twenties now, so my... can't go..."

L-173 Now just remember, sister, when you leave that twenty, when you leave twenty-two-years old, you're failing, no matter whether you think you're not, or not. You are. Yeah. You're failing. Every man is, too. You, when you get about... you're...

L-174   That's what I asked at a Kiwanis meeting one time. I said, "Tell me how it is, that, when I eat food, it makes blood cells and I get bigger and stronger. When I was sixteen years old, I eat the same thing I eat right now. I got bigger and stronger all the time. Now, ever since I passed twenty-two, no matter how much I eat, how well I've taken myself, I'm getting weaker and older. Why is it, if I renew my life now, would it be? Every time I eat, I renew my life, 'cause I put blood cells in. Why won't it build me now like it did then?" You can't scientifically prove it, if you had to.

L-175 It's appointment that God made. And you're going to meet it, too. Just remember that. You're coming to it. Pour water out of a jug, into a glass, it gets half full, and then pour faster and it goes down; tell me where it goes and what happens. See? It's because God made the appointment.

L-176   And this little woman, she knowed that her days was about finished up then. Her occupation would be ruined. So she was thinking about, "What will I do? But," she said, "you know, I've always thought that someday there might be the Messiah come along." She walked up there, the well. It's usually when you're thinking about Him, when He comes along. See? And so she walked up there; darkness. All the women was gone away. And she was immoral, couldn't speak with them, or nothing. Had the hooks, and she let the windle down. And she started...
She heard a Man say, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."

L-177 He said, "That's right. You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not yours."

L-178 Then she got desperate. She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. I know that when the Messiah cometh, that's what He will do."
He said, "I am He."

L-179   Oh, the disciples was up on the sea, one night, and all hopes was gone. Maybe you're sitting here, tonight, in this same way, all hopes gone. Their little boat was water-logged and everything. And, Jesus, they went away without Him.

L-180 And then when they was screaming and crying, and wondering what was going to happen, what taken place next? They seen Him come walking upon the sea. You know what? They were scared of Him. It looked spooky, looked something like might be some kind of spiritualism or something. See? Here come a Man walking out there, like a shadow on the water, and they begin to scream out. The only thing that could help them, and then they were afraid of It.

L-181 If that ain't just exactly the way it is today, they're afraid of It, afraid of It.

L-182 But what happened? Just in the hour of their fear, a Voice came, said, "Fear not. It is I." Then, Jesus came along. Oh, my! Jesus came along. "Fear not. It is I."


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